Photon News

In honor of Pride Month, we are highlighting a handful of features that are rooted in identity, queerness, and self expression.

A conversation with Sam Ferris about atmospheric street photography, urban solitude, and how light transforms ordinary city scenes into extraordinary moments.

Using a hand-held mirror, and his very sharp eyes, photographer Stefan Falke allows us to see street scenes from New York we’ve never seen before.

These street photographs all express a playful sensitivity to visual ideas echoed in momentary scenes.

Camera in hand, Swiss photographer Matthias Forster sets out to find moments of tension, surprise, and humor in the landscapes we often overlook.

Through layered composites of landscapes, negatives, and organic forms, Stephanie O’Connor creates chimeric images that blur boundaries between self and other — capturing the uncanny sensations of pregnancy, where cellular exchange creates lasting biological connections.

Candid photographs of people taking short breaks far from the chaos of the bustling urban activity in Taipei’s Wanhua District.

In striking and luminous black and white images, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho conjures landscapes alive in transformation to reflect the experience of rerooting in another country.

“Sylvan Weaves” approaches trees not as scenery, but as fellow beings: resilient presences whose trunks, roots and branchwork seem to remember, endure and respond. The series begins with threshold and entry, drawing the viewer into a forest that is less a backdrop than a field of encounter.

From Within is an ongoing series of nocturnal photographs made across Auckland, Aotearoa. The series looks closely at life growing up in Auckland, particularly in South Auckland, home to large Pasifika and Māori communities.

Steps Without Music emerges as an emotional choreography of memory, in which the body becomes a fragile archive of unfulfilled dreams, absences, and unrealized possibilities. There are desires that continue to inhabit us long after time has removed them from reality.

Deer graze, leave tracks, raise their young, and move through the seasons. They are no different from any other wild animal. Yet, through a curious turn of history, in the ancient Japanese city of Nara, they walk freely through streets, parks, shrines, and intersections alongside people.

The photographs most often made in Cuba are easy to recognize. Vintage American cars. Colonial architecture. Revolutionary murals. Buildings marked by time, climate, and necessity. The visual language is so familiar that viewers can identify the country before reading the caption.

Moments in Transition is a body of work that I began in 2009 on a train ride between Nagoya and Matsumoto, Japan. On that day, as the landscape sped by, I made a series of photographs without consciously trying to control or compose them.

A conversation with Aline Smithson, founder of Lenscratch, about photography, independent publishing, artistic practice, visual culture, and the role of creative communities in an increasingly complex photographic landscape.

Silent Apparatus is a series that looks at the moment when places and objects made for human use begin to appear slightly detached from their usual roles. Slides, covered cars, tunnels, tennis courts, signals, roofs, and dark water appear in the work.

A field guide in parts, an attempt at shorthand analysis, and why not notes. Places, not much else needs to be said when so much has already been said. The strong presence of Guido Guidi, as if you were to take his large-format images of Cesena and use a 35mm camera to catch some of […]

The ideas of usefulness and aesthetic appearance often come into conflict over time in architecture. Decay, cracks, erosion, and palimpsests of change clash and defy our natural sense of wholeness when we look at buildings that have persisted over decades, if not centuries. I am thinking particularly of 19th and early 20th-century buildings, those that […]

Slightly enamored with the idea of architecture in photography, a clear use of terms that suggests photography to be the primary category of assessment over architecture, I have found myself leafing through books devoted to Hélène Binet, Joachim Brohm, Andrea Gehrke, Lucien Hervé, Karl-Hugo Schmölz, and others who have made architecture a central subject matter […]

Everything feels perched at the precipice of dissolution. Stifled, held in a listless and ambulatory state as the world, governed by men in search of machines, asks us to forgo the rampant onslaught of civil rights, of disagreeable concerns concerning the future, for the contrarily stale epiphany of the Great Progress, a pogrom in silhouette. […]

There has been a recent uptick in books devoted to the biographies and writings of photographers, and I am very excited about it. I wanted to share a couple of thoughts on it all. Sultan’s Water Over Thunder, published recently by MACK, includes many personal notes, anecdotes, archival letters, and ephemera from the artist’s oeuvre. It is […]

Throughout the 1990s, there was a distinct emphasis on the body and its decline. Work produced during the 90s, whether from the aids crisis or the ideological shift away from the Catholic church toward an atheistic and bodily autonomy, signaled a visceral approach to photography. The documentary Vile Bodies (1999), produced by Chris Townsend and […]

There are still true eccentrics with exceptional ability out in this world, navigating the trenches of culture, unashamed to live life as art, and art as life. These characters are often characterized by a performative lifestyle that echoes the bohemian notions of 20th-century living. I revel when I stumble across their work, find innumerable reasons […]

My first encounter with Ana Opalić’s work was not a direct encounter with her photography. As a child, I heard a story about an old maple tree in front of…

The black-and-white photograph is framed so that most of it is taken up by a high fence made of wooden slats. Our vantage point, just as that of the photographer…

I say: Whatever you do, as artists, be brave. But he says: This is not my world. Together, these catchphrases denote the content we fell into in the midst of…

Often in the evening, when everything is quiet and all the movement around me has died down, I look towards one of my living room walls. It took some time…

Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori….

In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either…

She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and…

Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also…