2020-11-27 2020-12-03
Lens Culture

101 Pictures

Dipping into an archive comprising over 30 years of work, many of these 101 photographs pay tribute to Tom Wood’s mastery of color street photography and his love of humanity in and around Liverpool and Merseyside.

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Lens Culture

Midnight La Frontera

Photographed over thirty years ago, Ken Light’s nighttime pictures of migrants captured along the US-Mexico border pose some uneasy questions.

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Lens Culture

Looking Inside

These women are serving life sentences in confinement. Sara Bennett’s collaborative portraits make visible the women impacted by the brutal mechanics of the US prison system, largely outside of the public’s view.

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Lens Culture

Girl Pictures

Justine Kurland’s take on the classic American tale of the runaway takes us on a wild ride of freedom, memorializing the fleeting moments of adolescence and its fearless protagonists.

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Lens Culture

Frozen Are the Winds of Time

Returning to her hometown in China after many years away, Wang Lu’s images grapple with time and change, from her personal relationship with her father to the shifting cityscape outside his window.

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Lens Culture

Art on the Grid

A public art exhibition sprawling through the streets of New York reaffirms the powerful role of art in daily life whilst reimagining the experience of looking at art during the pandemic.

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Lens Culture

Brave Beauties: Zanele Muholi on Self-Portraiture

Zanele Muholi teases apart one of her favorite images from her 2016 series of self-portraits in an exclusive conversation with LensCulture.

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Lens Culture

Portraits of my Mother

For the past 8 years, Joey Solomon has been photographing his mother. In the process of taking these monochrome portraits, he attempts to unpack their shared and hereditary mental illness.

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British Journal of Photography
Deep-rooted familial trauma is the impetus for Faysal Zaman’s acutely personal work

Deep-rooted familial trauma is the impetus for Faysal Zaman’s acutely personal work

Reading Time: 3 minutes
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British Journal of Photography
“The authorities don’t want journalists or photographers to come.”

“The authorities don’t want journalists or photographers to come.”

Reading Time: 2 minutes In their ongoing project, photographer duo Carlo Lombardi and Miririam Stanke travel across Nomansland, uncovering the aftermath of a landscape damaged by war.
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British Journal of Photography
Zora J Murff pushes the boundaries of photography

Zora J Murff pushes the boundaries of photography

Reading Time: 6 minutes The American photographer whose work tackles subjects affecting himself and others discusses his ever-evolving, multi-layered practice 
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British Journal of Photography
Ronan Mckenzie launches HOME: A new Black-led artistic space

Ronan Mckenzie launches HOME: A new Black-led artistic space

Reading Time: 4 minutes Part gallery, part community space, HOME aims to provide a supportive environment for all
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British Journal of Photography
The enduring relevance of Gillian Laub’s Southern Rites

The enduring relevance of Gillian Laub’s Southern Rites

Reading Time: 5 minutes “I would like for audiences to engage with the work, and look at how racism operates in their communities”
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British Journal of Photography
Miho Kajioka’s Lightness of Being

Miho Kajioka’s Lightness of Being

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Japanese photographer searches for beauty in the everyday, a philosophy conversely inspired by tragic disasters.
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British Journal of Photography
Marco Barbieri investigates the two worlds of Doha, Qatar

Marco Barbieri investigates the two worlds of Doha, Qatar

Reading Time: 3 minutes Marco Barbieri documents the stark class divides of a city going through constant reinvention and construction
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British Journal of Photography
Adam Ferguson documents the changing landscape of the Australian bush

Adam Ferguson documents the changing landscape of the Australian bush

Reading Time: 5 minutes Layered with riffs of cultural and symbolic references, Adam Ferguson’s ongoing series, Big Sky, comments on the ecological deterioration of Australia’s interior regions
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Dodho

Haenyeo; Grandma divers by Alain Schroeder

South Korea, Jeju island, known for its characteristic basalt volcanic rock, sits off South Korea. It is the home of the renowned Haenyeo or women of the sea who free dive off the black shores of Jeju harvesting delicacies from the sea.
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Dodho

China; The great wall by Chiara Felmini

China is almost a continent and as such can offer extremes and opposites at the same time; the ancient and very distant culture can still be observed in remote villages, increasingly surrounded by the advancing and swallowing civilization.
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Dodho

Street photography; Stolen Portraits by Michele Punturieri

Fleeting moments in life captured in the most classic street-photography style over a decade ranging from 2008 to 2018. All around Europe. From Lisbon to Edinburgh, passing through Dublin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Madrid and the London Soho.
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Dodho

River life along the banks of the Buriganga by Elena Molina

No doubt that it was there, at Dhaka, when the spell began. My fascination kept growing and growing when roaming around the network of narrow winding streets in downtown.
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Dodho

South Sudan; Smoker women by Ana Maria Robles

These women smoke tobacco, an ancient custom that marks their ancestry, identity and tribal pride. Their attitude was strong. Fierce. They were active participants of every ceremony and the Leaders of the communities. 
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Dodho

Palm oil production in the Central African Republic Gibi Peluffo

Today palm oil is seen as a substance to be avoided in food uses due to its high percentage of saturated fats, but in Africa this condiment is instead widely used and appreciated.
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Dodho

The human side of photography; Promenade by Carlo Traini

Promenade’s pictures are without a doubt part of the human side of photography. In Promenade, people are not merely treated as objects in a scene; conversely
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Dodho

Photographic research; Landscape Pieces by Silvia De Giorgi

These works are part of a wider photographic research that explores the impermanence of the natural surrounding and the fragility of our own presence in the land.
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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: November 27, 2020

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The Magnum Digest: November 20, 2020

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: November 13, 2020

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Magnum Photos

Bruno Barbey: 1941 – 2020

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: November 6, 2020

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The 2020 Presidential Election, Through the Eyes of Magnum Photographers

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Magnum Editions Posters

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Magnum Photos

Considering an Election

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ASBX
Fantasy Industrial Complex: Debi Cornwall’s Necessary Fictions

Fantasy Industrial Complex: Debi Cornwall’s Necessary Fictions

“The phrase “necessary fictions” both characterizes state-created realities, whether simulation in the military training context or the deployment and consumption of fictions in civilian society, and also comments on the documentary form.”

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ASBX
Dafna Talmor, László Moholy-Nagy & Josh Kern- The Photographic Notebook

Dafna Talmor, László Moholy-Nagy & Josh Kern- The Photographic Notebook

  “For artists who do stage their work and find it in situ, the photographic sketchbook is virtually unnecessary as a pre-game facilitator. I would suggest though, that the photographic notebook is an indispensable tool after cheap prints have been made available”   One technical tool that photographers often deprive themselves of thinking through is […]

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ASBX
Jesse Lenz: The Locusts Family, Familiarity and Focus

Jesse Lenz: The Locusts Family, Familiarity and Focus

  “The historical road of photography is paved with books and bodies of work about family. It is a natural resource for making work”     The historical road of photography is paved with books and bodies of work about family. It is a natural resource for making work. Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Judith Black […]

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ASBX
Bertrand Cavalier Concrete Doesn’t Burn, it Crumbles.

Bertrand Cavalier Concrete Doesn’t Burn, it Crumbles.

  “Struggle is often written in the foundation of our city’s (un)natural architecture”     Struggle is often written in the foundation of our city’s (un)natural architecture. In our rural areas, it is marked by temporary institutions-the grass, trees, fields and clearings bear the organization of bomb craters and sweeps of forest shoulder a mane […]

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ASBX
Adrian Samson’s Mother

Adrian Samson’s Mother

  “During these moments of quiet solitude in the bitter January cold, a transformation of emphasis on how I began to re-order the world was beginning, but I did not completely understand its momentum”   Childbearing presents a compulsion to re-order the world. You begin to notice things differently. This is due in course to […]

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ASBX
David Billet & Ian Kline’s Rabbit/Hare Texas Reason

David Billet & Ian Kline’s Rabbit/Hare Texas Reason

“The picture stays in the kid. Tell heaven don’t wait for me”   What is an image produced if not the perversion of self either in or out of frame? Authorship is dictatorship, no? What to do with a pare?   Game Over, and if this isn’t an obvious affront to the Texas that I […]

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ASBX
Mimi Plumb: Sheltering Under The White Sky

Mimi Plumb: Sheltering Under The White Sky

“I hear the sound of victory. I hear the sound of victory. I hear the sound of victory”. 1976, the centenary-a procrastinator’s wet dream”   The kids are smiling, their bodies are interlaced within the disused tire mound and the coyote snarls staring dead-eyed and hungry from the top of the bare picnic table. He […]

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
The Most Beautiful Place in the World

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

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. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Faces of Time

Faces of Time

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 show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Somewhere

Somewhere

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 it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

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 real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Constructing an identity through the family archive  / Archon of the family heritage

Constructing an identity through the family archive / Archon of the family heritage

Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely on in an attempt to define our own existence?  Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification?  Or are we simply denying our own…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…

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Hello world!

Hello world!

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