Finally free from the censorship of the US military, Ben Brody shares his first-person view into the absurdities of army life as a combat photographer in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Photographer Adam Wiseman explores the fanciful freestyle structures that are built throughout rural Mexico without regard for building codes or classical ideas of beauty in architecture.

Personal favorites and recommendations from 36 people who know and love photobooks — lots of inspiring discoveries from around the world.

In his latest book “Late Harvest”, Forest McMullin travels the backroads of the American South as a newcomer, discovering beauty in landscape, history and story.

In this magical portrait of family life in rural Ohio, photographer Jesse Lenz enters the labyrinthian landscape of his children’s world to better understand his own.

Agnieszka Sosnowska’s striking self-portraits chronicle rural life in the volatile landscape of her adopted homeland, East Iceland.

First conceived as a visual letter to her daughter, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s recent book gives us an architectural portrait of a city in transition, photographed not long after the collapse of Communism.

A quiet ode to a brother loved and lost, Vivian Keulards’ book “to Hans” finds a form to dwell on the human stories behind addiction, and the complex web it spins around those it touches.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Growing up during the Romanian revolution, the photographer’s latest project ruminates on the country’s complicated history and asks why to this day, the deaths of those lost have not been properly reconciled.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial & Collections at Autograph, London, looks back on the year just past: its effects on her outlook; what got her through and what she will leave behind
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The founder of African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto shares his reflections on 2020
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Reading Time: 3 minutes “Women’s contribution to the farming industry is significant but often overlooked. There are underlying barriers such as access to land, class, motherhood, lack of clear leadership roles”
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Reading Time: 3 minutes After following Inuit hunters and their dogs for four decades, Ragnar Axelsson is ready to share work charting what could be the end of a 4000-year long tradition 
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Magnum photographer shares what got her through the year; the books, the music, the films, and photography
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Reading Time: 9 minutes In a coming-of-age story of a young Panamanian, the decade-long project, King of Fish, uncovers the impact of careless action on the land and community today
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Elena Helfrecht, Jörg Colberg, Rafal Milach and others respond to the state of vulnerability through image and text, as part of our ongoing series Picture This
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Wig Heavier Than a Boot brings together photography and video by David Johnson and poetry by Philip Matthews. As we reveal Petal—a persona as whom Philip writes, and whom David photographs—the project crosses art-making rituals with isolated performances in domestic spaces and pastoral landscapes.
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If a year ago, anyone had told us that we would count almost a million and a half deaths from a pandemic and just over 55 million infected, we would have called him crazy or at least, qualified as someone who brought bad luck.
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How many years have passed since the beginning of 2020? This year full of earthquakes and fires, violence and broken dreams, unfinished poems and gravesites, hospital rooms and dried hopes – is coming to an end, leaving its heavy tire tracks on my soul.
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The common imagery of the prison life is fed by the photographic and cinematic depiction that nearly always represents the male population.
The post The women of Rebibbia. Walls of stories by Francesca Pompei appeared first on Dodho.

The Netherlands is the third most populous country in Europe (after Monaco and Vatican City). There is no escaping the literal and figurative footprint of mankind in the Dutch landscape.
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Dive begins with the fascination of water. I have embarked on several trips in which looking for rivers, seas, and waterfalls becomes part of the routine.
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Red Illuminates, is a multimedia work comprising still and moving images that explores the concept of culture in socialist countries and how loyalty to the state is cultivated.
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Photography is slowly returning to the mainstream. The power of still images has been higher than ever before. Cameras are getting cheaper on one end of the spectrum, which makes them affordable and easily attainable. 
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“Earlier this year, there were some high-profile twitterstorms, in which particular left-identifying figures were ‘called out’ and condemned. What these figures had said was sometimes objectionable; but nevertheless, the way in which they were personally vilified and hounded left a horrible residue: the stench of bad conscience and witch-hunting moralism”         This […]

  “The skyscrapers are vertical signatures that penetrate the evening sky all glass and reflective. Water pools on their surface creating an impermeable glare as one winces into the crow’s nest of their rapacious skyward capacity”     I think of the term “Transitional Architecture” when I think of China. The skyscrapers are vertical signatures […]

  “In suggesting this, I am suggesting that Príncipe is a master of the understood and that perhaps what may at first read seem vainglorious, is to be understood and resolved by his humanity”   André Príncipe is an artist working in Lisbon, Portugal. His work could be conceived of by thinking through the tenets […]

    “it is strange for me to consider his efforts as Swedish and yet there is something to the examination of what can only be referred to as the National Camera, implicit in that sentiment are all of the complications of generalizations and archetypes. I am not trying to espouse something concrete, but rather […]

BF: Photo Book Corner has just taken up new quarters, new premises in Lisbon. Is this the first shop that you have had for the Photo Book Corner? Can you perhaps give us a little insight into when you started working with books? Did you come through photography or was this started from the book […]

  “We do not scream out in apathy. We look and we observe the condition that circulates our everyday. Stoicism is a front. It covers the mechanics of our suffering”     I would assert that some of the strongest works produced in photography are those in which something grave is laid bare and vulnerable […]

  “There is a maturity involved in this process and a willingness to communicate in overly direct means a simple, yet solid message to the viewer”   One of the great compulsions towards photographic projects is to overcomplicate the frame and drive of a project through a sometimes compelling narrative that leads an audience through […]

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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