Through her tactile experiments in analog photography, textile arts, and performance, Brooklyn-based artist Hernease Davis treats the creative process as a healing tool.
Revisiting the suburbs of her childhood, Mimi Plumb’s monochrome coming-of-age tale strips California of its clichés, confronting the monotony of growing up in a time-weathered landscape.
Working with Ghanaian children on Lake Volta, humanitarian photographer and cinematographer Jeremy Snell’s luminous images tell a serious and urgent story.
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.
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.
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.
Reading Time: < 1 minute A new radical photobook questions the role of the black and white medium in contemporary photography
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The photographer retraces the migration routes of her family, from Georgia to Armenia to Russia
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Franco-English publication focuses on both intimate and political experiences of womanhood, featuring photography by Carrie Mae Weems, Elena Helfrecht, Lucile Boiron, and more
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Reading Time: 2 minutes “Plastic is a generic and ubiquitous material that may end up choking the planet, and in turn strangle us”
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The French-Armenian’s latest project, Black Garden, sees a nation in a perpetual state of conflict, striving for autonomy, no matter how long it might take
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The threat of losing herbal healers and their unparalleled knowledge of plants to the coronavirus prompted photographer Florence Goupil to document efforts to prevent the spread among the people of Shipibo‐Konibo
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Reading Time: 3 minutes ”The best thing I will bring with me from 2020 is knowing that there is power and beauty in being openly vulnerable,” says Chiara Bardelli Nonino, as she shares her highlights of 2020.
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The most important thing in nude photography in nature are the landscapes. These must have a special formal beauty. Rocks and water are often a perfect combination and Sardinia in particular has a lot to offer in this regard.
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The Bull Jump is a ritual which represents the rite of passage in the life of a young boy (Ukuli), who, from a child develops into a man (Maza).
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Inspiration has always been the key to create. We associate its visual representation to a light bulb, muses, mental processes, or traveling, however, its source is much more complex and intriguing than these metaphors.
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Michael is a photographer who lives and works in Sacramento, California. He works with photography because he believes that the world is intrinsically visual, and that photography offers the most powerful
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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.
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“The sky trembled and the ground cracked releasing a long and enduring hissing sound-a novella sprung from Aeolus’ purse” He and his men had turned to stone-a frozen grimace occupied the folds near the corner of his mouth, and their eyes glazed adrift upwards and fearful. Aside from the tales of witchcraft, […]
Do robots dream of Black Phillip? Do artists dream in data? Does a spectre haunt the algorithm? In a world in which we are reduced to bytes, blips, glitch and transmission, we begin to consider where the mapping of our reality in images begins. Our photographic lives are now dominated by the urgency […]
“We do not like to view images of elderly citizens from the vibrant position of youth or mid-life. There is is taciturn position in our collective youthful spirit that opts out of the discussion” Old age isn’t something you often see depicted purposefully in photography. It is marginalized age and the stories that do […]
“Her one arm is half-raised above the parapet of the water’s edge all soft and white-gone from the limb its rose pigment associated with the flourish of life” Her one arm is half-raised above the parapet of the water’s edge all soft and white-gone from the limb its rose pigment associated with the […]
“The partition between the real world and the photograph are nothing new to think about and yet some images refute even the casual link between the two and slip between what we perceive as verifiable and what we know to be the fantastic” It is not often that I am confronted with work […]
“Of unpaid ills and the blueish glue of a child’s discarded gum ironically stretched between the hairy toes of an accidentally sandalled foot on a blistering hot and abusive Portuguese summer day” Of electric ecstasy and tiger milk. Of unpaid ills and the blueish glue of a child’s discarded gum ironically stretched between […]
“We may consider these types of photographs as a glimpse, a grimace or a greeting between subject and viewer, nothing more” It is hard to condense seven years of intimacy into the frames of 35mm negatives. You cannot easily graph the moments that pass between two orbiting worlds, the moments of affection, disagreements […]
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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