2021-02-12 2021-02-15
Lens Culture

The Beautiful

Documenting his journey from Oakland to attend last year’s historic March on Washington, Kamal X’s monochrome images capture the love, power and strength of 2020’s charged summer of Black Lives Matter protests.

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Campesino Cuba

These classic photographs from contemporary, rural Cuba, document a disappearing way of life, pieced together through the everyday rhythms of the campesino people.

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Lens Culture

Evolution through Exhibiting

A rite of passage for artists, showing your work can be a pivotal moment in your growth. Emerging Chinese photographer Ronghui Chen shares his personal journey and what exhibiting means to him.

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Lens Culture

Centralia

Multiple perspectives crisscross and converge in Poulomi Basu’s docu-fiction “Centralia”, which tells the complex tale of conflict between indigenous landowners, government-backed corporations, military forces and the state.

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Lens Culture

Dizzy

Forging a bridge between our physical and digital realms, Wei Wei’s monochrome images are dispatches from an in-between world—one that is both futuristic and nostalgic.

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Lens Culture

Virtual Exhibitions: Digital Spaces, Open Possibilities

When was the last time you went to an exhibition? Writer Magali Duzant takes a tour around the Internet, exploring the many possibilities of exhibiting online.

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Lens Culture

LatinAmericana

Founder of Native Agency, Laura Beltrán Villamizar, takes a look at a celebration of Latin American photography at PHmuseum, which offers a chance to discover an eclectic assortment of artists disrupting clichés of the region.

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Lens Culture

A Suitcase of Negatives

The discovery of an abandoned archive reveals an extraordinary document of everyday life in Georgia under Soviet rule, prompting photographer Guram Tsibakhashvili to seek out the mysterious identity of its creator.

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British Journal of Photography
Skateistan: Empowering Afghan girls through skateboarding

Skateistan: Empowering Afghan girls through skateboarding

Reading Time: 3 minutes Juliette Cassidy travelled to Afghanistan to photograph the young girls attending one of five skate schools run by Skateistan: a non-profit aiming to educate and empower children through skateboarding
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British Journal of Photography
Roy Mehta considers how growing up in a diverse community has influenced his identity today

Roy Mehta considers how growing up in a diverse community has influenced his identity today

Reading Time: 4 minutes Mehta documents the daily happenings of his home borough, Brent, between 1989 and 1993, which he celebrates for its multiculturalism in his new book
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British Journal of Photography
The long days of Afghanistan’s midwives

The long days of Afghanistan’s midwives

Reading Time: 5 minutes The country’s midwives fight daily to help the women and children of the nation
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British Journal of Photography
Inside the intimate, digital dialogue of two artists during the pandemic

Inside the intimate, digital dialogue of two artists during the pandemic

Reading Time: 3 minutes A virtual exhibition charts a series of exchanges between Nina Mae Fowler and Casper Sejersen during the tumult of 2020
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British Journal of Photography
Announcing the Winners of Portrait of Humanity 2021

Announcing the Winners of Portrait of Humanity 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes Three bodies of work and 30 single images have won the fourth edition of one of British Journal of Photography’s biggest awards
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British Journal of Photography
Industry Insights: Four photographers on staying proactive in a pandemic

Industry Insights: Four photographers on staying proactive in a pandemic

Reading Time: 5 minutes As we approach one year since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic, four commercial photographers reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, and how to continue growing professionally when work is sparse
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British Journal of Photography
Marisol Mendez’s portraits of Bolivian women celebrate resilience in the face of ongoing patriarchal stigmas

Marisol Mendez’s portraits of Bolivian women celebrate resilience in the face of ongoing patriarchal stigmas

Reading Time: 6 minutes Reappropriating Catholic imagery, Mendez highlights the impact of the colonial history in the ongoing sidelining of indigenous women in her home country
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British Journal of Photography
Coco Capitán releases her latest photobook Naïvy

Coco Capitán releases her latest photobook Naïvy

Reading Time: < 1 minute Following on from her 2020 exhibition Naïvy at Maximillian William Gallery, Capitán collates the exhibited work, inspired by the iconic sailor suit, into an archival book object
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Dodho

An unique visual signature; Fairytale by Zuzu Valla

Zuzu Valla is based in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.Originally from Slovakia. At the age of 38, she is on the verge of defining her very own and recognisable signature photography style, exploring multiple layers of distinct human beauty.
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Dodho

Rapt; The Strange Bifurcated World of Beauty and Brutality by Wes Bell

Used to restrict access to the landowner’s property, this series of photographs focuses on trees that have been used as supports for a variety of chains, cables, or sections of fencing.
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Dodho

Hindu pilgrimage; Ganga Sagar Mela by France Leclerc

The Ganga Sagar Mela is the most popular Hindu pilgrimage after the Kumbh Mela. On the day of Makar Sankranti (a festival celebrating the harvest in mid-January), devotees show up to dip themselves at the confluence of the river Ganges and the Bay of Bengal to purify their souls.
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Dodho

Travel photography; Hornbill Festival by Nilesh Kumar

The Hornbill festival is one of the favourite festivals of Nagaland. The Hornbill festival is celebrated in the first week of December every year in Kohima, the capital city of Nagaland.
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Dodho

Factories; Deep in the earth by Francesca Pompei

Italy is one of the countries where the practice of architecture has been most affected by the economic crisis. The rich north regions were once home to many factories born from the economic boom of the Sixties.
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Dodho

Photoshoot; The Anatomy of a Concept

I do not generally do lighting tests for pictures and nearly all my ideas are achieved in one shoot. If I feel a picture fails but it still has possibilities, I may try it again some months or even years later. For this picture however, I had to shoot it several times in various iterations to get it correct to my satisfaction. It is from a series I did making figures and faces from shadows…
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Dodho

How to Edit Nude Photography Guide

If you’d like to get started with nude photography, follow these simple but effective nude photography techniques to help you create visually appealing photographs.
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Dodho

A Sort of Desperation: Self-Portraits by Jady Bates

I have been locked inside since March. It has been almost a year and a sort of desperation is seeping in and seeping out. It is tangled and multi-layered, but deep and real.
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Magnum Photos

JFK for President

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Magnum Photos

Europa: An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: February 5, 2021

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The Magnum Digest: January 29, 2021

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The Magnum Digest: January 22, 2021

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The Magnum Digest: January 15, 2021

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Magnum Photos

A Brief History of California’s Wildfires

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Magnum Photos

Bieke Depoorter: Chance Encounters

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ASBX
Narelle Autio Place in Between

Narelle Autio Place in Between

” In levitating the body, it gives the psychological state of the subject’s mind and its place in the world unto slippage-a format defined by its inability to be calculated. Remove gravity, remove fixity. Employ risk”     The way we navigate our heft through space is built on its being pinioned to the ground […]

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ASBX
Tomaso Clavarino & Patrizio Anastasi Ballad of Woods and Wounds

Tomaso Clavarino & Patrizio Anastasi Ballad of Woods and Wounds

“When we drift, we drift in short bursts tethered to the imagined shores of our domestic chains”   When we drift, we drift in short bursts tethered to the imagined shores of our domestic chains. The waves reach knee-deep before the tide allows us frolic or adventure and ever-so-slowly, there is a pull, a resounding […]

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ASBX
Stephen Gill’s Sublime Decay Please Notify the Sun

Stephen Gill’s Sublime Decay Please Notify the Sun

“Our human power of observations rests between these worlds and it cannot acknowledge either of them fully by sight. We must remain content with our dull labor and horizons and accept that without the invention of superior optics, we are blind to these worlds”   There is a world that exists in an unobservable form […]

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ASBX
Jörg Colberg Vaterland As Then, Now

Jörg Colberg Vaterland As Then, Now

“It has learned that outward and visceral signs of its existence only lead to its questioning of intent early on; its oft-espoused will thus deposed to the memory of collective trauma…”   Ideology is not always easy to see. We read it through the symbolic order of insignia and perhaps we are able to cull […]

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ASBX
Mark Steinmetz Berlin Pictures

Mark Steinmetz Berlin Pictures

  “Berlin is a peculiar and magnetic geography…There is no real heavy concentration of a “center” or “downtown” though there are clusters of busier topographies within the city. For this very reason, it is easy to pass through Berlin in a very solitary manner”     Berlin is a peculiar and magnetic bit of geography. […]

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ASBX
Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities

Matt Eich’s The Seven Cities

“Everything seems somehow familiar and distant at the same time. It is as if time has wedged us between the fever dream of summer and the insoluble gaslighting conjured up from what was believed to be a significantly flawed, but tolerable near past”     The way we live now. It all seems so easily […]

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ASBX
Vasantha Yogananthan’s Afterlife

Vasantha Yogananthan’s Afterlife

  “And then we begin to dig and dig and dig”   Duration is a difficult thing to avoid in photography. You can begin a project without fully realizing how grand its scope can become. You being thinking that you have managed to capture something on an outing only to be confronted with its incessant […]

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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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Transeurope photo

hola mundo

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