2021-05-27 2021-05-29
Lens Culture

Dichotomy

In this series of introspective portraits taken during lockdown, a young photographer opens up before the lens, exploring her dual heritage with honesty and intimacy.

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Mothers

A collaboration between mother and daughter, these bright and playful portraits capture an evolving relationship, unfolding in front of the lens.

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Freelance Marketing Writer

LensCulture is looking for an experienced marketing writer to communicate with our global audience of photographers and photography lovers.

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The Shabbiness of Beauty

Moyra Davey dips into the archive of the late American artist Peter Hujar, threading her images together with his to create a photographic duet steeped in the quiet allure of the everyday.

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How to Look Natural In Photos

There’s more than meets the eye in these photos of daily life in Poland, taken between 1944 and 1989. A disturbing new book draws together images taken by the secret police to explore photography as a tool of power.

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Minimal Republics

Constructing “ephemeral micro-states” and occupying them for 24 hours, Rubén Martín de Lucas questions the artificiality of borders and makes stark our fraught relationship with planet earth.

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Fatherland

An emerging artist explores the burning issues playing out in public and private across the United States, interrogating ideas around nationalism and militarism as expressed in the intimacy of her own family.

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Lens Culture

The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast

In his latest offering, the unnerving universe of Roger Ballen’s photographs grows another dark layer through the words of Italian poet Gabriele Tinti.

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British Journal of Photography
Polaroids and NFTs seem unlikely companions. For Rhiannon Adam, they’re anything but

Polaroids and NFTs seem unlikely companions. For Rhiannon Adam, they’re anything but

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British Journal of Photography
“My name is Wayne and I am a homeless photographer”

“My name is Wayne and I am a homeless photographer”

Reading Time: 5 minutes Inzajeano Latif first met Wayne in November 2020. The two have been collaborating ever since: Wayne, documenting his own life using a Polaroid camera, Latif offering photographic mentorship while creating a body of work about the lives of people who have experienced homelessness in London.
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British Journal of Photography
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte explores the dangers hidden behind the algorithm

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte explores the dangers hidden behind the algorithm

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Mexican-British artist gathered over 100 accounts from Mexican women who have experienced the result of embedded digital bias
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British Journal of Photography
New York’s downtown drag scene as seen through Peter Hujar’s lens

New York’s downtown drag scene as seen through Peter Hujar’s lens

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British Journal of Photography
“History was written, for the most part, by people who won wars… We have a very narrow view on what’s actually taken place”

“History was written, for the most part, by people who won wars… We have a very narrow view on what’s actually taken place”

Reading Time: 2 minutes Joint runner-up for the BJP International Photography Award 2020, Giulia Parlato creates a forged archive of historical artefacts to question our understanding of the past.
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British Journal of Photography
How is the internet and instantaneous nature of media changing the photography industry? Gem Fletcher investigates.

How is the internet and instantaneous nature of media changing the photography industry? Gem Fletcher investigates.

Reading Time: 8 minutes With insight from Omar Kholeif, Charlotte Cotton and Charlie Engman, the implications of the evolving nature and speed of image-making and sharing are considered.
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British Journal of Photography
Belfast Photo Festival 2021 imagines the possible future(s) of humanity

Belfast Photo Festival 2021 imagines the possible future(s) of humanity

Reading Time: 2 minutes “In our era of pandemics, climate chaos, global migration and political turmoil, we believe there has never been a more important time to connect audiences to the work artists are making”
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British Journal of Photography
Female in Focus x 1854 Presents: Ngadi Smart

Female in Focus x 1854 Presents: Ngadi Smart

Reading Time: < 1 minute Photographer, designer and illustrator, Ngadi Smart joins us to discuss her approach to decolonizing photography and her experience in the industry.
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Magnum Photos

Magnum 2020

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The Magnum Digest: May 21, 2021

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Announcing plans for the expansion of the Magnum Gallery

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The Magnum Digest: May 14, 2021

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An Update and Look Forward from Magnum

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Photographing Australia’s Black Summer

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The Magnum Digest: May 7, 2021

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God Inc II

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ASBX
Jenna Westra Afternoons

Jenna Westra Afternoons

    Edward Steichen’s gestural Studies of Isadora Duncan at the Parthenon, Charlotte Rudolph’s studies of German dancers, James Abbe’s still frames of Anna Pavlova, Barabra Morgan’s studies of Martha Graham and her Letter to the World, and a number of other medium-defining images can be accredited to an embrace of the body in movement. […]

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ASBX
Jardín de Mi Padre: An Interview with Luis Carlos Tovar

Jardín de Mi Padre: An Interview with Luis Carlos Tovar

The photograph on the cover of Jardín de mi padre (My Father’s Garden, 2020) shows Luis Carlos Tovar, carried in his mother’s arms as an infant. On the right side of the image, a man’s arm reaches from outside the frame towards Luis Carlos – his fingers are only a few centimeters away. Time is […]

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ASBX
Kosuke Okahara Blue Affair

Kosuke Okahara Blue Affair

I do not remember the majority of my dreams. I am told that I often erupt from the fugue state of sleep in panic, screaming, and moaning. The times that I do remember my dreams, something awful is occurring in them. They seem to be hinged on the anxiety associated with flight or fight responses. […]

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ASBX
Thana Faroq: I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows

Thana Faroq: I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows

Thana Faroq’s I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows is a book of complicated subjects. First, there is the subject at the heart of it all, namely Thana and her experience as a Yemeni Refugee who found her way to the Netherlands through the gruelling and heart-wrenching ordeal of leaving her family in Yemen where […]

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Keld Helmer-Petersen Photographs 1941-2013

Keld Helmer-Petersen Photographs 1941-2013

Keld Helmer-Petersen is predominantly associated with the early use of color photography as an art form. His book 122 Color Photographs self-published in 1948 is considered a pioneering photobook for its use of color though it makes up a very marginal amount of the artist’s entire body of work.     Keld Helmer-Petersen’s concerns in […]

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ASBX
Alexander Rosenkranz: CITY CUT OFF

Alexander Rosenkranz: CITY CUT OFF

One can think of the urban environment in its various stages of building and tearing down as an interlocking mechanism similar to a pocket watch or Rubik’s cube. Each part of the city, its buildings, its billboards, and its many pieces interlock to provide traction for the cogs of the watch to continue its movements. […]

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ASBX
The Modesty of Fundamental Signs: Recent Books by Pablo López Luz

The Modesty of Fundamental Signs: Recent Books by Pablo López Luz

 “In avoiding the self-imposed restrictions of the Bechers and their countless imitators, López Luz spares us from the tediousness of some of those series, dissecting singular aspects of the urban environment with great insight.”

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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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hola mundo

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La entrada hola mundo se publicó primero en transeuropephoto.eu.

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