2021-08-16 2021-08-18
Lens Culture

The Sapeurs of Brazzaville

In the Republic of the Congo, stylish individuals piece together vibrant and sophisticated outfits that function as a form of colonial resistance, social activism and peaceful protest.

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Ready for Surprise: Joel Meyerowtiz Interview 2020

The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview.

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Fica Suave

Charting the everyday life of Thay, a young woman living in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, this multimedia project documents the warm, strong community that exists in the midst of a violent, unsafe world.

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The L_st Album

Scouring markets for discarded photo albums, Pariwat Anantachina’s intricate collages patchwork old family snaps with instruction manuals, breathing new life into abandoned pictures.

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Everything Goes Dark a Little Further Down

Using his own body as a playground to explore queerness, Matthieu Croizier twists and turns his way through a personal metamorphosis captured in these carefully staged images.

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

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Antique Pink

Meet 30 of the first gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and intersex people (*LGBTIs) who dared to openly embrace their sexual orientation — now all over 70 years of age and living in The Netherlands.

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Lens Culture

Santa Barbara

Diana Markosian takes on the role of director in this cinematic project, restaging her family’s emigration from post-Soviet Russia to America into a surreal rendition of the immigrant experience.

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British Journal of Photography
On Location: Cape Town

On Location: Cape Town

Reading Time: 7 minutes Cape Town’s contemporary photography scene looks back to South Africa’s troubled past while experimenting in the present. Writer Nkgopoleng Moloi, who is currently studying for an MA in contemporary curatorial practice, guides us through the photographic landscape of the coastal city
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British Journal of Photography
Creating Change: Ajamu X on the importance of building a nuanced archive of Black queer life

Creating Change: Ajamu X on the importance of building a nuanced archive of Black queer life

Reading Time: 3 minutes Driven by a desire to show the fullness of Black queer lives – a history rarely included in LGBTQ+ history – Ajamu X has been building an extensive personal archive for the last 30 years
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British Journal of Photography
FREE FILM: Building a crowd-sourced catalogue of contemporary America

FREE FILM: Building a crowd-sourced catalogue of contemporary America

Reading Time: 2 minutes Since 2019, Worthless Studios has handed out thousands of free rolls of film to professional and amateur photographers across the US. Now, two new photobooks present an edit of the work
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British Journal of Photography
What’s it like to study photography during the pandemic?

What’s it like to study photography during the pandemic?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Covid-19 has disrupted education at all levels, including university degrees. Recent photography graduate Benedict Moore, who attended Manchester School of Art, speaks to three other graduates about the difficulties – and upsides – of studying during lockdown
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British Journal of Photography
Behind the Cover: AB+DM on shooting Willow Smith for Nylon

Behind the Cover: AB+DM on shooting Willow Smith for Nylon

Reading Time: 4 minutes “We wanted to create something that felt limitless.” Inspired by Michael and Janet Jackson’s iconic ‘Scream’ music video, the creative duo unpack their latest futuristic fashion story
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British Journal of Photography
Miki Kratsman and Shabtai Pinchevsky’s ‘Anti-mapping’ unveils histories of forced displacement in Israel and Palestine

Miki Kratsman and Shabtai Pinchevsky’s ‘Anti-mapping’ unveils histories of forced displacement in Israel and Palestine

Reading Time: 2 minutes Using technological interventions, the photographers expose hidden, forgotten, and destroyed parts of the landscape
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British Journal of Photography
David Levene on documenting the aftermath of the London riots

David Levene on documenting the aftermath of the London riots

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ten years on, the sheer power and scale of 2011’s riots remain terrifying. But David Levene captured a counter-narrative to the “seductive” side of the chaos, photographing the aftermath and clean-up
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British Journal of Photography
Brea Souders challenges what we expect a photograph to be

Brea Souders challenges what we expect a photograph to be

Reading Time: 3 minutes In her debut monograph, Souders plays with the elasticity of photography to conjure vibrant new energy in a medium often restrained by tradition
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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: 13th August, 2021

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The Magnum Digest: 30th July 2021

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Capturing the Anthropocene: Changing Depictions of the Climate Crisis

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The Magnum Digest: July 16, 2021

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The Magnum Digest: July 9, 2021

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Inner Disorder

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The Magnum Digest: July 2, 2021

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Jonas Bendiksen’s Satellites, 15 Years On

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ASBX
Michael Gessner’s Masse

Michael Gessner’s Masse

  The age of capital has led civilization to the age of indeterminate surveillance. We are largely unaware of the incremental prying and scrutinizing gestures that global capital has beset upon us. We believe that surveillance, both state and capital are symptoms of our buying patterns in the very least and are maximized by our […]

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ASBX
Laura Bielau Arbeit 2016-2019

Laura Bielau Arbeit 2016-2019

  Laura Bielau’s Arbeit 2016-2019 (Spector Books, 2021) is a stripped-back and minimal series of investigations that regards the environmental working effects and detritus of art labor in 2021. Though the aims are not overtly class-oriented or political, they function as a personal case study between the artist and the alien consumer objects that become […]

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ASBX
Nearest Truth Workshop Feature on Patrick Garcia

Nearest Truth Workshop Feature on Patrick Garcia

This begins a series of posts that examine the work of participants and instructors that have featured in the ASX/VOID workshops from 2019 and will now be used to illustrate the Nearest Truth Workshops taking place in Athens in November of 2021.     Nearest Truth is a podcast devoted to photography and culture at […]

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ASBX
Thiago Dezan When I Hear That Trumpet Sound

Thiago Dezan When I Hear That Trumpet Sound

  I was confronted with three parts of a mental soundtrack while paging through Thiago Dezan’s new book When I Hear The That Trumpet Sound (Selo Turvo, 2021, ed. 200). The first track based on title and the book’s black endpapers and the ominous black cover was Behemoth’s Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel, a rich and […]

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ASBX
Mark Templeton Ocean Front Property

Mark Templeton Ocean Front Property

    Original text by Brad Feuerhelm for Ocean Front Property by Mark Templeton Co-Published by Graphical and The Ice Plant     For the Promise of Water     This is my signaling of a complete and utter devotion to the new forms of feral tropicality. I will suggest here and now that for […]

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ASBX
The Dark Moods of a City:  Ignacio Prudencio’s “La Calle Abierta Como Un Sueño Hacia Cualquier Azar”

The Dark Moods of a City: Ignacio Prudencio’s “La Calle Abierta Como Un Sueño Hacia Cualquier Azar”

La Calle Abierta Como Un Sueño Hacia Cualquier Azar (The Street Open Like A Dream To Chance) documents the wanderings of Bolivian photographer Ignacio Prudencio throughout different areas of Lima. As a newcomer to the city, Prudencio purposefully got lost in the Peruvian capital to better understand it. The ensuing sequence is highly abstract, composed of unrelated images […]

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ASBX
Nearest Truth Workshop Feature Efi Haliori

Nearest Truth Workshop Feature Efi Haliori

This begins a series of posts that examine the work of participants and instructors that have featured in the ASX/VOID workshops from 2019 and will now be used to illustrate the Nearest Truth Workshops taking place in Athens in November of 2021.     Nearest Truth is a podcast devoted to photography and culture at […]

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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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