2021-10-05 2021-10-07
Lens Culture

Identification of fruits: As a fruit farmer and breeder

A fruit-farmer/photographer uses his camera to meticulously record the species he breeds and grows, adding his loving photographic vision to a long lineage of botanical art.

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Lens Culture

Desert Dweller

Braving the harsh elements to create a community outside the confines of mainstream society, these portraits introduce us to a motley crew of squatters occupying a corner of the Sonoran Desert.

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Lens Culture

The Constructed Self

Reimagining portraiture as a playful practice of deconstruction, Karen Navarro’s visual puzzles remind us that identity is a fluid and multifaceted process.

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Lens Culture

In Need of New Ceremonies

A 25-year-old Romanian photographer appropriates the same tools of the former Securitate secret police to try to come to grips with her parent’s and their generation’s apparent inability to embrace 21st century freedom.

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Lens Culture

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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Lens Culture

Goddesses and Dragons

Riffing on the depiction of women across the history of art, Carlota Guerrero’s own take on the ‘divine feminine’ that unfolds across the pages of her first monograph is a strong and sensual one.

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Lens Culture

Embodiment : Salvaging a Self

In her “salvage operation,” Sue Palmer Stone transfigures discarded debris into detailed, colorful sculptures, teetering on the edge of collapse.

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Lens Culture

Spill

A comprehensive retrospective of Delhi-based artist Sohrab Hura’s restlessly inventive approach to photography spans genres from fiction to documentary, and formats from photobooks to video and more.

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British Journal of Photography
In the Gallery with Frish Brandt

In the Gallery with Frish Brandt

Reading Time: 3 minutes Since its inception in 1979, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco has been at the forefront of situating photography in the art world. Here, its president reflects on this shift.
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British Journal of Photography
The New Woman Behind the Camera

The New Woman Behind the Camera

Reading Time: 3 minutes The New Woman Behind the Camera. Presenting the overlooked contributions of over 120 female photographers from 20 different countries
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British Journal of Photography
Behind the Campaign: Sirui Ma revisualises yoga culture for Stretch London

Behind the Campaign: Sirui Ma revisualises yoga culture for Stretch London

Reading Time: 3 minutes “This is something that’s really good for you; good for everyone. So how come only one kind of person is seen doing it?” Part of a new campaign from yoga studio Stretch, Ma’s latest work sets out to subvert homogenous ‘wellness’ imagery
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British Journal of Photography
In the studio with Chloe Dewe Mathews

In the studio with Chloe Dewe Mathews

Reading Time: 5 minutes Her labour-of-love seaside studio is not just a space for photographic practice, but for meeting, film-screening and so much more
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British Journal of Photography
Liam Wong’s latest book explores the cinematic capacity of cities after dark

Liam Wong’s latest book explores the cinematic capacity of cities after dark

Reading Time: 2 minutes “These are real moments isolated and framed with cinematic intent,” he says
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British Journal of Photography
Jacob Russell paints a portrait of Lebanon, a country in crisis

Jacob Russell paints a portrait of Lebanon, a country in crisis

Reading Time: 2 minutes The photojournalist who has spent many years understanding Lebanese culture and people, now calls it home
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British Journal of Photography
The archive of photographer, filmmaker and musician Bev Grant reveals arresting scenes of 1960s America

The archive of photographer, filmmaker and musician Bev Grant reveals arresting scenes of 1960s America

Reading Time: 2 minutes Featuring Black Panthers, Fidel Castro, and feminist protest, a new monograph compiles her images of the radical
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British Journal of Photography
1854 Presents: Miriam Stanke on the nature of slow journalism

1854 Presents: Miriam Stanke on the nature of slow journalism

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this event, documentary photographer Stanke reflects on her practice, as well as the collaborative nature behind photojournalism 
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Magnum Photos

Magnum announces new Nominees, Associate and Member at its 74th AGM in Paris

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: September 24, 2021

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Magnum Photos

Thomas Dworzak’s Khidi – The Bridge

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Magnum Photos

On Art, Life, and Cricket’s Answers to Both

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Magnum Photos

The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen Hoodwinked the Photography Industry

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Magnum Photos

Four Tumultuous Decades in Afghanistan

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: September 10, 2021

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Magnum Photos

20 Years On: Remembering The 9/11 Attacks

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ASBX
The Cracks on the Floor: Sebastián Mejía’s “Tempo”

The Cracks on the Floor: Sebastián Mejía’s “Tempo”

“We often expect high-end production values in contemporary photobooks, but not every publication can afford some of the eccentricities that we have become accustomed to. In this sense, Tempo reminds us that our material expectations shouldn’t dismiss publications that use humble materials, often produced outside the usual centers of culture and power.”

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ASBX
Laurenz Berges 4100 Duisburg

Laurenz Berges 4100 Duisburg

    In reading Darius Khondji’s interview with American Cinematographer Magazine from November 5th, 2018 regarding his cinematography work on various films, including David Fincher’s epic noir Se7en (1995), I am reminded of the significance that color balance plays when sculpting atmosphere in a film and also in a photographic body of work. In regarding […]

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ASBX
The Opaqueness of Manifest Destiny: Daniel Reuter’s Providencia

The Opaqueness of Manifest Destiny: Daniel Reuter’s Providencia

Let’s start at the end with the text that closes Providencia by the Chilean Alejandro Zambra. The author, who lives in Mexico City, felt the urge to visit his country after days of increasingly violent protests against the government due to economic inequality. The unrest eventually led to a curfew and the declaration of a state of […]

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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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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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