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.

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.

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

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.

Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol made a trek from Moscow to Ulan Bator to Beijing in one month — often making more than 1,000 photographs each day for 28 days straight. He reveals his process in this great 5 minute video interview.

Where does the photographer’s studio end and nature begin? Julie Hamel’s magical image-objects are whole worlds in themselves; a flurry of overlapping views that mimic the hazy edges of memory.

In these barren, eerie landscapes, Hashem Shakeri unveils the failed promises of a major housing project on the outskirts of Tehran.

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.

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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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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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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Reading Time: 2 minutes “These are real moments isolated and framed with cinematic intent,” he says
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The photojournalist who has spent many years understanding Lebanese culture and people, now calls it home
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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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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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Reading Time: 4 minutes “You have to be a very specific person to know how I’m famous. And he’s that person,” says artist and professional skateboarder Ed Templeton, reflecting on his shoot with actor – and skate enthusiast – Jonah Hill
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“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.”

    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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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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