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Lens Culture

Across A Dark Land

Shooting in the deepest folds of night, these photographs of architectural forms scattered across the desert in Israel are enigmatic relics of the history of the region.

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The Last Man

Out on her partner’s ranch in remote Montana, Lauren Grabelle documents her surroundings with a bite, picturing life as it is lived in wilderness, bordered by mountains and shared with a variety of beasts.

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Chameleon

Chameleon is a photographic series about hiding and revealing — a metaphor of duality exploring masculinities and spaces beside the heteronormative structure.

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Black Diamonds

A new book brings a generosity of vision and humanity to small regions of Appalachia — as seen by a resident and former photojournalist whose heritage as an Indigenous Mexican and Filipino plays an important part, too.

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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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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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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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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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British Journal of Photography
Vanessa Winship and Phoebe Kiely take up residence along Cumbria’s long-neglected seaboard, “a place of great fragility and also great resilience” for West Coast Photo Festival

Vanessa Winship and Phoebe Kiely take up residence along Cumbria’s long-neglected seaboard, “a place of great fragility and also great resilience” for West Coast Photo Festival

Reading Time: 6 minutes After a year-long postponement due to the pandemic, we revisit our interview with the photographers ahead of the event opening this weekend, which now includes new work from Marie Smith
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British Journal of Photography
Female in Focus 2021: The winners

Female in Focus 2021: The winners

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jodie Bateman, Paola Jiménez Quispe, Imogen Freeland and Joanna Helena are among the winners of BJP and 1854’s 2021 Female in Focus award, with the exhibitions sponsored by MPB, celebrating women’s contribution to contemporary photography
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British Journal of Photography
Creating Change: Bare Minimum Collective on prioritising laziness

Creating Change: Bare Minimum Collective on prioritising laziness

Reading Time: 3 minutes After meeting during their undergraduate degrees at Cambridge University, the collective bonded over a hate of work. Here, we speak to members Lola Olufemi and Christie Costello about what becomes possible when we are lazy
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British Journal of Photography
Marzena Skubatz photographs the effects of climate change on the world’s fastest-warming town

Marzena Skubatz photographs the effects of climate change on the world’s fastest-warming town

Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending her photographic career photographing some of the planet’s most remote and inaccessible environments, Skubatz travels to a tiny town in the Arctic that is at the forefront of its changing landscape.
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British Journal of Photography
Agoes Rudianto documents walkie-talkie schooling in rural Indonesia

Agoes Rudianto documents walkie-talkie schooling in rural Indonesia

Reading Time: 2 minutes In Indonesia’s rural communities, where laptops and internet access are sparse, classes are being taught over the airwaves
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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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Magnum Photos

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

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The Magnum Digest: September 24, 2021

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Thomas Dworzak’s Khidi – The Bridge

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

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

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Four Tumultuous Decades in Afghanistan

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The Magnum Digest: September 10, 2021

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20 Years On: Remembering The 9/11 Attacks

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ASBX
Christopher Anderson Son

Christopher Anderson Son

Every photographer parent that I know has what to the non-parenting world seems like a self-indulgent family album project. Every. one. of. them. Myself. included. Some have several. Making photographs of the family is part of the experience of getting through life. We use the camera to illustrate the mundane, the banal, and the exciting […]

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Gabriele Basilico non recensiti

Gabriele Basilico non recensiti

Gabriele Basilico is not an artist whose career I had given much consideration to outside of his architectural and urban planning-like topographic images. His poetic monochrome images of both historic cities and bustling urban centers, with their deep and penetrating contrasty shadows, and his fixation between newly built technocentric cities and conversely dormant economically-challenged cities […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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