2021-12-23 2021-12-24
Lens Culture

At Night Gardens Grow

This spectral offering transports us into a landscape populated by anonymous figures and restless animals, navigating their way through the dead of the night.

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Lens Culture

Notes (and Advice) from Aperture Magazine

What informs how we look at the world through photography? Aperture’s editor Michael Famighetti offers his thoughts on the importance of knowing the history of the medium as a contemporary photographer, the development of the iconic magazine, and more.

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Lens Culture

Mapping An Interior Landscape

By combining photography with intricate drawings from her personal sketchbook, artist Sara S. Teigen creates intimate work that is simultaneously wondrous and familiar.

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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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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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Lens Culture

The Castle

Richard Mosse’s “The Castle” uses the discomforting, non-human vision of the thermographic camera to explore the refugee camps that characterize today’s migrant crisis.

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Lens Culture

26 Black-and-White Photography Favorites from LensCulture

LensCulture’s editors revisit 26 of the most popular recent articles that feature black-and-white photography – portfolios, essays, interviews, exhibitions and book reviews.

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Lens Culture

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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British Journal of Photography
Tereza Zelenkova creates and homage to Victorian aesthetics

Tereza Zelenkova creates and homage to Victorian aesthetics

Reading Time: 2 minutes “I wanted to direct my photography towards questioning, towards an alternative narrative to the one imposed by the state in the face of terror”
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British Journal of Photography
Drawing on the history of the great migration in the US in the 1900s and her memories, Dannielle Bowman pictures her family’s past

Drawing on the history of the great migration in the US in the 1900s and her memories, Dannielle Bowman pictures her family’s past

Reading Time: 2 minutes The photographer searches for the subtle details that evoke emotion and memory in and around her neighbourhood
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British Journal of Photography
Inzajeano Latif’s photography of Tottenham show a resilient community struggling against displacement

Inzajeano Latif’s photography of Tottenham show a resilient community struggling against displacement

Reading Time: 2 minutes One decade since the Tottenham riots that shook the city, the London-based photographer captures the marginalised groups that call it home, finding parallels between his experiences and theirs
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British Journal of Photography
Jameisha Prescod on demystifying chronic illness

Jameisha Prescod on demystifying chronic illness

Reading Time: 3 minutes The winner of this year’s Wellcome Photography Prize for her image Untangling gives an insight into her platform, You Look Okay to Me
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British Journal of Photography
André Ramos-Woodard on art-making as a survival strategy

André Ramos-Woodard on art-making as a survival strategy

Reading Time: 2 minutes The artist’s hybrid images blend photography, text and collage, describing the turbulence of being young, Black and queer in America
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British Journal of Photography
Sarah van Rij and David van der Leeuw’s love letter to New York City

Sarah van Rij and David van der Leeuw’s love letter to New York City

Reading Time: 3 minutes The couple became enamoured with the city during lockdown, and travelled there when restrictions lifted to capture its streets with renewed perspective
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British Journal of Photography
Sally Mann wins the 2021 Prix Pictet award

Sally Mann wins the 2021 Prix Pictet award

Reading Time: 2 minutes The US photographer’s series Blackwater ties American history to contemporary environmental danger and is on display at the V&A
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British Journal of Photography
Coercion, control and a regaining of agency in Natasha Caruana’s Muse on Muse

Coercion, control and a regaining of agency in Natasha Caruana’s Muse on Muse

Reading Time: 5 minutes Caruana speaks candidly about her personal experiences that led her to make a body of work that challenges our preconceived notions of what is right and wrong
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Magnum Photos

2021: Review of the Year

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The Magnum Digest: December 16, 2021

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Magnum Nominee Myriam Boulos: “I don’t know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way but through photography”

The post Magnum Nominee Myriam Boulos: “I don’t know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way but through photography” appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Enri Canaj: Say Goodbye Before You Leave

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Magnum Photos

Witnesses: 50 years of Doctors Without Borders

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Rafal Milach: “It’s not just about creating a counter narrative, it’s about actually helping”

The post Rafal Milach: “It’s not just about creating a counter narrative, it’s about actually helping” appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: December 3, 2021

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Magnum Photos

Jérôme Sessini: Afghanistan, September 2021

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ASBX
Donavan Smallwood Languor

Donavan Smallwood Languor

  As per Donavan Smallwood’s admission in his new book Languor (Trespasser, 2021), I also wanted to be an archaeologist when I was a child. I spent at least a few summers basking in the glow of having seen the first two Indiana Jones films which had made an indelible impression upon my youthful, as […]

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ASBX
Dinaya Waeyaert Come Closer

Dinaya Waeyaert Come Closer

  Images of intimacy, are often suggested, as a foregone conclusion, as images of love, closeness, and empathy. Intimacy is a term that is laced with positive and nurturing qualities and suggests a decoupling of the reality that forms its basis-namely the trials, as well as tribulations that are part of what makes a shared […]

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ASBX
Jet Swan Material

Jet Swan Material

  I have been thinking about Jet Swan’s book Material for the past week. This is a fortunate sign. It marks it as one of those books that float across my desk that at first glance I feel some sympathy with, not total, but then it, or the images inside of it, burrow into my […]

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ASBX
Regina Anzenberger Gstettn, Bread And Flowers

Regina Anzenberger Gstettn, Bread And Flowers

  I’m going to start this review in a slightly off way by suggesting that the subject matter, no matter how expertly handled in the beautifully produced self-published set of books proposed by Regina Anzenberger is not my cup of tea. This will be a failed review as I cannot find the words to speak […]

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ASBX
Lee Friedlander Fundación MAPFRE

Lee Friedlander Fundación MAPFRE

There isn’t much more that can be said regarding the importance of Friedlander’s work on the psyche of subsequent generations of photographic enthusiasts and artists alike. From his self-portraits to his Little Screens, Friedlander’s work is simultaneously charged with an inner and external pathos that presents both as a partial reflection of the artist’s psyche […]

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ASBX
The Intimate Paths of History: Raquel Bravo’s Mato Grosso

The Intimate Paths of History: Raquel Bravo’s Mato Grosso

Geographies, histories, feelings, and representations are often interwoven in narrative tapestries, though the patterns created by their threads don’t always yield a unifying image. Raquel Bravo’s Mato Grosso opens with a man’s silhouette, the artist’s father, followed by several shots of dense foliage. How this man’s story relates to these landscapes will slowly unravel through […]

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ASBX
Wouter Vanhees Hà Nội – Wednesday, 10:43 p.m.

Wouter Vanhees Hà Nội – Wednesday, 10:43 p.m.

I have just returned from Athens from our first Nearest Truth Workshop and have been considering at great length the duality of living and being in a city. Having lived a large portion of my life in a city, and have now removed myself and my family to the remoteness of the countryside, this trip, […]

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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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