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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

Skin on Skin

From temporary tattoos to action figures, this inventive young artist blends fashion and art to explore the commodification of the body through a truly weird and wonderful post-Internet lens.

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Lens Culture

Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy

Casting an unflinching eye onto the realities of giving birth during the pandemic, LA-based photographer Maggie Shannon’s award-winning project is an important document of an often-unseen yet universal experience.

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Lens Culture

Home Is Where The Garden Grows

In the first edition of “Arrivals”—a monthly column dedicated to new voices in photography—Wesley Verhoeve introduces us to Erinn Springer’s latest project; a tender meditation on family life set in the Midwest.

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Lens Culture

Sentiments and Sorrows

Brimming with emotion, Bowei Yang’s portraits create a space of healing in which the photographer and his subjects can explore their identities, liberating themselves from their conservative backgrounds.

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Lens Culture

In Visible Light

In these award-winning photographs by Sam Ferris, intense golden sunlight bounces off the steel-and-glass urban canyon walls of Sydney’s Central Business District — illuminating passersby and setting the stage for countless fleeting encounters on the city streets.

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Lens Culture

Gwo Fanm — Being Strong in Vulnerability

Using her practice as a way to reflect on and heal family trauma, Naomieh Jovin works intimately with her family album, intervening in the archive and adding new perspectives with her own photographs.

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Lens Culture

Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro

With the keen eye of a street photographer, Argus Paul Estabrook captures a world of black-and-white abstractions and kaleidoscopic views of commuters in the Seoul metro system.

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British Journal of Photography
Creating Change: Angela Y T Chan on seeking climate justice through the arts

Creating Change: Angela Y T Chan on seeking climate justice through the arts

Reading Time: 5 minutes An educator, researcher, and “creative climate change communicator”, Chan discusses the importance of anti-colonial climate research, and how to resist greenwashing
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British Journal of Photography
Storming the Capitol: Bronx Documentary Center’s upcoming show exhibits photos and videos from the attack

Storming the Capitol: Bronx Documentary Center’s upcoming show exhibits photos and videos from the attack

Reading Time: < 1 minute Opening next weekend, the show features work by 15 photojournalists including Gabriela Bhaskar, Nina Berman, Victor J. Blue, Balazs Gardi, Adam Gray, Shuran Huang, Christopher Lee, and others
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British Journal of Photography
Portrait of Britain Vol. 4 Shortlist Announced

Portrait of Britain Vol. 4 Shortlist Announced

Reading Time: 2 minutes Portrait of Britain returns this year for the fourth time, as photographers all over the country picture the faces of our nation.
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British Journal of Photography
A psychedelic journey into Hunter S. Thompson’s ramshackle cabin

A psychedelic journey into Hunter S. Thompson’s ramshackle cabin

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the two years before his death in 2005, Chloe Sells worked as personal assistant to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author, Thompson. Her new book introduces us to his inner sanctum in Woody Creek, Colorado
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British Journal of Photography
Stephen Gill on memory, nature and home

Stephen Gill on memory, nature and home

Reading Time: 5 minutes As his landmark retrospective at Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery closes this weekend, Gill reflects on his prolific career
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British Journal of Photography
Anders Edström chronicles the nuances of daily life, love and loss

Anders Edström chronicles the nuances of daily life, love and loss

Reading Time: 5 minutes His new 756-page book explores a home in a remote Japanese village that may soon be gone
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British Journal of Photography
What does it mean to be English? Robin Maddock’s book on England attempts to find out

What does it mean to be English? Robin Maddock’s book on England attempts to find out

Reading Time: < 1 minute Rambling between photographs, collages and handwritten poems, the book is a representation of England in this contemporary moment
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British Journal of Photography
Set in Dublin’s notorious Ballymun estate, Ross McDonnell’s new photobook tells a tale of rebellion

Set in Dublin’s notorious Ballymun estate, Ross McDonnell’s new photobook tells a tale of rebellion

Reading Time: 2 minutes “I set out years ago to capture something wild and untamed that I felt was disappearing from Irish society – the sad part is that it came true.”
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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: January 14, 2021

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Zied Ben Romdhane: Come Hell or High Water

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Witnesses: Lindokuhle Sobekwa – Generations of Refugees in Dadaab

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Magnum Photos

Nanna Heitmann: Witnesses – When The Birds Will Fly Again

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Magnum Photos

2021: Review of the Year

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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: December 16, 2021

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Magnum Photos

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

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Magnum Photos

Enri Canaj: Say Goodbye Before You Leave

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ASBX
Francesco Merlini The Flood

Francesco Merlini The Flood

  Note: There is a soluble parable lurking in the back of my mind that I wish to tether to this review of Francesco Merlini’s photobook The Flood. I am not sure I believe in it myself. Parables are strange pronouncements offered by someone as if in authority, moral or other. Therefore, one cannot help […]

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ASBX
Cristóbal Hara España Color 1985-2020

Cristóbal Hara España Color 1985-2020

Cristóbal Hara is a name that I had not explored until late last year with the co-publication of his book España Color 1985-2020/Spain in Color 1985-2020. The Spanish and English versions were respectively handled by  Editorial Rm and Matt Stuart‘s Plague Press. I had seen it advertised throughout the year, mostly from Matt’s Instagram page […]

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ASBX
Mark van den Brink The Minox Files

Mark van den Brink The Minox Files

  The Minox pocket camera was developed in 1936 by Walter Zapp to provide the public with a small compact camera that was easily portable and that was economically feasible for a budding amateur class of photographers to purchase. Its innovative design, compact, small, and easily hidden were later co-opted as something of a novel […]

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ASBX
A Short Interview with Alexis Fabry

A Short Interview with Alexis Fabry

I had the pleasure of talking to Alexis Fabry on the publication of the catalogue of Battered Latin America, the exhibition he co-curated earlier this year at the Fondation A Stichting in Brussels. The book compiles the work of twenty photographers, including lesser-known names (Jaime Villaseca, Agustín Martínez Castro) and many of the region’s luminaries (Paz […]

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ASBX
Luis Baylón Madrid en plata

Luis Baylón Madrid en plata

    Luis Baylón or simply Baylón is a Madrid-based photographer who works on the streets of Spain’s capital, sculpting images from the thousands of possibilities in front of his lens on his daily walks through the city. The images, in their minimal and contrasty monochrome palette, feature a number of different possibilities from which […]

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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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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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