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Lens Culture

An Alternative Idea of Intimacy

Jeanette Spicer’s evocative portraits of friends and family play with light and space to challenge viewers to rethink intimacy, representation and relationships.

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Lens Culture

The Outlands

This three-volume publication draws on the mass of outtakes from William Eggleston’s 1976 MoMA exhibition to explore his luminous approach to color photography.

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Lens Culture

Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2

Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The second in a two-part series.

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Lens Culture

BODY COPY

In their wry and playful self-portraits, Mitchell Moreno embodies a host of different characters—inspired by the titles of online dating adverts—to explore the performativity of digital hook-up culture.

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Lens Culture

Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part I

Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The first in a two-part series.

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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

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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British Journal of Photography
Gillian Laub demonstrates how political division has impacted families across the US

Gillian Laub demonstrates how political division has impacted families across the US

Reading Time: 2 minutes Laub has been photographing her family for the last 20 years. The resulting photobook is by turns lavish, hilarious, and moving
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British Journal of Photography
Hady Barry meets Aissatou, a young woman in pursuit of an education against all odds

Hady Barry meets Aissatou, a young woman in pursuit of an education against all odds

Reading Time: 5 minutes Hady Barry, the final photographer selected for Malala Fund’s Against All Odds commission series in collaboration with 1854, joins 13-year-old Aissatou on her pursuit of a secondary education in Guinea
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British Journal of Photography
Siqi Li ruminates on themes of loss and separation

Siqi Li ruminates on themes of loss and separation

Reading Time: 3 minutes Empty Nest is a delicate telling of the changing roles and relations in a family influenced by China’s one-child policy
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British Journal of Photography
A new publication questions and confronts the misrepresentation of northern communities

A new publication questions and confronts the misrepresentation of northern communities

Reading Time: 2 minutes A collaboration between photographer Craig Easton and writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz Easton, BANK TOP documents a tight-knit community in Blackburn, a Lancashire town once dubbed “one of the most segregated” in Britain
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British Journal of Photography
Capitalism and the camera: an exploration of photography’s intrinsic relationship with the economic structure

Capitalism and the camera: an exploration of photography’s intrinsic relationship with the economic structure

Reading Time: 8 minutes Consumerism and imperialism have long been explored and visualised in photography. Indeed, images themselves are a commodity that perpetuate the cycle. But with the dawn of the internet and new technologies, the heightened awareness of the climate crisis, intersectional thought and need for decolonisation, photography’s relationship to capitalism is being reexamined.
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British Journal of Photography
American Black Beauty: Micaiah Carter’s debut solo show deals with representation, love, and loss

American Black Beauty: Micaiah Carter’s debut solo show deals with representation, love, and loss

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British Journal of Photography
Fotografiska’s latest exhibition celebrates the nude through the female gaze

Fotografiska’s latest exhibition celebrates the nude through the female gaze

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British Journal of Photography
An intimate portrait of community in the drag scene

An intimate portrait of community in the drag scene

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ardelle Schneider’s upcoming photobook features images of everyday life of their subjects – in and out of drag – alongside handwritten contributions from the queens she befriended
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Magnum Photos

The Magnum Digest: February 11, 2022

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Magnum Photos and Obscura Collaborate to Create New Collections of NFTs

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The Magnum Digest: January 28, 2022

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The Magnum Digest: January 14, 2021

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Zied Ben Romdhane: Come Hell or High Water

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Magnum Photos

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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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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