These old-school photograms are artful, abstract, mysterious, and a shocking reminder that discarded plastics will never break down naturally — art as a wake-up call.
Lewis Khan’s latest project transports him to a desert city, thousands of miles away from his London home and locally-based projects. In this unfamiliar terrain, he discovers community among strangers.
These images start as drawings, then become temporary constructions that are photographed and then become flat again — playing with the illusion of depth and volume on a 2-dimensional picture plane.
In Gleeson Paulino’s dreamlike series, water serves as an immersive reconnection to his native Brazil, acting as a catalyst of renewal, forgiveness, encounter, and play.
A look at the fragile ecosystems of oases around Morocco — real humid microclimates favorable to the development of plants — which are disappearing at an alarming rate.
In this series of uncanny images, Sari Soininen takes us on a searing, hallucinogenic odyssey through the world as she saw it during an LSD-induced psychotic episode.
Self-portraits from above: an ongoing series of photographs documenting the landscapes of Beirut during the isolation of Covid, catastrophic explosions, and crippling inflation.
Combining archival and family photos with collage and other interventions, we get a very personal look at how the atomic bomb from 1945 continues to affect survivors and their families in Japan.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pair reconnected when Markle graduated from college, and began to rebuild broken ties through photography
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The black and white images – of bodies and skin, rocks and the moon, landscapes and birds – are presented in an enigmatic sequence that stirs a sense of the uncanny
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The French capital is rich with photographic history and the subject of some of the medium’s most iconic images. Writer and editor Rémi Coignet guides us through the city’s contemporary photographic scene
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Reading Time: 7 minutes For the past 11 years, our Ones to Watch platform seeks out new, emerging talent from all over the world. In the years that follow, our selected talents have continued to grow their careers, taking an array of different paths. Following on from part 1 last week, today we feature former nominees Jim Mortram, Sipho Gongxeka, Karolina Wojtas and Spandita Malik, who discuss their career highlights, challenges and lessons learned so far.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes After choosing a career as a photographer how does an emerging artist manage to make a living? Gem Fletcher finds out
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Documenting a ‘second adolescence’, the Montreal artist’s immersive book is intimate and dynamic in equal measure
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Through images and text, Papo’s new photobook confronts the struggles of postpartum depression — her own and those of the other mothers she collaborated with on the project
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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…