Amsterdam is awash with photography this weekend as Unseen Photo Fair celebrates its tenth edition with a promising program of IRL art experiences and new discoveries.

Filled with inspiration and insight from artists and industry experts, this free 54-page PDF is a wonderful resource for all photographers interested in making compelling black and white photographs.

These decorative commemorative plates are imaginary “celebrations” of injustices, contradictions and hypocrisies by US presidents over the years — facts and events that are often diminished or omitted from official history.

Life-size photographs become stage sets in which the photographer then places herself, interacting with the images to create new combined pictures that evoke meditations on time, distance, and longing.

Some 45 photographers are featured in the 8th edition of the biennial photography festival in Switzerland — here’s an in-depth preview of what’s on show.

Weaving together Andean folklore and Catholic iconography, Marisol Mendez’s bold and beautiful portraits celebrate the syncretic culture of her home country, Bolivia, through its womxn.

Alvin Ng has embarked on a sensorial, spiritual journey to connect with his surroundings and to try to photograph the unphotographable.

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.

Reading Time: 3 minutes The photographer’s first solo exhibition delves into his archive, presenting unseen images from a time when the supermodel ruled all
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In a short film produced by Magnum in collaboration with BJP, four Magnum photographers discuss ways of seeing and the process of collaboration ahead of the opening of Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum at the ICP
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The winners of the student open call will exhibit their work at Paris Gare du Lyon train station, as well as in a dedicated space at Paris Photo
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Amsterdam photofair celebrates its 10th edition with an accompanying group exhibition extending the boundaries of photographic creation into the visual arts
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The photographers and picture editor behind National Geographic’s August cover story share their approach to reimagining one of the world’s most-photographed structure
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The photographer’s first solo exhibition delves into his archive, presenting unseen images from a time when the supermodel ruled all
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Published four decades after the images were made, the photobook shines an honest light on the hardships endured by many, which still prevail today
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Inspired by her love of water, Naima Green’s latest exhibition uses the still and moving image to study the everyday possibilities and relationships that nourish the soul
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The full 2100 Word essay with 11 photographs on Tomaso Clavarino‘s Padanistan published by Studio Faganel and Guest Editions can be found here. Thank you for your support. Summary Text below     “My suggestion is that this is a vital book. I am not sure if it is a bit regional in scope. One […]

  Does one need a photobook about someone else’s family? What universal aspects of image-making allow the work to transcend from a family album to a book that illustrates the broader condition of human understanding, behavior, and endeavor? There are notable examples throughout the history of photography where images of an artist’s family are remembered […]

  We have yet to reconcile the deep chasm of exchange in the American order during the fateful summer and winter of 1969. During the rightfully dubbed Summer of Hate, the Manson Family murders shook the very bedrock of the American free lovin’ psyche. The significance of the murders ended the free wheelin’ summer of […]

We fail our images and images fail our desires. In trying to deliberate over which side of failure images are consigned to, the human side versus the side of the function of the image itself, it is hard to not implicate oneself in misunderstanding the function of a photographic image. We have come to expect […]

One of the most profound experiences of my visual life came with the discovery of Jeffrey Silverthorne’s The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, 1972. I believe that I encountered the image in William Ewing’s book The Body: Photographs of the Human Form, 1994. I could be wrong as I no longer own a copy […]

  There is a resurgence in recent years to look at the topic of industry and labor among artists considering the monumental shift that society is experiencing from manual labor to skilled labor. Over half of the projects that I encounter regarding the shift to automation revolve around digital territories-projects about AI, automation, cryptocurrencies, and […]

  Ammoniaque is a simple book. I would almost describe the images within it as minimal. Alexis Desgagnés, a Canadian photographer working in Montreal has chosen to focus his attention on one wall, an intimate object oddly teeming with signs of life or human intervention in an industrialized area of the city situated off Moreau […]

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…