2022-09-22 2022-09-28
Lens Culture

The White House China

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.

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Mellow Apocalypse

In a world flooded by images, Alnis Stakle’s intricate digital collages—created in collaboration with algorithms—tease out the patterns and trends of visual representation across time.

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Lens Culture

5 Minutes

The largest ecological crime in Brazilian history — the collapse of a dam that released millions of cubic meters of toxic mine tailings in 2015 — continues to contaminate land the size of Portugal. Yet survivors were each given only 5 minutes to testify to its impact.

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Lens Culture

Unseen 2022: A Preview

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.

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Lens Culture

Black and White Photography — A New Free Guide

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.

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Lens Culture

In Retrospect

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.

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Lens Culture

Images Vevey — A Preview of the Biennial Festival

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.

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Lens Culture

MADRE

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.

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British Journal of Photography
The MEP opens a retrospective of one of the most influential photographers from Eastern Europe, Boris Mikhailov

The MEP opens a retrospective of one of the most influential photographers from Eastern Europe, Boris Mikhailov

Reading Time: 6 minutes “A photographer is not a hero. He has no great desire to be there at the end of the world to document the most important, the most interesting and the hardest things. A photographer is not a hero.” Boris Mikhailov
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British Journal of Photography
The 7-year-olds photographing war and how to support them

The 7-year-olds photographing war and how to support them

Reading Time: 4 minutes Artem Skorokhodko and Dmytro Zubkov travel to war-torn Ukrainian villages, handing out disposable cameras to the local children who photograph their places of play
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British Journal of Photography
InCadaqués’ new programme pushes the boundaries of photographic exhibitions

InCadaqués’ new programme pushes the boundaries of photographic exhibitions

Reading Time: 3 minutes Set within the beautiful town of Cadaqués, the festival’s exhibitions engage with their surrounding landscapes
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British Journal of Photography
Immy Humes champions trailblazing women in her latest book, The Only Woman

Immy Humes champions trailblazing women in her latest book, The Only Woman

Reading Time: 4 minutes Presenting 100 images from her vast, found archive, Humes’ book also boldly attests to the stark reality of gender inequality over the decades
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British Journal of Photography
Tejan Rahim’s latest series carries the weight of the world

Tejan Rahim’s latest series carries the weight of the world

Reading Time: 3 minutes “This is a project about all the things that make me depressed and anxious – it’s about racism and identity, the environment and climate change, religion and family, history and culture”
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British Journal of Photography
Creative Brief: Francesca Gavin

Creative Brief: Francesca Gavin

Reading Time: 2 minutes EPOCH is a new, independent publication placing the contemporary in dialogue with history. Here, editor-in-chief Francesca Gavin sheds light on the ideas and processes behind the magazine
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British Journal of Photography
Beauty in abundance: Ryan Pfluger photographs 100 queer couples across the US

Beauty in abundance: Ryan Pfluger photographs 100 queer couples across the US

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pfluger’s new book of portraits – Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens – is a a hybrid of non-fiction, memoir and photobook
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British Journal of Photography
Being there: Gavin Bond goes backstage with the biggest names in 90s fashion

Being there: Gavin Bond goes backstage with the biggest names in 90s fashion

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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Magnum Photos

In Dialogue: Susan Meiselas, Bieke Depoorter, Olivia Arthur & Lúa Ribeira

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Magnum Digest #184

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Refocusing the Lens

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RIP Jimmy Fox, Magnum’s ‘eye’

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Magnum Digest #183

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A Statement from Magnum Photos

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Magnum Editions: A New Collection

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Magnum announces its new president

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ASBX
Tomaso Clavarino Padanistan

Tomaso Clavarino Padanistan

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 […]

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ASBX
Mathieu Chaze Rock, Paper, Scissors

Mathieu Chaze Rock, Paper, Scissors

  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 […]

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ASBX
Mimi Plumb The Golden City

Mimi Plumb The Golden City

  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 […]

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ASBX
Paul Graham: Troubled Land

Paul Graham: Troubled Land

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 […]

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ASBX
Jeffrey Silverthorne 1946-2022

Jeffrey Silverthorne 1946-2022

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 […]

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ASBX
Teo Becher: Charbon Blanc

Teo Becher: Charbon Blanc

  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 […]

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ASBX
Alexis Desgagnés: Ammoniaque

Alexis Desgagnés: Ammoniaque

  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 […]

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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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