Condensing the horrors of a month of Sicilian wildfires into a single image, Simona Bonnano’s monochrome record of a night spent in the centre of the action swells with tension and enigma.

Morganna Magee’s monochrome portrait of the Australian bush represents a “spiritual homecoming” to early black and white experiments in the darkroom, called upon anew as she grapples with the depths of grief and loss.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reading Time: 4 minutes For eight days in December 2021, the photographer and painter drove a van on the peripheries of the nation. Their resulting publication is impulsive, diaristic, and a reflection of the “telepathic” nature of their collaboration
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Reading Time: 4 minutes “I wanted to disrupt the viewing experience in a slightly ambiguous, obtuse way, to create figures like ghosts,” says Francis, whose ongoing work urges viewers to re-evaluate who is considered the natural inhabitant of English landscapes
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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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Reading Time: 3 minutes In a new photobook and exhibition, Pujara explores themes of home, identity and Britishness along the stretch of road home to the city’s Indian community
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Commissioned by WaterAid and 1854/British Journal of Photography as part of the WaterAid Climate Commission, the storytelling duo blend their distinct styles to create a nuanced portrait of the situation
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Reading Time: 2 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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Reading Time: 2 minutes Publishers from all over Europe will gather to unveil new work and celebrate the importance of the photobook at the third edition of the festival
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Reading Time: 2 minutes “The work in Topographies II stitches together a fictional place from multiple shooting trips – locations linked by light, heat and geology but separated physically by continents,” says Gough
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The Full article can be found on Patreon   “The sadness that overwhelms us, the retardation that paralyzes us, are also a shield—sometimes the last one—against madness” ― Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia   “On my bicycle tours, time and again, I saw passenger cars, buses, and trucks that just stood around. I […]

Please Visit the Full article on Patreon Synopsis: Morten Andersen’s Satyricon & Munch is a perfect example of the collaborative capacity between music and the photobook. The collaboration between black metal heavyweights Satyricon, Andersen, and the Munchmuseet exemplifies a rare chance to see three dominant egos (even if posthumous) work in tandem to produce documentation […]

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 […]

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…