2022-11-24
Lens Culture

Impossible Installations

Fueling their artistic practice with a deep commitment to innovation, Ukrainian duo Synchrodogs’ latest project takes their dreamlike aesthetic to new terrain through a collaboration with Artificial Intelligence.

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Lens Culture

Strange Paradise

For over five years, Jake Ricker has visited the Golden Gate Bridge almost every day to take photographs. His project pays tribute to the highs and lows of the human experience that play out against San Francisco’s iconic red-orange landmark.

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Lens Culture

A Bear in the Lowlands

A touching retirement story of a 43-year-old brown bear, and the 80-year-old animal trainer who has cared for her since birth.

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Lens Culture

Promise Land

An ambitious, challenging, immersive “post-photographic” response to T.S. Eliot’s epic poem “The Waste Land” rises and resonates 100 years after the original writing.

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Lens Culture

Between These Folded Walls, Utopia

Working in collaboration with their protagonists, Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer depict hopeful, powerful “utopian” visions for young women whose lives have been uprooted by forced migration.

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Lens Culture

Some Say Ice

In her new book “Some Say Ice”— an eerie portrait of the people, places and animals of the small Midwestern town of Black River Falls—Alessandra Sanguinetti confronts photography’s uneasy relationship to life and death.

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Lens Culture

A Symphony of Images

Across his lyrical compositions of images, Paul Cupido uses black and white photography as a deeply personal, emotive language to explore the infinite possibilities of our natural surroundings.

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Lens Culture

Languor

In his tender portraits and landscapes in Central Park, Donavon Smallwood sees his work as a mirror for himself and “about being Black in a space of nature.”

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British Journal of Photography
In conversation with Indian Photo Festival founder Aquin Mathews

In conversation with Indian Photo Festival founder Aquin Mathews

Reading Time: 3 minutes Established in 2015 by Aquin Mathews, the festival was created to address the lack of support for India’s photographic community
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British Journal of Photography
A family portrait that explores identity, Black representation and authorship

A family portrait that explores identity, Black representation and authorship

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ryan Prince considers the importance of visualising candid, familial moments to contribute to the photographic archive and counter the monolithic perception of Blackness
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British Journal of Photography
Greg Williams: “I never think of myself as photographing celebrities, I photograph artists”

Greg Williams: “I never think of myself as photographing celebrities, I photograph artists”

Reading Time: 3 minutes Off the back of launching the second issue of Hollywood Authentic, we catch up with Greg Williams about his new magazine, and how he built a career photographing Hollywood’s elite
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British Journal of Photography
A poetic ode to the pleasures of walking

A poetic ode to the pleasures of walking

Reading Time: 3 minutes Matthew Genitempo’s latest photobook captures the eerily beautiful landscapes of Marfa, Texas, in atmospheric images taken on ambling walks at the start of the pandemic
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British Journal of Photography
In Fabiana Sala’s latest series, we witness the bond between a mother suffering with Alzheimer’s disease and her daughter, who cares for her

In Fabiana Sala’s latest series, we witness the bond between a mother suffering with Alzheimer’s disease and her daughter, who cares for her

Reading Time: 3 minutes “My mom dedicated over 10 years to my grandmother, without any expectations. I’ve always seen it as a pure and unselfish love.”
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British Journal of Photography
An alternative history of photography

An alternative history of photography

Reading Time: 2 minutes A new publication and exhibition explore and acknowledge the infinite number of answers there are to the seemingly simple question: ‘What is the history of photography?’”
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British Journal of Photography
Roe Ethridge presents two decades of work in a vibrant new monograph

Roe Ethridge presents two decades of work in a vibrant new monograph

Reading Time: 3 minutes Blending fine-art, commercial, and editorial images, Roe Ethridge questions compositional norms and artistic propriety
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British Journal of Photography
First look: Photo London announces details of 2023 edition

First look: Photo London announces details of 2023 edition

Reading Time: 2 minutes Now in its eighth edition, the photo fair has today announced the first details of its 2023 programme, including naming Martin Parr Photo London Master of Photography 2023
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Magnum Photos

Digitizing the Color Archive

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After Dark

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Magnum Photos

Sabiha Çimen Wins First PhotoBook Award

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Magnum Photos

Bieke Depoorter Shortlisted for World Leading Photography Prize

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Four Magnum women

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Digest #184

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Magnum Photos

Refocusing the Lens

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Magnum Photos

RIP Jimmy Fox, Magnum’s ‘eye’

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ASBX
Absalon Kirkeby Still Fantasy

Absalon Kirkeby Still Fantasy

Full Article on Patreon Absalon Kirkeby Still Fantasy Published by Disko Bay |…There have been precedents of abstraction with photography from early 20th Century experiments with photograms, Vortographs, and mid-Twentieth-century experiments in Konkrete Fotografie, or the photography of post-AbEx forms of photographic experimentation with chemigrams and darkroom light painting. Recently, artists from Wolgang Tilmans to […]

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ASBX
Abdo Shanan Dry

Abdo Shanan Dry

Full Article on Patreon National Identity is loosely based on tropes of uncertain but narrow fixity: culture, language, and nationhood.  Several mitigating factors have thwarted this fundamental right to the assembly and persistence of identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Historically, conquest and colonial desire have eradicated the national identity of oppressed subjects through […]

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ASBX
Robin Graubard Road To Nowhere

Robin Graubard Road To Nowhere

Review Excerpt Graubard’s Road to Nowhere is a mercurial title. Published by Loose Joints, the last home of which I might expect to find a book on civil war and discontent to be published, the work reflects neither a war book nor a specific Aftermath book. Aftermath or post-event photography is a genre that looks […]

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ASBX
Alessandra Sanguinetti Some Say Ice

Alessandra Sanguinetti Some Say Ice

Alessandra Sanguinetti Some Say Ice MACK/Magnum Photo A girl plays the piano convincingly. Another different girl, spotlit, plays a different piano, slightly less convincingly. Steam rises from a river, possibly black, convincingly. A buffalo mourns Its condition confined between fences during a winter snowstorm, most convincingly. A man’s hands clean a six-shooter pistol, and I […]

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ASBX
Abbey Meaker Floodplains

Abbey Meaker Floodplains

  “Throughout Meaker’s book, there is a pervasive sense of an unseen world, a drawing back of the curtain to reveal places that are looked over or are content to sit idyll and unobserved for the sale of their posterity. The artist pivots her camera towards the thicket and stagnant pools of water left behind […]

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ASBX
Ossian Brown Haunted Air

Ossian Brown Haunted Air

  As a collector of vintage photography with a penchant for the curious, horrific, and sometimes downright traumatic, it is no surprise that I gravitated to Ossian Brown‘s book Haunted Air published by Jonathan Cape in 2011. There also appears to be a new 2022 edition available. I am reviewing the book now as it […]

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ASBX
Rob Ball Silent Coast

Rob Ball Silent Coast

    Rob Ball‘s Silent Coast, published by Photo Editions (2022), suggests a distorted type of lyrical documentary investigation where the cruel conditions of political complications atomize the social concerns of a place and its people, reducing the everyday plight of the individual as small, unheard, and unnecessary. An opaque and uneasy accent of dissolve […]

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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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