2023-03-06
Lens Culture

One Day Every Day

Conjured from the absurdity of life in lockdown, Slovakian photographer Zuzana Pustaiová’s imaginative portraits use wit and humor to tackle the roles we adopt in our everyday lives.

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Lens Culture

Epitome

Against the backdrop of war, Ukrainian photographer Vic Bakin’s darkroom has taken on a new importance. Becoming the safest space in his home, it is here that he has been reflecting on the different meanings his portraits and landscapes have developed over the past year.

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Lens Culture

The Constellation

In a new exhibition, South African artist Nico Krijno reimagines the photographic process to conjure his own unique constellation of imagery — playfully collaging, cropping, and experimenting across the medium.

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Lens Culture

In Between Dreams the Forest Echos the Song of the Burning Anaconda

Tatiana Lopez’s lush cyanotype portraits of Sapara women portray the intertwined connections between dreams, body, and nature.

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Lens Culture

Advice for Portrait Photographers: Learning from Nadav Kander

A relentless drive combined with a thoughtfully cultivated humanness—according to the sought-after photographer Nadav Kander, that is what it takes to make your mark in our age of visual glut.

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Lens Culture

Wearing the Inside Out

A gentle meditation on motherhood and female identity.

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Lens Culture

The Seven Circuits of a Pearl

An epic photographic and mixed-media odyssey that reveals a family secret, takes us back in time and under the sea, and beyond.

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Lens Culture

The Editorial Portrait

A striking portrait is composed of many ingredients. Director of Photography at M magazine, Lucy Conticello, reflects on the role of the photo editor and shares her words of wisdom on creating the conditions for a successful shoot.

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British Journal of Photography
Salih Basheer gathers memories from before his parents’ death

Salih Basheer gathers memories from before his parents’ death

In his debut photobook – the first-ever photographic title by a Sudanese photographer – Basheer revisits memories of his parents, who died when he was three years old
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British Journal of Photography
The many faces of Tommy Kha

The many faces of Tommy Kha

The artist makes wry commentaries on the immigrant experience using scattered visual fragments, from the depths of Tennessee’s Chinatown to the fishing communities of rural Vietnam. A new book and exhibition prove there’s method to the melange
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British Journal of Photography
Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5 shortlist reveals the faces of a changing world

Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5 shortlist reveals the faces of a changing world

Entries reflect defiance in times of division as artists capture the issues that draw us together
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British Journal of Photography
Keeping alive Turkey’s history of enforced disappearances

Keeping alive Turkey’s history of enforced disappearances

Zilan Imşik creates shimmering images around four Turkish cities to memorialise Kurdish disappearances in the 1980s and 90s
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British Journal of Photography
Coming Home: Rose Marie Cromwell’s reflection on the American West

Coming Home: Rose Marie Cromwell’s reflection on the American West

Travelling to off-grid locations with her mother and daughter, Cromwell returns to the place where she grew up, creating a body of work that reflects both a political and personal reunion
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British Journal of Photography
Editor’s picks: Stories you might have missed in February

Editor’s picks: Stories you might have missed in February

Gail Rebhan and Laura Foster both photograph family members – to preserve cultural moments and deal with difficult circumstances. Read more about both in this month’s editor’s picks, alongside Jem Southam and Leica’s next generation of women trailblazers
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British Journal of Photography
Gloves off: The inner lives of South London martial artists

Gloves off: The inner lives of South London martial artists

Muay Thai enthusiast Aneesa Dawoojee wanted to challenge stereotypes about fighters. Photographing at her local gym, she discovered a mixed cast with their own stories to tell
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British Journal of Photography
‘This is how I’ve chosen to live my life’: On Ukraine’s frontline with Anastasia Taylor-Lind

‘This is how I’ve chosen to live my life’: On Ukraine’s frontline with Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Over almost a decade, the photojournalist has documented life in Ukraine – now a new exhibition in London brings together her images of war, protest and resilience
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Magnum Photos

Burning Beauty

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Magnum Photos

A Year in Ukraine

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023

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Magnum Photos

Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow

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Magnum Photos

“The Era of Plenty is Over.” Matt Black on water inequality in the US

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Magnum Photos

Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum

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Magnum Photos

Watching Me, Watching You

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Magnum Photos

Magnum’s second NFT drop is live

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ASBX
Esaias Baitel Zonen 1982

Esaias Baitel Zonen 1982

Full Article on Patreon   This is an incredibly complicated book. It is one that I have been chasing for a year or so since I first became aware of it. It has a cult-like status for many reasons, least of all are the photographs, which are also incredible. The story of Baitel amid a […]

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ASBX
Gui Marcondes I Know I Exist Because You Imagine Me (Maquette Mix)

Gui Marcondes I Know I Exist Because You Imagine Me (Maquette Mix)

From Gui Marcondes I Know I Exist Because You Imagine Me   …By having our monthly meetings, the artist, who may work a day job or run a family, is encouraged to return to work to provide progress notes. There is no strike against them if they cannot bring something new every month as we […]

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ASBX
Mikiko Hara Small Myths

Mikiko Hara Small Myths

  Full Article With More Images On Patreon   Throughout the work, Hara photographs portraits. Some of these images are culled from her familiar everyday journeys, with images of people on the street or in trains elegantly abetting the images of her family. Though far from a family book in the traditional sense, the text […]

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ASBX
Aleksei Kazantsev Relaxing Chamber

Aleksei Kazantsev Relaxing Chamber

Full Article With Many More Images on Patreon   All in all, this book is significant. It bears all the marks of an undervalued classic. It is a book that escapes the doldrums of photography and its representations to speak about something ecological and outside of the medium while also employing a handicraft that is […]

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ASBX
Nick Gervin Portlanders

Nick Gervin Portlanders

Full Article on Patreon   Gervin’s work reflects the American moment in the second decade of the second millennium through tendencies similar to those seen in a good deal of American photography during the Vietnam War era.  I see some resemblances to protest coverage by Gene Anthony, a Black Star agency photographer who captured the […]

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ASBX
Dave Heath One Brief Moment

Dave Heath One Brief Moment

  Dave Heath – One Brief Moment Review by Simon Bray   Within the opening pages of Dave Heath’s ‘One Brief Moment,’ there is a certain air of occasion. Gathered masses fill the middle of the street, suggesting that these are not singular moments but a crowd united by a collective sense of anticipation and […]

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ASBX
Tomatsu Shomei  Nagasaki An Overview

Tomatsu Shomei Nagasaki An Overview

  Full Article on Patreon   …11:02 Nagasaki contains elements of documentary practice mixed with an emotional and highly subjective style of photography. In essence, the book is caught, like Kawada’s Chizu, between two schools of thought regarding photography. On the one hand, there is a legacy of photography that considers politics and a (at […]

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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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