2023-03-19
Lens Culture

Siblings

Documenting the lively adventures of her son and the family’s two beloved dogs, Wendy Stone reframes the bond between siblings through an animal lens.

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Lens Culture

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 — Photographers from Around the World

Honoring many of the women who inspire us daily — photographers, artists, writers, designers, researchers, poets, curators, art directors, editors, visionaries.

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Lens Culture

NFTs and the Art World: Here’s the Latest

Curious about NFTs and their impact on photography but don’t know where to start? Full of insights, essays, personal stories and criticism from those in the know, here is our essential guide to the best pieces and perspectives from all sides of the debate.

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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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British Journal of Photography
Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

The social documentary photographer, who passed away last week on his 68th birthday, told the story of his industrial hometown of Ashington with unparalleled insight and sensitivity
The post Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
“What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns

“What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns

A group show of three, displaced Rohingya photographers, Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, documenting their experience of living in the largest refugee camp in the world, is a compelling highlight
The post “What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance

‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance

For almost a decade Morgan Ashcom thought his images of Palestine’s West Bank had been destroyed – now, after rediscovering the corrupted film, he considers them a metaphor for oppression
The post ‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration

Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration

The curator spent over a decade at the Whitney Museum of American Art before joining the International Center of Photography earlier this year – here she discusses her career with BJP’s editor.
The post Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood

‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood

Through two graduate projects, Margarita Galandina reinterprets her Siberian heritage – blurring the line between the staged and the candid
The post ‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

SIX.TWO Editions’ print sale features more than 200 photographers, while Pictures for Purpose sees 30 artists contribute works. Read more about three key fundraisers below
The post Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Around the world with Thomas Hoepker

Around the world with Thomas Hoepker

The German photojournalist has spent over six decades travelling the globe, capturing everything from Korean War veterans to the smallpox epidemic in 1960s Bihar. A new exhibition in Berlin assesses the artist with “an unerring sense of contemporary history.”
The post Around the world with Thomas Hoepker appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival

The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival

Back for its 11th edition, and in-person for the first time since 2019, the photofestival brings work by over 200 international artists to 12 venues across Derby
The post The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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Magnum Photos

Burning Beauty

The post Burning Beauty appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

A Year in Ukraine

The post A Year in Ukraine appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023

The post Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023 appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow

The post Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

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

The post “The Era of Plenty is Over.” Matt Black on water inequality in the US appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum

The post Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Watching Me, Watching You

The post Watching Me, Watching You appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum’s second NFT drop is live

The post Magnum’s second NFT drop is live appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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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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Lens Culture

Siblings

Documenting the lively adventures of her son and the family’s two beloved dogs, Wendy Stone reframes the bond between siblings through an animal lens.

Read More
Lens Culture

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 — Photographers from Around the World

Honoring many of the women who inspire us daily — photographers, artists, writers, designers, researchers, poets, curators, art directors, editors, visionaries.

Read More
Lens Culture

NFTs and the Art World: Here’s the Latest

Curious about NFTs and their impact on photography but don’t know where to start? Full of insights, essays, personal stories and criticism from those in the know, here is our essential guide to the best pieces and perspectives from all sides of the debate.

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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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

The social documentary photographer, who passed away last week on his 68th birthday, told the story of his industrial hometown of Ashington with unparalleled insight and sensitivity
The post Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
“What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns

“What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns

A group show of three, displaced Rohingya photographers, Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, documenting their experience of living in the largest refugee camp in the world, is a compelling highlight
The post “What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance

‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance

For almost a decade Morgan Ashcom thought his images of Palestine’s West Bank had been destroyed – now, after rediscovering the corrupted film, he considers them a metaphor for oppression
The post ‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration

Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration

The curator spent over a decade at the Whitney Museum of American Art before joining the International Center of Photography earlier this year – here she discusses her career with BJP’s editor.
The post Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood

‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood

Through two graduate projects, Margarita Galandina reinterprets her Siberian heritage – blurring the line between the staged and the candid
The post ‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

SIX.TWO Editions’ print sale features more than 200 photographers, while Pictures for Purpose sees 30 artists contribute works. Read more about three key fundraisers below
The post Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Around the world with Thomas Hoepker

Around the world with Thomas Hoepker

The German photojournalist has spent over six decades travelling the globe, capturing everything from Korean War veterans to the smallpox epidemic in 1960s Bihar. A new exhibition in Berlin assesses the artist with “an unerring sense of contemporary history.”
The post Around the world with Thomas Hoepker appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival

The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival

Back for its 11th edition, and in-person for the first time since 2019, the photofestival brings work by over 200 international artists to 12 venues across Derby
The post The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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Magnum Photos

Burning Beauty

The post Burning Beauty appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

A Year in Ukraine

The post A Year in Ukraine appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023

The post Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023 appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow

The post Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

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

The post “The Era of Plenty is Over.” Matt Black on water inequality in the US appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum

The post Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Watching Me, Watching You

The post Watching Me, Watching You appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum’s second NFT drop is live

The post Magnum’s second NFT drop is live appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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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 […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
Lens Culture

Siblings

Documenting the lively adventures of her son and the family’s two beloved dogs, Wendy Stone reframes the bond between siblings through an animal lens.

Read More
Lens Culture

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 — Photographers from Around the World

Honoring many of the women who inspire us daily — photographers, artists, writers, designers, researchers, poets, curators, art directors, editors, visionaries.

Read More
Lens Culture

NFTs and the Art World: Here’s the Latest

Curious about NFTs and their impact on photography but don’t know where to start? Full of insights, essays, personal stories and criticism from those in the know, here is our essential guide to the best pieces and perspectives from all sides of the debate.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

The social documentary photographer, who passed away last week on his 68th birthday, told the story of his industrial hometown of Ashington with unparalleled insight and sensitivity
The post Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
“What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns

“What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns

A group show of three, displaced Rohingya photographers, Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, documenting their experience of living in the largest refugee camp in the world, is a compelling highlight
The post “What might a post-oil economy look like for Qatar?” Tasweer Photo Festival returns appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance

‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance

For almost a decade Morgan Ashcom thought his images of Palestine’s West Bank had been destroyed – now, after rediscovering the corrupted film, he considers them a metaphor for oppression
The post ‘Open in a dark room only’: salvaged images of Palestinian resistance appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration

Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration

The curator spent over a decade at the Whitney Museum of American Art before joining the International Center of Photography earlier this year – here she discusses her career with BJP’s editor.
The post Any Answers: Elisabeth Sherman on curation and inspiration appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood

‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood

Through two graduate projects, Margarita Galandina reinterprets her Siberian heritage – blurring the line between the staged and the candid
The post ‘Reflective nostalgia’: recreating a lost Russian childhood appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria

SIX.TWO Editions’ print sale features more than 200 photographers, while Pictures for Purpose sees 30 artists contribute works. Read more about three key fundraisers below
The post Three initiatives to support in aid of earthquake relief in Turkey and Syria appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Around the world with Thomas Hoepker

Around the world with Thomas Hoepker

The German photojournalist has spent over six decades travelling the globe, capturing everything from Korean War veterans to the smallpox epidemic in 1960s Bihar. A new exhibition in Berlin assesses the artist with “an unerring sense of contemporary history.”
The post Around the world with Thomas Hoepker appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival

The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival

Back for its 11th edition, and in-person for the first time since 2019, the photofestival brings work by over 200 international artists to 12 venues across Derby
The post The return of FORMAT International Photography Festival appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Burning Beauty

The post Burning Beauty appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

A Year in Ukraine

The post A Year in Ukraine appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023

The post Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023 appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow

The post Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

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

The post “The Era of Plenty is Over.” Matt Black on water inequality in the US appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum

The post Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Watching Me, Watching You

The post Watching Me, Watching You appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Magnum’s second NFT drop is live

The post Magnum’s second NFT drop is live appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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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 […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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