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Lens Culture

Sunset at the Supermarket

Ousman Diallo’s sun-kissed photographs intimately capture youth culture in New York City, revisiting the neighborhoods of his own childhood to piece together a tribute to their beauty.

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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.

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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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British Journal of Photography
In the studio: Yan Wang Preston

In the studio: Yan Wang Preston

Inside a converted tractor shed with a tin roof, overlooking the moors of West Yorkshire, Yan Wang Preston connects to nature and embraces her roots
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British Journal of Photography
In the studio: Neo Matloga

In the studio: Neo Matloga

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British Journal of Photography
No camera, no problem: Garry Fabian Miller returns to the Arnolfini

No camera, no problem: Garry Fabian Miller returns to the Arnolfini

On the occasion of the retrospective, we revisit Imogen Greenhalgh’s trip to Fabian Miller’s Dartmoor studio, at a pivotal moment in his practice as he moved into new experiments with colour and form
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British Journal of Photography
Alessia Rollo documents festivals of southern Italy with richness, magic and complexity

Alessia Rollo documents festivals of southern Italy with richness, magic and complexity

Noticing the lack of work by local photographers, Rollo initiated her own project, re-working found images and documenting festivals across Southern Italy
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British Journal of Photography
Hannah Villiger’s Polaroid abstractions enrich the Swiss artist’s retrospective

Hannah Villiger’s Polaroid abstractions enrich the Swiss artist’s retrospective

Documenting the self, and often in sensual sequences, Villiger used her body as material and subject to liberate her sense of identity
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British Journal of Photography
Sex on negs: London’s cruising history exposed

Sex on negs: London’s cruising history exposed

A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery traces the origins of gay physique photography in the capital, from Chelsea Barracks to Highgate Pond
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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
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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
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Magnum Photos

100 Photos for Press Freedom by Abbas

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Burning Beauty

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A Year in Ukraine

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Magnum Digest #185: News and Projects from January 2023

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Lindokuhle Sobekwa named inaugural Kobal Fellow

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

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Last Minute Gift Ideas from Magnum

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Watching Me, Watching You

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ASBX
Nicolai Howalt A Journey: The Near Future

Nicolai Howalt A Journey: The Near Future

  There comes a point in our lives when the incessant cavorting, energy expulsion, and general themes of youth come to a crawling end. Associated with the recognition of these moments are a series of mid-life acknowledgments. First, if one takes up the standard biology-the coupling, work, and family routines, the dissipation of specific energies […]

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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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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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