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Lens Culture

LensCulture Exhibition at Photo London 2023

LensCulture’s group exhibition at Photo London featured the work of 60 remarkable photographers, May 10-14, 2023. Here’s a view of selected work, and links to all 60 participating photographers.

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Apparent Close-up

In portraits suffused with surrealism, Cathy Cone’s multi-layered images play with the transformative nature of photographs, inviting us to see the world anew.

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Father and Son

In his deceptively simple photographs, Valery Poshtarov pushes against the narrow confines of modern masculinity to capture moments of tenderness between fathers and their sons.

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Fire / Flood

A powerful outdoor exhibition in London reflects on the manifold ways the climate emergency is affecting communities across the world—and how we can visualize these urgent stories of devastation.

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Small Myths

Shooting from the heart—without looking through her viewfinder—Mikiko Hara’s luminous photographs teeter between private and public life, exploring what it means to use a camera as a way of being in the world.

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VILLAGE

Troy Williams’ intimate portraits of characters he meets in his New York neighborhood are immersed in the spirit of belonging and freedom found on downtown city streets.

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Looking Forward: 20 Preview Picks for Photo London 2023

Here is a preview selection of photographs that will be on display at Photo London this year May 10-14, 2023.

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I Can’t Wipe Sunrise Down My Jumper to Get Rid of Fingerprints

Using photography to come to terms with a concussion, Jacob Black’s images teeter between clarity and confusion to explore the dreamlike way he sees the world post-accident.

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British Journal of Photography
Our pick of this season’s best new photobooks

Our pick of this season’s best new photobooks

Travel from quiet gardens to the world’s financial capitals in entries from Loose Joints, Dewi Lewis and Photo Editions
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British Journal of Photography
Salts of the earth: The balancing sculptures of Su Ji Lee

Salts of the earth: The balancing sculptures of Su Ji Lee

Inspired by the theory of plate tectonics, the South Korean artist wields everyday objects in her elegant towers, creating quiet, weightless images
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British Journal of Photography
Ezio D’Agostino interrogates one of the most expensive engineering experiments in human history

Ezio D’Agostino interrogates one of the most expensive engineering experiments in human history

Fascinated by the scientific and mythical implications of nuclear fusion experiments, Ezio D’Agostino traversed into the depths of ITER, the world’s largest power plant dedicated to harnessing solar energy.
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British Journal of Photography
‘It was social curiosity as much as anything else’: David Moore on the real England of the 1980s

‘It was social curiosity as much as anything else’: David Moore on the real England of the 1980s

David Moore’s pictures of Midlands housing estates pioneered kitchen sink realism in colour. Revisiting them is a chance for archival control and new representation, he tells Louise Benson
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British Journal of Photography
‘A challenge to power’: Archival images of Bolivia’s queer carnival performers

‘A challenge to power’: Archival images of Bolivia’s queer carnival performers

David Aruquipa Pérez’s images of Las Chinas Morenas highlight an often-overlooked fight for queer liberation
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British Journal of Photography
In the studio with Trevor Paglen

In the studio with Trevor Paglen

Interrogating the unseen infrastructures that govern our lives, Trevor Paglen’s technology-driven practice has led him to deserts and oceans across the world, and even into space.
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British Journal of Photography
Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023

Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023

Exploring self-presentation and gender representation, Fosso was awarded the £30,000 prize for the retrospective Samuel Fosso at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
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British Journal of Photography
‘To have impact, you have to get through all this visual noise’: How CONTACT’s outdoor installations keep Toronto guessing

‘To have impact, you have to get through all this visual noise’: How CONTACT’s outdoor installations keep Toronto guessing

With Scotiabank’s CONTACT Photography Festival underway this month, Naomi Skwarna unpicks the artists, places, and ideas behind the outdoor programme, from utopic posters to North African billboards
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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
Erik Mowinckel THE SUN SETS INSIDE YOU

Erik Mowinckel THE SUN SETS INSIDE YOU

Full Article on Patreon     I am curious as to what lies between the notion of glancing versus that of observation. Can an observation be reduced to a glance? Can a more prolonged glance become an observation, and what do these questions pose to how we make photographs and how do we view them […]

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Ishiuchi Miyako Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama

Ishiuchi Miyako Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama

Full Article on Patreon   So, the dig at post-industrial decay has put a giant bee in my bonnet. But what should I expect about the unspoken class issues that revolve and permeate through and in photography these days? I mean, if you have a New York-London-based photographer stat in your bio and are in […]

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ASBX
Andreas Gehrke: Flughafen Berlin-Tegel

Andreas Gehrke: Flughafen Berlin-Tegel

Full Article on Patreon   Andreas Gehrke is someone who I have covered previously for his exceptional photobooks. I have nearly every title he has produced, and standouts include Berlin a Brandenburg, among many others. His output is incredible, and he also self-publishes these titles under his imprint Drittel Books. What I find universal in […]

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Ron Jude Dark Matter

Ron Jude Dark Matter

Full Article on Patreon     …In assessing Dark Matter, I am also reasonably confident that this use of newspaper imagery is lodged in the artist’s practice from influences such as Michael Schmidt, whose book Ein–Heit, produced in the 90s, made great use of similar aesthetics of inconvenient German history, which was photographed and hung […]

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Laurenz Berges Das Becherhaus in Mudersbach

Laurenz Berges Das Becherhaus in Mudersbach

  Full Article on Patreon     …Further images within images add to the sense of a lived space as Becher family photos from the 20s and 30s adorn mantels and countertops, with a finesse of an image, ala the Bechers, of a water town, sat, out of frame, lithely resting against a presumed wedding […]

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Alejandro Acin The Rest is History

Alejandro Acin The Rest is History

Alejandro Acin The Rest is History ICVL Studio and supported by Sala Kursala Programa Cultural   The machinations of history are in constant flexes of exchange. They are impermanent, their concept a flux, or are often a mess of contradictions. We are taught history as if it were permanent, an established and often binary set of […]

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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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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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