2023-06-29 2023-07-03
Lens Culture

49/23 — Considering Technology, AI and Photography

In his new thought-provoking series “49/23,” Gregory Eddi Jones considers the implications of rapidly advancing technology by intertwining vintage photography and AI-generated images.

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Ready for Surprise: Joel Meyerowtiz Interview 2020

The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview.

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Finding Common Ground In Street Photography

What makes a great ‘street’ photograph? Erik Vroons explores the infinite possibilities of the genre while reflecting on the diverse work of five Dutch photographers.

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful

In the deep hues of the cyanotype, American artist Janelle Lynch finds a way to connect physically and spiritually with her surroundings, leaving behind beautiful blue traces of her encounters with nature.

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Another Online Pervert

Mixing fragments of her conversation with a female AI chatbot and photographs from her archive, Brea Souders’ new book is an intimate reflection on humanity, technology and womanhood.

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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 look at the exhibition, and links to all 60 participating photographers.

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Lens Culture

In Search of Brilliant Moments: Street Photography’s Heightened Existence

“You are looking for a single, brilliant moment and 99% of the time, you won’t get it. But remember this: when at last you get that shot you’ve been looking for, in a thousandth of a second, all those frustrations and near-misses will have paid off.”

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Lens Culture

MIDO

From atmospheric studio shots to grainy selfies, Julie Joubert uses a spectrum of different image formats to paint a multilayered portrait of a young man’s journey to define himself in the face of struggle.

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British Journal of Photography
How Chinese Taoism inspired Yao Yuan’s book on pregnancy

How Chinese Taoism inspired Yao Yuan’s book on pregnancy

The Ones to Watch talent’s first project sees them apply ideas of harmony to a friend’s journey to motherhood
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British Journal of Photography
Luciana Demichelis: ‘Raving is a kind of meditative thing’

Luciana Demichelis: ‘Raving is a kind of meditative thing’

Disillusioned with the limitations of traditional documentary photography, the Argentinian Ones to Watch winner turned her lens to the euphoria and escapism of her country’s party scene
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British Journal of Photography
Kuba Ryniewicz is finding poetry in his process – and joy in the LGBTQ+ community

Kuba Ryniewicz is finding poetry in his process – and joy in the LGBTQ+ community

Since arriving in the UK from Poland, the Ones To Watch winner has rejected the prescriptive expectations of the photography industry
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British Journal of Photography
Radical approach: PhotoIreland returns for its 14th edition

Radical approach: PhotoIreland returns for its 14th edition

For its 14th edition, taking place in Dublin, PhotoIreland presents a radical programme with an international outlook that reflects the continual urgency and need for change
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British Journal of Photography
Capturing the pathos of loss – and the pain of longing for home

Capturing the pathos of loss – and the pain of longing for home

Following the death of his grandmother, Ones To Watch winner Ali Monis Naqvi delivers a tribute to her – and to the community he was raised in
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British Journal of Photography
Personal and political: An illuminating look at the strength of Iranian identity

Personal and political: An illuminating look at the strength of Iranian identity

Through her journey to rediscover her native Iran, Ones To Watch winner Parisa Azadi provides an intimate portrait of survival and joy
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British Journal of Photography
Isolation and loneliness: A striking portrayal of unexpected pregnancy

Isolation and loneliness: A striking portrayal of unexpected pregnancy

Ones To Watch winner Jade Carr-Daley’s intimate and open work explores the reality of motherhood as a young Black woman
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British Journal of Photography
‘You would probably call it unprofessional’: Belonging, violence and masculinity in Ukraine

‘You would probably call it unprofessional’: Belonging, violence and masculinity in Ukraine

Developed in his bathroom, Ones To Watch winner Vic Bakin’s images offer nostalgia in a time of war
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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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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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ASBX
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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ASBX
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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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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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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