2023-11-26
Lens Culture

Are You Ready to Publish a Photobook?

Nazraeli Press has published work by Alec Soth, Marilyn Minter, Daido Moriyama, and many others. We sat down with Nazraeli’s founder and publisher to learn more about the photobook world.

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Lens Culture

Days of Future Passed

Collecting photos from her daily life, the Internet, newspapers, and free image libraries, Swiss photographer Florence Iff amalgamates vast webs of organisms, structures, and scenes into a portrait of a planet in crisis.

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Lens Culture

Rituals, Renewal, and Order from Chaos

Bringing the myths of her native region of Bavaria into an enigmatic visual reality, Elena Helfrecht has built a photographic ritual she enacts every year around winter solstice.

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Lens Culture

Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

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Lens Culture

The Truth is in the Soil

Prompted by personal loss, Ioanna Sakellaraki embarked on a photographic journey back to her native Greece to immerse herself in the culture of grief and explore its liminal space with her camera.

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Lens Culture

Del Cielo

This group exhibition explores the age-old symbol of the bird, gathering together the work of five photographers who each explore this shared winged subject matter in their own distinct visual language.

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Lens Culture

Men Untitled

In this challenging exploration of masculinity and patriarchal privilege — through portraits, object studies and nudes — Carolyn Drake performs an exorcism of male power, where empathy and violence collide.

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Lens Culture

Salt and Tears

For four years, Yulia Skogoreva has been documenting female sumo wrestlers fighting for recognition in a sport from which they are banned, following the story of Nana—a young sumo wrestler who dreams of going pro.

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British Journal of Photography
A roundup of charity print sales in support of Gaza

A roundup of charity print sales in support of Gaza

Print sales allow photographers to show solidarity and keep Gaza’s humanitarian crisis in people’s minds while also encouraging donations to the relevant charities
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British Journal of Photography
Now on show in New York City: BJP’s Female in Focus winners

Now on show in New York City: BJP’s Female in Focus winners

BJP’s new exhibition takes place in a converted Brooklyn townhouse, reflecting the award’s domestic focus
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British Journal of Photography
Light, angles and symmetry: Max Colson on installation photography

Light, angles and symmetry: Max Colson on installation photography

Max Colson is obsessed with spaces and how we interact within them. Here the artist and lecturer discusses how this underpins his installation photography
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British Journal of Photography
Diversity, empathy and authenticity: the Portrait of Britain shortlist 2023

Diversity, empathy and authenticity: the Portrait of Britain shortlist 2023

Portrait of Britain returns with a shortlist of 200 photographs that celebrate the country’s unique heritage and diversity.
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British Journal of Photography
Beyond Paris Photo: Here’s what not to miss in the capital this week

Beyond Paris Photo: Here’s what not to miss in the capital this week

As Paris Photo 2023 gets under way, Diane Smyth takes a look at the other must-see shows and fairs taking place across the city this week
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British Journal of Photography
‘A metaphor for wider political issues’: Looking ahead to Elles x Paris Photo

‘A metaphor for wider political issues’: Looking ahead to Elles x Paris Photo

As the Elles × Paris Photo initiative celebrates its first five years with a new publication, we speak to 2023 curator Fiona Rogers and look ahead to the array of fringe events taking place in Paris later this month
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British Journal of Photography
‘We are a support system and we respect the artistic project’: the French museum democratising photography

‘We are a support system and we respect the artistic project’: the French museum democratising photography

Based in a former mining area in northern France, Centre régional de la photographie is honouring the past to bring photography to the present. Director Audrey Hoareau reveals the innovative ways the centre is reaching out to the local community and beyond
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British Journal of Photography
‘We should understand how easily people are affected by wars’: Documenting the intergenerational trauma of The Troubles

‘We should understand how easily people are affected by wars’: Documenting the intergenerational trauma of The Troubles

Photojournalist Mariusz Smiejek has spent much of his life attempting to understand conflict in the North of Ireland. His Belfast exhibition shows the lasting impact of the violence
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Magnum Photos

Moises Saman Documents the Effects of Devastating Floods in Libya

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Magnum Photos

Nanna Heitmann’s Photographs of Life in Russia During Wartime

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Magnum Photos

Magnum Welcomes Four New Members

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Magnum Photos

100 Photos for Press Freedom by Abbas

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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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ASBX
Petra Stavast S75 1280 × 960 pixels

Petra Stavast S75 1280 × 960 pixels

  In a moment where technology desires to exponentially double and triple its rate of occupancy in our fevered minds with its unlimited growth prospect, followed by its unmitigated potential to cause alarm instead of vague dreams of progress, from the militarism of our economies to the pursuit of transhuman desires of biological co-habitation to […]

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ASBX
Interview with Dan Skjæveland on 33 Suspensions

Interview with Dan Skjæveland on 33 Suspensions

Dan Skjæveland is a Norwegian artist living in Trondheim. He recently published his first monograph with Nearest Truth Editions. I spoke to Dan about his way into photography, his process and the making of his book 33 Suspensions. — ASX: Let’s talk about your beginnings. How did you come to photography? Dan Skjæveland: I came to photography […]

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ASBX
Anne Lass – Triple Seven

Anne Lass – Triple Seven

  Peppered throughout major cities, including Berlin, where the new photobook Triple Seven by Anne Lass was shot, are clandestine spaces that most of the population will never enter or see. Men’s clubs in North London, brothels in Marseilles, and small gambling rooms in Berlin, as Lass has photographed, are secreted behind a façade of […]

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ASBX
Andrea Alessandrini – I Am Not A Robot

Andrea Alessandrini – I Am Not A Robot

I Am Not A Robot (Witty Books, 2023) asks more questions than it answers. How do we differentiate from the illusions of our constructed virtual worlds and that of reality? How do we satiate our requirement and desire for order in ever-changing environments? Are we confined to an existence based on binary calculations, or can […]

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ASBX
Larry Sultan – Swimmers

Larry Sultan – Swimmers

During a talk he gave to his students at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in 1980, Larry Sultan opened up about the challenges he faced with his latest series of photographs featuring swimmers in the community pools of the Bay Area. The young photographer struggled to justify this new body of work, as the […]

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ASBX
Bertien van Manen – Gluckauf

Bertien van Manen – Gluckauf

Coal mining is a very peculiar enterprise. The 19th and 20th Centuries committed untold heaves of labor to its extraction. It fuels communities, yet its extraction suggests a disemboweling of the land where these communities settle. The prospect of coal mining is one of capital and capitalism. The very human clay that mines these enterprises […]

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ASBX
Lee Friedlander – Workers: The Human Clay

Lee Friedlander – Workers: The Human Clay

Workers: The Human Clay (Steidl, 2023) is the most comprehensive volume to focus on Lee Friedlander’s near seventy year fascination with work and those who do it. Edited by Joshua Chuang and bringing together 253 images stretching as far back as 1958, this book functions well as an overview of a subject that has persisted […]

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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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