2023-12-03
Lens Culture

Living in the Transition

Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change.

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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

New Ground — Alternative Photography in Dialogue with 19th Century Painting

Following in the footsteps of Monet and Van Gogh, Abelardo Morell took his DIY tent camera to the fabled French landscapes of Giverny and Arles in search of a new view.

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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

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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British Journal of Photography
What to see at Indian Photo Festival 2023

What to see at Indian Photo Festival 2023

The country’s largest photography event returns to Hyderabad for its 9th edition. Here’s what to see at Madhapur’s State Gallery of Art and elsewhere
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British Journal of Photography
The 2024 Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie is cancelled

The 2024 Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie is cancelled

Featured in the Agenda section of our upcoming Portrait issue, the Biennale has been cancelled in response to Facebook posts by one of its three Bangladeshi curators – sparking contention among the organisers and curatorial team
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British Journal of Photography
‘You wait for someone to fill the frame’: Remembering Elliott Erwitt in Paris

‘You wait for someone to fill the frame’: Remembering Elliott Erwitt in Paris

A new retrospective of the American photographer brings his works into conversation with those of French sculptor Aristide Maillol, while also surveying his eye for dogs, double acts, and life’s “charming parallels”
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British Journal of Photography
‘With a documentary, you’re beholden to the truth’: Director Paul Sng on telling Tish’s story

‘With a documentary, you’re beholden to the truth’: Director Paul Sng on telling Tish’s story

How do you make a documentary about a documentarian? Director Paul Sng talks about balancing image, sound and testimony in his film on Tish Murtha
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British Journal of Photography
‘A mosaic of traditions’: Capturing Bangladesh’s most beloved beach

‘A mosaic of traditions’: Capturing Bangladesh’s most beloved beach

For his Leica Award-winning body of work, Sea Beach, Ismail Ferdous returned to the seaside of his childhood. For millions across Bangladesh, it is more than just a tourist destination
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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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Magnum Photos

Peter van Agtmael: A Decade of Documenting Israel and Palestine

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Magnum Photos

Three Voices From Palestine Curated by Myriam Boulos

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Magnum Photos

From the Archive: Israel and Palestine

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Magnum Photos

Moises Saman Documents the Effects of Devastating Floods in Libya

The post Moises Saman Documents the Effects of Devastating Floods in Libya appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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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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ASBX
Francesco Merlini – Better in the Dark than His Rider

Francesco Merlini – Better in the Dark than His Rider

In sleep or in wakefulness, we are inhabited by images. Swimming just below the surface, they sometimes dash before us with the swoop of the flying fish. Slippery, they can be hard to hold onto. We are a repository of latent images that linger within us, awaiting to be conjured. Whilst the primary visual cortex […]

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ASBX
Alejandro “Luperca” Morales – El Retrato de Tu Ausencia

Alejandro “Luperca” Morales – El Retrato de Tu Ausencia

In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg set out to create a work in which erasure/negation would define the principal production method. Instead of building a drawing or painting up from aggregated layers, the artist made a conscious conceptual decision to work backward from the point of completed artwork back to a form of trace in which the […]

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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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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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