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Lens Culture

Favorite Photobooks 2023

An eclectic year-end list of favorite photobooks of 2023 — personal recommendations from photographers, photography experts, friends and colleagues around the world.

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Lens Culture

As We Rest in the Shadows

Through an intimate portrait of sisters Jae and Jenni, Andriana Nativio recalls her own girlhood bond with nature, while commenting on the forces that seek to disrupt it.

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Lens Culture

For Parts Not Working

​Following a traumatic brain injury, Lisa Murray delved deep into the inner workings of her mind, camera in hand, in an attempt to piece back together her story. The outcome is a touching, imaginative visual exploration of healing.

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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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British Journal of Photography
Shirin Neshat: ‘Since I was a child, I’ve been very afraid of men in uniform’

Shirin Neshat: ‘Since I was a child, I’ve been very afraid of men in uniform’

The Iranian artist discusses the multifaceted violence – and resistance – in The Fury, a set of powerful nude portraits and dance-inspired film
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British Journal of Photography
Profit, power and TV personalities: Photographing the community in conflict with Trump

Profit, power and TV personalities: Photographing the community in conflict with Trump

Set in a coastal Scottish village, Alicia Bruce’s new book follows a community determined to defend their homes and land
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British Journal of Photography
These are the most exciting photobooks out this winter

These are the most exciting photobooks out this winter

Our final books roundup of 2023 takes us from Belgium to Lahore to Berlin and beyond, with entries from Jason Koxvold, Keisha Scarville and Tami Aftab
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British Journal of Photography
Code switching: How Fotomsuseum Winterthur became digital-first

Code switching: How Fotomsuseum Winterthur became digital-first

With the physical space closed for renovation, Fotomuseum Winterthur’s digital curator reveals how ASMR livestreams and ‘sludge content’ are keeping online momentum high
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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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Magnum Photos

A Decade of Documenting Israel and Palestine

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Desert, Fire, Flood by Zied Ben Romdhane

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Peter van Agtmael: A Decade of Documenting Israel and Palestine

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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

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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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ASBX
Curran Hatleberg – Lost Coast & River’s Dream

Curran Hatleberg – Lost Coast & River’s Dream

There is a strange and perplexing photograph in Curran Hatleberg’s photobook, River’s Dream (TBW, 2022), which shows a man with a large swarm of bees attached to his face and body. The image is bewildering. The man is sitting down in a chair, with no protective gear, and his eyes are closed. His hands are […]

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ASBX
Interview with Keisha Scarville

Interview with Keisha Scarville

Keisha Scarville and I spoke via email to discuss her new book lick of tongue, rub of finger, on soft wound (MACK, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First PhotoBook Award.  The book is constructed with images from several bodies of work over the past 20 years, each of which in its own way investigates […]

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ASBX
Uta Genilke – Replikant

Uta Genilke – Replikant

I did not want to use Bladerunner as an analogy for this photobook simply because the title implies an association. I find nothing immediate in the book that relates the film to Uta’s miasmatic and crepuscular photographs. However, I could marginally make that leap if I wanted to chalk the images up to having a […]

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ASBX
Five Photobooks from 2023

Five Photobooks from 2023

For the complete list, please consult the Nearest Podcast in the following weeks, where I will MC over a much longer list of the great books published this year. For this list, I wanted to keep the books down to five that I feel will define the artist’s career or are crucial to the medium. […]

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ASBX
Carla Williams – Tender

Carla Williams – Tender

Carla Williams can make the world beyond us seem a simple place. Looking at the self-portraits she made over a fifteen year period, from 1984-1999, may briefly lull us into a false apprehension of the world as containing little interest of its own. Such is the poetic depth of these pictures, which, when edited and […]

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ASBX
Joachim Brohm LESSMORE Interview

Joachim Brohm LESSMORE Interview

  Joachim Brohm’s work has influenced my way of thinking about photography, particularly his work regarding architecture. Though Joachim might not say that his work is directly about architecture, how he photographs sites and buildings has been vital in opening my eyes to new possibilities for seeing potential subject matter. Known for several high-profile and […]

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ASBX
Henry Schulz – People Things

Henry Schulz – People Things

  The photographs in this series were taken between 2020-2022 in Germany. Taken in seemingly forgotten spaces that bear the traces of past human intervention. The places are in a state of transformation, which is slowly taking place. Sometimes, it is a seeming recapture of nature or a blurred state of abandonment. In photographically precisely […]

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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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