2024-03-03
Lens Culture

Re: Touch, the Arithmetics of Distance

Artistic experiments using antique photo retouching inks and old slide film shimmer with serendipity and new meaning years after they were created and stored away.

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Beggar’s Honey

This cunning photobook delves into the realm of click farms, revealing how digital addiction and the manipulation of social media content shape our perceptions, challenging the viewer to reconsider the ethical implications of our online engagements.

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Lens Culture

Insieme (Together)

Two distinct photographic voices dance alongside each other in this new publication, weaving together a playful visual diary of a summer month spent exploring the Italian regions of Veneto and Puglia.

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Lens Culture

Public Matter

In striking and surreal black and white studio scenes, Francisco Gomez de Villaboa invites us to look a little closer at the human body and explore the manifold issues projected upon it.

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Lens Culture

Gilded Lilies

Norwegian photographer Tine Poppe’s portraits of cut flowers, shot against landscapes ravaged by climate change, propose a new take on the still life—focusing on the industrial roots of flowers, and their role in the ecological crisis.

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I Feel Like a Fish

Combining new and archival images, Jaisingh Nageswaran creates a tender and poignant reflection on family history, his childhood memories, and caste-based discrimination in India.

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Lens Culture

Great Portrait Advice from Award-Winning Photographers, Part 2

Former LensCulture Award winners share their best creative advice as well as tips for advancing your career as a portrait-maker and photographer. The second in a two-part series.

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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. Here she follows the story of Nana—a young sumo wrestler who dreams of going pro.

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British Journal of Photography
‘Painting with a mechanical eye’: The unsung mastery of Saul Leiter

‘Painting with a mechanical eye’: The unsung mastery of Saul Leiter

A new show combines black-and-white and colour images with abstract paintings to convey a uniquely understated, sometimes hidden approach
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British Journal of Photography
‘We are all the same, even with our little defects’: The enduring appeal of the nude

‘We are all the same, even with our little defects’: The enduring appeal of the nude

In the countryside outside Parma, Ettore Moni has built a home studio which serves as a safe haven for bodies in all their variety
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British Journal of Photography
Marton Perlaki’s experimental images explore the line between order and chaos

Marton Perlaki’s experimental images explore the line between order and chaos

Considering an uncanny medium and how we understand it, the Hungarian’s new book blends the playfulness with a welcome loss of control
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British Journal of Photography
Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like paintings

Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like paintings

The Canadian artist has captured our scars on the planet for over four decades. His largest ever show is a rallying cry with multiple voices
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British Journal of Photography
In the studio with Mary McCartney

In the studio with Mary McCartney

The photographer’s influences range from Eve Arnold and Pre-Raphaelite painters to her artist mother. She welcomes us to her West London studio, Leica camera in hand
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British Journal of Photography
Curator Tanvi Mishra: ‘Does becoming visible ensure empowerment? I’m not convinced’

Curator Tanvi Mishra: ‘Does becoming visible ensure empowerment? I’m not convinced’

The Indian photo expert talks through her career in non-traditional spaces – and reveals how exhibitions can act as ‘portals’ for equity
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British Journal of Photography
Micaiah Carter’s portrait equality: ‘I look at Pharrell the same way I look at my great-uncle’

Micaiah Carter’s portrait equality: ‘I look at Pharrell the same way I look at my great-uncle’

Mixing his signature celebrity portraits with images of his own family, Carter’s new book celebrates unparalleled beauty in everyone
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British Journal of Photography
Between the stacks: How the Bodleian Libraries are embracing photo custodianship

Between the stacks: How the Bodleian Libraries are embracing photo custodianship

Richard Ovenden has spearheaded a photography focus at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, helping ensuring archives find secure homes and rediscovering historic images
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Magnum Photos

In Memoriam: Inge Bondi (1925–2024)

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Olay, the Debut Photobook by Emin Özmen

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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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From the Archive: Israel and Palestine

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Moises Saman Documents the Effects of Devastating Floods in Libya

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Nanna Heitmann’s Photographs of Life in Russia During Wartime

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ASBX
Dominic Turner False Friends

Dominic Turner False Friends

I wake under a blanket of gritty black ash; my bare limbs are as swollen and as calcified as the enduring night above me. No rag swaddled or other can be found to leverage my cooling body against the rising cold. I lie as naked as a grape. I turn my head to the side; […]

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ASBX
Thomas Manneke – Zillion

Thomas Manneke – Zillion

    Constellations, compositions, and a caring look at one’s family life make up the mass of Thomas Manneke’s melancholic and melodic ode to often-overlooked photographer Francis Bruguière. Bruguière, an American artist who studied painting at the turn of the Twentieth Century, is known mainly for his photographic abstractions. In line with artists like Alvin […]

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ASBX
RaMell Ross – Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body

RaMell Ross – Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body

An image I find myself returning to over and over again is a photograph by RaMell Ross titled Dream Catcher (2014). The photograph pictures a young boy lying down on a chain-link fence, staring up at the sky as if enchanted and transfixed by a spell. The photograph was shot at midday in Hale County, […]

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ASBX
Loredana Nemes – Graubaum und Himmelmeer

Loredana Nemes – Graubaum und Himmelmeer

Look up the beech in a book for plant taxonomy and you will find a picture of a tall tree with a strong trunk and long branches that form a symmetrical crown. Open Graubaum und Himmelmeer (Hartmann Books, 2023), the new book by Loredana Nemes, and the image of the single majestic tree gets shattered […]

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ASBX
Maude Arsenault – Resurfacing

Maude Arsenault – Resurfacing

 Her work invests the themes of female representation, private space, domesticity and intimacy within the framework of a photographic and material approach which oscillates between abstract compositions, self-portraits, landscapes and images documentaries. She explores from the photographic and printed image, collage, sculpture and installation. In doing so, her projects deploy bodies as spaces and unexpected […]

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ASBX
Danny Franzreb – Proof of Work

Danny Franzreb – Proof of Work

My initial response to the massive swell of attention that cryptocurrency received in 2021, and more specifically to the non-fungible token (NFT) hysteria that gripped so much of cultural discourse online and in the press, was a dismissive roll of the eyes. Admittedly, what I was reacting to most were the claims that cryptocurrency was […]

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ASBX
Max Pinckers & Thomas Sauvin – The Future Without You

Max Pinckers & Thomas Sauvin – The Future Without You

The introduction of computers in the workplace well prefigures the advent of the internet. Before the release of the PC in the 80’s, computers were mostly vast, immovable machines which by today’s standards had relatively low processing power. Located in air-conditioned comms rooms, various forms of cabling sprawled out from them into patch cabinets resembling […]

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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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