2024-03-17
Lens Culture

Black and White War

Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war.

Read More
Lens Culture

My Sweet Elora

Following a family secret from Belgium to Canada, Luuk van Raamsdonk embarks on an emotional journey, piecing together questions of identity, inheritance, and interpersonal dynamics that bridge past and present.

Read More
Lens Culture

LensCulture Recommendations: Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs 2024

LensCulture’s Big List of International Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs points you to the best photo events around the world. It’s a great way to plan for travel and visual inspiration.

Read More
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.

Read More
Lens Culture

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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
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.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
How to make a collaborative photobook on autism

How to make a collaborative photobook on autism

With over 100,000 people awaiting an autism diagnosis in the UK, Harley Bainbridge spent time with one family navigating the highs and lows of the system
The post How to make a collaborative photobook on autism appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics

Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics

Featuring artists from across the world, this south London show surveys lens-based activism beyond straight documentary
The post Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
A grandma’s advice: ‘Ignore the negative thoughts, life is hard enough anyway’

A grandma’s advice: ‘Ignore the negative thoughts, life is hard enough anyway’

Lucija Rosc’s new project aims to capture her elder mentor’s creativity through collage and jokes
The post A grandma’s advice: ‘Ignore the negative thoughts, life is hard enough anyway’ appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
The marginal, meandering histories of Tarrah Krajnak

The marginal, meandering histories of Tarrah Krajnak

Informed by her own history and the established canon of photography, Krajnak’s work is a complex exploration of presence and place
The post The marginal, meandering histories of Tarrah Krajnak appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
In a time of global conflict, photo quilts offer unlikely solace

In a time of global conflict, photo quilts offer unlikely solace

Jenny Matthews’ work is proof that a camera is a weapon in the hands of women, empowering them to dismantle societal norms and document untold stories
The post In a time of global conflict, photo quilts offer unlikely solace appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
OnePlus Photography Awards 2024: ‘People underestimate how amazing photographs taken with mobile phones can be’

OnePlus Photography Awards 2024: ‘People underestimate how amazing photographs taken with mobile phones can be’

Now in its fourth year, the international competition champions smartphone photography. Judge Mati Machner reflects on how the practice has democratised image-making
The post OnePlus Photography Awards 2024: ‘People underestimate how amazing photographs taken with mobile phones can be’ appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
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
The post ‘Painting with a mechanical eye’: The unsung mastery of Saul Leiter appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
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
The post ‘We are all the same, even with our little defects’: The enduring appeal of the nude appeared first on 1854 Photography.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Aid Airdrops Over Gaza, Documented by Moises Saman

The post Aid Airdrops Over Gaza, Documented by Moises Saman appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Theatre of War, A Photo Essay by Sabiha Çimen

The post Theatre of War, A Photo Essay by Sabiha Çimen appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

In Memoriam: Inge Bondi (1925–2024)

The post In Memoriam: Inge Bondi (1925–2024) appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Olay, the Debut Photobook by Emin Özmen

The post Olay, the Debut Photobook by Emin Özmen appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Desert, Fire, Flood by Zied Ben Romdhane

The post Desert, Fire, Flood by Zied Ben Romdhane appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Peter van Agtmael: A Decade of Documenting Israel and Palestine

The post Peter van Agtmael: A Decade of Documenting Israel and Palestine appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

Three Voices From Palestine Curated by Myriam Boulos

The post Three Voices From Palestine Curated by Myriam Boulos appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
Magnum Photos

From the Archive: Israel and Palestine

The post From the Archive: Israel and Palestine appeared first on Magnum Photos.

Read More
ASBX
Mark Steinmetz – France 1987

Mark Steinmetz – France 1987

I’m still determining who needs to hear this, but Mark Steinmetz remains one of the most profound voices in the rising tide of what I suggest is a revisiting of humanism in photography. Given the clamor and tumult of the past years, it is not a surprise that work like Mark’s, which, at its base, […]

Read More
ASBX
Yelena Yemchuk – Odesa

Yelena Yemchuk – Odesa

Growing up in the capital city of Kyiv in the late 1970s, Yelena Yemchuk felt inexplicably drawn to Odesa, a city recognized for its independence and defiance to Soviet control. Visiting for the first time in 2003, decades after immigrating to America in 1981, Yemchuk returned in 2015 with the objective of developing a photographic […]

Read More
ASBX
Wouter Van de Voorde – Nucleo

Wouter Van de Voorde – Nucleo

Nucleo is the newest in a series of remarkable books by Belgian artist Wouter Van de Voorde. Living in Canberra, Australia, for a sizable number of years (the Belgian/Aussie accent is a thing to behold), Wouter has been consistently and obsessively photographing his local landscape, family, and whatever bramble or dilapidated structures he can find. […]

Read More
ASBX
Laura San Segundo – El Recinto Circular

Laura San Segundo – El Recinto Circular

The world as will. And representation. Time is a flat circle, The Returnal, Cosmic materiality, and our conceptual place within it. Quantum feelings, quantum seeing. Numerous artists have grappled with our place within the sublime, rotating blue rock we call home as it spins through the vast cosmos, manacled to a bright ball of fiery […]

Read More
ASBX
Tom Griggs – A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants

Tom Griggs – A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants

I come to this only days after taking my father to a residential care home for the first time. His blindness has added to a list of ailments which has meant looking after him at home is now no longer possible. A feeling of practical sense and reason is slowly being invaded by thoughts of […]

Read More
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; […]

Read More
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 […]

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More
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…

Read More