2024-04-28
Lens Culture

Jeff Cowen — New Large Abstract Works at House Berlin

A new exhibition in Berlin features stunning large one-of-a-kind artworks — photographs that are transformed in the darkroom into images that seem to vibrate with energy.

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LensCulture New York Exhibition 2024

Announcing a group show celebrating new contemporary photography, featuring 64 award-winning photographers — April 25-28, 2024.

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Lens Culture

Making Light of Every Thing

A new exhibition explores the idea of intimacy through a fresh and surprising lens, bringing together a group of experimental photographers that play with fabrication and manipulation to try to catch this ephemeral theme.

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Lens Culture

Preview: The Photography Show by AIPAD 2024

Here’s a sneak peak at some of the great images that will be shown at The Photography Show in New York, April 25-28.

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Lens Culture

The Secret Place with Nowhere to Hide

Finding peace and refuge in creativity, Jiatong Lu uses photography to heal from childhood trauma reconnecting with herself and others around her in the process.

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Lens Culture

Photos-Souvenirs

In honor of her recent passing, we re-publish this article from 2010. With beads, colored thread and scissors, French photographer Carolle Benitah has altered her family photo albums to explore the memories of her childhood, and as a way to help her understand her current identity.

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Lens Culture

Unintended Beauty

Alastair Philip Wiper photographs huge factories, research facilities and grand feats of engineering all over the world — always with an eye to capturing the “accidental aesthetics of industry and science.”

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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.

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British Journal of Photography
Looking ahead to Fotografia Europea 2024

Looking ahead to Fotografia Europea 2024

The Reggio Emilia showcase is themed Nature Loves to Hide, with shows by Arko Datto, Lisa Barnard and Susan Meiselas
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British Journal of Photography
Venice Biennale photography review: Is truth enough?

Venice Biennale photography review: Is truth enough?

In the main Foreigners Everywhere exhibition and around Venice, photography fulfils an earnest documentary function
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British Journal of Photography
André Josselin on the power of picdrop for commercial photographers

André Josselin on the power of picdrop for commercial photographers

Europe’s most popular professional photo sharing software eases the collaboration between artist and brand
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British Journal of Photography
Alex Schneideman remembers his friend Paddy Summerfield

Alex Schneideman remembers his friend Paddy Summerfield

One of several artists inspired by Summerfield’s iconic Mother and Father series, Schneideman reflects on the life of an Oxford icon
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British Journal of Photography
Tracing India’s ‘dying arts and artistry’, one portrait studio at a time

Tracing India’s ‘dying arts and artistry’, one portrait studio at a time

Tara Laure Claire Sood is fascinated by South India’s retro portrait studios, reimagining them with fresh Bollywood and fashion tropes
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British Journal of Photography
In Venice, Robert Zhao Renhui is striving for ecological enlightenment

In Venice, Robert Zhao Renhui is striving for ecological enlightenment

Ahead of his show at the Venice Biennale, Renhui discusses anthropocentrism – and how his work addresses this thorny, colonially influenced issue
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British Journal of Photography
Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander

Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander

Known for his portrait and landscape work, Kander has a meditative approach in his London studio – and a profoundly subjective take on making images
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British Journal of Photography
An early look at Kyotographie 2024

An early look at Kyotographie 2024

Established in 2013, Kyotographie is now one of the biggest photofestivals in Asia. This spring it returns for its 12th edition with exhibitions themed around ‘Source’
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Magnum Photos

War Seen Up Close

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Documenting Cotton Communities in Benin

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A Diary of War and Home

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Aid Airdrops Over Gaza, Documented by Moises Saman

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Theatre of War, A Photo Essay by Sabiha Çimen

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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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ASBX
Inuuteq Storch – Necromancer

Inuuteq Storch – Necromancer

  I must admit that I am kind of shocked seeing Storch’s work in grainy, dissolved Anders Petersen/Yutaka Takanashi-esque monochrome. Having been a massive fan of his lushly saturated Keepers of the Ocean book in color, published by Disko Bay Books just a few years ago, I feel quite different about this despite the similar […]

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ASBX
Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen – Self Reflection

Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen – Self Reflection

Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen’s new book Self Reflection, published by Danish young heavyweight Disko Bay, is a fascinating foray into the psychic territory of mirror play, in which bodies double, dissolve, and align with the subconscious. It would be easy to call the work psychedelic, but that precludes pre-existing conditions, which, like Surrealism, are contained in […]

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ASBX
Raymond Meeks & George Weld – The Inhabitants

Raymond Meeks & George Weld – The Inhabitants

  Putting my thoughts on this book together has taken me a while. Most of this comes down to trying to understand how I feel about the subject or lack of subject within the work and the position of the author(s) to that. I often have a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to people photographing […]

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ASBX
Trent Parke – Monument

Trent Parke – Monument

  Ruptures and Raptures   It is hard to know where to start writing about a book with such ominous tendencies at its heart. Monuments by Trent Parke, published by Stanley/Barker in 2023 and its third printing in spring 2024, has a doomsday proximity to it. It is hard to explain why I feel this […]

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ASBX
Ros Boisier – Inside

Ros Boisier – Inside

    “Of what one cannot speak, whereof one must be silent.” L.W.   Sure, it’s slightly glib to usher in a review with Wittgenstein’s oft-quoted (often misaligned, here too) citation regarding meaning and language. It will surely make scholars of the philosopher’s work uncomfortable/annoyed. Yet, I frequently think of this quote for my purposes […]

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ASBX
Yoshi Yubai – Asakusa

Yoshi Yubai – Asakusa

I recently came across Yoshi Yubai’s work. I was fortunate enough to nab a copy of his last book, Radiation Inspiration (2023), published by La Generale Minerale (screenprinted by Ben Sanair), which I purchased through Le Plac’Art Photo in Paris. The screen printing by Sanair in that book is phenomenal. The book has an introduction […]

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ASBX
Interview with Hristina Tasheva

Interview with Hristina Tasheva

Hristina Tasheva’s newest book, Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery (Self-published, 2023), is an ambitious attempt at mapping the disparities between two national experiences of Communism in the twentieth century — the Dutch and the Bulgarian — as they were impacted by the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. 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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