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Lens Culture

Land Loss — Portraits from a Crumbling Coastline

A slow-burning meditation on loss, Max Miechowski’s portrait of the British east coast documents the seaside communities living on the edge of the country—an area that is gradually disappearing due to coastal erosion.

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Lens Culture

LensCulture Discoveries 2024 — Pictures from the Exhibition in New York

Some photo highlights from the excellent group show in New York, celebrating the work of 64 award-winning photographers from 22 countries.

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Lens Culture

Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us

Bustling around 1960s Los Angeles, a new publication explores the world of Corita Kent—also known as the ‘Pop Art Nun’—animating her unique approach to art education through a lesser known aspect of her work: photography.

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Lens Culture

And then you were gone

Working from an archive of old negatives Arrayah Loynd invites the viewer on a lush, vibrating adventure into her mind’s eye as she constructs an alternative to “photographic memory.”

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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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Lens Culture

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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British Journal of Photography
Derry via Tokyo: How an outsider captured the Troubles in colour

Derry via Tokyo: How an outsider captured the Troubles in colour

Akihiko Okamura photographed the Vietnam War before arriving in Ireland – and his view of the North’s sectarian violence was uniquely poetic
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British Journal of Photography
‘It’s important now more than ever’: Slidefest Palestine comes to London

‘It’s important now more than ever’: Slidefest Palestine comes to London

In a one-off event at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Slidefest brings together five photographers exploring overlooked aspects of Palestinian life
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British Journal of Photography
Bleaching Polaroids highlights the toxicity of western beauty standards

Bleaching Polaroids highlights the toxicity of western beauty standards

Reacting against the aesthetic norms in her native Philippines, Rica May Tumanguil manipulates her self-portraits in the manner of Stephen Gill
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British Journal of Photography
Overlooked artists to get their dues at Photo London 2024

Overlooked artists to get their dues at Photo London 2024

Curated by Charlotte Jansen, Photo London Fair’s Discovery section is the destination for more experimental and emerging artists
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British Journal of Photography
Lishui: the ‘small’ Chinese city with big photo ambitions

Lishui: the ‘small’ Chinese city with big photo ambitions

Investment in a vast new photography centre illustrates the scope of the city’s cultural reach, adding to China’s stature as a global photo destination
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British Journal of Photography
How Shah Jalal inspired a journey to the heart of Bangladeshi identity

How Shah Jalal inspired a journey to the heart of Bangladeshi identity

The story of the 13th-century Sufi saint led Adib Chowdhury around South Asia – and to the heart of today’s economic strife
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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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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
Nikita Teryoshin – Nothing Personal: The Back Office of War

Nikita Teryoshin – Nothing Personal: The Back Office of War

War is good business for some, and misery for most everyone else. The executives of defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin or Raytheon, people who directly profit from the outbreak and continuation of war, are incentivized to hope for its continuation rather than its cessation, because where there is war (in Yemen, Ukraine, or in […]

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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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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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