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Lens Culture

Erwin Olaf: Narratives of Emancipation, Desire and Intimacy

This year’s PHotoESPAÑA brings to life the themes at the heart of Erwin Olaf’s work, posthumously celebrating the acclaimed Dutch visual artist with a well-designed, anti-white-cube exhibition.

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Lens Culture

Hearts Content Road

In this series of surreal portraits made in Upstate New York, Logan White explores the edges of girlhood and its fantasies and uncertainties through the intimacy of medium-format photography.

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Agony in the Garden

Drawing on religious iconography and the visual codes of internet culture, Lúa Ribeira portrays the artists at the heart of Spain’s trap and drill scenes — a musical movement entangled in the many crises of our present moment.

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Martin Parr’s Fun Take on Fashion Photography — Fashion Faux Parr

Iconic photographer Martin Parr just released a book of his fashion photography — reflecting 30 years of his highly original style and distinct sense of humor.

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Lens Culture

Europa — Brilliant Early Street Photography from Joel Meyerowitz 1966-67

A new exhibition reveals Joel Meyerowitz’s pivotal photographic exploration, at age 28, through a year-long journey across post-war Europe.​

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Lens Culture

Daily Life Staten Island Ferry

From Kolkata to New York, photographer Debrani Das embarked on a transformative journey through the Women Street Photographers Artist Residency, leading to a solo exhibition of her view of the Staten Island Ferry.

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Lens Culture

Street Photography — A Free Guide

Filled with conversations and wisdom from a range of top photographers, this 89-page guide is a handy resource for those who want to hit the street and share their perspective with the world.

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Lens Culture

From the Streets to the Heart — Homeless LGBTQIA+ Youth in New York

A new documentary portrait series focuses on the personal stories of 30 homeless LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults in New York City.

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British Journal of Photography
‘Exchanging one purgatory for another’: Geography and aspiration off the Moroccan coast

‘Exchanging one purgatory for another’: Geography and aspiration off the Moroccan coast

Moroccan One to Watch Imane Djamil brings a photojournalistic eye to emotive and misunderstood migration stories
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British Journal of Photography
Township tales: A mixed-media depiction of Johannesburg’s soul

Township tales: A mixed-media depiction of Johannesburg’s soul

One to Watch Vuyo Mabheka plays with illustration, cut-outs and collage to depict the motion and difficulty of life in the zones
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British Journal of Photography
Cargamontón: A rough playground game which defined Rafael Soldi’s life

Cargamontón: A rough playground game which defined Rafael Soldi’s life

The Peruvian One to Watch has revisited childhood rituals to examine how intimacy lurks behind violence
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British Journal of Photography
Indian masculinity is complex – how can it be photographed?

Indian masculinity is complex – how can it be photographed?

One to Watch Devashish Gaur combines analogue and digital methods, stretch conventions to create a ‘dreamy isolation’
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British Journal of Photography
Michał Maliński: ‘We suppress thinking about the future out of fear of what awaits us’

Michał Maliński: ‘We suppress thinking about the future out of fear of what awaits us’

The Ones to Watch cover artist’s ‘Vita Aeterna’ series unpacks his grandmother’s trust of alternative medicines
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British Journal of Photography
The art of slow photography, from Almería to California

The art of slow photography, from Almería to California

Inspired by Cristina García Rodero and Alex Webb, One to Watch Bandia Ribeira takes a sociological approach to image-making
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British Journal of Photography
Karice Mitchell’s sexual subversions

Karice Mitchell’s sexual subversions

The Canadian One to Watch re-appropriates images from 1970s Black men’s magazines to skewer today’s anti-pornography sentiment
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British Journal of Photography
Safety amidst turmoil: The conceptual expressions of Hashim Nasr

Safety amidst turmoil: The conceptual expressions of Hashim Nasr

From exile in Egypt, the Sudanese artist mixes earthly symbolism with activist portraits to evoke freedom and challenge injustice
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Magnum Photos

Nanna Heitmann Documents Mongolia’s Entrance into the Uranium Market

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The Ageless, Changeless Robert Capa

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Calls for Immediate Ceasefire on Campuses Across the US

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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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ASBX
Deanna Dikeman Relative Moments

Deanna Dikeman Relative Moments

  Everything in this book reminds me of my upbringing in the Midwest. It feels so painfully familiar. When I mention pain in my assessment, it is because some of this experience gnaws at me and upends the chapters of my life that I have found hard to celebrate or close. I am woefully disobedient […]

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ASBX
JM Ramirez-Suassi – Malparaíso

JM Ramirez-Suassi – Malparaíso

    There has been a much-needed turn away from the constraints of documentary photography over the past couple of years in favor of something less direct and more lyrical. I can think of several fantastic artists working away from the documentary with a tendency toward erasing its constrictive need for relational dialog. Federico Clavarino, […]

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ASBX
Interview with Sharr White

Interview with Sharr White

Photographer Larry Sultan’s iconic photobook Pictures from Home, initially published in 1992, found renewed acclaim with its 2017 re-release by MACK. Sultan’s intimate exploration of familial bonds captured the attention of audiences worldwide, culminating in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1989. The impact of Sultan’s photographic series resonated […]

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ASBX
Bill Henson – Liquid Night

Bill Henson – Liquid Night

It is challenging not to mention Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver, concerning Bill Henson’s recent book Liquid Night, published by Stanley/Barker. I am unsure why some writers have avoided it, but here we are. Liquid Night is a sumptuous and gem-like nighttime foray into Times Square (1989) and the adjacent cinema district, beginning at […]

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ASBX
Mikael Siirilä – Here, in Absence

Mikael Siirilä – Here, in Absence

  Mikael Siirilä’s Here, in Absence, published by IIKKI in an edition of 500 copies with a soundtrack, is one of 2024’s finest photobook offerings thus far. It was lodged between the somnambulist type of photography previously found in Ralph Gibson and Duane Michal’s dream-state work. The book explores singular images in monochrome that have […]

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ASBX
Joel Pulliam on Ikko Narahara

Joel Pulliam on Ikko Narahara

Ikko Narahara – Where Time has Vanished by Joel Pulliam It has been on my mind for a while to write about something that I am provisionally calling “New Orientalism.” It is the phenomenon of highly regarded photographers dropping into Tokyo for a few weeks or months, taking pictures, and then publishing a book. I […]

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ASBX
Thana Faroq – How Shall We Greet the Sun

Thana Faroq – How Shall We Greet the Sun

  I am quite taken with the text in Thana’s excellent new book, How Shall We Greet the Sun, published, like her last book, I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows, by Lecturis. I am uncertain exactly how she is engaging with the concepts of sentimentality and nostalgia, being that she seems to be using […]

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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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