2024-11-08
Lens Culture

Drag/Strip: Portraits of Drag Queens Out of Costume

By presenting these subjects in black and white, this series of portraits seeks to reveal the quieter side of these performers stripped of their colorful costumes and over-the-top personas.

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Lens Culture

HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son

In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.

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Lens Culture

El pez muere por la boca / The Fish Dies By Its Mouth

This new photobook blends documentary style with magic realism, challenging perceptions of Colombia often tied to drug trafficking, and revealing complex narratives beneath surface appearances.

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Lens Culture

I Did Nothing Other Than Tell Them to Smile

As an only child born under China’s one-child policy, Zihan Wei uses a snapshot aesthetic to explore photography as a language of intimacy and connection to forge a new relationship with her parents.

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Lens Culture

Lumes: Rural Depopulation & Cultural Extinction in Galicia

With a thoughtful gaze born from a deep concern for his surroundings, Adra Pallón explores the devastating consequences of rural depopulation on the culture of Galicia, its environment and the last of its aging inhabitants.

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Lens Culture

Jeff Cowen Provence Works

In this 9-minute video interview, photographer Jeff Cowen talks about making an all-new body of work in the south of France — about 60 of the images are being shown at two venues in Amsterdam right now.

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Lens Culture

Ways of Knowing

Drawing on different mediums to weave together her own visual language, Stephanie Santana’s work builds continuity with the past by exploring the creative process as a way to access generational knowledge.

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Lens Culture

Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

In her striking collection of portraits, Constance Jaeggi explores Escaramuza—a female-led equestrian performance—and its significance in Mexican-American identity, cementing its place in the monolithic history of the American West.

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British Journal of Photography
Of Soul and Joy: Exploring the tension between hope and illusion of the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation

Of Soul and Joy: Exploring the tension between hope and illusion of the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation

A building glows crimson. There is little to indicate where we are. No signage. No people. The image has a timeless quality. Peaceful, like some half-remembered dream drifting through the mind.
The post Of Soul and Joy: Exploring the tension between hope and illusion of the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Billy Barraclough captures Beirut’s pigeon wars and the marginal stories above the city

Billy Barraclough captures Beirut’s pigeon wars and the marginal stories above the city

The self-taught photographer’s project Kash Hamam celebrates an ancient tradition, despite the vilification of its players played out against local social stigma
The post Billy Barraclough captures Beirut’s pigeon wars and the marginal stories above the city appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
The alchemy of shadows: Avion Pearce’s portrayals of queer life transcend time and space

The alchemy of shadows: Avion Pearce’s portrayals of queer life transcend time and space

The photographer is at play with the boundaries that confine both their lens-based practice and the socio-political context of their subjects, finds Matilde Manicardi
The post The alchemy of shadows: Avion Pearce’s portrayals of queer life transcend time and space appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Juan Brenner: a ‘Mestizo’ at work in the Guatemalan Highlands

Juan Brenner: a ‘Mestizo’ at work in the Guatemalan Highlands

The artist’s latest book, Genesis, explores the generations-old traditions of his native homeland, and a youth finding their feet amidst waves of globalisation
The post Juan Brenner: a ‘Mestizo’ at work in the Guatemalan Highlands appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists

Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists

Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists from Tunisia, the SWANA region, and its diaspora, reflects Taous Dahmani, who curated two shows at this edition – Unstable Point and Assembly
The post Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Teasing out archival abundance of Black-British queer histories

Teasing out archival abundance of Black-British queer histories

Curator Topher Campbell and artist Evan Ifekoya tell Edwin Coomasaru how they, along with others, transformed the pioneering rukus! archive into an important show at Somerset House
The post Teasing out archival abundance of Black-British queer histories appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
From Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, the challenge of photographing how the world eats

From Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, the challenge of photographing how the world eats

round
The post From Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, the challenge of photographing how the world eats appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Tribute to Paul Lowe

Tribute to Paul Lowe

A dedicated photojournalist, educator, thinker, runner and dancer, Paul Lowe influenced a generation of students, academics, journalists, and art & culture workers, writes his friend and LCC colleague, Max Houghton
The post Tribute to Paul Lowe appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: The Haitian Community in Ohio

The post U.S. Focus: The Haitian Community in Ohio appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

View From Lebanon

The post View From Lebanon appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Palestinian Resilience and Resistance in the Occupied West Bank

The post Palestinian Resilience and Resistance in the Occupied West Bank appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Long Road to Recovery For War-Wounded Children From Gaza

The post Long Road to Recovery For War-Wounded Children From Gaza appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

What is “America”?

The post What is “America”? appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: Abortion in Florida

The post U.S. Focus: Abortion in Florida appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: Veterans in North Carolina

The post U.S. Focus: Veterans in North Carolina appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: Immigration in Arizona

The post U.S. Focus: Immigration in Arizona appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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ASBX
Jermaine Francis – A Post Industrial Dreamscape

Jermaine Francis – A Post Industrial Dreamscape

To understand what Jermaine Francis is about, it makes sense to pursue thinking beyond the labels we give to each other.  His work is compelled by a certain kind of experience. It is an experience that I directly relate to, and this is why it was necessary to write this article and express it beyond […]

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ASBX
Martin Essl Le Bateau Ivre

Martin Essl Le Bateau Ivre

  With the recent emphasis on street photography found in volumes such as Matt Stuart’s Think Like a Street Photographer (Laurence King Publishing, 2021) and Reclaim the Street: Street Photography’s Moment, Matt Stuart with Stephen McLaren (Thames & Hudson, 2023), there seems to be a renewed awakening to the genre. If the countless YouTube videos about […]

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ASBX
Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 2

Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 2

Gregory Halpern’s photobook King, Queen, Knave has been nineteen years in the making. The first images for the photobook were shot while Halpern was a student in the MFA program at California College of the Arts, where he studied under his mentor, the photographer Larry Sultan. At the time, Halpern felt lost and adrift, unsure […]

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ASBX
Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 1

Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 1

It has taken me a few weeks to elucidate my feelings in reviewing Gregory’s new book King, Queen, Knave, published by MACK this past month. I had previously seen some photographs in a workshop we facilitated in Athens with Gregory, Raymond Meeks, Adrianna Ault, and Tim Carpenter. I remember the images well, though I am […]

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ASBX
Akihiko Okamura – The Memories of Others

Akihiko Okamura – The Memories of Others

  As I found with Whatever You Say, Say Nothing by Gilles Peress (Steidl), The Troubles and their representation are incredibly difficult to write about from the point of view of an outsider. It is a very touchy subject. Even posting about it on social media platforms (as I also found out) will have opposing […]

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ASBX
Massimo Leardini – Nordmarka

Massimo Leardini – Nordmarka

  Forest photography is a challenging art. I mention this regarding the photobook format, as the most significant complication of sequencing a book from a photographic forest yield is the difficulty of repetition. The question is, “How many photographs of trees can I look at without losing interest?” and “How much minute variation of a […]

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ASBX
Orianne Ciantar – Olive Les Ruines Circulaires

Orianne Ciantar – Olive Les Ruines Circulaires

Some photobooks are detailed by their direct exercises in story building. In contrast, others ask that the viewer read them holistically as an environment, a stage in which ideas are distributed, but with fewer absolutes regarding their nature. Hints are dropped, and some images carry the conceptual load of what the press release suggests as […]

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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…

Read More
Lens Culture

Drag/Strip: Portraits of Drag Queens Out of Costume

By presenting these subjects in black and white, this series of portraits seeks to reveal the quieter side of these performers stripped of their colorful costumes and over-the-top personas.

Read More
Lens Culture

HER2: The Diagnosed, The Caregiver and Their Son

In this brave account of a family navigating breast cancer, Anna and Jordan Rathkopf turn the camera on each other. Capturing resilience, vulnerability and the tenderness of caregiving, the book offers an honest look at how chronic illness impacts all areas of life.

Read More
Lens Culture

El pez muere por la boca / The Fish Dies By Its Mouth

This new photobook blends documentary style with magic realism, challenging perceptions of Colombia often tied to drug trafficking, and revealing complex narratives beneath surface appearances.

Read More
Lens Culture

I Did Nothing Other Than Tell Them to Smile

As an only child born under China’s one-child policy, Zihan Wei uses a snapshot aesthetic to explore photography as a language of intimacy and connection to forge a new relationship with her parents.

Read More
Lens Culture

Lumes: Rural Depopulation & Cultural Extinction in Galicia

With a thoughtful gaze born from a deep concern for his surroundings, Adra Pallón explores the devastating consequences of rural depopulation on the culture of Galicia, its environment and the last of its aging inhabitants.

Read More
Lens Culture

Jeff Cowen Provence Works

In this 9-minute video interview, photographer Jeff Cowen talks about making an all-new body of work in the south of France — about 60 of the images are being shown at two venues in Amsterdam right now.

Read More
Lens Culture

Ways of Knowing

Drawing on different mediums to weave together her own visual language, Stephanie Santana’s work builds continuity with the past by exploring the creative process as a way to access generational knowledge.

Read More
Lens Culture

Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

In her striking collection of portraits, Constance Jaeggi explores Escaramuza—a female-led equestrian performance—and its significance in Mexican-American identity, cementing its place in the monolithic history of the American West.

Read More
British Journal of Photography
Of Soul and Joy: Exploring the tension between hope and illusion of the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation

Of Soul and Joy: Exploring the tension between hope and illusion of the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation

A building glows crimson. There is little to indicate where we are. No signage. No people. The image has a timeless quality. Peaceful, like some half-remembered dream drifting through the mind.
The post Of Soul and Joy: Exploring the tension between hope and illusion of the so-called ‘Born Free’ generation appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Billy Barraclough captures Beirut’s pigeon wars and the marginal stories above the city

Billy Barraclough captures Beirut’s pigeon wars and the marginal stories above the city

The self-taught photographer’s project Kash Hamam celebrates an ancient tradition, despite the vilification of its players played out against local social stigma
The post Billy Barraclough captures Beirut’s pigeon wars and the marginal stories above the city appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
The alchemy of shadows: Avion Pearce’s portrayals of queer life transcend time and space

The alchemy of shadows: Avion Pearce’s portrayals of queer life transcend time and space

The photographer is at play with the boundaries that confine both their lens-based practice and the socio-political context of their subjects, finds Matilde Manicardi
The post The alchemy of shadows: Avion Pearce’s portrayals of queer life transcend time and space appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Juan Brenner: a ‘Mestizo’ at work in the Guatemalan Highlands

Juan Brenner: a ‘Mestizo’ at work in the Guatemalan Highlands

The artist’s latest book, Genesis, explores the generations-old traditions of his native homeland, and a youth finding their feet amidst waves of globalisation
The post Juan Brenner: a ‘Mestizo’ at work in the Guatemalan Highlands appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists

Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists

Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists from Tunisia, the SWANA region, and its diaspora, reflects Taous Dahmani, who curated two shows at this edition – Unstable Point and Assembly
The post Meeting of Minds: Jaou Tunis is creating a gathering point for artists appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Teasing out archival abundance of Black-British queer histories

Teasing out archival abundance of Black-British queer histories

Curator Topher Campbell and artist Evan Ifekoya tell Edwin Coomasaru how they, along with others, transformed the pioneering rukus! archive into an important show at Somerset House
The post Teasing out archival abundance of Black-British queer histories appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
From Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, the challenge of photographing how the world eats

From Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, the challenge of photographing how the world eats

round
The post From Saudi Arabia to the Netherlands, the challenge of photographing how the world eats appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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British Journal of Photography
Tribute to Paul Lowe

Tribute to Paul Lowe

A dedicated photojournalist, educator, thinker, runner and dancer, Paul Lowe influenced a generation of students, academics, journalists, and art & culture workers, writes his friend and LCC colleague, Max Houghton
The post Tribute to Paul Lowe appeared first on 1854 Photography.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: The Haitian Community in Ohio

The post U.S. Focus: The Haitian Community in Ohio appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

View From Lebanon

The post View From Lebanon appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Palestinian Resilience and Resistance in the Occupied West Bank

The post Palestinian Resilience and Resistance in the Occupied West Bank appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

Long Road to Recovery For War-Wounded Children From Gaza

The post Long Road to Recovery For War-Wounded Children From Gaza appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

What is “America”?

The post What is “America”? appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: Abortion in Florida

The post U.S. Focus: Abortion in Florida appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: Veterans in North Carolina

The post U.S. Focus: Veterans in North Carolina appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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Magnum Photos

U.S. Focus: Immigration in Arizona

The post U.S. Focus: Immigration in Arizona appeared first on Magnum Photos.

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ASBX
Jermaine Francis – A Post Industrial Dreamscape

Jermaine Francis – A Post Industrial Dreamscape

To understand what Jermaine Francis is about, it makes sense to pursue thinking beyond the labels we give to each other.  His work is compelled by a certain kind of experience. It is an experience that I directly relate to, and this is why it was necessary to write this article and express it beyond […]

Read More
ASBX
Martin Essl Le Bateau Ivre

Martin Essl Le Bateau Ivre

  With the recent emphasis on street photography found in volumes such as Matt Stuart’s Think Like a Street Photographer (Laurence King Publishing, 2021) and Reclaim the Street: Street Photography’s Moment, Matt Stuart with Stephen McLaren (Thames & Hudson, 2023), there seems to be a renewed awakening to the genre. If the countless YouTube videos about […]

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ASBX
Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 2

Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 2

Gregory Halpern’s photobook King, Queen, Knave has been nineteen years in the making. The first images for the photobook were shot while Halpern was a student in the MFA program at California College of the Arts, where he studied under his mentor, the photographer Larry Sultan. At the time, Halpern felt lost and adrift, unsure […]

Read More
ASBX
Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 1

Gregory Halpern – King, Queen, Knave Perspective 1

It has taken me a few weeks to elucidate my feelings in reviewing Gregory’s new book King, Queen, Knave, published by MACK this past month. I had previously seen some photographs in a workshop we facilitated in Athens with Gregory, Raymond Meeks, Adrianna Ault, and Tim Carpenter. I remember the images well, though I am […]

Read More
ASBX
Akihiko Okamura – The Memories of Others

Akihiko Okamura – The Memories of Others

  As I found with Whatever You Say, Say Nothing by Gilles Peress (Steidl), The Troubles and their representation are incredibly difficult to write about from the point of view of an outsider. It is a very touchy subject. Even posting about it on social media platforms (as I also found out) will have opposing […]

Read More
ASBX
Massimo Leardini – Nordmarka

Massimo Leardini – Nordmarka

  Forest photography is a challenging art. I mention this regarding the photobook format, as the most significant complication of sequencing a book from a photographic forest yield is the difficulty of repetition. The question is, “How many photographs of trees can I look at without losing interest?” and “How much minute variation of a […]

Read More
ASBX
Orianne Ciantar – Olive Les Ruines Circulaires

Orianne Ciantar – Olive Les Ruines Circulaires

Some photobooks are detailed by their direct exercises in story building. In contrast, others ask that the viewer read them holistically as an environment, a stage in which ideas are distributed, but with fewer absolutes regarding their nature. Hints are dropped, and some images carry the conceptual load of what the press release suggests as […]

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