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Hand-coloured images of post-Soviet Ukraine: An Interview with Victor Kochetov
victor kochetovsergey kochetovJune 5th, 2020interviewVictor Kochetov (b. 1947, Ukraine) and Sergey Kochetov (b. 1972, Ukraine) are father and son but they also operate as a collaborative artistic duo and recently released a book: 'KOCHETOV'....
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Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales: an interview with Elizabeth Haust
elizabeth haustApril 20th, 2020interviewElizabeth Haust (b. 1992, Russia) has a background in photography, film and painting. Her work has been presented in museums, galleries and photo festivals all over the world including 5TH Moscow...
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Echoes Shades: An Interview with Piotr Zbierski
piotr zbierskiApril 8th, 2020In Echoes Shades Piotr Zbierski (b. 1987, Poland) focuses on people living close to nature and communities cultivating primordial rituals. The artist's spiritual approach to photography has caught the attention of many world-famous museums, including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts...
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Interpreting the place: Israel Ariño
israel ariñoMarch 27th, 2020Israel Ariño (b. 1974, Catalonia) tests the limits of what is representable. His two books 'La gravetat del lloc' (2017) and 'Voyage en pays du clermontois' (2019) might be visually distinct from one another but both focus on a similar interest: subjective perceptions of reality. Both book...
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27 Good-byes
deanna dikemanMarch 23rd, 2020Deanna Dikeman (b. 1954, United States) documented her parents' life for nearly 27 years. In the images, we can see her mother and father - during different life stages - waving her good-bye as she drives away.It started in 1991, with a sequence of snapshots that were made by the photographer to...
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ATELIER SMEDSBY: APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
atelier smedsbymargot wallardMarch 8th, 2020The Atelier Smedsby offers a one-year distance learning class with three individual/group meetings in Paris. Founded in 2010 by photographers JH Engström (b. 1969, Sweden) and Margot Wallard (b. 1978, France), Atelier Smedsby was formed with the objective of increasing artistic independence via...
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Zoopark Publishing Collective: An Interview With the Editors
zooparktatyana palygaMarch 1st, 2020Zoopark is a publishing collective consisting of two Russian-born visual artists: Tatyana Palyga (b. 1982 Russia) and Alexander Bondar (b. 1982, Russia). Their collaboration started in 2010, when the duo, who have been mixing photography, video, texts, graphics and illustrations in their own...
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Piotr Zbierski - Echoes Shades
piotr zbierskiFebruary 11th, 2020In his art practice, Piotr Zbierski (b. 1987, Poland) touches on the meta-kinship between people who do not necessarily share the same culture or the same beliefs. For his recent project Echoes Shades (soon to become a book) he spotlights people living close to nature and communities cultivating...
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Wing Ambulance: an Interview with Elena Chernyshova
elena chernyshovaJanuary 17th, 2020interviewElena Chernyshova (b.1981, Russia) investigates the daily lives of communities in the context of environmental, political, and economic changes. For two winters already, she has been visiting the remote Turukhansky District, north of the Arctic Circle, to collect visuals for her personal project...
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Campaign Child
xiaopeng yuanDecember 6th, 2019Campaign Child by Chinese artist Xiaopeng Yuan (b. 1988, China), a Shanghai-based photographer, immediately takes off with confronting and rather absurd images: a breathless canary bird crushed down with a clean film on the floor; a hospital bed dripping with liquid; children sharing the same...
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On Inclusion and Diversity
November 26th, 2019Two recently published titles - The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization (SPBH, 2019) and The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019) both emphasise that we live in times of inclusion and postmodern feminism - topics that are finally...
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Rite
michael søndergaardSeptember 3rd, 2019Rite is a photobook about Michael Søndergaard’s (b. 1988, Denmark) own exploration of sexual identity. With his focus on mysterious semi-nude portraits that resemble paintings of Baroque masters like Rembrandt or Caravaggio, Søndergaard captures the power of vulnerability and shows the process of...
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Alienation
olga sondykAugust 30th, 2019The photo project Alienation by France-based photographer Olga Sondyk (b. 1988, Russia) assembles black-and-white photos, sound and video records and snippets of online conversations with friends. All these elements are the photographer's possible answers to the questions that appear after a...
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One Year
geert broertjesAugust 29th, 2019Geert Broertjes' (b. 1987, the Netherlands) heartbreaking project One Year tells a story about the loss of the three most important women in his life: his aunt, his grandmother and his mother. The poetic series about love, hardship and grief shot with an analogue camera in raw black and white,...
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Gerontion
christian michael filardoAugust 13th, 2019Gerontion is a photo book by a Filipino-American photographer Christian Michael Filardo (b. 1991, United States) and an homage to the great British poet T. S. Eliot's verse of the same title. Slipping between states of wakefulness and sleep, Filardo's photographs and words motivate a liminal...
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Monchegorsk
valeri konkovAugust 6th, 2019Monchegorsk is a so-called monotown: a place where the local economy and life on the whole rely on a single or a small number of related industries. Apparently, the post-Soviet space is home to about three hundred monotowns. The question of the purpose of such towns bothered photographer Valeri...
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Evelyn Beckett
will harrisAugust 1st, 2019In this work, Will Harris (b. 1990, United States) confronts the complexities of his grandmother Evelyn Beckett’s dementia. By juxtaposing images of his childhood's house with photographs that show the erased faces of his granny at different stages of her life, he restores the pieces of a lost...
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Pendulum
stefania orfanidouJuly 29th, 2019Stefania Orfanidou's (b. 1989, Greece) connection to Italy started 12 years before she was born. Her parents met in the Italian city of L’Aquila and fell in love. So, Orfanidou grew up absorbing a lot of their romantic stories related to the region and one day even visited the place with them....
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Barrio Chino, Habana
sean alexander geraghtyJuly 25th, 2019Barrio Chino, Habana is an ongoing photographic project by Sean Alexander Geraghty (b. 1987, France) in which he aims to document the remaining fragments of the once largest and most glorious Chinatown in Latin America. However, when you dig deeper, you realise that the story of its origin isn't...
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Specially For You
karol palkaJuly 22nd, 2019During one of the travels around her home country, photographer Karol Palka (b. 1991, Poland) met an uncommon family: a 65-year-old mother called Danusia and her 35-year-old daughter Basia. The two women lived together, isolated from the outside world, in a house kilometers away from the nearest...
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