https://www.hotelsofnorthkorea.com/
A photography project documenting the architecture, interior design and people of North Korea’s capital city
by James Scullin and Nicole Reed. Book and merchandise on sale now in Store
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Hotels of Pyongyang
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Juxtapoz Magazine – FloodZone: An Unsettling View of Impending Sea Level Rise in Miami
Juxtapoz Magazine – FloodZone: An Unsettling View of Impending Sea Level Rise in Miami
“FloodZone” is Miami-based Russian photographer Anastasia Samoylova’s account of life on the knife-edge of the Southern United States: in Florida, whe…
The color palette is tropical: lush greens, azure blues, pastel pinks. But the mood is pensive and melancholy. As new luxury high-rises soar, their foundations are in water. Crumbling walls carry images of tourist paradise. Manatees appear in odd places, sensitive to environmental change. Water is everywhere and water is the problem. Mixing lyric documentary, gently staged photos and epic aerial vistas, FloodZone crosses boundaries to express the deep contradictions of the place. The carefully paced sequence of photographs, arranged as interlocking chapters, make no judgment: they simply show.
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The Photographers Who Captured the Toll of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – The New York Times
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Worked Under Mushroom Clouds
A new book of photos documents the human impact of the bombings that ended World War II — and challenges a common American perception of the destruction in Japan.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html
“I beg you to allow me to take pictures of your utmost sufferings,” Mr. Matsumoto, who was 30 at the time, said he told survivors. “I am determined to let people in this world know without speaking a word what kind of apocalyptic tragedies you have gone through.”
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Things You Know is a zine documenting the NYC neighbourhood of Crown Heights
Things You Know is a zine documenting the NYC neighbourhood of Crown Heights
Created by friends Max Friedman and Jamil McGinnis, 100 per cent of the profits from the zine will go back into the constantly evolving community that inspired it.
Created by friends Max Friedman and Jamil McGinnis, 100 per cent of the profits from the zine will go back into the constantly evolving community that inspired it.
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Teju Cole on photographing Switzerland, instead of adding to the “endless books about Mexico”
Teju Cole on photographing Switzerland, instead of adding to the “endless books about Mexico”
The novelist, curator and former photography critic for The New York Times Magazine talks to us about Fernweh, his new photobook documenting his Swiss travels.
The novelist, curator and former photography critic for The New York Times Magazine talks to us about Fernweh, his new photobook documenting his Swiss travels.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Jeff Mermelstein Photographs Anonymous New Yorkers’ Text Messages
Juxtapoz Magazine – Jeff Mermelstein Photographs Anonymous New Yorkers’ Text Messages
If you’ve been following Jeff Mermelstein on Instagram the last couple of years you’re aware he’s been secretly snapping pictures of New Yorker’s text…
If you’ve been following Jeff Mermelstein on Instagram the last couple of years you’re aware he’s been secretly snapping pictures of New Yorker’s text messages as he travels around the city everyday. Those images have finally coalesced into a book from Mack, #nyc, a “multifarious, comic and heartbreaking survey of contemporary life as learned through overseen text messages. Written in the new language of acronym and initialism, truncation and cipher wordplay, interrupted by the occasional longueur, people appear to have few inhibitions when faced only with their own reflection in a phone screen, such that they pour their heart-felt desire and lust and hate and vitriol in unfettered streams of text consciousness.”
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A Photobook Traces Thirty Years of a Family’s Life – Aperture Foundation NY
A Photobook Traces Thirty Years of a Family’s Life
In “Pleasant Street,” Judith Black photographs her home life in New England from 1968 to 2000—and builds upon an American documentary tradition.
via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/judith-black-thirty-years-of-a-familys-life/
Judith Black’s new photobook traces her home life in New England from 1968 to 2000—and builds upon an American documentary tradition.
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Amoral Pictures | Conscientious Photography Magazine
Amoral Pictures
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/amoral-pictures/
Occam’s Razor tells me that for any given problem the simplest explanation is the one to pick. So I would have to assume that what my grandfather took part in and witnessed is very much along the lines of what has just been published as Das Auge des Krieges [The Eye of War] by Buchkunst Berlin. The photographs in the book were taken by a certain Dieter Keller, a man from a privileged background who in some capacity spent the majority of his life in the world of art.
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Oliver Chanarin’s Male Gaze | Conscientious Photography Magazine
Oliver Chanarin’s Male Gaze
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/chanarins-male-gaze/
It’s always a sorry sight when a well known artist jumps the shark (to borrow that expression from popular culture). It’s particularly disheartening to see someone do it who based on her or his earlier work you would have thought should know a lot better. Yet here we are, being presented with Oliver Chanarin’s photographs of his partner, Fiona Jane Burgess, the mother of their two children (various of the pictures can also be found on Instagram).
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photo-eye | BLOG: Light Break: Reviewed by Blake Andrews
Entering a New World: Reviewed by Blake Andrews
Book Review Entering a New World Photographs by Massimo Vitali Reviewed by Blake Andrews Whether relaxing beachside, exploring the r…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2020/06/light-break-reviewed-by-blake-andrews.html
“That book is enormous!” cried my wife upon spotting Entering a New World, the new monograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali. Her reaction is a good summary review. Every aspect of the book is gargantuan. It’s more than 14 inches across, 11 inches tall, weighs 6.4 pounds, and covers ten years of shooting. For most of his career, Vitali has used large-format cameras to absorb acres of subject matter all at once, every corner reproduced in exquisite detail. There are no half measures here. Instead, we are presented with a full-corpus embrace of the world.
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A Portrait of 1990s England, Captured by an ‘Outsider’ | AnOther
A Portrait of 1990s England, Captured by an ‘Outsider’
Give My Regards to Elizabeth is a new book by German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski, comprising photographs of his year spent in England in the early 90s
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A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture
A Photography of Gestures – Photographs by Shirley Baker | Book review by Mark Durden | LensCulture
A new book shows Shirley Baker’s documentary work from a different perspective, shedding light on her playful and tender street photography
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shirley-baker-a-photography-of-gestures
A new book shows Shirley Baker’s documentary work from a different perspective, shedding light on her playful and tender street photography.
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Reimagining a continent: The new generation of African photographers
Reimagining a continent: The new generation of African photographers
A new generation of image-makers are presenting a kaleidoscopic portrait of the continent, exploring African myths, memories and taboos.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/meet-the-new-generation-of-african-photographers/
From gender and sexuality, to myths and memories: a new generation of image-makers are presenting a complex, kaleidoscopic portrait of the continent.
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Dieter Keller: Das Auge Des Krieges – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Dieter Keller: Das Auge Des Krieges
“Othering of the loser of a war is important for collective consciousness and acts as a bulwark against the tide of human sympathy in the matters of inhumane consequence”
There are a number of different ways to approach writing about photograph
via AMERICAN SUBURB X: https://americansuburbx.com/2020/05/dieter-keller-das-auge-des-krieges.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dieter-keller-das-auge-des-krieges
Dieter Keller was a Nazi employed in the Wehrmacht in the early 40’s. He participated or observed the systematic killing and torture of villagers on the Eastern Front of the war. Where is gets complicated is that he made beautiful photographic images surrounding the event that remind one of the Bauhaus movement, modernist masterpieces of the medium and later Tarkovsky-like interludes of solemn and questioning studies of the environment in which he found himself. He was, by official Nazi decree not supposed to have made these records. And yet….we have these records in Das Auge Des Krieges (Buchkunst Berlin).
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photo-eye | BLOG: We Have No Place to Be: Reviewed by John Sypal
We Have No Place to Be: Reviewed by John Sypal
Book Review We Have No Place to Be Photographs by Joji Hashiguchi Reviewed by John Sypal “In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi photog…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2020/04/we-have-no-place-to-be-reviewed-by-john.html
In the early 1980s, Joji Hashiguchi photographed young men and women congregating in the places where youth go to find refuge from the world. He found them in rough cafes, scuzzy bus stops, and on battered street corners. Working within the tradition of street and documentary photography, his black and white pictures capture the universality of youth in moments of uncertainty and dissatisfaction. Among them appear those bright (yet fleeting) moments between friends when a sense of togetherness appears — they realize they aren’t so alone, despite their drive to be.
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Nine Photo Books (and One Surprise) to Treat Yourself to This Month | AnOther
Nine Photo Books (and One Surprise) to Treat Yourself to This Month
From Chris Killip’s documentary of a 1980s punk club to Lucie Rox’s journey around Japan, April’s best photo books allow a visual escape from isolation
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A Different Side to Dorothea Lange | The New Yorker
A Different Side to Dorothea Lange
A lyrical new book by the photographer Sam Contis collects lesser-known images from the great documentarian’s archive.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-different-side-to-dorothea-lange
Many of the black-and-white images in the new book “Day Sleeper,” by the photographer Sam Contis, look similar to Contis’s own: arid landscapes etched with fencing, cropped views of work-roughened hands, and unstaged, sunlit portraits. For her 2017 volume “Deep Springs,” for instance, Contis focussed on the liberal-arts junior college of the same name, in California—it’s also a functioning desert-valley ranch—to reflect on the mythos of the American West. But, for this project, Contis was not the searching photographer but the instigator, excavator, and editor. None other than Dorothea Lange took the pictures.
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One Photographer’s Decade-Long Study of New Orleans | AnOther
One Photographer’s Decade-Long Study of New Orleans
Akasha Rabut’s new book Death Magick Abundance documents the people that brought New Orleans back to life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and is a pertinent celebration of the power of community
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Eight Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy | AnOther
Eight Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy
March’s selection of must-have photo books includes Stephen Shore, Peter Beard, Lina Scheynius and Luis Alberto Rodriguez