Few places are surrounded by a mystery like Rold Forest that is located in a rural part of Denmark. This big, wild forest was for…
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Few places are surrounded by a mystery like Rold Forest, located in a rural part of Denmark. This big, wild forest was for centuries a gathering point for robbers, witches and originals.
“A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/an-american-project-dawoud-bey-s-latest-show-sfmoma/
“A wonderfully unnerving moment” is how Dawoud Bey responds to SFMOMA’s Curator of Photography Corey Keller’s question about what it feels like to be an actively working artist currently having a retrospective. “I’m working on a project in Lousiana, thinking of the work in front of me, work I have yet to do. Then a situation comes that demands you stop and look back, though as an artist you are looking forward. I tend not to stop, but I’m called to stop again and reflect on the past. That’s the unnerving piece.” The current exhibition showcases over eighty pieces from eight major series made over the course of more than forty years by the African American artist whose goal is to make photographs with a “real sense of interiority, to go beneath the surface.”
“Photographed in the American Southwest, this body of work includes intimate portraits of travelers—mostly hitchhikers and highway drifters who dwell…
Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/bryan-schutmaat-s-highway-drifters/
“Photographed in the American Southwest, this body of work includes intimate portraits of travelers—mostly hitchhikers and highway drifters who dwell along the interstate system—as well as landscapes and still life photos that reflect a country in peril. Amidst the ravages of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, I’m struck by the extraordinary human capacity for endurance. I want to tell the ongoing story of the United States—a mythic, hallowed, beautiful, and broken land—where people are often pushed toward the margins of despair, yet many still carry on.
Ute Behrend Bear Girls [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] How do young girls become strong women? Adolescence is the theme of my new book. At the beginning I tell a story about a fictional “Indian tribe&#…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/02/ute-behrend-bear-girls/
How do young girls become strong women? Adolescence is the theme of my new book. At the beginning I tell a story about a fictional “Indian tribe” that separates its pubescent girls and dresses them in bearskins. In this way they are protected from premature sexualisation. The result is a shelter that gives the girls the opportunity to develop freely and self-determinedly in this important phase of their lives. I call these girls “bear girls” and draw parallels in our society, where free spaces for adolescent girls become less and less. Many young women try to evade the stereotypes of sexualised identification that are shaped by society and the media. This is often evident in similar behaviour patterns, e.g. wearing very large sweaters that girls like to “borrow” from their father’s wardrobe.
It’s been said, You are what you eat” though few may remember what they had for lunch last Tuesday. Our diets, like our identities, may be formed by nature and…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/a-birds-eye-view-of-childrens-diets-around-the-globe/
In the mew book, Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World, American photographer Gregg Segal has created a snapshot of the relationship between diet, culture, and location in a series of stunning portraits wherein the children are photographed surrounded by one-weeks forth of food.
After falling victim to an assault, Sandy Carson left Scotland for the US. It was there that he found a home in photography.
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/sandy-carson-photography-always-been-a-cowboy-in-my-heart/
After falling victim to a violent assault, BMX rider Sandy Carson left his native Scotland for the US. It was there, travelling the breadth of the country, that he found a home in photography – capturing American life with an outsider’s eye.
When the São Paulo government proposed closing over 100 public schools in October 2015, high school students rose up in rebellion against the state. After tagging a series of hostile street protests they took it to the next level. Over the next three mont
via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-portrait-of-teenage-resistance-in-brazil/
In 2015, photographer Alicia Esteves captured São Paulo’s revolutionary student riots, when local teens broke in and occupied schools to prevent their closure.
Charles Rozier has a new book, House Music, from Dewi Lewis Publishing, that aptly describes a world filled with the music of children, dogs, relatives, friends, and family under one roof. I first featured the project in 2013 and was moved by his persona
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/charles-rozier-house-music/
Charles Rozier has a new book, House Music, from Dewi Lewis Publishing, that aptly describes a world filled with the music of children, dogs, relatives, friends, and family under one roof. I first featured the project in 2013 and was moved by his personal photographic legacy. The work now spans almost thirty years, beginning with black and white capture, eventually moving into color, where the spectrum becomes another character in his tableaux of every day life. There is an honest seeing in his work, moments that are at the same time poignant, humorous, and ordinary. He takes us through the corridors and rooms of his life with the stealth of a street photographer, showing us those memories that only the camera can retain. He states, Though not staged, these images differ from the purely documentary in that they generally remain ambiguous; I believe they are more likely to raise questions than give answers. In each one I am searching for an unexpected moment or undertone, captured within an ordinary but formally complete, evocative space.”
Because today is Valentine’s Day and the 14th day of the month, I thought it was a good day to give some love and acknowledgement to my friend Ibarionex Perello and his 14-year effort, The Candid Frame, which features over 500 compelling and insightful po
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/ibarionex-perello-the-candid-frame/
Because today is Valentine’s Day and the 14th day of the month, I thought it was a good day to give some love and acknowledgement to my friend Ibarionex Perello and his 14-year effort, The Candid Frame, which features over 500 compelling and insightful podcasts on photography and photographers. When first meeting Ibarionex, it’s hard not to be drawn to his smile and shining eyes, or his stellar capture of street photography around the world, but it’s his deep resonate voice that seals the deal. I’ve listened to a lot of photography podcasts over the years and there is something different about The Candid Frame. As a host, Ibarionex brings a level of curiosity, humanity, and reverence to his investigations. The interviews are never cursory, but well-researched and meaningful and definitely worth a listen.
The words are in Italian but the message is clear: “The Mafia kills. So does silence.” This is the omerta, the code of silence the Sicilian mafia has imposed upon…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/how-letozia-battaglia-used-photography-in-a-war-against-the-mafia/
It as a position Sicilian photographer Letizia Battalgia refused to adopt. Ever since she became the first woman photographer working for a daily newspaper, Battalgia has used her camera as a tool for the people and a weapon against those who sought to destroy them.
Alexander Bronfer Floating This project is about the tight bonds connecting us to The Dead Sea, in the face of ecological catastrophe threatening the future of this unique natural treasure. …
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/02/alexander-bronfer-floating/
This project is about the tight bonds connecting us to The Dead Sea, in the face of ecological catastrophe threatening the future of this unique natural treasure.
A new exhibition in Berlin presents long-term projects composed over four decades by British-Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi
via British Journal of Photography: https://www.bjp-online.com/2020/02/akinbode-akinbiyi-gropius-bau/
A new exhibition in Berlin presents long-term projects composed over four decades by British-Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi
The brief life and tragic death of Francesca Woodman only seems to deepen the mystery of her powerful and provocative work. But who was she, beyond the adolescent artist whose…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/a-portrait-of-francesca-woodman-through-the-photographs-she-left-behind/
The brief life and tragic death of Francesca Woodman only seems to deepen the mystery of her powerful and provocative work. But who was she, beyond the adolescent artist whose haunted photographs are the epitome of American Gothic with a surrealist twist?
via AnOther: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12235/dorothea-lange-words-and-pictures-moma-new-york-great-depression
At the Museum of Modern Art, New York, a new exhibition centring on Dorothea Lange reveals the importance of the words that surrounded her 20th-century documentary photography
Cet ensemble de travaux examine le monde de la lutte professionnelle indépendante, un type extrême d’histoire physique qui mélange les intrigues de
via The Eye of Photography Magazine: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/rich-wade-draw-a-squared-circle-pp/
This body of work looks at the world of independent professional wrestling, an extreme type of physical story telling that mixes soap opera storylines with choreographed stage fighting. Events shown range from small shows in bars and clubs to large-scale productions in arenas. A portion of the project looks at death match wrestling: an ultra-violent form of the sport where wrestlers perform brutal blood laden matches with weapons. These contests feature barbed wire bats, thumbtacks, fluorescent light tubes, and flaming tables. Much like ancient human sacrifices, wrestling has always economised a desire within people to view and enjoy the suffering of others. While making this body of work I was interested in using photography to deconstruct the performance and spectacle of wrestling. I want the work to hint at wrestling itself as a performance of the political and ideological divisions that are prevalent in contemporary American politics.
Luminaries of the diaspora on the legacy of 1960
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/06/world/africa/africa-independence-year.html
We selected images — some from The New York Times’s archive and others from various collections around the world — to tell the story of the heady days around the Year of Africa. Each of the 17 countries that gained independence that year is represented here in photographs, but there are also images from countries, like Ghana, with especially rich photographic traditions.
For too many years the concept of “distance”, when it comes to waste disposal has not been taken seriously.
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/burning-dreams-28ded3964092
or too many years, the concept of “distance”, when it comes to waste disposal, has not been taken seriously. We have underestimated the consequences of shipping our waste and e-waste abroad, hiding, burying or simply accumulating it in landfills far from our eyes, without questioning or checking the disposal systems in use.
Joey Solomon’s photographs mount a formal challenge to the cultural law that compels disabled people to imagine themselves otherwise.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-visceral-satisfactions-of-a-disabled-photographers-gaze
Toward the end of his junior year of college, Joey Solomon contracted a fever of a hundred and three degrees. When it didn’t subside after several weeks, his parents retrieved him from his apartment, in Brooklyn, and rushed him to a health center near their family home, in Queens. Solomon spent the next month under the study of ultrasound technicians and surgical oncologists, who found an oblong tumor stuck to his sciatic nerve. The suddenness of this discovery stunned him. An art student at the time, Solomon had sat out of the term’s final classes with what he thought was a bad cold.
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/bruce-gilden-lost-and-found-pp/
In collaboration with Magnum Photos, 10 Corso Como New York presents LOST AND FOUND, an exhibition of Bruce Gilden’s early New York street photographs from the mid 70s through 80s as well as his more recent fashion images.
Understanding other cultures and countries comes from walking the landscape, the cities, and engaging with the population, but how do we understand a country that has been under siege, experienced war, and has a new identity? UK photographer, Thomas Sussex (@tommy_sussex), has had a long interest in understanding Eastern Europe since 2014 when he began
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/thomas-sussex-pathway-trace/
Understanding other cultures and countries comes from walking the landscape, the cities, and engaging with the population, but how do we understand a country that has been under siege, experienced war, and has a new identity? UK photographer, Thomas Sussex (@tommy_sussex), has had a long interest in understanding Eastern Europe since 2014 when he began spending time with Ukrainian people of his own age and understanding the problems and restrictions they faced. He monograph, Our Sincere Toils was published in 2015 by Bloom Publishing looked at these issues. Thomas states, “These personal experiences drew me deeper into this environment with it’s social and political background as the setting. My fascination with Eastern European communities living in a time of transition has lead me back to develop this narrative frequently and recently to Serbia to produce a series titled Pathway Trace. Producing this work has created ongoing relationships with people living in Eastern Europe. I am fascinated by certain communities’ responses to aspects of government corruption and cultural aggression.”