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Rich Wade : Draw A Squared Circle

Rich Wade : Draw A Squared Circle – The Eye of Photography Magazine

Cet ensemble de travaux examine le monde de la lutte professionnelle indépendante, un type extrême d’histoire physique qui mélange les intrigues de

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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.

February 8, 2020
What Does Independence Look Like? Images From the Year of Africa – The New York Times

What Does Independence Look Like? Images From the Year of Africa

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.

February 7, 2020
Burning Dreams – Witness

Burning Dreams

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.

February 7, 2020
The Visceral Satisfactions of a Disabled Photographer’s Gaze | The New Yorker

The Visceral Satisfactions of a Disabled Photographer’s Gaze

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.

February 7, 2020
Bruce Gilden : Lost and Found

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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.

February 6, 2020
Thomas Sussex: Pathway Trace | LENSCRATCH

Thomas Sussex: Pathway Trace – LENSCRATCH

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

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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.”

February 6, 2020
A mystical portrait of America’s backwaters

A mystical portrait of America’s backwaters

British photographer Mark Power has spent the last eight years roaming the backwaters of the United States. The decision was inspired by the American television he consumed as a child; particularly the US Westerns brought to life by the likes of John Wayn

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-mystical-portrait-of-americas-backwaters/

Photographer Mark Power has spent nearly a decade documenting the seismic social and political changes in the country.

February 5, 2020
Meet Michael Jang, photography’s new cult hero

Meet Michael Jang, photography’s new cult hero

After going unseen for decades, Michael Jang’s work is finally gaining the plaudits it deserves – and the 68-year-old is loving every second.

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/playlist-archive/michael-jang-who-is-michael-jang-photography/

The 68-year-old’s photography views the world through a mischievous lens. After going unseen for decades, it’s finally gaining the plaudits it deserves – and he’s loving every second.

February 5, 2020
Welcome to the Kowloon Walled City, One of the Most Misunderstood Places in History – Feature Shoot

Welcome to the Kowloon Walled City, One of the Most Misunderstood Places in History – Feature Shoot

When the photographer Greg Girard first ventured into Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1986, he didn’t take any pictures. Instead, he simply absorbed the sights, sounds, and smells…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/02/welcome-to-the-kowloon-walled-city-one-of-the-most-misunderstood-places-in-history/

When the photographer Greg Girard first ventured into Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1986, he didn’t take any pictures. Instead, he simply absorbed the sights, sounds, and smells that surrounding him on all sides: illuminated windows, densely packed across 12-14 story buildings, voices from televisions and the hum of fans and air conditioners filling the streets.

February 5, 2020
Massao Mascaro: Jardin, a Rumination of Plots – AMERICAN SUBURB X

Massao Mascaro: Jardin, a Rumination of Plots

The garden is a space in which experiments and critical thought are born and carried out. It is a space in which growth is mediated within the flora of its inhabitants, but also in the contemplative mental space of its guardian. Work and toil produce chal

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The garden is a space in which experiments and critical thought are born and carried out. It is a space in which growth is mediated within the flora of its inhabitants, but also in the contemplative mental space of its guardian. Work and toil produce challenge and transformation within the confines of the garden. The garden itself must have perimeters for it to function as a space for devotion-if its edges bled into a forest; it would no longer have the withstanding position to incur its sacred status. We can make considerations of the garden’s attributes as holy, possessing the anima of transcending ruminations. Within the garden, not wholly unsympathetic with the conscription of the maze we, like Jorge Luis Borges, understand its position as an allusion to the mind itself. The frame and edges of a garden are holding vessels for thoughts and complications to be unwound.

February 3, 2020
The Legacy of Issei Suda (1940-2019) : Human Memory

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Miyako Yoshinaga presents The Legacy of ISSEI SUDA (1940-2019): Human Memory, the first posthumous exhibition in the United States of renowned Japanese photographer Issei Suda who passed away in early 2019. This is the gallery’s second exhibition of the artist, following the 2014 exhibition “Life in Flower: 1971-1979.”

February 3, 2020
Thomas Alleman: Social Studies | LENSCRATCH

Thomas Alleman: Social Studies

I never get tired of looking at Thomas Alleman’s remarkable photographs. His curiosity takes him into worlds personal, familiar, and unknown, and no matter the destination, he finds gold where ever he points his lens. His powerful project about his mother

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/02/thomas-alleman-social-studies/

I never get tired of looking at Thomas Alleman’s remarkable photographs. His curiosity takes him into worlds personal, familiar, and unknown, and no matter the destination, he finds gold where ever he points his lens. His powerful project about his mother, The Unwinding garnered him a Top 50 nod in Critical Mass some years back. At the core of his abilities are two things–he is a humanist and has a history of getting the story, with a legacy of traversing streets and landscapes with laser sharp curiosity. Today we feature his project, Social Studies, an 18-year quest to find his photographic voice at the beginning of his stellar career.

February 3, 2020
Welcome to Brexit Britain: Is this what freedom looks like?

Welcome to Brexit Britain: Is this what freedom looks like?

On June 26 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. In the three and a half years since that moment, there has been room for little else on the political agenda as politicians wrangled over the issue. “Brexit means Brexit,” we were told

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/reportage-2/brexit-britain-is-this-what-freedom-looks-like/

At 11pm on Friday night, Britain left the European Union – and thousands headed to Parliament Square to celebrate. Photographer Theo McInnes headed down to capture the crowds.

February 3, 2020
Dead and Alive – Photographs by Klaus Bo | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture

Dead and Alive – Photographs by Klaus Bo | Essay by Gina Williams | LensCulture

Klaus Bo’s stark images documenting death rituals from around the world are a rare visual record of cultural traditions

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/klaus-bo-dead-and-alive

Klaus Bo’s stark images documenting death rituals from around the world are a rare visual record of cultural traditions.

February 1, 2020
The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot

The Destruction of the Amazon in Photos – Feature Shoot

The destruction of the planet at the hands of imperialist forces bears out Biblical prophecies of Armageddon, though what we are witnessing today was a long time coming. “The Europeans…

via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/01/the-destruction-of-the-amazon-in-photos/

Italian photographer Tommaso Protti is doing just that. As recipient of the 10th Carmignac Photojournalism Award, which funds annually the production of an investigative photo reportage on human rights violations, and geostrategic issues in the world, Protti teamed up with British journalist Sam Cowie to travel thousands of miles through the Brazilian Amazong between January and July of last year to examine the interrelationship between the social, humanitarian, and ecological crises decimating the region.

January 31, 2020
Les Mois Noirs – The Leica camera Blog

Les Mois Noirs

Stéphane Lavoué’s series is a multi-layered, sensitive homage to his new home in Brittany.

January 31, 2020
Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape | LENSCRATCH

Bill Westheimer: New Vistas: Photographers working with the Landscape

In 2015, the Getty Museum featured the seminal exhibition, Light, Paper, Process, a show that celebrated the spirit of invention and discovery at its point of departure, focusing on “investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photo

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2020/01/bill-westheimer-new-vistas-photographers-working-with-the-landscape-3/

Artist Bill Westheimer has a new project of found landscapes, Borderlands, that explores similar territories. The title describes vistas and boundaries, but it also describes the physical origins of the photographs–on the borders of wet plate images. By shifting how he sees the marks and mistakes of historic collodion processes, he has created new worlds and new landscapes.

January 31, 2020
Kenneth Josephson

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Gitterman Gallery presents an exhibition of photographic work by Kenneth Josephson from 1960 to 1980 that invites overlapping dialogues on a variety of concepts. He explores the complex relationship of image and object, photographic truth and illusion, time, spatial perspective, even the history of photography itself. Josephson challenges our perceptions and invites us to consider different perspectives, while maintaining a strong sense of humor and wonder that makes his work both accessible and distinctive.

January 30, 2020
A photographer looks back at his work in New York City in the 1980s – The Washington Post

Perspective | A photographer looks back at his work in New York City in the 1980s

Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden uncovers 75 images of New York shot between 1978 and 1984.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/01/29/photographer-looks-back-his-work-new-york-city-1980s/

Bruce Gilden calls the photo “The Strangler.” The long-time Magnum photographer was just walking down a street of New York when he came across the scene. “It’s one of the few pictures where I can remember the scenario,” he said. “These two guys were having this battle in the street. They were so drunk and one had his hand on the other’s neck for a minute.”

January 29, 2020
Anniina Joensalo – Tender « burn magazine

Anniina Joensalo – Tender

Anniina Joensalo Tender [ FUJIFILM/YOUNG TALENT AWARD 2019 FINALIST ] “Tender” is an exploration into the contradictions inherent in queer lives and loves. I want to explore all aspects of intimac…

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2020/01/anniina-joensalo-tender/

“Tender” is an exploration into the contradictions inherent in queer lives and loves. I want to explore all aspects of intimacy in a non-normative way and in non-normative settings. In this series I’ve captured the people around me, my friends, partners and lovers. I’m inspired by the space queer people take up everyday, and the work they undertake in love and friendship. I am compelled to get as close to people as possible. My objective was to portray power balances between subject and photographer, to show the juxtaposition of tenderness and violence. “Tender” aims to bring up questions of intimacy and consent within these queer relationships where individuals are often pushing the boundaries of love and sex in anarchic ways.

January 28, 2020