Yvonne Venegas, From the series El Tiempo Que Pasamos, Inédito, 2006 and Maria Elvia de Hank, 2006-2010 Over the years, Yvonne Venegas has a developed a specific visual language through her photographs which thrive on moments of fleeting imperfection. She captures her subjects in flux, scenes that reveal artifice, and various states of becoming. Venegas balances beauty and… Continue reading Yvonne Venegas: Construction of Appearance
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Deana Lawson, Ways That Sexuality, Violence, Family, and Social Status May Be Written Upon the Body
Deana Lawson, Shirley, 2006, Hotel Oloffson Storage Room, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2013 and Thai, 2009 Deana Lawson’s photographs are inspired by the materiality and expression of black culture globally. Her work negotiates a knowledge of selfhood through a profoundly corporeal dimension. “My work negotiates a knowledge of selfhood through a profoundly corporeal dimension; the photographs speaking… Continue reading Deana Lawson, Ways That Sexuality, Violence, Family, and Social Status May Be Written Upon the Body
Talia Chetrit, I Wanted to Expose the Vulnerability in the Private Moments Between Takes
Talia Chetrit, Heat, 2015, Parents/Trees, 2014 and Jeans, 2016 Talia Chetrit’s work focuses on the human body—often her own—as a starting point to examine how images are constructed to support different agendas and interpretations of reality. After beginning her practice with an exploration of the manipulative nature of photography, Chetrit is increasingly interested in… Continue reading Talia Chetrit, I Wanted to Expose the Vulnerability in the Private Moments Between Takes
Ivar Kvaal, Dvale
Ivar Kvaal, Dvale, 2016 The series contained within Dvale (hibernation in Norwegian) was created during the lead-up to the opening of the Norwegian hospital Ahus in 2008. Ivar Kvaal has captured the building in a slumbering state, in the weeks and months before it was brought to life. The images in the book encompass a… Continue reading Ivar Kvaal, Dvale
Ports 1961, Pre-Fall 2017
Ports 1961, Pre-Fall 2017, London, 2017 Ports 1961 is one of those sleeper labels, which, once discovered, women tend to be evangelically enthusiastic—if not, quietly smug—about wearing. Since Natasa Cagalj took over the direction of the womenswear here, she’s been developing a set of strengths—the things she does with shirts, pants, knitwear, and coats, in… Continue reading Ports 1961, Pre-Fall 2017
Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence
Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence Earlier this year, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation contacted Raf Simons. They asked if he’d like to work with them on something. He said yes. That’s the shorthand version of the story behind the collection he presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo, perfectly chimed with a duo of Mapplethorpe exhibitions at… Continue reading Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans, Young Man, Jeddah, A, 2012, Nite Queen, 2013 and Young Man, Jeddah, B, 2012 The German artist Wolfgang Tillmans is the recipient of the 2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. On December 1, 2015 an exhibition of Tillmans’ work opened at the Hasselblad Center, Sweden. On the same day, the Hasselblad Foundation hosted… Continue reading Wolfgang Tillmans
Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015
Sascha Weidner, Am Wasser Gebaut, 2009, Lay Down Close By, 2012 and La lutte de J. Avec l´ange, 2006. Sascha Weidner was a German Photographer and Artist, who lived and worked in Belm and Berlin. The work of Sascha Weidner deals with the creation of a radical subjective pictorial world. His photographs are characterized… Continue reading Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015
Photography: John Divola
John Divola, Theodore Street, 2012, San Fernando Valley, 1973 and Zuma Beach (1978/2006), 1978 “Abandoned houses are one of the few places where you can go and paint anything you want and nobody is going to yell at you” says John Divola. Los Angeles–based photographer John Divola is perhaps best known for this series of… Continue reading Photography: John Divola
Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, 1997, Girl Culture, 2002 and Thin, 2006 Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, fashion, media, wealth, beauty, and consumer culture as a result of her groundbreaking photographic projects (Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN)… Continue reading Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield
Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins
Chris Steele-Perkins, Virtual reality display by Subaru, Japan, 1999, Street Children in Luanda, Angola, 1999, Taliban fighters move against Masood’s forces, Afghanistan, 1996 and Trying out artificial limbs at ICRC clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1994 Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his… Continue reading Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins
Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee
Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee, 3 February 2015 – 12 April 2015 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The content of the exhibition focuses predominantly on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Suriname in 2013. Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the Surinamese rainforest. The… Continue reading Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee
Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding
Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding, 2013 Self published book featuring works and words by : Rick Owens, Taro Hirano, Jean-Max Colard, Camille Vivier, Jérémie Egry & Aurélien Arbet, Eric Tabuchi, Audrey Corregan & Erik Haberfeld, Yann Gross, Andrew Phelps, Estelle Hanania, Jerry Hsu, Raphaël Zarka, Paul Virilio, and many more. 368… Continue reading Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding
Capricious Magazine
Images from Capricious Magazine, Vol 2, Issue no. 11, Issue no. 13 and Issue no. 14 Swedish photographer Sophie Mörner founded Capricious Magazine in 2004. It is a biannual publication dedicated to showcasing emerging fine art photography. Its contributors and subject matter span the globe and is comprised almost entirely of images. Since Capricious collaborates… Continue reading Capricious Magazine
Photography: Marcelo Krasilcic, 1990s, 2013
Marcelo Krasilcic, Devra and Elaine, New York, 1996 and Untitled, From the book, 1990s, 2013 Part of a generation of photographers that includes Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson, Marcel Krasilcic (born 1969) moved to New York in 1990. He quickly became known for his spare but erotic photographs of liberated youth, artists, designers and musicians,… Continue reading Photography: Marcelo Krasilcic, 1990s, 2013
Michael Schmidt, Lebensmittel (Food)
Michael Schmidt, From the series, Lebensmittel, 2006 – 2010 Michael Schmidt is one of Germany’s most important social-documentary photographers. Although he works in series, each photograph stands as an autonomous work in its own right. When the photographs are seen together in a book or an exhibition, connections between two pictures give rise to a third,… Continue reading Michael Schmidt, Lebensmittel (Food)
Book: Dag Nordbrenden, Rub With Ashes
Dag Nordbrenden, Presentation of the book, Rub With Ashes, 2012 Dag Nordbrenden is a Norwegian artist working with photography. His work explores different concepts and genres of the medium. His book Rub with Ashes is a compilation of photographs of recent years, and reflects Nordbrenden’s nomadic lifestyle. The photographs are rooted in a documentary tradition, and… Continue reading Book: Dag Nordbrenden, Rub With Ashes
Exhibition: Image Counter Image
Radenko Milak, What Else Did You See? I Couldn’t See Everything! (No. 5), 2010–2012 and Installation view of the Exhibition Image Counter Image, 10 June – 16 September, 2012 Hause der Kunst,Prinzregentenstraße 1, Munich The exhibition Image Counter Image at Hause der Kunst, presents artistic positions that focus on the critical analysis of violent conflicts in… Continue reading Exhibition: Image Counter Image
Photography: Ahmed Kamel
Ahmed Kamel, From the Series, Dreamy Day, 2004 – 2008 Ahmed Kamel is interested in domestic and urban life. He uses photography, video and drawing to address social issues. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1981, where he studied painting and received his BFA in 2003. Kamel is the recipient of a number of… Continue reading Photography: Ahmed Kamel
Photography: Mårten Lange
Mårten Lange, From the Book, Another Language, 2012 “A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.” Alexander von Humboldt (1845) The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality… Continue reading Photography: Mårten Lange