Shoji Ueda: Nagasaki’s Endless Rainbow
“I always imagine that it looks like a whisper would look if a whisper would wail.”
Author Archive: Brad Feuerhelm
Revelations: Hysterical Re-Invention of the Body Hammer
So goes the hysterical re-invention of hysteria by Javier Viver
Broomberg & Chanarin: Facies Doloroso Ad Infinitum
I wanted very badly to rally the troop of self against THE MACHINE…
David Bailey: Tears of a Clown
“Fuck, he’s going to take up my time telling me about how he’s been a photographer since the 60’s…”
Charlotte Lybeer and the Teletubby Who Hung Himself
Charlotte Lybeer’s “Epidermis II” for APE is not about teletubbies or suicide, but it is about the veil or a practice of shrouding oneself called “Zentai”, which like all things post-taboo seems to be Japanese in origin.
What a 1980’s Tension Memory Looks Like
@ Brad Feuerhelm “That is just the impatient me waiting for my own teeth to fall out as I doubt I will ever find the bouffant that defines me”. I stood sifting through the remnants of somebody else’s life, the precipice correlated somewhere between the footnote of commerce and an inability to understand […]
Satoshi Fujiwara: This City on Rails, It Pivots Relentlessly
”The whole city though I am only in a neighborhood seems capable of changing its face as I am carried through it offering possibilities for omni-architectural and urban planning on rails”. I have this repeating dream in which I am in an urban environment not dissimilar to Berlin. The buildings have a late nineteenth century […]
Irina Ionesco Interview: Static Frame, Opulent Realities
@ Irina Ionesco “For the most part, my characters are portrayed in some sort of deep concentration resulting in my personal interpretation: melancholy dream – expectation – prayers and enigmas”. Irina Ionesco is a name that has not been touched upon by photography enthusiasts much since the 1990s. Yet, her work has a strong influence […]
Christine Osinski: Staten Have You Home by Eleven
The images remind me of the bulk of 70’s American photography. There is a bit of Arbus, Friedlander, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Bill Owens.
Bertien van Manen’s Edges of Cartographic Reason
Bertien van Mannen’s “Beyond Maps and Atlases” is a composition of dis-rhythmic proportion. Her investigation into the Irish landscape is not so much depressing as it alludes to the bittersweet.
Nadav Kander and the Pathos of Nuclear Human Negation
“(Nadav Kander) has made images of divination from a callous disregard of human life.”
Indexing the Execrable: Stefan Ruiz’s Mexican Crime Photographs
“Here he has collected thieves and murderers, but mostly thieves. Los Ladrones. Sticky fingers”. Mexican Crime Photographs from the archive of Stefan Ruiz With dry and flaking fingers, the man combs over the contents of a shoe box full of rusty paperclips and tattered and some odorous pieces of paper featuring young men, so many […]