Der Greif: An Interview with Simon Karlstetter
“When it comes to thinking about and working with photographic images nowadays, I think it’s crucial to engage with the ways these images are being produced, presented and perceived.”
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Interview with Eanna de Freine of The Velvet Cell
“I was especially interested in the ideas of modernisation and particularly the belief that we have developed in a linear fashion – always going to something better.”
Interview With Isabelle Evertse of Co-Curate Magazine : The Document
“I am honestly not so sure how we respond to the nature of photography as a “document” anymore…”
Nigel Shafran: Dark Rooms
‘A compilation of five interconnected projects, Dark Rooms moves in cycles: birth and death, acquiring and discarding, the banality of routine.’
Five or Sex Questions for BP Laval
“I personally cannot even “see” porn anymore. Perhaps I am desensitized, but I fail to adhere to the moralistic innuendo that is applied to a word like pornography.”
Capitalism as a Bearer of the Uncanny: An Interview with Michael Ashkin
“In my opinion, the devastating confusion that capitalism wreaks upon the coherence of memory and history renders almost all imagery, and in particular, photography, as bearer of the uncanny.”
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 […]
An Interview with Paul Gaffney
“That process of walking every day for long periods of time, you slow down, you start to really observe how your mind’s working, get a different sense of the connection between mind and body and your surroundings. It was a very physical process, and the pace was quite meditative, so I wanted to make a […]
David LaChapelle on Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and ‘The Dark Ages’
Warhol by LaChapelle “They wrote about Basquiat when he was 25 that he was finished, his career was done, over, and at 27 he was dead. He didn’t know that that would pass. They told him that the paintings he and Andy did together were horrible. Now people make fortunes out of it, they never […]
A Conversation with Ulay – Founding Father of Performance Art
Ulay. Imagine a combination of a charismatic personality, a subversive anarchist, a bright mind and a daring body. The artist Ulay, better than anyone has explored limits of body and soul and by doing so he has become one of the founding fathers of performance art. MG: Lets start from the very beginning. You were […]
Keiichi Tanaami on “Pop Art”
“I have never thought of myself as a pop artist. However, when I was young there was a time when I was influenced by the methodologies and techniques of pop artists, such as Warhol.”
A Handful of Dust and The Futility of Glass: An Interview with David Campany
“You have to be prepared to look in the ‘low’ places in our visual culture as well as the ‘high’. You have to be a rag picker as much as a connoisseur”.