Amongst the wreckage of the past fifty years, one of the fundamental erasures, or perhaps the co-opting, of our diversity of ideological thought has come from the slow decline of subculture, transgression, and punk rock values. During my lifetime, I have seen anti-authority ideologies reconstituted into a hot-topic t-shirt carousel. It plays out, when it […]
I don’t think I would have put this on my radar had it not been for reading a post from a disgruntled photographer on IG this morning. This photographer complained about people posting about Vanity Fair’s use of Christopher Anderson’s much-talked-about series of photographs, which has caused outrage and divided people over how to interpret […]
Sloppy 7-Eleven soap box orators, holding court and council on piss-stained curbs, the newly defined character of a shared and collapsing destiny, glory faded, by sun, by blood, spittle the color of grey, lungs concretized with coal dust, and alcohol vapor. Halfbent, and drooling, a new performance piece, the fent creating a series of […]
Julien Langendorff, Spell Rider The roots of cosmic occultism stretch back as far in time as humans have been able to communicate. There is a hermetic order to the universe that has bewildered and engaged the species, giving license to conjecture, theory, and spiritual whim that exceed what lies before our faces. It is a […]
I do not believe that humans have developed a sympathetic or synergistic relationship with the cities they passionately build. Enclaves of identity, bastions of activity, cities are, in contemporary times, behemoth-like organims that must be fed, have their circulatory system, and often spread, not unlike a type of virus, slowly devouring everything that lies at […]
I think by now it is really no surprise how governments, state and corporate sponsored institutions are purposely ignoring any support for the plight of Palestinians. Their silence and complicity are nothing short of disgusting. In the face of witnessing this wholesale murder these entities cite national security and human rights but clearly in a […]
“The past is not dead. It’s not even past.”-Aby Warburg. Constellations, catalogues, and correlative image processing are at the fundament of Batia Suter’s efforts to respond to images that she deftly places in thick, long-running sequences, in which the associative power of images, in their constellation, invokes a response from the viewer based […]
These are my initial reactions to Blind Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in Photography. As I crafted a polite response to another situation earlier this week, I have to admit that I’m a little out of fucks to give about tidying things up to be persuasive about my points, so some of this might come […]
Today, or at least slightly before I started writing this, I received an email from one of the world’s most significant biennial photography festivals, which awards a substantial financial prize. There are two awards, in fact. One is a general photography award to develop a new project, and the other is a book award. I […]
Artist-photographer Andi Gáldi Vinkó turns her lens on the raw, often overlooked facets of pregnancy and early motherhood. In this interview, she discusses her photobook Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back and explains how her candid — sometimes subversive — images dismantle stereotypes while illuminating the everyday experiences and unspoken struggles of maternal […]
Parenting in the beginning is chaotic. Time presents as something elusive. It no longer defines the days. It runs together until a point of clarity emerges. The experience is tiring, but surprisingly nurturing in retrospect. Once the smoke of the early years begins to clear and a sense of autonomy returns, one is left to […]
It is an interesting moment for the medium of the photobook. The boom dust is beginning to settle as inflation makes the market less navigable. The price of producing photobooks is ont he rise and coincides with a shrinking market size. This is based on a broader conversation with publishers and artists over the past […]