Nadav Kander and the Pathos of Nuclear Human Negation
“(Nadav Kander) has made images of divination from a callous disregard of human life.”
Category Archives: Reviews – Photobook
I have Come to Disappoint You: Michele Sibiloni’s “Fuck It”
@ Michele Sibiloni Its tick-box approach to images, the title, the cover, the text within capitalize on the “rough” Ugandan nightlife and seems very much directed at a Deutsche Bourse Prize/ Magnum/ Western White latte audience. I usually start most of my reviews with a literary metaphor. I feel to do so is to […]
Chase England Sacrifices a Goat From the Pulpit of Pornography’s Greatest Hits
You see kids… smoking and ingenuity continue to cross paths and it is our duty to consider not only the goat but also the legend of Chase England’s “Alive with Pleasure”.
This Disconnecting Solace: Julie Van Der Vaart’s “Dusk”
Julie Van Der Vaart’s “Dusk” is a shrouded piece of photographic investigation into nocturnal unreason where silver nitrate meets the dim slow hum of dull bulbs or flickering candles at best.
Into the Subject’s World, Katja Stuke’s “Nationalfeiertag (National Holiday)”
These event headlines are embedded in this single image, now symbolic of defiance against the brute force of state power. It is both the beginning and the end – the beginning the event evokes and an end that stops at the image and caption. The news image of global importance is the both the beginning […]
Greetings from Auschwitz: All I Miss is You
Images that travel; images for hire. The postmarking of images. The weathering and creasing defamation, which detracts the value of a post-card is insipid as to its method of its perceived “correct” representation or is it?
Where You Weren’t When We Were: SMILER
Thatcher was out, the false promises of Blair’s lying and callous maw was in. The 80’s and 90’s were different.
Roger Ballen & Didi Bozzini: The Home as Tomb
“The House Project” by Roger Ballen and Didi Bozzini with Oodee publisher is by far the best Roger Ballen Book I have seen.
Shilo Group’s: From the Fog of the Barricades
‘Chronicle’ by the Shilo Group (Sergiy Lebedynskyy and Vladyslav Krasnoshchok) is a field guide study in monochrome of various fires lit to burn various bridges across the Ukraine.
Book Reviews
The latest book reviews. Interview with Hristina TashevaYelena Yemchuk – OdesaFrancesco Merlini – Better in the Dark than His RiderAndrea Alessandrini – I Am Not A RobotLarry Sultan – SwimmersLee Friedlander – Workers: The Human ClayJamie Murray – FollyAndrea Modica – Theatrum Equorum Explore the book review archives.
Arnau Blanch: The Origin of Dead Space
There is a hint at the connectedness of a global community seething through super-highways of wiring, air travel, and satellite reception.
Peter Mann: A Perfumed Hand Grenade
All of the images have been collated from the Internet and are displayed spread by spread.