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.”
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.”
An Endless Golden Carefree Summer – on Maude Schuyler Clay’s ‘Mississippi History’
“Many photographers focus on capturing their loved ones, but it is difficult to give such portraits a universal dimension so as to be interesting to a larger audience than the immediate circle of friends and family”. By Karin Bareman, ASX The first image in Maude Schuyler Clay’s Mississippi History that mildly piqued my interest is […]