Ivars Gravlejs ‘Early Works’ : A Sustainable Auto-Infanticide
What once was is now that of accouterments of a lifetime wasted in the stable of senseless mediocrity. I type trying bitterly (perhaps) to formulate the playful hypocrisies of a commanding youthful idiocy into a bittersweet doctrine of sustainable return for the elderly elite deprived of the inconsistent economy of childhoods that have been forgotten. […]
An Interview with John Gossage: Nothing and the Politics of Nothing (2015)
”I go to places and I have the belief that if I can photograph well, the places will educate me to things I do not know about them.”
Alex Majoli and the Creators of “Another Congo” Bare All
“(Congo) is one of the very few places in the world that has not been extensively documented.”
Alberto García-Alix: Un Horizonte Falso
When Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, decades of repressive cultural policy died with him. Swiftly, numerous counterculture movements sprang up to fill the void. La Movida Madrilena – ‘The Madrid Scene’ – was one of the first, and Alberto García-Alix was one of its pioneers. I know you. You’re a lot like me […]
Meryl Meisler : The World That Summer
@ Meryl Meisler “The change we monitored came to us through the shifting tides of our visual culture and the places that would slowly evaporate under the “future”. Disco Clubs, roller-skating rinks, the ma & pa stores, these places are where change happens”. Everything had changed quite dramatically in the neighborhood. The sounds of children […]
Thomas Roma @ Steven Kasher Gallery: A 1970’s Cruising Spot in Brooklyn, Public Sex Handled with Care
Roma’s images disappoint any prudish or salacious imagination of the cruising spot; there’s no sense of anything sordid, much less anything lewd happening.
A Conversation with Alec Soth (2015)
On ‘Gathered Leaves’ at the Media Space, Science Museum
The (Im)possibilities to Shoot as a White Photographer on the African Continent
Now, it’s hard to defend yourself if you are in possession of the ‘white privilege’, as I am…