Peeling Back Soft Tissue: Caspar Sejerson on Lars Von Trier
This code is what continues the biometric hum of Life… that is to say the small and incremental levels of perceptual awareness that engrain our “long being” from the origins of our human genesis, which are imbibed with a rhythm unaffected by first glances. In the mystical makeup of a dislodged, yet patterned universe, […]
‘This Is Where I’m From’: An interview with JH Engström by Catherine Anyango
Engström looks backwards but forwards too. Tout va bien – Everything is all right.
CIVIL RIGHTS MUG SHOTS (“WE SHALL OVERCOME”)
The Montgomery County Alabama Sheriff’s Office discovered arrest logs and photographs from the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56) and the Freedom Rides (1961).
An Interview with Thomas Sauvin: On Smoker’s Ettiquette and the Right to Nitrate
With Silvermine, is your determination to collect this material purely driven by geography? Or do you have a China fetish? Thomas Sauvin occupies a strange place in photography. His output is sincere, his knowledge of classic hiphop is un-fuckwittable, and his publications are highly coveted gems in the photographic book fetish world. That, […]
Axel Hoedt: Dusk is Woven to the Hide of Death
Axel Hoedt’s “Dusk” is a real enemy of the cross – a concise and metaphoric look at the subjects of the Swiss and Austrian tradition of carnival.
Architectural Icons and Broken Dreams: Subotzky and Waterhouse’s Ponte City
Ponte City came to stand for urban decay and criminality, and in some of the more right-wing imaginings, as a symbol of the failure of black majority rule.
Henrik Malmström: The Eye Consumes the Body’s Economy
The book by Kominek is nocturnal in every way. Black pages, black endpapers, black outlook, black object, black vision.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Reflections on ‘Streetwork’ 1993-1997
The content may criticize the media or the state or the history of photography, but I would be disappointed if the work were reducible to any one of those things.