Robbie Lawrence A Voice Above the Linn
“We do not like to view images of elderly citizens from the vibrant position of youth or mid-life. There is is taciturn position in our collective youthful spirit that opts out of the discussion” Old age isn’t something you often see depicted purposefully in photography. It is marginalized age and the stories that do […]
Massimo Leardini’s Elv: Limbs Both Human and Other
“Her one arm is half-raised above the parapet of the water’s edge all soft and white-gone from the limb its rose pigment associated with the flourish of life” Her one arm is half-raised above the parapet of the water’s edge all soft and white-gone from the limb its rose pigment associated with the […]
Geir Moseid: Plucked Phantasmagoric Party
“The partition between the real world and the photograph are nothing new to think about and yet some images refute even the casual link between the two and slip between what we perceive as verifiable and what we know to be the fantastic” It is not often that I am confronted with work […]
Julião Sarmento’s Café Bissau
“Of unpaid ills and the blueish glue of a child’s discarded gum ironically stretched between the hairy toes of an accidentally sandalled foot on a blistering hot and abusive Portuguese summer day” Of electric ecstasy and tiger milk. Of unpaid ills and the blueish glue of a child’s discarded gum ironically stretched between […]
Seiichi Furuya & Christine Gössler Face To Face
“We may consider these types of photographs as a glimpse, a grimace or a greeting between subject and viewer, nothing more” It is hard to condense seven years of intimacy into the frames of 35mm negatives. You cannot easily graph the moments that pass between two orbiting worlds, the moments of affection, disagreements […]
Katherine Longly’s Hernie & Plume
“Life is not composed. It is messy” Photography often relies on spectacle as the object of its pursuit. The photographer seeks to illuminate that which they believe will have a significance to the social and political order of the moment or that which can only be illuminated by the ability of the photographer to […]
Photobooks of the Year 2020/Welcome to the Castle
“Earlier this year, there were some high-profile twitterstorms, in which particular left-identifying figures were ‘called out’ and condemned. What these figures had said was sometimes objectionable; but nevertheless, the way in which they were personally vilified and hounded left a horrible residue: the stench of bad conscience and witch-hunting moralism” This […]
Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture
“The skyscrapers are vertical signatures that penetrate the evening sky all glass and reflective. Water pools on their surface creating an impermeable glare as one winces into the crow’s nest of their rapacious skyward capacity” I think of the term “Transitional Architecture” when I think of China. The skyscrapers are vertical signatures […]