Elly Rwakoma: Sinking All the Tricks.
“He recalls developing his negatives by moonlight, having to make his way to the ferry on a road thick with often-time un-negotiable elephant herds. He tells of carrying his chemicals with him and cutting down his negatives to get a surplus of possibilities. I never had this.”
Ain’t No Fuckfest: Kanye West’s “Famous” Aftermath Pornography
“I do not care if you like Kanye or his music, but if you are not realizing the genius surrounding his product empire, you may be guilty of overlooking what is actually on offer.”
Evocations of the Everyday: The Street Pictures of Jeff Wall (2009)
To combine cinematography with photography, Wall took his camera out of the studio along with lights and actors with the intention ofmaking pictures with the look of films from the 1970s that would lend a sharp, documentary style to his pieces. By Graham W. Bell In 1982, Wall took his photography to the street. Combining the aesthetic […]
Interview With Isabelle Evertse of Co-Curate Magazine : The Document
“I am honestly not so sure how we respond to the nature of photography as a “document” anymore…”
Gareth McConnell: Towing the Slow boat to Thasos
”He watched with curious enthusiasm as the bread rolled in the sand picking up small rocks and granules of white pebble. The flies would simply have to work harder for their meal he thought to himself”. The arrival was what he had imagined. Being a young man in a state of constant anxiety, the heat […]
Kenneth Graves: Dropping In, Tuning Out of the Home Front
“In my late 30’s and cynical beyond belief, I actually find this little book creating a new space or affection for the idea of the 60’s and 70’s that I had shelved previously under “cyclical fucking baby boomer bullshit”.
Human Endeavour and Historical Process: The Landscape Photography of Mark Ruwedel
“My work in the landscape is ultimately about human culture, not about nature. I always think of landscape as historical, or historicized; as not existing outside of history.”
David Brandon Geeting: Everything is Nature
“He plays with the disruption in the aesthetic surfaces of our daily life and this allows him (and us) to experience a reality which might be bypassed.”