Dawoud Bey: The Conversation
“Bey’s subjects don’t pose for the picture—they inhabit it.”
Space, Furrowed with Abysses: Michael Ashkin’s Horizont
“The modern city engenders various pathologies, among them agoraphobia and claustrophobia – the one an intense anxiety felt in open spaces, the other, a panic brought about by confinement. Horizont channels both of these aberrations.”
In The Heat: Interview with Arturo Soto
“First, when everything seems unique, and there is an unbridled desire to know, see and discover. It’s important to take advantage of this initial energy, before routine sets in and the eagerness to notice things decreases.”
Doug Aitken: “Black Mirror” (2011)
Doug Aitken – Song 1
Redefining Photography | Andreas Gursky
Driven by an interest and insight into ‘the way that the world is constituted’, as well as what he describes as ‘the pure joy of seeing’, Gursky makes photographs that are not just depictions of places or situations, but reflections on the nature of image-making and the limits of human perception. Often taken from a […]
Danny Lyon – Message to the Future (2017)
Curator Julian Cox explains the passions and principles that have driven the photographer Danny Lyon.
Ed Panar: In the Vicinity of Natural Rituals
“The photograph, its two-dimensional plane and its insistence to be read almost always at a fraction of scale conflate the notion of environment and atmosphere”.
Nicolas Polli: Ferox Archives Disputes and Dis-Belief
The direct insinuation amongst governing bodies and current legislature on the grounds of A-historical material suggests that further research and finding will conclude the veracity of forged or re-purposed documentary tracts sold to the public at large as misinformation.
Thomas Demand: The Complete De/con/struction of Our Paper Realities
“It is this sand-blasted speculation or rather en-spectralization, the ghosting and subsequent miasma of capitalism as it exists in the economy of images that we regard as relative at the very least-namely the aptitude to regard photography if not truth, certainly as plausibly disagreeable in a shared system of acknowledged solutions for knowledge-based communication”
Mark Ruwedel: Transcendental Plates; Ouarzazate
“They become meditative plates in which the living continue with all their baggage to be stopped and given a reflexive moment in which to breath out”.
Matthew Genitempo: The New Rurality
“Instead, we are given room to ponder the possibility of the magnificent rurality that exists in wide acreage across America unfettered by the charms of free-range, gluten free, soulless vegan cafes and their elite black metal-listening clientele who wander through their doors to write tracts on their apple laptops about metaphysical post-Internet garbage for their PHD colluding with the empire of property developers and poverty to Make Harlem Great Again- Incel, Duracell, creatine cookies and a very nasty reputation for not saying hello”