Matthew Connors: Cairo’s Crow Black Eye
At its surface, the need to stand, to rise, and to disembowel the state looks permeable
Kinky City: Tokyo’s Listless Sexual Banality
There was something nearly satisfying in the midst of tying his sister’s best friend to a board of broken glass
Shoji Ueda: Nagasaki’s Endless Rainbow
“I always imagine that it looks like a whisper would look if a whisper would wail.”
Revelations: Hysterical Re-Invention of the Body Hammer
So goes the hysterical re-invention of hysteria by Javier Viver
Broomberg & Chanarin: Facies Doloroso Ad Infinitum
I wanted very badly to rally the troop of self against THE MACHINE…
David Bailey: Tears of a Clown
“Fuck, he’s going to take up my time telling me about how he’s been a photographer since the 60’s…”
Stacy Kranitz on Imagery in Appalachia (2016)
An interview with the Kentucky-born photographer Stacy Kranitz about the seven years she’s spent documenting life in rural Appalachia.
Charlotte Lybeer and the Teletubby Who Hung Himself
Charlotte Lybeer’s “Epidermis II” for APE is not about teletubbies or suicide, but it is about the veil or a practice of shrouding oneself called “Zentai”, which like all things post-taboo seems to be Japanese in origin.
Capitalism as a Bearer of the Uncanny: An Interview with Michael Ashkin
“In my opinion, the devastating confusion that capitalism wreaks upon the coherence of memory and history renders almost all imagery, and in particular, photography, as bearer of the uncanny.”
What a 1980’s Tension Memory Looks Like
@ Brad Feuerhelm “That is just the impatient me waiting for my own teeth to fall out as I doubt I will ever find the bouffant that defines me”. I stood sifting through the remnants of somebody else’s life, the precipice correlated somewhere between the footnote of commerce and an inability to understand […]
Satoshi Fujiwara: This City on Rails, It Pivots Relentlessly
”The whole city though I am only in a neighborhood seems capable of changing its face as I am carried through it offering possibilities for omni-architectural and urban planning on rails”. I have this repeating dream in which I am in an urban environment not dissimilar to Berlin. The buildings have a late nineteenth century […]
Irina Ionesco Interview: Static Frame, Opulent Realities
@ Irina Ionesco “For the most part, my characters are portrayed in some sort of deep concentration resulting in my personal interpretation: melancholy dream – expectation – prayers and enigmas”. Irina Ionesco is a name that has not been touched upon by photography enthusiasts much since the 1990s. Yet, her work has a strong influence […]