Shoji Ueda: Nagasaki’s Endless Rainbow
“I always imagine that it looks like a whisper would look if a whisper would wail.”
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Revelations: Hysterical Re-Invention of the Body Hammer
So goes the hysterical re-invention of hysteria by Javier Viver
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…”
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.
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 […]
Bertien van Manen’s Edges of Cartographic Reason
Bertien van Mannen’s “Beyond Maps and Atlases” is a composition of dis-rhythmic proportion. Her investigation into the Irish landscape is not so much depressing as it alludes to the bittersweet.
Nadav Kander and the Pathos of Nuclear Human Negation
“(Nadav Kander) has made images of divination from a callous disregard of human life.”
An Endless Golden Carefree Summer – on Maude Schuyler Clay’s ‘Mississippi History’
“Many photographers focus on capturing their loved ones, but it is difficult to give such portraits a universal dimension so as to be interesting to a larger audience than the immediate circle of friends and family”. By Karin Bareman, ASX The first image in Maude Schuyler Clay’s Mississippi History that mildly piqued my interest is […]
I have Come to Disappoint You: Michele Sibiloni’s “Fuck It”
@ Michele Sibiloni Its tick-box approach to images, the title, the cover, the text within capitalize on the “rough” Ugandan nightlife and seems very much directed at a Deutsche Bourse Prize/ Magnum/ Western White latte audience. I usually start most of my reviews with a literary metaphor. I feel to do so is to […]
This Disconnecting Solace: Julie Van Der Vaart’s “Dusk”
Julie Van Der Vaart’s “Dusk” is a shrouded piece of photographic investigation into nocturnal unreason where silver nitrate meets the dim slow hum of dull bulbs or flickering candles at best.
Estelle Hanania and The Willful Art of European Disappearance
Estelle Hanania is what I would consider a sort of phenomenological anthropological photographer. When I say this, I mean to consider her an anthropologist with a camera interested in regarding a marginal culture shifts rather than a quotidian and beleaguered photographer attempting to secure an interesting topic. Do we always disappear? Does custom evade […]
Li-Mi-Yan’s Nausea
“These dreams were a product of the IV missing the vein repeatedly and causing a beautiful shade of crimson, blues, fading to yellow just under the parchment-like encasement”. There would always be consequences to these observations. The longer days when their skin dried out and flaked off to the pavement before being carried away by […]