Mårten Lange: The Application of Minor Cogs
“the watchmaker must duly take an ever-present duty to keep the machinations from stalling and presenting the case for non-linearity”
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Masahisa Fukase: A Procession of Moons
“It is a stasis reflection. At once it is full of possibility, movement, and utilitarianism. It exists in its own chaos and laterality”
Bare Life, Bare Tech: Richard Mosse’s Incoming
“Agamben’s ‘bare life’ is visualized through the refugees and migrants, desperate lives in search of a better future and for us, a potential vision of a dystopia where the extreme polarity between those of us inside and those outside is distinctly highlighted.”
Photography Class of 2017 – Kittens, Rainbows and Unicorn Supplement
“Finally, a “Eureka Moment”- the image I “took” belongs to Martin Parr, the Godfather of Gaudy. I know this not because I have any of his books or any desire to devote much attention to his work, I know this because I have the Internet”
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”.
Torbjørn Rødland’s Confabulations! Sweet Box Cutter Butter
“You might lose fingers to ice skates and the black girl sitting atop the white wedding cake is not by mistake.”
Broomberg & Chanarin: Facies Doloroso Ad Infinitum
I wanted very badly to rally the troop of self against THE MACHINE…
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.
A Handful of Dust and The Futility of Glass: An Interview with David Campany
“You have to be prepared to look in the ‘low’ places in our visual culture as well as the ‘high’. You have to be a rag picker as much as a connoisseur”.
A Conversation with Ron Jude: The Staccato Memory
“This work is about something else, something more abstract. The function of the desert and Salton Sea in Lago is more psychological than political. ” – Ron Jude
Ivars Gravlejs ‘Early Works’ : A Sustainable Auto-Infanticide
What once was is now that of accouterments of a lifetime wasted in the stable of senseless mediocrity. I type trying bitterly (perhaps) to formulate the playful hypocrisies of a commanding youthful idiocy into a bittersweet doctrine of sustainable return for the elderly elite deprived of the inconsistent economy of childhoods that have been forgotten. […]
On Carly Steinbrunn’s ‘The Voyage of Discovery’
Carly Steinbrunn’s ‘The Voyage of Discovery’ is a self-contained universe, a set of images that are also gateways to a journey inside of signs.