Photography & Ideology

Jörg Colberg Vaterland As Then, Now

“It has learned that outward and visceral signs of its existence only lead to its questioning of intent early on; its oft-espoused will thus deposed to the memory of collective trauma…” Ideology is not always easy to see. We read it through the symbolic order of insignia and perhaps we are able to cull […]

Mårten Lange’s Ghost Witness: A Spectral and Transitional Architecture

“The skyscrapers are vertical signatures that penetrate the evening sky all glass and reflective. Water pools on their surface creating an impermeable glare as one winces into the crow’s nest of their rapacious skyward capacity” I think of the term “Transitional Architecture” when I think of China. The skyscrapers are vertical signatures […]