Chance Encounters: Interview with Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
“There nothing more boring than, lets say, a picture of a chair and everybody looking at it thinks, well, thats a chair.”
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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.”
Sean Vegezzi: Curiosity, Retail Spaces & Terror
“Since I was a child, I’ve had a fantasy of hiding in a retail space just before it closes, and coming out at night to merely walk around, re-arrange some things, and maybe sit or lay on some furniture, nothing harmful whatsoever. Snow Cab felt like a fulfilment of that childhood fantasy, within a 6 floor, or 60,000 square foot retail space.”
Goodbye America: An Interview with Brad Feuerhelm
“I did recognise the irreplaceable object and destroyed it and my embattled state of mind with America continues.”
Allan Sekula, Against the Grain: An Interview with David Campany
“The idea of art and politics co-existing is no more or less deeply problematic than the idea of them being separate. But nobody said it was going to be a picnic.”
Interview with Kazuyoshi Usui: Projecting Showa
“These poor cities are nevertheless radiating vivid colours, as if bolstering up daily lives with significant visual appeal. I see their desperation to live, to the point of feeling pains. I find it enormously beautiful.”
Katrin Koenning and Sarker Protick: Towards the Light
“Completely captivated by the photographic possibilities of light, both artists come at the medium with a desire to seek the extraordinary, in order to access invisible states of consciousness.”
David Brandon Geeting: Everything is Nature
“He plays with the disruption in the aesthetic surfaces of our daily life and this allows him (and us) to experience a reality which might be bypassed.”
Into the Subject’s World, Katja Stuke’s “Nationalfeiertag (National Holiday)”
These event headlines are embedded in this single image, now symbolic of defiance against the brute force of state power. It is both the beginning and the end – the beginning the event evokes and an end that stops at the image and caption. The news image of global importance is the both the beginning […]
An Interview with Tom Lovelace: ‘this way up’
“Materiality has always been a strong thread in my work.”
An Interview with John Gossage: Nothing and the Politics of Nothing (2015)
”I go to places and I have the belief that if I can photograph well, the places will educate me to things I do not know about them.”
Takashi Kawashima: Transcending the Real, Digital Alchemy
from New Coast, And a Fragment of a Woman, (2013) It all happened in a second. With the rumbling of a great sound. On the next day, it was snowing, and people were freezing in cold recalling that scene… By Sunil Shah, ASX, September 2015 The story starts from greeting a woman. Recording #1 23’ […]