N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
© Kanako Sasaki, Outcast, from the series Wanderlust, 2003-04 © Kanako Sasaki, leva, Riga, Latvia from the series The World of Groping, 2006 “Kanako Sasaki’s photographs are largely self-portraits. Not only does she pose in her pictures, but the works are also inspired directly from her own childhood memories and imagination. Sasaki’s photos capture the…
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© Wim van Ophem, Untitled, from the series Doodgewoon (Death Normal) © Wim van Ophem, Untitled, from the series Doodgewoon (Death Normal) Wim’s website here
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© Anouk Kruithof and Jaap Scheeren, Untitled from the series The Black Hole, 2004-2006 © Anouk Kruithof and Jaap Scheeren, Untitled from the series The Black Hole, 2004-2006 “My most important and primarily finished project after graduation Bachelor Art studies is the extensive photography project “The Black Hole”. I worked on this in cooperation…
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© Jaret Belliveau, Untitled, from the series Familial Endurance © Jaret Belliveau, Chicken Soup and Crackers, from the series Familial Endurance © Jaret Belliveau, Place of Rest, from the series Expect Delays “This body of work began as an attempt to clarify and understand the internal workings of family. I began by photographing my…
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© David Blackmore, Reception Area, The metropolitan Children’s Court, Dublin, Eire © David Blackmore, Holding Cells, Rathfarnham Garda Station, Dublin, Eire “I was working on ‘Detox’ from 2003-2005. I was initially attracted to the vividness of the blue lighting without really knowing why the light was used. Through research I found that the…
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© Stuart Whipps, Untitled, from the series Rea © Stuart Whipps, Untitled, from the series Rea Though culverted and coerced, the Rea flows 14 miles through the historical foundation of Birmingham, as a constant motif against the shifting relationships and identities of the city and its people. The images explore the relationships and dialogues…
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© Muchen and Shao Yinong, Shenfan © Muchen and Shao Yinong, Shen “Husband and wife Shao Yinong & Mu Chen work together in Beijing to create photographs that illuminate the facets and functions of memory – a poignant process in China where a conservative agricultural society has been propelled within a few decades into…
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© Richard Renaldi, Tony, 2005, from the series Long Term Survivors © Richard Renaldi, Mark, 2005, from the series Long Term Survivors “I was diagnosed as HIV positive in October 1996. My immediate reaction was to be afraid and scared. I thought that perhaps I would not live through the turn of a new century.However…
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© Shen Wei, Mireille, 2008, from the series Almost Naked © Shen Wei, Steve, 2006, from the series Almost Naked “Growing up in Mainland China, I was brought up strictly and conservatively, any untraditional and unconventional ideas of life-style can sometimes lead to misconceptions. I was numbed about the ideas of intimacy, sexuality, and…
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© Todd Hido, 1952, from the series Ocupied Homes © Todd Hido, 1601, from the series Motels
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© Henk Wittinghofer, Untitled #1, from the series To Feel Male © Henk Wittinghofer, Untitled #2, from the series To Feel Male “What does it mean to be a man? Even if this question appears to be rather banal at first, it does allow extensive approaches to explanation. Because, parallel to the rapid change…
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© Will Steacy, Edward, South Boston, 2007, from the series The Lament of Orpheus © Will Steacy, Locker Room, San Antonio 2008, from the series The Lament of Orpheus” “The boxing gym is one of the most spiritual places I have ever encountered. It’s a place where heaven and hell converge, where man dances…
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© Lucinda Devlin, Electric Chair, Indiana State Prison, Michigan, Indiana, 1991 from the series The Omega Suites © Lucinda Devlin, Witness Room, Petosi Correctional Center, Petosi, Missouri, 1991 from the series The Omega Suites © Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Territorial Correctional Facility, Canon City, Colorado, 1991 from the series The Omega Suites “I…
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© Aino Kannisto, Untitled (Trashbin), 1999 © Aino Kannisto, Untitled (White Apron), 1999 “I make constructed pictures. I build fictional scenes which I record with the camera. I myself play the individuals in my pictures. However, my pictures are not self-portraits in the traditional sense. The person in the picture is a fictional…
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© Erik Niedling, Untitled #09, from the series Status, 2005 © Erik Niedling, Untitled #05, from the series Status, 2005 “Time of change. Germany, right in the middle. Everything seems new. And what a historic district! Only in one place things remain unaffected – as is generally known, a central location does not impair…
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© Alec Soth, Fishermen, Wickliffe, Kentucky, 2002 from the series Sleeping by The Mississippi © Alec Soth, Green Island, Iowa, 2002 from the series Sleeping by The Mississippi “Alec Soth’s series of color prints explores one of the underlying geographic and identity assumptions that has shaped the American experience. He does so in a…
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© Karen Assaf, Untitled (42), 2007 © Karen Assaf, Untitled (40), 2007 “Keren Assaf is showing color prints of different sizes. She is trying to define in her works the “Israeli”, an utopian model deeply connected to the place, memories and identity. Assaf’s work relates to the family album, a central narrative in…
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© Edouard Levé, La Blessure, from the series Transferts, 2004 © Edouard Levé, La Dette, from the series Transferts, 2004 “Pas de « remake », toutefois, au sens où le pratique Jeff Wall. Ni même d’interrogation critique des fondements de notre culture sur un mode postmoderniste, à la manière d’une Karen Knorr :…
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© Jessica Dimmock, from the series The Ninth Floor © Jessica Dimmock, from the series The Ninth Floor © Jessica Dimmock, from the series The Ninth Floor © Jessica Dimmock, from the series The Ninth Floor “Teetering between photojournalism and personal document (or Eugene Richards and Larry Clark), Dimmock’s color photographs…
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© Caitlin Atkinson, Chapter 22, August, 2004 © Caitlin Atkinson, Chapter 14, August, 2005 “A few nights ago, I locked myself out of my apartment for the third time this year. While I sat trying to decide what to do, I was overwhelmed with the thought that my life seems composed of one mistake after…
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© Tracey Baran, Run, 2006 © Tracey Baran, Suck and Blow, 2002 “For the last ten years Tracey Baran has focused her camera on herself and her close circle of family and friends who live in Bath, a small town in upstate New York. The result is a visual journal of intimate portraits…
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© Muir Vidler, Danny Lynch – The Great Stromboli, from the series Rebels Without a Pause © Muir Vidler, Sid Ellis, from the series Rebels Without a Pause “A portrait series of Britain’s ageing rebels and mavericks” Muir Vidler More of his work can be seen here.
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© Sonja Kälberer, Ziegel © Sonja Kälberer, Untitled More of Sonja’s work can be seen here.
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© Kerstin Flake, Wände sprechen Bände, Polaroid, 2000/01 © Kerstin Flake, Wände sprechen Bände, Lucky, 2000/01 © Kerstin Flake, Wände sprechen Bände, Farbe, 2000/01 More of Kerstin’s work can be seen here.
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© Oskar Schmidt, Self with Mirror, 2006 © Oskar Schmidt, Girl with Book, 2005 “A young girl in a short summer dress is kneeling on the bare floor, consumed in a book. Every fibre of the body appears tensed. The pose is somewhat artificial in distinct contrast to the otherwise relaxed pastime of reading.…
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© Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Vor der Tür stehend, 2004 © Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Die Vorstellung, 2004
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© Sunil Gupta, Pentamedine / Attitude, from the series From Here to Eternity, 1999 © Sunil Gupta, Chicago / Hoist, from the series From Here to Eternity, 1999 “I made this work partly in response to a period of illness brought on by the HIV. I thought that it might be time to thinks about…
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© Nick and Sheila Pye, Heavy Bodies, 2005 © Nick and Sheila Pye, Standing Lovers, 2004 “Nick and Sheila Pye’s marriage is hell—if their art is anything to go by, that is. The Toronto-based couple’s photographs and films, in which they are the sole performers, portray a series of elemental, absurdist tugs-of-war. Often…
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© Mitra Tabrizian, Untitled #1, from the series Lost Time, 2002 © Mitra Tabrizian, Untitled #8, from the series Lost Time, 2002 “It’s hard to say which is the most mysterious: Mitra Tabrizian’s photographs, or Tabrizian herself. In her extraordinary, light-filled London flat – from a window you can see the glass towers of…
Read More© Mike Reinders, Snow, from the series Never Never Land, 2006/07 © Mike Reinders, Bunker, from the series Never Never Land, 2006/07 “These photographs depict fictional landscapes inhabited by human clones after a catastrophic and extinctive event. Digital manipulation is used to ‘clone’ one man from the other by merging sequential images together on top…
Read More© Lisa Lindvay, Bottles under bed © Lisa Lindvay, Game Room “These photographs depict the lives of my father, sister and two brothers, as they take on the burden of my mother’s deteriorating mental state. This work represents an extended look at the physical and emotional currents within their home to question the sanctity of…
Read More© Chris Jordan, Piano, New Orleans, 2005 from the series In Katrina’s Wake © Chris Jordan, Refrigerator on Franklin Avenue, New Orleans, 2005from the series In Katrina’s Wake “This series, photographed in New Orleans in November and December of 2005, portrays the cost of Hurricane Katrina on a personal scale. Although the subjects are quite…
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