© Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek , 19. Vagabonds, from the project Exactitudes, Rotterdam 1998 © Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek , 96. Cassettes gang, from the project Exactitudes, London 2008 “Ari Versluis is the photographer behind Exactitudes, a long-running photographic series that documents and classifies everyday individuals in their social contexts. Together with profiler…
Read More║ Claire Martin ║
© Claire Martin, Untitled, from the series Slab City © Claire Martin, Untitled, from the series Slab City “Slab City has been created by a small but committed community of squatters in the Colorado Desert of South Eastern California, USA. Taking its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II…
Read More║ Marina Gadonneix ║
© Marina Gadonneix, Untitled, from the series Hopes © Marina Gadonneix, Untitled, from the series Hopes Marina’s work can be seen here
Read More║ Helena Almeida ║
© Helena Almeida, Ouve-me (Listen to me), 1979 © Helena Almeida, Ouve-me (Listen to me), 1979 Too much to say, yet nothing worth adding… More of Helena’s work can be seen here
Read More“The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.”, he said
“…as in prose, ‘form’ in photography is reluctant to become ‘content’, and works best when it just barely succeeds in converting its subject into art – that is, when it calls the least attention to itself and lets the almost ‘practical’ meaning of the subject come through. This is why there are so many pictures…
Read More║ Augusta Wood ║
© Augusta Wood, Sesame Street, from the series I have only what I remember , 1980/ 2008 © Augusta Wood, Planting Geraniums, from the series I have only what I remember , 1987/ 2008 “Augusta Wood explores the persistence of memory, and the ways in which imagery and text can interact to shape meaning of…
Read More“fiction tends towards the real”, he said
“The two go together (document and fiction). The document tends towards the imaginary, the fiction tends towards the real. You could say that if you aim at a form of truth through fiction, then the real will become enigmatic precisely because it is obvious. Documentary photography offers an interesting possibility of achieving a poetic form.…
Read More║ Matt Lipps ║
© Matt Lipps, Untitled (hallway), from the Home series, 2008 © Matt Lipps, Untitled (garage wall), from the Home series, 2008 “In his radical reassembly of photographic imagery, Matt Lipps exploits appropriation’s inherent possibilities for generating new relationships and meaning. His recent series Home (2008) depicts contoured cut-outs of Ansel Adams’ pristine, monumental landscapes, affixed…
Read More“in nature, you can’t make art”, she said
“The only thing we knew was that the best answer we could look for was in nature. So we went back to the desert and started traveling. The desert was a great place for us, because there was a minimum of information, an extremely violent environment, heat, and so on. You were confronted with yourself…
Read More║ Zeinab Salarvand ║
© Zeinab Salarvand, Untitled, from the series Interior, Exteriorer, 2007 © Zeinab Salarvand, Untitled, from the series Interior, Exteriorer, 2007 “Standing on pedestrian bridges, observing people in their fast moving shiny wheel-boxes, fantasizing about each and every story of theirs or sitting on the top of a hill looking down on the City, staring at…
Read More║ Giorgio Barrera ║
© Giorgio Barrera, Untitled, from the series Through the window, 2009 © Giorgio Barrera, Untitled, from the series Through the window, 2009 © Giorgio Barrera, Window # 37-2, from the series Through the window, 2009 “There is something in photographs taken by Giorgio Barrera that irresistibly attracts our attention. The aesthetics are neat; the framing…
Read More║ Julio Galeote ║
© Julio Galeote, Untitled, from the series Inside Out, 2007 © Julio Galeote, Untitled, from the series Inside Out, 2007 More of Julio’s work can be seen here or here
Read More║ Laurent Champoussin ║
© Laurent Champoussin, Untitled, from the seriesJ’ai vu des écrans qui ne s’éteignent pas © Laurent Champoussin, Untitled, from the seriesJ’ai vu des écrans qui ne s’éteignent pas “J’ai tenté de raccrocher plusieurs photographies à un thème : les écrans. C’est un peu un fourre-tout, je me sers des sens multiples du mot. J’ai du…
Read More║ Alessia Rollo ║
© Alessia Rollo, Untitled, from the series In-Domestico © Alessia Rollo, Untitled, from the series In-Domestico © Alessia Rollo, Untitled, from the series In-Domestico “The photographs of this series are excercises of figures of speech. A calumbur, such as the cactus transformed into a coloured fish that is dying in the silent agony of a…
Read More║ Rubén H. Bermúdez ║
© Rubén H. Bermúdez, Untitled, from the series Retrato de Mujer, 2009 © Rubén H. Bermúdez, Untitled, from the series Retrato de Mujer, 2009 More of Rubén’s work can be seen here http://www.10por15.net
Read More║ Arantxa Boyero ║
© Arantxa Boyero, Moixa, from the series Wild flowers, 2009/10 © Arantxa Boyero, Bugambilia, from the series Wild flowers, 2009/10 More of Arantxa’s work can be seen here
Read More║ Darren Harvey-Regan ║
© Darren Harvey-Regan, The Elsewhere mouse, from the series Elisions, 2010 © Darren Harvey-Regan, Heidegger’s Lizard, from the series Elisions, 2010 More of Darren’s work can be seen here
Read More║ Simone Koch ║
© Simone Koch, Diana, from the series But we must cultivate our garden, 2007 © Simone Koch, Latent, from the series But we must cultivate our garden, 2008 More of Simone’s work can be seen here
Read More║ Debby Huysmans ║
© Debby Huysmans, Untitled, from the series Sibir, 2009 © Debby Huysmans, Untitled, from the series Sibir, 2009 “The collapse of the Soviet empire has resulted in a fascinating political and social situation. The projects Elementarz (2003), Last Stop before Europa (2005) and In a Valley (2007) are a research on the periphery of the…
Read More║ Elisa Larvego ║
© Elisa Larvego, Av. Devin-du-Village, from the series Mises à part, 2006 © Elisa Larvego, Salle de classe des Beaux-Arts, from the series Mises à part, 2006 “Ce travail est une tentative de projection de mon imaginaire dans des espaces urbains qui m’interpellent. Ces lieux deviennent des sortes de décors à mes mises en scènes,…
Read More║ David Favrod ║
© David Favrod, Untitled, from the series Gaijin, 2009 © David Favrod, Untitled, from the series Gaijin, 2009 “It is from this feeling of rejection and also from a desire to prove that I am as Japanese as I am Swiss that this work was created. “Gaijin” is a fictional narrative, a tool for my…
Read More║ Virginie Rebetez ║
© Virginie Rebetez, Untitled, from the series Flirting with Charon, 2008 © Virginie Rebetez, Untitled, from the series Flirting with Charon, 2008 “(In collaboration with Dienst Werk en Inkomen) «Flirting with Charon» was made inside houses whose owners recently died. DWI organizes the funerals of people who died socially isolated. Through them I was…
Read More║ Ellen Nolan ║
© Ellen Nolan, Untitled, from the series Previous Personality, 10th March 2008 © Ellen Nolan, Untitled, from the series Previous Personality, 10th March 2009 © Ellen Nolan, Untitled, from the series Previous Personality, 9th September 2009 ‘Previous Personality’ explores my relationship to my mother as she recedes into dementia. I started photographing my mother and…
Read More║ Alice Finbow & Antony Schrag ║
© Alice Finbow & Anthony Schrag, Mirrored Balance, from the series Bracknell, 2008 © Alice Finbow & Anthony Schrag, 21/08/08, from the series Peita, 2008 To see more of Alice & Anthony’s work click here
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