© Family Archive, Portugal, May Day, 1975 © Family Archive, Portugal, May 1979 If there’s still some kind of universal language (and it’s not like I believe art is it) maybe we can recover it in the years to come. I speak as an european but I believe others would agree that the situation in…
Read More┐ Alain Robbe-Grillet └
L’éden et après, 1970 Alain Robbe-Grillet, the prime of mise-en-scène. Writter of the famous “Last year at Marienbad”, directed by Alain Resnais, amongst others. “L’éden et après” is a one-of-a-kind experience, a film that can be cathartic, in which the viewer must be ready to fill in wherever necessary, since the play is set in…
Read More┐ Ruben Salvadori └
© Ruben Salvadori, Photojournalism Behind the Scenes Quando se junta a fome à vontade de comer… Another portray of how dishonest conflict photographs and photojournalism in general can be. While in Jerusalem, Italian Photographer Ruben Salvadori began to take interest in the role of the photographer instead of focusing on the role the usual suspects…
Read More┐ Oliver Ressler └
© Oliver Ressler, from the series We have a situation here, 2011 © Oliver Ressler, from the series We have a situation here, 2011 “We have a situation here” is a standard line in disaster films when an actor faces a challenging situation. The three photographs show people lying on top of each other and…
Read More┐ Living Pictures └
Click the image and follow the link to view it come alive. “Lytro is the first company to bring “light-field” technology into a small consumer device. Light-field, or “plenoptic”, camera technology captures all the light–its color, intensity and direction–that makes contact with the internal sensor. It does not select a single focus point but captures…
Read More┐ This is England └
Shane Medow’s dark drama standing as one of the best tv mini series I’ve come accross recently. After “This is England ’86”, “This is England ’88” is now on Channel 4. Guardian’s review here
Read More┐ Christian Niccoli └
© Christian Niccoli © Christian Niccoli “As I was previously saying I am very interested in human needs and our will and necessity to relate to others. This is on one hand a more-than-finished issue, because it has repeated itself since humans have existed. On the other hand, each era and culture has dealt with…
Read More┐ Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh └
© Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh, la verità non esiste (the truth does not exist), 2005 © Alessandro Nassiri Tabibzadeh, I won’t change the world If a man die it is because death has first possessed his imagination. But if he refuse death– no greater evil can befall him unless it be the death of love meet…
Read More┐ Anne Collier └
© Anne Collier, Questions (Viewpoint), 2011 © Anne Collier, Questions (Evidence), 2011 © Anne Collier, Questions (Connection), 2011 “I only work in the studio and use a large-format plate camera. It’s a very laborious process that allows almost no room for improvisation. Everything has to be perfectly aligned and calibrated. I’m typically photographing things that…
Read More┐ Tuija Lindström └
© Tuija Lindström in cooperation with Jesper Örtman, At the border, from the series Look at us, 2000 © Tuija Lindström in cooperation with Jesper Örtman, Stork, from the series Look at us, 2000 More here
Read More┐ Alain Badiou └
Does the notion of activist art still have meaning? A Lacanian Ink Event – Miguel Abreu Gallery – NYC, 10/13/2010 – video by Katherine Pickard “Does the Notion of Activist Art Still Have Meaning? Is it still possible to propose a general definition of a militant vision of artistic creation? Alain Badiou proposes a work…
Read More┐ Pat Brassington └
© Pat Brassington, Untitled, from the series Cambridge Road, 2007 © Pat Brassington, Untitled, from the series Cambridge Road, 2007 “In most of her ‘artist’s statements’ and the rare interviews in press, Brassington mentions her engagement with both surrealism and psychoanalysis. But there is no allegiance, no endorsement, no salute to the father. Everything is…
Read More┐ Clare Strand └
© Clare Strand, Signs of Struggle, 2003 © Clare Strand, Signs of Struggle, 2003 AFH: Is photography primarily an expressive tool for you? CS: Photography clearly has an important role in my work but its application is determined by my subject matter. If you look back on my work, I have no one photographic style.…
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