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
caption: detail from Dioso Simões’ booklet in Propeller Propaganda. Deisgn by Paulo Arraiano. When we asked Diogo to collaborate with Propeller Propaganda, there was a lot of possibilities in the air and no pre-established idea of what he could publish. After some options were dropped, the series of photographs we then published was suggested, but…
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photo caption (above): Chine, Shenzhen, 2017, Scene #1350 © Alex Majoli / Magnum Photos Les employés d’un institut de beauté participent à une réunion de motivation avant de commencer leur travail. When is enough, enough? Vice is obviously no reference when it comes to dignifying the use of photographs in the media, but still I…
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© Nadia Sablin, all photographs from the series Alehovshchina: Two Sisters “In 1952, my grandfather began to lose his vision as a result of being wounded in WWII. Wanting to return to the place where he grew up, he found an unoccupied hill in a village in the Leningrad region of Russia, close to his…
Read Moreonline str**ming here “Craig Bartholomew tracks down Sixto Rodriguez, the second generation Mexican who, with his 70s album Cold Fact, radicalised South African youth. What he found was Gandhi with a guitar. It’s five o’clock as I wait at Cape Town international airport for a man I think I know well but have never met,…
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© Wojtek Sasiela, Untitled, from the series Eden © Wojtek Sasiela, Untitled, from the series Eden © Wojtek Sasiela, Gorton, from the series Eden more of his work here
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© Tito Mouraz, Untitled, from the series Leitura(s) © Tito Mouraz, Untitled, from the series Leitura(s) © Tito Mouraz, Untitled, from the series Finally, No One © Tito Mouraz, Untitled, from the series Finally, No One “There has been, since ever, an almost innate obsession for space and its domain through the most varied forms…
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© Jorge Miguel, Untitled, from the series Mó, 2010 © Jorge Miguel, Untitled, from the series Mó, 2010 © Jorge Miguel, Untitled, from the series Mó, 2010 © Jorge Miguel, Untitled, from the series Mó, 2010 “Mó is a village in the central region of Portugal with only 13 inhabitants, in one of the most…
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© Ana Marta, Untitled, from the series Palm Trees don’t belong here, Porto Santo, Portugal, 2012 © Ana Marta, Untitled, from the series Palm Trees don’t belong here, Porto Santo, Portugal, 2012 © Ana Marta, Untitled, from the series Palm Trees don’t belong here, Porto Santo, Portugal, 2012 © Ana Marta, Untitled, from the series…
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@ Julie Hascoët, Untitled, from the project Tenir/Rester @ Julie Hascoët, Untitled, from the project Tenir/Rester @ Julie Hascoët, Hug, from the series 4 Months @ Julie Hascoët, Emilie, from the series 4 Months More of her work here
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© Tobias Kruse, The Parting, school leaving examination year 2007 of Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, Berlin Pankow, on the graduation trip at Lake Balaton, Siofok, May 2007, Hungary. “Alcoholism extends the impersonal and transcendental event of the ‘crack up’ across a life by way of a caesura of time. Alcoholism, Deleuze writes, ‘hardens’ the present (Deleuze 1990:…
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© Léonie Hampton, Untitled, from the series Autonomy, the Cariou Family – France © Léonie Hampton, Untitled, from the series Autonomy, the Cariou Family – France The Cariou family Live an autonomous life in Provence. Faced with the huge cost of property in their area they were fortunate to buy a small olive grove in…
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© 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© Marysa Dowling, Portrait 028, Ireland, from the series The Dowling Study, Parts 1-7, 2005-07 © Marysa Dowling, Portrait 03, Stockport, UK, from the series The Dowling Study, Parts 1-7, 2005-07 “This collaborative family study spans four generations (involving all 32 blood related members of the family) and three countries, the UK, Ireland and the…
Read More© Millie Burton, Mantlepiece, from the series Pictures from an Interior, 2004 © Millie Burton, Dresser, from the series Pictures from an Interior, 2004 “Pictures from an Interior (2004) is a photographic record and celebration of the house that my grandmother lived in from 1956 until 2008. She was a practical woman and did much…
Read More© Maximilian Haidacher, Untitled, from the series Erz © Maximilian Haidacher, Untitled, from the series Thron To see more of Maximilian’s work click here
Read More© Daniel Augschöll, Untitled #1, from the series Celestial Planisphere © Daniel Augschöll, Untitled #10, from the series Celestial Planisphere To see more of Daniel’s work click here
Read More© Susan Worsham, Lynn watching Dr. Phill, from the series Some Fox Trails in Virginia © Susan Worsham, Hearse in my childhood driveway, from the series Some Fox Trails in Virginia © Susan Worsham, Untitled, from the series Some Fox Trails in Virginia “This series of photographs is taken in and around Virginia, the place…
Read More© Alexander Gronsky, Untitled, from the series Pastoral © Alexander Gronsky, Untitled, from the series Pastoral “In this project I explore wastelands within Moscow city. Areas that are not urban not rural. Areas that lack definition.” To see more of Alexander’s work click here
Read More© Peter Fraser, Untitled, from the series 12 Day Journay, 1984 © Peter Fraser, Untitled, from the series 12 Day Journay, 1984 “I see photographs everywhere, like everyone else, nowadays; they come from the world to me, without my asking; they are only ‘images,’ their mode of appearance is heterogeneous…I realized that some provoked tiny…
Read More© Simone Bergantini, Untitled, from the series Seminario sull’infanzia © Simone Bergantini, Untitled, from the series Seminario sull’infanzia To see more of Simone’s work click here
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