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
Benjamin Freedman Statement about the project: In November 2014 I began a two month residency in northern Iceland where I became interested in the countries unique topographic features. Its low mountains and fascinating geological specimens inspired this sci-fi photo book that is meant to playfully illustrate a fictional story about a lunar phenomenon taking place…
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© Françoise Sullivan, Danse de la Neige (Dance in the Snow), 1948. 17 black & white photographs by Maurice Perron “[…] The society that was born of faith will die at the hands of reason… The fatal disintegration o f our collective moral strength into strictly individual and sentimental power has undermined the once formidable…
Read More© Laurie Kang, Untitled, C-print, 2013 © Laurie Kang, Untitled form (Sufficiency), Chromogenic paper, clamp, nail, 2012 © Laurie Kang, Untitled Forms (Sufficiency) Chromogenic paper, nail, clamp and C-print, nail, clamp, 2013 © Laurie Kang, Psychogeographic Waterfall, C-prints, 16″ x 20″, 2011 © Laurie Kang, Confused archive, 2013 © Laurie Kang, Natural Image (Unknown duration,…
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© Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, © Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, chromogenic print >© Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, fiber gelatin silver print >© Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, @ G20, fiber gelatin silver print © Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, fiber gelatin silver print “I was thinking that the “straight” or naive approach to the theme would be to just play to popular…
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How To Be is a series of exercises that revisit and reimagine early 19th century primers for “young ladies.” I stumbled upon these manuals while researching 19th century etiquette books. Most include etiquette but only as part of a more comprehensive course of education. They were intended for upper-class girls and women who had few…
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© Adad Hannah, Safari #2, from the project Safari, 2011 “Safari is a collaboration between film director Denys Arcand and artist Adad Hannah produced for the exhibition Big Bang, which celebrates the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ 150th Anniversary and the opening of a new pavilion. The set for Safari is the Safari Seating Environment…
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© Moyra Davey, The Coffee Shop, The Library, 2011 25 C-prints, tape, postage, ink © Moyra Davey, Musik, 2010 © Moyra Davey, The Whites of Your Eyes (for Bill Horrigan), 2010 25 C-prints, tape, postage, ink © Moyra Davey, The Whites of Your Eyes (for Bill Horrigan), 2010 I’d say that these pictures are about…
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© Todd McLellan, Old Camera, from his recent work Disassembly © Todd McLellan, Apart Camera, from his recent work Disassembly © Todd McLellan, Old Typewriter, from his recent work Disassembly © Todd McLellan, Apart Typewriter, from his recent work Disassembly ‘disassembly’ by canadian photographer todd mclellan is a series of images capturing old relics of…
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© Pierre Dalpé, Manny and Josephine, 1999 © Pierre Dalpé, Saul, Sarah and Johanne, 1998 “Capitalizing on the multiplicity of an individual’s personality and the many selves housed within all of us, Pierre Dalpé approaches each of his subjects with a duplicitous heart: he twins his subjects within the frame to expose the construction of…
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@ Brendan George Ko, I used to love you, from Reminiscence, 2008-10 @ Brendan George Ko, We have a history, from Reminiscence, 2008-10 “And now I see what the glass door is. It is the door of a coffin-mine. Not a coffin, a sarcophagus. I am in an enormous vault, dead, and they are paying…
Read MoreProtest in Montreal against the rise of tuition fees in Quebec and the new law 78. Every evening at 8pm people meet in the street with their pots and pans and make all the noise they can. The song (INTUITION #1 – Avec pas d’casque / avecpasdcasque.bandcamp.com/album/astronomietranslated) reads something like this: You will say, you…
Read More@ Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, hood, from the series Flower City (work in progress) @ Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, gray, from the series Flower City (work in progress) @ Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, twin, from the series Flower City (work in progress) In Flower City I’m focusing on the area where I live (Brampton, Ontario), a relative nowhere city transformed by…
Read More© Aidan McNeil, Maria, from the series Works in Progress, 2009 © Aidan McNeil, Ruth, from the series Works in Progress, 2009 More of Aidan’s work hereand here
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© Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, 1909, from the series Work in Progress, 1980 © Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, 1956, from the series Work in Progress, 1980 “Work in Progress is a short history of working women from 1909 to 1979. Each decade is represented by a different woman posed in a kitchen in…
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© Brendan George Ko, Ablution, from the series The Barking Wall, 2010-11 © Brendan George Ko, Tomb, from the series The Barking Wall, 2010-11 I remember as a kid I used to cover my face with my hands, and peek at the world through my fingers. I could see the world, but the world couldn’t…
Read MoreI published one of Alex’s photographs from a work in collaboration with Lindsay Page more than a year ago but I ran into his work again and though his process is worth a little more attention than the one given before, so here’s Alex comeback. © Alex Kisilevich, Salesman, 2009 © Alex Kisilevich, Stick-Figure, 2011…
Read More© Marisa Portolese, Maya, from the series Imagined Paradise © Marisa Portolese, Celia, from the series Imagined Paradise “The Imagined Paradise series is about having an aesthetic experience that is surreal and attainable only through flight of the imagination. The images present the viewer with two distinct universes, the real and imagined. The subjects are…
Read More© Dianne Davis, Untitled, from the series Haven, work in progress © Dianne Davis, Untitled, from the series Haven, work in progress More of Dianne’s work here
Read More© Meryl McMaster, Sentience, from the series In-between worlds, 2010 © Meryl McMaster, Viage, from the series In-between worlds, 2010 “In-Between Worlds explores the mixing and transforming of my bi-cultural identities – Aboriginal and Euro-Canadian – and addresses the idea of liminality; of being betwixt and between cultural identities and histories. The series presents a…
Read More© Jinyoung Kim, work in progress, 2011 © Jinyoung Kim, work in progress, 2011 More of his work can be seen here
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