© Bill Durhin, Untitked, from the series Nudes and Still Lifes © Bill Durhin, Untitked, from the series Nudes and Still Lifes “Nudes and Still Lifes is a series of photographs that reverberate between the languages of attraction and abjection, painting and performance, photography and sculpture. While specific poses riff on gestures and peripheral details…
Read More┐ Peter Finnemore └
© Peter Finnemore, Miffin in the wallpaper, from the series Dark Light (Gwendraeth House), 2010 © Peter Finnemore, Night Veil, from the series Dark Light (Gwendraeth House), 2010 “Houses are commodities, homes are souls. Began in 2003, this substantive, distinct and current chapter of the Gwendraeth House project comes under the title of Dark Light.…
Read More║ Millie Burton ║
© 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…
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║ Marrigje De Maar ║
© Marrigje De Maar, Tollonjoki, Wanja, Russia, from the series Home Made © Marrigje De Maar, Venray, refter, from the series Time Out © Marrigje De Maar, China-Zhaoxing, old farmer, from the series Rambles (people) Time Out consist of pictures of rejected spaces. The structure of these buildings may still be sound, but…
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║ Will Steacy ║
© 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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║ Ville Lenkkeri ║
© Ville Lenkkeri, The Collected Works of Lenin, from the series The Place of No Roads © Ville Lenkkeri, Dead Domestic Plants II, from the series The Place of No Roads “Two Russian communities on Spitsbergen have had their times of bloom. Now one of them is a ghost town and also the other…
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║ Martine Fougeron ║
© Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête III, c.2007 © Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête IV, c.2007 “This work explores adolescence as a subliminal state, between childhood and adulthood, and between the feminine and the masculine. The portraits, naturally staged, explore the intrinsic interior quest of the adolescent’s journey. I noticed that most photographers portray adolescents as outsiders with…
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║ James Nizam ║
© James Nizam, Anteroom (pile of cabinets in room), 2007 © James Nizam, Dwellings #13, 2006 “James Nizam’s work reveals a fascination with the processes of change, decay, and reclamation within our built environment. His new series of colour photographs—shot inside abandoned houses slated for demolition—speaks eloquently about the booming real-estate market in Vancouver and…
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║ Laurenz Berges ║
© Laurenz Berges, Berlin – Karlshorts III, 1995 © Laurenz Berges, Potsdam V, 1995 “Several images in the series record the intersection of architectural elements with the ground in harmonious if unspectacular compositions, pregnant with the implication of what might have occurred or still could occur there. In others, architectural elements enter into…
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║ Bert Teunissen – Domestic Landscapes ║
© Bert Teunissen, Felgueiras de Algarbom #1, Portugal, 2002 © Bert Teunissen, Minas de São Domingos #2, Portugal, 2001 There’s really no way to resume this work… so here is the link to it.
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║ Joseph O. Holmes ║
© Joseph O. Holmes, Ganmar Electronics (Bench #2), from the Workspace series, 2007 © Joseph O. Holmes, Dominic, Third Avenue Scrap Shop, from the Workspace series, 2007 © Joseph O. Holmes, C & H Auto Repair, from the Workspace series, 2007 © Joseph O. Holmes, Tony, Ganmar Electronics , from the Workspace series,…
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║ Guy Tillim (South Africa – part I) ║
© Guy Tillim, Noverna Court, Paul Nel Street, Hillbrow, 2004 Jo’burg series © Guy Tillim, Nomasanto’s room, Jeanwell House, Nugget Street, 2004 Jo’burg series White residents fled Johannesburg’s inner city in the 1990s. The removal of the Group Areas Act foreshadowed a flow into the city of black residents and owners of small businesses seeking…
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║ Anthony Hernandez ║
© Anthony Hernandez, #31, from Pictures for Rome, 1999 © Anthony Hernandez, #9, from Pictures for Oakland, 2000 Some people ask, “What’s so important or compelling about taking pictures of such unpleasant subjects like city dwellers?” . . . My work may be beautiful or it might not be, that just isn’t what I am…
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║ Lauren Simonutti ║
© Lauren Simonutti, Hallway, from Home series © Lauren Simonutti, Hallway, from Home series “A house, to which one expects to return but does not, becomes a relic. I stepped out the door one day for what I anticipated would be a moment and did not return for weeks. The impetus for the absence is…
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