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
© Patrick Hogan, Behind the Garden Wall, from the project Solitary, Half Mad. © Patrick Hogan, Animal In The Dark #1, from the project Solitary, Half Mad. excerpt of a conversation between Patrick Hogan and Stephen Tierney, published in The Interior Prospect. ST – Having grown up myself in the Tipperary countryside I remember many…
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@ Iiu Susiraja, Näytös, from the series Älä nyt suutu, 2008/09 @ Iiu Susiraja, Kannel, from the series Syömään, pöytä on katettu, 2010 “In Susiraja’s esthetics, an image does not remain an image; rather, it requires an entire life. Although Susiraja has focused on photography, her art genre is more comprehensive: to shape a work…
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© David Blackmore, Reception Area, The metropolitan Children’s Court, Dublin, Eire © David Blackmore, Holding Cells, Rathfarnham Garda Station, Dublin, Eire “I was working on ‘Detox’ from 2003-2005. I was initially attracted to the vividness of the blue lighting without really knowing why the light was used. Through research I found that the…
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© Lucinda Devlin, Electric Chair, Indiana State Prison, Michigan, Indiana, 1991 from the series The Omega Suites © Lucinda Devlin, Witness Room, Petosi Correctional Center, Petosi, Missouri, 1991 from the series The Omega Suites © Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Territorial Correctional Facility, Canon City, Colorado, 1991 from the series The Omega Suites “I…
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© Sonja Kälberer, Ziegel © Sonja Kälberer, Untitled More of Sonja’s work can be seen here.
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© Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Vor der Tür stehend, 2004 © Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Die Vorstellung, 2004
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© Malerie Marder Untitled (fron the Inland Empire serires), 2004 © Malerie Marder Untitled (fron the Inland Empire serires), 2004 “When I was eighteen I was asked to take pictures of a woman named Laura and her lover. She had been having an affair for ten years with a very powerful man. They had learned…
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