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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Before today, I didn’t know Terje Abusdal’s work and I confess I fell for it. I’m not exceptionally good at anything, except at falling in love at first sight and that’s what happened here. Sometimes, when I first encounter an author’s work, things look pretty clear. Specifically, what an author excels at seems to becomes…
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© Rob Ball, Untitled #3, from the series The Grange, 2006 © Rob Ball, Untitled #8, from the series The Grange, 2006 “In December 2006 the hospital in which I was born closed after 97 years of service. The site was bought by a property developer and will soon consist of over 800 new…
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© Andrea Modica, Fountain CO, 2004 © Andrea Modica, Fountain CO, 2003 “For more than ten years, Andrea Modica has been photographing a group of children in her rural town in upstate New York. It is here, through a young girl named Barbara and her extended family, that Modica creates her work. Transforming reality into…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 