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 (image above): Self-published box – The Memory of History, by Lewis Bush, 2012. I’ve recently arrive at Lewis Bush virtual sphere (aka blog) and am coming out with that feeling of content and surprise that is often too rare. A friend had sent me a message with a text about Don McCullin’s retrospective @…
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© Diogo Simões, Untitled, from the series Miratejo © Diogo Simões, Untitled, from the series Miratejo © Diogo Simões, Untitled, from the series Miratejo Influenced by current-events (this is a circumstantial analogy) Diogo’s (b.1988, Miratejo, PT) photographs remind me of a kind of portrait of youth that makes me think of Gus van Sant’s universe.…
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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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© João Henriques, Untitled, from the series ID, 2010 © João Henriques, Untitled, from the series ID, 2010 © João Henriques, Untitled, from the series ID, 2010 “Id is a photographic series about place and identity, whose images where done in my home town, Tomar, Portugal. The term Id, besides pointing to the notion of…
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© Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories © Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories © Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories © Sunil Shah, from the project Uganda Stories “This project is both a subjective journey to recollect the past and an interrogation of documentary photography in its use to reassemble fragments…
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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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@ Natasja Maria Fourie, from I didn’t want to be your ghost “I have an obsession with the naked portrait. The most beautiful and vulgar things are produced by the human body. The naked body raises intense psychological issues. My portrait work deals with all those complex feelings when one is stripped naked, the feelings…
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