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Joel Jimenez: Castle of Innocence
joel jimenezJuly 22nd, 2020interviewJoel Jimenez (b. 1993) is a Costa Rican visual artist based in Barcelona, Spain. Generally, his interest is in space and its possibilities to convey human conditions; how the universe correlates...
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Hand-coloured images of post-Soviet Ukraine: An Interview with Victor Kochetov
victor kochetovsergey kochetovJune 5th, 2020interviewVictor Kochetov (b. 1947, Ukraine) and Sergey Kochetov (b. 1972, Ukraine) are father and son but they also operate as a collaborative artistic duo and recently released a book: 'KOCHETOV'....
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Valeria Cherchi: Some Of You Killed Luisa
valeria cherchiJune 1st, 2020interviewValeria Cherchi (b. 1986, Italy), raised in Sardinia, is interested in telling tangible character-driven stories themed around the meaning of the 'unspoken', motivated by the need of exploring personal memories that shed new light on history. In her soon to be published body of work, ‘Some of You...
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Lewis Khan: Theatre
lewis khanMay 29th, 2020interviewLewis Khan (b.1990, the UK) is a fine art and commercial photographer from London, working with stills and moving image. His portrait-based work is a study of emotion, relationships, and identity. Khan’s photographs are intimate, and his process reveals his search to understand the commonality of...
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INTERVIEW: Erik Kessels – Sexy Sofa
erik kesselsMay 15th, 2020interviewIn Almost Every Picture is a series of books focusing on found amateur pictures. Each volume in the series arrives from a collection of “vernacular” photographs sourced from flea markets, the internet and from found photo albums. These publications (the first one dating from 2001) touch on both...
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Yana Wernicke & Jonas Feige: stayathome.photography
yana wernickejonas feigeMay 4th, 2020interviewIn anticipation on the global outbreak of Covid-19, artists all over the world initiated various ways to create from the confines of their homes. Among these ‘artistic outbreaks’ is ‘stayathome.photography’, founded by Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige - two Berlin-based photographers. Their online...
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Mafalda Rakoš: A Story to Tell, or: Regarding Male Eating Disorders
mafalda rakošApril 27th, 2020interviewMafalda Rakoš (b. 1994, Austria) is based between Vienna and Amsterdam, and recently graduated from the Royal Art Academy in The Hague, The Netherlands. Her work can be considered an intersection between art, documentary photography and journalism – a crossroad on which she stresses the themes of...
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Anna Ehrenstein: Tools for Conviviality
anna ehrensteinApril 22nd, 2020interviewAnna Ehrenstein (b. 1993) is a visual artist with German-Albanian roots and in her work, she generally reflects on a migration-related visual and material culture in the digital age. Her oeuvre ranges over many different media and is mainly centred around forms of installation and writing -...
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Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales: an interview with Elizabeth Haust
elizabeth haustApril 20th, 2020interviewElizabeth Haust (b. 1992, Russia) has a background in photography, film and painting. Her work has been presented in museums, galleries and photo festivals all over the world including 5TH Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, GASK Gallery in Prague, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine...
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And The Winner Is...
April 17th, 2020columnYesterday, April 16, World Press Photo announced the winners of their 2020 contest. There was no gathering, however, to celebrate. The Award Days have been cancelled. But what we do have instead might be all the more valuable.The invisible virus is a true work of art: in its inconspicuous yet...
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Echoes Shades: An Interview with Piotr Zbierski
piotr zbierskiApril 8th, 2020In Echoes Shades Piotr Zbierski (b. 1987, Poland) focuses on people living close to nature and communities cultivating primordial rituals. The artist's spiritual approach to photography has caught the attention of many world-famous museums, including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts...
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Reducción: Felipe Romero Beltrán
felipe romero beltránApril 1st, 2020columnFelipe Romero Beltrán (b. 1992) is a Columbian visual artist residing and studying in Madrid. Due to bureaucratic procedures, he had to await official documents that allowed him to continue his PhD. Experiencing the clear and present danger of a police arrest, he then decided to apply his...
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Jean-François Lepage: ZOMBIE
jean françois lepageMarch 18th, 2020interviewJean-François Lepage (b. 1960, France) began his career as a fashion photographer in the early 80s. Lepage often revisits his photographs after the shoot itself in order to dismantle and interfere with the images he captures. By cutting the negative and positive films to build new multiple...
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Mountains, Memories, and Magnitude
marina caneveMarch 16th, 2020No mountain has ever moved, but they just appear as if they could crush an entire village to nothing but dust without any remorse. At the same time, they seem to look over us, as colossal guardians. This paradox might relate to the sublime, the experienced greatness of something while not being...
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Johan Kramer: Camera Dream
johan kramerMarch 9th, 2020interviewJohan Kramer (b. 1964) is a renowned filmmaker and an advertising icon in The Netherlands. Between 1995-2006, Kramer was part of advertisement agency KesselsKramer and from 2006 onwards he started focusing on his personal projects: documentary and experimental films that are recognizable for...
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ATELIER SMEDSBY: APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
jh engstroematelier smedsbyMarch 8th, 2020The Atelier Smedsby offers a one-year distance learning class with three individual/group meetings in Paris. Founded in 2010 by photographers JH Engström (b. 1969, Sweden) and Margot Wallard (b. 1978, France), Atelier Smedsby was formed with the objective of increasing artistic independence via...
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Interview: The World According to Roger Ballen
roger ballenMarch 6th, 2020interview‘The World According to Roger Ballen’ (Thames & Hudson, 2019) features photographs selected from across Ballen’s career, along with installations created exclusively for an exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, last year. The exhibition closes on July 31st, 2020. The book, co-authored with...
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Zoopark Publishing Collective: An Interview With the Editors
zooparktatyana palygaMarch 1st, 2020Zoopark is a publishing collective consisting of two Russian-born visual artists: Tatyana Palyga (b. 1982 Russia) and Alexander Bondar (b. 1982, Russia). Their collaboration started in 2010, when the duo, who have been mixing photography, video, texts, graphics and illustrations in their own...
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Era Mare: Venice vs The Sea
matteo de maydaFebruary 21st, 2020interviewEra Mare (It Was Sea) addresses the most recent floods in Venice (Italy), initiated by photographer Matteo de Mayda, graphic designers Andrea Codolo & Giacomo Covacich (Studio Bruno) and Francesca Seravalle, who curated the project - in a spirit of solidarity with the Venetian inhabitants who...
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Sergey Melnitchenko: Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity
sergey melnitchenkoFebruary 17th, 2020In his ongoing project ‘Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity’, Sergey Melnitchenko poses existential questions. As he sees it, human beings are singular creatures who constantly try to define themselves within the scale of the universe, which most often results in a feeling of...
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