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Perspective, Posing and Performance: An Interview with Dina Litovsky
dina litovskyDecember 15th, 2016interviewDina Litovsky (1979) was born in Ukraine, but moved to the US as a child, and as such, has made a name for herself as a photographer who studies the social dynamics in American culture from an...
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Haru Ranman
August 19th, 2016Without ever having been to Tokyo, it is easy to conjure up an idea of the metropolis, due to its constant exposure in popular culture. Mental images of traditional icons like geishas painting...
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A Heliocentric Fixation: Chris McCaw's Sunburn Series
chris mccawApril 20th, 2016columnViewed from the vantage point of the history of our existence, it has not been a particularly long time that we have known that the Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than the other way around. Pliny the Elder (23 – 79 AD) wrote of the Earth that “it alone remains unmoveable, whilst all things...
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LDN EI: Antony Cairns' remodelled E-Reader
antony cairnsMarch 16th, 2016columnAntony Cairns (UK) brings a touch of anarchy to his new publication LDN EI, a limited edition production that’s more than a photobook, but rather its own platform. Taking old e-readers as a base, Cairns hacked the Kindle software to support the singular functionality of presenting his own book,...
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Uncovering the Untold: An interview with Chloe Dewe Mathews
chloe dewe mathewsMarch 1st, 2016interviewChloe Dewe Mathews (1982) is a British documentary photographer who seeks to discover the unknown, an artist who travels with an open mind and therefore, captures refreshing and sentimental images from around the world. Interested in the relationship between people and land, her series Shot at...
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Short Stories
matt henryFebruary 2nd, 2016The 1960s and ‘70s in the USA were some of the most defining and tension-filled years in its history, with the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement and the rise of hallucinogenic drugs among other events shaping the country forever. British photographer Matt Henry (1978) reconstructed the isolated...
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Everything of value is vulnerable: An interview with Ulay
ulayFebruary 1st, 2016interviewFrank Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay (1943, Germany) is a performance artist and photographer most famous for his 12-year collaboration with fellow artist and former lover, Marina Abramović, but also for his enduring love affair with Polaroid photography. Since the late ‘60s, Ulay has been working...
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Missing Buildings
thom and beth atkinsonJanuary 26th, 2016Marking 75 years since the outbreak of the Blitz, Thom and Beth Atkinson’s first photobook, Missing Buildings, seeks to preserve the physical and psychological landscapes of the Second World War in London. Taken over a period of six years, the photographs document the mysterious gaps left in...
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The Life of Small Things
adam ekbergJanuary 20th, 2016During childhood, most people partake in small ‘experiments’, just because they’re curious and want to see what will happen, including setting fire to things, putting various objects in the microwave and capturing small animals. American photographer Adam Ekberg harnesses this youthful curiosity...
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Code Unknown
satoshi fujiwaraJanuary 7th, 2016In today’s selfie-obsessed culture, many people have a rehearsed pose or facial expression to enact within milliseconds of a camera being shoved in their face. We are so used to posing for pictures, it becomes natural to stand willingly for the camera and a photo taken without permission can be...
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Looking Back and Forward Interviews #7: Naomi Harris
naomi harrisDecember 15th, 2015interviewGUP has turned 10! We’ve worked with a lot of great photographers over the years since we got started on the magazine, and our anniversary is the perfect time to look back on how things have developed. In this series of interviews, we asked ten photographers that GUP has had the pleasure...
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Legitimacy of Landscape
yaakov israelDecember 14th, 2015The state of Israel is a conflict-ridden area, full of so many complications that it is a rather intimidating subject to broach. The land, contested between the Israelis and Palestinians, is split in defined areas, although there are often blurred lines and disputes between them. Twenty per cent...
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Pull down thy vanity: An interview with Letizia Battaglia
letizia battagliaDecember 12th, 2015interviewLetizia Battaglia (1935) is a woman who never fails to leave a lasting impression on the people she meets. The Sicilian photographer made her living capturing photos of mafia victims in her home city of Palermo in the ‘70s and ‘80s, facing death threats and intimidation on a daily basis. She was...
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Looking Back and Forward Interviews #6: David Favrod
david favrodDecember 8th, 2015interviewGUP has turned 10! We’ve worked with a lot of great photographers over the years since we got started on the magazine, and our anniversary is the perfect time to look back on how things have developed. In this series of interviews, we asked ten photographers that GUP has had the pleasure of...
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Santa Muerte
angus fraserNovember 30th, 2015La Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, is a Mexican folk saint who has existed in her present form for around 50 years, with origins in Aztec times, although she has grown in popularity massively over the last 10 years, now with 10-12 million followers around the Americas. Angus Fraser (1975, UK) spent...
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Welcome to LTP
irina popovaNovember 24th, 2015A Labour Treatment Profilactorium, or LTP as it is also known, is one of the last institutions remaining from the former Soviet Union: a sort of forced rehab or prison for alcoholics, where men are isolated from society and obligated to work, for their own medial and social rehabilitation. These...
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Ornithological Photographs
todd r forsgrenNovember 10th, 2015A bird is caught in a net, its brown-feathered wings stuck, suspended above its body, with its feet tangled in the fine mesh that surrounds it. This photograph of a common ground-dove is the first image the reader encounters in Todd R. Forsgren’s (USA) book Ornithological Photographs and, despite...
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Umbra
viviane sassenOctober 29th, 2015The shadow is one of life’s rare constants, rarely noticed and yet, life would seem strange without it. In photography, finding the balance between light and dark is vital in order to illuminate the subject in the best way possible. In her new book Umbra, Viviane Sassen (1972, The Netherlands)...
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Casita de Turrón
roberto tondopoOctober 20th, 2015Adolescence and its associated difficulties are nearly universally experienced and yet, these years of emotional, awkward exploits are typically swept under the rug as soon as they’re passed, rarely to be revisited again. Roberto Molina Tondopó (1978, Mexico) aims to discover more about his own...
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The Quiet Town of Tipton
mahtab hussainOctober 12th, 2015Every time you turn on the news, articles surrounding the Muslim faith seem to take up most headlines, from ISIS waging war in Syria, to calls to ban the burka. The depiction of Islam as a violent faith in the media means it is unsurprising that many people have a skewed opinion of and hostile...
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