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Everybody Loves to ChaChaCha: An Interview with Bego Antón
bego antónOctober 12th, 2017interviewSpanish photographer Bego Antón (b. 1983) focuses on the relationship between people and animals – a complicated set of interactions that includes animals that we eat, collect or call pets. In...
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Sisyphe
dirk braeckmanNovember 5th, 2015In his photobook Sisyphe, Dirk Braekman (1958, Belgium) published a collection of 32 black and white plates showing his work re-photographing and abstracting images culled from 1970s pornography....
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The Quietest and Safest Place in Pahokee: An Interview with Sofia Valiente
sofia valienteOctober 8th, 2015interviewShortly after graduating from university, young American photographer Sofia Valiente (1990) learnt about a small community near to her hometown in Florida: Miracle Village, where more than 100 sex offenders reside. Though they are free’ citizens, sex offenders face the logistical difficulties of...
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Front Lawn Funerals and Cemeteries
cameron jamieJuly 7th, 2015"There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell.” - Edgar Allen PoeHalloween has a long tradition but the form that is so well known today is an amalgamation of many different customs from across the western world. From...
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Only the dead have seen the end of war
calum douglasJune 29th, 2015Yet the poor fellows think they are safe! They think that the war is over! Only the dead have seen the end of war." - from George Santayana’s “Tipperary”During the ‘90s and ‘00s the Middle East has been continuously portrayed by the media as unstable or in the grip of war. This reportage has had...
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Belongs to Joe
casper sejersenJune 25th, 2015The story of Joe began in Lars Von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac. A difficult story about a woman (played by actress Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggling with nymphomania, it held contradictions of personality as its central theme: can anybody truly betray their own nature, and what is that nature if we...
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Slideluck introduces a new platform: Slideluck Editorial
June 19th, 2015newsSlideluck Editorial has launched a new website! For the last 15 years, the Slideluck organisation has been hosting events worldwide that display photographic works through the use of analogue and digital slide projections or more complex multimedia works utilising video. Slideluck has previously...
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Photography: Simulating reality since 1839…
wawrzyniec kolbuszdebashish chakrabartyJune 19th, 2015columnPlato would hate photography.In The Republic, Plato set forth the Allegory of the Cave, a thought experiment on the truth of reality and man’s ability to perceive this truth. The condition of man, he claims, could be likened to a group of people chained to the wall of a cave so that they can only...
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Photogrammetry and the family: An interview with Kimmo Virtanen
kimmo virtanenJune 17th, 2015interviewPost_smart, the latest project from Kimmo Virtanen (1985, Finland), looks at the interactions between parents, children and modern technology as they struggle to cope with the demands of an ever-changing society. In creating his series of ‘photogrammetric images’ – 3D models generated by software...
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Farang
francesco merliniJune 15th, 2015Italy, France, Turkey, Thailand and Kosovo, Francesco Merlini (1986, Italy) has visited all of these places over the last three years to collect images of Farang, the Thai word for foreigner or stranger. As an almost constant outsider in these cultures and places he was surrounded by hordes of...
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A Journey in Reverse Direction
zhu lan qingJune 12th, 2015Urban development can be like amnesia for cities. The destruction of old buildings can be like memories being erased only to be replaced by the new histories of concrete and glass. In Zhu Lan Qing’s home town of Dongshan Island she attempts to fight this amnesia with her camera. Taking fragments...
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Simulacra and Simulation
theo tagholmJune 10th, 2015In these videos from Theo Tagholm, who lives and works in London, stock footage of American landscapes are used to explore the concepts of simulation, and how it degrades reality into moments which only temporarily map the reality that moves and changes behind its stationary facade. The video...
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Perspectives Part 1
fabian zapatkaJune 5th, 2015The daily life of a pig may seem like a topic ripe for an idyllic book, full of countryside and pig sties, however, the pig-life at the focus of Perspectives Part 1, a new book from Fabian Zapatka (1978, Germany), is unfortunately not quite so normal. Then again, perhaps that is just a matter of...
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Model Of Reality
edyta dufajJune 1st, 2015Simple can be beautiful and in these vigorously minimalist images from polish photographer Edyta Dufaj (1988), that simplicity is applied to question our acceptance of reality. At first the images appear as though documenting fantastical situations she has discovered… yet the eye aches when faced...
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Staraya Utka
sergey poteryaevMay 30th, 2015Staraya Utka, a small village in Russia has has had a long history... unfortunately it is one mainly of decay and deterioration. Ever since the local Staro-Utkinsky Metallurgical Factory was abandoned by its administration the people who were depending on it to invigorate their economy were left...
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Concrete passages about closeness and coldness… and a couple of songs.
gabor kaszaMay 29th, 2015We live in a world of concrete and tarmac, into which great operas are performed — our daily lives. These cold materials house the life of cities and act as a stage for the moments of connection and action, which bring us together or tear us apart. Using these concrete backdrops Gabor Kasza...
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An Empty Valley
ettore moniMay 24th, 2015The empty of valley of this project's name is actually an incredibly important location to the history of classical art and architecture. Situated near the city of Carrara the valley has provided the materials for some of the most iconic statues that mankind has ever made, like Michelangelo’s...
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The End of Cathedrals
jorge fuembuenaMay 20th, 2015Nature is an ephemeral entity constantly moving and changing but on a time scale so immense that its transitions take millennia. These alterations of nature are etched into the surface of this planet in the layers of the earth's crust. The movement of the earth, while still incredibly slow, is...
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Exabytes
debashish chakrabartyMay 18th, 2015Its easy to lose yourself in a virtual world, to inhabit and become the characters and avatars present on the screen in front of you. It’s a case of oversensitive empathy, throwing your mind forward into a simulated other. Feeling and sensing what that small construct of pixels and polygons does...
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Midnight Modern
tom blachfordMay 15th, 2015Over the past two years Australian photographer Tom Blachford has made repeated trips to Palm Springs in America. During his first trip there he spent his evenings wandering around the suburbs photographing the American modernist houses. Inspired by the possibilities he quickly returned to refine...
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