Books
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Agnieszka Sejud: HOAX
agnieszka sejudJuly 9th, 2020The primacy of church, suppression of women, ethnic and sexual minorities, ecological problems, fake news and propaganda in Poland are all topics addressed in Agnieszka Sejud’s ‘HOAX’.Sejud’s book...
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Maria Dabrowski: Odsłonić
maria dabrowskiJune 24th, 2020Maria Dabrowski (b. 1988, The Netherlands) researched her family roots, revealing a story of expatriation, war crimes and trauma. ‘Odsłonić’ her self-published monograph, consists of a collection...
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African Cosmologies
various artistsJune 15th, 2020‘African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other’ brings together 33 artists of African origins from around the globe in conjunction with the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition. The included artists challenge traditional understandings of blackness and transnational histories in relation to...
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Dark Dunes
rein jelle terpstraJune 12th, 2020Dutch artist Rein Jelle Terpstra (b.1960) owns an incredible range of vernacular photographs that he collected over the years and his archive meanwhile contains approximately 55.000 images altogether, from which appropriations evolve that are concerned with perception of history.Terpstra’s latest...
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Xiaoxiao Xu: Watering my Horse
xiaoxiao xuMay 25th, 2020Xiaoxiao Xu (b. 1984, China), a Netherlands-based photographer with Chinese roots, observes both East and West from a distance in order to understand her identity and the stories behind the world she lives in. In her latest monograph, ‘Watering My Horse’ (The Eriskay Connection, 2020), Xu...
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Mayumi Hosokura: New Skin
mayumi hosokuraMay 20th, 2020‘New Skin’ by Mayumi Hosokura (b. 1979, Japan) is deeply inspired by the writing of feminist biologist/philosopher Donna Haraway – on the proposing of a novel vision on the concepts of identity, the body and desire in relation to our technological innovations. Hosokura included quotes arriving...
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François-Marie Banier: Battlefields
françois marie banierMay 18th, 2020François-Marie Banier (b.1947, France) is a playwright, actor, novelist, artist, and photographer. His latest monograph ‘Battlefields’ (published by Steidl) contains images captured between 1994-2018 at Gay Prides in Brussels, London, New York, Paris and Rome. Besides the celebration of gay...
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John Divola: Chroma
john divolaMay 8th, 2020Throughout his photography career, John Divola (b. 1949, the USA) has approached a wide range of subjects, oscillating between the abstract and the specific. For his latest monograph ‘Chroma’ (published by Skinnerboox), Divola presents a series of images that function as a visual metaphor for the...
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Centralia: Poulomi Basu
poulomi basuApril 29th, 2020Poulomi Basu (b.1983, India) is a transmedia artist, photographer and an activist. Her first photobook ‘Centralia’ (published by Dewi Lewis), exposes hidden crimes of war where indigenous people fight for their survival; a conflict that remained largely invisible particularly due to the lack of...
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Henrik Spohler: Hypothesis
henrik spohlerApril 13th, 2020Henrik Spohler (b. 1965, Germany) has worked as a freelance photographer since 1992 and from 2009 he became a professor of Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. In his latest monograph, ‘Hypothesis’ (published by Hartmann Books), he aims to address the world of...
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Maria Kapajeva: Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear
maria kapajevaApril 3rd, 2020The year 1991 marks a turbulent era. One system collapsed, a new one arrived.Maria Kapajeva (1976, Estonia) is from Narva, and the epicentre of her hometown is the Kreenholm textile mill, which went through a long redundancy process from 1996 up until its full closure in 2009. Almost everyone in...
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Maria Lax: Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
maria laxMarch 30th, 2020Maria Lax is a London-based photographer with a background in cinematography, which influences her photographic oeuvre highlighted with precise use of colour, and an amalgamation of fantasy and reality. In ‘Some Kind of Heavenly Fire’, her first monograph, she returns to her roots, a small town...
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27 Good-byes
deanna dikemanMarch 23rd, 2020Deanna Dikeman (b. 1954, United States) documented her parents' life for nearly 27 years. In the images, we can see her mother and father - during different life stages - waving her good-bye as she drives away.It started in 1991, with a sequence of snapshots that were made by the photographer to...
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Aikaterini Gegisian: Handbook of the Spontaneous Other
aikaterini gegisianMarch 11th, 2020Aikaterini Gegisian (b. 1976, Greece) is an artist of Greek-Armenian heritage who is currently based in both the UK and Greece. In her work, she generally explores the role of imagery in the construction of national and gender identities. In her latest monograph, ‘Handbook of the Spontaneous...
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Time Atlas
niina vatanenFebruary 26th, 2020The art practice of Niina Vatanen (b. 1977, Finland) is based on cumulating layers into her images through painting, cutting, staging and re-photographing. Her latest publication ‘Time Atlas’ (2019) includes playful interventions that highlight the primacy of sight as the inherent aspect of...
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The Trap
vincent desaillyFebruary 14th, 2020The word ‘trap’ has multiple definitions but as a music genre, associated with hip hop, it has seen an explosive growth most recently, with artists appearing on top 40 charts all across the globe. However, as also becomes clear in this book by Vincent Desailly (1989, France), the roots of ‘trap’...
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n e w f l e s h
efrem zelony mindellJanuary 27th, 2020What can queerness bring to visual culture? That is a question triggered by the recent title n e w f l e s h published by Gnomic Book. It introduces an abundance of artists who aim to bring across a new way of looking, detached from traditional understandings of gender and identity in the...
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Peter Funch - The Imperfect Atlas
peter funchJanuary 16th, 2020Climate change and its massive consequences is something we can no longer deny. However, the hard changes our nature and environment have to endure are not immediately visible to our eyes, which makes us blind and ignorant as the problems increase. It is this paradigm of perception and relation...
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Campaign Child
xiaopeng yuanDecember 6th, 2019Campaign Child by Chinese artist Xiaopeng Yuan (b. 1988, China), a Shanghai-based photographer, immediately takes off with confronting and rather absurd images: a breathless canary bird crushed down with a clean film on the floor; a hospital bed dripping with liquid; children sharing the same...
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On Inclusion and Diversity
November 26th, 2019Two recently published titles - The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization (SPBH, 2019) and The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019) both emphasise that we live in times of inclusion and postmodern feminism - topics that are finally...
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