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WATCHING HUMANS WATCHING

Monday, May 14, 2012

The Watching Humans Watching series, by Swedish photographers Inka and Niclas, is very much indebted to Martin Parr’s famous photos of people taking photos. But while Parr’s flash-lit images match perfectly their content – scenes of hyper-mediated contemporary tourism – Inka and Niclas’s cool, deadpan images startle with their melancholy, compassion, [...]

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OF MICE AND MEN

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Last night our cover star Ryan McGinley’s latest exhibition opened in New York, with entirely new work that seems to be leading away even further from his road trip pieces that he became famous for, into a more abstract and graphic, if still equally colourful realm entirely his own.
Ryan McGinley: Grids / Animals
May 2nd – [...]

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BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND 01: MARK BORTHWICK

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Berlin is in art fever this weekend, with Thursday’s opening of the new and, how to put it, brave? Berlin biennial and three days of Gallery Weekend. So far and two days in, what I enjoyed most, weirdly, is Mark Borthwick’s little installation at the back of the new Comme des Garçons store, called Fountains [...]

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PICTURING ROCHESTER

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Jim Goldberg
Continuing its Postcards from America series (previous coverage here), Magnum has sent ten photographers to Rochester, New York, to create an visual archive of an American city. Rochester, former home of Kodak and in economic decline, seemed the ideal choice. Since each of the participating photographers possesses a very specific photographic style, House of [...]

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EXECUTION PORTRAITS

Monday, April 23, 2012

From Doug Rickard’s terrific site American Suburb X, haunting portraits of Cambodian prisoners at Tuol Sleng taken soon before their execution by the Khmer Rouge (the images were published by Twin Palms in Killing Fields). What is most incredible and most terrifying about these images is the lack of emotion on most of the subjects’ [...]

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TOBIAS ZIELONY: MANITOBA

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Our ongoing obsession with youth has been the focus of many photographers these days, from our recent cover star Ryan McGinley to Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra (who has a grand retrospective at the Guggenheim New York upcoming this summer).
But none does achieve the curiously moving balance between distance and empathy like Berlin-based photographer Tobias Zielony, [...]

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MEANWHILE, DOWN UNDER…

Friday, April 6, 2012

…Australia’s Independent Photography Festival is coming to the lovely shores of Melbourne, including the all new IPF Zine and Book Fair, where our humble selves will be presented among plenty of other tasty titles at the Motto booth. One day, and one day only. Yum.
IPF Book & Zine Fair
07 April 2012
10–16h
The Workers Club
51 – 55 [...]

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UPCOMING: RINEKE DIJKSTRA

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Rineke Dijkstra’s portraits are impossible to pull away from. While her subjects range from park-goers and dancers to French Foreign Legion officers, they are all young, and they are all totally open. Dijkstra is unparalleled in her ability to capture the emotional flux of growing up. Each face that addresses her camera (always directly) projects [...]

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PHOTO FACTS

Thursday, March 22, 2012

As all creative fields, photography has changed at a breathtaking pace since the arrival of digital photography. We take four times as many photographs as only ten years ago, but even more surprising: ten percent of all photographs ever taken were taken during the past 12 months. These and more astounding numbers on photography you [...]

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Paul Graham: The Present

Sunday, March 18, 2012

One of the best shows currently up in Chelsea, Paul Graham: The Present is a thrilling, engaging, and slightly frightening mediation on how we understand and experience day-to-day life in the city. Many pairs are hung near the floor of the gallery, which explicitly inserts the viewer into the scene pictured, and challenges the viewer [...]

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