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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Despite being in 21st century, unfortunately, certain misconceptions about women still linger in the air. As most of us know, one of the fields that is strongly male dominated is film industry. I remember a friend’s struggle, when she decided to be a DOP: “You cannot carry that camera, it is heavy.”
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SWAN SONG

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

While I’m sure almost all of you have heard of Shirin Neshat, a tribute. Best known for the photographic series Women of Allah, two-screen video works, and the film Women Without Men (2009), her work addresses the female experience and sexual politics in Islamic societies.  As in Turbulence (1998) here, Neshat’s use of lush chiaroscuro seeks to [...]

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MAY THE CIRCLE REMAIN UNBROKEN

Thursday, August 14, 2014

With Instagram and virtually every other photographer shooting from the hip these days, it’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, that kind of snapshot photography was entirely unacceptable in a commercial context. With pioneers in casual snaps for high end fashion such as Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Terry Richardson having ascended to super [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: RIPOSTE

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

It’s a frequent sore point for us that the men/women ratio of mono.kultur features tends to be at 3:1, and we’re sometimes struggling even to that end. It has certainly nothing to do with that there aren’t as many talented and interesting women out there, but when it comes to having made a name for [...]

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