Category: Photography

Yvonne Venegas: Construction of Appearance

Yvonne Venegas, From the series El Tiempo Que Pasamos, Inédito, 2006 and Maria Elvia de Hank, 2006-2010 Over the years, Yvonne Venegas has a developed a specific visual language through her photographs which thrive on moments of fleeting imperfection. She captures her subjects in flux, scenes that reveal artifice, and various states of becoming.  Venegas balances beauty and… Continue reading Yvonne Venegas: Construction of Appearance

Deana Lawson, Ways That Sexuality, Violence, Family, and Social Status May Be Written Upon the Body

Deana Lawson, Shirley, 2006, Hotel Oloffson Storage Room, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2013 and Thai, 2009 Deana Lawson’s photographs are inspired by the materiality and expression of black culture globally. Her work negotiates a knowledge of selfhood through a profoundly corporeal dimension. “My work negotiates a knowledge of selfhood through a profoundly corporeal dimension; the photographs speaking… Continue reading Deana Lawson, Ways That Sexuality, Violence, Family, and Social Status May Be Written Upon the Body

Talia Chetrit, I Wanted to Expose the Vulnerability in the Private Moments Between Takes

  Talia Chetrit, Heat, 2015, Parents/Trees, 2014 and Jeans, 2016 Talia Chetrit’s work focuses on the human body—often her own—as a starting point to examine how images are constructed to support different agendas and interpretations of reality. After beginning her practice with an exploration of the manipulative nature of photography, Chetrit is increasingly interested in… Continue reading Talia Chetrit, I Wanted to Expose the Vulnerability in the Private Moments Between Takes

Nasan Tur, Political Supporters, 2016

Nasan Tur,  Political Supporters, 2016 Nasan Tur’s works reflect the political and social conditions of our time. In his works the artist thematises symbols of power and affiliation, which are omnipresent both in the cityscape and the media. He investigates the individual options ranging between acting in public space and doing nothing, between distance and… Continue reading Nasan Tur, Political Supporters, 2016

Ivar Kvaal, Dvale

Ivar Kvaal, Dvale, 2016 The series contained within Dvale (hibernation in Norwegian) was created during the lead-up to the opening of the Norwegian hospital Ahus in 2008. Ivar Kvaal has captured the building in a slumbering state, in the weeks and months before it was brought to life. The images in the book encompass a… Continue reading Ivar Kvaal, Dvale

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans, Young Man, Jeddah, A, 2012, Nite Queen, 2013 and Young Man, Jeddah, B, 2012 The German artist Wolfgang Tillmans is the recipient of the 2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. On December 1, 2015 an exhibition of Tillmans’ work opened at the Hasselblad Center, Sweden. On the same day, the Hasselblad Foundation hosted… Continue reading Wolfgang Tillmans

Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015

  Sascha Weidner, Am Wasser Gebaut, 2009,  Lay Down Close By,  2012 and La lutte de J. Avec l´ange, 2006. Sascha Weidner was a German Photographer and Artist, who lived and worked in Belm and Berlin. The work of Sascha Weidner deals with the creation of a radical subjective pictorial world. His photographs are characterized… Continue reading Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015

Photography: John Divola

John Divola, Theodore Street, 2012, San Fernando Valley, 1973 and Zuma Beach (1978/2006), 1978 “Abandoned houses are one of the few places where you can go and paint anything you want and nobody is going to yell at you” says John Divola. Los Angeles–based photographer John Divola is perhaps best known for this series of… Continue reading Photography: John Divola

Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield

   Lauren Greenfield, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, 1997, Girl Culture, 2002 and Thin, 2006 Acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture, gender, fashion, media, wealth, beauty, and consumer culture as a result of her groundbreaking photographic projects (Girl Culture, Fast Forward, and THIN)… Continue reading Photograpy: Lauren Greenfield

Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins

Chris Steele-Perkins, Virtual reality display by Subaru, Japan, 1999, Street Children in Luanda, Angola, 1999, Taliban fighters move against Masood’s forces, Afghanistan, 1996 and Trying out artificial limbs at ICRC clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1994 Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his… Continue reading Photography: Chris Steele-Perkins

Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee

   Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee, 3 February 2015 – 12 April 2015 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The content of the exhibition focuses predominantly on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Suriname in 2013. Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the Surinamese rainforest. The… Continue reading Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee

Capricious Magazine

Images from Capricious Magazine, Vol 2, Issue no. 11, Issue no. 13 and Issue no. 14 Swedish photographer Sophie Mörner founded Capricious Magazine in 2004. It is a biannual publication dedicated to showcasing emerging fine art photography. Its contributors and subject matter span the globe and is comprised almost entirely of images. Since Capricious collaborates… Continue reading Capricious Magazine

Photography: Marcelo Krasilcic, 1990s, 2013

Marcelo Krasilcic, Devra and Elaine, New York, 1996 and Untitled, From the book, 1990s, 2013 Part of a generation of photographers that includes Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson, Marcel Krasilcic (born 1969) moved to New York in 1990. He quickly became known for his spare but erotic photographs of liberated youth, artists, designers and musicians,… Continue reading Photography: Marcelo Krasilcic, 1990s, 2013

Photography: Ahmed Kamel

Ahmed Kamel, From the Series, Dreamy Day, 2004 – 2008 Ahmed Kamel is interested in domestic and urban life. He uses photography, video and drawing to address social issues. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1981, where he studied painting and received his BFA in 2003. Kamel is the recipient of a number of… Continue reading Photography: Ahmed Kamel

Anders Petersen Photography

Anders Petersen, Paris, 2006 and To Belong, 2012 Anders Petersen Photography, 1944, is a Swedish photographer, who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Petersen is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. In 1967, he started to photograph the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers, drug addicts) in a bar in Hamburg, named Café Lehmitz, and continued that project for… Continue reading Anders Petersen Photography

Photography: Mårten Lange

Mårten Lange, From the Book, Another Language, 2012 “A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.” Alexander von Humboldt (1845) The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality… Continue reading Photography: Mårten Lange

Exhibition: Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller, Lehmann Maupin, New York 10 February -17 March 2012 201 Chrystie Street This exhibition highlighted three recent series, demonstrating Teller’s dynamic and diverse oeuvre. Featuring the controversial photographs of Kristen McMenamy, shot in the home of Carlo Mollino and seductive portraits of Vivienne Westwood, juxtaposed with intimate portraits of his family and close… Continue reading Exhibition: Juergen Teller