Thomas Mailaender: “Illustrated People” – 23 Original Negatives, Powerful UV Lamp and Painful-Looking Skin-Based Photos
France – “Illustrated People” is the translation into book form of a performance by Thomas Mailaender. He applied to the skin of models 23 original negatives selected from the Archive of Modern Conflict’s collection before projecting a powerful UV lamp over them, thus revealing a fleeting image on the skin’s surface. Maileander then photographed each […]
Palestinian Artist Nidaa Badwan’s 100 Days of Solitude in Gaza
Palestine – Introspection for an “Outsider” The Outsider by British novelist Colin Wilson, who popularized the notion of a new existentialism, told the story of a man who found solace in a strict self-imposed discipline and a deep level of inwardness. A man who learned to control his life and search for his own way […]
Emeric Lhuisset: Hundred Portraits of Demonstrators from Maydan Square in Ukraine
Ukraine – On Maydan Square in Kiev, French photographer Émeric Lhuisset (b. 1983) created a compelling series of portraits of the demonstrators. He asked all of them two questions, which they answered on a sheet of paper: – What would you like to see happening now? – What do you think will happen? With Maydan […]
Yoshikatsu Fujii: “Incipient Strangers” – Photographying Family’s Internal Conflicts
Japan – Siblings can be incipient strangers. Even siblings sharing the same blood can become distant and turn into strangers to each other as they each grow and forge their own path in life. Sometimes, we fail to hit it off with friends and eventually lose touch. But with family, no matter how brittle the […]
Tiago Casanova: “The Pearl of Atlantic” – Subjective Relationship Between Beauty and Uglyness
Portugal – Pearl* – “Hard object that grows around a grain of sand or other foreign matter as a defensive measure of certain molluscules.” Pearl by Photography feature – Tiago Casanova is a project and book about Madeira Island, nicknamed as “The Pearl of the Atlantic”, a highly touristic place known for its Nature and […]
Kristen Hatgi Sink: “A Tented Sky” – Notions of Youth, Fragility and Beauty
USA – This latest series of photographic works marks a distinct evolution in Hatgi Sink’s work. Both sumptuous and disruptive her images indulge in excess while indicating that not all is well in paradise. Referring to a line by the lyric poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Tented Sky presents a captive world, where femininity and nature are caught […]
Glenn Sloggett: “Fibro Dreams” – Book made with Love and Love can be fucked
Australia – It seems obvious to me now, having completed the book, that in hindsight this was something that I desperately needed to do. I feel like I ‘d carried a sack of cement on my back for 20 years, a great weight unfulfilled. Scared, reassuring myself over the years, that I was waiting for […]
All India Bakchod revolutionises the last chance to ‘Save the Internet’ in India
India – All India Bakchod (AIB), an Indian comedy collective, has been actively advocating for net neutrality laws online through this video. Net neutrality laws help netizens to access the Internet with freedom vested with the consumers.But the changes in the Net Neutrality regulation will take away the freedom of the consumer to choose a […]
Hideka Tonomura: “They Called Me Yukari” – Vivid Fantasy of a Japanese Hostess
Japan – Hideka Tonomura has left a grave shock in the art scene with her debut collection of photographs, “母恋ハハ・ラブ/ Mama・Love” (AKAAKA Publishing, 2008) which has portrayed, in flashing clarity, her mother as an actual woman, in other words, a women who is also a mother of someone. In the returning exhibition in Zen Foto […]
Wikileaks publishes 30000 documents and 1,70,000 emails from Sony leak correspondence
USA – The brouhaha that has erupted after the Seth Rogen-James Franco movie ‘The Interview‘ was pulled, has snowballed into murky waters with hackers releasing over 1,70,000 private emails from senior Sony executives to prominent Hollywood personalities such as Angelina Jolie. ”Whilst some stories came out at the time, the original archives, which were not […]
Dan Budnik: ‘Marching to the Freedom Dream’ – The Heroic Encounter
USA – Marching To The Freedom Dream presents American photojournalist Photography feature – Dan Budnik’s significant body of work documenting three seminal marches of the civil rights movement. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and precedes the 50th anniversaries of the Selma-Montgomery March and the […]
Mike Day: “The Island and the Whales” – Documentary on Marine Pollution in Faroe Islands
England – Many in the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local doctor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten to end the controversial tradition and change the community forever. Local toxicologist, Dr Pál Weihe, conducted a thirty-year study of thousands […]