Cristina de Middel: ‘This Is What Hatred Did’ – The Nigerian Escapade
Nigeria – In the 1960s, a five-year-old Nigerian child’s village was attacked by soldiers. His mother had left him home alone and he had to run away, escaping the bombs and the fire. He saved his life entering the Bush, this magical territory where no humans are allowed and where all the Yoruba spirits live […]
Katrien de Blauwer: “I do not want to disappear Silently into the Night
Belgium – Through Photography feature – Katrien de Blauwer‘s collages and their short circuit effect in our ways of seeing, the book intends to explore and deepen the concept of void and its visibility, proposing a work that’s situated at the border of different artistic disciplines, from photography to cinema to performance and to painting. Photographer without a camera, KDB collects and re-uses pictures and supports from old magazines and […]
Koji Takiguchi: “Sou” – Celebration of Death in the Family
Japan – Published by Little Big Man Books, Japan, Photography feature – Koji Takiguchi‘s images document his wife and her family over several years. During this time her mother died very suddenly from cancer. Immediately after that her father was committed to hospital and remained their indefinitely. While he was still in hospital Takiguchi’s wife gave birth […]
Tommaso Tanini: “H. said he loved us” – An Oppressive Investigation
Italy – Following three years of travels and investigations in Germany, published by Discipula Editions Photography feature – Tommaso Tanini’s H. Said He Loved Us draws on the story of the GDR and the German Ministry for State Security (STASI) to explore the feelings of oppression and dread caused by living in a state of […]
Vitaly Fomenko: Revisionist Soviet Rules of the Road
Russia – “In the Fall of 2014 the world witnessed with confusion, how, headed by the ambitious adventurer Putin, fraternal Russia invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. This Project reinterprets the problems involved in political territory and movement through Soviet worn-out prints from the 80‘s Sevastopol State Traffic Inspectorate. Traffic lights give an institutional order […]
Andrew Peacock: Being Trapped in Antarctica
Australia – For two weeks from 24th December 2013 the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy was trapped in thick ice in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, while operating in support of the 2013-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. It had taken 9 days of sailing across the rough Southern Ocean to reach the area. Before the ice closed around the ship […]
Media & Myth at Format Photo Festival: Role of Media in Vietnam War
Great Britain – The Media & Myth exhibition at FORMAT International Photography Festival brings together material produced for the London College of Communication’s NAM project, which explored the role of the media in the Vietnam War. Participants in the project have taken diverse approaches to this broad topic, from examining the ways in which photography […]
Daisuke Yokota: “Corpus” – Fictitious Mix of Nudity and Reality
Japan – Photography feature – Daisuke Yokota was selected for the first OUTSET UNSEEN AWARD in 2013, and his first solo exhibition in Europe was successfully ended at Foam Museum in July 2014. This his latest work “CORPUS” published by ArtBeat Publishers, Japan, features his nude photography for the first time. Yokota’s unique visual expression […]
Olga Matveeva: “FEUD” – Winner of the Vienna PhotoBook Award
Russia – (Crimea 12.2013- 03.2014) Photography feature – Olga Matveeva’s Feud is the fraternal war in which the opposition parties often can’t explain its roots and its prime cause. It is some kind of certain sacral action reproducing itself. Actually it is very difficult to be aside of the situation. There is no chance not […]
Living in the Times of Everyday Surveillance: Powerful Exhibition Opens at East-Wing, Dubai
Dubai – Surveillance.02 is presented and hosted by East Wing, and will run March 12 through April 30, 2015. Surveillance.02 comprises the work of seven interdisciplinary artists whose practices incorporate camera, satellite, and drone to question corporate and state surveillance, and energy production. It represents the second in a series we initiated over a year […]
Natan Dvir: “Comin Soon” – New Yorkers and their Colossal Advertisements
USA – ‘Coming Soon’ by Israeli photographer, Natan Dvir, is an exploration of our visual relationship with the branded city centers and the commercial environment we live in. In recent years huge billboards have enveloped the commercial hubs of New York City. The branding of the cityscape has become so ubiquitous, that the colorful, monumental […]
Diana Matar: “Evidence” – Photographing Six years of Political Disappearance
Libya – Years ago Photography feature – Diana Matar‘s father-in-law, a Libyan opposition leader, was kidnapped by the Egyptian secret service and handed over to the Gaddafi regime; he has been missing ever since. Published by Schilt, the first third of the book is a meditation on absence told through photographs and excerpts of letters […]