Pieter Hugo’s There’s a place in hell for me & my friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa home. Through a digital process of converting colour images to black and white while m...

05.12.2012[ read full story ]

The rocky coast of Maine is where Briechle found himself driven to make pictures, using the wet-plate collodion process, of the individuals who constitute his stand-in family. “I've been in Maine close to eight years now and there are some people I've photographed for the entire time. A f...

05.12.2012[ read full story ]

The Muses are the nine companions of Apollo, each embodying a distinctive art, each the idea made flesh, the sublimation of desire into the creation of beauty. The muse inspires the artist to find the divine and bring it to life, to make anew something that exists in the space between us, ...

30.11.2012[ read full story ]

Australia’s major cities dot the coastline of this vast continent and Sydney, the country’s largest metropolis, is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, its glittering harbor, the Opera House, Harbor Bridge and its surf beaches tourist draw cards of the land do...

30.11.2012[ read full story ]

Today we’re looking at two small books by the French publisher Jean-Boîte, each of which began as a project developed on the Internet. Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is a compilation of the former North Korean leader photographed while looking at things: tomatoes, computers, ...

28.11.2012[ read full story ]

The early 20th century witnessed the epilogue of one of the greatest genocides in human history. In the first decade, the so-called American Indians were dying in the reserves that the United States had invented, or they had already died from illness, despair, or at the hands ...

30.11.2012[ read full story ]

There’s no need to discuss Robert Doisneau’s life: looking at his photographs is enough to love him. But this man, who is the contemporary and equal of the uknowns he liked or disliked but whom he photographed all the same, is no stranger. As famous in England and America as in Franc...

26.11.2012[ read full story ]

My first visits to North America in the 1960s revealed a wealth of experiences foreign to my world in northern England. The space, light, scale & enthusiasm of its land & peoples etched a profound mark into my subconscious. After 15 years documenting the remnants of the rise an...

28.11.2012[ read full story ]

Summer 1983. While wandering the streets of Paris, Sophie Calle finds an address book with an enticing red cover. Overwhelmed by curiosity as she turns the pages covered in casual notes, Calle decides to make the owner’s acquaintance, but not with a straightforward meet...

28.11.2012[ read full story ]

The small publisher CityFiles press published this month a new monograph dedicated to Vivian Maier, following an earlier release by powerHouse Books. This new work is organized in sections, and features many never- seen before photographs. Given the sheer number of ...

22.11.2012[ read full story ]