Michal Chelbin's latest body of photography, shot in seven prisons in the Ukraine and Russia over the past six years, explores what it means to be locked and constantly watched—and to be looking back at such a person in this surreal world within a world. Chelbin's...

22.10.2012[ read full story ]

With a predilection for the square format of her Rolleiflex, which allow her photographs and compositions to exude their natural elegance, Micheline Dullin documents major building sites. It is in these photographs, including those taken from a helicopter, that...

18.10.2012[ read full story ]

Do It Yourself. The ethos of the punk movement that began in the 1970s with a kind of we-ain’t-got-no-money joie de vivre. Style is using what you have at your disposal and putting it to work; being crafty, creative, criminal if need be. Turning everything on end to what end? Perhaps just ...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

It is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts. For almost a hundred years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, a border region with an Armenian majority . The conflict between the two former Soviet republics peaked in a bloody war in 1992 that killed tens o...

01.11.2012[ read full story ]

Editions Trans Photographic Press has just published Corps Lato Sensu, a photography book by Catherine Rebois. “Not having a body, like an object at one’s disposition to tame at leisure, but to be a body, and to be perhaps only a body. And to live with it, to make do with it, to c...

29.10.2012[ read full story ]

The title of the book itself announces Stephen Ferry’s completeness: "Violentology" is directly derived from the name of sociologists specializing in Colombian political violence and "manual" is borrowed from the technical vocabulary. The situation in Co...

22.10.2012[ read full story ]

Jennifer’s family is the story of an encounter. Jennifer and Louisa are roughly the same age, but everything else sets them apart, from the way they look to their social context. A student with golden, gleaming hair, Louisa decided to investigate the social problems ...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

The illustrated pin-up was the most popular girl in mid-twentieth century America. Long, slender legs, an impossibly small waist, bursting curves and a wide-eyed innocence felled hearts across the country. This ubiquitous vision of feminine perfection was ‘The Elvgr...

17.10.2012[ read full story ]