Phillipa Klaiber is a long-form documentary photographer. The central themes of her practice are the anthropology of landscape, memory, and the materiality and topography of land. Perhaps you can speak first about your early life to set the scene. Where did you grow up and how did that environment shape you?I grew up on the […]
‘Je ne Regrette Rien’ by Maria Munzi
Maria Munzi is a photographer based in Barcelona.Je ne regrette rien (2018- ), her recent in-progress series documents the surreal scenes that appear daily, allowing mystery, irony and tension to obtain the depth they deserve. To get started, it would be nice to know a bit about you and your background. What attracted you to […]
‘Purple is Black Blooming’ by Aaron Chapman
Aaron Chapman is an artist and writer based on the Gold Coast, Australia working across a range of mediums including photography, sculpture and public art. Chapman’s work is motivated by themes of home and memory, and in particular, childhood. When did you realize the series? Did it come naturally as you were reviewing-sequencing your photographs […]
‘Concrete Doesn’t Burn’ by Bertrand Cavalier
Bertrand Cavalier explores the interactions between people and their environment. Exploiting photography’s ability to penetrate the tissue that binds individuals together and embeds them into their surroundings, he creates poetic renditions of singular moments, rather than objective documents of social phenomena. Cavalier’s images reveal how the socio-political order informs everyday life through architecture and the […]
The Missing Eye” by Mattia Parodi & Piergiorgio Sorgetti
Recent studies published by the Cognitive Brain Research have shown, using instruments that measure dream activity, that blind people since birth dream in images. Several hypotheses suggest that these representations are a result of the collaboration between the activity of the visual cortex and the activity of other sensory organs, however it isn’t excluded that […]
‘Like’ by Ryan Debolski
Ryan Debolski is a Detroit-based photographer, who studied photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His recent project, ‘Like’, published by Gnomic Book, explores the physical and digital relationships of the migrant workers who build the infrastructure of Oman, a rapidly modernizing country rich in oil and natural gas. What were the key elements to your photographic education? […]
‘A Small Guide to Homeownership’ by Alejandro Cartagena
Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (b. 1977, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects employ landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, urban and environmental issues. A Small Guide to Homeownership, published by the Velvet Cell is an amalgamation of 15 years of work, starting with Fragmented Cities series made […]
From Moving Shots to Stills in ‘Ida’
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while, you might believe that is a photo series here, but those shots are indeed stills from the movie Ida! Director Pawel Pawlikowski gives us a portrait of post-war Poland through the story of Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a young Polish girl who lives in a convent. An […]