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From Moving Shots to Stills in ‘Ida’

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  • Nov 22nd, 2020
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    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 […]

    ‘The Model Family’ by Tealia Ellis Ritter

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  • Jun 9th, 2020
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    Tealia Ellis Ritter lives and works in rural Connecticut. Ellis Ritter’s work contends with the intersecting roles of the photograph as personal document, familial marker of time and object with physical surface. Her interest lies in both physical and emotional exploration of the changing nature of identity and intimacy over time. She is presently engaged […]

    ‘Snow Bed’ by Georgia Ponirakou

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  • May 28th, 2020
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    When people talk about depression and stressful events in their lives, there should be someone listening. Sometimes the burden of such feelings is so intense and unbearable that some people just can’t move on. They lie still in a snow bed they made for themselves, ready to disappear and vanish in darkness, in a lifeless […]

    ‘Lea Valley’ by Felipe Restrepo

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  • Apr 18th, 2020
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    Felipe Restrepo is a photographer based in United Kingdom. Stretching down through east London to the River Thames, the River Lea and its valley compass a vast area with rich history of development and exploitation. In the following series, the photographer’s aim was to build an open-ended set of images to explore and interrogate the […]

    ‘Snake Legs’ by Max Zerrahn

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  • Mar 23rd, 2020
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    Max Zerrahn is a photographer based in Berlin. His first book Snake Legs 蛇足, published by White Belt Publishing, focuses in everyday scenes and details of a bustling metropolis, that would typically go unnoticed in the rush of a city of 38 million inhabitants. The consistent framing, which avoids the abstract snapshots, the smart double-view […]

    ‘Halfstory Halflife’ by Raymond Meeks

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  • Feb 26th, 2020
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    Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. He gains inspiration by book narrative and collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text. Halfstory Halflife, his recent body of work, is a visual biography of the post-teen age, in a specific time of the year, […]

    ‘Polar Night’ by Mark Mahaney

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  • Feb 17th, 2020
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    Northern California based photographer Mark Mahaney has published his first book, Polar Night. The hemisphere tilts away from the sun during the winter months, communities near the North Pole experience a phenomenon known as the polar night: a period of uninterrupted darkness. In Utqiagvik, it lasts for approximately two months a year. When did the production […]

    ‘Nocturno’ by Monty Kaplan

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  • Feb 4th, 2020
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    Monty Kaplan is a photographer from Argentina. His work can be interpreted as a subjective anthropological exploration of the world. The series Nocturno can be seen as a blank canvas where Monty illuminates eclectically parts of his private universe. What do you think about the relation of peripatetic life and the action of photographing?This is […]

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