Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey and based in Boston. Her photographs portray lineage, folklore, memory, and narrative. How does a new project start for you? Do you prefer to take notes by doing research around the subjects you are interested in or do you prefer to shoot first, taking visual notes […]
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Fading Senses by Ligia Popławska
Ligia Popławska is a visual artist and photographer currently based in Antwerp, Belgium. She graduated with MFA in Photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2020) and BA in Art History from the University of Gdańsk (2016). Her work focuses on the topics of environmental change and sensory ecology. She researches the parallels […]
‘The Hunter, the Woman & the Hut’ by Giannis Manolis
Giannis Manolis is a Greek photographer who lives and works in Thessaloniki. In his first long term project, he engages with life in the suburban Greek landscape and constructs a subtle sequence of portraits, signs of culture, interior spaces, that have two qualities; the documentary and the personal commentary. The later is latent in his […]
The use of colour or black and white as an aesthetic choice in three Wim Wender’s films
Wim Wenders was born in August 14, 1945 in Dusseldorf, Germany. He studied in the Film School of Munich after he had abandoned his studies in Medicine and Philosophy. Between 1968 and 1971 he wrote film reviews and in 1970 he made his first full length feature film, called Summer in the City. In Wenders’ […]
‘Les Formes Qu’illes Habitent en Temps de Crise’ by Chloé Milos Azzopardi
Chloé Milos Azzopardi is a French photographer and artist. Based on her personal experience, she is interested in the relationship between human and non-human beings, trying to get out of the prism of utility and servitude. Her research focuses on the representation of mental health and the construction of post-capitalocene imaginaries. To start us off, […]
‘Madre’ by Marisol Mendez
Marisol Mendez is a Bolivian photographer that uses her camera to study the tension between truth and fiction, the tight relationship between what a photograph creates and the (sur)real it comes from. Unconcerned with image hierarchies, she combines lo-fi procedures with sophisticated photographic techniques to explore the dynamics between immediacy and intimacy, memory and identity. […]
‘Zenker’ by Jonas Feige & Yana Wernicke
Jonas Feige and Yana Wernicke are Berlin-based photographers. Since 2016 they have been working on the project Zenker, about the history and repercussions of the life of German botanist and gardener Georg August Zenker. The photobook of the project has just been published by Edition Patrick Frey and it’s the perfect opportunity to have this conversation. How did you […]
‘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 […]