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 […]
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‘Nocturno’ by Monty Kaplan
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 […]
Commenting on the Discursive Meanings of Photography by Dimitris Kechris
Dimitris Kechris is a photographer, curator and author based in Athens. He graduated from the Physics Department of the Athens University and he attended photography courses at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His work brings together two things that he is really interested in: politics and enigmatic pictures. What was the starting point of […]
‘Beware Of The Dog’ by Alex Llovet
Alex Llovet is a Spanish photographer who has studied humanities, cinema and photography. He has written and directed various short films, published a number of photobooks, and had fair share of exhibitions. Beware Of The Dog is a journey to maturity, the transition in which desire, the idea of death, and the scars caused by […]
Seeking Inner Peace in ‘Jasper’ by Matthew Genitempo
Matthew Genitempo is an North American photographer and book publisher currently living and making work in Marfa, Texas. His first book, Jasper, published by Twin Palms, was photographed in the Ozark Mountains and is inspired by the poet and land surveyor, Frank Stanford. The poetic, caption-free sequencing, bounces between fact and fiction and suggests a […]
Dark Scenes in ‘Metronome’ by Gina Maragoudaki
Gina Maragoudaki is a greek photographer based in Athens. She studied piano and advanced theory of music. Metronome series is the result of her first seven years of photographing. She has constructed a bright black world where darkness spreads around her subject matter which intentionally doesn’t give the viewer much information about its origin. In […]
A Dive into the Enigmatic Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Released in 1979, Stalker is at the end of the career of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a poetic and atypical story of a guide, a stalker, taking an artist and a scientist, to a forbidden area called the “Zone” to find the “Room”, which is said to grant the wishes of anyone who enters. […]
Panos & Mary Investigate the Identity of the Lassithi Plateau in ‘Cornucopia’
Panos Charalampidis and Mary Chairetaki are a Greek photographic duo, living in Crete. They use photography as a research tool that integrates the evidential nature of the medium, with the human perspective and emotions. In Cornucopia, their latest completed long-term series, they have created an intimate body of work that is simultaneously wondrous and familiar. In […]