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Introduction to GUP #58 - Delicate
christopher andersonAugust 20th, 2018A photograph is always a delicate object, as Willemijn van der Zwaan states in her article for this issue of GUP Magazine. Paper can tear, ink can fade and even a digital image isn’t safe: hard...
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The Map and the Territory
luigi ghirriJuly 20th, 2018backstoryThe Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) hardly ever had to leave Italy for inspiration. His subjects could be found anywhere. It was close to his home in Modena that he recognised how pop...
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A.L.M.A.: An interview with Mar Martín
mar martínJuly 18th, 2018interviewMar Martín (b. 1984), a Spanish photographer living in Berlin, has a cinematographic approach to photography. Her aesthetics are surreal and futuristic, her stories are open to interpretation. Her images are metaphors, giving the viewer the freedom to imagine the possible development of the...
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Open Call: New Dutch Photography Talent 2019
paul cupidoaaron zwaalJuly 17th, 2018GUP Magazine is proud to present the eighth edition of New Dutch Photography Talent: New 2019. Each year, New features the 100 greatest photography talents the Netherlands has to offer.New 2019 will be presented in November 2018. We are now open for submissions. All photography students, recent...
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Les Rencontres d’Arles
todd hidoraymond depardonJune 25th, 2018eventsFor its 49th edition, titled Back To The Future, Les Rencontres d’Arles reflects on what happens around the world today by looking back at events from 50 and 60 years ago. In different sections, visitors are taken through recent American and European history, as well as the most recent...
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Fotofestiwal Lodz
robert zhao renhuimandy barkerJune 21st, 2018eventsThis year’s edition of Fotofestiwal Lodz focuses on nature photography in the context of contemporary environmental problems. In bringing to light current issues such as global warming, mass extinction and ‘plastic soup’, one of the most classic genres of photography might be more relevant than...
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Harmony of Chaos: An interview with Renato d'Agostin
renato d'agostinJune 19th, 2018interviewRenato D’Agostin (b. 1983) is an Italian photographer who lives and works in New York. In preparation for his solo exhibition at Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, he sat down with GUP to discuss his inspirations and his most recent developments.At the age of 35, D’Agostin is going through what could be...
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The Past is not a Foreign Country: An interview with Marcelo Brodsky
marcelo brodskyJune 11th, 2018backstoryIn the late 1960s, all over the world, workers and students demanded a radical change of ideas. Now, exactly fifty years on, the Argentinian artist and activist Marcelo Brodsky presents a compelling selection of archival images, taken from various sources, all related to the social movements of...
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Being: New Photography 2018
June 5th, 2018What does it mean to be human? This is the overarching question in the most recent instalment of New Photography, a biannual group show hosted by MoMA in New York. Being: New Photography 2018 presents a group of 17 photographers from around the world at various stages in their careers,...
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4K Ultra HD
inka & niclasMay 16th, 2018A Google image search of ‘4K Ultra HD’ results in an endless array of the most colourful and detailed photos of animal close-ups and epic landscapes, waiting to be saved as your desktop background. In one way or another, they are all clichés. A sunset almost always contains the sea, a dolphin or...
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Introduction to GUP #57 - Ideal
marcelo brodskyMay 10th, 2018Ours is a peculiar time, when the line between the news and soap operas is blurring; when the differences between fact and fiction, and artifice and reality, are being called into question. In this issue we present a selection of photographers who each in their own way reflect on the difference...
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The Matrix of Water
saysay.loveMay 4th, 2018The recent experience of a drought in Cape Town galvanized SaySay.Love (b. 1962) to focus his creative efforts on something that he—originally from Germany—took for granted: water. He spent the next half-year photographing water around the world, from Africa to Poland, in settings varying from...
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Stephan Vanfleteren - Surf Tribe
stephan vanfleterenMarch 23rd, 2018eventsSurfing is as much a passion as it is an obsession. It is one of the most romanticised pursuits one can engage in: mythical beings plunge into epic confrontations with the full force of nature, with little more than their strength, grace, and board to rely on. In the illusion of an endless...
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The W. Eugene Smith Grant 2018 Open for Submissions
daniel castro garciaMarch 23rd, 2018newsThe W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, an annual award that gives a $35,000 grant to complete a current or future documentary project, is now open for submissions. Named for renowned humanist photographer W. Eugene Smith, the grant is presented to a photographer whose past work and...
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An Optimistic Apocalypse: An Interview with David LaChapelle
david lachapelleMarch 22nd, 2018interviewAmerican photographer David LaChapelle (b. 1963) is known for bridging the gap between pop culture and conceptual art: he’s portrayed celebrities and shot commercial work as well as exhibited his photos in galleries as autonomous artworks. Yet, no matter his subject or client, there has been a...
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Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women
ellen von unwerthMarch 16th, 2018eventsEven though Ellen von Unwerth’s (b. 1954) images feature mainly super models, often scantily clad, the women are very much in control: men are the ones who are objectified, as they are only there to serve, fear, or gawk at the fabulous women. Here, women are the strongest, sexiest, and have the...
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A Measure of Peace
lorenzo triburgoMarch 15th, 2018“OH! This is what it’s like to feel normal,” Robert realises after starting his gender transition. Ever since puberty, Robert explains in the written collection Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa, he'd had the sense that something was wrong. He wanted to feel like a man and be seen...
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A pioneer in colour photography
harry gruyaertMarch 14th, 2018eventsWhile most of his European contemporaries in the 1960s and 1970s were working in black and white, and colour photography was considered suitable merely for advertising, not serious art photography, Harry Gruyaert’s (b. 1941) work exploded with colour. For him, the world was Kodachrome, right up...
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The Turning Point of Conflict
maxim dondyukMarch 5th, 2018column“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it,” Mahatma Gandhi said. While woe-filled women and men have wondered since time immemorial whether true peace is possible, conflict has nevertheless played an important role in making us who we are today. It’s a tool to express...
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The (Un)Importance of a Famous Face: An Interview with Audrey Tautou
audrey tautouFebruary 28th, 2018interviewAudrey Tautou (b. 1976, France) hardly needs introduction – she achieved international recognition as an actress for her starring role in the 2001 movie Amélie, and has since become a prominent figure in movies and in our collective celebrity culture. She recently revealed her ongoing...
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