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Meeting Place: Taipei
arron hsiaochen boyiSeptember 23rd, 2017Being the editor-at-large of GUP Magazine, I was recently in Taipei to curate a group show including eight emerging Dutch photography talents. During my stay, late August - early September 2017, I...
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Shadows of the State: An Interview with Lewis Bush
lewis bushSeptember 22nd, 2017interviewIn his work Shadows of the State, British photographer and writer Lewis Bush (b. 1988) looks to a seemingly obsolete technology: numbers stations, which broadcast shortwave radio signals of a...
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Duelling DJs: Miles Aldridge on His Collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan
miles aldridgemaurizio cattelanSeptember 21st, 2017interviewEnglish photographer Miles Aldridge (b. 1964) collaborates with Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) in this new series of photographs, equal parts playful and perplexing. Set in an exhibition of Cattelan’s work at the Monnaie de Paris museum, the images bring living nude models...
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Ending / Over: Photography As A Remedy For Detachment
kacper kowalskileif sandbergSeptember 20th, 2017“Every new beginning comes from other beginning's end,” noted Seneca – the Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist. In AD 65 he was forced to commit suicide, a punishment for an alleged involvement in a (failed) coup of emperor Nero. But that's beside the point here. What matters more, for...
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Unseen 2017 opens in Amsterdam
rinko kawauchimiles aldridgeSeptember 13th, 2017eventsOn September 22, international photography event Unseen Amsterdam 2017 opens to the public in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, highlighting the most recent developments in the world of contemporary photography. For the sixth edition, festivities include an array of new programme...
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Pretty in Pink: Photography as Political Resistance
manit sriwanichpoomSeptember 13th, 2017columnStop me if you’ve heard this one before. A man in a bright pink suit walks into a demonstration. In this image from the Pink Man series, from Thai photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom (b. 1961) we see a man with a shiny pink suit and matching shopping cart cluelessly wandering into a black and white...
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Photoville 2017
September 12th, 2017eventsPhotoville is New York City’s free annual festival. Photoville’s sixth edition will take place from September 13 – 24, 2017 in Brooklyn Bridge Plaza and feature more than 70 indoor and outdoor exhibitions, as well as 30+ panels, workshops and more. Addressing a wide range of issues, Photoville is...
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Playing Perfectly: On Outsourcing Creation to Machines
max pinckersdries depoorterAugust 29th, 2017interviewThe Trophy Camera is only interested in perfect images, and deletes anything deemed less. There’s no viewfinder, so you don’t get any real insight into what the camera sees, and you can’t review your failed images to see what might’ve gone wrong. In short, the camera knows better than you...
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Introduction to GUP #54 - Playful
fabian schuberthenk schmidt in der beekAugust 23rd, 2017We of the photo world often find ourselves existing simultaneously at different points on the spectrum between work and play. Whether speaking of the practice of photo making, or about the photos themselves, we can find ourselves asking: Is this playfully serious or seriously playful? When it...
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Christian Orthodoxy in the 21st Century: An Interview with Dafna Tal
dafna talAugust 15th, 2017interviewWhat does deep religious faith look like in the 21st century? Israeli photographer Dafna Tal begins to broach this seminal question in her series, A Lasting Faith: Orthodoxy in the Holy Land, in which she captures the faith of the Christian Community in Israel. Playing with the contrast of light...
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A Handful of Dust
August 9th, 2017eventsA Handful of Dust, an exhibition of images in dialogue curated by David Campany, is a speculative visual history of the 20th century. Campany has compiled works that trace a journey through the imagery of dust, from images based on aerial reconnaissance, wartime destruction and natural disasters...
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Picturing Pride: A Selection of Works Celebrating LGBTQ
richard maas and jilles van alenparisa taghizadehAugust 4th, 2017In honour of Amsterdam Gay Pride week, this year from July 29th to August 6th, we wanted to draw your attention to eight special series about being gay. From illuminating the power of being a confident naked gay man in the Netherlands to capturing the beauty of two women sharing fruit in Vietnam,...
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Destruction Brought Home
marjan teeuwenAugust 3rd, 2017eventsOn a hot and humid day in Tel Aviv a few years ago, I was babysitting a toddler, when all of a sudden, a loud alarm sounded and I found myself surrounded by panicking people. It was time to run – so I did, stroller in hand, together with many other pedestrians, into a nearby strong-looking...
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This Will Change Your Life Forever: An Interview with Klaus Pichler
klaus pichlerJuly 25th, 2017interviewKlaus Pichler (b. 1977, Austria) confronts credulity in his latest book, This Will Change Your Life Forever. In response to the booming business of energetic paraphernalia, and the spirituality it supposedly promotes, Pichler went in search of insight into the products making promises of...
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Visual Resurrections: An Interview with Velibor Božović
velibor božovićJuly 20th, 2017interviewThe Lazarus Project is a collaborative work produced by photographer Velibor Božović and writer Aleksandar Hemon that combines text and imagery, fact and fiction, and the past and the present. To produce their photo-infused novel, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and won the...
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Summertime
nomi baumgartlJuly 18th, 2017eventsThe exhibition Summertime features German photographer Nomi Baumgartl’s recent work. Baumgartl’s 36 photographs displayed were taken after she was in a car accident and thus had to learn how to photograph anew. Despite her eyes being injured, Baumgartl’s photographs highlight her deep...
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An Immortal's Mortal Coil
maija tammiJuly 10th, 2017columnFrom the ancient myth of Achilles to alchemists who sought the philosopher’s stone, immortality has been a cornerstone for humanity’s hopes and dreams since the very beginning. The quest for a life eternal appears to be quite universal; from Japanese to Norse mythology, from Christian stories to...
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Les Rencontres d’Arles opens for 2017 Edition
July 1st, 2017eventsLes Rencontres d’Arles Photofestival opens in Arles, France on July 3, 2017. Opening week takes place from Monday July 3 - Sunday July 9, during which an impressive selection of key events take place. In its 48th year, Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival takes place once again this...
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A Perfectionist
robert mapplethorpeJune 28th, 2017eventsThe Kunsthal Rotterdam represents a large-scale retrospective of the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe (b. 1946). A Perfectionist showcases Mapplethorpe’s work from the late 1960s to the 1980s, in which he breaks down the boundaries between life and art. The exhibition focuses on ‘perfect in...
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Friend or Food? Announcing New Book 'I ♥ Animals'
katherine oktober matthewsJune 28th, 2017GUP is so proud to announce a new publication from our very own Katherine Oktober Matthews, I ♥ Animals. Matthews’ photobook plays with the question of how we really teach children about animals. While animals are often much-loved characters in children’s cartoons, books and films, they’re...
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