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The Past is not a Foreign Country
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...
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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...
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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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Dirk Braeckman double exhibition in Belgium
dirk braeckmanFebruary 22nd, 2018eventsBelgian photographer Dirk Braeckman (b. 1958) invites viewers to take more time in front of his work than they’re used to: his layered, obscure, intensely grey photographs don’t reveal their secrets easily. Suggesting rather than explaining, these are no longer photographs of things. Braeckman...
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Setting the Stage in North Korea: An Interview with Eddo Hartmann
eddo hartmannFebruary 21st, 2018interviewDutch photographer Eddo Hartmann (b. 1973) visited North Korea four times between 2014 and 2017 to produce the images for the exhibition Setting the Stage: Pyongyang, North Korea—a series for which he recently won first place in the 2018 LensCulture Exposure Awards. The series and exhibition,...
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Introduction to GUP #56 - Transition
kevin cooleyFebruary 14th, 2018Let’s not get too curled up and cosy with the status quo. Things change. And while it may be comfortable to romanticise the past, or live in the now, or look forward to the future, each of these perspectives takes for granted that points in time are fixed. A photo likewise gives us this...
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Randy
robin de puyFebruary 5th, 2018The exhibition Randy, hosted by the Bonnefantenmuseum in the Netherlands, showcases a special encounter between Dutch photographer Robin de Puy (b. 1986) and a country boy named Randy. De Puy encountered Randy on a road trip across America and was immediately intrigued by the boy’s presence. Over...
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Rotterdam Photo
January 30th, 2018Rotterdam Photo, an annual photography event celebrating the wide spectrum of the medium, opens February 8th in The Netherlands. This year’s theme is FAKE | TRUTH, inspired by photography’s role as an allegedly objective medium, in the wake of recent worldwide discussions on the essence of...
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Nobel Peace Prize Photographer Sim Chi Yin on Display in Oslo
sim chi yinJanuary 24th, 2018eventsSingaporean photographer SIM Chi Yin, now based in China, spent two months travelling along the border of North Korea and across six states of America to report on nuclear sites and nuclear weapons, as well as their impacts. As this year's Nobel Peace Prize Photographer, her resulting series,...
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Haute Photographie 2018
January 24th, 2018Haute Photographie, a photography fair with a concept unlike any other, returns for the third year with an engaging and diverse presentation of galleries. Organised with the atmosphere of a museum exhibition, but including works hosted by galleries that are available for sale, Haute Photographie...
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