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Enjoy Life: An interview with Jan Dirk van der Burg
jan dirk van der burgNovember 30th, 2018interviewJan Dirk van der Burg (1978, The Netherlands) was recently appointed ‘Fotograaf des Vaderlands’ (Photographer of the Nation). He is the ambassador of photography in the Netherlands for a year,...
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The Splitting of the Chrysalis and the Slow Unfolding of the Wings
yorgos yatromanolakisNovember 22nd, 2018interviewGUP sat down with Yorgos Yatromanolakis (b. 1986, Greece) to talk about his latest project, The Splitting of the Chrysalis and the Slow Unfolding of the Wings. Yatromanolakis, originally from...
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No Text No Humans
thomas demandNovember 21st, 2018Even when they’re full of details, the spaces in the photographs by Thomas Demand (b. 1964, Germany) feel empty. They may contain furniture, greenery and traces of life, but they’re devoid of life itself: no text, no humans. We see uninhabited spaces and lifeless exteriors, impossibly clean and...
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Introduction to GUP #59: Pseudo
arko dattoNovember 9th, 2018We have come to accept this hard fact: photography wasn’t guileless from the very start.It might have been a bit naive to trust in the age-old concepts of objectivity and transparency, or the idea that photography always tells the absolute and unquestionable truth. Yet the ‘post-truths’ that we...
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11:00 am & For Brigitte - Interview with Titus Simoens
titus simoensNovember 8th, 2018interviewThe poetry in the photographs of Titus Simoens (b. 1985, Belgium) is always based on extraordinary meetings. Graduated from KASK in Ghent, Belgium, Titus was selected by the FOMU Antwerp’s annual magazine .TIFF as one of the most talented Belgian photographers. Simoens launches his fourth book...
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Fotofestival Schiedam
October 11th, 2018From October 18 to 28, 2018, Fotofestival Schiedam hosts the sixth edition of its annual celebration of new photography, with activities ranging from exhibitions to screenings and talks by emerging and established visual artists coming from all over the Netherlands. The event is built around the...
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Concrete Doesn't Burn
bertrand cavalierOctober 3rd, 2018interviewBrussels-based photographer Bertrand Cavalier (b. 1989, France) has been selected for .tiff 2018, the annual publication for Belgian photography talent by Fotomuseum Antwerp. GUP talked to Cavalier about his latest body of work Concrete Doesn’t Burn, a research project that explores the effects...
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Strokes
tiane doan na champassakSeptember 28th, 2018interviewTiane Doan na Champassak (b. 1973, France) explores themes of gender, sexuality, and desire in his work. The prolific artist mostly works in South East Asia, where he photographs female models that he obscures and renders anonymous in various ways, depending on the project he’s working on. An...
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Tryouts
ryan james caruthersSeptember 20th, 2018backstoryTeenage girls grow up aware of constantly being observed and judged by the outside world. Boys on the bumpy road to manhood also compare themselves to others, but traditional masculinity is increasingly scrutinised. In our sexualised and (social) media-driven society, saturated with insecurities...
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Forward Escape Into the Past
jim campersSeptember 18th, 2018interviewTo host one of Jim Campers’ (b. 1990, Belgium) shows is not an easily accomplished task: as soon as you step into De Brakke Grond’s exhibition space and find yourself surrounded by recycled wood panels and perforated chipboards put in contrast to the whitewashed walls you realise to what extent a...
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The Flàvio Story
gordon parksSeptember 12th, 2018eventsIn June 1961, Life magazine published a photo essay by Gordon Parks (b. 1912, United States) that would cause a lot of commotion. Called Freedom’s Fearful Foe: Poverty, the piece profiled the da Silva family from a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Parks’ photographs of their incredibly pitiful situation...
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Infinite Travels
lucie khahoutianSeptember 5th, 2018interviewArmenian society today appears to be torn between its own millenary tradition, Soviet nostalgia and the desire to come closer to the West by finally emerging from the shadow of the Genocide. This multilayered culture is well represented within Lucie Khahoutian's (b. 1990, Armenia) latest body of...
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Festival Images Vevey
September 3rd, 2018Visiting Festival Images is like visiting an open-air museum. The festival exhibits a combination of national and international visual artists throughout the Swiss town of Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Photography can be enjoyed – free of charge - on facades, in parks and at indoor...
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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 drives can crash. Instead of fearing this inherent delicacy, some photographers embrace it and at times...
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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 culture was taking hold on society; that it would become harder by the day to distinguish real from...
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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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