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Reducción: Felipe Romero Beltrán
felipe romero beltránApril 1st, 2020columnFelipe Romero Beltrán (b. 1992) is a Columbian visual artist residing and studying in Madrid. Due to bureaucratic procedures, he had to await official documents that allowed him to continue his...
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Jean-François Lepage: ZOMBIE
jean françois lepageMarch 18th, 2020interviewJean-François Lepage (b. 1960, France) began his career as a fashion photographer in the early 80s. Lepage often revisits his photographs after the shoot itself in order to dismantle and interfere...
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Mountains, Memories, and Magnitude
marina caneveMarch 16th, 2020No mountain has ever moved, but they just appear as if they could crush an entire village to nothing but dust without any remorse. At the same time, they seem to look over us, as colossal guardians. This paradox might relate to the sublime, the experienced greatness of something while not being...
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Johan Kramer: Camera Dream
johan kramerMarch 9th, 2020interviewJohan Kramer (b. 1964) is a renowned filmmaker and an advertising icon in The Netherlands. Between 1995-2006, Kramer was part of advertisement agency KesselsKramer and from 2006 onwards he started focusing on his personal projects: documentary and experimental films that are recognizable for...
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ATELIER SMEDSBY: APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
jh engstroematelier smedsbyMarch 8th, 2020The Atelier Smedsby offers a one-year distance learning class with three individual/group meetings in Paris. Founded in 2010 by photographers JH Engström (b. 1969, Sweden) and Margot Wallard (b. 1978, France), Atelier Smedsby was formed with the objective of increasing artistic independence via...
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Interview: The World According to Roger Ballen
roger ballenMarch 6th, 2020interview‘The World According to Roger Ballen’ (Thames & Hudson, 2019) features photographs selected from across Ballen’s career, along with installations created exclusively for an exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, last year. The exhibition closes on July 31st, 2020. The book, co-authored with...
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Zoopark Publishing Collective: An Interview With the Editors
zooparktatyana palygaMarch 1st, 2020Zoopark is a publishing collective consisting of two Russian-born visual artists: Tatyana Palyga (b. 1982 Russia) and Alexander Bondar (b. 1982, Russia). Their collaboration started in 2010, when the duo, who have been mixing photography, video, texts, graphics and illustrations in their own...
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Era Mare: Venice vs The Sea
matteo de maydaFebruary 21st, 2020interviewEra Mare (It Was Sea) addresses the most recent floods in Venice (Italy), initiated by photographer Matteo de Mayda, graphic designers Andrea Codolo & Giacomo Covacich (Studio Bruno) and Francesca Seravalle, who curated the project - in a spirit of solidarity with the Venetian inhabitants who...
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Sergey Melnitchenko: Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity
sergey melnitchenkoFebruary 17th, 2020In his ongoing project ‘Fundamental Space Explorations of Naked Singularity’, Sergey Melnitchenko poses existential questions. As he sees it, human beings are singular creatures who constantly try to define themselves within the scale of the universe, which most often results in a feeling of...
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Getting Across: Collaborative Illustrations of Life in The Waiting Room
maroussia prignotvalerio alvarezFebruary 16th, 2020columnPhotography can help raise awareness and elicit empathy for the matters at stake – even it might sometimes be necessary to bend the message towards a more subjective and conceptualised direction. Today, we – the ‘visually literate’ audience – are seemingly ready to accept alternative approaches...
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RoXY, 30 Years: An Interview with Cleo Campert
cleo campertFebruary 3rd, 2020interviewCleo Campert (b. 1963, Netherlands) started photographing club nights at the infamous RoXY in 1989, and then continued to work as a party photographer throughout the years. In 2015 and 2016 she documented the Dutch festival culture, focusing on both the crowded events and the serene landscapes in...
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Slant: An Interview with Aaron Schuman
aaron schumanFebruary 1st, 2020Aaron Schuman (b. 1977, USA) is a photographer, writer, lecturer and curator based in the United Kingdom. In 2019 he published SLANT, a photographic investigation of police reports as featured in the local newspaper of Amherst, Massachusetts: a small, quiet town in New England. SLANT can be...
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Project Iceworm
anastasia mityukovaJanuary 22nd, 2020Curator, critic and artist Duncan Wooldridge reflects on Anastasia Mityukova’s (ongoing) Project Iceworm. In the present moment, in a culture with almost simultaneous communication, we have begun to sense that distance has virtue. The proximity of our pictures brings to the continuous present...
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Wing Ambulance: an Interview with Elena Chernyshova
elena chernyshovaJanuary 17th, 2020interviewElena Chernyshova (b.1981, Russia) investigates the daily lives of communities in the context of environmental, political, and economic changes. For two winters already, she has been visiting the remote Turukhansky District, north of the Arctic Circle, to collect visuals for her personal project...
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An Interview with Ciro Battiloro
ciro battiloroDecember 20th, 2019interviewCiro Battiloro (b. 1984) is an Italian photographer based in Naples. In his work he analyses the human being and its relationships, lived in contexts of discomfort and social neglect. Recently, his research focused on Southern Italy neighbourhoods (Rione Sanità in Napels, Quartiere Santa Lucia...
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An Interview with Seif Kousmate
seif kousmateNovember 8th, 2019interviewSeif Kousmate (b. 1989, Morocco) dedicated himself professionally to photography in 2016. Since then, he has been working on different projects concerned with social issues: slavery in Mauritania, youth and poverty in Morocco, and Rwandan society 25 years after the genocide. GUP talked to...
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Dark Waters
daniel tchetchikNovember 1st, 2019Since the beginning of the 1990s, countless refugees have tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to leave North Africa and to reach the safe havens of Europe. Some were successful in doing so, while others met their fate in the water. Dark Waters by Daniel Tchetchik (b. Israel) is...
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Red Orange: An interview with Delaney Allen
delaney allenOctober 31st, 2019interviewIn the project Red Orange, Delaney Allen (United States) takes on the genre of American road trip photography, following the likes of great names such as William Eggleston and Walker Evans. GUP asked him about this project and his two years on the roads of California.The title of your latest book...
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Fictions Based on Truth: An interview with Evelyn Bencicova
evelyn bencicovaOctober 29th, 2019interviewEvelyn Bencicova (b. Bratislava, 1992) is a visual creative specialising in photography and art direction. Informed by her background in fine art and new media studies (University for Applied Arts, Vienna), Bencicova’s practice combines her interest in contemporary culture with academic research...
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Paranoid Sleep Psychosis: An Interview With Liza Ambrossio
liza ambrossioOctober 23rd, 2019interviewLiza Ambrossio (b. 1993, Mexico) lives and works between Madrid and Paris. She began her artistic practice in Mexico City at the age of sixteen, when she asked a housekeeper to steal photographs from family albums. Ambrossio portrayed her passage from adolescence to adulthood, with a strong...
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