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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...
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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...
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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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Travelling the Limitless Mind: An Interview with Katrin Koenning
katrin koenningJune 23rd, 2017interviewGerman photographer Katrin Koenning (b. 1978) migrated to Australia when she was 25 years old. This act of relocating came to have a great influence on her work: while in her first long-term series, Near, she documented the metaphorical and physical closeness of her family relationships, in...
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Fatherhood Through the Lens of Five Photographers
phillip toledanochristopher andersonJune 18th, 2017In honour of Father’s Day, we wanted to draw your attention to five series from photographers that focus on fatherhood. From newborn babies, to father-daughter purity balls, to caring for elderly dads, fatherhood takes on many forms and photographers express father-child relationships in a...
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Deconstructing the Sex-Worker Stereotype: An Interview with Helena Falabino
helena falabinoJune 15th, 2017interviewItalian – Argentinian Photographer Helena Falabino (b. 1988) deconstructs the idea of a sex worker. Rather than showing them as poor, helpless women or simple objects of sex, she normalizes them. Falabino’s project, Rede mit uns (German for ‘Talk to Us’), captures the strength of self-determined...
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New Realities: A retrospective of 19th Century Photography at Rijksmuseum
June 9th, 2017eventsThe Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam presents a major retrospective of 19th century photography. Drawn from the museum’s own collection, the exhibit showcases three hundred photos taken during the years of early development after the invention of photography in 1839. New Realities includes different...
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Love Is A Capability
bryan huynhJune 6th, 2017“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end”, wrote the Swiss author Madame de Staël (1766-1817). Since time immemorial, love has been seen as something boundless as well as a means through which we ourselves can escape...
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Trying to Get Along in Your World: An Interview with Jessica Dimmock
jessica dimmockJune 5th, 2017interviewIn her new short film The Convention, American photographer and filmmaker Jessica Dimmock (b. 1978) portrays the emotional whirlwind of the annual Esprit Conference, a week-long convention of transgender women mainly in their fifties, sixties and seventies. Now in its 25th year, the meeting takes...
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PHotoESPAÑA 2017 Now Open for its 20th Anniversary Edition
anders petersenpierre molinerMay 31st, 2017eventsOn May 31, PHotoESPAÑA International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts celebrates its 20th edition by showcasing the development of photography and visual arts over the last 20 years. Since the birth of the festival, photography has experienced significant change as the digital world has...
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FotoFestival Naarden 2017 Now Open in The Netherlands
juha arvid helminenjulia steinigewegMay 29th, 2017eventsFotoFestival Naarden’s 2017 edition explores recent developments in international photography. Themed ‘Right Here, Right Now’, the festival aims to focus on stories about current social, societal and political developments that shape our perceptions. Featuring both documentary and art...
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Krakow Photomonth 2017
various artistsMay 29th, 2017Commemorating its 15th anniversary, Krakow now rightfully celebrates its established position on the map of international photography festivals. What started in 2001 as a ‘grass roots’ initiative to have various exhibition locations team up under the same flag eventually resulted in one of the...
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There’s Only Ambiguity: An Interview with Natalia Wiernik
natalia wiernikMay 25th, 2017interviewPolish intermedia artist Natalia Wiernik (b. 1989) makes photos in which the foreground blends into the background. The people and objects in her photos lose their boundaries, and become a continuation of their surroundings. Wiernik tells GUP how she started working on this type of images, how...
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Message to the Future: A Retrospective of the works of Danny Lyon
danny lyonMay 19th, 2017eventsIn a new retrospective, Fotomuseum Winterthur presents a diverse array of work of New York-born photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon (b. 1942), well known for his subjective and partisan reportage style. Lyon, who grew up in the borough of Queens, soon got involved in the Civil Rights Movement...
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Introduction to GUP #53 - Infinity
m. apparitionMay 17th, 2017Where do we begin, when we talk about infinity? Where do we end?Or, is that looking at it the wrong way entirely, because we’ve already been doing it, and will always continue, forever?As individual humans, we are bound by the constraints of our biology. We do not experience the infinite...
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The Influence of Affluence: An Interview with Lauren Greenfield
lauren greenfieldMay 15th, 2017interviewLauren Greenfield (b. 1966, USA) is a filmmaker and photographer whose new monograph, Generation Wealth, brings together more than 25 years of her work on the excesses of capitalist culture. Her biting wit and bright lights spare no one, as she deconstructs the devolution of the American Dream...
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Koto Bolofo: Between Black & White
koto bolofoMay 12th, 2017An exhibit of works by Koto Bolofo, Between Black & White, opens this Saturday, May 13 at the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. Koto Bolofo, the London-based fashion photographer, has reached the top of his craft despite a turbulent upbringing. A refugee, born in Lesotho, South Africa...
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: New Dutch Photography Talent 2018
farren van wykjelle rietveldMay 9th, 2017The New Dutch Photography Talent book (known simply as ‘New’) is now open for submissions for its seventh annual publication: New 2018!New, an initiative of GUP Magazine, is a platform for Dutch or Netherlands-based photographers. The 420-page print publication is the up-to-date style bible for...
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