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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...
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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...
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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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Ganga Ma: An Interview with Giulio di Sturco
giulio di sturcoOctober 14th, 2019interviewOver the course of ten years, Giulio Di Sturco (b.1979, Italy) travelled more than 4,000 km following the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas in India to its delta in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. The trip resulted in the book Ganga Ma (published by GOST Books), consisting of a series of...
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The Anarchist Citizenship: An interview with Nadine Stijns
nadine stijnsamal alhaagOctober 4th, 2019interviewPhotographer Nadine Stijns (b. 1977, The Netherlands) and researcher Amal Alhaag (b. 1983, Egypt) have been collaborating closely with Somali artists such as photographer Mustafa Saeed (b. 1989, Somaliland) for some years. Together they are investigating the Republic of Somaliland: a...
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FRESH EYES: Panos Charalampidis & Mary Chairetaki
panos charalampidismary chairetakiOctober 1st, 2019backstoryGreek artist duo Panos Charalampidis and Mary Chairetaki (b. 1974) are included in the first edition of FRESH EYES: a catalogue initiated by GUP featuring 100 of the most talented European photographers currently in the first stage of their career. We asked them about their work in progress, but...
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Gregory Halpern: Omaha Sketchbook
gregory halpernSeptember 24th, 2019[...] There might not be too many reasons to visit Omaha, Nebraska. Although situated in the very heart of the United States geographically - in the Heartland, the Bible Belt, the Corn Belt, the American Midwest - it is at its periphery culturally. It has few landmarks or defining...
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Guillaume Tomasi: Chrysalises
guillaume tomasiSeptember 20th, 2019French-Canadian photographer Guillaume Tomasi (b. 1984) worked in IT before making a career switch. He went back to school at 32 to dedicate his life to photography. His work revolves around visual storytelling, focusing on people, places and memories. For example, in his project Ce qu'il restera...
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Bas Losekoot: Out Of Place
bas losekootSeptember 16th, 2019backstoryDutch photographer Bas Losekoot is highly fascinated by the subject matter of urban navigation and how it relates to the ways in which we cope with situations; how we apparently are both individuals and part of an imagined community when commuting between the A’s and B’s that mark the directions...
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Nothing Personal: What Is Really Happening Before War Happens?
nikita teryoshinSeptember 12th, 2019backstoryApplying a bold aesthetic strategy, resulting in images that are both humorous and sinister, Nikita Teryoshin (1986, Russia) provides a distinct peek behind the curtains of the global weapon industry. His cheeky photographic documentation of highly exclusive defence trade fairs aptly reflects...
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