In the streets of Addis Abeba, the photographer Jan Hoek met some mentally ill people (endearingly called 'sweet crazies' by the Ethiopians) and invited them into his studio to be photographed....
View articleNew York/Milan based photographer Giada Ripa travels through different regions of the world in order to understand ongoing changes as well as her own role in these changes. In her latest...
View articleThe Afronauts became one of the most talked about photo books of 2012, reaching the shortlist of the renowned Deutsche Börse Prize and showing up in almost every list of last year’s best photo books. Yet how did it come to be that this self-published book from Cristina de Middel, full of...
View articleFor his ongoing diaristic series 'City Diaries' renowed Swedish photographer Anders Petersen embedded himself in Soho, London, documenting the streets, pubs, cafes and private homes of its residents. The result is a stark, uncompromising and coarse series of high contrast black and white images...
View bookHumanist Javier Arcenillas (Spain) has been the first photographer to win the annual FotoEvidence Book Award with his harrowing story Sicarios, about the hired assassins of Guatamala. This annual award is given ‘to a photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in documenting...
View bookBoarding HouseOn his way by train to Amsterdam from Sittard, where museum Het Domein recently opened its new exhibition ‘Skadukant’, the highly acclaimed and influentual American photographer Roger Ballen spoke on the phone with Ben Krewinkel. The conversation turned to his early and recent...
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