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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,...
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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...
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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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Introduction to GUP #62: Periphery
anastasia samoylovaAugust 22nd, 2019Attention is often concentrated on the centre of things, but what happens further away from the limelight? Whether arriving from a curiosity for the expanded possibilities of photography, or from an interest in the underexposed aspects of daily life, the contributors to this issue of GUP all show...
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PHotoESPAÑA 2019
anais lopezalbarran cabreraJune 18th, 2019eventsFor this year’s edition (2019) of PHotoESPAÑA, Susan Bright has been invited as Guest Curator. Her proposal Déjà Vu? includes five exhibitions that together center around the themes of art history and painting (e.g. Sharon Core / Laura Litinsky at the National Museum of Romanticism), but also...
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Krakow Photomonth 2019: Food For Thought
various artistsMay 31st, 2019Photography, in the context of this annual festival, is considered a form of art while it is also seen as an opportunity to trigger socially engaged dialogue. ‘Krakow’ provides a framework of ideas and what it requires, in return, is critical spectatorship. In line with many photo books being...
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Introduction to GUP #61: Escape
esther teichmannMay 16th, 2019Summer is on its way! For many, this season delivers a chance to escape the daily routine. People seek all kinds of refuge: they pack their bags and leave, or they remain and withdraw into the plethora of loopholes available nearby or online. The need to escape can come from different things: to...
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Introduction to GUP #60: Tribute
carl de keyzerFebruary 12th, 2019GUP Magazine is celebrating! What’s more, we’re doing so in great company. This is our 60th issue and to commemorate the occasion we pay tribute to a number of esteemed photographers who have reached or will soon arrive at the remarkable age of 60.Three established current or former members of...
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Matrimania: An interview with Mahesh Shantaram
mahesh shantaramDecember 12th, 2018interviewWe previously published a sneak preview portfolio of Matrimania by Mahesh Shantaram (1977, India). Using colour and humour as his principal tools, this personal take nevertheless serves a critical approach to 21st century India’s contradictions seen through the prism of its wedding culture. With...
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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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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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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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Rayon Vert
senta simondAugust 1st, 2018Swiss photographer Senta Simond (b.1989) arranged sessions between herself and her subjects – young female friends she has been closely acquainted with for a decade or so. In these somewhat outlandish photographs, a mix of colour and duotone, the young women come across as empowered, dreamy yet...
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Irish Travellers
rebecca mosemanJune 20th, 2018In autumn 2017, Rebecca Moseman (b. 1975, United States) was given the opportunity to photograph a closed Irish community, one that still maintains a culture and traditions whose origins are lost in time. These so-called Travellers are a proud and reclusive people, who split off from settled...
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The Past is not a Foreign Country: An interview with Marcelo Brodsky
marcelo brodskyJune 11th, 2018backstoryIn the late 1960s, all over the world, workers and students demanded a radical change of ideas. Now, exactly fifty years on, the Argentinian artist and activist Marcelo Brodsky presents a compelling selection of archival images, taken from various sources, all related to the social movements of...
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Introduction to GUP #57 - Ideal
marcelo brodskyMay 10th, 2018Ours is a peculiar time, when the line between the news and soap operas is blurring; when the differences between fact and fiction, and artifice and reality, are being called into question. In this issue we present a selection of photographers who each in their own way reflect on the difference...
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Taking Position: An Interview with Rafal Milach
rafal milachJanuary 4th, 2018interviewIn the last decade or so, we have witnessed the rise of a strong generation of Polish photographers. Rafal Milach (1978) is probably one of the best known among them. He is co-founder of the collective Sputnik, and has been working on long-term projects concerning former Soviet and European...
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Meeting Place: Taipei
arron hsiaochen boyiSeptember 23rd, 2017Being the editor-at-large of GUP Magazine, I was recently in Taipei to curate a group show including eight emerging Dutch photography talents. During my stay, late August - early September 2017, I also met up with various talented Taiwanese photographers who presented their work to me. “We are a...
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Ending / Over: Photography As A Remedy For Detachment
kacper kowalskileif sandbergSeptember 20th, 2017“Every new beginning comes from other beginning's end,” noted Seneca – the Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist. In AD 65 he was forced to commit suicide, a punishment for an alleged involvement in a (failed) coup of emperor Nero. But that's beside the point here. What matters more, for...
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Finisterrae
michele palazziSeptember 11th, 2017'Finisterrae' means so much as: end of the road. That is more or less how it feels when moving around Southern Portugal or, more precisely, the region that in the ancient Roman era was known as 'Lusitania' – which included approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of...
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