Submissions are now open for The 2021 MACK First Book Award. If you have a project intended for print submit all considerations to firstbookaward.com before the 25th of January 2021. The MACK First Book Award is a publishing prize open…
Primal Sight, a collection of works by 146 artists, and essays by David Campany and Gregory Eddi Jones, surveys the state of contemporary black-and-white photography. The project, curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, includes the works of intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional artists,…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I’ve been reading a lot more on absolute idealism and the idea of reality/history creating identity, not that I live by it per se but the readings have been captivating and…
We, humans, have a special connection to clouds. We seem to recognize everything from faces to rearing horses reflected in these formations in the sky. But certain clouds signify something different than a mere approaching rainstorm or a vivid imagination….
The day you were born, I wasn’t born yet. This is what I have to do now with my life. When this pandemic began in 2020, I lost control like people around the world. I talked with my parents more than…
Alice, Hannah, Sarah, Bianca, and Kate lived in the hundred-year-old house on Montgomery Street, near the art school and the women’s college. They mixed teas and tinctures, dyed fabrics in the backyard, designed costumes for children’s plays, gave each other…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Respect, comfort and listen to one another. I put these positive vibes out into the world hoping that it will come back to me. It’s important to maintain a healthy philosophy especially…
“Of the forms of photography, or photo-projects that are around today, very few go all the way back to the beginnings of the medium. The portrait survey is one of them. It appeals to that deep desire to gather…
“I am like a waiter who was given a special identity. At this time, I may be a stranger, perhaps a maker of taste and emotion, maybe a peeper next door, maybe just a recorder using a camera to invade…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I sometimes try not to buy everything I think I may need. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Mitch McConnell, Social Media, everything. Are you aware of any conspiracies? Ted Cruz is…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? “… learn to learn, and try to learn for what.” What will baffle future generations about our day and age? That the appalling aspects of American culture were able to persist for…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I keep reminding myself that things can be looked at from infinite points of view. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Why we decided that the planet was not worth…
In the 1960s, Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated sharply, the border war broke out between China and India, and the Vietnam War expanded into southern China. Faced with such a severe situation, China’s military industry, which is mainly distributed along the coastal…
Most people would agree that this world exists, that the screen that you are reading this text on is real. But what if it isn’t? Could it be that our world is just a construction – a manufactured illusion? A…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? It’s more important to be responsible and compassionate than to be right. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? We are messier than they are. Are you aware of any conspiracies? The American…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I wish I could say that the pandemic generated some zen calm for me where I refocused myself on what really matters but that would be a lie…my recent life philosophy has…
The May air deluged through his spectral skin, and we remained on the concrete sharing our meager dinner. The horizon billowed into a drab blue the longer we refused to face each other, and the sweat caked to us like…
A new home for critical thought on photobooks led by Euginue Shinkle and Callum Beaney, with contributions from Lucy J Rogers, Matt Dunne, Lillian Wilkie and Andy Pham. C4 Journal is a platform dedicated to writing about photography, and the use of the…
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? “Be Here Now” is sagacious and aligns with my bent towards Buddhism, but was forever stained after Oasis chose this title for their third album. What will baffle future generations about our day…
I became a refugee at age 5 when I moved to the middle of America as one of 70,000 migrants of the Bosnian War. With each step away from home, this vast American space demanded that we analyze ourselves in…
