Q&A: Lara Shipley — The Passerby
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I’ve been anti-dogma ever since I was able to leave the Bible Belt (where I grew up). But I do believe in the power of listening to and telling stories. What…
Friday Fry Up: Iacopo Pasqui — N
“N” is a work that reveals the link between an Italian province and with a part of its inhabitants: the 30-year-old generation. Young people with solid structures and formations must confront with the provincials dynamics of a contemporaneity in which…
Perimeter X Heavy: Mimi Plumb — Landfall (TBW Books)
Landfall is the first title from Mimi Plumb; constructed from a reimagined archive of photographs made in the 1980s while she was at the San Francisco Art Institute, it carefully weaves a narrative of unknown circumstances that reflect on the…
Palm* Photo Prize 2019 — Open Call
Palm* Photo Prize is an official satellite event to Photo London and open to photographers working in all disciplines and styles to submit images for an exhibition at theprintspace gallery opening on 14th May 2019. The submission is open between…
Simon Brugner: The Arsenic Eaters — (The Eriskay Connection)
In The Arsenic Eaters, Simon Brugner investigates the widespread historical belief that the consumption of arsenic, one of the most potent mineral poisons, is beneficial to one’s health. Many ‘poison eaters’ were found among the pre-20th-century rural population in the…
Katrin Koenning: Swell — Monash Gallery of Art
Katrin Koenning’s solo show ‘Swell’ opens at Monash Gallery of Art this month. If you’re in Melbourne please join her for the opening reception on Saturday, 16 March, from 2-4 pm. “Katrin Koenning’s exhibition Swell, is both beguiling and melancholy….
Friday Fry Up: Shane Rocheleau — The Reflection in the Pool
At the end of the exit ramp near my home, I’d drive past homeless men working in turns, “flying” signs imploring me for Help. I employed myriad strategies to avoid assent, all of which maximized a distance – whether physical…
Q&A: Carlos Jaramillo — Cuba
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Depends on the day, it’s always changing. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? That we didn’t have a cure for cancer. Are you aware of any conspiracies?…
Review: Ingvar Kenne — The Ball (Journal)
The Ball is a wild and beautiful new book from Ingvar Kenne. A collection of photographs observing the mayhem of men and women at ten Bachelor & Spinster Balls photographed across two years and thousands of miles of the Australian…
Friday Fry Up: Laurence Watts — Looking West
Looking West, by Laurence Watts, is a photographic work that examines performative masculinity in Australian Rodeo subculture and the iconography of the Cowboy. It aims to destabilise notions of masculine identity by revealing its construction through social performance. The work…
Q&A: Andy Chen — Untitled (late summer)
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I’ve been trying to cook something every day. Are you aware of any conspiracies? Copious amount of them, my favorite is definitely flat earth. What is it that interests you about…
Friday Fry Up: Tatum Shaw — Plusgood
According to the future laid out in George Orwell’s 1984, the English language will be decimated and reduced to only a small list of government approved words known as Newspeak. Nothing is beautiful. Nothing is marvelous. Nothing is fantastic. If…
Q&A: Mikiya Takimoto — Land Space
What will baffle future generations about our day and age? living in the modern society of Japan, I strongly believe that nuclear power is a negative legacy of our age. Are you aware of any conspiracies? Maybe it’s not a…
Friday Fry Up: Sophie Barbasch — Military Logic
Sophie Barbasch — Military Logic I went to photograph the military police school in Fortaleza, Brazil in 2016, right when President Dilma Rouseff was being removed from office in what many saw as a coup. It brought to mind the…
Q&A: Keith Yahrling — What Was Lost At Fort Sill
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? It isn’t something I’ve started recently, but I’ve never been the type of person that remains content for very long. My curiosity and my desire for new adventures tends to keep me…
Review: Chloe Dewe Mathews — In Search of Frankenstein (Kodoji Press)
There are hundreds of cultural artifacts inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Through these many iterations, a complex creature has emerged – intricate variants that have sought to either deviate wildly from the original text or follow it with severe…
Q&A: June Sanders — Daughter of Something
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Never flourish, never die.What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Meme culture. Vegetables. How little we care about the things that keep us alive. Are you aware of any…
Review: Raymond Meeks — Halfstory Halflife (Chose Commune)
So much of Raymond Meek’s book Halfstory Halflife reminds me of a Tim Winton novel. The landscape is present – a character in of itself – dominant, fecund, dark, equally a nest and a challenge; boys involved in a risky…
Friday Fry Up: Pearce Leal — A Field Guide to Seeing New land
A Field Guide to Seeing New land Large numbers of photo-tourists now flock to destinations that are dramatically shaped by the effects of global warming, increasing the traffic to capture a landscape that is rapidly and unnaturally changing. A Field…
Q&A: Andrew Skoda
What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Definitely the multitude of internet subcultures and communities, both alive and dead, alongside the vernacular text and image-based languages spawned within. What is it that interests you about photography? The tenderness of a…
