Q&A: Hua Weicheng — Go To The Alien Street
Q — What is it that interests you about photography? A — If I used to have a strong interest in photography, but now I find I’m less and less interested in it. In the past, I liked photography because…
Australian Bushfire Photo Appeal
Our friends at The Australian Bushfire Appeal have organized a print sale to help raise money for those impacted by the fires here in Australia. All of the profits from the sale of these prints will be donated to two important…
Q&A: Tim Carpenter — Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? There’s a line in that song “In a Big Country” that goes: “I never took the smile away from anybody’s face.” That’s my goal. I suppose it’s just a restatement of the…
Happy New Year.
A huge thank you to the incredible photographers, writers, and publishers we’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with this year, your support and generosity keep this whole engine turning. We look forward to seeing you all in a new decade with…
Mark Mahaney: Polar Night (Trespasser Books)
71.2906° N, 156.7886° W Utqiaġvik, Alaska Northernmost town in the United States. 320 miles above the Arctic Circle. The name translates to ‘place where snowy owls are hunted.’ No roads lead-in, no roads lead out. Flat as a board. No…
Xiaoxiao Xu: Watering my Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall
For Watering My Horse I have followed the Long Wall of China from the beginning to the end and photographed the lives of the people along the foot of the wall. The journey began in the spring of 2017…
Q&A: Kyle Ross — At Sunrise
1. Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? 1a. Here are a few things I try to remember. Try to be happy, sit on the floor sometimes, be a do-it-joe, make eye-contact, shed a tear, spend time with…
Friday Fry Up: Alice Connew — Still Looking Good (Gloria Books)
Still Looking Good is a triadic collaboration between siblings Oliver Connew (dancer/choreographer) and Alice Connew that brings together dance, sound, and a visual aesthetic that reference pervasive socio-political forces that organise modern human activity, as understood by the artists. Originally…
Q&A: Drew Leventhal — Yosh
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I have been trying to be kind and listen more intently. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Why we did not do more about climate change before it was too…
Sun Studios: This Time It’s Personal — Ten years and 100 photographers
Sun Studio’s annual exhibition This Time It’s Personal opens this Thursday (28 November until 15 December) at the SUNSTUDIOS Sydney Atrium Gallery in Alexandria. This year’s exhibition showcases the personal work of 100 Australian photographers with all print sale proceeds…
2020 MACK First Book Award: Submissions Open
Submissions are now open for The 2020 MACK First Book Award. If you have a project intended for print submit all considerations to firstbookaward.com before the 20th of January 2020. The MACK First Book Award is a publishing prize open to artists who have…
Caiti Borruso: Wanting to Photograph and Be Photographed (So Badly) — By J Houston
I first came across Caiti’s photographs of herself pissing. There’s a broad history of feminist image-making they reference; my mind goes from some of Barbara Hammer’s soft black and white images to documentation from Carolee Schneemann’s Interior Scroll. I have…
Friday Fry Up: Bénédicte Blondeau — Ce qu’il Reste (XYZ Books)
Planet earth at night. Seeing the world from above. Everywhere mankind has transformed the landscape, illustrated by the lights of the cities shining in the dark. Planet Earth is seen from its depths. A wild and spontaneous swinging. Instinctive. Organic….
Garret Grove — Errors Of Possession (Trespasser Books)
Garrett Grove’s Errors of Possession is a photobook about the land and people of the United States’ rural Northwest. It offers an ambiguous look into the lives of blue collar Americans and the ways in which agriculture, industry, and humans’…
Friday Fry Up: Dylan Lewis — Dusker
The images in Dusker act as physical expressions of interior states. Situated between exhalation and incantation, they construct a space where the ontological unease of ‘documentary’ photography, the aestheticizing eye of fiction, and the emotional texture of dreams within an…
Q&A: Joan Barker — Gun Show
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Neutral buoyancy. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? How informed, yet how self-destructive we are. Are you aware of any conspiracies? Sure, the new norm. What is…
Lena C. Emery — Yuka & the Forest (Art Paper Editions)
Lena C Emery — Yuka & the Forest (Art Paper Editions) — Kris Kozlowski Moore A natural disaster is incomprehensible in scale, horror, power and effect, unless you stand in its presence. The photographs and videos we are so…
Q&A: Miki Soejima — The Passenger’s Present ( Fw:Books)
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? I never lived by one, but how I saw the world as a seven-year-old is always a guiding principle in my life. What will baffle future generations about our day and…
Mike Osborne: Federal Triangle — Gnomic Book
Titled after a government complex wedged between the Capitol and the White House, Federal Triangle fuses a documentary approach to photography with the opportunity for alternative interpretations: simultaneously grounded in the real, and suggestive of the darker fantasies that pervade…
Q&A: Sybren Vanoverberghe — Conference of The Birds
Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Trying to spend more time in solitude. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Us being aware we’re in a constant denial of the current state of this…
