Category: Photography
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There are some photobooks that function as critical analyses, and others that function as windows. Then, very rarely, there are books that run as mirrors. Holding Henry O. Head’s Twelve Acres in my hands for the first time was a strange and poignant experience, a real feeling of nostalgia so specific it felt less like…
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The encounter with A Naturalist Guide to Magic is an electrifying experience that hits you right in the gut of creative arrogance. As with many of Niemi’s meticulously staged projects, the artist herself appears in A Naturalist Guide to Magic, self-cast as the lone actress in a typically enigmatic role. Yet, as the accompanying text…
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I love European Photography Magazine, it is such a deep and thoughtful book that when reading is a truly sobering experience and makes you ask some hard questions about what it means to be a photographer, or an ethical image maker, right now. Given that I have been dabbling into AI art myself and will…
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The encounter with Erwin Olaf’s Strange Beauty is a heavy dose of artistic embarrassment. I have to admit that I hadn’t truly grasped how big a name he is in the photographic world, which is a failing I feel keenly, especially when the work itself is so meticulously brilliant. But the immediate, impact of turning…
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Tessa Boffin, edited by Sunil Gupta for Stanley/Barker is not a book one simply reads; it is a visceral, philosophical declaration of war against shame, silence, and institutional neglect. Presented with the care and unflinching honesty we expect from Stanley Barker, this book arrives less as an archive and more as a powerful, necessary call…
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There are some books that demand to be read in a single, unbroken, visceral sitting, and then there are books like Dona Ann McAdams’s Black Box. This is a volume that felt less like a photobook and more like the discovery of someone’s deeply personal diary, a collection I had to keep putting down, not…
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I have been waiting for what feels like an eternity to properly sit down with Ala Ebtekar’s Thirty-Six Views of the Moon. Family life, site projects, and the inescapable gravitational pull of daily chaos meant I had to keep putting it down, always promising myself I would return. Last night, however, I finally got the…
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There are some photobooks that you read, and then there are others that read you. They arrive in your hands not as curated collections of beautiful prints, but as an unflinching challenge to your very soul, forcing you to confront the ethical and emotional cost of simply looking at the world today. Alfredo Jaar’s magnificent,…
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Streuli is a photographer of such a rare brilliance, dismantling the polished, protective veneer we wear as travellers. We cling to the worn cliché that urban exploration is boundless, yet we betray ourselves by treading the familiar, safe paths, viewing the world from a certain elevated perch, and noting only the most superficial fragments.
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I first stumbled upon the work of David Hoffman last month. I was reading an interview with him on the Socialist Worker website, and I was at once taken by his photograph of the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common from 1982. I loved it so much that I featured it as one of my…