Though many postsecondary photography programs culminate in thesis exhibitions, public health restrictions and safety measures have caused schools to pivot towards digital or hybrid exhibitions.
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Though many postsecondary photography programs culminate in thesis exhibitions, public health restrictions and safety measures have caused schools to pivot towards digital or hybrid exhibitions.
Rather than remaining trapped in a latent position, complicated issues are pushed to the forefront of Reid’s images, where they take on seemingly impossible forms.
“For the time being, our only escape and way to cope with a feeling of imprisonment and anxiety might be to use the power of our imagination to push back the limits of our own confinement.”
One of our writers looks inside the lives of imprisoned women with the help of Sara Bennett, an ex-public defender turned photographer.
Two photographers discuss their journey around South Africa 20 years after the end of Apartheid.
What shapes our understanding of the past? Photography, for one, mediates what is preserved of our past, it stands as a witness. It controls to some extent what we want to remember and forget.
Besides all of its obvious firsts, World War One also saw the rise of war photojournalism. Of course, the presence of cameras on the battlefield had gone back to the American Civil War, but the cameras of these eras were too cumbersome, too delicate, and too slow to be operated in the middle of an actual conflict. Because of these limitations, most of the photos from the war focused on the aftermath of the battles; corpses posed amongst debris in an attempt to recreate the violence that had just occurred.
What form then can love take? We’re creatures hungry to qualify, to say we know, and mean it. To love someone all day-night long, to undress yourself slowly, so slowly it takes the rest of your life to lose and then to find each other, reassuring by touch and silence what no one else has ever known to exist except the two of you in that moment. Something so elusive can’t be bound by rules or form.
I like to think imagination is a force that can change mentalities. Working between the archive and the fictive is a way I have found over the years to somehow stretch the limits between a so called objective or imaginary construction of our natural and social worlds.
Mirror, Mirror is a project where Leda Costa photographs people's expressions as a response to six questions. She uses a double sided mirror where each subject is forced to look at their own reflection rather than the photographer or the camera.
In the last year, Carolyn Marks Blackwood’s photographs of the Hudson – its water, its sky, its ice and its moods – have come to prominence in the world of art photography.