Cedric Van Turtlebloom’s contemporary documentary style centres around everyday life – but not as we know it. Currently editing his second photobook, in which he takes a quizzical look at China’s burgeoning middle class and its penchant for artificial ski slopes, his visual stories are anything but conventional.
Photographer Dan Nathan will be displaying a new series of landscapes that reflect the incremental movements of geology, at London’s Serena Morton II Gallery.
A new exhibition on the works of American photographer George Tice will present a selection of forty rare gelatin silver contact prints from the years of 1973 and ’74, which, seen together, comprise of an “epic visual poem” of Tice’s native state of New Jersey.
“War is the natural occupation of man – war and gardening,” said Winston Churchill, whose observation is printed on the opening page of Corinne Silva’s new monograph, Garden State.
Karim Skalli understood as a child, when visiting his family in Casablanca, that light is…
Stuart Hall first visited the Tar Sands in Fort McMurray, Canada in 2011 and tries to return almost every year since to capture what he terms the Giga-project – the largest industrial project in human history. The process of extracting the bitumen is, according to environmentalists, the world’s most damaging activity. The scale is so enormous that the wound can be seen from space. The oil embedded in the sand lies under 140,000 km2 of forests, equivalent to the size of England. Hall tells BJP how the series was created, and his own pathway into photography.
One hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme, Jolyon Fenwick took panoramic photographs of the landscape today, before layering them with annotations detailing what happened at each spot. The images were born of two years of research, including using original military maps of the time, first-hand testimony of soldiers who were there and the help of experts in the German defenses. Writing for BJP, Fenwick describes how he created his remarkable testament to a battle that cost 481,842 British citizens their lives.
“Looking at the work of artist like Stubbs made me interested in the disconnect between animals…
Simen Johan was born in 1973 in Kirkenes, the extreme north of Norway, and raised…
