Back in 2010 BJP asked a panel of experts to select the best photobook of the past 25 years. They chose Ravens by Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase – a dark, impressionistic journey by a man left bereft by divorce which has also been interpreted as an insight into the post-war Japanese psyche.
“People consume photographs,” says Erik Kessels, “they don’t look at them anymore.” It’s a theme he’s played with in his work, most notably in the installation 24hrs In Photos, in which he printed out all the images posted on Flickr on a single day.
A 13-day coma, four brain haemorrhages, a fractured cheekbone, a broken collarbone, a broken humerus,…
Examining the cultural, religious, and ceremonial practices passed down through generations of African descendants in Cuba, Lo Calzo highlights the variety of identities within the country, and the ways in which they complement one another. Cohabiting “within a personal culture of exchange”, he says, they “borrow each other’s visions, customs and narratives”. He points to the “precarious balancing act” between the familiar Cuba, largely defined by the communist revolution and the society born out of it, and the diverse communities that actually make up the country.
“They were unconscious: we undressed them and when the captain of the flight gave us…
“The first time I was in Degtyarsk in 2012, I was mesmerised by this spectacle…
“Everything in France over the last year-and-a-half has given a different context to the pictures…
He’s 89 but he’s just got his first monograph – Marvin E Newman, a native…
At 11.41pm on 07 December 1988, a cold and snowy day, Armenia was struck by…
“The world has become a spectrum of grey. We drive silver cars. We wear black…
