In 1979, there were 250 serious crimes reported in the New York subway system – per week. There were six murders in the first two months alone. No other subway in the world was more crime-ridden and infamous. New Yorker Willy Spiller braved the labyrinth transport system for a photography series that says so much about the modern tone and texture of the world’s most iconic city. In a foreword to a new photobook, published by Sturm & Drang, Dr. Tobia Bezzola writes of Spiller’s achievements.
Czech photographer Stanislav Bříza’s self publishing platform BFLMPSVZ publishes a chronicle of a joint road trip through America, and through the dark recesses of a relationship “that goes beyond the confines of the road.”
Just over a century ago, 13 percent of the world’s population lived in urban centres; the United Nations predicts that by the year 2050, close to six billion people or 75 percent of the global population, are expected to be concentrated in cities.
The recording artist – who died in January at the age of 69 – has been celebrated through numerous releases in the intervening months. Alongside shows at Proud Camden and The Hub, 2016 has seen the launch of a new book by Bowie’s official photographer through 1972-3: Mick Rock. Here BJP looks at the imagery during a time which saw the artist ‘construct a complete mythology around himself’.
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.
Jim Marshall’s photos of 60s jazz festivals capture the many greats of the ‘first uniquely American art form’.
On visiting the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo in 2012, Oliver Curtis turned and looked back in the direction he had come from. What he saw fascinated him. He has since made a point of turning his back on some of world’s most photographed monuments and historic sites, looking at their counter-views and forgotten faces.
Sandler credits his fascination with street life to his years in New York as a…
2016 has already proved to be an eventful year for sport. As we were just…
“Let me try to explain you something,” says renowned American photojournalist Paula Bronstein. “Afghans are…
