‘Nahrung’ means food in German and ‘aufnahme’ means picture. When brought together, they form the word ‘nahrungsaufnahme’ which roughly translates as food intake – an apt title for Korean photographer Kyung Nyu Hyun’s latest project.
Portraiture
When Alnis Stakle first took up photography, he was faced with a rigid conception of the medium. In Latvia in the 1990s it was largely considered a commercial craft, he says, with any more artistic ambitions restricted to banal nudes and sunsets. But for Stakle photography is “a kind of religion”, which has the power to change our relationship to the world.
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.”
In the eighteenth century, the Kings of Siam found an ingenious way of excluding a…
Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen has created a unique tribute to his homeland’s cultural defining Norwegian Black Metal in his new series, Singing Norwegian Singers.
A new collection documents the rock & roll imagery of Californian photographer, Michael Zagaris during the 1970s. Including images of The Clash, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan and many others, the archive provides a revealing and intimate insight into this unique scene at a time of hedonistic abandon. BJP sat down with the photographer to discuss a collection that claims to be the ‘last untouched rock archive.’
In 2015, KEO Films gave cameraphones to migrants and refugees, following their journeys over thousands…
The dichotomy between documenting and experiencing an event is a predicament faced by even the…
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’.
The New York-based photographer Joni Sternbach is nominated for a ‘tintype’ portrait of a couple called…