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.
Shaman-like healers who practice traditional medicine and worship the ancestors are influential figures in the…
French photographer Mathias Depardon first visited Baku in 2012, shooting human rights issues at the…
Bound to the north and west by the Baltic sea, and on the east by…
The exhibition is centered around Vō’s expansive 2015 installation, named after lines spoken by the…
Broadly defined as the use of language that has a persuasive or impressive effect, rhetoric…
Karim Skalli understood as a child, when visiting his family in Casablanca, that light is…
Between the 26th and 28th December 1980, in a dense wooded forest in Suffolk, there were multiple reported sightings of an unidentified floating object. Rendlesham Forest was the location for Britain’s most renowned UFO spectacle.
The Japanese phrase ‘wabi-sabi’ can be translated to “the simple appreciation of blemish-moments.” Chance encounters, fleeting moments, light leaks and smudges – Sarah White’s work was inspired by this concept before she had even heard of it.
Eva Abeling was born and raised in Northern Germany, Bremen. Before moving to London, she studied and worked with various artists in Barcelona. She recently graduated in London from the University of Westminster in Photographic Arts. Her project I Thought There Was Something at Free Range Shows Awards was awarded as the winner of the Metro Mentorship 2016, winning a 12-month Metro Mentorship and her own solo exhibition. She talks exclusively to BJP.
