Curator Mariama Attah explains how socially engaged curatorial practices can reshape the photographic world
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With the release of a book and accompanying exhibition showcasing Rodríguez’s LAPD 1994 work, the photojournalist reflects on growing up in New York, its effect on his practice and his approach to documenting the notorious Los Angeles Police Department thousands of miles away.
“The hanging mask felt to me like an amulet: an item to be hung alongside…
7 January 2021
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Captivated by the Indigenous tradition of Songlines, Tanya Houghton travelled across Australia’s national parks, covering a total distance of 10,500 km over five weeks
“Poetry allows instantaneous connections between distant thoughts or images, and transcends the logic we use to formalise the events of the world. Photography can do the same”
In critique of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, artist Elsa Leydier corrupted and inverted the stereotypical image of Brazil to expose the realities of a compromised democracy
“I would like for audiences to engage with the work, and look at how racism operates in their communities”
Marco Barbieri documents the stark class divides of a city going through constant reinvention and construction
Using a mix of 3D mapping, photography and sculpture, Guerra’s Future Fossils blends dead and synthetic organisms to question scientific intervention into the natural world