Reading Time: 2 minutes “I wanted to direct my photography towards questioning, towards an alternative narrative to the one imposed by the state in the face of terror”
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The photographer’s new book, There Is Nothing Under The Sun, uses image and text to critique a silent system that we cannot escape
Reading Time: 4 minutes Following a lively weekend of artist talks, gallery shows and programmes, Anna Sansom spotlights five standouts from the fair
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a project which the photographer began in 2015, his home in Amsterdam becomes the stage upon which to explore the possibilities of photography
Reading Time: 3 minutes The French photographer’s latest book explores Athens as an oxymoronic city, split between its rich mythological history and stark political-economic situation
Reading Time: 6 minutes “I believe that collective memory and individual experience, politics and personal beliefs, are interrelated,” says Yorgos Yatromanolakis, and it’s easy to see why. Born in Crete in 1986, he got into photography in December 2008 because he wanted to document the riots that broke out in Greece after a 15 year-old, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, was shot dead by the police. Shot in grainy black-and-white and printed by Yatromanolakis, the resulting images were later self-published as a book, Roadblock to Normality.
“Roadblock to Normality is a small, personal, but at the same time collective notebook emanating from my participation in political and social movements in my country,” says Yatromanolakis. “It certainly captures, in a subjective way, some critical political events.”
Reading Time: 5 minutes Our pick of the key stories from the past week, including Paris’ Circulation(s) festival of emerging European photography, the first-ever Kyiv Photo Book festival, and Todd Hido’s Bright Black World
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hunger is an experimental project based on Franz Kafka’s short story, A Hunger Artist, about the once-glorious, but now dying, art of performers who starved themselves. Curated by Greek publishing house Void, it involves the work of 28 photographers, both established and up-and-coming, presented in seven broadsheet publications, and in an online exhibition on PHMuseum.com.
Reading Time: 3 minutes “There is this feeling that if someone has won an award, then it will not be a mistake if they are awarded again. But unfortunately selecting this way does not highlight fresh gems and talents. It just creates trends, but not excitement and new-comers. We at Gomma are not afraid to prize unknown photographers,” says founder Luca Desienna. This year’s awards are now open for submissions with past winners boasting solo exhibitions, international magazine features and photobook publications since bagging the award.