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Review: Deutschland by Gerry Johansson
Dec 13, 2012
A review of the magnificent Deutschland by Gerry Johansson
Review: In The Shadow of Things by Leonie Hampton
Dec 7, 2012
A review of In The Shadow of Things by Leonie Hampton
CPC 2012: And the winners are…
Dec 3, 2012
Introducing the winners of the 2012 Conscientious Portfolio Competition
Review: Welcome to Springfield by Michael Abrams
Nov 30, 2012
A review of Welcome to Springfield by Michael Abrams
Review (of sorts): Looking for Love, 1996 by Alec Soth
Nov 23, 2012
A review (of sorts) of Looking for Love, 1996 by Alec Soth
Articles
Review: The Disappearance of Darkness by Robert Burley
Dec 21, 2012 – What is there left to say about film photography? I suppose nothing really. At the time of this writing, it is not quite dead, yet, and it might never fully die. But with consumers having abandoned film for the convenience of digital photography, film photography has become a small niche, and that’s just the way it is. The only real question might be whether colour film will survive or not (black and white appears safe in the hands of a small number of very dedicated producers), and that’s mostly a question for that small number of photographers who still use it (me included). (more)
Goseong Choi
Dec 19, 2012 – Goseong Choi’s Meji transforms barren wastelands into oddly compelling semi-abstract imagery.
Gaia Danieli
Dec 18, 2012 – Gaia Danieli’s Thoughts unsaid, then forgotten looks at the domestic lives of couples, and at how much we might really know of another person.
Contemporary German Photography
Kevin Mertens
Dec 17, 2012 – “All I really knew when I started this project was that I wanted to photograph in my father’s town of birth. For years I had thought about documenting life in Iowa. I flew over, got a rental car and started driving around. This place, where I had been so many times since my childhood, felt different now while looking through a viewfinder.” - Kevin Mertens, introducing Hurtland
The Artist, the (possibly) Genius
Dec 17, 2012 – Tom Griggs wrote a lengthy article, reacting to a comment I (and others) had to something he had written earlier (all the relevant information can be found in his recent piece). I thought I’d respond. (more)
Review: Retinal Shift by Mikhael Subotzky
Dec 14, 2012 – “In preparing the work,” writes Mikhael Subotzky at the beginning of Retinal Shift1, “I went through every photograph I had ever taken, and chose those where the process of looking, or being looked back at, was resonant.” Added to those were then scanned portraits from Who’s Who of Southern Africa, stills (plus text) from various videos, plus images taken from the photographer’s home, shot through the window with the camera’s shutter button depressed as long as the machine would take photographs. The resulting collection of images makes for a compelling, yet maybe slightly lengthy experience. (more)
Lisa Fairstein
Dec 12, 2012 – Lisa Fairstein’s Ultra-Static plays with the conventions and language of photography, mixing ideas from commercial and conceptual contexts.
Hye-Ryoung Min
Dec 11, 2012 – Hye-Ryoung Min is one of the winners of this year’s Conscientious Portfolio Competition, having submitted Channel 247, a body of work that combines elements of curiosity, voyeurism, and surveillance.
K. M. Asad
Dec 10, 2012 – This is an image from Sudden rain in the street by Bangladeshi photographer K. M. Asad.
Meditations on Photographs: Josef Nowak by an unknown photographer
Dec 7, 2012 – What you see in this photograph is what I see in it, a man that none of us have ever met. I can say that with certainty because I know just a little bit, albeit not much, more about this man. He is, or actually was, Josef Nowak, an accountant born in what is now the Czech Republic, a citizen of Germany when it was called Nazi Germany, an avid multi-instrumentalist (mostly playing the accordion, though), and, just like millions of others, a soldier, drafted to fight in World War 2. Josef Nowak was killed (“fell”) on 21 March 1942 in what was then the Soviet Union. There was not going to be another spring in his life, and for a long time there was none in his wife’s (now widow’s) who on the very day that her husband died gave birth to their fourth daughter. That fourth daughter is my mother’s youngest sister. Josef Nowak is my grandfather. Find the full piece here.
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Meditations on Photographs: Josef Nowak by an unknown photographer
What you see in this photograph is what I see in it, a man that none of us have ever met. I can say that with certainty because I know just a little bit, albeit not much, more about this man. He is, or actually was, Josef Nowak, an accountant born in what is now the Czech Republic, a citizen of Germany when it was called Nazi Germany, an avid multi-instrumentalist (mostly playing the accordion, though), and, just like millions of others, a soldier, drafted to fight in World War 2. Josef Nowak was killed (“fell”) on 21 March 1942 in what was then the Soviet Union. There was not going to be another spring in his life, and for a long time there was none in his wife’s (now widow’s) who on the very day that her husband died gave birth to their fourth daughter. That fourth daughter is my mother’s youngest sister. Josef Nowak is my grandfather. (more)
By Joerg Colberg | Dec 7, 2012