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Eco-Friendly Lingerie By Elliss

Rosie Flanagan — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:00:42 +0000

Elliss pieces are crafted with care and conscience; manufactured in the same London building that they’re designed in from natural and recycled materials.

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Unusual Pets In Usual Places: Housebroken By Areca Roe

Alice Finney — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:00:38 +0000

For the past three years, photographer Areca Roe has been scouring Instagram pages and various zoos across her hometown of Minnesota for unusual pets to feature in ‘Housebroken’, a series of strangely humorous yet adorable photographs.

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Matriarchal Lines In Muslim Communities Explored By Yumna Al-Arashi

Alice Finney — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:29:07 +0000

London-based photographer Yumna Al-Arashi documents a forgotten community of Muslim women with her project ‘Face’. The series portrays a generation of older women who have worn facial tattoos for centuries as a mark of collective identity.

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Kevin Serna Photographs Presa de los Serna, Mexico

Rosie Flanagan — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:00:44 +0000

Beyond the mountains of Aguascalientes in central Mexico is a small town called Presa de los Serna, here, over the course of seven years, Chicago-based photographer Kevin Serna created the series ‘La Presa’.

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The ‘Coincidence Project’ By Denis Cherim

Brit Seaton — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:00:20 +0000

Over the past few years, photographer Denis Cherim has been steadily building up his ‘Coincidence Project’, a personal series that compiles an inventory of chance encounters in his everyday surroundings.

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Aleksey Kondratyev Captures ‘Ice Fishers’

Brit Seaton — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:00:41 +0000

Struck by the presence of fishermen in the frozen Ishim River, photographer Aleksey Kondratyev began to document their accidental sculptural forms in a series entitled ‘Ice Fishers’.

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A Portrait Of Shanghai By Yuan Xiaopeng

Brit Seaton — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:00:13 +0000

Alongside publishing independent photobooks as the co-founder of Same Paper studio, Yuan Xiaopeng spends time photographing street scenes of Shanghai. Captured with portrait orientation, the images gather a sense of the city’s multiple identities, channelled through the photographer’s keen eye for chance encounters with light and composition. The series presents views of Shanghai that may otherwise have slipped unnoticed, with Yuan Xiaopeng often pointing his lens in the direction of street corners, cracks in the surfaces and close-ups that render their subjects (at first) unrecognisable. As a viewer becomes familiar with Yuan Xiaopeng’s work, it can be discovered to arise with an interest in the subtly surreal or uncanny, hidden in plain sight of everyday Shanghai life.

All images © Yuan Xiaopeng

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The Visual Diary Of Theo Tagholm

Brit Seaton — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 16:00:31 +0000

Currently living and working in London, Theo Tagholm works across a broad range of visual arts, including fine art, graphic design, filmmaking and photography.

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A Celebration Of Everyday Resilience By Linnea Stephan

Brit Seaton — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:00:06 +0000

Linnea Stephan is a Los Angeles-based photographer and writer. Her portrait and documentary photography captures a poetic view of everyday life, channeled through real-life characters and their interactions with one another. Stephan often presents intimate views of community members, particularly to celebrate elements of resilience in their life stories. Interested in mental health and social justice, much of Stephan’s work helps to break stigma around issues in society, including a recent body of work that focuses on the strength of women and children directly affected by suicide. Stephan photographs with thoughtfulness and confidence and her images share a narrative of admiration for her subjects.

All images © Linnea Stephan

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Pittsburgh Parking Lot Booths By Tom M. Johnson

Sarah Press — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:00:24 +0000

After moving to Pittsburg couple of years ago, editorial and advertising portrait photographer Tom M. Johnson found a unique way to photograph the city and tell a story at the same time of the people working there.
On a December afternoon, as the turquoise sky surrendered to the city lights, Tom M. Johnson was struck by the isolation of a parking lot attendant sitting in his booth. Fascinated by this occupied booth, Johnson started with his project named “Pittsburgh Parking Lot Booths and Their Attendants”, capturing the isolation and melancholy of Pittsburgh parking lot attendants with nothing other than their thoughts. “I wanted to show an aspect of daily life in the city so steeped in the habits that people have forgotten what makes it interesting”, Tom M. Johnson explains. Pittsburgh is a commuter city with marginal public transportation, so most people have to drive into the city from surrounding suburbs and need a place to park. Tom M. Johnson photographs the attendants not as obscure structures, he takes their portraits as he sees them, as animate objects with a character shaped by years. These occupied booths seem like a portrait within a portrait and thus a story within a story. This project demonstrates the symbiotic relationship of both the booth and the attendant. The occupant needs the booth for comfort and function, while the booth needs its attendant for significance.

All images © Tom M. Johnson

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Alec Soth’s Tender View On American Realities

Anna Dorothea Ker — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:36:35 +0000

Dubbed “the greatest living photographer of America’s social and geographical landscape,” Alec Soth has been turning his lens to contemporary American realities for decades. Tender, intimate and often surprising, his photographs – which span portraiture, landscapes and still life to transcend the boundaries of traditional documentary-style photography – are arresting and engulfing in equal measure.

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The Visual Autobiography Of Mark Sommerfeld

Brit Seaton — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:00:33 +0000

Toronto-based photographer Mark Sommerfeld predominantly works on autobiographical projects, documenting his life and the people he shares it with.

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Julie Renée Jones Rewrites Memory In ‘Umbra’

Brit Seaton — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:00:46 +0000

Since 2001, photographer Julie Renée Jones has been capturing places somewhere in between reality and figments of imagination. Taking the people and places of her American midwest home as a subject, the Ohio-born Jones explores memory and experiences of aging, a theme integral to her project ‘Umbra’. Many images of the series present figures concealed by shadows and foliage, their presence revealed in the frame through flickers of sunlight. Others depict naturally lit portraits but still some essence of identity remains hidden, alluding to the reconstruction and fading of memories. About the series, the photographer explains, “Using my own interpretations of everyday events, childhood games, the landscape of my home, and most importantly the photographs from my family archive I rewrite the perceived reality of my childhood and family’s past into new truths.”

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Life And Behaviour Understood By Zora J Murff

Brit Seaton — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:00:12 +0000

As a former psychology student, photographer Zora J Murff questions perceptions of people and their behaviour. In the series ‘Corrections’ and ‘Fade Like a Sigh’, Murff explores human nature, as affected by particular life events.

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Larry Sultan’s Pictures From Home

Sarah Press — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:00:52 +0000

Larry Sultan’s art project titled ‘Pictures From Home’ was created between 1982 and 1992, featuring part family album, part visual novella, that comprises family snapshots, old home videos, as well as memento mori.

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