It was the streets that raised me, streets that paid me, streets that made me a product of my environment
“Coming from a Hiphop and Punk/Hardcore background, the streets are the place where all our relevant references come together: music, skateboarding, graffiti, political action. The book thus combines self-taken photographs of our surroundings and found footage ranging from movie stills to reproduced magazines and record covers. Both layers are intertwined in a fictional script, formulating… Read more »
MANITOBA
“Tobias Zielony captures the life of adolescent indigenous gang members in Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba province in Canada. In keeping with the tradition of classic photo journalism, Zielony makes use of various genres of photography; including portraits of gang members posing in front of the camera and views of the urban landscape in and… Read more »
Outragueous Fortune
“‘Outrageous Fortune’ is a new Hayward Touring exhibition, curated by Andrew Hunt, director of Focal Point Gallery, showcasing contemporary artists’ interpretations of the classic Tarot de Marseille deck of cards. Tarot playing cards originated in Italy in the 15th century. Used in most of Europe to play games, in the English-speaking world the tarot is… Read more »
Vorbilder / Models
NOIR COMPLEX ― City, Story, Destruction & Death
“In an autobiographical piece from 1993 US author James Ellroy quotes C.G. Jung: ‘What is not brought to consciousness, arrives with us as fate.’ This is Noir: the suspense that is created between determination and analysis, instruction and destruction, trappings and escapes. C.G. Jung’s dictum can be summarised as such: nobody can avoid the task… Read more »
Dying to Know
Catalogue for MA Photographic Studies 2009 graduates group show with: Andreia Alves de Oliveira, Angela Leonidou, Assunta Del Buono, Brett Killington, Chantal Riekel, David Penny, Despina Papachristoudi, Estéfani Bouza, Joanna Zylinska, Kathrin Spirk, Lisa Phillips, Mikael Gregorsky, Milcho Andreev, Petter Garaas, Radi Konstantinov, Sarah Swenson, Ting Ting Cheng. With texts by David Bate, Kathy Kubicki.
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