Alex Prager, splitting the crowd
Alex Prager’s images leave you with a strange impression: when you face her Crowds, which are spread out over the entire height of the wall, you might think, for a second, that you are in the presence of photographs taken on the spot. But the characters have too fixed a look, the composition is too […]
TRIPS WITH SCARLETT HOOFT GRAAFLAND
Dutch artist, Scarlett Hooft Graafland works all over the world. From one country to another, in places of natural magic, she collaborates with local populations to stage installations and dance performances, of which only these minimalist photographs bring back the traces. Bolivian salt desert, Malagasy island, arctic and marine landscape, confront and dialogue through her […]
SO HOLLYWOOD !
From June 3 to November 20, 2022, Hollywood is on display in Berlin! In this highly anticipated exhibition, the Helmut Newton Foundation will trace 100 years of the history of the movie theater through period photographs. Alongside the master of fashion and film photography, the work of artists such as Ruth Harriet Louise, Eve Arnold, […]
THE END OR THE CURTAIN?
Passionate about urbex, the practice of visiting abandoned urban places, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have devoted 15 years of their lives to traveling the United States in search of movie theaters. In the course of their wanderings, the photographic duo visited hundreds of sleeping theaters, sumptuous buildings with triumphant sets, like so many vestiges […]
The intimate photographs of the artist Iringó Demeter
As soon as she obtained her bachelor’s degree in art photography, Iringó Demeter left her native Transylvania for the city of London with the objective of conquering new horizons and exploring the human body in all its forms. Lulled since childhood by “calm and nature,” Iringó continually seeks to transcribe this calmness in most of […]
Barbara Kruger, the evils in the image
The American conceptual artist, known for her textual photomontages, continues to brilliantly question social stereotypes, the diktats of beauty, and the consumerism of society. Years pass, eras mark history, and Barbara Kruger’s work remains relevant today. If the critical charge of this postmodern feminist artist has influenced the art of the end of the 20th […]
Miami Vibes
New York-based photographer Tommy Kwak celebrates the picturesque beauty of Lifeguard Towers in Miami Beach, Florida. Lifeguard towers are among Florida’s most popular architecture after the iconic Art Deco buildings on the streets of SoBe (South Beach). What these designs have in common is that they were born out of two hurricanes that hit this […]
JULIA BURULEVA, BODY-LANDSCAPES
Naked bodies or dressed in colors, dancing bodies or merging with objects, full-length images or details of materials, presenting proud attitudes in a softly strange world: this is what the work of the photographer Julia Buruleva has in store. Russian by birth and Barcelonan by adoption, the photographer works with bodies, her own and those […]
Dillon Marsh: For What It’s Worth
Cape Town-based photographer Dillon Marsh is known for his committed work that highlights the impact of man on his environment. Dillon has travelled across South Africa to photograph the impact of mining activities on nature. Mixing pure photography with computer-generated elements, the “For What It’s Worth” series shines a spotlight on the raw and unsightly […]
Patty Carroll : Portraits of Domestic Life
Patty Carroll’s first solo exhibition at Gallery XII in Los Angeles. Bright colors and pastels of a modern soap opera – white, pink, orange, yellow – or black bodies of decomposed models, faces disappearing under accumulations of objects, flowers or good-natured decoration; the subjects of the photographs are presented in domestic environments that deny them […]
Elizaveta Porodina : Dreaming in color
An internationally renowned fashion photographer, Elizaveta Porodina is particularly dazzling in her mastery of photography. Neon colors, silhouettes drawn as if with the tip of a pencil, reflections, brilliance or transparencies creating a unique pictorial impression… her universe is thus described as dreamlike and surreal. Indeed, her work is sometimes reminiscent of Man Ray’s photographs, […]
TODD HIDO
“The black sun of melancholy”1 Desolate landscapes, sad, worried faces, golds emerging from grey dawns or black twilights… Todd Hido’s new photographs are imbued with melancholy. Bare trees struggling in the mist, fallen trees blown down by the wind, deserted horizons and roads… it is the solitude (of beings and of nature) that emanates from […]
Mulhouse Biennial: Cosmic and Photographic Magic
The cosmos, often referred to as the cradle of humanity as much as its destination, does not escape the gaze of photographers, and this is what the Mulhouse Biennial of Photography is highlighting this year through its title, “Corps Céleste.” Thus, the luminous body of the photograph meets that which reaches us from the stars. […]
CHEMA MADOZ
Created in 1960 in Paris, on the initiative of Raymond Queneau, OuLiPo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) set itself the task of discovering new potentialities of language and modernizing language through writing games. Born two years earlier, Chema Madoz could not have been part of the adventure. Situated on the borders of surrealism and the absurd, […]
Games of gender and gaze at Pixy Liao
In Pixy Liao’s work, the attitudes and interactions resemble the traces of an erotic role-playing game with a wry sense of humor. Partly because the staging, the bold colors, and the apparent cord of the photographic trigger evoke a dialogue between professional and amateur images. Partly because the roles in question contradict the representations we […]
Circulation(s), the future of European photography
Under the luminous ceiling of the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Circulation(s), the festival of young European photography, has been installed. For 2022, the collective Fetart, organizer, invites about thirty artists and honors a country, Armenia. The diversity of the selection explores creative photography under different aspects. We will retain some artists: Dominik Fleischmann, whose work, between out-of-field and […]
In front of or behind the lens, Kourtney Roy magnifies photography
Her pictures, doped with humor, whose aesthetic reminds us of Guy Bourdin’s universe and Cindy Sherman’s approach, make Kourtney Roy an artist in her own right. Her inspirations, resolutely turned towards cinema, in particular that of David Lynch, lead her photographs into a world on the borders of reality and fantasy. Her art is exhibited […]
SO FLASHY!
By turns director, photographer, designer, and muralist, Jimmy Marble is one of those multidisciplinary artists who succeeds at everything. Whatever his medium of expression, Jimmy bases his work on the use of color, an irreverent aesthetic and a contemporary surrealism. An explosive combo that gives life to humorous compositions full of optimism. These playful and […]
Bara Prasilova immortalizes the absurd with brilliance
Her surreal images oscillate between beauty and strangeness with a touch of the absurd and a lot of humor. Bara Prasilova is a photographer from the Czech Republic whose success is spreading all over the world. Holder of numerous awards, such as the prestigious Clio Awards bronze in 2019, she can also boast of having […]
ImageNation: Photographic passion
Launched in 2012 by Martin Vegas, the photographic concept ImageNation was initially a place of exhibition and exchange for passionate photographers. In a few years, this international exhibition has become one of the leading events in photography and is held in different cities such as Milan, Los Angeles or Paris. If photography is an art […]
Photographic story
The editorial staff of Acumen were interested in the creative process of the image: this moment of life which precedes the taking of a photograph, a kind of emotional story echoing the immortalized moment. In the form of captions, these short stories explain the birth of an image. Lucas Cerri is a French photographer and […]
NAMSA LEUBA, COMPOSED IMAGINARY
Discovering Namsa Leuba plunges you into an imaginary world of Afro-descendant identities. One must first become acquainted with all the colors, those of the sets and costumes, the make-up and the skins, without being surprised by the magical force of the whole. For it is through this that a hybrid narrative between vernacular reality and […]
NADINE IJEWERE, THE BEAUTY OF SHADES
Can fashion photography become a manifesto? With Nadine Ijewere, without a doubt. From her pictures, we retain the bright colors and the cheerfulness of the models, the poses in movement and the vitality of the groups in their interactions with their environment. For fashion photography, however, she chooses the diversity of bodies and identities. The […]
GRACIELA ITURBIDE – MYTHICAL
Suspended between the sky and the earth, the here and the elsewhere, the charred lands and the sidewalks or the clouds shrouded by birds, Graciela Iturbide’s keen and piercing eye has caught the strangeness of the world. This eye, on the lookout for the incongruous, for the poetry lurking in the ordinary, has made the […]