Jasphy Zheng
Currently based in New York City, Jasphy Zheng was born and has lived most of her life on islands, of various kinds. She achieved a BFA in photography at Rhode Island School of Design. Zheng has a deep interest in meditating on the idea of mortality, ephemera and bridge between individuals. Her work has been […]
Federica Sasso
Federica Sasso is a documentary and fashion photographer based in Milan. She attended the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia before being recipient of a one-year scholarship for an artistic residency at Fabrica, communication research center of the Benetton Group. Her work focuses on feminine and adolescence related topics and has been exhibited in galleries and festival […]
Brandy Eve Allen
Brandy Eve Allen grew up in NYC/LA, spent 3 years living in Italy and is self-taught. Exclusively shot on film. “First I made art about lovers that didn’t exist, then I made art about lovers that did, and now I don’t make art about lovers, but I still make art for the lovers. When did […]
Siwa Mgoboza
PHROOM HOME Artists Projects Interviews Book Reviews Essays Moving Images Authorials TV Exhibitions Education Submission Newsletter About SIWA MGOBOZA interview by: Giangiacomo Cirla Born in 1993, South African Siwa Mgoboza is a leading interdisciplinary artist of his generation. His photographs and mixed media pieces examine contending cultural and political forces within globalized subjects […]
Notes for an exhibition that I will never hold
“Nothing is true; everything is permitted” Hassan-i-Sabbah Notes for an exhibition that I will never hold “…something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it…” (“On Photography” – Susan Sontag) The U.F.O photography is wonderful. From the amateur attempt made with a plate till the perfect picture, retouched thanks to […]
Olive Juice // Molly Matalon & Damien Maloney
Duality omnipresent, objects doubled, relationships essentially exist as their very own Geminis. Often photography is conceived as an action in which the photographer reveals the other, the illusion, the gaze. Showing the viewer something that they’ve never seen before, showing the audience a new myth. Often times we can become lost in the photographer’s role […]
Vandalism// John Divola
John Divola is an American treasure, residing in Riverside, California. Bringing the surreal into reality and vice versa, Divola is a unique product of the American west. Often photographing in abandoned, desolate, or bizarre locations Divola has a knack for bringing the unimaginable into a tangible, comprehendible space. In his monograph “Vandalism” we experience this […]
Yatender
Ao Kim Ngân a.k.a. Yatender is a film photographer whose practice props up a ramshackle bridge of shared spaces in time and gives shape to the yearning for something more. The story she writes is a personal one, unfolding candidly from a desire to escape the narrow worldview of circumstance and reach across great distances to […]
Kevin Lear
A Glass Darkly Kevin Lear’s photographs are an intense poetic meditation on urban spaces in Kent and London, dating from 1971 until the 1990s. Often shot at twilight, the works transform everyday street landscapes into sculptural forms. The photographs are imbued with a foreboding and unease, offering alien scenes of a world made unfamiliar by […]
Nikolas Ventourakis
Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in the attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. A quest that unfolds in the crucial years of the digital revolution, when a crucial overlap between producers and viewers seems […]