“Sightseeing” // Mikiya Takimoto
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter MIKIYA TAKIMOTO Sightseeing websiteInstagram text by: Antonino Barbaro Sightseeing is considered the lifework of Japanese artist Mikiya Takimoto, for which he travelled across all seven continents focusing on the main touristic attractions, people’s behaviour and their interaction with them. […]
“Schwarzenegger is my idol” // Sergey Melnitchenko
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter SERGEY MELNITCHENKO Schwarzenegger is my idol websiteinstagram Publisher: Moksop text by: Matteo Cremonesi “What remains original in the work is what is not verbal: for example its physicality, its voice, its body. The body: here is a land not […]
“The Wedding” // Boris Mikhailov
PHROOM BORIS MIKHAILOV The Wedding Publisher: Morel Books text by: Matteo Cremonesi The controversial photographic work of Boris Mikhailov documents the terrible daily lives and the ruthless social conditions in which many homeless people (also known as Bomzhes), end up in post-communist Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. Destroyed lives that […]
“Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection” // Akimitus Naruyama
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter AKIMITUS NARUYAMA Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection Publisher: Scalo text by: Matteo Cremonesi «There is a sort of construction in the vision, from which we are exempt by habit. We guess or foresee, in general, more than we see, and […]
“Sinking Stone” // Cristiano Volk
PHROOM CRISTIANO VOLK Sinking Stone websiteInstagram Publisher: Witty Books text by: Matteo Cremonesi Gaining from the traditions of the Baroque theater and the Fine Arts, Cristiano Volk with the “Sinking Stone” project offers us a reading of the city of Venice that is not satisfied of reporting its artistic and architectural magnificence through a dynamic […]
“NOTHING’S COMING SOON” – Clay Maxwell Jordan
PHROOM CLAY MAXWELL JORDAN Nothing’s Coming Soon websiteInstagram Publisher: Fall Line text by: Federica Zotti Well-kept lawns, derelict coats, forgotten houses, trees whose foliage defy gravity and order; a collection of fetish objects full of illusory promises of wealth and prosperity. An archive of things/scenes, a daily portrait of the typical American middle class social […]
Maxim Dondyuk
PHROOM MAXIM DONDYUK CULTURE OF CONFRONTATION websiteInstagramFacebook Book “Winter 2014 changed Ukraine. Three months of bloody clashes, tears, fear, Molotov cocktails, burning car tires and deaths. Ukrainian revolution brought a new spirit, changed people and their minds, people became one organism that fights with great passion and intensity for its human rights. Project CULTURE OF […]
“Federal Triangle” // Mike Osborne
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter MIKE OSBORNE Federal Triangle websiteInstagram Publisher: Gnomic Book text by: Bucky Miller It is maybe because this review pertains to photographs of the post-2016 Washington, D.C. scene that I feel comfortable leading off by shamelessly dropping an incredibly lofty […]
“Tori” // Yamamoto Masao
PHROOM YAMAMOTO MASAO Tori website Publisher: Radius Books text by: Matteo Cremonesi Yamamoto Masao’s photographic work transcends the apparent simplicity of the subjects portrayed by introducing a poetic language around which gather as if in contemplation. The precious, minute images tell the tension always residing between the observer and the subject.Characterized by a unique aesthetic […]
Rinko Kawauchi
PHROOM RINKO KAWAUCHI “Illuminance” & “Cui Cui” websiteInstagram text by: Matteo Cremonesi Kindness, courtesy and respect for nature and things are at the center of Japanese culture and the normal daily life of the population. This important cultural aspect is reflected in the Japanese language in words and expressions that represent concepts that in other […]