Visitor // Vincent Ferrané
After “Milky Way” Vincent Ferranè keeps to focus to the feminine’s mystery, and he portrays 17 young women artists while are working in their studios in Paris. As also the series’ title suggests us, the author is a “visitor”, a careful and innocent observer: he contemplates artwork under construction and its builder at the same […]
Hypermarche – Novembre // Motoyuki Daifu
Hypermarche – Novembre is the third volume from The Gould Collection, a beautifully designed series bringing together the work of writers and photographers in memory of the late photobook collector Christophe Crison. There are five poems by Michel Houellebecq and three bodies of photographic work by Motoyuki Daifu arranged in Hypermarche – Novembre. Three bodies […]
One Eyed Ulysses // Ramirez Suassi
PHROOM HOME Artists Archive TV Exhibitions Education About Submission Newsletter JM RAMIREZ-SUASSI One Eyed Ulysses websiteInstagram text by: Giada Pignottiimages: book scanning An old chair is swallowed by poppies. There’s nothing you can do about it, they grow inside it too, the chair is completely broken down, it’s just an empty skeleton devoured by […]
Alles in Ordnung // Andreas Meichsner
“Can one really distinguish between the mass media as instruments of information and entertainment, and as agents of manipulation and indoctrination?” Herbert Marcuse – One Dimensional Man In Alles in Ordnung, Andreas Meichsner proposes a portrait of the tourism industry through a silent and sometimes ironic documentation. Proceeding with scenes collected by places and typologies, Meichsner refers to the somatic […]
Everything is regional // Tyler Haughey
I don’t know much about New Jersey. I’ve driven around, past, through it. Like most, my understanding of the state is clouded by pop culture and over generalization. The Boss, the mob, Trenton makes the world takes, Jersey Shore. I know as a state it’s green and often treated like the ugly sibling of […]
Domesticated Land // Susan Lipper
With Domesticated Land Susan Lipper accompanies us through a desolate territory in which humanity and civilization seem to have given way to dust. Located somewhere in the Californian desert the landscape portrayed by Lipper is quiet and parched, with a tension that oscillates between the apocalyptic and inertia. It offers the observer a collection of […]
Caput Mundi // Santolo Felaco
CAPUT MUNDI «Rome reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travelers his grandmother’s corpse.» James Joyce, Letters, 1906 This place has the face of Venus and the ass of an old whore: falling and withered, it is a slave of a past that does not want to pass. The signs are hidden […]
Experimental Lake // Guillaume Simoneau
Photography has long been considered a science by many. Meaning images that directly document science come with a specific type of irony. Guillaume Simoneau’s book “Experimental Lake” is an exploration of this irony and an attempt at making the research done at the Experimental Lakes Area (a vast 58 freshwater lake compound in northern Canada) […]
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 […]