A Grocer’s Orgy // Lucas Blalock
Lucas Blalock’s work is uncomfortable. As an artist he is somewhere between photographer and sculptor, or maybe also collagist and painter. He draws with Photoshop, or cuts and clones–using the “dumb tools” in “blunt ways,” as he says. This, too, is uncomfortable. Typically, when the seams of Photoshop show we consider the work unsuccessful, but […]
Disappearing Objects // Louis De Belle
As a child I can often remember my father pulling a quarter out from behind my ear. The silver piece intoxicating and alluring. He’d often play tricks on my young mind, make things disappear, guess the card that only I knew. Reinforcing an endless curiosity into my existence that would leave me begging for answers […]
Signal Noise // Aaron Rothman
The first consensus that Aaron Rothman and I reach about Signal Noise is that he has made something incredibly weird. The book, a culmination of ten years of Rothman’s picture making across the landscapes of the western United States, disrupts most conventions of American West Landscape Photography. This is a good thing, as that genre, […]
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 […]