Deep Springs // Sam Contis
I’ve always felt that there were two types of nostalgia: the feeling of longing for your own past, and the feeling of longing for an abstract, un-biological past. One you’d like to insert yourself into, if only for a moment. For me, that past is “boyhood”—the type captured on 35mm in black and white, no […]
The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer // Amani Willett
PHROOM AMANI WILLETT The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer websiteInstagram Publisher: Overlapse text by: PHROOM American photographer Amani Willett reconstructs through a book the story of Joseph Plummer, a hermit who lived in the forests of New Hampshire at the end of the eighteenth century. Two centuries later, the same lands where Plummer lived were bought […]
Milky Way // Vincent Ferrané
I found Milky Way by Vincent Ferrane the first day of the NYABF and returned to it the second, enduring the brutal heat of the tiny room to look again. Three days of looking and I couldn’t buy a thing—I looked and looked, connecting with little. But for that book I stood in the stifling […]
American Cowboy // Karoliina Paatos
My favorite thing about the Cowboy is its porosity, the vents between a lifestyle of maintenance and the same word’s constructed iconography, romance, and cinema. This collision creates what I imagine to be a sort of spin-cycle, life imitating art and art imitating life and all remaining American Cowboys tasked with filling the shoes of […]
Eschaton // Mike Williams
The scientists have been moving the hands of the doomsday clock rather frequently these days. Dramatizing the path of humanity towards imminent destruction. Press conferences riddled with flash and voices shouting for attention illustrate the panic of present day life on Earth. To those who are looking at their lives on the planet it is […]
What the Living Carry // Morgan Ashcom
What the living carry? Posed as a question, Cormac McCarthy’s quotation seems to be a form of lightning investigation around the finality of life, and what we would do if we were forced to make quick and impulsive choices or were dictated to contingencies and unpredictable external agents, perhaps pushed by fate. It is one […]
Nothing But Clouds // Kristina Jurotschkin
If a photobook is a form of storytelling through images, Nothing But Clouds by Kristina Jurotschkin is something much more: one long movement decomposed into hundreds of individual shots; temporal fragments of an ever-lasting path. Jurotschkin’s sequence of images seems to arise from a non-place which eludes any precise elements that would lead to […]
Tokyo Parrots // Yoshinori Mizutani
There is something special about a good photograph of a bird. I’m not sure if it is the concept of capturing something mid-flight or the strange alien shape they take on when perched upon a wire or branch. Often, I find birds move too quickly to record on camera. They speed from place to place, […]
Photography // Aurélien Arbet & Jérémie Egry
Hermes wielded caduceus to send some to sleep and awaken others. To help those suffering die a less painful death and to seemingly save some from death itself. The way the serpents wrap around the wand and juxtapose themselves against two open wings seems to gesture towards a specific type of grounded freedom. In “Photographies […]
“Sleeping by the Mississippi” // Alec Soth
Alec Soth’s Sleeping by the Mississippi is a book that manifests itself through the visualization of a border, shifting ambiguously between a theme, the Mississippi River, and a genre, documentary; or perhaps more accurately, an American tradition in primis. In the first case, the theme of the river becomes a narrative space where the entire […]