“What Sort of Life is This” // Albert Elm
There are photographers that relentlessly pound the pavement, always on the move, looking and observing, patiently waiting to let the flash bulb go off. Esoteric in nature, we find Albert Elm’s collection of photographs to be random but fluid at the same time. Developing a fantasy is no easy task. It takes a moment, sometimes […]
“Rowing a Tetrapod” // Fumi Ishino
The first obvious element in Fumi Ishino’s Rowing a Tetrapod is the scanning of a clear and recognizable rhythm: the white space, widespread among pages, builds a context in which images appear slowly, tapping with the tip of the fingers in light touches the surface of the book. This inceptive moment appears as a dissolve, […]
“Grackle Actions” – Bucky Miller
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Anaxyrus speciosus otherwise known as the “Texas Toad” is a type of toad native to the lone-star state and also functions as the state’s official amphibian. Oddly, until I looked at Bucky Miller’s new monograph “Grackle Actions” which doubles as a show of the same name I hadn’t […]
“1999” – Iacopo Pasqui
“Since February 2015 and for about a year, Iacopo Pasqui started hanging out with and taking pictures of a bunch of teenagers who were born in 1999. Motivated by curiosity towards contemporary social dynamics and by the need to photograph others, he finds in this bunch of young friends a suitable dimension for his work, […]