Following in the photographic lineage of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland’s work examines the story of America—and the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality. Her deep interest in the road, the western frontier, escape, and ways of living outside mainstream values pervade this stunning and important body of work. Since 2004, Kurland and her young son, Casper, have traveled in their customised van, going south in the

Every time I see what is beyond my brother’s eyes, “something” that had been lost comes back. At the same time, I realize that I have memories I have forgotten. My brother and I were born and lived in the same town for a long time, in a house with a blue roof. The view from the window hasn’t changed much for as long as I can remember. There are houses and ap

"In the winter months, when darkness fell, the village was shrouded in an eerie silence. Snow covered doors and windows, the villagers wished for the gloomy winter to end, for the 'earth fever' to come and at the first warm rays of sunlight everything would begin to quiver and come alive again." Photographs, illustrations, stories and sounds that evoke a collective ritual of a small Calabrian village, Alessandria del Cerretto immortalised in 1959 by Vittorio De Seta in the docu

Italian artist Luca Massaro has been building a solid body of work on ‘the invisible space that separates an image from its caption, photographs from words, in their different forms of production, translation and transmission’. Through an eclectic array of photographs, words, sculptures, installations and artists books, concocted with advertising techniques of manipulation, borrowed from the urban and online accelerated mediascape, such as the proliferation of backlit devices, the repetition of graphic logos a

As the title of Kovi Konowiecki’s debut monograph – and in its place, another – reminds us, we are always and forever subject to the twin certitudes of transience and change. As is the artist, who has moved back and forth between California, Mexico, Europe, and the Middle East, all of which places are part of the fabric of this sprawling, unscripted book. Here we are confronted with the geographical and emotional margins of soci