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October 2019
THE PILLAR
A pillar knocked into the ground next to a stream in a flat, open landscape, trees and houses visible in the distance, beneath a vast sky. That is the backdrop to all of Stephen Gill´s photographs in this book. We see the same landscape in spring and summer, in autumn and winter, we see it in sunshine and rain, in snow and wind. Yet there is not the slightest monotony about these pictures, for
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June 2022
Question Bridge: Black Males in America
Published to coincide with a five-channel video installation touring across the United States, including some notable venues such as The Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Exploratorium, San Francisco, California; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, Question Bridge: Black Males in America assembles a series of questions posed to black men, by and for other black men, along with the corresponding responses and por
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May 2019
Trophy and Treasure
In Trophy and Treasure, Francesco Neri (Faenza, 1982) tells the story of his father, a hospital doctor with a passion for hunting. The book opens with the images taken in the grandparents' house; the familiar atmospheres alternate with images of landscape and nature and in turn leave the room for still life and portraits, in a composition that restores the visual imagery of the author. The publication contains a conversation between Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, director of the Photo
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May 2020
FOAM MAGAZINE #56 – ELSEWHERE
This issue, #56 Elsewhere -The Other Issue, explores the many declinations of the word in connection to photography and visual culture. We investigate its creation and ramifications in relation to people and nature - along a spectrum that touches upon transhumanism and the ‘other-than-human’, in connection to the Anthropocene and ecology. The presented portfolios in Foam Magazine #56: Elsewhere - The Other Issue re-appropriate and redress entrenched power balances, propose forms of resistance, resilience and rejection, focus on under-represent
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