Photography
Memories, Dreams: Interrupted by Kurt Tong
As shows its title, the series “Memories, Dreams: Interrupted” of Kurt Tong (Hong Kong, 1977) explores the relation between dreams and memory. Picturing the places he used to walk with his daughters, Kurt Tong aimed to bring meanings to his memories. The images result from the chosen sets of light as from degradations made to the film. An approach he ran [...]
Sascha Weidner
German photographer born in 1976, Sascha Weidner belongs to this generation fed with web culture that draws inspiration from any element of the daily life. Driven by that eclectic background, he composes mise-en-scenes to highlight the particularities that lie under layers of banalities. The sets of shadows and lights allow him to simulate the spontaneity of artificial [...]
Landscapes by Danae Falliers
Fine Arts graduated in photography, Danae Falliers developed a unique approach of the discipline. Indeed, her images emerge foremost by the relation set between antinomic ideas such as blurriness and details, stills and movements, abstraction and figuration. Specialized in digital formats, she does not hesitate to manipulate the pictures in order to pick them out with repetitions [...]
Nobuyoshi Araki @ Michael Hoppen Gallery
The Michael Hoppen gallery is about to host an exhibition of the scandalous Nobuyoshi Araki. Indeed, from May 2nd to June 8th, London’s cultural space will present the Nippon photographer’s Kinbaku series (1980-2000). This collection, highly controversial, focuses on the Japanese art of bondage. Kinbaku incidentally means literally “the beauty of tight binding”.
Next to this, the gallery [...]
Sony World Photography Awards 2013 Exhibition @ Somerset House (London)
As each year since 2007, Sony organized its World Photography Awards. A contest, opened to professionals as amateurs, which covers about 15 categories such as architecture, landscape, portray, fashion, sport or contemporary issues. The list of the winners as been unveiled last week and these ones exhibit now, under Michael Benson’s commission, their works at London’s
Rinko Kawauchi
Heir, like Risaku Suzuki, of 1960′s Japanese trend, Rinko Kawauchi plays with light to transcend the everyday life. Indeed, this photographer born in 1972 succeeds in capturing the banality and turn it into a poetic, conceptual and sometimes fantastic world. An approach rather personal that though, with its visual codes as the [...]
Quasimoto – Planned Attack (Audio)
The news run through the internet world for a few days: Madlib would be about to release a new Quasimoto‘s LP. Well, it is confirmed as Stones Throw just unveiled the first single excerpted from that album. The track “Planned Attack” thus marks the comeback, as MC, of the californian producer. The touch remains the same: to Madlib’s characteristic [...]
Tom Waits x Anton Corbijn
On German editor Schirmer-Mosel initiative, Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn accepted to present the fruit of their collaboration in a 272 pages book entitled “Waits/Corbijn ’77-’11″. The work brings together hundreds of portraits of the American singer-composer shot by the Dutch photographer since they first met in [...]
Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari
After having announced he retired from the art world, Maurizio Cattelan joined forces with the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari to create and produce the Toilet Paper Magazine. The leading idea was to appropriate the values and codes of commercials and develop in such a way a monthly made of conceptual images, sometimes poetic but often provocative. The [...]
