More than any other modern poet, Wallace Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. (more…)
My life is dominated by visual obsessions – lines, color, tone, shape, light and how these work together to tell a story and capture the intangible. I started learning about photography on my travels through Mexico, and the habit has been with me ever since – simultaneously comforting and tormenting me on my many journeys.
I am mostly self taught, although one teacher described my work as ‘brutal, sarcastic and artless’ – he meant it as a compliment.
More than any other modern poet, Wallace Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. (more…)
After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
Darkest Hour, this pearl of stylish and emotive documentary was directed by Thomas Ralph, just after the initial Brexit referendum over four years ago (more…)
The awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
These are the moments that will be etched into history, this year 2020 has been a year dominated by disaster, unrest, and uncertainty, seen through the lenses of National Geographic photographers. (more…)
Allan Sekula was an American photographer, writer, critic and filmmaker. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, he lived most of his life in Los Angeles and the surrounding regions of southern California.
Flavio-Shiró is a cult artist, a painter’s painter. His work defies categorization or association with any artistic group or movement. For more than six decades, his work has simply been modern.