In Fullmoon, the conceptual meets the poetic: in more than 260 photographs, British artist Darren Almond catches landscapes around the globe, under the particular light of a full moon. With the shutter kept open for over a quarter of an hour, rivers, meadows, mountains, and seashores are illuminated almost like...
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Sabine Pigalle: IN MEMORIAM
In her recent series IN MEMORIAM, French artist Sabine Pigalle pushes back the boundaries of codified territories such as painting and photography, portrait and landscape, ancient art and contemporary art. She’s part of a new generation of artists who travel between reality and fiction, inviting us to question our relationship...
Andres Gallardo Albajar: Urban Geometry
Urban Geometry is an ongoing project by self taught Spanish photographer Andres Gallardo Albajar. In this chapter, you can find a series made in Vilnius, Lithuania. As in the rest of all ex soviet capitals, in Vilnius you can find a very interesting contrast of Soviet and modern architecture, abandoned...
Erwin Olaf: Skin Deep
Hamiltons presents Erwin Olaf’s recently completed and newest body of work, Skin Deep. Olaf has created this “pure and less constructed” series over the course of the past year as a “tribute to the human body, to celebrate its uniqueness”. This series’ inaugural exhibition at Hamiltons marks Olaf’s long-term collaboration...
Guy Tillim: Second Nature
In reading the accounts of the artists who accompanied Captain James Cook to French Polynesia, Guy Tillim was interested to note that among the captain's crew was an artist who struggled with the problem of how to convey such an idyllic landscape. Addressing the same challenge, Tillim has created a...
Dark side of New York City (1970s)
By 1970, the city gained notoriety for high rates of crime and other social disorders. A popular song by Cashman & West in the autumn of 1972, "American City Suite", chronicled, in allegorical fashion, the decline in the city's quality of life. The city's subway system was regarded as unsafe...
Andrea de Franciscis: Himalaya’s Outlawed Marijuana Fields
Nestled in the Himalayan foothills at an altitude of 10,000 ft. (3,000 m), entire villages and communities subsist on illegal marijuana production. These villages are far from any paved roads and are so remote that distances are measured in hours of walking. Across thousands of acres of public and private...
Michael Eastman: Havana
In his numerous works, internationally acclaimed photographer Michael Eastman often focuses on the facades and interiors of the world's cities, such as Paris, Rome, and New Orleans. In this book he explores the houses and streets of Havana. Nearly one hundred photographs from the past two decades reveal a world...
Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi
Ron Galella brought the work of the paparazzi, that step child of photojournalism, into the public eye, and with it the celebrity culture. With this exhibition "That's Great!" we enter the world of Andy Warhol and his circle which encompassed the celebrity, fashion, art, and social world of New York...
Tomasz Furmanek: The Fjords Of Norway From The Kayak Seat
I am Tomasz Furmanek, amateur kayaker and adventure photographer. I started taking photos from the kayak about 3 years ago. My aim is to capture the beauty and balance of nature in the fjords and lakes, mainly in Norway. I also wish to motivate people to visit some of these...