Vee Speers, an Australian artist, has lived and worked in Paris since 1990. Speers studied fine art and photography at the QCA in Brisbane before working as a Stills Photographer at the ABC Television in Sydney in the 80’s. After moving to Paris she began exhibiting her series ‘Bordello’ ,...
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Lukas Berger: Circus
In 2010, while working for the Austrian civil service in Pakistan, Lukas Berger stumbled upon the traveling Lucky Irani Circus. An avid clown and juggler, he was completely enthralled. Lukas felt compelled to document circus life, but felt he lacked the photographic expertise to do it justice. He moved back...
Michael Zuhorski: Natural Occurrence and Construction
Michael Zuhorski (born 1992) lives in Detroit Michigan. In 2015 he graduated from the College for Creative Studies with a BFA in photography. His current work revolves around how a landscape is experienced and known, and what is behind ideas of naturalness and artificiality. Website: www.michaelzuhorski.com via Submissions
PhotoBiography: Elger Esser
Elger Esser was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1967 and was raised in Rome. In 1986, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a commercial photographer until 1991. He then attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher, until 1997. A trip to Lyon in 1996 marked...
Paolo Roversi: Polaroids
Hamiltons presents Polaroids, an exhibition by renowned fashion photographer Paolo Roversi, 2 July – 14 August 2015. Consisting of a selection of both colour and black and white Polaroids, shot in Roversi’s trademark 8 x 10” film, this selection from Roversi’s diverse and adventurous archive of work illustrates his status...
Albrecht Tübke: Landscapes with flying objects
A majestic vista unfolds as far as the eye can see. Tuscan hills, dappled with snow and caressed by wispy cloud, lie still and unending; our human presence but a fleeting dance in the epic duration considered by this timeless landscape. How does one create a memory of such landscape,...
Behind the scenes: Jodie Foster on the set of “Taxi Driver” (1976)
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American vigilante film with neo-noir and psychological thriller elements, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City soon after the end of the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster as a 12-year-old prostitute.
Alex Webb: India Spice
Spices are no longer the impetus of conquest and colonization they once were, but they continue to suffuse cuisines worldwide. Spices have long defined the rich, complex South India cuisine— known for its hot red chilies and saffron-hued turmeric that are produced in the region—spices that also seem to be...
PhotoBiography: Joel Peter Witkin
Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses, and various outsiders such as dwarves, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or classical paintings. Witkin begins each image by sketching his ideas...
Interview with Landscape photographer David Köster
David Köster is a Germany based landscape photographer. In his images he stages wild, epic nature sceneries. By means of dramatic perspectives, an atmospheric imagery and the systematic use of natural light Köster creates works which often appear to be paintings rather the photographs. For his artistic pictures David has...