Mark Power, born 1959, Harpenden, UK As a child, Mark Power discovered his father's home-made enlarger in the family attic, a contraption consisting of an upturned flowerpot, a domestic light bulb and a simple camera lens. His interest in photography probably began at this moment, though he later went to...
Interview with documentary photographer Scott Conarroe
Scott Conarroe has a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His studies of landscape and the built environment evoke romantic pictorial traditions and locate the present within a sweep of history. He’s looked at North...
Interview with fine art photographer Ákos Major
Akos Major - born in Gyöngyös, Hungary, graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design (MOME) in Budapest, with a degree in Visual Communications. He worked for ten years as a senior art director in a Budapest-based Publicis ad-agency. Now he is working as a freelance designer. Website: akosmajor.com How did...
Majid Saeedi: Life in War
Life in War is probably the only book about Afghanistan that isn’t filled with images of war. For ten years, Saeedi’s photographed daily life in the context of war. Speaking the language, Majid embedded with the Afghan people rather than with an alien army. His photographs reveal the humanity of...
Interview with portrait photographer Matt Hamon
Matt Hamon is a portrait photographer who lives in rural Montana. His photography exists conceptualy and aesthetically in the spaces between photojournalism and staged editorial imagery. Matt hails from a small, remote town in Northern California. A sense of place informed by wandering the woods as a child inspires his...
Interview with documentary photographer Patryk Karbowski
Patryk Karbowski was born in 1989. Graduated from the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (M.A. in Photography at the Film and TV Direction Department). He is mainly interested in the documentary photography which he uses to describe social phenomena, present in the the...
Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin: Congo
In this sumptuously printed, large-format publication, distinguished Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as...
Atul Pratap Chauhan: Nanhe Pahalwan
Atul Pratap Chauhan is a Delhi based commercial and advertising photographer. ‘Nanhe Pahalwan’ brings to fore the raw exuberance of ancient Pahalwani culture in India. Pahalwani traditionally uses the body as the means to explore oneself. The affect is much deeper than what is seen on the surface. For young Pahalwans,...
Scott Conarroe: By Rail – Railways of North America
Photography, railways, and North America developed more or less concurrently. Each, in its own way, transformed the world. Photography abstracted space. Railroads compressed distance. And Europe's occupation of the Americas re-calibrated power around the globe. Photos of vast wilderness lured the reckless and hopeful across the Atlantic, and rails were...
Matthieu Gafsou: Swiss Alps in Summertime
Matthieu Gafsou focused on Swiss Alps in summertime, continuing the representation of nature work which was started centuries ago, the Grand Tour, Friedrich, Turner… But some characters appear on the pictures, disturbing contemplation: there is 10 people around on the top, and even more at the high altitude restaurant. Matthieu...