Interview: Cristina De Middel at the Deutsche Börse
2013 sees a particularly strong Deutsche Börse, with big names such as the increasingly conceptual Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin and black and white documentary master Chris Killip competing for not only the prestige of but the sizable sum of £30,000.
Interview: Marc Wilson
The Second World War changed Europe forever, however as the amount of people who fought and lived through the conflict slowly dwindles, so too does the physical impact the fighting left on the landscape.
Interview: David Welch
DAVID WELCH: MATERIAL WORLD One photographer’s depiction of contemporary American Western culture.
Interview: Andy Lo Pò
Andy Lo Pò’s portrait ‘Kellie’ immediately grabbed our attention on the cover of East London Photomonth’s 2012 program. We decided to investigate further
Interview: Karl Doyle
Vignette has been a big fan of Karl’s work ever since he entered our travel competition back in issue 5. We finally caught up with the Irish born, Toyko based photographer to talk about his work.
Alma Haser ‘Cosmic Surgery’
The series of portraits that is ‘Cosmic Surgery’ has been quietly making its way into the limelight over the past several months. Having featured in this years Foto8 summer show at Host gallery and on the cover of Prism magazine’s special issue in collaboration with PhotoIreland, the young photographer is getting great coverage and recognition...
Kirsten Hoving: Night Wanderers
The use of found imagery and the manipulation of photographs is not new, Hannah Hoch’s politically motivated collages drew attention in the 1920’s. However recently it is becoming accepted as part of ‘photography’.
Photographers on Film: Mark Lewis in ‘Peeping Tom’
Cinema is a medium built upon photography, but it has not always been kind to photographers. In the cinematic imagination the photographer is often emotionally detached, exploitative, sexually aggressive or even psychopathic. One thinks of arrogant Thomas in Blow-Up (1966), Harlen Maguire photographing corpses in Road to Perdition (2002), or Robin Williams’ obsessive lab technician...
Francesco Giusti: Incase of Loss
The recent war in Libya was followed closely by the world’s media, photographers from around the globe headed to the conflict zone to the fall of Gaddafi’s regime.
Photographers on Film: Dick Avery in ‘Funny Face’
Funny Face (1957) is a light musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen. Set to a Gershwin score, it centres on the romance between Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) and Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Avery is a fashion photographer at ‘Quality’ magazine; Stockton is the Greenwich Village intellectual who becomes his model. Frivolous fantasy it may be,...
Photographers on Film: L. B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies in ‘Rear Window’
For the first in our new series ‘Photographers on Film’, we’ve chosen one of cinema’s most famous photojournalists: L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ (1954). Jeff, played with typical affability by James Stewart, is confined to his flat with a broken leg. It is a sweltering New York summer. Bored and frustrated, he...
