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Armelle Martignoni: Seeing with the Heart
12+ hour, 40+ min ago (162+ words) Blind Magazine Armelle Martignoni: Seeing with the Heart Her portraits are born of a tacit understanding with her subjects. An elderly woman with gold teeth, her smile radiant; a child in a monk's robe, wrapped in unfathomable serenity; a motionless…...
Charles Xelot, the Photographer Who Came Back from the Cold
18+ hour, 10+ min ago (318+ words) Blind Magazine A bunk bed too narrow, a cupboard overflowing with crumpled papers, a linoleum floor riddled with holes, and a porthole clouded by two centimeters of yellowed ice. The cabin where Charles Xelot takes up quarters on February 5, 2022, aboard…...
What Happens After the Shutter
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (313+ words) Blind Magazine What Happens After the Shutter Today the productions are large. The most recent, a campaign for Hugo Red and Hugo Blue, involved several dozen people, multiple sets, a day of pre-lighting and two days of shooting. The room…...
Kristina Rozhkova, Anatomy of the Cage
20+ hour, 4+ min ago (237+ words) Her arrest places her in the second category, that of prey. "For the hands of the state, I was the hunting trophy," she writes. "We, the prisoners, were helpless birds hanging from a game bag." The surveillance bracelet on her…...
The Center for Photography at Woodstock's First Upstate Photography Biennial
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (186+ words) Blind Magazine Onaje Benjamin's series "Storytelling in black and White" looks to document the work of SNUG Community Outreach, a program focused on reducing gun violence. He was drawn to the story after working for almost two decades as a…...
Frank Paulin: Color as Structure
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (156+ words) Gaia Squarci is a photographer, videographer and writer who divides her time between Milan and New York, where she teaches Digital Storytelling at ICP. Gaia is a contributor of Prospekt, an IWMF fellow and National Geographic grantee. Her photography has…...
Niall Mc Diarmid, a Remedy for British Gloom
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (198+ words) Blind Magazine The honours came thick and fast. Vogue ranked Via Vauxhall, which gathers his portraits of passers-by in a fast-changing London neighbourhood, among its best books of 2015. Elton John acquired prints from his "Crossing Paths" series. The Museum of…...
Vincent Catala's Situationist Drift in Brazil
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (257+ words) Rio de Janeiro's West Zone, where Vincent Catala settled starting in 2013, is worlds away from the fantasies typically pinned on the city. Running counter to Brazil's neo-colonial imagery, caught between wretched favelas, hypersexualized bodies, and paradisiacal beaches, Vincent Catala's images…...
Ralph Gibson: "Does the Camera Inform How You See, or Do You Inform the Camera How You See?"
6+ day, 44+ min ago (335+ words) Today, as part of his competition, Ralph Gibson tells Blind what the Leica M Monochrom demands of the person who holds it: above all, originality. When did you start using digital Leica cameras? What do Leica cameras represent for you?...
Moreno Devours the Male Clich
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (159+ words) Blind Magazine The Great Inventory of British Trees It all began with frustration. In the late 19th century, in the Cotswolds, in the west of England, a landowner, naturalist and collector named Henry John Elwes searched in vain for reliable information…...