Memory is an unreliable narrator. It fabricates as much as it recalls. Time creates wounds where there were none and smooths over the ones that should have remained open. In The Halcyon Days (published by Zone), Isabella Nitto and Luca Baioni unearth, disturb, and reconstruct....
J.A. Young’s first monograph Of Fire, Far Shining (published by ZONE) functions less as a photobook and more like an artifact of something already lost—something fractured, washed up, distorted in its attempt to make contact with the present. It digs out time, but not in...
Love comes and leaves our lives. An ecstasy fuelled with euphoria and desire, yet also pain and grief. It is something so personal and hard to understand. However, we take the risk of love while knowing we can get scarred for life… The experience of love...
How do we interpret a family album that has been taken into a new context as a photobook? That is a concern of Takashi Yatoo’s debut monograph Palam which juxtaposes photographs taken over a period of 25 years, combining both newly created imagery with photographs...
Carla Liesching (b.1985, South Africa) is a multi-disciplinary artist working with the media of photography, text, collage, sculpture, installation, bookmaking and design. Her experience of growing up in apartheid South Africa to a strong extent shapes her oeuvre which focuses on colonial histories and enduring...