Michael Ackerman’s Hunger – Epilogue (published by Void) arrives like a specter, a haunted fragment of something we recognize but cannot name. The book feels soft, heavy, and jagged at its edges. I’d call it a map of human states, a plunge into mental spaces...
Showcasing war as a form of a metaphor, a visual experience rather than direct representation of reality is something we can find in Vic Bakin’s (b. 1984, Ukraine) Epitome. Newly created imagery in war-torn areas is merged with his archive documenting male adolescents in transitory...
Ren Hang’s work defies the conventions of both life and photography in a way that feels more like an existential plunge into the unknown. Ren Hang by Peter Coeln (b.1954, Austria), published a decade after the artist’s "Wild" photobook, presents a raw and hauntingly...
Art or porn? A question that I often get asked (probably because I curated a magazine with erotic photography), as if I was some live porn detector. Who the hell knows?! I didn't make the definitions or categories so to me they don't matter. Nudity...
Sometimes, I forget how much of a privilege we have working as artists in democratic societies where art doesn’t face (as much) censorship as in different political systems. This thought especially came to my mind when I got in touch with Li Ye Zeng Yi...
Autobiography — a perspective that you cannot take away from somebody, it's simply theirs. However, what happens when somebody else interprets our life and vision? One of the standouts among photographers from the second half of the twentieth century is certainly Libuše Jarcovjáková. Her striking...
In the past years, we have witnessed the rise of Chinese contemporary photography, particularly, on the European market. We can see the increasing presence of such artists in galleries and fairs. What is this sudden fascination among European audiences? Is it our surprise to see...
Family secrets, our unwanted skeletons in the closet, can resurface and haunt us back in shocking intensity for years. They are these phantoms sitting on our shoulders and whispering spells into our ears. After experiencing such a phenomenon himself, Peter Pflügler decided to transform his...
In this technologically and profit-driven consumer culture, our inner selves seem to be highly destabilized when looking at the mental health statistics where the numbers of people with depression and anxiety disorders have reached their peak. Maria Dabrowski's (b. 1988, The Netherlands) book SYNC instead...