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Type Archive: Book Review
Reaching for Dawn by Elliott Verdier
Liberia’s population generally does not speak of the bloody civil war which took place from 1989-2003. No proper memorial has been built, no day is dedicated to the commemoration of the brutal conflict. The country largely refuses to officially condemn its perpetrators, which hinders the collective healing process, and possibility of social recognition of the
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Interview, Landscapes, Portraits
Book Review: Conversations with Dad by Carissa Dorson
The story of a daughter and her father building a closer relationship through their shared passion for photography I’m personally at a time in my life when my oldest child, Alison, is graduating college this month – and I can’t help but wax nostalgic. Conversations With Dad by Carissa Dorson is the salve for the
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Book Review: Sleeping Beauty by Lydia Panas
The first line of the press release for Sleeping Beauty by Lydia Panas states: “Portraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer’s gaze, in a rare subversion of photography’s power relations.” Panas is no stranger to subverting the power relationship (of photography’s male dominated history, we presume) as her work in The Mark of Abel,
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Portraits
BOOK REVIEW: I Saw The Air Fly by Sirkhane Darkroom
Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey, capital of the province of the same name. The Syrian territory opens up to the south of the province of Mardin. Its population is very heterogeneous and includes Arabs, Assyrians and Kurds. But above all refugees from the nearby war zones of Armenia, Iraq and, last in order
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Location: Online Type: Black and White, Book Review, charity, Children
Book Review: Motor City Underground: Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1978
Leni Sinclair often refers to herself as a ‘participant-observer’, a label commonly used to describe someone documenting observations, or doing research while they actively work within the group being studied. Sinclair’s story and her iconic images are a unique journey, but also one shared with her fellow radicals, artists, progressives and freedom fighters of the
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Documentary
Book Review: Our Strange New Land by Alex Harris
Images that part a curtain and invite us to see ourselves The High Museum in Atlanta commissioned Alex Harris as part of its Picturing the South series. While the brief was to photograph anything in the American South, Harris chose to examine the rapidly evolving world of independent fiction filmmaking while also exploring our
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Book review: Pretty Much by Sandy Carson
Sandy Carson’s latest book, Pretty Much, is a humorous look at where he found himself in 2020 his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas. Carson’s photographic viewpoint is a sympathetic and curious exploration of his surroundings. His images address such weighty topics and social issues like racial injustice, housing insecurity, financial security, grief, and family life.
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Book Review: Black Diamonds by Rich-Joseph Facun
Black Diamonds has been on my mind ever since opening the pages, viewing the photos, and reading the heartfelt and sanguine words from Rich-Joseph Facun, and the essay by Alison Stine. The images are penetratingly beautiful. It’s powerful stuff. It touched me. Black Diamonds is a personal project, and as a person of color, Facun has
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BOOK REVIEW: Steel Town by Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is considered one of the most significant photographers of our time. Having approached photography at the age of only six, then influenced by the work of Walker Evans, he managed to attract attention to himself at the age of fourteen, when his work was purchased by Edward Steichen for the collection of the
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Documentary
Book Review: Finding Home by Becky Field
Photographer Becky Field photographed and interviewed many of New Hampshire’s immigrants and refugees. She interviewed forty people, from different countries, with different stories. Some are men, some women, they differ in age and why they left their home countries, and how come they settled in New Hampshire. “The photographs were usually taken in a home
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Location: Online Type: Book Review, Portraits