Eternal Friendship is an incredible work of archival research and historical reimagining. In it, Anouck Durand tells the story of Refik Veseli, an Albanian State Photographer during the reign of Enver Hoxja, and a secret state-sponsored trip to China he took with some colleagues to study a special color photography process. It’s something like a …
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Nicholas J R White – ‘Black Dots’
In Black Dots, Nicholas White takes us to the mountain bothies of Scotland, Whales, and Northern England, mixing landscape and portrait photography to give us a sort of Alec Soth-indebted view of bothies and the (mostly) men who occupy them.
Matt Parry – ‘[SIC]’
[SIC] is a short collection of Matt Parry’s mistakes…
David Bryan (@filminthefreezer) – ‘Twelve Thousand Miles’
David Bryan (aka @filminthefreezer) spent a year traveling around the American West, and Twelve Thousand Miles: One Year in the American West is the result.
Kevin O’Meara – ‘Breaking the Elephant’
‘Breaking the Elephant’ took me awhile to figure out. It’s really very conceptual and a little bit difficult, and I wonder if it really, I mean, really works.
Daniel Tim – ‘Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much’
It took a few viewings, but Daniel Tim’s Close Your Eyes It’s Too Much has grown on me. I’ve grown a little bit tired of straight-ahead street photography, and the book is just full of it, shot in Hong Kong, on film, and I’m ashamed to say that the first time(s) I flipped through it, I …
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Jamie Livingston – ‘Twin Towers Polaroids’
Jamie Livingston Twin Towers Polaroids is a sort of companion book/zine to Some Photos of That Day, featuring 22 Polaroids that Hugh Crawford culled from Livingston’s mammoth, 18 year Polaroid-a-Day project, each with some view of, on, or from the Twin Towers.