Unboxing ‘Nighttime Adventures in Neopan’

Dan Smith and Barnaby Nutt like the nighttime, the way street lights pool and dissolve into the darkness, and their split zine ‘Nighttime Adventures in Neopan’ showcases this shared fascination. As Nutt writes, “Man’s attempts to remove the shadows and so keep at bay the imagined dangers lurking within, create a beauty that we feel excited …

Unboxing ‘London New York Pontycymmer’

In ‘London New York Pontycymmer… A day in the artist’s studio,” Tim Dobbs takes us on a tour of Kevin Sinnott’s home and studio. I’d call Sinnott’s painting “expressionist figurative” or “figurative expressionism,” something like that: brushy, splotchy, sketchy, a bit comical in some ways (the few in the zine, anyway: I’m not familiar with Sinnott’s …

Unboxing ‘The Suffering of Light’

‘The Suffering of Light: thirty years of photographs’ presents a sort of timeline of Alex Webb’s work from 1979 to 2009, in all their hyper, headache-inducing, overly-crowded excellence. I picked it up after reading a brief interview with Webb, or a quote or something, that suggested he was particularly proud of this monograph, and when …

Unboxing ‘Family Photography Now’

Family Photography Now (Thames & Hudson, 2016) is a sort of follow-up to Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren’s Street Photography Now of 2010. Instead of an international (and somewhat historical) selection of street photographers, organized by general thematic concerns, the focus is now on photographers who work with families, both their own and others.