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New Photography / Francesco Giusti’s Congo series
November 5, 2009 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
Francesco Giusti lives and works in Rome. Of this photo series, he says, ‘In Congo-Brazzaville, SAPE is an old passion that has never stopped, not even during war years. At the arrival of the French in Congo, the myth of elegance was born among young people working for the settlers. In 1922, Andre Grenard Matsoua, well-known for his resistance to the settlers, was the first Congolese to come back from Paris dressed like a true French “Monsieur”, and greatly admired by all his fellow citizens. Today’s members of the SAPE consider themselves as artists and are respected and admired by the whole community’. Read more
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New Photography / 17 year-old photographer Leila Berney
November 2, 2009 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
Leila Berney was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and currently lives in Sydney, where she has just graduated high school. She uses Canon EOS 400D and does not yet have Photoshop, but she does have creativity, great ideas and concepts to unleash, and a passion for photography. Read more
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New Photography / Brad Moore
October 30, 2009 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Brad Moore’s photographs present the Magritte-like surrealism and repetition of post-war, suburban Californian architecture. Neither sentimental nor critical, Moore’s images are frightening and lonely in their emptiness, but beautiful and lyrical in their symmetrical compositions. Read more
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New Photography / David Hlynsky
October 28, 2009 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Between 1986 and 1990, photographer David Hlynsky documented shop windows and restaurants across communist Europe, documenting an awkward relationship people in those countries had with capitalism. He intentionally avoided photographing people and dramatic moments, attempting to draw out the differences between East and West via the ways in which the storefronts were decorated and arranged. Read more
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New Photography / Jiri Makovec’s Tales From The Island
October 22, 2009 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos 
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Of his photo series — Tales From The island — New York photographer Jiri Makovec says: ‘Within the city’s rigid grid, moments of mystery and terror unveil, and are captured as a series of encounters and events. Whether the viewer is facing truth or fiction, this body of work shows the photographers’ relationship to the city’. Read more
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New Photography / Daniel Santiago Salguero
October 21, 2009 | New Photography | by Andres Colmenares |
Young Colombian artist and photographer Daniel Santiago Salguero creates images from simple digital photographs to personal diaries which drive a world of imagination, colors and unique perspectives.
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New Photography / Armed America portraits by Kyle Cassidy
October 20, 2009 | New Photography | by The Uncool Hunter |
The Armed America website compiles portraits of the owners of weapons in America. Photographer and writer Kyle Cassidy traveled more than 12,000 miles for more than two years taking pictures of armed Americans in their houses, all the while looking for the answer to the complex question: ‘Why do you own a gun?’ Cassidy’s work has become an item of incalculable value, not only because of its conceptual strength, but also because of the description of the way of living, feeling and thinking of many inhabitants of America. Read more
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New Photography / Joshua Hoffine’s Horror Photography
October 18, 2009 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Joshua Hoffine goes through all the work of creating make-up, special-effects, and sets that horror movie creators go through, but for single photographic images rather than entire films. Read more
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New Photography / Susan Anderson
October 16, 2009 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
More than a decade after the JonBenet Ramsey case broke, people are still entering their daughters into child beauty pageants. Susan Anderson’s creepy photographs document the subjects (victims?) of this bizarre cultural phenomenon. Read more
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New Photography / The world seen through a Diana F+ camera
October 14, 2009 | New Photography | by Zolton |
There’s an interesting interview up on the Lomography website with Feature Shoot founder, and photographer in her own right, Alison Zavos — a contributor to Lost At E Minor — discussing, among other things, her experience shooting with a Diana F+ camera. Read more
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New Photography / Miriam Fanger
October 13, 2009 | New Photography | by Dave Mata |
Philippine born, Chicago resident, Miriam Fanger is addicted to coffee, and capturing moments that don’t exist with the reality of passing time. The subtle intensity she has, along with a tenacity for shooting, makes her work powerful and moving. Her photos seem to catch all people at a passing instant of vulnerability, and the posture and eyes of her subjects radiate with a chemistry that I rarely see in portraiture. Read more
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New Photography / Rafal Milach’s Black Sea Of Concrete series
October 13, 2009 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
Of his series, Black Sea Of Concrete, Polish photographer, Rafal Milach says: ‘Eight photographers from Sputnik Photos collective were asked to cover contemporary Ukraine. Some got particular assignments, but I was free to choose the topic. As I knew I would be working in winter, I decided to go to the Black Sea. I wanted to have raw landscapes and real people. It was the only time of the year when I was able to avoid the tourist facade. The other reason why I picked the Black Sea coast was the fact that, for many years, it was a place where the entire Soviet Union went for summer holidays. Since the Orange Revolution in 2004, Ukraine has been an independent country, but still, very often, people are not able to detach it from its Soviet past. You can feel that strange mixture by the Black Sea coast’. Read more
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New Photography / Margriet Smulders
October 9, 2009 | New Photography | by Alison Zavos |
Working out of the Netherlands, Margriet Smulders’ Endless Garlands of Flowers series features ‘huge mirrors, elaborate glass vases, rich draperies, fruit and cut blooms’. Of these photo-paintings, she says: ‘I love this sensual state. To lose myself, to deliver myself as in a love affair. Reality doesn’t matter. When making photos, I get lost in the scenes, as if the flowers were caressing me in the gulfs of the sea’. Read more
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New Photography / Mirko Martin
October 7, 2009 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
German photographer and video artist Mirko Martin has some great photos of car crashes, arrests, and street scenes taken in LA. They are very much imbued with the character of the city, blurring the distinction between Hollywood and reality. Read more
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New Photography / Annie-Eve Dumontier
October 5, 2009 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Despite their tranquility and sparseness, there is an epic struggle between nature, death, religion, and the human need for a sense of permanence in French-Canadian photographer Annie-Eve Dumontier’s images. Read more
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New York-based photographer Kathryn Parker Almanas has been published in American Photo Magazine, 25 Under 25 Up-and-Coming American Photographers, and The Photo Review, amongst many others, while exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia. Phew! Her still lifes of food, in particular, make me kinda hungry. Hmm, what I wouldn’t give right now for an endless buffet and a steaming cup of coffee. Read more
It’s the final, sultry day of Barcelona’s experimental sound-fest, Sonar, and weary punters are gazing listlessly at an empty, smoke-filled stage. Before long, a vocalist, beatboxer and grand pianist stride on, and what follows is a startling and, at times, deeply melancholic cabaret-electronic hybrid, prompting jaws to drop and delighting the drowsy. Meet Khan of Finland: ‘I tell stories about my everyday life; they are songs about love, pain, party and spirituality. I would call it bionic blues’.
Finnish illustrator Rikka Sormunen’s sultry figures are simply stunning in their ability to convey a powerful sense of mystery and dense ambiance. I simply can’t get enough of them. Read more
When I first moved to London and didn’t know a soul, I joined up with the British Film Institute [BFI] and started going to the talks they put on. When I went to see Gene Wilder speak, all the know-alls in the audience kept asking questions, not to find out anything, but just to show off to the room how much they knew about film making. He got annoyed. Genius boy genius.
This entertaining documentary follows a group of seemingly clichéd American teenagers in their last year of high school. Through a comprehensive recording of their lives it reminds us that, when examining anything in detail, there is no such thing as a cliché. The naivety and hope of each student shines through, providing a memorable and accurate portrait of a middle-American high school. Read more
Despite years of experience in the creative arts fields, Erica Weiner is a self-taught craftswoman. Read more
This beautiful black and white art periodical Color Ink Book has been designed so that you can add splashes of color to any of the pages that catch your eye. This second issue features the work of more twenty five international artists, including Andy Smith, Formfieber, Marco Rached, Nathan Spoor, and Trystan Bates.
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Almanac Market in Philadelphia is slightly pricey, but you definitely get what you pay for. Offering fantastic bread, cheeses, produce, and cured meats such as sopressata and pepperoni, it was a great pit stop when my band played in town, and definitely more economical and tasty than hitting a greasy spoon for road snacks.
Italian-born, New York City-based photographer Paolo Ventura creates fairy-tale like pictures out of amazingly constructed, miniature dioramas that almost trick the eye into thinking he’s a tilt-shift photographer. Read more
Illustrator Timothy Karpinski sews painted paper together to create his images, giving them a classic look. Read more
Hong Kong-based illustrator Man-Tsun draws dark and beautiful painterly images that look like they are straight off a high-end Japanese animated film. Read more
I live the upbeat, feel good tempo of the new single — A Hundred Hearts — from Philly group, The Swimmers. Off their latest album, People Are Soft, this song is a strangely fitting anthem for the blustery day outside.
Wolfmother. Rock n roll. Mystical lyrics. Heavy riffs. They have a new album out, Cosmic Egg, and we have five copies to giveaway, along with their debut album. To enter, tell us your favorite Wolfmother song and the city you live in. Yo! Two fingered salute. Read more
Inspired by the unique digital clock apps created by the designer, Sean Zoega, the i-toc watch is a colorful physical manifestation of digital ideas featuring bespoke two-disc Japan quartz movement. The outer gradient displays the minutes while the inner gradient shows the hours. The rings interact, creating an ever-changing pattern of design and colour. We have them for sale in our online store. Read more
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