-
A secret heart
London born photographer Charlie Crane’s book Welcome to Pyonguang is one of the few serious looks I’ve seen of the secret country North Korea. Published in 2007 this work shows…
-
Home is quite a trek
I love Star Trek fans. Photographer Winnie Au is a New York photographer originally from Rockford Illinois. Her work focuses on portraiture of both humans and dogs. In this series…
-
Retelling childish stories
Jonathan Hobin is an Ottawa based photographer who’s work examines important cultural and historical figures and events. Adding nuance to his photographs he reinterprets these events using both children as…
-
All dolled up
Stacy Leigh is a photographer working in New York. For the past 6 years she has been working on the series Life Size Silicon Dolls: A Series after picking up…
-
The books the thing…
Atlanta GA artist Brian Dettmer has creates fascinating carvings out of books. Variously described as low relief sculpture, collage and (something) his work examines the nature of the book as…
-
Pretty from afar, and far from pretty…
..which is also a play on the use and abuse of “beauty” that is strongly implied in Anoush Abrar’s Californication. There is something “dirty” about the images, and the accompanying…
-
Dress up for grown ups…
Polly Borland’s series Smudge is unnerving. It makes we wonder what it would be like if we could all dress in whatever costumes we want, all the time, any time….and…
-
Happiness is a warm gun….
It has been commented that violence is not so much an act, as it is an attitude, a sentiment, or even, as one fictional character put it, like an atmosphere…
-
Carl Warner : Edible Landscapes
In a recent conversation with a fellow artist and curator, he commented that the most banal form of art was unquestionably the painted landscape: living where we do, I understand…
-
The new romantics?
I discovered Andrew Morrow’s painting when it was featured on the 2011 spring cover of interesting guerilla magazine. As a note I have now met the publisher of the magazine…
-
Suffering in salt
I found the work of Motoi Yamamoto through a feed I follow. An image from his salt series was posted and I followed the link trail back to his…
-
City Camouflage: the invisible citizen
Liu Bolin is a Beijing based artist and photographer. His new series titled Urban Camouflage are photographs of people who he has painted to blend into the background environment when…
-
Life ain’t nothing but bitches and money….
As we are in the midst of a federal election campaign, where never have so many done so little for so few, it seems appropriate to provide images that speak…
-
James
A secret heart
No Comments -
James
Home is quite a trek
No Comments -
James
Retelling childish stories
No Comments














