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Photo España 23
The annual festival Photo Espaňa (PHE) is happening again, with this year’s exhibition programme concentrating on a wide variety of aspects that have never been off-topic but surely deserve renewed attention: female practitioners, adjusting the ‘canon’ with forgotten or less exposed talents, and concerns about the social and ecological environment. Before anything, though, it is…
Robert LeBlanc: GLORYLAND
Los Angeles-based artist Robert LeBlanc is a self-taught photographer with an aptitude for capturing non-traditional communities. In his latest project GLORYLAND, he continues to explore his fascination for the strange and unusual. For more than five years, LeBlanc documented a uniquely American subculture: one of the few remaining Holiness serpent-handling churches of West Virginia.
Ruizhe Hong: So Close When You Look Away
If infatuation could talk, Chinese photographer Ruizhe Hong has rendered its speech visible in So Close When You Look Away — a series of soft, intimate and sensual images that feel like love letters delivered inside a heart-sealed envelope.
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Julieta Averbuj: El juego de la madalena
Named after a game invented by her father, Spanish photographer Julieta Averbuj (b. 1986, Barcelona) introduces her first publication ‘El juego de la madalena’ — a book, that very much like a game, presents itself as an interactive riddle with a myriad of outcomes that are determined by the viewer.
Benjamin Hampson: Nobody Home
British photographer Benjamin Hampson (b. 1988, North London) shares a poignant description of what it is like losing a person that is close to you in his self-published book ‘Nobody Home’, which documents the stages both during and after the passing of his father, who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson’s Disease.
Clement Chapillon: Les Rochers Fauves
Les Rochers Fauves is the title of a photography book by Clement Chapillon which can be literally translated into "wild rocks". The book is a collection of Chapillon’s multiple visits to the Greek island of Amorgos in the past 20 years. Belonging to the group of Cyclades, Amorgos is considered to have a “brutal beauty”…