NEWS EDITORIAL
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.
Introducing GUP n°72 / The Other Side Magazine 01
Individualized as each of us may be, don't we sometimes crave to be part of a larger whole? A collective that shares common characteristics, attitudes, and interests as those of our own? In this (post-)covid limbo, we felt the need to reflect on this idea of an imagined community across continents, woven together through empathy.
NEWS GUIDES
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”…
Laurence Philomène: Puberty
From the personal website of Laurence Philomène, I found out that Puberty is an ongoing autobiographical project which follows the “process of caring for oneself as a non-binary transgender person.” Through a vibrant journey of four seasons of 2020, the book follows a visual narrative of mental and physical changes undergone by a body in the…