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Disaster and Silence by Tasuku Amada 13 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
In his series ‘Disaster and Silence’ (Ihen to Chinmoku), the photographer Tasuku Amada has found an intriguing and equally compelling method to address the psychological effects of Japan’s triple disa...
Over 1000 Entries in the Photography Map Project 24 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm
Paola Di Bello, La disparition, 1994 The Photography Map Project has reached a major milestone today as the all the maps combined now feature over 1000 photobook shops, museums, public as well as pri...
Tetsuya Higashikawa’s Nocturnal Landscapes 23 Jul 2013 | 05:52 pm
Tetsuya Higashikawa, New Moon, 2011 More than two years have passed since 3.11 – the most commonly used term to describe Japan’s zero hour in March 2011. The media has had an important role to play i...
Representing the Disaster through Symbols and Metaphors 17 Jul 2013 | 06:53 pm
In my last blog post I analyzed the photographs of Keiko Sasaoka who continues to photograph those areas affected by Japan’s triple disaster of March 2011. As part of my ongoing research on the photog...
Remembrance in Keiko Sasaoka’s photographs 11 Jul 2013 | 07:38 am
Keiko Sasaoka, Remembrance 3.11 The photographer Keiko Sasaoka belongs to a select group of artists who tackle the representation of landscapes effected by the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami ...
Joshua Lutz Interview 10 Jun 2013 | 05:30 pm
Joshua Lutz, Sunrise over Saint Francis, 2012 Marco Bohr: In September 2012 you published a photobook titled ‘Hesitating Beauty’ which I reviewed in a previous blog post. The book is a haunting collec...
The Woman in the Red Dress 3 Jun 2013 | 05:35 pm
Taken from Occupy Gezi Facebook page. Also used by Reuters A woman in a red dress sprayed with what appears to be pepper spray in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. The image vividly illustrates the popular uprisi...
Darkened Days by Simone Kappeler 21 May 2013 | 10:28 pm
Simone Kappeler, Trinity College, 11.10.2011 Darkened Days, a series of black and white photographs by the Swiss artist Simone Kappeler, is currently being shown at the Douglas Hyde Gallery – a phenom...
Anthropocene 7 May 2013 | 09:33 pm
Check out my article Dreamscapes: The Fantastical Photographs of Lieko Shiga published on TIME Magazine’s LightBox Blog. David Thomas Smith, Three Gorges Dam, Sandouping, Yiling, People’s Republic of ...
Fragments of Division 16 Apr 2013 | 10:59 pm
From the series Quiet Transfer II, 2011 Rachel Cunningham’s photographs interrogate the political, cultural and religious tensions in Israel and Palestine. While representing the remnants of an eterna...
