Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) is an incredible collection of Muholi’s self portraits, rendered huge, capturing and taking control of the colonial imaginings of black female bodies, as domestic workers, enslaved peoples, witches and soothsayers, making them all her own and forcing viewers to confront her power, her strength, her gaze, on her …
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Gary Briechle – ‘Gary Briechle’
Gary Briechle was Charcoal Book Club’s photobook of the month for June 2018. It’s an interesting book, beautifully designed and full of somewhat disconcerting photographs of Briechle’s family and friends. That said, had it not been for my subscription, I might not have picked it up myself. One of the benefits of a Charcoal Book Club …
Senta Simond – ‘Rayon Vert’
Rayon Vert explores portraiture, the sometimes intimate interaction between photographer and sitter, the little moments in between, as the model twists, uncomfortable from sitting so long, or moving into a different pose, or staring blankly into space in a mixture of boredom and impatience. With it, Senta Simond has given us a glimpse of what …
Walker Evans – ‘American Photographs’
Walker Evans’ American Photographs is one of those seminal photobooks that belongs on every photographer’s bookshelf, full stop. There’s not much more to say about it, really.
Enter the PinBox
Robert Hamm’s Hamm Camera Company‘s first Kickstarter was the NuBox 6×9. I backed it, and am happily waiting for it to arrive. In the mean time, their second Kickstart appeared: the PinBox, a $20 heavyweight paper/thick cardboard medium format 6×6 pinhole camera, and, well, why not?
Tony Fouhse – ‘After the Fact’
In After the Fact, Tony Foushe attempts to capture “the feelings of anxiety that lurk behind the facade of the everyday… to our increasing uncertainty and fear and to the changing political and physical climates that we find ourselves in these days.” I think he succeeded.
Noah Waldeck – ‘Instant Winter’
Winter is a strange concept. Up in central Illinois and out on Long Island, it’s obvious: clouds roll in, cold winds blow, snow piles up and gets bulldozed into disgusting grey mountains that persist well into the spring. But down here in Texas, and depending on the year, there might not be much difference in …
