Like Everyday Series by Shadi Ghadirian
Challenging the international preconceptions of women’s roles within an Islamic state, Tehran-based artist Shadi Ghadirian’s photographs draw from her own experiences as a modern woman living within the ancient codes of Shariah law. Her images describe a positive and holistic female identity, humorously taking issue with the traditional roles by [...]
The Dark Side
In its broadest sense, culture is the sum total of our beliefs, our fears, our behavior patterns, our institutions, our common values, as well as our art, music, and literature. But the arts often neglect or omit reference to the Cold War. In fact, most of us who lived through those times have [...]
Tree
photographs by Myoung Ho Lee
Myoung Ho Lee, a young artist from South Korea, has produced an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing.
Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature [...]
Beyond Coca-Cola.
The starting point of this project was in the mid of 2006, while I was preparing my first solo exhibition at Ruang MES 56. I was deeply interested in the villagers who were passing by the well-established icon and typography. I obtained a photographic experience at that moment; an interesting and superb situation and [...]
Paris based photographer Denis Darzacq recently completed a new series of photographs entitled ‘hyper’.
The series explores ‘the place of the individual in society’ a common theme in his work. the series may seem surreal and clearly a product of photoshop, however none of the works have been digitally manipulated.
Instead, darzacq recruited [...]
Jakarta tidak berpenghuni! semuanya kosongg.
Tak seorangpun berada di sana, ini seperti mimpi saja. kemanakah mereka semuanya pergi??
oo…ternyata mereka pergi ke depok nonton konser 12 x.
ber sing along…disana rumahku, dalam kabut biru….ke jakarta ku-kan kembali uuuu..
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A while ago, I found an old Viewmaster I used to play with as a kid. I was totally mesmerized by this piece of shiny red plastic. It brought back memories instantly. So I started collecting them. Different colours and shapes. Thousands of images. The combinations were endless. My family and friends also started offering [...]
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The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a [...]
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The images that I make consist of often unlogical combinations of materials, patterns, colours, forms, with my head as the only constant factor. Each element is consciously chosen so as to affect a pre-determined transformation. By playing with the value of the each material and by using them for a purpose that was not originally [...]
The Dog’s Master, story by Pieter Hugo.
These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a car window in Lagos, Nigeria, which depicted a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains. A few days later I saw the image reproduced in a South [...]
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