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“I feel like my head is just a camera on a tripod”
Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson embraces melancholy with a unique playfulness. His works are demonstrations of how thin the dividing line between happiness and sorrow can be. We talked...
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An Inkling
Pictures from a world at the brink of change. Sometime last year, I stumbled upon a rather simply black and white image. It shows three young men, dressed in formal attire and tilted hats, standing on...
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Donald Trump’s Horror Picture Show
Photography of the presidency shows that Trump cares about optics, not visuals. I enjoy looking at the world through the prism of photos, and US presidencies offer a lot of iconic ones. Take this...
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A Life Well Documented
‘Minutiae’ is an app that prompts users to photograph their lives. In the process, it breaks with all conventions of social media and the internet. Any life is the sum of small moments: Minutes that...
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“Poetry breaks through the bullshit”
Matthew Zapruder believes that poetry—often misunderstood to be obscure—is exactly what we need to find clarity this time and age. Let’s get it out of the way first: I’m relatively unfamiliar with...
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Instant Gratification
Italian photographer Claudia Cuomo is making sure instant photography sticks around in the digital age. Press the shutter and hear the whizz of the camera. You pull out the photo with a satisfying...
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Reality Turned into Fiction
Martine Stig likes to push your buttons. Her photo book ‘Noir’ contains a series of black and white photos taken during some sunny days in Amsterdam. At first sight, the pictures show unremarkable,...
View Article„You can criticise Taylor Swift, but not George Michael”
Once frowned upon, pop music has become a must for every music connoisseur. You get suspicious looks if you don’t have guilty pleasures, says music critic Carl Wilson in our interview and explains how...
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Street View’s Strange Solitude
Exploring the world through Google Maps, the Agorophobic Traveler carves out haunting impressions from a parallel universe. A couple of years ago, cycling through a sleepy Dutch city, my friends and I...
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Photographic Memory
With the app CCamera, you can take pictures that already exist. Marco Land had his own work copied first. A couple years ago, as he kept a “visual diary” on Instagram, one of his pictures became an...
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