Too often we emerging photographers, rather than providing unique contributions to discourse, arrive to reproduce images, reinforcing an existing visual narrative.
A re-branding of Kim Gordon, and an eloquent reversal of emphasis.
Change in the Land: Willa Cather’s Midwest
The mysterious work of the novel in regard to climate change seems less about politics and more about calm, diverse reflection.
Yvonne Rainer … 911 calls … schizophrenics … what happens when you retrace your YouTube steps?
The Unidentified Guest: New Zealand’s Prime Minister
Prime Minister John Key is a bit of a reptile, a snake in the grass. He’s the embarrassing, uncool dad of New Zealand.
The book is caught between the impulse to evoke the culture and struggles of the Bible Belt and what seems like a retroactive concern with aesthetic design.
A peacock in spring makes derangéd love to the muddy hill.
Europe in Sepia – Dubravka Ugresic
Ugresic is not interested in declaring the present to be exceptionally hopeful or hopeless. She’s interested, rather, in talking about the particularity of now as it scrambles out of the past and lurches towards the future.
The Insensitivity of Autocorrect
I think of all this messy tech as a lake that grows larger and larger, accumulating information with no sense of time’s passing, a beast with good intentions, that only wishes to learn.
Exorcism is just a lie we tell ourselves in order to survive.