“Meet Bob” is the visual tale of an encounter, a rehabilitation, of the love that man must place in the care of any animal which is sick or in need. Bob gets treated and gets to live among humans for a long time because, despite having been saved, he is no longer able to survive in the wild.
Mitch Epstein’s photographic work develops, from the earliest productions, around the delicate balance that links nature and society. A sometimes virtuous and prolific relationship, more often complex and conflictual.
Can photography change the world? At least it can help. Images are an influential tool and they can drive attention on urgent issues. A book has been published in 2018: Photographers against wildlife crime, that managed to bring together 24 renowned wildlife photographers and their acclaimed works, creating a powerful visual narration to report international wildlife crime.
by Dario Orlandi _ Biblical Genesis is the story of a gift, a betrayal and a fall. At the peak of Creation, God gives…
At MAST of Bologna the work of the photographer Edward Burtynsky, with the video-artist and director Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas De Pencier: a visual research on Anthropocene.
In Street View – as in the other works of the macro-series “Life in cities” – there’s a striking conscious lightness with which Wolf frames very heavy themes, thanks to a deep awareness of the medium that leads him to undertake courageous and unconventional solutions. The taste for irony and the freedom to experiment are for Wolf the Socratic artifices towards a curious and irreverent exploration of new horizons of photography meant as a tool for reading the present
The taste of the paradox, the sense of irony, the ability to grasp the unintentionally ridiculous situations of everyday life: the inimitable English humor, which invites a smile with a slight detachment, almost as if the absurd were part of normalcy. The English photographer David McEnery (1936-2002) has interpreted this spirit in a wonderful way, with a special grace: his photographs are masterpieces of irony, often of comedy. Some small gags for images.
Martin Parr, fotografo britannico famoso in tutto il mondo, molto amato dal pubblico, curatore, editore, grande appassionato e collezionista instancabile di libri fotografici, pubblica nel 2012 Life’s a beach, curato da Xavier Barral per Aperture.
There is no doubt that today we are inundated with an overwhelming iconographic tide. It is exactly to give the sense of this new coexistence with images, that Erik Kessels creates an extremely significant installation in 2011, entitled 24 Hours in Photos. The artist downloaded and printed, in 10×15 postcard format, all the photographs that had been uploaded on the Flickr image sharing platform over a day.
Starting from vintage photographs that he finds in flea markets or in abandoned archives, Kensuke makes completely new images, cutting, overlapping, and overturning pieces of photos that fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
by Dario Orlandi _ “Set square, mouth; mouth, flags; flags, razor blades; razor blades, stairs … “Thus said it seems the coded language of…
How to face a piece of news or an image? How to find the correct source? Fontcuberta focuses on the great danger of credulity and on the importance of authenticity. Doubt and reflection on this theme make us aware and strong in the face of manipulation.
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