Portfolios

David Maisel: Black Maps

  • Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
     

    Mike Brodie hopped a freight train to Jacksonville when he was seventeen. He had with him a Polaroid camera, and not a lot else. Ten years on and 50,000 miles later, Brodie has taken over 7,000 images (mostly 35mm) of his life riding the trains and sometimes the roads, photographing his fellow travellers as they criss-cross America. A small selection of these images are presented in a fine book published by Twin Palms entitled, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity.  Brodie’s photographs are of itinerant life - guys and girls clambering into box cars, swinging between carriages, foraging for food, ducking the cops and dossing down. [...]

  • Charity Corner by Nicolai Howait
     

    I was thinking about waves when I flipped the car on a quiet stretch of country road known as Charity Corner. It was almost midnight on Christmas Eve, my first year out of university, and waves had been on my mind a lot. I’d look out of bus windows and see them looming sky high, preparing to tear apart the tawdry Kentish town in which I was once again living with my parents, working in a bookshop while researching a career as a journalist. In dreams I found myself surfing with friends, passing time between sets with idle talk until finally, on the horizon, a wall of water like the screaming mouth of the world was spotted rolling in, the [...]

  • Henrik Purienne
     
    The images that form Henrik Purienne’s debut monograph - published by Prestel earlier this month - are part of a collection of "snapshots, portraits and out takes" from jobs between  LA, South of France and Cape Town over the past three years.  Most of these images were made with disposable cameras or  35mm. Purienne prefers the beauty of the untouched and  uncorrected, old school photographs were you can see the  scratches and the messiness of analogue photography and as he  explains “there are a lot of bad scans and misprints…but I like that”.   Purienne’s work is indisputably sexy, provocative, and often controversial. The subjects of his [...]
  • The Cord Prize
     
    This year sees the announcement of the Cord Prize, an international contemporary photography award, established by EA Lindsay to support and acknowledge early and mid-career photographers. The prize is a kick start for the launch of CordContemporary.com which will follow later in the year, an online only gallery, which will feature works from invited artists, partially selected from the submissions to the various editions of the award. The aim is for CordContemporary to have a strong online presence through a [...]
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