Tag: Photography
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Dora Maar
This fascinating exhibition explores the long and varied career of the surrealist photographer and shows that her work went far beyond her links to Picasso
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Meryl McMaster – interview: ‘I explore complex questions around one’s sense of self and belonging to two heritages’
McMaster, who often transforms herself into hybrid animal-human creatures for her photographs, discusses her show, As Immense as the Sky, at the Ikon Gallery, and how her mixed European and Plains Cree ancestry feeds into her work
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Luigi Ghirri: Colazione sull’Erba
The haunting microcosm of north Italian suburbia as pictured by the matchless Luigi Ghirri is on display in this show at Thomas Dane Gallery
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Maria Pasenau – interview: ‘I made all these works through the prism of anxiety, devils and stress’
The young Norwegian photographer talks about fear, red devils, graveyards and reinvesting photography with a sense of truth
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Julie Cockburn – interview: ‘My work is about telling the truth, but in a really circuitous way’
At the opening of her latest show, Telling it Slant at Flowers Gallery, Cockburn talks about happy accidents, the labour that goes into her work and the simple joy of circles
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David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night
A comprehensive survey of the impassioned American artist and writer proves his relevance then and now, without stinting from the lows – as well as the highs – of his prodigious output
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Sohrab Hura – interview: ‘The only thing I can take responsibility for is my own relationship with the world’
The photographer talks about his new book, Coast, and his aim of sucking viewers in with a narrative and then taking them to a point of incoherence so that they look at things anew
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Anthony Luvera – interview: ‘Photography is a way of telling stories about the world’
Luvera is the editor of Photography for Whom?, a new journal focusing on community photography projects. Here, he talks about lesser-known works from a movement that began in the 1970s, as well as contemporary practices
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Cindy Sherman
Sherman was fascinated by the ambiguous nature of appearances and she throws out clues to entice viewers into forming their own interpretations of her work
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This Is What It Is to Be Happy
What is it to be happy in an age where mental health problems are so prevalent? How can communing with nature, externalising the internal – both metaphorically and literally – help with this? This slickly curated three-person show delves deep,…
