Tag: Photography
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Lily Lanfermeijer: Lost in Depiction
The Dutch sculptor Lily Lanfermeijer discusses tableware, colonial histories and the passing of patterns between continents
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Katharina Sieverding: ‘I also make fake news’
Part of the collateral programme of this year’s Manifesta Biennial in Palermo is a career-spanning solo exhibition by the Czech-born, German artist. Here, Sieverding talks selfies, fascism and fake news
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Andreas Gursky
This first major UK retrospective of German photographer Andreas Gursky, at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery, is a must-see visual feast of epic proportions
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Edmund Clark: ‘The intervention, the control, the censorship is part of what I do’
Edmund Clark discusses his recent residency at the UK’s only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon; his time spent on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan; and how intervention and censorship have become a part of his work
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Torbjørn Rødland: Back in Touch
Secrets lurk in Rødland’s photographs, but in chasing the thrill of the secret, his images fall short of the desired effect
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Latif Al Ani: ‘I was documenting for the sake of archiving. I never thought Iraq would arrive at what it has today’
The Iraqi photographer considers his photographic preservation of a long-vanished Iraq, his preoccupation with beauty, and the desire to share his country’s pain with viewers
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Juno Calypso: ‘Male critics don’t think women are funny, they don’t think women are capable of irony. They just think that women are silly and self-destructive’
London-based photographer Juno Calypso talks about femininity and disappointment in a man’s world
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Gregory Crewdson: ‘I wanted the photographs to feel like a suburban window, to give a sense that the viewer is looking into a world’
American photographer Gregory Crewdson talks about loneliness and connection in his work and, in particular, about Cathedral of the Pines, his current exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in London that sprang from a difficult time in his life
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Francesca Woodman: On Being An Angel
Influenced by surrealism and the Gothic revival, as well as speaking to the contemporary 1970s feminist zeitgeist, Francesca Woodman’s photography offers a timeless representation of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood
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Faces Then, Faces Now
This double offering explores the concept of identity through portraits in two opposing media and ages – renaissance painting and modern photography
