San Fernando Valley, California, 1973 In Diesel and Dinosaurs, for an essay entitled American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present, Jonathan Green wrote: ‘In Steve Fitch’s Diesels and Dinosaurs, the mythic presence of the Old West is discovered in today’s popular roadside culture. Fitch photographs the diesel trucks, roadside amusements, motels and hand-drawn … Read more
‘Trying to stop time’: One man’s love letter to his wife – in pictures The Guardian
#LetUs, February 2022 ‘When I ventured back on to the subway after over a year, I was fearful that I wouldn’t be able to capture the same depth and nuance of expression that I was accustomed to getting. I thought that masks would prevent me from telling the variety of characters or relationships. What I … Read more
Strike a pose! Audrey Hepburn, Patti Smith and more – in pictures The Guardian
London-based graphic designer Noma Bar’s new project is a tribute to his children’s cuddly animals. The toys were reprieved from the charity shop to take part in Transitions, a set of photographs that reimagines stuffed ducks and monkeys as new beings. Bar used to do this as a game with his now teenage children when … Read more
The finalists in the largest photography competition celebrating the built environment have been announced. Run by the Chartered Institute of Building, entries range from an isolated church to a shopping mall, with the winner to be decided by a public vote.
‘A space of radical black history’: Dalston’s Gillett Square – in pictures The Guardian
The acclaimed Austrian-born photographer, who was behind Life magazine’s first ever all-colour photographic essay, moved to the US in 1951 and captured Americana in the hills and in the towns. His work has been celebrated in a new book Ernst Haas: The American West which is out now
Harajuku Rain, Tokyo, 01:36:02 No matter how different or far apart, cities at night share particular features: neon lights and lonely figures, quiet train stations and taxi drivers, empty buildings and streets. In his new book After Dark, photographer Liam Wong encounters the people and places, the slivers of life, that move differently in this … Read more
‘Ruby, just before the snow. My formative years were the mid 90s: cool Britannia, Britart, Britpop and the promise of New Labour. I feel for this generation. Cost of living, Covid, the climate crisis and the threat of nuclear war’ Share on Facebook Share on Twitter