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Hoda Afshar’s series "Under Western Eyes" comprises digitally manipulated photographs that are designed to shift the conversation around the representation of Islamic women as subjugated and suppressed. Afshar, who is…
A portrait of an artist is always their subject. We may know the photographer from the photograph in the way they see the world and the artifacts that they make,…
Another surprise from this Californian edition of Paris Photo is an exhibition from its director, Julien Frydman, and Fototeka, based on the archives of the Los Angeles Police Department. The…
Springtime is here, writes The Guardian, and the sheep are jumping. The Russians are at Ukraine’s door, which you can read in all the newspapers of the world—except Holy Russia’s……
Alexei Partola, a graduate of the British High School of Art and Design, presents a project devoted to “train-bombing.” According to the rules of the genre, the process of creating…
Every winter between mid November and beginning of February the sun fails to rise above the flanks of the Alps, leaving the Northern Italian village of Viganella completely in shadow.…
“Everybody feels good-looking, but I know I’m good-looking.” This sentence displayed on the wall of the Samuel Fosso exhibition at the Fondation Zinsou in Cotonou makes one smile. The first time one sees this Cameroonian…
Los Angeles plays on its international stature particularities to define its place on the art market, and the publisher BlindSpot presents at the occasion of Paris Photo LA an engaging…