A deep, intimate and autobiographical voyage of discovery. Exploring the very limits of the earth, where geography loses all boundaries and every thing becomes rarefied. Even life itself. Pictures taken in: Siberia, Nunavut, Patagonia, Tibet, Gobi, Outback.
From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: Charles G. Hine's 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway
Throughout 1905, amateur photographer C. G. Hine spent his free hours roaming the length of New York’s Broadway, capturing the architectural oddities, street people, and botanical life of that storied street. He assembled these remarkable photographs into a hand-made, three-volume album titled From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower. Ten years ago, historian Nick Yablon stumbled upon the album in the collections of the New York Historical Society. He now brings the album to a wider public in a new photobook, published by Columbia University Press. Through a series of short essays accompanying each photograph, Yablon reveals how Hine recorded a street under threat from developers, reformers, and others seeking to refashion it.
Photographer: C. G. Hine Author: Nick Yablon
"Moscow. The Great Empty" is a 2020 photographic project by Sergey Ponomarev, featuring 45 stark, black-and-white panoramic images documenting Moscow's unprecedented silence during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Faith (2007) by Jackie Nickerson is a photographic study of cloistered Catholic religious orders in Ireland, capturing the daily lives and environments of nuns, priests, and monks. Published by SteidlMACK, the book utilizes a muted, painterly palette to explore the austere, quiet, and intimate reality of vocational life.
Finnish photographer Esko Mannikko works primarily in rich, saturated color. The work presented in this monograph was made in and around San Antonio and Batesville, Texas near the Mexican border. From the essay by Maaretta Jaukkuri: "Texas offered Männnikkö visual plenitude and colourful mixtures of cultural traditions, as well as an encounter with the survival strategies that the Mexican population have created around themselves. In San Antonio and its surroundings, he met with a multitude of practices aimed at overcoming the tensions and boredom of daily toil and routine, with ingenious ways of creating possibilities for escaping into other worlds where things would look brighter, more colourful and more joyful. The private universes that we all in different ways create around us are a source of endless wonder and admiration in Männikkö's art. The energy used to create these private 'paradises' seems to be inexhaustible, while also telling us that the search for beauty, harmony and inspiration are an integral part of the human condition.The unblinking clarity of Esko Männikkö's images perforates complex social, cultural and individual life situations. Irrespective of geography and social systems, a kind of pattern of imbalance seems to emerge and repeat itself on the surface of these images. These imbalances seem to exist both in the scenes depicted and in the ways these scenes are looked at in other contexts. They are present both within the world of the images and in the worlds surrounding them when they are seen a artworks. Seen from a little bit closer, the very same imbalances seem to become a source of creativity and of new ways of looking about us.".
Christophe Gin has been awarded the 6th edition of the Carmignac Foundation’s Photojournalism Award, winning a €50,000 grant for Colonie, his work ruminating on lawless areas in France. Created in 2009, the award has sponsored photojournalism in conflict zones and neglected regions; previous winners include Robin Hammond (featured in our latest Portrait issue) and recent Magnum Photos nominee Newsha Tavakolian. The award was mired in controversy last year, after Tavakolian contended that the foundation’s benefactor, French investment banker Edouard Carmignac began to interfere with with the presentation of her work to an “unacceptable” degree. The foundation disputed her remarks, claiming the postponing of her project was due to purported threats to the photographer’s safety, which it said Tavakolian reported. It would seem any acrimony has abated, however – Tavakolian’s work will be part of the Carmignac Foundation’s upcoming retrospective at Saatchi Gallery, London. It features 40 works produced since the award’s inception by all laureates – Kai Wiedenhöfer, Massimo Berruti, Robin Hammond, David Monteleone, Tavakolian and this year’s winner Christophe Gin. Colonie, Gin’s winning project delved into French Guiana, a region in South America that is officially a region of France, after the invasion and settlement by the French in the 18th century. The area has been associated with gold prospecting since the 19th century, and the booming market led to marked social and economic inequality, compounding fierce divides. The images suggest a tension and a history stretching back centuries that informs the way the various factions and communities in this region interact. We spoke to Gin about his interest in the region and the challenges he faced along the way.
A collection of black and white street photographs exploring moments of quiet within the built environment. Working with light, shadow and geometry, each image isolates fleeting human presence within structured space.
Hardcover, 128 Pages, 170gsm, Printed in Greyscale
In July 2023, the UK celebrated the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service. However, what was a landmark for Britain's most cherished institution was somewhat overlooked as the NHS reeled from crisis to crisis. A public service that was founded on the principle of free at the point of need was struggling to cope with the aftermath of Covid, a crippling lack of investment in its infrastucture and plummeting morale amongst its health professionals. Realising the need to record these events for posterity was Hannah Deller, uniquely placed as a matron in a major London hospital who had been a professional photographer before training as a nurse. Hannah's mission was to document not just what was happening in the wards she was responsible for but also what was happening outside of the hospital. Working on the Frontline is her remarkable record of events since the March 2020 first lockdown.
The photos are shot in an off beat, reportage style, focusing on the daily lives of people in the UK and abroad. It includes 'In between', the series of portraits of swimmers after swimming, which was given a 2003 Award of Excellence by Photography Annual 44 and appeared in the August 2003 issue of Communication Arts (USA).
Limited edition of 1000, numbered and signed. Comes in a protective, numbered plastic sleeve.