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Dulce Pinzón Practical Magic

Named one of the fifty most creative Mexicans in the world by Forbes Magazine, Dulce Pinzón’s photographs hover in the liminal space between reality and fantasy. The concerns addressed in each image are very real – racial prejudice, low-paid workers, environmental damage – but they are presented as latter-day fables that entice the eye with a view to capturing the imagination and so engaging the mind.

Dulce Pinzón reveals the stories behind her magical imagery at Talking Pictures.

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The latest Visual Interview is live on the site now. This time @cevansfilms shares his quirky vision. SF representing. #visualinterview #jessefreeman #aesthetic #sanfrancisco #photography #photographer #japancamerahunter #photographerinterview #vision (at Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

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Film Photographer Artist Feature

Marc Stearns: Portland Oregon

"You can't stop time, but you can capture a moment in time." ​- Marc Stearns

https://www.thewondercompass.com/wonder-compass-blog/marc-stearns-artist-feature

© Marc Stearns Portland, OR

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New interview on the Dodge & Burn blog with artists Isabel Löfgren and Patricia Gouvêa, creators of the "Mae Preta" (Black Mother) exhibition in #riodejaneiro which focuses on the life-sustaining yet demoralizing role of Black mothers in Brazil's slave history. Click link in bio to read the full interview! #photographerinterview #longread #diversityinphoto #afrobrazilian #blackfeminism #brazilianslavehistory #blackmotherhood #blackmothers #slavery Image: Vênus da Gamboa, photographic print, 50x70cm. Intervention with objects on reproductions of photographs by August Stahl, ca. 1885.

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Interview: Inti St. Clair

Today we sat down with our vivacious lifestyle photographer, Inti St. Clair. We met for coffee and breakfast tacos (obviously) for an inside look at the lady behind the lens.

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Tweeted

Interview: Sights and Sounds of Tokyo - Tatsuo Suzuki @tatsuo2006 https://t.co/Q6IXvbwlMu#streetphotography #photographerinterview http://pic.twitter.com/MdsPXFvW1q

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Featured on www.PhotographySilo.com this week.  It’s a great site with all kinds of inspirational photographer interviews, in depth looks at new gear, tutorials and much more.  Check it out...  PhotographySilo

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New #BehindTheLens #photographerinterview with @leviwaltonist from #Panama — interviewed by @kaylareefer. KAYLA: How would you describe the modern/contemporary art culture of Panamá? It is blooming, and at a very fast pace. "There's a lot of talent here, and it's starting to get more and more noticed. I am happy for where this is all going, and for being able to contribute to it." Where do you see the visual arts culture of Panamá in the future? "I hope to see more museums and spaces to work and share your art. There's a lot of new schools and programs for visual arts opening up in the city, so I'd say the future is bright for Panama." — More at #suspendmag.com (at WWW.SUSPENDMAG.COM)

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The Last Book

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Photographers: On Beauty

What is Beauty? What does it mean when we call something beautiful?

In this final post for 2024, TALKING PICTURES presents twelve personal reflections on beauty by acclaimed contemporary photographers from around the world. Their insights, and the images they have selected to illustrate their ideas, are as richly diverse as are their individual creative practices.

Roger Ballen (South Africa); Rona Bar & Ofek Avshalom, aka Fotometro (United Kingdom); Ciro Battiloro (Italy); Judith Nangala Crispin (Australia); Maika Elan (Vietnam); Luis Gonzalez Palma (Guatemala); Lin Zhipeng / No. 223 (China); Cecilia Paredes (Peru); Mariette Pathy Allen (USA); William Ropp (France); Tomoko Sawada (Japan); and Danielle van Zadelhoff (Belgium).

IMAGE: © Tomoko Sawada ‘TIARA’ [detail] 2008 (courtesy of ROSEGALLERY)

Wishing all our readers a beautiful 2025, however you define it!

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Olga Steinepreis Family Ties

Families connect us, embrace us, but they can also constrain. The negotiation of family life is a balance between individuality and collective identity; between one’s own needs and those of others. If this were simply a matter for each family to choose for themselves, things might be easier. But tradition, ideology, religion, and the ubiquitous fictions of advertising all bring external pressures to conform to the expectations of others. Expectations that are often impossible to square the one with another. No more so than in the expectations enshrined in the contemporary iconography of perfect motherhood.

Olga Steinepreis is an artist. She has also, in her own words, spent the past decade on maternity leave. However, as an artist she has not suspended work, but turned her creative focus upon the very challenges she faces negotiating a path through the myths and realities of motherhood.

Olga Steinepreis discusses this contested familial space at Talking Pictures.

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Pablo López Luz An Explorer of Space and Time

The photographs of Pablo López Luz explore the relationship between human beings and the space they inhabit. Conventionally, such ideas have been addressed through social documentary and portraiture, but these photographs lean more toward the conceptual and aesthetic. People themselves are not the main focus. But the human presence is always there, latent within the scene, just as the analogue image lies latent in the photographic emulsion.

The aerial photographs of suburban Mexico City tell us much about a city in the grip of exponential population growth but with no clear plan for how to deal with it. Here the human agent is culpable and collective. While, individually, each home is no-doubt warm and hospitable inside, en masse they become the mycelia of a predatory concrete fungus inexorably smothering the undulating mountain ranges. These urban images contrast with works from two other Mexican series, while finding a curious resonance with architecture half a world away in India.

You can read an interview with Pablo López Luz at Talking Pictures.

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Zhang Wei Empire of the Exquisite Corpse

Without recourse to AI, Zhang Wei pieces together photographic fragments to create images that suggest the way in which ideological revisionism and Newspeak are deployed to encourage collective amnesia while making conformity seem inevitable. Out in the world, the engine that drives this pseudo-reality is an asymmetry of power. The power of the few to reshape the perceived reality of the many. Be it commercial or ideological, such power fragments the continuities of cultural and societal connection, reforming them to serve quite other ends. The darkness that runs beneath the surface of Zhang Wei’s images is the free-fall of disconnection, for the icons that beckon to this brave new world are as lifeless as they are seductive.

Zhang Wei reveals the realities behind his fictions at Talking Pictures.

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Erika Diettes A Poet of Grief and Humanity

The work of Erika Diettes grows from the violence of the ongoing multilateral armed conflict in her native Colombia and the depravity of the Nazi’s ‘Final Solution’. To understand the profundity of these events, she focuses not on the horror of their execution, but on the depth of their human consequence.

To capture some sense of another’s grief is difficult indeed. Grief runs to the core. It is rarely on show. The remarkable achievement of this work is the way in which the artist understands that true human connection is a matter of fellow feeling, not pity. These are collaborative, shared processes that touch on the magnitude of grief while never sacrificing dignity to effect.

Erika Diettes speaks about the context and making of her powerful work at Talking Pictures.

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Lara Wilde

Nocturnal Encounters

NIGHT. When the darkness enfolds you and the metronome of day is stilled. It is in this nocturnal dimension that the German artist Lara Wilde creates her radiantly melancholic work, the black of night a canvas on which she paints with light itself. Together, in the darkness, artist and subject have shared confidences, revealed themselves. But, while this informs the creative process, those secrets are not simply depicted. The undertow of narrative must be discovered, interpreted, inviting the viewer to reach empathically into the image. To share in each nocturnal encounter.

Lara Wilde shares the secrets of the night at Talking Pictures.

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David Stephenson Of Heaven and Earth

David Stephenson’s photographs are about very big ideas: the endless tracts of the Antarctic icecap; the vastness of the starry heavens; the spiritual grandeur of the great domes of European sacred buildings; and the luminous complexity of the modern metropolis. While they are pleasing to look at, his images go far beyond the usual bounds of what we think of as beauty. They address a state of mind that, in the language of Western aesthetic ideas, is called the sublime: both spectacular and unnerving.

David Stephenson explores the making of his work and the ideas behind it at Talking Pictures.