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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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The Last Book

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Maleonn Theatre of the Mind

For the Chinese artist Maleonn (Ma Liang), it is the ability we have to be simultaneously immersed within an illusion and delight in the means of its elaboration that lends his images their eccentric magic. Each of his works stages as performance the abstraction of complex mental states or personal relationships: despair and desire, determination and doubt, dreams of the future and the dereliction of the past. It is this fusion of theatre and photography that imbues the artist’s work with its distinctive character, a quality simply known in China as Maleonn-style.

Maleonn speaks about his expressively staged images at Talking Pictures.

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Colectivo MR Concerning Art

Colectivo MR is a creative partnership between the Peruvian artist Marina García Burgos and the Spanish art historian Ricardo Ramón Jarne. Together they create imagery that draws on the language and lineage of fine art to raise challenging issues around violence, racism, and injustice. While many of the concerns they address are common to much of the rest of the world, the context in which they create and present their work is more specifically Peruvian. Conscious that many of those who engage with fine art have an entrenched resistance to acknowledging certain types of injustice, they construct their critique within an aesthetic mise-en-scène that seeks to engage the eye of the viewer, and thence their mind and imagination, without triggering the mental censorship of denial.

Marina García Burgos and Ricardo Ramón Jarne discuss their work at Talking Pictures.

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Agnieszka Sosnowska Veritable Myths

Agnieszka Sosnowska left the USA to live in a small farming community in the East of Iceland. Remote, with a harsh and unpredictable climate, it is a place of few comforts and much toil. Yet it is here that she has found fulfilment, counting it a privilege to live among this small, resilient community where she works as a schoolteacher.

Her pictures tell stories that speak of lives extending beyond the image frame and into the landscape. They create a kind of latter-day mythology that distils the essence of place into an action, a gesture, a pose, an expression. In many images the artist herself is the protagonist, in others she photographs her students. At the heart of these images is mutuality: experiences shared, the solidarity of community, the constancy of friendship.

Agnieszka Sosnowska speaks about her life and image-making at Talking Pictures.

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Bronisław Kózka Seeing Beyond Seeing

The work of the Australian photographer Bronisław Kózka is extensive and always evolving. In this interview we explore two periods, each with their distinctive aesthetic and mode of making. In the earlier work, he created precisely staged tableaux that draw the viewer in through period décor and the narrative tropes of cinema. Yet each is haunted by an unsettled tension that lends the image an ambiguous affective undertow.

His more recent images are evocations of the natural landscape abstracted in a speculative dialogue between subjective experience and philosophical conceptualisation. They are not images through which one looks to discern an unfolding narrative, but meditative spaces – environments within themselves where one may pause and ponder.

Bronisław Kózka charts his journey from narrative to abstraction at Talking Pictures.

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Diana Thorneycroft Long Shadows in the North

Described by the writer and art critic Robert Enright, as “one of the most exciting photographers working in North America”, Diana Thorneycroft combines humour with cultural critique, history with psychology, to create tableaux and performances that explore the darker recesses of personal and collective history. Things half remembered we would rather forget.

The human mind is the theatre of two distinct identities. One is the sense of the external self: the pilot of our corporeal and sensual experiences as we negotiate our place in the world and our relationship with others. But there is also an interior self, wholly and privately the domain of the individual, a place of imagination which, while it colours our sensibility, may not always be revealed to our consciousness. It is in this liminal space that Diana Thorneycroft explores these zones of uncertain compromise, revealing beneath the verdant landscapes of Canadian national mythology, a murkier subsoil of anxiety and incongruity.

Diana Thorneycroft discusses the ideas and ambiguities that underlie her work at Talking Pictures.

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Ivan Mikhaylov Of Space and Solitude

Ivan Mikhaylov’s photographs are quiet meditations on the confluence of memory and experience, isolation and connection. They ask us to view the world through his eyes; not simply to see what was there, but open to the cross currents of affect and implication that ripple beneath the surface. The spaces he explores are as much internal as in the world: nostalgia for the now-forgotten mid-century race into Outer Space, the sense of opportunity and alienation aroused by the metropolis, environments of neglect as metaphors of loneliness. While conceived discretely, his creative projects prove permeable; ideas and feelings seep from one to another as he discovers the redemptive potential of landscape itself to transform space into place and loneliness into restorative solitude.

Ivan Mikhaylov discusses his gently evocative imagery at Talking Pictures.

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Antonio Briceño The Marvel of Boundless Diversity

For the Venezuelan photographic artist Antonio Briceño, the manifold diversity of humanity and of Nature is not something to fear, but something to celebrate and from which to learn. His images make visible the powerful mythologies and metaphors by which the various indigenous peoples of the southern Americas wove the narratives that gave life meaning. Narratives that emphasise the interdependence of humankind and nature, and the moral imperatives that this mutuality bring with it. In these images, people are not separate from nature, but part of it; just as the indigenous peoples do not see themselves as the masters of nature, but among its subjects.

Antonio Briceño reflects upon his work, and the cultural diversity it portrays, at Talking Pictures.

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Diana Nicholette Jeon American Grotesque

The mix-media images of the Hawai‘i-based artist Diana Nicholette Jeon push back hard against the ideological and commercial misrepresentation of women. The counterfeit notions of ideal womanhood touted by media and advertising to create aspirations and anxieties that drive rampant consumerism and seek to justify the external control of female behaviours and bodies. Her collage process is complex and multilayered and, while these images speak to the wider state of society, they find their genesis in the personal.

It takes courage to draw so openly on one’s personal life in order to speak to the tropes of societal injustice – and to do so by turning one’s own image into the allegorical grotesques she employs to personify those tropes. But then Diana Nicholette Jeon’s creative practice is as feisty as it is experimental.

Diana Nicholette Jeon discussed the impetus and technical experimentation behind her distinctive imagery ay Talking Pictures.