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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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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.

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Daniel Schumann At Home with Love and Loss

“I had asked each family or couple to write a short text about themselves. The three in this picture wrote ‘Love makes a family’. For me, this combination of image and words summed up nicely the fact that it doesn’t matter what your sexuality, where you are from, or what you believe. What is most important is where you feel at home, loved and respected.” – Daniel Schumann

Daniel Schumann makes portraits of individuals and families that highlight a shifting notion of home. Each series explores this underlying theme from a different angle: the institutional domestic surrogate of a nursing facility for the dying; a rediscovery of the household history of grandparents; the family dynamics that evolve when a child has a potentially terminal illness; the sanctuary of a life among communities that are open and respectful of diversity. His images are imbued with gentleness and sensitivity. They speak with quiet compassion of the imperfections that mark us out as human, and with subtle resolve of the importance of affording dignity to every person, regardless of their situation, apparent difference, or stage of life.

Daniel Schumann reflects upon his work – and the people with whom he has collaborated in its making – at Talking Pictures.

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Christian Fuchs Becoming Ancestors

Christian Fuchs recreates portraits of his aristocratic forebears in performances for the camera that are as much psychological and metaphysical as visually mimetic. He seeks to meld with his ancestor in such a way that each image becomes a ‘self-portrait’ both of himself and of the person whose likeness he has taken on. For, while the past is resurrected pictorially in the present, the present also comes to haunt the interior of the past.

His researches and recreations have led him back as far as ten generation – discovering, as the roots of his family tree spread down through the ages, his relationship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (his sixth great uncle), Dorothea Viehmann (his sixth great-aunt) source of many of the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, and, here, La Quintrala (his tenth great-aunt), reputedly the cruellest woman of her era in Chile.

Christian Fuchs reveals the histories and creative process behind his remarkable portraits at Talking Pictures.

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Simon Harsent Portrait of an Iceberg

As we begin what may prove to be a momentous year for the world, this interview is a stark reminder of the dramatic impact that the warming of the Arctic Ocean is having on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. ‘Melt: Portrait of an Iceberg’ lends this wider story particular poignancy in the way that the artist identifies with the dwindling bergs, their journey through life and their slow dissolution as they travel out to sea.

Simon Harsent talks about the global catastrophe of climate change and the personal journey that led him to make this work in his interview at Talking Pictures

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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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