LensCultureBooksHow to Look Natural In Photos - Photographs curated by Beata Bartecka & Łukasz Rusznica | Book review by Joanna L. Cresswell... LensCulture - Joanna L. CresswellThere’s more than meets the eye in these photos of daily life in Poland, taken between 1944 and 1989. A disturbing new book draws together images taken by the secret police to explore photography as a...
LensCultureUnited States Fatherland - Photographs by Katerina Vo | Interview by Justin Herfst | LensCulture LensCulture - Justin HerfstAn emerging artist explores the burning issues playing out in public and private across the United States, interrogating ideas around nationalism and militarism as expressed in the intimacy of her own...
LensCultureBooks The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast - Photographs by Roger Ballen | Book review by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture LensCulture - Gregory Eddi JonesIn his latest offering, the unnerving universe of Roger Ballen’s photographs grows another dark layer through the words of Italian poet Gabriele Tinti. A casual passerby catching a glimpse at a Roger photograph...
LensCultureTime Travel Milking Butterflies—Painted Photographs - Photographs and text by Cathy Cone | LensCulture LensCulture - Photographs and text by Cathy ConeA magical sort of time travel — aided by modern technology and hand painting — brings new life to anonymous tintype photographs. My grandmother raised me. She was born with a large birthmark in the shape...
LensCultureSouth America Cholita’s Escaladoras - Photographs and text by Todd Antony | LensCulture LensCulture - Photographs and text by Todd AntonyMeet the ‘Climbing Cholitas’ or ‘Cholitas Escaladoras Bolivianas’ — a group of Aymara indigenous women who are breaking stereotypes, scaling mountains, and shifting perceptions. These are the ‘Climbing...
LensCultureGrieving The Truth is in the Soil - Photographs by Ioanna Sakellaraki | Essay by Cat Lachowskyj | LensCulture LensCulture - Cat LachowskyjPrompted by personal loss, Ioanna Sakellaraki embarked on a photographic journey back to her native Greece to immerse herself in the culture of grief and explore its liminal space with her camera. In of...
