Ewen Spencer (born 1971) is a British photographer and filmmaker based in Brighton, England. His photography is primarily of youth and subcultures.
He began his career working for style, music and culture magazines The Face and Sleazenation and has since transplanted himself into groups of young people and musicians to form numerous personal projects, as well as making films for Massive Attack , The streets and The Charlatans and undertaking commercial work. His photography series have included Open Mic, UKG and Kick over the statues. He has self-published a number of photobooks including a series of zines called Guapamente.
b. 1984 Toby Coulson studied photography at University College Falmouth and is now living and working in London. His work has appeared in many galleries including the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Taylor Wesssing portrait prize.
Following a 15 year career as a psychotherapist in private practice, British photographer Siân Davey launched a career in photography in 2014, drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and mother to inform her practice. Her work is an investigation of the psychological landscapes of both herself and those around her. Her family and community are central to her work. Davey studied Fine Art painting (Bath Academy of Fine Art, 1985) and Social Policy (University of Brighton, 1990) Humanistic Psychotherapy (1995) and more recently, photography (MA 2014 and MFA 2016 at Plymouth University).
I was on a road trip in the USA years ago, staying in cheap motels and surviving on those great big American breakfasts of waffles and pancakes. Arriving at dusk at Big Sur, California, I checked into a place nestled between the ocean and a dense forest. As night closed in, the motel took on a different, more sinister feel. An open-air swimming pool stood alone, surrounded by the shadows of a picket fence. Steam rose from the water in the crisp, night air. It evoked a feeling of mystery and intrigue, reminding me of a David Lynch film or Edward Hopper painting. When I returned, it was one of my favourite images from the trip and I decided to work on a series of photographs of empty, open-air swimming pools shot at night. I was lucky to get my first solo show in London and secured Arts Council funding and was then commissioned by Time Out to shoot their Time Out Guide to Miami. This was great timing for the pools project, as once I’d ticked things off the picture list for the day, I’d go out with my tripod and camera, roaming the streets and looking for outdoor pools to shoot. The final edit consists of pools in the USA, France, Spain and also some lidos in the UK.
The photographer Maisie Cousins has always wanted to make a mess. As a child, she played intently in the bath and the sink, spraying water everywhere; as a young woman, she dumped liquid in the garbage and admired the mélange. At eighteen, when she was in art school, as her peers toiled studiously over large-format black-and-white photographs of trees, Cousins started experimenting with riotous colors, textures, and shiny bodies. She drizzled herself and her friends with oil, then brought her camera in close, admiring the glossy surface of their skin. “I want to be surrounded by the things I’m interested in,” she told me, last month. “I want to fill space and spread out. I’m a maximalist, I guess.”
A discriminação atinge de diversas formas as pessoas documentadas; o racismo por serem negros, a LGBT+fobia e a marginalização por terem nascidos na periferia.
A política da atual presidência Brasileira não favorece o fim do preconceito e problemas sociais vividos pela comunidade, pelo contrário, só fomenta. Esse é um momento crucial pra essa comunidade encontrar força na coletividade e para estar ciente que existem lugares onde suas vozes são ouvidas e suas identidades aceitas.
'Carioca, Negro & Queer' visa ilustrar através de fotografias e relatos pessoais, as vidas e experiências da população LGBTQIA+ negra proveniente e/ou residente de favelas e comunidades da região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro. O projeto desafia uma conduta heteronormativa focando principalmente na desconstrução do conceito de gênero, tendo como partida a celebração de nossas identidades no modo em que nos vestimos, no estilo de vida que escolhemos e na nossa expressão artística.
Ming Smith is an American photographer. She was the first African-American female photographer whose work was acquired by the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. Smith was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Howard University in 1973, she moved to New York City, where she found work modeling. While in New York she met photographer Anthony Barboza, who was an early influence.
Smith's approach to photography has included in-camera techniques such as playing with focus, darkroom techniques like double exposure, collage techniques and paint on prints. Her work is less engaged with documentation of events than with expression of experience. It has been described as surreal and ethereal, as the New York Times observed: "Her work, personal and expressive, draws from a number of artistic sources, preeminently surrealism. She has employed a range of surrealist techniques: photographing her subjects from oblique angles, shooting out of focus or through such atmospheric effects as fog and shadow, playing on unusual juxtapositions, even altering or painting over prints."
Black Square (2006–) is an ongoing project in which Simon collects objects, documents, and individuals within a black field that has precisely the same measurements as Kazimir Malevich’s 1915 suprematist work of the same name.
Taryn Simon was born in 1975 in New York, where she currently lives and works. Collections include Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Institutional exhibitions include A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, Tate Modern, London; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, through 2013); Contraband, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2011); A Polite Fiction, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014); Rear Views, A Star-forming Nebula, and the Office of Foreign Propaganda, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015); 56th Biennale di Venezia (2015); Action Research / The Stagecraft of Power, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2016); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2016); A Soldier Is Taught to Bayonet the Enemy and Not Some Undefined Abstraction, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany (2016); An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2016–17); An Occupation of Loss, Park Avenue Armory, New York (2016); The Innocents, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY (2017); Paperwork and the Will of Capital, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017); Shouting Is Under Calling, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (2018); A Cold Hole + Assembled Audience, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2018); and An Occupation of Loss, presented by Artangel, London (2018).
Black Square (also known as The Black Square or Malevich's Black Square) is an iconic painting by Kazimir Malevich. The first version was done in 1915. Malevich made four variants of which the last is thought to have been painted during the late 1920s or early 1930s. Black Square was first shown in The Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in 1915. The work is frequently invoked by critics, historians, curators, and artists as the "zero point of painting", referring to the painting's historical significance and paraphrasing Malevich.
Born in New Delhi, India, relocated to Montreal, Canada, before studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Gupta has been using photography as a critical practice since the 1970s. Subversive, impulsive, personal and political, Sunil Gupta's socially engaged projects have focused on such issues as family, race, migration and the complexities and taboos of sexuality and homosexual life. His work has been instrumental in raising awareness around the political realities concerning the fight for international gay rights and of making visible the tensions between tradition and modernity, public and private, the body and body politics.
