Portrait Photography
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Rahim Fortune: Hardtack
A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual.
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Yumna Al-Arashi: Aisha
Aisha is Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi’s first artist’s book. This powerful, delicate publication, inspired by Al-Arashi’s great-grandmother, Aisha, is an homage to the lineage of women that she descends from; women of the multidimensional and many-layered landscapes of the MENA region
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Vuyo Mabheka: Popihuise
The Afrikaans word “pophuis“ refers to a dollhouse game familiar to children. Vuyo Mabheka builds the Popihuise series based on this game, using cutouts from rare childhood photos of himself.
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Johny Pitts: Afropean: A Journal
Afropean: A Journal gives an alternative interrail map of Europe, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty percent Muslim.
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Mary Ellen Mark / Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81: Voices
Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark’s first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state.
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Sam Wright: Pillar to Post
Photographer Sam Wright became curious about Traveller communities after learning that his great grandmother had been forced to denounce her Irish Traveller heritage upon marriage. Over the course of two years he journeyed to eight fairs across the UK and Ireland to create a contemporary portrait of the resilient and vibrant Traveller and Romani Gypsy…
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Elias Holzknecht: Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
While exploring the society he grew up in, Elias Holzknecht (AT) ended up in the village of Micheldorf in Upper Austria by chance. There he found beauty in the everyday: a small community of almost 6,000 people who sleep, eat, walk, and work, and for whom Micheldorf is the centre of their lives.
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New Books by Gregory Halpern and Luigi Ghirri
Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi is a beguiling new publication bringing together work from across Luigi Ghirri’s oeuvre focussing on the theme of the journey. King, Queen, Knave features a new series of photographs by Gregory Halpern made in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, over the course of twenty years.
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Sachlich Neu: Fotografien von August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch & Robert Häusser
Legendary photographs from the 1920s and 30s by August Sander (1876-1964) and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966), the main representatives of “New Objectivity” in photography, meet icons by Robert Häusser (1924-2013), a classic of the post-war period.
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Angeniet Berkers: Lebensborn – Birth Politics in the Third Reich
On December 12th 1935, a programme was initiated in Germany to provide the Third Reich with the new generation of leaders and future elite for their 1000-year empire: Lebensborn (Source of Life). All Germans were called upon to have more children, with the slogan “Give the Führer a child”.
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Nadia Sablin: Years Like Water
Years Like Water is a decade-long look at a small Russian village, its inhabitants, ramshackle institutions, nature, and mythology. The series loosely follows the lives of four interconnected families, showing children grow up unsupervised in a magical wilderness, and adults struggle for survival in the same.
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Adam Ferguson: Big Sky
Adam Ferguson began photographing Australia’s interior in 2013 in an attempt to dispel sentimental and outdated narratives around the ‘Outback’—a place central to the identity and development of modern day Australia.
