#1 Face
Two types of absence are visualised in the meeting of the face with photography and of photography with the face: one is inherent to photography, and the other belongs solely to the face. The first is the Barthesian absence of the moment of taking the photograph that is lost in the instant when the light drafts the image in the photosensitive emulsion. From then on, the photographic image only stubbornly repeats this single, but inevitable and unquestionable assertion: this object has been here, but its reality consists precisely in that it is unreachable – it is a moment which has been and will never repeat itself again.
#37 uneven ground — Profiles
Karol Radziszewski

Radziszewski’s art, in its multidisciplinary medley, is driven in its roots by a longing to carve out a space of diversity and queer beauty out of misery. Be it the secret queer meeting spots in communist Poland or the place for alternative narratives on history, it is constantly craving for a less miserable world…
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Heji Shin

Although the German-Korean artist Heji Shin attained wider popularity through her photographs for the Spring/Summer 2017 collection of the New York-based brand Eckhaus Latta, which featured explicit images of couples of varying ethnicities and sexual orientations engaging in sexual acts, the true scandal arrived with her portraits of the American rapper Kanye West, who recently elicited controversy through his relationship with the incumbent president of the United States…
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Karolina Wojtas

Polish artist Karolina Wojtas doubtless has a lot of fun creating her photographs and installations. This usually seems inconsistent with the depth of thought her photographs suggest. Even so, this is exactly what her photographs are: a fluid mix of various kinds of humor, bizarre elements, practical jokes, children’s jokes, and bullying…
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#37 uneven ground — Profiles
Alžběta Bačíková

While Alžběta Bačíková’s experimental approach to documentary puts the transparency of the filmic medium in parenthesis, this self-reflexive attitude does not operate at the expense of creating an empathic relation between artist and protagonist, subject and viewer…
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen

One hot summer day, I happened to reach for H. G. Wells’s 1923 novel Men Like Gods. In it, Wells presents his idea of the world of Utopia. People here are precisely carved castings of ancient deities representing the ideal potential development of our society at some point millenia in the future…
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- ––– Profiles
- Jolana Havelková
- Dita Pepe
- Lily Almog
- ––– Events
- Photographic Encounter in Arles
- Leica Gallery Prague
- The Network Conference and the 7th Summer School of Photography in Poprad
- Encontros da Imagem 2002 in Braga
- Fourth Photo Biennale in Moscow
- Photo Espaňa 2002 in Madrid
- The Manfred Heiting Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
- Ninth FotoFest in Houston
- ––– Reviews
- Fototorst
- An Anthology of Five Generations of Slovak Photography
- Czech Photographic Avant-Garde 1918-1948
- A History of Photographic Portraiture
- Around Photography with Susan Sontag
- ––– History
- 1936: Photography and /history/ Structuralism on a Date in Prague
- ––– Portfolios
- Ivan Pinkava
- Fazal Sheikh
- Jitka Hanzlová
- Torben Eskerod
- Karel Novák
- ––– Survey
- Milena Slavická
- Tomáš Pospiszyl
- Tomáš Pospěch
- Martina Pachmanová
- Petr Nedoma
- Josef Moucha
- Jan Mlčoch
- Pavel Liška
- Karel Císař
- Vladimír Birgus
- ––– Tendencies
- Karin Müller
- Jan Freiberg
- Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov
- Vojtěch Vlk
- Jesper Alvaer
- Matthew Monteith
- Tomaž Gregorić
- Tereza Severová
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face