Behind Ingrid Emaga’s Daring Quarantine Portraiture
Beauty in the breakdown.
“My inspiration or my way of creating comes from a merger, both Africa and Europe,” Emaga says.
Photography
The Serene Silence of Northern Scotland
The essence of the Scottish outdoors.
It is an emotional landscape that presents a vision of our own turmoil, but also the effects of light, of walking in the world and observing.
Perfect Strangers: A New Photography Book Documents the Life Before the Pandemic
A monograph by Melissa O’Shaughnessy.
In our imagination, strangers can become anything and everything; they are perfect by virtue of their unknowability.
Edward Burtynsky Exhibition Reveals the Artistry of Canadian Landscapes
Natural Order.
Featuring photographs taken while in isolation during the early days of the pandemic in Grey County, Ontario, Natural Order presents immensely detailed scenes of a thawing Canadian forest.
On Brooke DiDonato’s Uncanny Aesthetics
Art askew.
Not being able to figure something out immediately may be a very good thing indeed.
Q&A: Exploring African Mythic Worlds with Photographer Ayana V. Jackson
Reconstructing the African diasporic identity.
“Throughout the world, you will find myth and folklore related to the water. This is nothing other than a testimony to humanity’s respect for their source material. We are all mostly water, after all.”
Photography Unveils the Secret Stillness of Casa Estudio Luis Barragán
Emotional architecture.
Luis Barragán described his work as “emotional architecture.” His use of vivid colours is to modernist design what Frida Kahlo was to visual art: a contribution to an artistic and intellectual movement that does not eschew vibrancy nor humanism.
The Sartorialist Turns a Lens to India’s Street Fashion
Photographer Scott Schuman’s latest book is a testament to the country’s youth and style.
Street photographer Scott Schuman’s latest book The Sartorialist: India contains over 300 pages showing a delicate and stylistic side of India. Not the India of National Geographic, but a younger, fashionable India. An India with music festivals, tattoos, and dyed hair.
Canadian Contemporary Artist Michael Snow is Still Going Strong
Forecast calls for more Snow.
With an agile and impressive mind, the nonagenarian remains artistically productive well into old age.
