All posts in photography
‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography’
At a time when gender is being reassessed and reconfigured, this exhibition will look at notions of masculinity and how it has been shaped from the 1960s through today. It […]
Fred Herzog- Chasing Vancouver’s fading colours
There’s a tired and tiring cliche when it comes to the arts and the public eye that if you haven’t made your mark by your early to mid-20s, you aren’t […]
Women were photography pioneers yet gender inequality persists in the industry today
Celia Rose Jackson, University of South Wales Photography remains stubbornly male-dominated. In terms of commissioning, exhibition and publication of work, there is a conspicuous lack of equality in the industry. […]
How a photography might help solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart
During an attempt to make history, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were circumnavigating the world in Earhart’s custom Lockheed model 10-E Electra. In July of 1937, though, the […]
Mitchell Tyler’s photo of Beyoncé acquired by Smithsonian
You might already be familiar with the cover of Vogue’s September issue from last year… Beyoncé leans against a Grecian-style column clad in a gold, sequined Valentino gown before a […]
Artist highlight: JR, the anonymous street artist shedding light on the invisible
Who is JR? Well, frankly, we don’t really know who he. On the spectrum of the highly-elusive Banksy to the often in the media Ai Weiwei, JR is somewhere in […]
Dora Maar at the Pompidou – Picasso’s devoted lover gets out from under his shadow
Dora, the “Weeping Woman.” Picasso immortalized the surrealist photographer Dora Maar in portraits over the course of their passionate, eight-year relationship in the 1930s. His 1937 image depict unbearable grief, […]
