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3 Jun

How one artist used photography to come back to

“One thing I do know needless to say is that beauty just isn't something good-looking or clean,” says Japanese artist Mari Katayama Mari Katayama’s self-portraits often depict her within the centre of painstakingly arranged objects, either in intimate bedroom spaces or in vast and awe-inspiring landscapes. The objects vary in each bit; nonetheless, specific motifs constantly pop up, specifically, crabs, paying homage amongst other things to her star sign (cancer). You can even see handmade pillow-like objects in the form of limbs and mannequins. But no matter where she is, or what she surrounds herself with, the foremost subject of her work is her, most notably her body.  Well, that’s how you might be...
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2 Dec

Sheila Metzner’s Fashion Photography Journey on Display on the

Sheila Metzner recalls her first commission from a serious Latest York magazine that catapulted her profession. It was within the early ’80s when she received a call from Lloyd Ziff, the creative art director at Vanity Fair, the magazine recently resurrected by Condé Nast. He had seen Metzner’s name on a listing of photographers the previous creative art director, Bea Feitler, desired to work with. However the 44-year-old Feitler had passed away before acting on her wish list. “Lloyd called and said, ‘Can I see your portfolio?’” Metzner says. “But I never had a portfolio because for years I had been making photos by myself and numerous them were on my pool table. So I told him he would have to return to...
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5 Oct

Celebrating 60 years of Daido Moriyama’s visionary street photography

Daido Moriyama is a relentless and restless photographer. “My body inevitably enters a trancelike state,” he once said, describing his devotion to image-making as an “infinite murmuring refrain”. Known for his unpretentious and democratic approach, the Japanese iconoclast has tirelessly documented the road for nearly 60 years, publishing his work in a whole lot of photobooks and countless magazines. He stays one among the world’s most prolific living photographers, using his lens to capture and comment on reality, capitalism, and the mass consumption of images.This weekend, an expansive retrospective of Moriyama’s work will open at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. It's the primary exhibition within the museum’s 52-year history to occupy your entire institution – from the gallery spaces on...
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