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“Lets get awkward and make pictures about it” Interview with Tommy Kha
When checking out my colleagues web site on the homepage it reads “Lets get awkward and make pictures about it” and I think that describes Tommy very well ! This Saturday despite the polar vortex...
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“Natural Selection”… survival of the digital photograph
SVA and Calumet challanging the notions of body, cityscapes and the ever changing human condition. This show is a group show of sixteen emerging artist from SVA MPS Digital alumni group of 2013....
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The “Land lords” are taking over the city
Walking around the various art fairs over the weekend I entertained myself with the shiny pretty objects and large amounts of over priced Prosecco. Because seriously, that’s what you need to do just to...
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Thread 5:Vidisha Saini
Vidisha Saini is an artist who grew up in the 90s in India. She likes to queer utopia, colonialism, gender, and history. Saini works with alter-egos (Fadescha), satire, tourism, memory, hyper-text and...
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Photography and Violence 1: How do you register all of these thoughts in that...
Atrocity is going on all around us. The least we can do is acknowledge it. Jay Prosser, Picturing Atrocity When I moved to New York in 2011 I left my hometown, Acapulco, in flames. That year,...
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Photography and Violence 2: Sontag vs. Butler
What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it? Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others. In last week’s entry, I inaugurated my participation in this blog with a quote...
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Photography and Violence 3: Carlos Aguirre and the Mexican Landscape
It was not only its escalation and its geographical expansion that set apart the violence experienced throughout the so-called “war against drug trafficking” in Mexico. It was also the brutality of the...
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Photography and Violence 4: On Memory
1. Shimon Attie’s The Writing on the Wall, 1991-1992 Walking in the streets of the city that summer, I felt myself asking over and over again, Where are all the missing people? What has become of the...
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Photography and Violence 5: The Language of the Dead. An interview with...
In The Language of the Dead (2012), Mexican conceptual artist Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, 1970) turns shocking photographs of Mexico’s drug-war dead found online into characters of a photo novel....
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Photography and Violence 6: Ilán Lieberman’s Lost Child.
According to Mexico’s Senate, between three or four children disappear every hour in the country due to the following causes: 67%, illegal abduction of parents in conflict with each other; 9.3%,...
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