February 2012
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IPG Project - The Switzerland of America
The Switzerland of America challenges the notion of a true visual representation of a place. The collection of images that makes the project was taken in the state of New Jersey. The name “The Switzerland of America” was given to the state of New Jersey by the first Dutch settlers because of the large cliffs that line a portion of the Hudson River. New Jersey is no longer known to be the...
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Ernesto Tedeschi - Everybody has their own
“Everybody has their own” is the desire that everything surrounding us could disappear from our conscience. It’s the moral of the city and at the same time the opposite of city essence. It’s the cement desert where human being makes its appearance as an object.
“Everybody has their own” happens in Rome, capital of Italy and broken dream of culture and...
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Elizabeth Fleming - Life is a series of small...
“Life is series of small moments” began when my first daughter Edie became old enough to alter our surrounding domestic landscape—I was fascinated by the strangely beautiful way she created imaginative setups and the odd underlying order that emerged out of the messiness and frenetic nature of our day-to-day lives. I existed in a changing stream of child-driven installations, and I wanted to...
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Heidi Lender - Green Dress
In 2010, during a remodel of our home in San Francisco, I reluctantly agreed to move to my husband’s 400-acre ranch in Northern California. For most people, this would not sound like a hardship, and while I can appreciate how everyone finds the Redwoods beautiful, I am quintessentially built for the city. I braced myself to endure the closeness of the community, the suffocating remoteness of the...
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Mikael Kennedy - The Odysseus
In 2007 I boarded a plane in New York City heading towards Lama, NM. Landing in Albquerque by way of Houston, I found Jessica’s old gold Volvo sedan in the airport parking lot. I was told the keys would be hidden on the front left tire where she had left it several days before. I found the car and the keys and drove the 3 hours north up into Lama where I spent the next two weeks living in the...
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Luca Spano - One
One is a personal-landscape project about my native land Sardinia. It is a long-term project started in 2007 that walks along a personal and a narrative path which wants tointerpret the sardinian contemporary landscape, from the coastal boundaries to the hinterland.
The aim of the project is to describe the intimate relationship between one personand his motherland. I wish to create a personal...
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Daniel George - Natural Selection
The contemporary landscape is detailed and intricate. It is divided into segments that are separately owned and diversely maintained.
Through photography I am exploring these unique subsections that form this complex environment. I am observing and recording these characteristics to better understand the makeup of my surroundings. I am interested in learning why particular locations are given...
January 2012
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Matteo Musci - Walking solo
Walking solo is a beautifully quiet view of the American landscape by Italian photographer Matteo Musci. Mostly void of lifeforms, Musci’s images allow us a moment alone to gaze in repose amid the often overlooked beauty of an empty truck stop or musty roadside motel suite.
Jack Halloway - G$P San Francisco
All images © Matteo Musci
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Jeff Harris - 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting
In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris began a project in which he used his trusty Olympic Stylus 35mm film camera (he’s since gone through six) to take a self-portrait each day and then posted the results on his website.
The project, which began long before the widespread popularity of blogging, Facebook and Flickr, allowed viewers to follow one...
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Arianna Arcara - Po/The River
The Po is an Italian river which has its source in Piemonte and flows into The Adriatic sea. At 652 km in length, it is the longest river in Italy. The aim of excluding the presence of physical human beings is to take the viewer into a silent, still and misty scene. A dialogue between man and nature, composed by essential balances, reveals itself gradually in all its´ intimacy. Timeless but...
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Martin Petersen - Road building
When a road is build the landscape is cut open. Travelling the new road you get to see already familiar locations from a new angle, you see the fields now separated into small useless plots of land, you see the naked soil next to the newly laid asphalt, you see the backside of buildings, and you see the scars that the engineering machines has made on the scenery. In a few years the soil, the...
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Niels Stomps - Mist
A hydroelectric dam is being built in central China. The project, which has been underway for the past ten years, involves the repatriation of one million local residents. I focused on the people whose lives are being directly affected by the new dam. They live in a no-man’s land: forced to take part in a mass migration which will dominate their lives for twenty years, until the project is...
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Mariko Sakaguchi - One Hundred Views of Bathing
I am making art works by using photography.
I am trying to cross the sense of private and public, and also now and past by taking bath in old style Japanese bathtub and stepping into photography by myself. You can see I take bath anywhere, It means the place you are seeing my works and also the place you are at now are not off-site.
The place where you are has possibilities to be the scene of...
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Douglas Ljungkvist - Ocean Beach
Personal subtexts about my Ocean Beach project include memory and identity (time being the other). Both that of previous vacations I spent there in the 90’s but even more so from childhood summer vacations growing up in Sweden where our family often rented similarly small dwellings.
These memories lead to exploring and adding a conceptual part to the project realized by discreetly...
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Pascal Fellonneau - Cold Cold Ground
This series of landscapes were shot in Akureyri, the biggest town in northern Iceland. Located approximately 100 kilometers south of the polar circle, in a fjord that opens onto the sea of Greenland, it is isolated and far removed from the capital Reykjavik. The climate in December, the time of the year these images were made, prompts its inhabitants into a domestic retreat.
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Jennifer Loeber - Zeig Mal
The idea to shoot nude portraits came about as I rode the NYC subway and pretended not to notice, across the aisle, a man fumbling to remove his clothes and expose himself to me. He looked distinctly uncomfortable yet wholly determined in his goal. His great drive to reveal himself to the commuting populace was made more palpable by the fact that he hadn’t quite worked out the logistics....
December 2011
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Dina Litovsky - Whiteout
The barren emptiness of the desert is devoid of sentiment. There is no poetry in the dried up surface, no melancholy stirred up by the gusts of fine sand. On a beach or in a forest, in a green field or in an architectural wonder of a city, one is overwhelmed by the beauty of the environment, the lyricism of associations and memories. But in the sudden vacuum of a desert whiteout there is only...
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Coffer - Ben Wu and David Usui
Portrait of tin-type photographer John Coffer and his handmade home in the woods.
Video © Ben Wu and David Usui, of Lost & Found Films
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Clay Lipsky - Seaside
In the middle of a desert there lies a man-made sea. A toxic oasis where millions of fish have died and only migrating birds thrive. Polluted waves lap at shores made of barnacles and bones while oppressive heat and wind erode abandoned homes.
Volcanic mud-pots gurgle and spit nearby as a religious zealot builds his mountain of salvation.
Welcome to life beside the sea, a place like no other.
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Eleonora Ronconi - Once Upon a Time
Of all my memories of childhood, I most cherish the trips my father and grandfather made with me to amusement parks. Perhaps these are more poignant as they both passed away when I was still young. We shared our love for popcorn while we listened to the carousel melody, and we had a lot of laughs when cotton candy remnants got stuck on my face.
As most kids of my generation, I was an avid...
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Richard Rowland - Urban fictions
Urban Fictions is a photographic and video project funded by Arts Council England, examining the emergence of simulated urban developments in eastern China.
The work documents a series of new towns being constructed based on different European architectural models, including English, French, Dutch, German and Swedish pastiches. These idealised reconstructions appear as hyperreal utopias that...
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Rachel Sussman - The oldest living things in the...
Rachel Sussman is a time traveler.
For the last few years, the American photographer has journeyed across the globe on a mission to bring back images of the world’s oldest living organisms. In her ongoing project, Sussman has traveled to the primal landscapes of southern Greenland, the timeless high-altitude Andean deserts of South America and even under the ocean.
“The project is...
Stephanie Wiegner - A Wintertime Incident
“A Wintertime Incident” explores the narration of an elaborate, multi-faceted imaginary story through the means of staged photography. Each photograph is a facet of the whole narrative, contributing to the plot, while at the same time focusing on an occurrence of its own. They are like film stills, moments frozen in time, and while all depicted elements collaborate to articulate the...
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Shen Wei - Chinese Sentiment
Chinese Sentiment is a personal journey for me to reconnect with the authentic Chinese life, both in the private and public space. My goal is to appreciate the real China without its political and economic influence, to reveal China from an internal and intimate perspective.
All images © Shen Wei
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Igor Starkov - Strogino
I have left Moscow for several days, and when I came back all city was white, like wadding.
In July 2010 the air temperature in Central Russia has reached +35-40 °C. The reason was atmospheric cyclone from Africa. Record heat stayed for about two months. In the end of July forest fires began, smoke of them blanketed several Russian regions. The fire covered thousands hectares of forest,...
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Lisa Adamucci - Eat A Peach
Lisa Adamucci (b. 1983) was raised on a small family farm in southern New Jersey. For the past four years she has been developing a project that focuses on the members of her immediate family and each individual’s relationship to their fourth generation peach farm.
All images © Lisa Adamucci
Benedikt Partenheimer - Turnaround
Turnaround shows a series of portraits, which involve people from different generations who belong to a wide range of cultural context. Contrary to the conventional portrait the person is photographed from behind. Thus the beholder follows the line of sight of the artist “looking into the world” with the portrayed person. The series deals with contemporary perception within the context of...
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Eliot Dudik - Road Ends In Water
Change is descending upon an otherwise quiet, unhurried, unobtrusive, place. The main highway, U.S Route 17, that bisects South Carolina’s “lowcountry,” north to south, is being widened to accommodate commerce, tourists, and urban refugees. Not only are many homes, some historic, disappearing before the tracked blades of expansion, but also the new, faster thoroughfare...
November 2011
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Jeff Rich - Watershed
A common misconception of a watershed is that it’s all about the water. While water does play a large part, the land plays an even larger role by directing the water to a common point, such as a river or ocean. Thus human impact on the land directly affects the water that runs over it. With this project I intend to highlight this relationship between the land, water, and man, within the...
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Jonathan Smith - Untold Stories
Saturated with an intense palette and dramatically cinematic, Smith’s images are redolent of the mysteries of Raymond Chandler and the visual impact of contemporary film-noir sensibilities. Each picture evokes a tale of its own. One view shows an alarming orange interior seen through a living room window, echoing the drop of a blood red lamp, faint through a thick fog in a long shot of a...
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Maria Sturm - Common and uncommon places Israel
I photographed the series “Common and Uncommon Places in Israel” in April/May 2010. I was visiting two friends of mine, who were doing a semester abroad at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. So during my stay I went to visit some classes at their school and we also rented a car and did a round trip through Israel. We visited the Negev, the Golan Heights, Lake Kinneret,...
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Sirio Magnabosco - A Series of Unexpected...
The project is inspired by the concept of Nous, a form of perception and intuition found in classical philosophy and the Taoist principle of Wei Wu Wei (“action without action”).
2007-2010
Video and images © Sirio Magnabosco
Rafal Milach - 7 rooms
Why does a photographer, or anyone with an ability to create narrative, gets drawn to a certain geographical territory to the point that he spends years in and out and most of his income to look at it at a close proximity?
The sense of belonging, probably ? He doesn’t have to like it or even come to understand the place, but he has to love it and all that comes with it: its people, food,...
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Karin Apollonia Müller - Angels in Fall
Angels in Fall represents my observations of Los Angeles. I am interested in the messiness of a city, where people seem disconnected, dislocated, uprooted or just plain lost in the renovation and construction. Los Angeles in its monotony exuded such intimidating finality to me that “where from” and “where to” lost their meaning. Everything seemed to have been deposited in a futureless present,...
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Satomi Shirai - Home and Home
Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the house. - from The Uses of Not, Lao Tse
My work investigates what constitutes the concept of home, as an immigrant who chose to live in New York. Tangibility versus intangibility are brought up and added to the discussion. How do we assess or assume home?
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October 2011
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Peter Granser - Coney Island
Once upon a time, in the first decades of the twentieth century, Coney Island was a democratic paradise where rich and poor alike doffed their clothes and immersed themselves in continuous pleasures of the flesh, the eyes, and the city-dweller’s lust for thrills.
By the time Peter Granser came to check out the place it had reached a peculiar juncture. Efforts were already under way to...
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Mark Brautigam - On Wisconsin
In 2005 I began to take photographs in my home state of Wisconsin. Guided by the allure of the unexpected and the memories and associations I’ve gathered over a lifetime of living there, I would set out to photograph with an acute need to escape our over-connected
and increasingly alienating society. While, on a basic level, these photographs constitute a personal portrayal of the state of...
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Maribeth Keane - Pushing Air
In the beginning of 2011 I packed up the car in California and headed to the southern United States. Without much of a plan, I landed in Memphis, Tennessee and ended up staying for 7 months. During those 7 months I spent most days driving through the parts of the city people had warned me about going to. Pushing Air developed as a way for me to relate to a city I felt completely foreign in. I...
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Shiftless on Umter Magazine
Our work Shiftless has been featured on Umter Magazine issue #3 , we’re very happy !
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Rachel Wolfe - ESP.LA.
Existence, or the place for the self within another place, has always captivated me. The reality of our world is the manifestation of duality, life or death, creation or destruction, but in my work I explore each moment in itself as an entire world and existence unfolding and ending at the same time. My presence in L.A. captures a world that existed because I was there, and is able to exist...
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Our interview on e-photoreview
Wonder how we look like ? Check out our interview on e-photoreview !
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Nicola Girardi - Fake your Animal
Fake your animal is a project about the relation between man and other animal species. Today more then ever, this relation takes places in simulation and emulation forms, passing through extreme manifestations of love, opportunism, complicity, hate: we love them, we eat them, we raise them and we fear them.
Through the whole history man hasn’t changed his attitude, he is...
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Cyrille Weiner - Presque île
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.
- Jorge Luis Borges -
For two years, the photographer made repeated,...
September 2011
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New collaboration with Dude Magazine
Hi guys, we’re proud to announce a new colaboration ! Every Thusday starting from today, Dead Porcupine Mag will feature a selected work on the italian Dude Magazine. We’re very happy of this new adventure. Check it out here !
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Stefano Parrini - Land Market
Winner of “SI FEST” 2011 edition in Savignano sul Rubicone - Italy, Land Market by Stefano Parrini analyzes the now twisted relation between globalization and exploitation of natural resources by a series of tragic-ironic photographs inspired to land art. The fil rouge of photographer’s subtle critique is a common shopping cart placed in a natural environment like a symbolical...
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Massimo Cristaldi - Suspended
[…] we spend our lives attempting to interpret through the word the readings we take in the societies, the world of which we are part. It is in this sense, this inextricable, ineffable participation, that writing is always and at once an exploration of self and of the world; of individual and collective being.
Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991
What do I photograph and why?...
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Huang Qingjun & Ma Hongjie - Family Stuff
Huang Qingjun and Ma Hongjie decided to collaborate on this project, ‘Family Stuff’ in 2005. They have visited a number of areas in China for this project looking for typical Chinese homes to photograph by bringing the domestic objects used in everyday life outside. ‘Huang and Ma work as independent partners, Huang covering the North, Ma the South of the country. Convincing families to expose...
August 2011
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Milo Montelli - Sunday, back home
Few months ago I left the house where I lived for twenty years.
Now it’s “only my parent’s home”, where I often come back on Sunday to eat something and spend some hours with my family.
In those hours I recover pieces of daily life that no longer exists,
moments experienced and seen hundreds of times.
Nostalgia is wath I feel ? Maybe.
For sure these pictures are part of me,...
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Shiftless "Story of the Month" on Terra Project
We want to thank the guys at Terra Project for featuring our work Shiftless as the “Story of the Month”.
Check it out on their website !
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David James Clark - The Fragility of Being
I am concerned with the fragility and transience of being. By exploring temporality and our futile attempts to define ourselves, I am highlighting the impermanence of life and the ephemerality of being that exists in the cyclical nature of life.
For an infinitely small period of time, there exists a moment of absolute suspension, when an object thrown is neither rising nor falling, but...