Fotograf Magazine

#35 living with humans — Discoveries

David Přílučík

David Přílučík graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his studies he went through the studios of
Jiří Lindovský, Tomáš Vaněk, Ruth Noack and Simon Waschmuth…

Jan Durina

Jan Durina is a Slovak interdisciplinary artist who utilizes a diversity of medium to develop personas and grow the complex narratives they exist in…

Alice dos Reis is an artist based between Amsterdam and Lisbon working with film, text and sculpture. Her work looks at encounters between human and more-than-human agents in biopolitical systems. She has presented her work in several solo and group exhibitions, namely MAAT Museum (Lisbon), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival (Florence), Seventh Gallery (Melbourne), San Seriffe (Amsterdam) and Lehmann + Silva (Porto)…

Viktor Kopasz

Jakub Geltner

Gigi Cifali

The photography series “Images and Signs: Italy, 1969-89. Practices of Memory” by Gigi Cifali reflects on the mechanisms that regulate the transmission of Italian collective memory of the recent historic period known as the Years of Lead, still marked by concealed truths and therefore bereft of a socially legitimized representation…

Petr Strouhal

Petr Strouhal is a remarkable phenomenon in contemporary Czech photography. In his small home studio, he patiently experiments with the possibilities of the analogue camera with an embedded digital scanner…

John Paul Evans

The dictum “an Englishman’s home is his castle”, was initially a legal concept, but one that has evolved over time to articulate an idea of personal domain. The question of who is allowed to occupy the family dominion is reaffirmed through photographic representation in depicting couples who conform to societal ‘norms’…

Lucia Sekerková a Ivana Šusterová

Many Romanian Roma women identify themselves with such descriptions. In the past, fortune-telling had a strong tradition within many travelling Roma groups wandering across Europe.

Ines Karčáková

Egemen Tuncer

Luise Marchand

Sasha Kurmaz

In this ﬂow of images I want to show the different episodes of my personal life in which I fix my gaze on the situations, objects and events that are important to me, that transmit and shape my sense of reality…

Lenka Glisníková

I have abstracted the concrete movements we do when working with the
cyber interface every day and created a series of videos capturing this
kind of finger-tutting. Work with modern technologies determines new
ways of thinking, communication, and the work itself…

Tereza Bonaventurová

An oven mitt, a pedestal, a marshmallow, and an egomaniac are the
elements with which Tereza Bonaventurová works in her series Decent
Deviation. Whilst in her other works, her primary focus is on reflections
about public space, bizarre situations in architecture and urban planning, or
the alternative depiction of vulgarised tourist destinations, in the mentioned
Decent Deviation (2014), although it is also close to photographic
minimalism, her impersonal perspective and subtle humour appear in
a different form…

Zuzana Pustaiová

The plastic surgery, the street and illegals doctors are still ongoing trend at present. A people without money go to the unofficial doctors and take it illegal surgery for less money. At the end their desire for the ideal body and the beauty brings to them destroyed body and life sometimes directed to death…

Zuzana Fedorová

My artist’s book Treasure in the Background is a small revolt against
commercial product photography. My aim was to look for everyday
objects and inspect their function and position in relation to their
environment…

Viacheslav Poliakov

This story is about those of us for whom life just happens. It t akes place
when the connection between cause and consequence is no longer
coherent. I am documentating a naive visual subculture of a public
space, which has become wide spread throughout Ukraine which
after the fall of the Soviet Union faced globalization…

Schinster

The project Visual Equilibrium restores the value of the original by defeating the purpose of digital photography’s reproducibility. It aims to fi nd an artistically legitimate way to create a unique (unreproducible) image, still based on the essence of photography…

Rudolf Skopec

Pískařská 5/2027 is the street address where we find the tangible mass of a garage ventilation shaft. It is a simple grey shape made of rough concrete, which forms the rim of an aperture located in the courtyard of a new block of flats…

Hilla Kurki

There are only two kinds of stories: from life to death, and from death back to the living. After my sister passed away I felt I was trapped in a limbo in someone else’s afterlife. I did not only lose her, I lost myself…

Michael Borek

Kafka’s friend Max Brod said that the 20^th century would one day be known as the “century of Kafka.” I believe that he was right, but only partially. He should not have limited his prediction only to the 20^th century…

Bastienne Schmidt

A German-born immigrant who arrived in the United States years ago at the age of 25, Schmidt explores the ethos of America in relationship to nature as well as the culture’s traditional and contemporary gender roles and in Home Stills…

Katarína Hrušková

About the starchy sound potatoes make while peeled. About the slippery surface of a boiled egg underneath the rough surface of a boiled egg, about soap and old skin touching bread. About that which melts on your tongue, but makes your skin sticky…

Kamila Stehlik

Marija Mandić

During the past few years I have worked mainly with photography, drawing, video art and installation. All of these works are based on the idea of intimacy, approached from various aspects and perceptions…

Tanya Traboulsi

Entitled Lost Strange Things: On not finding home, this body of work brings together the culmination of Tanya Traboulsi’s photographic and artistic research into the question of home, delving in the terrain of nostalgia and belonging through photography…

Nicolas Idée

This series is the second part of a larger project, The Fifth Dimension, which has the intention to explore social behaviour induced by the urban environment.

Kris Lemsalu

This young woman is full of appearances which are real. Her staged, lifeless corpses sparkle with vitality and her performances are highly charged. Wild and raw, they emerge from a long buried and socially non-identifiable memory where the only trust is placed in the cleverness of the body and its survival instinct…

Jaap Scheeren

Jaap Scheeren (born Nijmegen, Netherlands 1979). Photographer, lives in Amsterdam. In both his independent and commissioned work he strives to stay on the narrow path of reliability.

Suzette Bross

The images in my Walks series are formed from 100 steps I took during various walks over several years. I am interested in the multiplicity of images we are inundated with and wanted to create one image out of many…

Miroslava Večeřová

Whilst still a student at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Miroslava Večeřová captured attention with her video in which she interrupts a long static shot with an unexpected physical gesture…

Alžběta Kočvarová

The photographs in the series Absence jahod lesních a jiné špatné básně / The Absence of Forest Strawberries and Other Bad Poetry by Alžběta Kočvarová (1989) are a good example of the principles she applies in her visual confgurations…

Tricia Gahagan

A meditation on mundane and fleeting moments, these images uncover paradoxes hidden in plain sight. Each scene is found intuitively, nothing is constructed. Minimalism and formal elements intersect perception with consciousness and darkness with light…

Jason Larkin

The critical fault-lines dividing Africa’s richest economy have been quietly mounting for years, but they exploded to the surface last August when police massacred 34 striking workers at Marikana and this much ignored landscape briefly captured the world’s attention…

Beatrix Reinhardt

Pipelines – their construction, operation & routing – have been subjects of tension, contention, even wars. This work investigates the Druschba-Trasse¹, a 550 km segment of pipeline built by East Germany that delivers natural gas from Siberia to Europe…

Iveta Kulhavá

A liminal world. A world between the “here” and “there,” between the inner and the outer, between the close and the distant. We carry boundaries within ourselves by which we demarcate the space between ourselves and others…

Kasia Klimpel

Each of my two series relates in a different way to the idea of remote space and show my investigation of photography as a medium. The series Relinquishing the Moments to Come (ongoing) consists of still and moving images, made via webcams around the world, in which the camera loses control over itself and the technology becomes visible…

Petra Hudcová

I am interested in a paradox associated with our perception and experience of the world.

It has to do with our desire to apprehend, grasp and define strong, climactic moments, despite the fact that the experience breaks through our habitual codes that have determined what we have been living before…

Andrew Holligan: Flag

Andrew Holligan’s photographs of national flags fluttering in the rural setting of Southern England offer something intriguing, something different for each viewer to make sense of. He works within a 5km radius of his home and, with flag in hand, surreptitiously stakes his territorial claim…

Marie Quéau: Gojira

I work with the limits of photography, and play with its indicial character. Thus, this work presents images of an island that I have never visited and of which there are only a very few representations…

Nate Larson a Marni Shindelman: Geolocation

We use publicly available embedded geotag information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text…

Ian Whitmore

Onomasticon is a limited edition artist book project by Ian J. Whitmore. Inspired by a prevailing sense of non-place in contemporary American urban and suburban landscape, Onomasticon presents a new vocabulary for these ubiquitous, yet abstract spaces…

Nina Schacht

n this project I am using the poem “graugrüne gier” by Kurt Schwitters and the whole poem is also the title of the project. I am simply visualising the poem line by line. Trying to interpret the words created by Kurt Schwitters and find a visual understanding of them and the way they have been combined…

Martin Smith

Once again Martin Smith has created a body of work that poignantly delves into his own psyche. Employing his trademark hand-cut technique, Smith works are imbued with tinges of nostalgia inviting us to look not only into his past, but also our own…

Tereza Zelenková

At the core of my practice I seek to destabilize different subjects by reassessing their potential as metaphors for broader questions surrounding our existence. By looking at things through a prism of art and literature, I attempt to realign their place in the world and open up their potential for meaning…

Veronika Markovičová

Is it enough to make a good picture,
or is that too little?
Peter Friedl

In this rather extensive series I worked with my insights into photography, looking for both its specific features and the qualities it shares with other art forms, visual as well as otherwise…

Ian van Coller

My artwork has been primarily influenced by my experience of growing up as a white male in South Africa during the apartheid era, and my intent is to explore my own complicity in colonialism, neo-colonialism, and apartheid…