Intro
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About Fotograf Festival: Make Voices Be Heard
Contemporary art has frequently explored the legacy and impact of colonialism as a central theme for several years now. While countries from North and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia tend to be represented in exhibitions and conferences on the subject, representatives from countries under the power influence of the former Secular Union are usually absent…
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A Game of Mostly Adults
#47 make voices be heard — Intro
Make Voices Be Heard
“Let everyone be heard” is another way of putting the message of this issue tied to this year’s Fotograf Festival of the same name, the guest curators of which are Noemi Smolíková and Adam Vačkář…
Read more#46 tourism — Poem
A Trip to Schengen / My one and only reader
#46 tourism — Intro
Tourism
It is interesting how much the world of photography is connected with tourism, in other words, how much the two domains may have in common. If we look at them through the lens of a mass phenomenon, they may even be similarly old…
Read more#45 hypertension — Poem
Luboš Svoboda
#45 hypertension — Intro
Hypertension
Feelings of hypertension, a hyper-tense body, hypertension of the heart, hypertensive impulses, hypertensive images, hypertensive stimuli, hypertensive behavior, hypertensive individuals, hypertensive situations, hypertensive information flows, hypertensive media, a hypertensive flow of notifications…
Read more#44 empathy — Poem
Sensory belonging: remote play
#43 collecting — Intro
Collecting – special 20th anniversary issue
This edition departs from our series of thematic issues, as it is a celebration of the magazine’s twentieth birthday. As is usually the case with birthday celebrations (particularly such important ones), memories of the past intersect with the future…
Read more#42 food — Poem
Tweets from Tesco
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food
#41 postdigital photography — Poem
Audun Mortensen
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postdigital photography
Few theorists of photography have a complex vision of the whole world of photography and the need not to confine this medium in discrete bubbles or groups of supporters. Filip Láb was one of these…
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earthlings
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An Encounter On Uneven Ground
Am I strong enough to abandon the tracks I know? To terminate dysfunctional relationshi- ps? These are some of the questions Kateřina Konvalinová asks in her text – hummed to the rhythm of a pop song fading out – which serves as a goodbye letter…
Read more#36 new utopias — Intro
New Utopias
Utopias are necessary. For a certain time, they seemed like an outdated concept whose fate was bound to the various rises and falls of the twentieth century…
#35 living with humans — Intro
Intro
How to look at animals. This sentence from John Berger’s essay was fundamental in preparing an issue that tries to grasp the theme of species coexistence in a way that breaks established stereotypes about the usual separation of the human world from the animal world…