Posts by BrendanEmbser
In Mexico City, a Visual Archive of AIDS Activism
What does an exhibition about Mexico’s response to the HIV epidemic reveal about the connections between art and public health?
Read MoreHow Are Young Photographers Documenting the Protests in Hong Kong?
Beyond the tear gas and the front lines, these Hong Kong photographers have found new ways to represent the city’s political crisis.
Read MoreThe Light All Around Us
In his 1970s photographs from Colorado, Robert Adams finds the beauty and emotion in everyday homes.
Read MoreIn Japan, a Photographer Finds There’s No Stranger Place than Home
Fumi Ishino’s photographs ask what happens when a house becomes unfamiliar.
Read MoreThe Artist Remixing History, from French Gardens to the Cosmos
Todd Gray’s layered compositions examine legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe.
Read MoreThe Expansive Power of Feminist Photobooks
The photobook is a space of creative potential—and a dedicated site of action.
Read More8 Feminist Photobooks that Provoke and Inspire
The question of what makes a photobook “feminist” is entangled with all sorts of creative decisions, as well as worldly ones.
Read MoreThe Biennale Embracing Fear and Ambiguity in Photography
Ahead of an ambitious exhibition in Germany, curator David Campany speaks about the lives of images.
Read MoreA Photographer’s Intimate Portraits of East Village Art Stars
In the early 1980s, Tim Greathouse photographed David Wojnarowicz, Greer Lankton, and Jimmy DeSana—and captured New York’s downtown scene before the destruction of AIDS.
Read MorePhotographing Tupac, Biggie, and Everything in Between
Dana Lixenberg revisits her portraits of pop-culture icons and everyday citizens.
Read MorePicturing the American Family, from Frederick Douglass to Jamel Shabazz
In this conversation, Rhea L. Combs and Deborah Willis speak to the power of photographs to envision love and connection for Black American families.
Read MoreA Secret Cache of Polaroids Reveals a Trans Photographer’s Inner World
April Dawn Alison made thousands of pictures focusing on a single subject—herself. But, who was she?
Read MoreHow One Woman Helped Invent Modern Photography
Through her work with Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, the visionary writer Anita Brenner ushered in the Mexican renaissance.
Read MoreMark McKnight’s Exuberant Tribute to Queer Tenderness
In the male body and the physical world, an unexpected seduction.
Read MoreThe Strange and Hidden Worlds of Mexico City
Because of luck, serendipity, or absurd connection, Miguel Calderón’s photographs unlock the power of things in daily life.
Read MoreWhen Women Photographers Went to War
From Gerda Taro to Susan Meiselas, a new book examines the ways eight women have expanded the field of war photography.
Read MorePeter Berlin was the First “Photosexual”
Decades before Grindr, Instagram, and erotic selfies, the photographer was famous for his extreme sexual-artistic practice.
Read MoreGabriel Orozco Isn’t Interested in the Decisive Moment
For the Mexican artist, it’s all about the sculptural form—sweat, shadows, futons, and tortillas.
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