Published with Hartmann Books, Ein Dorf (A Village) 1950–2022 is a photobook by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler in posthumous collaboration with their late family member Ludwig Schirmer. It allows the viewer to travel through time yet stay in the same place – Berka, a small village in Thuringia, Germany – where in recent days the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AFD) has come top in a state election. In his review, Michael Grieve writes how photography projects that collaborat...| 1000 Words
Disruptions, a new book from Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji published by Loose Joints, collates two years of glitched video calls with his family in Gaza while living in Paris. In solidarity with the struggles of the Palestinian people during the latest act of devastating destruction and erasure by the state of Israel, all proceeds will go towards the NGO Medical Aid Palestine providing critical medical care and support on the ground. Elisa Medde considers this evocation of the emotional a...| 1000 Words
Taous R. Dahmani on being driven by the problems defiant image-makers highlight, how the limitations of exhibition-making are much more real than the limits of words on paper and her belief that the place of criticality in photography writing now is in complexifying “recently acknowledged” notions/ideas/struggles.| 1000 Words
Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator of Photography at MoMA, New York - Curator Conversations Q&A on 1000 Words. Part of a collaborative set of activities on photography curation and scholarship initiated by Tim Clark (1000 Words), Christopher Stewart (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London) and Esther Teichmann (Royal College of Art).| 1000 Words
Renée Mussai, Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial & Collections at Autograph, London - Curator Conversations Q&A on 1000 Words. Part of a collaborative set of activities on photography curation and scholarship initiated by Tim Clark (1000 Words and The Institute of Photography, University of Falmouth), Christopher Stewart (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London) and Esther Teichmann (Royal College of Art).| 1000 Words
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine at the Hayward Gallery, London, marks the largest retrospective to date of the internationally renowned Japanese artist. 1000 Words Editor in Chief Tim Clark speaks with Director Ralph Rugoff about the exhibition making process, stretching and reshaping our notions of time in photography, the artist’s affinities with other art forms and why Sugimoto’s approach can be framed through a ‘lens of doubt’.| 1000 Words
Felipe Romero Beltrán's Dialect presents the temporal dimension of the period of asylum which a group of nine young minors from Morocco navigate as they wait to be validated as documented citizens of Spain to offer a possibility of restoring a personhood to the immigrant body writes Tanvi Mishra.| 1000 Words
Published by Trespasser, Agnieszka Sosnowska’s debut monograph, För, is a coming-of-age story about relocating a remote corner of Iceland, which introduces us to her students, showcases her farm, and captures the passage of time as she and her husband age over two decades. As SFMOMA’s Assistant Curator of Photography Shana Lopes writes, Sosnowska invites us to rethink how labour, heartbreak, death, landscape, and the quotidian contribute to an idea of home.| 1000 Words
Valentina Abenavoli is an editor, book designer and visual artist working at the intersection of photography, video, sound and text. She has led intensive workshops on photo editing and bookmaking internationally. In 2012, she co-founded Akina, an independent publishing house producing challenging photobooks by emerging photographers. Her first photobook, Anaesthesia, was released in 2016, followed by her second book, The Harvest, in 2017. Both are part of an ongoing trilogy investigating th...| 1000 Words
As the dust settles on Photo London 2024 and Peckham 24 – the capital’s two key points of reference within the UK photography calendar – we benchmark five leading London galleries and museums who are making a sustained effort to create productive and welcoming spaces for the encounter, use and consideration of photography today.| 1000 Words
