Adam Thorman’s new photobook Creatures Found is a playful inquiry into the concept of pareidolia, the common perceptual phenomenon that triggers the identification of faces on inanimate objects and surfaces. In this interview with Arturo Soto, Thorman discusses his creative process, detailing how the work developed over several years and reflecting on the challenges of […]| c4 journal
Charlie Simokaitis’ The Crisis Tapes opens with an image of a teenage girl. Her glasses have slid down her nose enough for the rim to align with her shut eyelids. Something is unsettling about her…| c4 journal
The life of the German critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin has one of those tragic endings that lingers on the mind, with his last days, in particular, still the subject of debate. However…| c4 journal
There is a moment in Jonathan Franzen’s novel Crossroads (2021) where a middle-aged woman who was hospitalized in her youth after a psychotic episode suspects that her teenage son might suffer the…| c4 journal
How much should a photographer’s style define the documentation of their subjects? Inspired by religious painting, theater, and film, Lúa Ribeira’s first photobook depicts people in the margins…| c4 journal
I’m often put off by the cliquey culture around Japanese photobooks, but there was something hypnotizing about the cover picture in Toshio Shibata’s Day for Night of hundreds of stacked Pepsi Cola…| c4 journal