“Ma’am, could you back up please? Could you give him some air?”
When I started thinking about this article, my focus was set to be on Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old black Californian who was shot to death — while unarmed, and held face down — by a white transit cop...
View ArticleAlec Soth – Songbook
On my way out from interviewing Alec Soth, navigating the stairs from his publisher’s office, out into the rainy late-November evening outside, it seems appropriate – significant even – that it...
View ArticleAllyson Anne Lamb – Beefcakes
“In America, cattle are seen as food,” says 26-year-old Allyson Anne Lamb. “People don’t see them as anything other than burgers. But there is a lot more that goes on with animals. I wanted to create a...
View ArticleJack Davison drove through America’s highways for 10,000 miles, taking...
He’s only 24, but English photographer Jack Davison is already carving out a promising career for himself. Essex born and London based, he taught himself how to take pictures after picking up a camera...
View ArticleOne Stephen Shore student is setting Paris alight
“I choose to work without limits. I follow my instincts and allow my subconscious to be in control. By neither having a theme nor a structured project, I am able to keep my photographic process as...
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How did a Scottish photographer get inside America’s strip club scene?
How did Ivar Wigan, a Perth-born, London-based photographer, infiltrate feared gangs and Atlanta strip clubs? “I lived in this motel and went to the club every night for eight or nine weeks,” he says...
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George Byrne uses Los Angeles to study loneliness
“Photography is a funny game,” says LA-based photographer George Byrne. “It’s a lonely sport – you’re on your own, on an obscure mission to capture something and you don’t often know what you’re...
View ArticleMatt Black’s ‘moral’ photography of America’s sprawling poverty
“It’s a very simple idea: to say no, this is not isolated, it’s literally everywhere and it’s something we all need to address squarely,” says Matt Black. For newly appointed Magnum nominee Black,...
View ArticleA visual journey along the Oregon Trail
The plastic flamingo was designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone. Gloriously kitsch and garishly pink, the garden ornament fast became an icon of Americana. “People would stick it in their astroturf lawn,...
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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, forty years ago, on the tour that...
Forty years ago, in the months leading up to the release of Bruce Springsteen’s seminal Born to Run, photojournalist Barbara Pyle documented a band of young men on tour across America, unaware they...
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Looking for America – Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of...
Diffusion, the international photography biennale organised by Cardiff’s Ffotogallery is currently in full swing, hosting group shows, talks and photography-related events around the city for the...
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Inside View: Todd Selby
It’s 9am in Todd Selby’s Brooklyn studio, and he sounds like he’s bouncing all over the shop, full of the joys of winter. Since moving to New York from California in 1999, he’s milked the city dry....
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Looking into the eyes of Iraqi detainees
More than a decade has passed since we first saw the horrors of Abu Ghraib, but they remain seared into our collective memory. Piles of bruised, naked bodies lorded over by grinning soldiers, collared...
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Louis Stettner: A Station of The Metro
A young girl in her Sunday best fixedly follows the pools of light thrown down on the magnificent stone floor, her shadow keeping her company amidst the suits and stoic silence of Penn Station, New...
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Cowboys, cheerleaders and the stars and stripes: classic Americana through...
“Dallas is BIG,” writes British photographer Peter Dench in the forward to his book Dench Does Dallas. “The flags are big, as are the signs; sky; storm drains; food portions; restaurant tips; drive...
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Portraits of adversity in California’s Central Valley
Stretching deep through the spine of California’s Central Valley is Route 99. Once the primary north-south highway on the West Coast of the US, it has now given way to the much larger Interstate 5. As...
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Paul Thulin’s Pine Tree Ballads
In the early 1900s, Paul Thulin’s great-grandfather settled on the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. Thulin’s family has returned to Gray’s Point each summer for over a...
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Connecting the stars, the landscape and our bodies through the image
3 young photographers, 8 American states, 28 days. Celestial Bodies, a new photobook by young artist-photographers Eleanor Hardwick, Rachel Hardwick and Chrissie White, travels through the American...
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Documenting the American family from the other side
When Swedish photographer Alice Schoolcraft visited her relatives in America for the first time she encountered a gun-owning American family, who held beliefs, interests and ideas completely contrary...
View ArticleBrad Feuerhelm’s new photobook bids Goodbye America
Born in Wisconsin in 1977, Brad Feuerhelm is a photography collector, dealer, curator, writer and artist. He is managing editor of American Suburb X, and is opening a gallery in Athens in 2017. His...
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