A fascination with light, and its absence, is an ongoing theme in photographer Rinko Kawauchi’s beguiling photographic practice. “From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves,” she has said. “It helps you imagine birth.” I contributed a chapter on the photographer’s work for this publication exploring darkness in photography and film.
Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark is published by Cornerhouse and The Shoestring Publisher in May 2024
For Hero magazine I talked to Lawrence Lek about his epic immersive exhibition ‘NOX’ in Berlin, an intoxicating vision of a fictional smart city on the brink of conscious awakening. We chatted about AI, immersive art and his vision of the future.
Hero Magazine is bi-annual magazine covering film, fashion, music, and art.
Read my interview with acclaimed painter Ali Banisadr who talks me through the fascinating stories and inspirations behind his monumental painting practice in a conversation that spans Ancient Egypt and the Women’s Rights Movement in Iran.
Hero Magazine is bi-annual magazine covering film, fashion, music, and art.
“Fear is not allowed,” artist Suzanne Jackson told me from her studio in Savannah, Georgia. “It delays us from exploration, from improvisation and from taking risks.” My latest feature for Twin Magazine is on this rebellious artist’s six decade long art practice. The piece coincides with her solo show at Fondazione Furla, Milan until 17 December.
Twin Magazine is a biannual hardback art, fashion and feminism book available here
Read my interview with Gabriel Massan, an artist at the forefront of an incredible new generation of artists emerging out of Latin America. In collaboration with Serpentine Galleries, they’ve been creating Third World - a multi-level downloadable video game that incorporates wildly creative graphics and disorienting gameplay. Players are encouraged to find their own path through this surreal, fantasy environment and challenge everything they know about exploration, nature and knowledge.
Heroine Magazine is bi-annual magazine covering film, fashion, music, and art. The piece is also published online.
The women in Hannah Starkey’s photographs don’t invite us to admire them or play to the crowd. They are independent, active women caught up in the own rich interior lives. They take up public space and express their inner strength and determination. Read my interview with this progressive feminist photographer on the occasion of her major solo show at the Hepworth Wakefield.
Twin Magazine is a biannual hardback art, fashion and feminism book available here
A little look inside the amazing new Epoch magazine which traces links across disciplines and through history. The debut issue is devoted to human ritual and I’ve written on Taryn Simon’s ‘An Occupation of Loss’ - a powerful performance and installation work examining grief across different cultures.
“The strength of feeling created by grief offers the potential for transformatory change. The communality of this intense emotion can even be politically threatening, potentially even disruptive…Out of invisibility can emerge revolutionary change”.
Epoch is available here.
A feature for Elephant on Zoé Aubry’s new photobook #Ingrid which charts a social media movement which sprung up in response to a brutal murder in Mexico. The book is a permanent condemnation of violence against women and the complicity of the media in that violence.
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The New York based artist Kristina Shakht moves between high fashion and fine art. Often working with a Polaroid camera, her photography completely reframes the female body. Shakht creates very intimate portraits that feel like a celebration of womanhood. She shoots different women, different races and different bodies, celebrating the human being in front of the camera.
Read more on Public Offerings Ltd.
“That’s when a painting really works for me…it’s something magical and spiritual and transformative” - Judith Eisler. An 8 page profile feature on painter Judith Eisler whose close-cropped, large scale portraits immortalise dramatic moments of psychological tension. Often drawing on cult cinema, her charged and dazzling paintings unlock the psyche of women actors that play a key role in our shared culture.
Twin Magazine is a biannual hardback art, fashion and feminism book available here
Laurence Philomene’s empowering imagery defines identity beyond binaries. April sees the launch of Puberty, a photographic memoir that documents the detail of Laurence’s journey through HRT (Hormonal Replacement Therapy) as a non-binary person taking testosterone. For this feature, Laurence guides us through 5 images from Puberty that speak their truth, unfiltered by other peoples’ perspectives.
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An interview feature on the British-Ghanaian artist’s new permanent artwork for Westminster underground station.
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Klavdia Balampanidou uses photography as a tool to explore herself, to understand what is means to be human and communicate with the world. Her powerful photographs have such a raw quality and delve deep into emotions to which we immediately relate.
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A feature for Elephant on the 10th anniversary reissue of the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi’s inspirational photobook Illuminance and why it more than deserves its new special edition.
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As Art Editor at music and arts platform OpenLab, I’m creating a thought-provoking series of features uncovering contemporary artists at the forefront of environmental thought. In my latest in the series I’ve been speaking with Sabrina Ratté and Ryder Kimball as well as taking a look at some spectacular contemporary shows.
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Artist Dominique White’s powerful and ambitious work leaves her audience reeling. Choosing materials charged with a loaded history, she subjects them to force, testing their limits, sometimes ripping them to shreds. In this four page interview for Twin Magazine I talk to White about her work and processes, Black Lives Matter and the current political climate.
Twin Magazine is a biannual hardback art, fashion and feminism book available here
As Art Editor at music and arts platform OpenLab, I’m creating a thought-provoking series of features uncovering contemporary artists at the forefront of environmental thought. In my latest in the series I’ve been speaking with Charlie Rubin, Seba Kurtis and Letha Wilson as well as taking a look at some spectacular contemporary shows.
See more on OpenLab.fm
Pacing the deserted streets of London in lockdown, photographer Jermaine Francis felt compelled to document the graffiti and street art that broke the city’s deafening silence. Bringing his sensitive eye and sharp political mindset he photographed these written records of struggle, rebellion, hope outrage and despair. As part of this 12 page feature I facilitated a creative conversation between Jermaine Francis and Akinola Davies Junior about the urgent issues these images raise.
Twin Magazine is a biannual hardback art, fashion and feminism book available here
As Art Editor at music and arts platform OpenLab, I’m creating a thought-provoking series of features uncovering contemporary artists at the forefront of environmental thought. I speak with artists that engage with the natural world, explore topics at the frontier of art and nature or shed light on an environmental issue. Taking inspiration from these creative practitioners, I join the complex conversation about the climate crisis, harnessing creativity’s power to reach a deeper understanding and be a catalyst for change.
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Examining in depth the phenomenal work of Harmony Hammond and her recent solo show at White Cube - “Up close under-layers of colour are visible through surface cracks and crevices. It’s about what’s hidden, what’s revealed, buried, muffled, pushing up from underneath…a surface under stress.”
Twin Magazine is a biannual hardback art, fashion and feminism book available here