“In 2002, when Seung Woo Back visited North Korea for the first time, he took snap shots of the city of Pyongyang while under the surveillance and control of the accompanying guards. He was only able to shoot limited areas, and even had his films censored, but the camera had captured parts that even [...]

I heard of an altercation between man and animal over the radio the other day. This man, acting on his impulses to be at one with nature, built his house in the mountains. To protect himself from the wildlife that inevitably pay him a visit in search of food, he installed traps around [...]

I recently tried my hand at typing on a typewriter - it forces you to exert a lot more pressure than you would when performing the same task on your computer keyboard. I was amazed at how closely typing on a typewriter parallels the playing the piano. I am a classically-trained pianist, albeit [...]

Vancouver is a very young city. Some are of the opinion that, since Vancouver has seen so little history, it is void of personality and characteristic. Perhaps so. With only a few truly outstanding works of architecture, the Vancouver cityscape does seem rather dull. However, have you ever really paid attention [...]

I live very much inside my head. In there, I can create my own phastasmagoric realities, a universe vibrant with life, void of strife. Emancipation was the only reason I paid little attention in class. Yet, as I aged, I gradually, unbeknownst to even myself, physical realities grounded my hypothetical possibilities. [...]

I have never been to Ethiopia, and, before today, I never wanted to go at all. All that changed when I stumbled across Joey Lawrence’s Abyssinia series. Much has been covered of the nation in the media; the lingering image in my head is that of the 1985 famine: starving children with bloated [...]

Heaven, earth, water, and forests are the natural ingredients in Axel Hütte’s landscapes. The photographs stage a subtle play on the difference between nature and landscape. Here, ‘nature’ is the physical world which surrounds us while ‘landscape’ is nature as it appears to the observer.

Nature has always been the subject of participatory interest, [...]

Daidō Moriyama was born in 1938 in Osaka. He is easily one of the most important Japanese photographers since 1945. His work, depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan, plays a central role in establishing Japanese photography as one of the most creative directions in the history of photography. His work [...]

The term “onnanoko shashinka” loosely translates to “girlie photographers”. It is used to describe an immensely popular group of young Japanese female photographers whose work is largely characterized by simple subjects reflecting their everyday life captured with a point-and-shoot aesthetic. Mika Ninagawa has been described as second generation “onnanoko shashinka,” a very skillful [...]

This series, titled “Picnic”, by Masato Seto, shows people in parks, sitting and lying on plastic sheets placed on grass. They look as if they were in their rooms without roofs and walls. Seto creates invisible rooms using a conceptual tool - plastic sheets - within a conceptual space: parks. It makes [...]