Country of the Mind

Inspired by a series of traumatic acid trips that led to a bout of psychosis, Sara Soininen’s ‘Transcendent Country of the Mind’ is a a strange and appropriately trippy series of photos. She doesn’t attempt to recreate what she went though. Instead she questioned the nature of the reality around her by making images that …

Preston Bus Station

Probably most of you reading this have never been to Preston. You’re not missing anything. A northern western town in England with a football team that used to big in the nineteen fifties, it doesn’t have too much to recommend it. Yet Jamie Hawkesworth thought different. He spent many days in Preston Bus Station, which …

Motel Vegas

The motel is a quintessentially American thing. A place that speaks of road warriors and road trips and people running from some unseen moment in their past. They are the stuff of film noir and speak to the transient nature of American life. They also have a weird beauty. Fred Stigman’s ‘Motel Vegas’ shows them …

The Coast

The strange world of the Indian night is the subject for Sohrab Hura’s 2019 book ‘The Coast.’ It features a series of startling juxtaposed images that vividly expose the secrets of the darkness. Documentary in feel, the images also have a highly emotive fine art quality that rises them above the average photojournalism.

Golden Days

Austrian pub culture is not something I’ve ever given much thought to until seeing Clemens Marschall’s photobook, ‘Golden Days Before They End.’ It’s reminiscent of Anders Peterson’s ‘Cafe Lehmitz,’ which did something similar in the 1970’s with a bar Hamburg’s red light district. Whereas Peterson worked in black and white, Marschall works in a rich …

The City Within

Brooklyn is my home.And it’s also the subject of photo book by Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb. They have attempted to capture Brooklyn in all its diversity using their brilliant grasp of color photography and composition.

Dubliners

Legendary street photographer, Martin Parr, described Eamonn Doyle’s photos as the best he’d seen in years. It’s hard not to agree with that statement. Taken on the streets of Dublin, they are graphic and raw and like all good examples of the genre hint at the lives of their subjects. A book featuring a sample …

Robin de Puy

Born in 1986, Robin de Puy grew up in her parents’ family hotel in the small village in South Holland. She graduated from the Fotoacademie Rotterdam in 2009 and in 2013, she received the Dutch Photographic Portrait Prize for a shot of fellow photographer An-Sofie Kesteleyn; in 2015 she took a 10,000km road trip across …

Alex Prager

Alex Prager creates strange and fabulous images that look as if they might have been culled from some cult classic film of the sixties. This year there’s a collection of her work featuring some of her most famous and enduring work.