See/Saw

Geoff Dyer is one of the best essayists working today. Whether he’s talking about jazz, art or film he always manages to think that little bit harder and yet still makes his discoveries easier to digest, and even easier to be inspired by. His book See/Saw deals with one of his greatest passions, photography. He …

The Station

Chris Killip is known for his superb book ‘Sea Coal,’ which showed the desperate side of eighties England. Yet Killip also took pictures of the anarcho-punk scene in the north-east of England. His son discovered some old forgotten contact sheets lying in a cardboard box and so ‘The Station’ was born. Named after the venue …

The Sound I Saw

Roy DeCarava documented the great days of jazz. His book ‘The Sound I Saw’ has some of the most iconic images of the medium. Perhaps even more famous for his collaboration with Langston Hughes, ‘The Sweet Flypaper of Life,’ DeCarava is now enjoying something of a revival thanks to ‘Light Break’ a retrospective of his …

Evelyn Hofer

Evelyn Hofer is a photographer best known for her work in the fities and sixties including these wonderful images from a reissued collection of her New York photos. As an adopted son of the city, I love her take on Gotham.

Public, Private, Secret

The new ICP Exhibition location in the Bowery is host to a fascinating exhibition about the future of image making in the 21st century, ‘Public, Private, Secret’. As it says on the ICP site ‘The exhibition creates a physical experience through which to examine photography’s role in breaking and resetting the boundaries of social and …

Lyon at the Whitney

  Danny Lyon is Magnum photojournalist mainly known for his images of Chicago bike gang ‘The Outlaws’, whom he rode with and befriended. Yet as the current retrospective of his work at the Whitney proves, there is much, much more to him than that. I’d been aware of his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement …

Eyes Wide Open

Skater punk photographer Glen Locket alias ‘Spot’, recently released a book of images ‘The Sound of Two Eyes Opening’. It depicts southern Californian youth culture between 1969 and 1982 in all it’s sexiness.

Miracle Village

Photojournalist Sofia Valiente has chosen to live and work with sex offenders. Not a choice many would make but what makes it even more unusual is that these offenders live together in their own town in Florida known as Miracle Village. It has led to a book of the same known which aims to show …

Groupie Love

Once in the dim and distant past being a groupie was something many young women happily aspired to be. The evidence has been collected in a new book called ‘Groupies and other Electric Ladies’. It features photographs of the leading ladies of the scene taken by Baron Wolman for Rolling Stone Magazine in 1969, along …

Amazonas

Mads Nissen is a Danish documentary photographer who has won many prestigious prizes like World Press Photo of the Year amongst others. Of his work, perhaps my favorite series are those captured in the book Amazonas published in 2013.