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Radical Transgenderism

Photographs by Elle Pérez
May 2013

Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer Elle Pérez explores queer identity in rural Tennessee.

Images from an Unfathomable Place

Sara Yu interviews Hyon Gyon Park
May 2013

The mixed-material artist on the catharsis of Korean shamanism and why “the process of purification” is her natural subject matter.

Trompe l’oeils

By Julia Pfeiffer
April 2013

The multiform artist creates mixed-material worlds from ceramics, drawing, and photography.

Studio Visit: Adrián Sonni

Middle Mind Project interviews Adrián Sonni
April 2013

The Argentine muralist on using the city as a canvas.

Who’s Got the Address?

Text by Amitava Kumar, photographs by Teju Cole
March 2013

Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole collaborate on an ekphrastic project exploring how Cole’s paired images intersect with the works of artists ranging from Sontag to Singh.

An American Revolution Revolution

By Shawn Huckins
March 2013

Imagine what George & Co. could have done with the internet. Or not.

Oblivious Vixens

Haniya Rae interviews Johnny Negron
February 2013

Jonny Negron speaks about drawing characters of eroticism, mythology, and contemporary fashion.

A Family Portrait

Haniya Rae interviews Jacolby Satterwhite
January 2013

Jacolby Satterwhite on rendering his mother’s drawings into worlds of their own.

The Sound of Barking Dogs: Expelling the Roma from Belvil

Photographs by Matt Lutton, Audio by Darko Stanimirović, Text by Alan Chin for Newsmotion.org
December 2012

Alarmed to the eviction in advance, photographers Matt Lutton and Darko Stanimirovic distributed disposable cameras so that the residents could document their own dispossession.

Art Flow

By David Joselit
December 2012

David Joselit theorizes about the function of art in the global age of abstracted value and Art Basel

‘Superstorm’ Sandy and Acting Like a Journalist

By Noah Rabinowitz and John Francis Peters
November 2012

Guernica’s art editor, Noah Rabinowitz, and photographer John Francis Peters discuss what they saw while working on and off assignment in the days after Hurricane Sandy.

A Fractured State

Noah Rabinowitz in conversation with Michael Kirby Smith
November 2012

Michael Kirby Smith’s unprecedented and intimate look into Yemen

Mining Fear in Idyllic Landscapes

Photographs by Brett Van Ort
October 2012

Seventeen years after the Yugoslav wars, large swaths of land in Bosnia are still riddled with active land mines.

Intimate Space

Photographs by Kelly K. Jones
October 2012

Kelly K. Jones’s work explores the boundary between documentary and conceptual ways of image making.

The Edge Effect

Photographs and Conversation with Daniel Kukla
September 2012

Equipped with a mirror, painter’s easel, a camera, and his formal training in biology, scientist-turned-artist Daniel Kukla explores where the low Sonoran Desert meets the high Mojave.

Hipstamatic Revolution

By Glenna Gordon
September 2012

Avoiding the simplistic narratives of Afro-pessimism and Afro-optimism, photographer Peter diCampo uses photo-apps to represent everyday Africa.

Think Different.

By John Friel
August 2012

Daniel Shea’s series “Blisner, Ill.” portrays the crises of titanic mythologies.

Inspired by a “Monster”

Helen Bartley in conversation with Tomer Sapir
August 2012

Israeli-born sculptor Tomer Sapir—a “crypto-taxidermist” of creatures that have never walked this earth—surveys the borderlands of technology and nightmare.

The Rappers of Rutshuru

Photographs by Agata Pietron for Newsmotion.org
July 2012

Making music in war-torn Eastern Congo

Primeval Superstitions

Photographs and Conversation with Katarzyna Majak
July 2012

Exploring minority religions in Poland, Katarzyna Majak’s images probe prejudice against witchery, questions of aging, and feminine divinity.

Egyptorama

By Julien Chatelin
June 2012

Photographer Julien Chatelin’s images capture Egypt’s surreal and absurd rural landscape; a road that leads to nowhere.

Wet Strokes

By Haniya Rae
June 2012

Art and programming converge in Kynd’s digital brushstrokes

Surface Concentrate

Paintings and Sculptures by Cole Sayer
May 2012

Sebastian Black and Cole Sayer discuss CGI, the NFL, and the mythology surrounding being a painter.

Studio Visit: Sangram Majumdar

Haniya Rae interviews Sangram Majumdar
May 2012

Painter Sangram Majumdar invites Guernica to his studio to view a few in-progress paintings and learn about his process.

Bryan House

By Peter Hoffman
May 2012

Peter Hoffman documents an Illinois home that helps refugees take the next step towards establishing a stable new life in the U.S.

أنا وبس: My People Love Me

By Bruce Wallace
April 2012

Through YouTube and Vimeo, these artists give their fellow Syrians a voice.

Northern Uganda, Visible

Curated and edited by Glenna Gordon
March 2012

Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images

Last Days of the Space Shuttle

By Philip Scott Andrews
March 2012

Photographer Philip Scott Andrews intimately documents the final flights of the Space Shuttle

Settling

By Jim Korpi
March 2012

Photographer Jim Korpi finds dependent self-reliance, rusted preservation, artificial heritage, and burdened faith along the Ohio River.

Alive in Baghdad

By Marieke van der Velden
February 2012

Foreign photographs of Baghdad usually have three subjects: guns, bombs, and pickup trucks. Marieke van der Velden shows us what happens when the camera turns a few degrees away.

Desperate Intentions

Photographs by Viviana Peretti
February 2012

Alone together in the metropolis

7 Rooms

Photographs by Rafal Milach
January 2012

In Russian, a language in which there is a separate word for everything, the word “country” means both the territory and the government.

Other People’s Clothes

Photographs by Caleb Cole
January 2012

Clothes make a life.

Abominations

Paintings by Ryan McLennan
December 2011

Against all rules, competitive species engage in quasi-natural acts that involve complex relays of communication.

Lagos Photo Festival

Collection edited by Glenna Gordon
December 2011

A selection of work from the 2011 Lagos Photo Festival by forty photographers from around the world.

The Land of Oś

Photographs by Danny Ghitis
November 2011

The grandson of a Holocaust survivor visits the town that was home to Auschwitz.

Cockettes’ Cusp

Photographs by Pooneh Maghazehe
November 2011

In these photographs, a series of linked histories are forced together in Utah’s deserted Bonneville Salt Flats.

Fishing for Time

Photographs by Candace Feit
October 2011

A photographer finds accidental sculpture throughout India’s Tamil Nadu.

Miniature Shrines

Installations by Legacy Russell
October 2011

The artist’s installations of shrines in Manhattan’s East Village honor people who lived and died in the neighborhood.

The Kaddu Wasswa Archive

Photographs by Andrea Stultiens
September 2011

An exploration of a Ugandan man’s legacy.

Nocturne

Paintings by Chad Wys
September 2011

Reframing Victorian aesthetics.

Simulating Iraq

Photographs by Claire Beckett
August 2011

Imagining the war before the war.

Summerland

Photographs by Benjamin Donaldson
August 2011

A series of photographs in which, under hypnosis, subjects are instructed to experience the most beautiful landscape imaginable.

Continental Drift

Photographs by Marion Belanger
July 2011

This geologic boundary has no regard for political allegiance; it was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation.

Self Study

By Natalie N. Abbassi, guest-edited by Nina Berman
July 2011

In each image I’ve incorporated myself twice, once as the Iranian and once as the American.

People of the Clouds

By Matt Black, guest-edited by Nina Berman
July 2011

In the mountains of rural Mexico, a photographer documents the space between staying and going.

Seeing Double

By Nina Berman
July 2011

Two photographers illuminate the effects of migration in a rural village and one’s own body.

Paris Stupides

By Florent Morellet
June 2011

What if a site with the exact geographical features of Paris had existed at another spot on the globe?

Chernobyl Zone

By Andrej Krementschouk
June 2011

There’s something almost magical about the zone. Nature grows exuberantly, wild animals reproduce. There are even people living in Chernobyl.

Fieldwork

By Sanna Kannisto
May 2011

Since 1997, I have spent several months each year living alongside biologists in the rainforests of Peru, Brazil, French Guyana, and Costa Rica. As an artist I am attracted to the idea that when I am working in a rainforest, I am a “visual researcher.”

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