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“The more the photograph of the world leaders gathering in Paris is analyzed the more it reveals itself as a deeply conflicted sign. The visual rhetoric it exercises has less to do with a stanc...
Unveiling of White House Christmas decorations, 2013, AP Images/Charles Dharapak. The photo opportunity, or the photo op as it is more commonly known, is usually a carefully choreographed affai...
A response to November 2014 in This Picture
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Izumi Miyazaki, 19-year old Tumblr Star from Japan. izumimiyazaki.tumblr.com
Charles-Henry Bédué, from the series L’Habit fait Le Moine, 2011-2013. Click here for more.
Julien Gremaud, from the series ‘Thatcher is Dead’, 2014 “Gremaud’s photography project 'Thatcher is Dead’ alludes to the fact that there is a flipside to the expansion of credit, uny...
Julien Gremaud, from the series ‘Thatcher is Dead’, 2014 Click here for more.
Gaza City before and after.
As the brutality and ugliness of the war in Gaza takes on a new dimension with every day passing, Western media outlets face a growing dilemma: how can they visually represent the horrors of war?...
Richard Mosse, Madonna and Child, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2012. Click here for more.
Saba Alizadeh, from the series ‘Light and Soil’, 2013 For his project ‘Light and Soil’, Saba Alizadeh has projected glorified propaganda images from the Iran-Iraq War onto domestic inte...
Morteza Khaki, from the series ‘Purse Snatching’, 2013 Morteza Khaki’s project ‘Purse Snatching’ which depicts the interiors of purses the artist had access to. Passport photographs o...
Mohsen Yazdipour, ‘My First Name; Soldier’, 2013 Mohsen Yazdipour’s photography project ‘My First Name; Soldier’ alludes to the transition of young Iranian men entering mandatory mili...
Kiana Hayeri, from the series ‘Beyond the Veil’, 2013 ‘Beyond the Veil’ by Kiana Hayeri, depicts young women pushing against cultural taboos through their clothing, makeup, hairstyles a...
Did Luis #Suárez confuse Giorgio #Chiellini ’s shoulder with an Italian delicacy?
Syndromes and a Century by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006: http://visualcultureblog.com/2014/06/double-visions-by-apichatpong-weerasethakul/
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Power Boy, 2013: http://visualcultureblog.com/2014/06/double-visions-by-apichatpong-weerasethakul/
Film still of Dilbar by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2013: http://visualcultureblog.com/2014/06/double-visions-by-apichatpong-weerasethakul/