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GUP #63 – Critical Mass Edition

Photolucida has partnered with GUP Magazine, the esteemed international magazine for art and documentary photography, resulting in this co-produced special print edition. As part of...
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The Shepherd’s Daughter

Clare Benson’s The Shepherd’s Daughter dynamically synthesizes articulations of being. It is a delicate balance of familial history, memory, and conceptual project. Emanating from her...
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Dare Alle Luce

In my use of the photographic medium, I am not specifically concerned with capturing a “concrete” reality. Instead, I aim to use photography as a...
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PERFECTIBLE WORLDS

“Perfectible Worlds” is about people’s private passions and obsessions. Begun soon after 9/11/01, the series portrays people transported into worlds and activities over which they...
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FINDINGS

Hiroshi Watanabe’s gorgeous monograph “Findings” shows, in a subtle and elegant way, small stories of daily life in far-flung corners of the world such as...
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BASTARD EDEN, OUR CHERNOBYL

These photographs were taken over three years, in the region of Chernobyl, Ukraine — some 20 years after the nuclear reactor incident of April 26,...
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DOMESTICATED

Amy Stein crafts photographic allegories set simultaneously in a number of different liminal spaces. Her sure and realistic color works manifest the place where the...
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THE LAST ICEBERG

Nick Cave once sang, “All things move toward their end.” Icebergs give the impression of doing just that, in their individual way much as humans...
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2ND TOUR HOPE I DON’T DIE

A deeply affecting look at the reality of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006-2008. Through Peter van Agtmael’s lens, a delicate humanity emerges...
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SURFLAND

Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a labor-intensive technique little changed since it’s invention in the 1850s. Spontaneous and unpredictable, the streaks and tonal variations...
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COLOR FALLS DOWN

Priya Kambli’s works introduce us to an unfamiliar language. These elegant statements force us to pause, to learn and utilize at least one new mode...