Tag Archives: portraits

Review: Adriaan van der Ploeg, Mont Purgatoire

By eyecurious | Published: 5 January 2011
After Mariken Wessels‘ two mysterious tomes (one of which was reviewed here) which seemed to make most ‘best of 2010′ photobook lists, our Dutch friends have done it again and produced a book which really should not exist. I couldn’t help but try to imagine this book idea being pitched to any halfway-sane book publisher, [...]
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Book of the Week #4: Michael Wolf, Tokyo Compression

By eyecurious | Published: 14 November 2010
Michael Wolf has just released two new books, Asoue and Tokyo Compression, and I have to admit to having a personal favourite. Tokyo Compression brings together a series of images taken in the Tokyo metro during rush hour. Through a series of portraits of trapped commuters, compressed into jam-packed metal carriages, the book brings to [...]
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Carlo Van de Roer capturing the essence

By eyecurious | Published: 2 August 2010
One of the most worn clichés in the realm of photography is the notion that a photographic portrait can somehow “capture the essence” of its subject. This has always struck me as pretty problematic; the idea that there is a moment that can be captured on film that encapsulates some fundamental truth about us, about [...]
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