Screenshot from ‘Is Japan Cool?’ advertising campaign by ANA All Nippon Airways Contributions are now being accepted for a new edited book titled ‘Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present’. The book aims to analyse, deconstruct and challenge representations of Japan in a variety of different visual media such…
The latest political scandal that is currently sweeping across the United States is the child separation policy – a cruel and inhumane policy that means that children of asylum seekers attempting to cross the Mexico/US border get separated from their parents. A steady drip of images published in recent days is not only bringing this…
Dear Readers, It is my distinct pleasure to invite you to the book launch of ‘The Evolution of the Image’ I co-edited with Basia Sliwinska. The launch will be held at the London College of Fashion on Wednesday 13th of June at 6pm. All are welcome. Please register for your free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-evolution-of-the-image-political-action-and-the-digital-self-tickets-46221813689 The…
After a long period of radio silence (I have been busy getting my first book published), I am compelled to write a blog post about THAT photograph from the G7 meeting that is currently making the rounds on social media. The German photojournalist Jesco Denzel undoubtedly captured a stunning moment when Chancellor Angela Merkel was…
Art / Documentary / Photography / Politics
Please follow me on Instagram @MarcoBohr. Johnny Savage, from the series ‘Fallout’ In his series Fallout, the Irish photographer Johnny Savage depicts interior spaces of building projects that came to a halt in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008. Part of the so-called PIIGS, Ireland was amongst the countries hardest hit by…
Follow me on Instagram @marcobohr Jason Larkin, from the photobook Waiting, 2015 Waiting by the British photographer Jason Larkin is a series of photographs that depicts people standing in the shade as they wait for the bus. Photographed over a period of two years in South Africa, this is an aesthetically and formally coherent body…
Tim Richmond, from the book ‘Last Best Hiding Place’, 2015 Last Best Hiding Place by Tim Richmond is a photographic homage to the American West. Produced over a seven-year period, from 2007 to 2014, the series focuses on the banality of everyday life in places such as South Dakota, Wyoming or Montana. The barren landscape…
Matthew Connors, from the series ‘Fire in Cairo’, 2013 Photographed in Cairo from January to June 2013, Matthew Connors’ book Fire in Cairo is a complex and thought-provoking representation of events leading up to Egypt’s so-called Second Revolution, or the June 30 Revolution, that saw the President Mohamed Morsi ousted by a military coups d’état.…
