Outlaw attitude: skaters, saunas and spontaneous stripping – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00
Magdalena Wosinska spent the 1990s hanging out with bands, skateboarders and whoever else crossed her path. These photos capture blissful free spirits
Continue reading...The week around the world in 20 pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 18:52
War in Gaza, floods in Dubai, the knife attack in Sydney and the Grand National at Aintree: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing
Continue reading...Sunshine at midnight on the arctic tundra: Inuuteq Storch’s best photograph
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 April - 13:56 · 1 minute
‘This was taken in Qaanaaq, one of the world’s most northern cities. It gets 24-hour sun during the summer months. I went because my name originates there’
In the summer of 2023, I was living in Qaanaaq, Greenland, one of the most northern cities in the world. It’s a tundra: there are no plants, it barely rains and, in the summer months, there are 24 hours of sun. During the night, the weather is calmer and more colourful – by day, it’s hardcore and very bright. This was taken just before midnight. I could hear kids playing tag outside, then they got tired and lay down. I went out and asked if I could take a photo. We have a lot of nostalgia in our culture in Greenland, and this photograph captures that feeling: it is the middle of summer, but it has the look of spring. Greenland in spring is unlike any other place. Since the sun is not visible in the winter, when spring comes it brings life back. That time of total darkness is very spiritual.
The whole town knew I was taking photographs, but the fact that they’re now going be on show at the Danish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale isn’t so interesting to them – it’s too far away. My work has always been about Greenland’s history, traditions and everyday life, such as hunting. I was given permission to take photos with the hunters, but it was difficult to shoot where they work because the ice was melting.
Continue reading...Desert floods and northern lights: photos of the day – Wednesday
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 April - 12:14
The Guardian’s picture editors select some of the most powerful photos from around the world
Continue reading...All aboard the ‘ding ding’! A wild ride through Hong Kong – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 April - 06:00
When Mikko Takkunen relocated to the Chinese city from New York he felt the urge to capture its vanishing essence
Continue reading...‘We’d wait all day for a train’: America by rail – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 06:00
Justine Kurland’s images capture her unique life raising a child on the road – and offer up a joyous escape from the traditional family photo album
Continue reading...‘He was a born member of the underground’: how Peter Hujar captured the New York demimonde
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 April - 15:51 · 1 minute
He only published one book – and it was hardly noticed. Now his portraits of drag queens, poets and artists are seen as vital documents of a vanished world. As they go on show, the photographer’s favourite subjects recall his genius
‘He made me wear white,” says Fran Lebowitz , down the phone from New York. The writer is talking about the day her close friend, the photographer Peter Hujar, shot her for Portraits in Life and Death, the only book he ever made. “Peter was very specific. It was in my apartment which was the size of, I don’t know, a book. And the light was a big thing – as it was with all photographers, back when they were actually photographers.”
This week, the picture of a 24-year-old Lebowitz smoking a cigarette, slightly slumped, in a white shirt and tight white trousers on the arm of a settee, goes on show at the Venice biennale, alongside the 40 other pictures from Portraits in Life and Death. Twenty-nine of them depict artists, writers and performers Hujar knew and admired from the downtown scene of 1970s New York – many of them reclining in a state of reverie that seems completely un-posed. There’s the writer Susan Sontag , supine on a bed with a pensive expression; the drag artist and underground film star Divine off duty and resting on some cushions; nightclub dancer TC, topless and drowsily seductive; poet and dance critic Edwin Denby with his eyes meditatively closed, his wrinkles mirroring the rumpled duvet behind him.
Continue reading...Geoff Dyer: ‘A gas mask on a tree stopped me in my tracks – it shows the air itself can be toxic’
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 April - 12:48 · 1 minute
A recent Guardian news story on the Russian use of poison gas in Ukraine featured an arresting photograph that spoke to me of the anonymity of war
This photograph of a gas mask on a tree beside a track in Kreminna in Ukraine’s Luhansk oblast stopped me in my tracks.
The original caption in the Guardian reads “tree” but it looks like the remains of a tree, more like a planted post. Has the rest of it – the parts that make it a tree – been damaged by war? Whatever the explanation there is a hint, in the mottled pattern of the bark, of a giraffe’s neck, that vulnerable loneliness of the vertical amid the overwhelmingly horizontal. By a careful choice of angle the photographer has also imparted an animating slinkiness, a slightly feminine torsion, to the immobile wood. That might be why it’s reminiscent of one of Peter Mitchell’s wonderful photographs of scarecrows in Yorkshire . The one I have in mind is a rare example of what is obviously a woman plying this exposed and elemental trade, glamorously kitted out for a night – she is framed by darkness – on a nonexistent town. Lifelike and haunted, she looks like a ghost of her former self.
Continue reading...Exploring why we photograph animals – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 15 April - 06:00
A new collection of wildlife photography aims to help understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Huw Lewis-Jones explores the animal in photography through the work of more than 100 photographers in Why We Photograph Animals , supporting the images with thematic essays to provide historical context