Five alumni of the School at the International Center of Photography, New York, were commissioned to document their experience of the Covid-19 pandemic throughout the month of April, 2020. Gaia Squarci, Jeenah Moon, Yuki Iwamura, Sarah Blesener, and Jeff Mermelstein. … Continue reading
David, you are well known as a curator and a writer. Why did you begin to take photographs? I have had cameras since I was a kid. Photography has been a way to understand the world and myself, … Continue reading
Is limbo the natural state of the photographic image? It might seem a perverse question given that the whole culture and industry of photography was geared, almost from the start, towards function. Messages. Communication. But we now know very well … Continue reading
David Campany talks with Marcelo Brodsky about his project 1968 – The Fire Of Ideas and the current evolution of visual culture. David Campany: Marcelo, 1968 – The Fire of Ideas is your reconsideration of that landmark year through images … Continue reading
‘EFMR7’ is an essay commissioned for David Rothenberg’s book Roosevelt Station, Perimeter Editions, 2021 Drawing on a series of photographs made between 2019 and 2020 in the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street train station in Queens, New York, Roosevelt Station proves … Continue reading
An essay written for Jo Dennis’s book I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye, 2020. Margins of Error and Expectation. Since it is what you have in your hand, let us begin with a … Continue reading
Exhibition: Houston Center of Photography, opening September 10, 2020. Book published by Schilt. Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, is the first exhibition of Odette England’s book of the same name, which was published in the US in … Continue reading
Running Falling Flying Floating Crawling is a loose compendium of photographs and texts that picture, examine, explore, and / or suggest the human body in states of abandon, helplessness, terror, subjugation, serenity, and transcendence. Words: Kate Palmer Albers, Kim Beil, Tessa … Continue reading
To accompany the exhibition Manoel de Oliveira: Photographer, the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira / Fundação de Serralves will publish a book dedicated to the photographs that belong to the director’s archive. Taken between the late 1930s and the … Continue reading
Lola & Pani, Studio Portraits 2015-2020, Palm Studios Photography by Lola & Pani Curated by Lola & Pani and Alastair McKimm Introduction, ‘To the Unknown Viewer’, by David Campany Alastair McKimm in conversation with Lola & Pani by William Barnes … Continue reading
Dayanita Singh, Montage By David Campany To walk through a doorway and find yourself in a different place entirely. Is this not the most enduring of the wild fantasies smuggled beneath the sober exterior of architectural modernism? What was … Continue reading