Asger Carlsen: From Crime-Photography to Mutilated, Disfigured Human Form
USA – Asger Carlsen’s images consist of mutilated, disfigured and distorted human forms with a typical obscure quality to them. He has collaborated with photographers like Roger Ballen and media entities like Esquire and New York Times. Carlsen has also authored and co-authored books based on his work. Presently he lives and works from his studio […]
Noriko Hayashi: “I saw many bride kidnappings in Kyrgyzstan”
Kyrgyzstan – Represented by Panos Pictures, Japanese photojournalist Noriko Hayashi has worked in diverse regions around the world, including Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan and Gambia. Her work, though journalistic in style, is more personal, going into the lives of her subjects in a very sensitive, poignant way. She has worked on issues ranging from the aftermath […]
Anna Fox: ‘Resort 2’ – British Adult Parties and a Photographic Carnival
United Kingdom – For two years British photographer Photography Feature – Anna Fox documented holiday culture at the iconic Butlin’s resort in the seaside town of Bognor Regis, West Sussex. This new book ‘Resort 2’, published by Schilt Publishing, is the second part of the Resort project. Resort 1, published in October 2013, looked at […]
Tim Richmond: ‘Last Best Hiding Place’ – Exploring the Longstanding Myth of the American West
USA – Deserted streets with beer cans blowing down the road…a cowboy washing his shirts…a train on its way into a million acres of emptiness…a Vietnam vet who lost twenty years of recent memory…a whole town for sale…meth warnings…a tattooed waitress in neon light. All of these inhabit the Last Best Hiding Place. Places, like […]
Christer Stromholm: ‘Les Nuits de Place Blanche’ – Celebrating Life of Transsexuals in Paris in 50’s & 60’s
France – Christer Strömholm (Stockholm, Sweden, 1918–2001) is one of the most important European photographers of the twentieth century. He spent most of his life in Sweden, but he made France, and especially Paris, his second home. His series about the transsexuals of the Place Blanche was produced between 1958 and 1968. In the first […]
Hans Gremmen: ‘Peeling off the layers’- Understanding the link between Photobooks and Design
Netherlands – Hans Gremmen is a talented designer based in Amsterdam known for his innovative work with photo books. Regularly sought out by photographers, Gremmen is known to be quite an authority on photobooks, having worked on several photobooks, including ‘Cette Montagne C’est Moi’, ’Sequester’, and ‘Libero’. Emaho caught up with Hans in November, 2014 to have a […]
Vlad Krasnoshchok & Sergiy Lebedynskyy: “Euromaidan” – Rapidly Changing Ukrainian Chronicles
Ukraine – “On the 19th of January, 2014 a peaceful protest of Ukrainian Euromaidans on the Hrushevskyi Street in Kiev turned into the possible beginning of a civil war. It went too far, with explosions of gas grenades, Molotov cocktails, shootings of activists by the special police unit “Berkut”, abductions of people to the forest, […]
Erik Kessels: “From the moment I saw Moises by Mariela Sancari, I fell in love.”
Mexico – Many artists return to themes like love, birth, and death in their works. The best give these universals a unique and personal quality. In my experience, one of the strongest examples is Seichi Furuya, a Japanese photographer who followed his schizophrenic wife throughout her illness, all the way to her sad and premature […]
The Surreally Whimsical World of Shae DeTar
USA – Colourful, quirky, antiquated and yet modern is what comes to mind when you see model-turned-artist Shae Acopian Detar’s work. The artist who divides time between New York City and Los Angeles, creates images using age-old technique of hand painting her photographs. Her handiwork lends the paintings a dreamy, transcendental quality. Neon pinks, yellows […]
Eriko Koga: “Issan” – Magical visit to 1200 year old monastery in Mt. Koya
Japan – In 2009, photographer Eriko Koga visited Mt. Kōya, home of a 1,200 year old Buddhist monastery in the mountains south of Osaka, for the first time. She explained the effect that visiting the complex had on her: Okuno-in Temple exerted an especially strong pull on me. Its unique atmosphere overwhelmed all five of […]
Jannatul Mawa: “Close Distance” – Powerful Portraits of Bangladesh Maids and Their Women Employers
Bangladesh – Historically, domestic servants worked (only) for food and lodging in better-off homes of predominantly rural eastern Bengal. The introduction of wage labour during the British colonial period gradually led to the introduction of wages for domestic service, but even now, after twice-achieved national independence (1947, 1971), no minimum wage has been fixed by […]
“Hijacking Reality” – Paris Workshop with Boris Eldagsen
Paris – Emaho Magazine in collaboration with Le Petite Espace announces our first workshop in Paris with German photographer Boris Eldagsen. HIJACKING REALITY What does an artist need to produce strong Staged Photography? Expensive camera equipment? Professional light? Assistants? Actors? Set designers? Make-up? No! Just a good eye, intuition and a personal understanding of one‘s subject […]