Fashion Photography Next

A book I contributed to titled Fashion Photography Next by writer and curator Magdalene Keaney is finally out this month, published by Thames & Hudson! The book features 35 photographers from 14 different countries, spread across 272 pages with as many illustrations, 208 in colour.



Magdalene has written a brilliant extended essay to introduce the ideas behind the book. In addition, she or I have written an approximately 500 word text analysing the work of each photographer, and describing their background and working methods.



I have written pieces about Baker & Evans (bag below), Kasia Bobula, Timur Celikdag, Jonathan Hallam (woman above), Samuel Hodge (install shot below), Chad Moore, Hanna Putz (birds below), Dennis Schoenberg, Saga Sig, Philippe Vogelenzang, Chardchakaj Waikawee (punk below), and Ruvan Wijesooriya.



The other amazing photographers included in the book are Mel Bles, Charlie Engman, Jermaine Francis, Boo George, Jamie Hawkesworth, Alice Hawkins, Erik Madigan Heck, Julia Hetta, Axel Hoedt, Laetitia Hotte, Daniel Jackson, Bruna Kazinoti, Immo Klink, Tyrone Lebon, Joss McKinley, Laetitia Negre, Daniel Riera, Robi Rodriguez, Daniel Sannwald, Clare Shilland, Jacob Sutton, Tung Walsh, and Harley Weir.



Fashion Photography Next retails for £24.95 (ISBN 9780500544358). For more information or to order, visit: thamesandhudson.com/Fashion_Photography_Next/9780500544358



Parallel to the book, there is an exhibition curated by Magdalene Keaney. 'Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next' opened on Thursday 10 July 2014 at Foam, Amsterdam, where it runs through 7 September 2014 (more info here). The exhibition will travel to London's Fashion Space Gallery in early 2015.



EDIT: Fashion Photography Next was selected as one of the 'Best Photobooks of the Year 2014' by American Photo magazine!

Quote of the day, yay!

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh no it is an ever fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth's unknown altho' his highth be taken.

-- Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, quoted in Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, Vintage, London 1993, p. 162



[Great interview with Winterson: radioopensource.org/jeanette-winterson-what-it-takes-in-life-and-letters]

Classic Friendship Podcast #6

Very happily, I was invited by Rózsa Farkas to contribute to her guest curated episode of Classic Friendship podcast.



Episode #6 is titled 'The One With The Anger' and launched on Monday 7 July 2014. This episode comprises contributions from Huw Lemmey, Georgina Miller, Jaakko Pallasvuo and Vicki Tingle, plus Rózsa as host and musical excerpts by Nkisi (Melika Ngombe Kolongo).

There is also an accompanying PDF zine that Rózsa has produced using handwriting from her own notes and some quotes from my text. This can be downloaded by clicking here:

CF Ep06 The One With The Anger by Rózsa Farkas.pdf

Earlier this year, Rózsa curated the exhibition The Angry Show (which, incidentally, included a work by Melika Ngombe Kolongo, with Daniella Russo) at 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville NSW 2204 AU. This show and the present podcast, amongst other productions, form part of an ongoing research into affect and anger that Rózsa has been undertaking. My contribution to the podcast is a re-performance of a text I wrote and performed in March 2014 for GOB festival, which I wrote about on this blog in May.

Lots of nice overlaps and replays; thanks so much to Rózsa for inviting me. Please take the time to have a listen, the podcast can be streamed and downloaded via the CF SoundCloud: