‘The cat in the coffin almost steals the show’ … the Deutsche Börse photography prize
3 March 2017 • Syndicate
Landscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
Tag: Sean O’Hagan
Negative humanity: the birth of the digital death mask
8 February 2016 • Staff
The same facial recognition technology that monitors unsuspecting Russian citizens was used to produce this eerie portrait of a Pussy Riot member
Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist: drones v the women of Tahrir
5 November 2015 • Mark Westall
The murky state of global surveillance and a moving account of the Arab spring, plus refugee activists and a pulled-apart Fiat 500, make up a surprising list
REVIEW: Deutsche Börse 2015 – shadowy burqas v epic towerblocks
19 April 2015 • Staff
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse spent six years photographing every door and window of a 54-storey tower in Johannesburg, while Viviane Sassen proves herself a sculptor of light. Set beside heartbreaking portraits of LGBTI South Africans and Russians letting loose on the beach, this year’s shortlist is full of intrigue
David Armstrong: photographer of outsiders lately embraced by fashion
28 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Armstrong, who has died aged 60, had a contrasting style to his great friend Nan Goldin, but their subjects were intertwined
Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist’
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York – and why he now confines his excesses to the studio
Andrea Gjestvang wins L’Iris d’Or at Sony world photography awards
27 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors
The 10 best … photographic self-portraits
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From Andy Warhol in drag and Giles Duley’s ‘broken statue’, to John Coplans’s back and Gillian Wearing as her father
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness
Double exposure: the two faces of Viviane Sassen’s photography
2 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The worlds of fashion and fine art are often mutually exclusive – Sassen’s variety of approach enables her to straddle both
Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review
15 July 2012 • Mark Westall
Photographers’ Gallery, London
New photography from the Middle East comes to London
30 June 2012 • Mark Westall
An exhibition at the V&A in London this November offers a long-overdue opportunity to admire the sophistication of contemporary Middle Eastern photographic artists
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio; Alex Prager: Compulsion – review
23 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Victoria Miro, London; Michael Hoppen, London
Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art
9 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
Scott King Answers FAD’s Questions
26 December 2010 • Mark Westall
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Subject/Medium/Context and a genius interplay of the three – I’ve never managed it.
