Aperture Gallery of magazine fame is showing a collection of new photographers right now in a show called reGeneration. Here are a few I thought seemed to be doing something interesting.
Idris Khan - photographs made of many photographs, one series that combines all the photos from Bernd & Hilla Becher by type into single images.
Carlin Wing - deadpan photographs of corporate collections of photographs, often showing terrific and valuable work hanging in neglected conference rooms and offices used for storage.
Ted Partin - strangely unsettling photographs of women who seem involved in, just finished with or embarking upon something slightly unsettling and perhaps sexual before being interrupted by the camera.
Micki Van de Voort - beautifully illuminated images of rooms full of the scattered belongings and furniture left behind by people who died alone.
Song Chao - Rather famous now, Song Chao has been skillfully photographing the miners of China in b&w and now has moved to color photos.
Petur Thomsen - Landscapes that seem influenced by Edward Burtynsky, but have a compressed perspective that makes them stranger, like looking through an aquarium at a slight angle.
Marla Rutherford - !Not Work Safe! - Fashion shots of kinkyness in boring contexts. Pretty witty and antiseptically shot.
Raphael Dallaporta - A photographic history of anti-personnel mines, chilling in their appearance and descriptions like a mine that uses glass as projectiles because an Xray machine will not be able to find the shards in the body.
Sorry I couldn't come up with examples of each photographer's work. That can be a good sign - i.e. that they haven't been folded into the art machine yet. Here is the
Aperture Gallery site.
J Ake :twisted:
