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MF: this physical place that you commonly refer to as the asylum is contrastingly a place of refuge and at the same time a place of insanity, and you come back to it... RB: I have been working in these type of places for over thirty years. I am not certain what attracts me to… Continue reading Asylum of the Birds: an Interview with Roger Ballen
And the sun never goes down. Someone sings i don't sing to be heard or because i know how...in the open, a chicken bites another chicken, a broken voice opens up and sings...i don't sing to be heard or because i know how. And to wake up and have an idea...we'll tear down his favorite… Continue reading Even Dwarfs Started Small
i'll give you a name if you make me a mask, it doesn't have to suit me, if i can lie, i'll have my eye on you and me, a mask where the face becomes the place, a photograph and its effect, i simply want to see something, a starting point where i don't seek… Continue reading Masquerade
And to think of a photograph and think of sensitivity and think of William Gedney and think of Emmet Gowin and to hear William saying photography and poetry are very close to capture in a single frame visual forms organized to the point where neither more or less are needed and until it becomes an… Continue reading And to Think of a Photograph
Neutral is the only gender that suits me best (Claude Cahun) by Mike Fernandez And, No. I will follow the water in the air, the trail in the water, the mirage in the pupil…I wish to hunt myself down, to struggle with myself. Sweet, nevertheless…the moment when our heads lean over a photograph (ah! How… Continue reading Neutral is the only gender that suits me best
Monsters & Madonnas 