As featured on Fantom 03 / Spring 2011 Her work is a mix of performance, sculpture, photography, Pop and Surrealism. Her process usually starts when she finds beautiful bugs in her garden or things like vegetables, flowers and other organic materials at the market. These are the basic subjects for the installations she prepares and…
As featured on Fantom 03 / Spring 2011 Looking at the work of Reza Aramesh, one inevitably thinks that all styles and approaches to documentary photography have radically changed in relationship with the arts and other media. Aramesh’s perfectly executed translations of images taken from the news, merge the opposite ends of the photographic spectrum,…
As featured on Fantom 02 / Winter 2010 As a child, Alexi-Meskhishvili would dismantle every toy that was given to her. Nowadays, she is still doing the same thing – but images have replaced the toys. “The tension between what is revealed and what is obstructed is an inherent puzzle of photography which I…
Les Villes Invisibles December 4th, 2014 Fantom & La Mer at Art Basel Miami 2010 December 3rd, 2010 Joachim Schmid’s O Campo July 8th, 2010
As featured in Eye To Eye on Fantom 05 / Autumn 2010 Guido Guidi was born in Cesena, Italy, in 1941. He started to photograph in the 50s and is one of the most renowned European ‘topographical’ photographers. His work is focused mainly on the geographical, historical, political, architectural, individual and social aspects of the landscape.…
As featured on Fantom 04 / Summer 2010 Olivo Barbieri (Italy, 1954) investigates the intersections of reality and its perception through a single lens. The series Flippers, 1977-78, featured here was the starting point of his observations over the uncertainty of the world’s surface, which then continued with an extended research on artificial illumination (that…
As featured on Fantom 04 / Summer 2010 In Unbranded, Hank Willis Thomas’s largest and best known series to date, the artist selected two advertisements each year from 1968 to 2008, removing all logos and text in order to uncover what was really being sold: the representation of African-Americans, for consumption by the constituent public.…
A conversation between Selva Barni and Federico Sarica. As featured in The/End Magazine #15, March 2010. Selva Barni is the founder and editor-in-chief of Fantom, the new quarterly dedicated to photography. A Toscan raised in Florence, 34 years old, today Selva lives in Milan after the experience of living and working in New York. She has…
For his first Fantom incursion into photography collections, critic and curator Francesco Zanot visited artist Linda Fregni Nagler’s peculiar selection of old tintypes, magic lantern glass slides, gelatin prints and more… The 9 images presented hereafter were chosen and extensively captioned by both; technically, symbolically, historically, emotionally and carefully. HIDDEN MOTHER. The presentation of the subject In this old tintype, behind a typical portrait of a baby we see the outline of an individual hiding underneath a dark cloth. The function of this individual corresponds to the function of every photograph: it introduces the spectator to what has to be…
As Featured in Reportage on Fantom First Issue / Summer 2009 The weather was the most effective form of crowd control. 1,8 million arrived in the predawn hours on the National Mall and snuggled closely together, tucked in sleeping bags, blankets and makeshift windbreaks made from piles of cardboard trash. At 10 a.m. the Smithsonian opened…
The New York Times, June 2009. Read it here.
As featured on Fantom 01 / Autumn 2009 “One of the things I look for in the women I work with is a unique, sometimes unexpected interpretation of what it means to be a woman. I love photographing powerful women who possess their own particular strength and charisma and I like to think that…