Hasselblad Foundation recently assigned its 33rd prestigious International Award in Photography to Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta. Co-published by the Swedish Foundation and MACK specifically for this occasion, “The Photography of Nature & The Nature of Photography” combines six of the author’s most iconic series: Herbarium (1984), Fauna (1987), Constellations (1993), Sputnik (1997), Sirens (2000) and…
Bart Michiels, The Course of History
In seemingly quiet landscapes trail echoes and traces of the bloodiest battles that occurred in Europe from antiquity to Second World War. Taken from different distances, from vast landscapes to close details, the images of the New York-based Belgian photographer Bart Michiels are a poetic, moving attempts to understand and possibly represent such complex spaces.…