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SEE A PIN DROP: The Pinhole Photography of Robert Mann

With its venerable origins dating back to the earliest days of photography as we know it, the pinhole camera is a storied if not somewhat antiquated device. But in the hands of a master, its former glory is once again rekindled, and photographer Robert Mann is just that. He was generous enough to share...
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PICNIC KIT: An Urban Photographic Project by Sebastian Friedman

Jakarta is a city that doesn’t let one breath. Cars, motorcycles, noise, chaos, mess, dirt, smells, poverty, wealth, luxury, markets, malls and more malls, people, pollution – all mixed in a shaker. The Picnic Kit project is a result of photographer Sebastian Friedman observing and feeling the beat of the city. Completed during a...
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Sun, Salt, and Wind: The Surf Photography of Miah Klein

A blaze of light and the haze of sky, married to water in a sport too kingly for kings – photographer Miah Klein captures the ecstatic ache of big-wave surfing in a palate born from the sea itself. And while his action shots stir and his tube angles thrill, there is a reverence in...
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LEBENSMOMENT: A Conversation with Photographer Huma Rosentalski

LEBENSMOMENT: A Conversation with Photographer Huma Rosentalski

By Dane Huckelbridge All images courtesy of Huma Rosentalski, www.rosentalski.com According to our much-beloved but oft-neglected Wörterbuch, a Lebensmoment is a crucial juncture worthy of remembrance and celebration, one instant among many that stands exigent to define a life. GUTFIRE! was fortunate to meet up with the German photographer Huma Rosentalski on Rue du...
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ROUILLE DE PARIS

Photos by Margaux Perrier 1. Destruction:  Action de mettre à bas un édifice ou un ensemble architectural réalisé selon un plan déterminé (cf. démolition, dévastation, ruine). 2. Concret: Qui est solide par suite de précipitation, sublimation, fixation (cf. concrétion A). 3. Architecture:  Art, science et technique de la construction, de la restauration, de l’aménagement...
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IF THE GOOD LORD’S WILLIN’: Photographs in and around the Gulf of Mexico and American South

IF THE GOOD LORD’S WILLIN’: Photographs in and around the Gulf of Mexico and American South

By Britney Anne MajureFew regions on earth or in history are as storied, celebrated, troubled, and triumphant as the Gulf region of the American South. Despite hardships beyond reckoning and cataclysms of almost Biblical proportions, the people have prevailed, marshals of a preternatural will and a benevolent form of communal defiance. Photographer Britney Anne...
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SUMMER RAIN: A Winter’s Remembrance of Coney Island

Photos by Ksenia TavrinaThe entirety of the Northern Hemisphere may be locked in the hoary hold of winter, but the mind, it’s free to wander. Back to warmer, more languid days, and if geography is no object, why not Coney Island? Forever iconic of the New York City summer, the boardwalk there is storied...
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BOY STORIES: The Photography of Johan Willner

What to make of Johan Willner’s photographs? Brilliantly scampish, eerily bright, haunting in a way that connotes the harrowing glow of a Scandinavian summer, they also play, and cleverly at that, with the much more brooding topics of aging, masculinity, and ultimately, mortality. Yet all of this is accomplished without sacrifice to the essence...
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IN TRANSIT: Photos by Katherin McInnis

Rarely does one consider something as quotidian and banal as the work-week commute to be fertile ground for fine art – the ache of exhaustion, the numbness of routine, the grinding frustration of public transportation. Then again, rare is the artist with the acuity of vision to find in that Sisyphean chore moments of...
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WASTED WITH LÜC: GUTFIRE! Goes on “The Drunk Diet”

WASTED WITH LÜC: GUTFIRE! Goes on “The Drunk Diet”

by Dane Huckelbridge, B&W photos by Ksenia TavrinaSpend as much time as we do trolling for good times in the bars of New York City’s Lower East Side, and sooner or later, you’re bound to run into Lüc Carl. Frankly, he’s hard to miss. Local hero, cultural icon, atavistic remainder of a more glorious...
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