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Max Pinckers: Outsourcing Creation to Machines

August 29, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"A computer doesn’t emotionally interpret the picture. It sees a woman, it sees a child, and maybe it can recognise ‘grieving’ because it knows from all the other pictures that it’s supposed to be grieving, but it doesn’t feel anything."
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)

The Photographer of the Future

August 28, 2017
Insights

Viewbook hosted a brainstorming session in Arles this year to address the question: What does the photographer of the future need? I participated in both the brainstorming and a public presentation that followed, and the results of the session are…

Klaus Pichler: This Will Change Your Life Forever

July 25, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"Some scientific discoveries have come from looking at something that seems to be – at that moment – irrational and then discovering that it’s not that irrational. So, the earth isn’t flat, it’s a sphere."
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)

Between Realities

July 16, 2017
Events & Announcements

A recording of the Between Realities lecture in Dortmund, January 2017.

Katrin Koenning: Traveling the Limitless Mind

June 23, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"It’s not my aim to make statements about the idea of distance, but rather to question it. Much of my work is personal and comes from a point of feeling. To me, practice is a means of sense-making, and of being-in-the-world."
—Katrin Koenning (GUP Magazine)

Jessica Dimmock: Trying to Get Along in Your World

June 15, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"They’re in a lot of ways trapped not only in male bodies but in male identities. [...]They did a really good job of putting a masculine identity on themselves, because that’s what was dictated. At Esprit, they’re taking it off."
—Jessica Dimmock (GUP Magazine)

Lauren Greenfield: The Influence of Affluence

May 15, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"The effect of seeing affluent lifestyles on television has been proven to a) make people think more people have that kind of lifestyle than really do, so it’s a distorted view of what’s normal but b) it also stimulates desire for those things."
—Lauren Greenfield (John Adams Institute)

The Fun of Photobooks

April 26, 2017
Reviews, Writing

Modern photobooks are all too often the insecure product of an oversaturated marketplace. With so many photographers in the world, many of whom have the idea that publishing a book will confirm their status or identity as a ‘real’ photographer,…

Sage Sohier: Witness to Beauty

March 31, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"It’s easier not to be so beautiful, to be able to move through life a bit under the radar, and to be able to focus on what you feel really matters, rather than have to deal with the distraction of other people’s intense focus on your appearance."
—Sage Sohier (GUP Magazine)

Elizabeth Heyert: The Bound

January 3, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"Somebody wants the experience of completely giving up responsibility – in every way. [...] You give it up, and you can go to this place they call ‘subspace’, which is somewhere in your head apart from your body."
—Elizabeth Heyert (GUP Magazine)