It’s strange how an experience can change someone’s way of seeing things. And even influence their whole life. I grew up in Cairo as a Muslim, and in Islam we speak a lot about destiny—that each of us has a written time to come into this world and a time to leave, and whatever happens […]

The work of Angela Bulloch is complex and versatile. She produces light and sound works, drawing machines, interactive installations, series of photographs, video programs, and works consisting of text. Behind her work’s diversity of form, technique, and presentation, there always lies a focused concern for public structures and social systems. Just as these processes and […]

Leah Oates: What do you think an artist is? When did you know you were an artist?Deana Lawson: An artist is someone who questions and interprets the world(s) around them, and who then responds in an outward and physical way. Ten years ago, an old friend, Sassy Ross, taught me that an individual could invent […]

Trigger and motive of my work are the friction and unease that arise from the contradictions in current and historical context. In my continuing examination of the events of the day, artistic concepts are developed that congeal into single images. The basis is often formed by photographs I find in magazines, books, and other visual […]

I create installations and environments, which imitate the natural world. My interest lies in the artifice that results from this mimicry. We desire wilderness and unspoilt nature that is not beyond our control, yet this is a contradiction. The work investigates the antagonism this creates. On first encounter, the skeletal creatures and plants that inhabit […]

Teng Chao-Ming: How did you start doing photography?Christophe Kutner: I started working as a photographer when I was 24. I worked as the assistant of Horst P. Horst. From his teaching, talking with him, and after that, with my own experience, I cross the whole history of photography. TC: So you didn’t go to art […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: How did you become a photographer? And how did you make the transition?Asger Carlsen: I have a background in newspaper. I was doing newspaper for a few years. I was doing crime stuff mostly. I started back in…’91; I can’t remember anymore. You know, up until 2000 I was working as a […]

The body has always attracted my attention. Our body has never belonged to ourselves less than it does today. Long ago, the body was extremely personal. When one’s heart or lung became diseased, the only thing we could do was to wait and see the person weaken and perish. Today, as every body part can […]

The Morro Fortress in Havana is one of the most emblematic of Cuban fortresses. It is also one of the most internationally known images of Havana; it has become a symbol. Built between 1589 and 1630 it served as a defense against pirates and invaders. People go now to see the sunset and dream of […]

I model for, photograph, and process my own photographic portraits, a passion which I developed through online photo-sharing in 2006, and which led to solo exhibitions both locally and internationally. My approach to photography is one of simplicity and spontaneity; I was first attracted to the medium by the ease of using a digital camera, […]