Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs – Mining Photography / The Ecological Footprint of Image Production
#1 min Tea Záchová
5. 12. 2023
Is photography ecological? From the very beginning, we have known that it works with toxic materials and heavy and rare metals. This book, or rather a catalogue, which was preceded by an eponymous group exhibition, focuses through ten scientific texts on the transformation of the method of photography in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries without losing sight of the issue of mining. From the previously used materials like copper, coal and silver, all the way to the contemporary cobalt, europium and coltan, which are used in smartphones. Through these individual materials, the collection describes just how much the medium itself is connected to the issue of climate change and its impacts on mankind. This ambivalent relationship between photography and nature is accompanied by the rich visuals of historical examples and contemporary artistic projects.
Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs: Mining Photography / The Ecological Footprint of Image Production. Various Authors, Spector Books, 2022.
Tea Záchová
#2 min Fotograf Zone
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
#2 min Natalie Drtinová, Dorota Franková
Dorota Franková – Tenderness and Pain of Dorota Franková’s Portraits
In her work, Dorota Franková focuses on portraiture. While the portraits of others tend to be full of tenderness and fragility, her own are captured in exacerbated situations or via manipulated photographs that emphasise the restlessness of the mind.
#1 min Tea Záchová
Maja and Reuben Fowkes – World of Art / Art and Climate Change
#1 min Tea Záchová
Katy Hessel – Story of Art (Without Men)
#1 min Tea Záchová
Anna Volkmar – Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
#1 min Tea Záchová
Darja Lukhanenko – How to make rockets disappear?
#3 min Polina Davydenko, Tea Záchová
Polina Davydenko – Cosmoses of Justice and Ordinariness
Laziness, dissatisfaction, voyeurism, irony, human and extra-social energy and its phenomena that accompany us in today's hot days are important spices used by author Polina Davydenko. She sprinkles this spice on the main characteristics of her works about the quite common but important topic of home.
#3 min Tea Záchová, Julie Béna
Julie Béna – Like the Moon in the Sun is my Shadow
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading. Essential to her work is the open concept of two realities that can interpenetrate within a particular choreography and scenography.