Van Leo • Noorderlicht

“Appropriated by the marketing departments of businesses keen to imbue their products with an air of hard-won distinction and borrowed avant-garde cool, it is now used to describe anybody from the celebrity programmer of a pop festival to a fashion stylist who puts together a ‘capsule collection’ from a department store’s fall/winter stock.” Phaidon

Harf Zimmermann • C|O Berlin

“I always wonder about the tenuous relationship between image and text, especially what the text, in approaching an image, cannot unravel.” Emmanuel Iduma in conversation with M. Neelika Jayawardane • Aperture

Noel Celis

As pivotal figures in the history of the medium, who are varied in sensibility, [Harry] Callahan, [Aaron] Siskind, and [Minor] White were united in the pursuit of photography as a form of self-expression, fulfilling Moholy-Nagy’s directive to explore “the expressive manipulation of light . . . free from cultural indoctrination.” Mark Alice Durant • photograph

Karolin Back

“There now exists a real demand for visuals that the world of analog photography tended to treat as nuisances.” Jörg Colberg • Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie

Noel Celis

“[A]nimal skulls and false teeth on a diner floor were all found in situ—I have a quick eye.” Lauren Grabelle in conversation with Anna John • World Photography Organisation

Anthony Barboza • Hyperallergic

“Images can transform the world, [Ariella Azoulay] argues, and the only reason they haven’t yet is because we don’t know how to look at them. The problem isn’t images; it’s us.” Sarah Sentilles • New Yorker

Unknown • Retrato

“[W]hat must I do to keep looking and thinking in a world that offers distractions of every kind?” John Yau • Hyperallergic

Bernhard Lang

“I almost think water is a metaphor for the medium of photography itself, as it reveals at the same time as it conceals. Those two way mirrors and the surface of the water, depending on the angle of the light hitting it, you either see through or you don’t.” Karine Laval in conversation with Michael Segalov • Huck

Dayanita Singh

“Photography is the prism through which I have something to say for the moment, but it will not always be this way. It’s important for me to allow other forms of expression into my life as well.” Laura El-Tantawy • Renderforest

Karine Laval

“My work never hopes to reconcile language and image. More accurately, it deploys their unbridgeable autonomies as both a means and a metaphor.” Nicholas Muellner in conversation with Adam Bell • Aperture