Fotoromanzo Italiano in conversation with photo novel guru Jan Baetens

While the eccentric collective Fotoromanzo Italiano of explosive duo Andrea Botto and Giorgio Barrera with their extravagant booth is conquering Coop, a terrific initiative dedicated to artist-run projects and collectives worldwide, curated by Lars Willumeit within the must attend photography fair Unseen in Amsterdam, we asked the renown photo novel expert professor…

Interview with Duncan Wooldridge

by Federica Chiocchetti

Duncan Wooldridge researches the history of the experiment, and is interested in the proto- and extra-photographic, and the ways we struggle with the limits of photography and what some of those terms might mean. He is an artist and writer, and is Course Director of Photography at Camberwell College of…

Interview with Nick Scammell

by Lisa Stein

Nick Scammell maintains a practice where photography and literature collude. Fascinated by where the image meets the word, where the material meets the digital, he uses scanners to explore the performance of surface and the transformation of the tangible into digital rumour. Following his most recent exhibition That Burning Field, the Photocaptionist…

Steve Fuller: PAPKA

What do Joachim Weimann, Katy Clark, Esther Goodall, James Trevithick, Andrew Sutton, Charlie Day, Sophia Wood, Art Cohen and Monica Anderson have in common? They are all simulated photo-artists and writers, contributors of the fictive magazine PAPKA, conceived and masterfully produced by Steve Fuller, fresh graduate from Falmouth University. Playfully exploring the ‘murky waters’ of what is considered…