In Ukrainian Photography Today the now and then come into intimate contact to reveal a story about one’s roots and uprootedness.
Lev Feigin
Lev Feigin is a Philadelphia writer, flâneur, and, occasionally, photographer. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. You can follow him on Instagram.
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The Enthralling Solitude of Leigh Werrell’s Art
For Werrell, moments of disconnection and isolation in the city become opportunities to find enchantment in the act of looking.
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Personal Paintings that Have the Immediacy of Snapchat Posts
Frequently staging herself as a participant, Levinthal’s paintings present shifting versions of herself among the quotidian rituals of life.
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A Photographer’s Intimate Infinitude
David Lebe has often relied on alternative photographic processes to create powerful depictions of queer bodies.
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Imagined, Famous, and Sacred Places Trace the History of Japan in Art
Princeton’s Picturing Place in Japan condenses almost half a millennium of Japan’s artistic practice into a few small rooms.
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Aerial Photographs Convey Humanity’s Devastating Effects on Nature
Documenting infernal encounters between human activity and the planet, Edward Burtynsky’s multidisciplinary Anthropocene Project is a grave call for change.
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A Psych Ward-Inspired Trove of Outsider Art Finally Sees the Light
David Byrd’s hundreds of haunting oil paintings, inspired by his job at a psychiatric ward of a VA hospital, were hidden from the public for decades, until a visit from a neighbor led the then-87-year-old outsider artist to land his first gallery show.
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Inside Guantanamo Bay: A Photographer Documents America’s Most Heavily Guarded Prison
Debi Cornwall offers a vivid and unsettling glimpse of the infamous US detention center in her book Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay.