Thrilled to have my piece Making Out In Los Angeles featured in Treat Gallery’s current show “+1(plus one)”

This image is featured in my photobook Romantic Lowlife Fantasies - buy your copy here!

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JULIA FOX, PTSD 2016

In 1979, at the age of 24 and while still a student at Folkwang School Essen, Joachim Brohm set out to document the semi-private architecture of the Schreber gardens, the German equivalent to the allotment garden named after the physician Moritz Schreber. Likely inspired by the Bechers’s typologies of industrial architecture Brohm shows the often hand-built houses crowning in all of their variety: sometimes a mere hut, sometimes quite elobrate small houses these buildings and their surrounding gardens are the extended living rooms of their lodgers. Set against the neutral grey sky of the German winter Brohm approaches the houses from the gardens' gates and documents the various forms and shapes of the houses. But in contrast to the Bechers he never solely focuses on the architecture but also shows the interesting details and leftover artifcats present around the houses which tell of the life going on in and around them during spring and summer: footballs, lawn gnomes or simple vegetable beds immerse the viewer in the little stories hidden behind the walls and artifacts that are inextricably connected to the sphere of the Schreber gardens. Some might sniff at these identifiers of a petty bourgeois lifestyle but Brohm documents a grown cultural form that at the moment sees a revival among mostly well-educated urbanites.

That this early work of Joachim Brohm finally saw the light of day in 2014 is due to Mack Publishing who in close cooperation with the artist transferred his photographs into the present volume, fittingly entitled "Typology 1979". It gathers 35 Schreber garden photographs and a highly readable introduction to the series by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler who not only studied in the Ruhr area at the same time as Brohm did but also provides a historico-cultural excursus into the late 1970s Ruhr area and the Schreber gardens in particular, an essays that makes the book both a visual and intellectual pleasure!

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KISS: is an art book by Los Angeles-based photographer Maggie West.

'The book features 20 pairs of people kissing each other under colorful, surreal lighting. Kiss takes a unique, abstract approach to a subject that has depicted throughout centuries of art. By placing a universal activity in such a dreamlike setting, the book causes readers to reexamine the energy and intimacy taking place with each embrace."

Four Outdoor Life Skill Books, all paperback, with a hardcover case for the set

Outdoor Photography: Specially for Hunters, Fishermen, Naturalists, Wildlife Enthusiasts, by Erwin Bauer, 1965

Sportsman's Camping Guide: Specially for Hunters, Fishers, and Other Outdoorsmen, by Leonard Miracle, 1965

Game Bird Hunting, by F. Philip Rice and John I. Dahl, 1965

Hunting the Whitetail Deer, by Russell Tinsley, 1965

At a time when government and school officials are erasing Black history from schools’ curricula, Renata Cherlise’s “Black Archives” centers the life of Black individuals through lens-based media.

Since its founding days on Tumblr, Black Archives has shared archival black-and-white and color photographs of family celebrations, parades, religious services, and school events — some of which come together in a new book.

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LLANURAS MARES Y TIEMPOS

By Diana Lizette in collaboration with Edie Angela

Thank you @vicemag for interviewing me about my book Romantic Lowlife Fantasies !

Vice was the first magazine to interview me about my photography back in 2010 (and how my sister and I "borrowed" a child mannequin we were obsessed with from a local tuxedo shop to take to my Grandmother's birthday party). What a cool full circle moment to talk to them again 13 years later as we've both evolved. Swipe through for highlights and headlines from now and then

Julia Schenkelberg, “Blue Ocean”, 2020, Blue dye, resin, rusted metal from Detroit factory floors, plaster chips, vintage china, glass from Brooklyn beaches

Malone University Art Gallery’s exhibition Healing Spaces features work by Northeastern Ohio artists Julie Schenkelberg, Chen Peng, Yiyun Chen, and Emily Bartolone. Although the mediums differ, the work flows together in the room. Below are some selections and more about each artist from the gallery’s documentation.

Julie Schenkelberg, "Modern Memorial", 2020, Found screen, plaster, acrylic paint, vintage leather and fabric, jewelry box interior, glass gathered from Cleveland and Detroit auto and steel factory abandoned floors, vintage glass slide of the Parthenon Frieze

Julie Schenkelberg grew up in the post-industrial landscape of Cleveland, Ohio. Her mixed-media installations start with furniture, dishware, textiles, and marble, combined with concrete, resin, and construction materials, to transform notions of domesticity, and engage with the American Rust Belt's legacy of abandonment and decay. Using the home as a playground for formal and conceptual subversions, the work aggressively disrupts cohesion within the physical sphere. Familiar furnishings rekindle memories or premonitions of collapse, suggesting both the utter destruction of war, calamities, or urban decay, but also the uncanny juxtapositions of fragile substances such as cloth and china, with industrial materials such as rusty metal, heavy concrete, and tool-made marks such as drilled holes and chain-sawed indentations.

Chen Peng, Paintings from the "Mountains at Night" series, 2023, gouache, acrylic, and oil on canvas

Deriving from a desire to find stillness and grounding as an immigrant, Chen Peng explores the connection between landscape and the complexities of identity and belonging. She creates foreign landscapes from a combination of past experiences, memories, and imagination, delving into the disorienting sense of not knowing where home is. The moon, particularly in its fullness, becomes a symbol encapsulating emotions and metaphors associated with loneliness, reverence, and even terror. Her ceramic pieces extend this exploration of landscapes, featuring textures and marks that convey the essence of mountains, clouds, and the moon.

Photographs from from Yiyun Chen's series "Velleity", 2016-2018

The photography of Yiyun Chen is about the process of self-reflection and self-discovery as an Asian immigrant, exploring the relationship between people, environment and society, turning its personal experience and empathy into gentle conversations between humans and nature, capturing the poetic and distance of the environment around us. Through photography, we can take the essence of life seriously again and treat the people and things around us tenderly. Through his lens, they often have similar structure, people look tiny in nature scenes, creating an intimate visual experience. Most of his photographs are captured outdoors, with soft light and harmonious colors often used.

Stemming from her infatuation with the formal elements of painting, the work of Emily Bartolone pairs down simple, anthropomorphized shapes in an effort to explore paint and color theory while simultaneously creating tension and humor through color, edges, and texture. The playful, human qualities of painting are incorporated into the work through the use of amorphous shapes animated within the picture plane. Further informed by ideas of the mundane, the awkward, and the jovial that surround everyday life, the complexity of human relationships are mimicked by the shapes interacting on each painting's surface. In acknowledging that life is not always cordial, moments of tension are placed within the satisfying surfaces in the form of an abrupt mark, a disparate color, or a shift in scale. These ideas are used to take viewers outside of themselves for a short period of time, hoping to offer a break from the bombardment of distractions, notifications, and news we encounter so often on a daily basis.

This exhibition closes 4/9/24.

I'm so happy to present you the book "The B&W Book – A Selection of Contemporary Photography", curated by João Coelho, also co-author. 30 authors featuring different styles and techniques in a unique tribute to black and white photography and I'm so happy that also a selection of my images is a part of it. I thank João for the invitation. I hope you will be pleased by this book full of beautiful and inspiring works.

It can now be reserved by email: [email protected] For a book preview: https://issuu.com/joaogrilocoelho/docs/b_w_book_preview Book size 30x23cms, hardcover, 248 pages. Release Price: EUR 55.00 + shipping

Look, I’m in a book!

I was invited to have a few of my photos in the LEGO in Focus book. I was very honored to be included with some very gifted toy photographers. Thanks a lot @brickcentral and The LEGO Group! You can check out this majestic bookwyrm yourself, available in bookstores worldwide.

The austere beauty and precision of Mies van der Rohe’s has literally been captured by thousands of photographers, be it amateurs or Hedrich-Blessing, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Michael Wesely and even Julius Shulman. What all of them have in common is the focus on the auratic appeal of Mies’s buildings, a quality that admittedly is hard to ignore. The German photographer Joachim Brohm approaches Mies’ architecture differently: between 2013 and 2023 he visited sites buildings of Mies van der Rohe but refrained from the usual, wide-angled architectural photography that dominates the perception of his architecture. Instead, Brohm focused on the materiality, the many transformational interventions and the reconstruction as well as interpretation of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture.

A selection of photographs from this long-term project Brohm published last year in the book „LESSMORE - Buildings, sites and scenes in reference to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe“ via his self-publishing house BR-ED: on 300 pages the book shows less of the buildings as an iconic whole and more of their checkered history, their transitory state. This approach has become a hallmark of Brohm’s more recent work, e.g. in his „Areal“ series, and offers the spectator a novel perspective on an architecture seemingly well-known. Photographs of the Neue Nationalgalerie during restoration, the rebuilt Barcelona Pavilion or the temporary resurrection of the never built Golf Club in Krefeld trigger a reflective process about the historicity and museumization of Mies’s buildings. In this context Wolfgang Ullrich brought up Roger Buergel’s leitmotif of documenta 12 in 2007: „Is Modernity our Antiquity?“, a fitting question in view of the fact that Mies’ heroic projects are roughly a hundred years old and the context in which they were conceived become ever more foreign to today’s spectators. Brohm’s photographs show these buildings as modern antiques in which different layers of time have inscribed themselves and deconstruct the perfect image we have of them. But embedded in this challenge is the opportunity to gain new insights into the meaning of modernity as well as its contemporary condition. A brilliant book!

Hello,  I have exciting news: my zine “Leap!” will be exhibited at an event called Booked 2022 in Helsinki! “Leap!” is my first photography focused zine I put together back in January 2022 and it is a project I’m very proud of. Its interesting to see something so personal make its way into a public space. In this week’s post I wanted to share a little about this zine without giving too much away. 

To put it simply, Leap! is about my permanent move from Canada to Finland to live with my partner after five years of semi-long distance relationship. In other words it attempts to celebrate a new chapter in my life. Here is some info about the book:

48pages / 210mm x 133mm Thread sewn binding Matte paper 130gm

All of the pictures in this book have a dark tone but I think that reflects Finnish winter pretty well. I wish there were more light but it is what it is (I like this saying).  By contrast, I always get a warm feeling when looking at them since they are essentially ordinary everyday things that me and my partner enjoy doing, one of those being long outdoors walks in nature.

You might be wondering about the hare on the cover. There are pictures and paintings of hares scattered throughout the book. I noticed when I was looking through my archive for the initial selection of images I noticed how many pictures of hares there were. They were mostly shot through a window since, if I were to open the door it would skip away instantly. I noticed them quite often, so it probably meant something right? I sometimes like to look up symbolism and meanings for things and I read that the hare represented new beginnings. I thought it fit and I rolled with it.

This project made me realize how much I enjoyed putting images together into a book. I’ve been a book collector since my early teens, collecting books from artists I like, old and new as well as picture books. Aside from the art itself, the image placement, end paper selection, paper weight, the binding and much more are what excite me. It seemed like only a matter of time before I started making my own. I wondered for a long time why I enjoyed books so much - I haven’t come to a conclusion but it is probably has something to do with it being tactile. 

For those curious about cameras - I used my trusty Fujifilm XT1 with a 23mm F2 for all the images (I think). To my surprise it survived daily use in sub-zero temperatures as well as heavy snowfall!

Lastly, as much as I doubt anyone in the right area will see this (It always feels like I’m speaking into the void), here’s the information for the event just in case. The event will carry some copies of Leap! for sale as well.

26 November - 18 December 2022 MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C, Helsinki

If you’re not in the area but are interested in buying a copy. Just send me a DM! The money will go to printing costs on future books or zines since I’d like to keep this ball rolling. 

One day I’d like to talk more in detail about how the idea developed the picture selection process as well as inspirations behind the sequencing and design (My favorite part) but for now this preview will do.

Thanks for reading my ramblings.