Jan von Holleben - Kosmos Ukrainian Photography

Jan von Holleben - Kosmos Ukrainian PhotographyLittle Steidl 2017 Jan von Hollebens idiosyncratic images have become part of the contemporary German photographic imagination. He constructed this Kosmos of six planets with little more than a box of props, a team of willing helpers, some clippings from the garden, and his camera. Without any digital manipulation, strange things happen before the camera: ghosts flash through the Berlin cityscape, plants cast shadows on the sky, many places appear in

or a group of three women in sunglasses posing proudly with their handbags clearly demonstrate the post-independence verve

Though the passage of time is one of the most palpable tensions at work in these photographs

Gerry Johansson has brought his shrewd and sensitive eye to bear on peripheral landscapes the world over

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The existence of similar convictions in some African countries suggests that the cult may have been brought to Iran from southeast Africa through the Arab slave trade

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with an extreme sensibility to light and shadows

these accumulated comforts

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Spanish Summer sees him return to one of the first places that captured his imagination: the plains of central Spain

A time that seemed eternal at the time