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Write down: What do you think the images show? A certain drift. The drift being more pronounced than the certainty. What exactly is the role of theory in photography? Can you think your way into a project, can the images solve the question the text poses? Is something reachable for an image that is not reachable by the text (and vice versa)?
WritingArles · July 2026
Arles Diary, part 5
On awkward moments, sunset, nostalgia, the patina of texture, kitsch&comebacks
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Arles Diary, part 4
About the money that was in journalistic photography, the quality of the Stern, how photojournalism was founded, and with it a whole form of dealing with photography is dead now: The topics are not gone, they just receded from a public eye into the photobook.
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Arles Diary, part 3
Day three of the Rencontres d'Arles: the photobook as catalog, the celebrity-cult shows, the standouts (Cannibal Image, CTRL), and the tricksters at the Fondation van Gogh.
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Arles Diary, part 2
Day two of the Rencontres d'Arles: Bourdieu's art world as organized religion, fleeing the vernissages, William Klein and the Steichen flowers — and Arles as a date with an ex.
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Arles Diary, part 1
First dispatch from the Rencontres d'Arles: the heat and crush of too many images, photography as the way we now experience the world, and being floored by Ming Smith.
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The Destroyer
Altitude sickness in the Atacama, the wiping-out of thoughts, and what's left of the impulse to photograph afterward.
Read →WritingApril 23, 2025
Kinder auf der Landstraße
On Mahler/Schirmer's Ein Dorf, and how the idealized image of the Village stays endlessly reusable across ideologies.
Read →WritingApril 24, 2025
On Fatigue
On the eye's own muscles tiring, and the idea of having seen too much.
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