Bindi Vora’s newest book Mountain of Salt (Perimeter Editions, 2023) is an assemblage of sorts. Collecting the works of the eponymous project created during the pandemic, the photobook has afforded the artist a space for play: to deconstruct the images, to re-construct and expand the narrative. In this interview, we talk about words, images, the […]
A Conversation with Giulia Parlato and Giovanna Petrocchiby Camille Relet and Laura Bivolaru Giulia Parlato and Giovanna Petrocchi are two visual artists who explore historical narratives, museal practice, and material culture. Parlato starts from the idea of the photograph as a truthful document and borrows from the aesthetic of crime scene imagery and archeological discoveries […]
Following British Council Vietnam’s Digital Arts Showcasing grant in November 2021, two independent platforms Matca (Vietnam) and C4 Journal (the UK) kickstarted a series of 12 articles on photography, available on both websites in English and Vietnamese. The premise was simple: to catch up with movements in respective countries through work features, interviews with practitioners, […]
Xuan Tung writes on mindful portrayals of underserved communities through the works of two independent image-makers Hoang Long and Thinh Nguyen. Hoang Long‘s photography career was off to a rough start. For a personal project in 2014, the fledging visual journalist set out to accompany and document a street kid in Hanoi over the span […]
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Matt Dunne has been involved in photography for 11 years — first as a self-taught photographer, then as a writer –including here at C4 Journal– and, more recently, as a publisher. His first book, The Killing Sink, has just been published by Void; in 2021, he founded Tall Poppy Press, an […]
Matca x C4 Journal: Conversations Around Photography, Vietnam & UK is a series of 12 articles discussing various aspects of image-making supported by British Council Vietnam’s Digital Arts Showcasing grant 2021. [Bấm vào đây để đọc bài tiếng Việt] While discussion about gender should not overshadow artistic merit, it is worth noting the longstanding gender imbalance […]
Queer people, despite being a minority in society, are undeniably part of the social and cultural fabric of Vietnam. They appear in films and mass media, show up in word-of-mouth accounts, and can be encountered in real life. The community has come a long way to earn such visibility in the public sphere; yet, many […]
Founded in 2021 by Adam Ianniello & Taylor Galloway, newcomer Smog Press is a Los Angeles-based independent art book publisher. They were kind enough to send us their first two titles: Brian McSwain’s Memorare, and 37.2431° N, 115.7930° W, a collaboration between Ianniello and Galloway. Lucy Rogers and Eugenie Shinkle each chose one to write on. Adam Ianniello […]
It was three years ago that arts organisation Create London published a landmark report on inequalities within the British cultural workforce entitled Panic! Social Class, Taste And Inequalities In The Creative Industries. The investigation’s findings exposed the harsh realities faced by creatives who come from minority backgrounds. It revealed that as little as four per […]
Some images become so iconic that it can be difficult to recover their original legibility, obscured by layers of interpretation and a burden of accolades that transmute its meaning into the stuff of legend. Kawada Kikuji’s photobook The Map has been treated for some time with the kind of reverence that borders on orthodoxy, with […]