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All of these are clad in neutral grey or tan cloth with a tipped-in photograph on the cover, and agreeably sized like a novel, so that the Johansson section of one’s library is both inviting and handsomely uniform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso uniform are the interiors of the books, in which all of the pictures are 3.5” squares placed in the same position on the page. Each is accompanied by a simple place-name caption, and the photographs are presented alphabetically based on that caption. For variety, single- and double-page spreads are mixed throughout, perhaps somewhat favoring the latter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of this is to say that design, sequence, narrative, the meaning imparted by metaphoric titles – most of the things considered crucial in the photobook – are pretty much removed from the equation in Johansson. And what are we left with? Pictures. 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Brody was a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq War. After leaving the army, he traveled to Afghanistan as an independent civilian journalist. Returning to rural New England after 12 years at war, he found his home unrecognizable - even his own backyard radiated menace and threat. So he continued photographing the war as it exists in his own mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by military field manuals, Attention Servicemember invites viewers through an evolving and often wickedly funny creative process - some pictures are intimate snapshots, some are slick jingoistic propaganda, others are meditative and subtle tableaus. Writing from an intensely personal perspective, he also offers an insiders’ view of the military, the media, and their contentious but symbiotic partnership. Anyone wondering how we wound up trusting serial liars and arguing about fake news should take a closer look at the cognitive disconnection in Baghdad and Kabul during the height of the wars. 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It’s a place where animals are only seen when they’re being hunted and humans balance between an unapologetic existence and an abyss of secrecy. These images manipulate a landscape that is simultaneously autobiographical, documentary, and fictional: a weaving of myth and symbol in order to be confronted with the experiential. Following the rituals of those within it,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an obsession between the subject and the photographer—a compulsion to reveal its shrouded Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDylan and Paul have been working together since 2011 but they only started making\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein 2016, when they lived together in a cold house on Peaks Island, a small island only accessible by boat off of the coast of Maine. They gave themselves the boundary of the island as a perimeter to make photographs. It began as a traditional interest in place—a documentary of a piece of land and stories of its inhabitants, but as the work began to expand they let their thoughts cross-pollinate with those outside the island, namely their families and the lands that we were raised on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven though\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Creek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eblurs the borders of reality and fiction, the intention of the artists was never to confuse, but rather to build a place from the ground up, leaving little remnants of the place they initially set out to document. Their impulse to contort “place” had to do with the inevitable ways the exterior world affects one’s interior landscape and experience of it. 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In war, truth is the first casualty and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCentralia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the unsteady relationship between reality and fiction and how our perceptions of reality and truth are manipulated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining tropes of documentary and fiction, art historian Emilia Terracciano, writing in 1000words magazine, has called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCentralia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a ‘hallucinatory reflection’ where an invisible conflict between a guerilla army, an indigenous people and the Indian state is associated with wider issues of environmental degradation. Such exploitation comes at a price: the transmogrification of violence into the de-facto language of politics. The voice of resistance is buried by alternate facts. Freedom is shrinking and what we say and who we are is being obscured.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoulomi Basu is an Indian transmedia artist, photographer and activist. Widely published and exhibited, her work explores the way in which the formation of identity becomes entwined with geopolitics, revealing the hidden power structures buried deep within our societies. In 2018 the Centralia work was recognised through the award of the Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant Main Prize. A Magnum Foundation Social Justice Fellow and grantee, Poulomi is known for advocating the rights of women through her work and in 2019 Amnesty International noted her as an important and brilliant ‘human rights activist’. She also featured on ‘The Conversation’ (BBC World Service) alongside Lynsey Addario as one of the most significant contemporary war photographers. 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