ichat portraiture . . .

Take a look at Laura Sackett's images of young teens iChatting with their friends. She thinks of her work as a new kind of portraiture. Click here to see more photographs and read about her concept.

is there such a thing as privacy? . . .

Philip-Lorca diCorcia talks about shooting his "Heads" series. Watch as he describes his simple lighting set-up and discusses the existence / non-existence of "privacy" in our contemporary world.

lolo veleko . . .

New York Times critic Holland Cotter has described these portraits by South African photographer Lolo Veleko as "eye-tingling", and Nigerian-born art historian and curator Okwui Enwezor considers this work an antidote to what he calls "Afro-pessimism". Click here and here to see and read more.

duane michals . . .

This is just one of many thought-provoking sequences by photographer Duane Michals. He is a photographic artist you definitely need to research. Click here for interview in Double Exposure.

which are you?

Do you like to take pictures of "what's out there"? Or do you prefer to "set up" your own shots? Take a look at this classic exhibition catalog and find out where you fit in . . .

take a look . . .

Two contemporary artists look at South Africa. Check out photographs by David Goldblatt

and films by William Kentridge at The Jewish Museum.