Modern Photographers / X

On Christmas Day 2023 my beloved son Cash died. This collaboration came out of the need to honor the relationship between Cash and I. To show how even after he left the physical world we are still connected and in relationship.

This body of work reflects on mortality, the human condition, and our culture’s obsession with materialism. Through imagery inspired by Dutch and Spanish paintings, it expresses the transience of our existence by exploring our shared relationship with food.

Walking through the narrow alleys of Seoul, you can easily find vintage clothing stores and used appliance stores. These stores have been around since the 1970s and 1980s, before the K-pop idols and -food that many people know today became famous. On weekends, the flea market is crowded with people looking for cool clothes. The alleys in front of Dongmyo alley are getting attention again, and tourists also visit here to travel to Seoul and experience the interesting alleys of Seoul.

“Los Ojos - Life on the Streets of East Los Angeles” is a photographic project rooted in the lived experiences of many Hispanic individuals from East LA. Every subject portrayed had been involved with gangs and, at some point, most had been incarcerated.

The project aims to construct a series that invites you on a visual journey inspired by the unique universe of painter Edward Hopper, where light and composition sculpt the solitude and silence of everyday scenes, alternatively the atmosphere of Wim Wenders films like “Perfect Days”. Hopper, with his evocative compositions, masterfully captured the isolation of the human soul amidst a modernizing America in transformation.

Ordinary Grief is a story of tenuous reconciliation. In 2017, I returned to Iran after 25 years of self-exile, where I embarked on a personal and political reclamation of my identity and history. With images spanning 2017-2022, Ordinary Grief is my attempt to reconcile despair and joy, exhaustion and hope. It’s about ordinary Iranians actively trying to create new futures for themselves despite the odds. It’s a love letter to a country from which I feel estranged, despite having been born there, and to the people who call it home.

More than a decade ago, artist and curator Liza Faktor started looking more deeply into the annals of her family while navigating the dissolution of her own relationship and confronting the aftermath of her father’s sudden death. She turned to photography to explore the nature of a committed relationship while questioning what family truly means to her.

These images were selected from a body of photographs produced during the fair's two-week run at the end of August between 2015 through 2021. My assignment, from the fair’s marketing department, was to capture iconic images of those who participated in the fair while documenting the fair’s events and singular moments that define the small-town aspect of life in rural Alaska’s Matanuska Valley. I was so happy that my client gave me the freedom to find and capture images that spoke to me. Never once did they give me any instructions or tell me how to make my images.

''Souvenir d'un Futur'' documents the life of senior citizens living in the “Grands Ensembles” (large housing projects) around Paris. For the most part erected between the 1950s and the 1980s to address the housing crisis, urban migration and the inflow of foreign migrants while meeting modern comfort needs, these large estates are today often stigmatized by the media and marginalized by public opinion. In sharp contrast with these cliché views, and fascinated by these projects’ ambitious and dated modernistic features, Laurent Kronental was moved by the living conditions of these urban veterans who have aged there, and who, he feels, are the memory of the locus.