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Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance …
Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance …
Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance …
On the exhibition of Bruno Decharme’s photo/brut collection at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center By Dorottya Balkó How can an exhibition negotiate the mystique of artistic genius that inevitably takes shape within both …
Snapshots of happiness from the 1960s and 1970s by David Ford In the second essay in this series, David Ford looks at personal snapshots of nightlife from the 1960s and 1970s. What happened when people …
Capturing a night out in the 1950s and 1960s by David Ford This is the first in a series of three essays exploring different aspects of vernacular photographs of nightlife. The images used in …
This new edition of Photography+ is dedicated to vernacular photography We’re pleased to share that Photoworks has released a new edition of its Photography+ online magazine, The People’s Pictures, with a dedicated focus on vernacular …
An interview with Daniel Rapley by Dorottya Balkó The recently published photobook Drift, by Nottinghamshire-based artist Daniel Rapley, is about the materiality of the photographic image. Drawing from a background in painting, Rapley experiments …
By Benedek Farkas To mark this year’s Dwarfism Awareness Month (held annually in October), we present the work of Hungarian curator and researcher Benedek Farkas, recipient of last year’s Eidolon Grant, who began documenting the story …
by Pelin Aytemiz This essay by Pelin Aytemiz emerges from her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. As she writes, “Exploring different practices of photographing and representing the dead, my …
by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee …
Interview with Martin WágnerCollectors & their collection vol. 9 by Diana Ghazaryan Martin Wágner (1980, Prague) is a Czech documentary photographer and collector recognized for his impressive photos of daily life in Eastern Europe, …
Interview with Jen Grasso and Marco Ferrari, founders of the Photobooth Technicians Project by Róza Tekla Szilágyi For nearly a century, analog photobooths have offered fleeting yet intimate moments of self-expression – now rapidly …
Interview with visual artist William Mokrynski by Endre Cserna William Mokrynski is a Canadian-born visual artist whose practice centres on found photographic negatives, exploring their value as both historical records and creative material. Combining …
by Sándor Kardos Originally written for the current exhibition of the Horus Archives—on view at 2B Galéria in Budapest until 20 June 2025—the following essay, reflecting on the decalog by founder Sándor Kardos, is …
Over the past few weeks, we have been releasing weekly videos from our event, Talks on Everyday Imaging Vol. 2: The Self-Centred and the Networked, held on 13–14 February 2025 at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. …
Collectors & their collection vol. 8 by Júlia Alma Kerekes Bence Földvári Varga, also known as “Husi,” has a passion for old digital cameras, which has also evolved into his business practice. He travels …
In this article, you can read the editorial from our last newsletter of this year written by Eidolon-editor Róza Tekla Szilágyi, which was sent out on March 6, 2024. We publish our monthly editor's …
Interview with Caroline Furneaux London-based photographer and writer Caroline Furneaux’s recent photo-book, The Mothers I Might Have Had, is primarily interested in the identity and personal history of her father through his posthumously discovered …
Interview with Melissa Catanese by Dorottya Balkó Obscure figures emerging from distant or recent pasts, appearing within or next to ambiguous places. Flipping through the pages of visual artist Melissa Catanese’s photo-books, we experience …
