This week we feature photographer Yael Malka who recently put together a gorgeous book with Photographer of the Week #25, Cait Opperman. Our selection comes from their collaborative book, Sea Blues. Yael Malka, born 1990, is a native New Yorker and currently resides in Brooklyn. To view more work, visit her website.
Cross-disciplinary artist Bianca Casady of music duo CocoRosie is set to launch a new print magazine entitled Girls Against God (GAG).
A boldly feminist exploration and multi-generational endeavor, GAG deploys the arts to illuminate the oppressive, obsolete nature of traditional, male-defined religions and other patriarchal institutions — “We must resist and reinvent,” Casady declares.
Created in partnership with artist Anne Sherwood Pundyk, GAG’s debut issue is a lushly colorful tabloid-sized print publication, showcasing provocative, original artwork alongside comprehensive interviews and essays with an international cadre of artists.
GAG’s editors honor feminist heritage, seen in a photo essay of the Seneca Women’s Peace Encampment — while seeking to broadcast current perspectives, such as Pussy Riot and Femen.
GAG Issue 1 contributors include: Antony, Gabby Bess, Melanie Bonajo, Vaginal Davis, Yasmine Hadan, Emely Neu, Kembra Pfahler, Marguerite Stern, Alexyss K. Tylor; and contributions from Johanna Constantine, Mary Hanlon, Julie Higonnet, Molly O’Brien, Chloe Olewitz, Alice O’Malley, Kara L. Rooney, and Jean Marc Ruellan.
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Purchase here.
Ina Jang graduated with a BFA in Photography in 2010 and completed her studies in the MPS Fashion Photography Program in 2012 from the School of Visual Arts.
Her works have been shown in numerous galleries and festivals internationally, including the Empty Quarter in Dubai, New York Photo Festival, Tokyo Photo 2011 and Galerie Steph in Singapore. Ina currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Photo of Jeremy Shaw by Zoe Bridgeman
Capricious contributor Jeremy Shaw’s new 16mm film, “Variation FQ” will be premiering at Schinkel Pavillion at 7pm on June 22nd (Berlin).
A 16mm film that places the transgender vogue dancer, Leiomy Maldonado, within the aesthetics of Norman McLaren’s 1968 ballet film, “Pas de deux”. Variation FQ (11:05 Min) seduces and confronts the viewer with the beguiling force of Leiomy Maldonado highly dramatic and evolved voguing performance. Using high contrast black and white, step-and-repeat effects, and an original soundtrack composed by Shaw himself, the film amplifies and extends the unique, cathartic movements the protagonist’s dance, both graceful and violent.
Voguing is a primarily Afro-american and Latino, gay dance subculture that began in New York in the late 1960’s, and in spite of minor mainstream recognition, remains largely marginalized. Variation FQ is a study of the co-evolution of subculture, gender, dance, and special effects.
A program of evening events including screenings and a talk with Marc Gl?de will accompany the exhibition, introducing various visual and social elements that are touched upon by Shaw’s film; some didactic, others quite obscure. The accompanying program aims to serve as a platform for continued discourse around the exhibition as well as an invitation to the backstage thinking of Jeremy Shaw. Organized by Clara Meister and Jeremy Shaw, please check www.schinkelpavillon.de for further information and dates.
Jeremy Shaw (*1977 Vancouver) is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. He works in a variety of media ranging from film and video installation to performance and sculpture. Jeremy Shaw’s work explores altered states of consciousness and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to, or attempt to map, transcendental experience. Often involving the documentation of physical and ritualistic activities of subculture, his videos, photographs, and installations offer propositions around the translation of experiences often considered untranslatable. Shaw’s work has explicitly combined strategies and devices of conceptual art, documentary film, music video, and scientific research, to address topics ranging from psychedelic drug use, brain imaging and hypnosis, to straight-edge hardcore, time-travel, and rave culture.
He has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, US (2011) and MOCCA, CA (2006) and been included in group-exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and KW Institute (2012). From 1999 until 2009, Shaw was responsible for the underground electronic music project Circlesquare.
With the support of the Canadian Embassy, Kvadrat and Absolut.
In their latest studio visit series, PORT, a culture and design magazine features previous Capricious contributor and friend, Sara Cwynar.
In the interview Cwynar speaks of her influences and how she came to making art.
To read the full interview, visit Port Magazine
Recent Capricious contributor, Michael Werner, runs a nifty little interview blog to help promote emerging young photographers. In one of his most recent interviews, Michael spoke to photographer Joshua Lutz about making work and finding an audience.
Check out Two Way Lens for the conversation, and more.
Capricious #13 contributor Jeanie Choi is featured on the new online platform for contemporary photography Lintroller, a part brain child of Capricious friend Alex Thebez!!
From Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Jeanie Choi will be graduating from Parsons the New School for Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography. Jeanie uses photography, video and performance in a series of collaborations with her family. Her work was recently exhibited at the Radiator Gallery in Don’t Worry What Happens Happens Mostly Without You, along with her thesis Silence Makes Us All Liars, at Calumet Gallery. Read interview here.
A former Capricious Photographer of the Week, Cait Opperman, along with Yael Malka, has just released a new book entitled Sea Blues.
More information here.
PictureBox has announced a new book that features Capricious friends Tim Barber, Aaron McElroy and Nicole Lesser among others!!
Titled “Nudity Today: Revealing Work by Emerging Photographers” the book is a compilation of contemporary nude photographs are takin within the context of personal, intimate moments.
For more info head to PictureBox.
Irina Rozovsky was born in Moscow and grew up in the Boston area. She received a BA in French and Spanish Literature from Tufts University and an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art. Her work has been published and exhibited in the United States and abroad. Irina lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at the International Center of Photography.
The images that we are featuring this week are from her series “In Plain Air“.
Check out her website for more of her work.
