Americans
Eugene Richards
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Two sisters, one with Alzheimer's, New York.
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Mrs Brown's last hours, Harlem.
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'Americans We', South Boston, Massachusetts.
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Garbage, Earle, Arkansas.
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Cuban refugees, Key West.
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'Killer', Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Ohio.
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Angry boxer, Roxbury, Massachusetts
From hospitals for the criminally insane to elderly sisters with brain disorders, Eugene Richard’s portraits are a haunting and intimate look inside America.
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Philadelphia
Eugene Richards
‘The ‘War Zone’ in Philadelphia is just north of the centre, about a mile and a half from City Hall and across the Street from Temple University.’
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
Amazon
Dorothea Lynch & Eugene Richards
‘We women, how in the dark we are about our bodies and what can happen to them. We ask in whispers in the corner at a party or on the telephone, what does a breast lump feel like? What does cancer look like? Will I be all right?’
Interview | Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff & Alice Zoo
‘The camera records what’s in front of it, but that reality can be pre-arranged.’
Thomas Ruff speaks to Alice Zoo about light, Bernd and Hilla Becher and the essence of photography.
The Institute
Maia Siegel
‘The Institute was meeting at Yale, at a corner bar with a pool table and subpar beer. It was only a society at this point, attempting to build itself out.’
Fiction by Maia Siegel.
Dead in Venice
Masahiko Shimada
‘If I wasn’t a fish spawned in the Brenta river, why was I so compelled to keep returning?’ Masahiko Shimada on his many trips to Venice.
