In 1999, the Danish photographer Jacob Aue Sobol travelled to the small hunting community of Tiniteqilaaq, in south-eastern Greenland. He was twenty-three years old at the time, and intended to pass a few weeks photographing the inhabitants. Then, as often happens, reality altered around him, and …
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‘How reliable did the gods have to be / to make his parents meet on an island / the size of a continent?’
Two poems by Hu Xudong, translated by Margaret Ross.
‘How would I feel if I had messaged for years with someone that I later found out was an AI?’
Brea Souders speaks to Alice Zoo about chatbots, interconnection and the dialogue between photography and text in her work.
‘Love is a concept about which I have long been very sceptical. I have seen the damage that can be done, and can be justified, in the name of love.’
Fiction by Kevin Brazil.
‘The presence of another person at the scene is suggested. The image invites you to imagine their position and to mentally assume it.’
Photography by Debmalya Ray Choudhuri, introduced by John-Baptiste Oduor.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘My father was sitting on my doorstep. He was wearing khaki shorts, his bare head was exposed to the full bore of the sun, and he was holding a pineapple.’
