
Images from Constructed Landscapes by Dafna Talmor.
Constructed Landscapes, by Dafna Talmor
For Talmor, Constructed Landscapes stems from a place of ‘frustration’ with landscape photography, one the artist has referred to as ‘photographic agoraphobia’. In her early work, Talmor focussed on interior scenes, with hints of the outside world, which led to developing her ongoing photographic series Constructed Landscapes, with recent work shown at Sid Motion Gallery in late 2019. Through fragments of outdoor scenes in different locations of personal significance, from Israel, her country of birth, to the UK, where she has been based for over 20 years, colour negatives are stitched together to create an otherworldly vision of the outside world. In Constructed Landscapes, Talmor blends fact and fantasy; personal and universal; digital and analogue processes to form a coherent whole that defies specificity. Published by Fw:Books.
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Writer: Harriet Lloyd-Smith

Samuel. © Alys Tomlinson from Lost Summer
Lost Summer, by Alys Tomlinson
Alys Tomlinson’s forthcoming release is a poignant reminder of the many events that ground to a halt during the pandemic. For Lost Summer, the British photographer turned her lens towards 44 young people whose proms were cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. Within these black and white portraits, shot with parks, gardens and other outdoor locations between June and August, each teenager is dressed or suited for an end-of-school prom that never came to be. Tomlinson has just been declared the winner of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize for the series, which is on display in the National Portrait Gallery’s virtual gallery until March 2021. Lost Summer is available for pre-order now ahead of its release on 7 December, with an accompanying exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art.
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Writer: Harriet Lloyd-Smith

Images from Counting Till Ten, by Isabelle Wenzel. Design and edit by Jurgen Maelfeyt
Counting Till Ten, by Isabelle Wenzel
Drawing together performance art and sculpture, photographer Isabelle Wenzel also happens to be a trained acrobat. In Counting Till Ten, she plays a game of physical improvisation before the shutter clicks and captures her contortions. Direct and instinctive, Wenzel works fast as both model and photographer, merging both into a symbiotic movement. Mistakes are an essential part of this interesting process for the German artist. As viewers we experience a heightened awareness of our own bodies, Ultimately Wenzel asks ‘What is it like to be a physical being?’. Published by Art Paper Editions.
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Writer: Sophie Gladstone

Maty, from Every-day, by Vincent Ferrané. Image courtesy of Libraryman and Vincent Ferrané
Every-day, by Vincent Ferrané
Offering a glimpse into young people’s routines, Every-day by Vincent Ferrané documents Ava, Jackie, Léo, Mathieu, Matthias, Maty and Raya as they go through the motions of preparing to leave the house. The fact that leaving our homes is no longer an everyday occurrence for many of us, adds something special as we remember this familiar but now distant norm. That this is a series focusing on transgender or non-binary people is incidental, Ferrané explains ‘through a repetition of actions, representations, strategies, stories and convictions specific to each person, the ever fragile project of being oneself is revealed.’
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Writer: Sophie Gladstone

Alec Soth, from The Parameters of Our Cage, by C. Fausto Cabrera & Alec Soth (MACK, 2020). Courtesy the artist and MACK. Letters: copyright Alec Soth
The Parameters of Our Cage, by C. Fausto Cabrera and Alec Soth
In January 2020, American photographer Alec Soth received an unexpected letter from Christopher Fausto Cabrera, an inmate at Minnesota Correctional Facility in Rush City. Over the following nine months, the two artists engaged in a dialogue consisting of personal histories and shared influences, from André 3000 to Robert Frank’s seminal book, The Americans. This resulted in an unlikely collaboration, The Parameters of Our Cage, which documents their written and visual exchanges on everything from prison life, to the Black Lives Matter movement and issues that probe the very essence of contemporary America. All proceeds from The Parameters of Our Cage will be donated to the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
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Writer: Harriet Lloyd-Smith

Spread from When Strawberries Will Grow on Trees I Will Kiss You, by Nicolas Polli
When Strawberries Will Grow on Trees I Will Kiss You, by Nicolas Polli
When Strawberries Will Grow on Trees I Will Kiss You follows Nicolas Polli’s experiences of solitude during lockdown; we see his crumpled yet erect socks, smouldering paper flowers, intertwined toes, and hand-written poetry. Through these tactile still lifes, Polli is sarcastic yet vulnerable, reminding us of how important another human’s touch is. This wasn’t the only creative outcome of this time for Polli however, he also founded Home Life Still Life: a platform celebrating the inventive still lifes photographers were creating in their own homes. Pairing behind-the-scenes documentation with the final image has opened up a normally secretive process, at a time when photographers needed this community most.
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Writer: Sophie Gladstone