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Rory King: Australia’s Landscapes of Mourning

There is something of a ghost story in Gumsucker. Deserted places, bodies that seem to wait, a nature that is no longer entirely wild but not yet fully domesticated. Rory King’s book, published in late 2025 by Charcoal Press, inhabits this uneasy zone, where landscapes still bear the marks of a world in the process of disappearing.

January 06, 2026

Friday January 6, 2026

Summary

A pioneer of modern photojournalism, he walked a tightrope through the century, armed with a simple camera and phenomenal audacity. From Hollywood glamour to the Third Reich, his work resonates as a warning signal.

By Guénola Pellen

Seventy years after Berenice Abbott, the Russian-American photographer retraces Route 1 from Florida to Maine. Her new book, Atlantic Coast, unveils an America haunted by its own myths, where toxic nostalgia and desire for the future intertwine in an unsettling visual ballet.

By Guénola Pellen

Born in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, this poignant photographic series by Greg Miller transforms an ordinary ritual—children waiting for the school bus—into a meditation on innocence, fragility, and resilience.

By Guénola Pellen

“Verdant Land”, The Deep Roots of the American West

Irina Werning’s book Las Pelilargas explores the cultural significance of long hair in Latin America, and the sense of belonging it has come to embody.

By Gaia Squarci

Jane Dickson revisits the photography practice that allowed her to record and preserve observations that she would later transform into paintings.

By Miss Rosen

A tour of Venetian churches by photographer Alejandro Merizalde.

By Sabyl Ghoussoub

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