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My new book, Translations, is now available for pre-sale over on Aint–Bad’s website. Go grab a copy!

MARK DORF: TRANSLATIONS

I can’t thank you all enough! My monograph, TRANSLATIONS, is now fully funded with 16 days left in the campaign! Thank you so much for not only your supporting efforts, but also for sticking with me in all of my emails and updates. It is really greatly appreciated. Myself and Aint–Bad very much look forward to sharing this monograph with you. There are still some pre-sale books available for purchase through the Kickstarter up until the 11th of August!

Again, thank you for your continued support.

MARK DORF  //  TRANSLATIONS  //  KICKSTARTER

MARSELHA
THOMAS DETTORI

SELF-PUBLISHED PHOTOBOOK
FRANCE, MARSEILLE. OCT 2017
DIGITAL, SADDLE-STITCH, 16,5 X 22,4 CM
56 PAGES, 50 COPIES

LINK TO BOOK

RETOURNE L’INVISIBLE
LISE LACOMBE

LA FRANCE ENTIÈRE, SELF-PUBLISHED
FRANCE, VILLEFRANCHE DE ROUERGUE. 2016
SILK-SCREEN PRINTED COVER, DIGITAL
500 COPIES

LINK TO BOOK-WEBSITE

LA CHIENLIT
LISE LACOMBE

LA FRANCE ENTIÈRE, SELF-PUBLISHED
FRANCE, VILLEFRANCHE-DE-ROUERGUE (?). 2017
SILK-SCREEN PRINTED COVER
500 COPIES

LINK TO PHOTOBOOK-WEBSITE

Repost from @threelmedia using @RepostRegramApp - Repost from @tinahornsass using @RepostRegramApp - One of my best essays of the past few years appears alongside many highly appealing naked pictures of hairy models in @xnikkisilverx ’s photo book Unshaven. I turned the idea of hairy femininity over and over, examining what makes a queer body, a natural body, a feminist body, a body in rebellion. Hygiene, consumerism, fetishism, porn, gender, and punk come into play. Unshaven was the first book from @threelmedia and I was proud to have a hairy hand in it. #hairyqueen #hairygirls #porn #hair #unshaven #naughtynatural #hairywomen #hairyarmpits #hairyporn #bodyhair #naturalgirls #naturist #feminism #feminist #feministbooks #nudes #nudephotography #photobook #essays #feministwriters

A book review on “A Red Hat”, Dec 2020

How could one possibly not thinking about what happens now in this world while looking back into the past? 

Two Japanese artists in their 20s were sentenced imprisonment in 1943 for their opposite thinking that could be potential hazard to their nation.  

In 2020, Hong Kong. History repeats.

Kentaro Takahashi demonstrates an excellent storytelling skill through his sequencing of images in a form between street and documentary photography.  He is not in rush to take his audiences into the world of two subject artists’ daily life.  The longer one takes to view from a distance, the more one could see is what he suggests.  Suddenly viewers are overwhelmed by how up-close Kentaro could possibly takes us to his subjects, from their daily routine, down to the cigarette they smoke and the paint brushes they will use, like a member in their family.    

But how could we possibly learn from these two beautiful old souls, experiencing something so hard and unbearable in their youth yet living so simple and graceful in their winter life?  

This could be one of the many underlying themes in Kantaro’s new photo book, “A Red Hat”.  Looking into other people’s life and hardship gives us strength to deal with frustration.  The two artists cherish every single moment from the time they spend with family, and tea they sip; every chance they could travel and talk about what they have gone through in public, and the every brush stroke they would make on drawing paper.

Life goes on, and it’s all about your attitude in regards to the pain and cruelty in life.

Kentaro also plays a little mind game of seeking red with readers.  Not just the symbolic red hat, but the colour red becomes an important element that penetrates through this visual journey - from the red scarf to cherry tomato of Ryoichi’s evening snack, to Goro’s favourite lounge chair and red kettle he used to make tea; red is the colour of this nation, and it justified the suffer in their past only hoping for the best for the future.  

Forgive, but never forget.

WWH

Winter Poetry…Tanya Luca

Etheral Eternity…Tanya Luca

I keep my eyes on you…:)))

Tanya Luca