#underground photobooks

[leseditionsshirokuro]

First copies of the new photobook by artist R.Tanaka

The two photobooks are sold together  

"The day that will end is worth the day that begins"

“ My name is Jeremiah 17:8″

Black stitched books

 90gr recycled paper book

beautiful silver stamped rice paper

soft cover in recycled paper in a beautiful gray color

Limited Edition of 30

numbered and signed by the artist

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[nyaheum]

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[rafamonzo]

PROTOTYPE / プロトタイプ

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[ilovetheshadowlight]

Dazed

A photo zine paying homage to homo-punk smut.

Matt Lambert and Jannis Birsner create a sexual subculture, playing with ideas of masculinity and sensual liberation.

Fusing their respective relationship to Berlin's underground and the LA punk scene, Jannis Birsner and Matt Lambert have created VITIUM: an entirely Berlin shot photo-zine, portraying the coital subculture of a fraternal cult.

Lambert published his first photobook, Keim, a sensual account of male intimacy, last year. The pages of VITIUM are populated by a much heavier and explicit contrast. This fraternal, sensual subculture uses sexuality as a wrapper, but it's a medium that speaks to mutual love, respect and friendship -- mirrored in the manifesto found on the pages of the zine.

[mickmercer-goth]

VIRGIN PRUNES at Croydon Underground 12th December 1985 Please join my Substack - free to subscribe - for daily Goth, Post-Punk and Indie reviews and photos.

[turtleations]

Pink Couldy Sky, Chapter 07 – Letter (Summarized) - Part 1

Note 1: Once again, the chapter is split into two parts. This first parts has the majority of it, but the secong part contains a long section that is actually, directly translated, and I will need more time to edit it properly. I hope to have it up before the year is over, but I can make no promises.

Note 2: This post contains pictures. I am not happy with how tumblr is sizing/cropping them on my screen. Click on them if they are not shown in full.

Chapter 00 - 01 Chapter 02 Chapter 03 Chapter 04 Part 1, Part 2 Chapter 05 Chapter 06 Part 1, Part 2

Under Professor Arakawa, REM’s days of acquiring knowledge as a dentist continued after graduation. He joined Arakawa’s study group where he gained practical experience on various cases and worked very hard on becoming an actual dentist. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to justify himself to his late mother, nor to hide and the other members of SAVER TIGER. Those feelings were his main driving force. The other members of his dentist-band AMIT also joined Arakawa’s study group and they pushed each other forward.

To REM, who was practical by nature, this study circle was very helpful. He learned about the technical aspects from a medical point of view, and also about mental self-discipline.

In this time, again thanks to Professor Arakawa, REM also met Beat Takeshi, aka Takeshi Kitano [born 1947, actor, director, comedian etc.].

He vividly remembers the first time they went drinking together. They met at Takeshi’s place and he took REM to a snack bar in Roppongi’s underground. Takeshi was in a good mood and sang a lot at karaoke. His way of singing was exactly as REM had imagined it would be. Song after song he got on the floor and fired off jokes in rapid succession.

Takeshi seems blunt, but REM thinks he actually has a direct and kind personality and is very aware of his surroundings. When REM showed him a photo from is SAVER TIGER days, Takeshi laughed and said, “You really were a dentist already. Time didn’t change you.” Then he got serious and said, “But it’s interesting. Do your best.” The timing and the delivery were exquisite. [Note: I’m guessing that there was a joke in there that I fail to make sense of.]

When they talked about hide and discussed music, Takeshi pulled out one creative idea after another.

“When Doctor REM does a live, I’ll secretly enter the stage with no announcement, sing one song, and leave again without saying anything.”

It was a very fun night of drinking. They separated with REM excitedly promising to make that song for him.

Come to think of it, this was just one week before that unfortunate accident befell Takeshi. [Note: This is likely referring to a near-fatal motor scooter accident on 2. August 1994, which may or may not have been a suicide attempt.]

After this, they met several more times, with Takeshi also coming to Yokosuka for drinks, and continued their exchange. Takeshi would probably scold REM for embarrassing him if he read this, but he truly is a generous and warm person.

-

Hide continued to call REM about once a month. When he called from overseas, REM had the habit of taking notes on his calls in his diary-substitute-notebook.

For example: “31. August. Call from hide in L.A. at 6:30 AM. Today, it seems Megadeath came to the studio and he listened to their rehearsal.

He chatted about various things with the former guitarist of Cacophony, who apparently speaks Japanese.

When they went to a Japanese-style iszakaya afterwards, Ron Wood was drinking there…”

Beyond that, he would always contact REM when he returned to Japan, come directly to his apartment from Narita airport, and drink until morning to combat jet lag.

In the first half of the nineties, “X” turned into “X JAPAN”. In this time, hide rapidly grew not only as a guitarist but as an artist in general.

In 1992, he showed his talent as a visualist with the publication of his solo-photobook “Mugongeki”. His stage turned from Budokan to the Tokyo Dome to the world. REM, on the other hand, having given up music, turned into a normal dentist.

However, whenever hide returned to Yokosuka, they would go drinking at Dobuita together – as drinking buddies, as best friends, as music companions who would forgive each other for every stupid thing said.

In a sense, it was a pretty strange connection.

Now, REM wonders if it wasn’t obvious that he was holding back around hide for fear of bothering him. To say nothing of the fact that the bitter feeling of not having been there for hide when he needed him most would not leave him alone.

But – and he thinks it may sound pretentious to put it like this – REM wonders if in this town of Yokosuka, where hide had been born and raised, all the cloudy hesitation and misunderstandings and strange fears weren’t blown away by the constant salty breeze from the sea.

REM couldn’t help but think that way.

When they drank at Dobuita until morning, there were no obstacles between them.

Hide always listened intently to REM’s silly music stories. Is that artist good or not, which CDs are cool – he always had an earnest discussion with REM about these things.

Looking at hide’s carefree smile, REM always heard a voice deep in his heart, saying, “Now I owe him again…”

Without his noticing, that murmur changed to, “No matter how, I want to pay him back. No matter how many years it takes, one day I will…”

One day when hide was in Yokosuka, REM went to “Parkside X” together with Professor Arakawa. He’d been thinking that he should introduce hide to Arakawa, so when they happened upon him, REM introduced him with the words, “Arakawa-sensei, this is hide.”

And Arakawa smiled and stood with, “My pleasure, I’m Arakawa.”

Hide, also standing, looked a little nervous, and said, “Likewise. Thank you for always taking care of REM. I’m hide.” He removed his trademark hat and sunglasses and gave a quick bow.

Then, he slowly put them back on and apologized for being impolite by wearing those things while drinking, and sat back down.

REM was astonished that he had taken them off at all, because at that time, he never did that in public. It seemed that hide was particularly respectful towards Arakawa because of the relationship he had to REM, and REM’s surprise soon turned into deeply moved gratitude.

After a night of drinking together and talking about all sorts of things, Arakawa also praised hide as a young man who, striking appearance aside, had firm opinions and was very polite. The way in which hide expressed his friendship that night had been typical for him.

-

In December 1995, REM announced that the was leaving his bachelor life behind and got married to a woman named Miwa. [Note: At least, that’s what I think her name is. REM gives the kanji for her name, but not the reading, which might differ drastically from the common (or even any sensible) reading of the characters.]

For the wedding reception, they reserved a cozy restaurant for their few dozen guests, which included family and only their closest of friends. One invitation was handed to hide, who was happy as if it were his own wedding and confirmed that he was definitely going to attend.

On the day of the wedding, REM was nervous and embarrassed like never before in his life. This was no fault of his bride’s, he simply had a raging case of wedding nerves, and it defeated him. As soon as the nerves hit him, he would drink any alcoholic beverage he could get his hands on. He honestly thought that since it worked on stage, it would work for getting married.

Hide had sent them a large bouquet of flowers in the name of “X Japan hide” but was nowhere to be seen in person.

In fact, it seemed that hide had chosen his timing well, considering the commotion that might have happened at the gathering place if word had gotten around that a member of X Japan was present.

An hour into the event, hide was there, just sitting casually in the front row in his hat and sunglasses. He grinned when he handed more alcohol to REM. At this point, REM was already blazingly drunk.

Hide for his part was fidgety and restless, talking to Jimmy and pointing out that it was time for the afterparty.

Then, during the preparations for said party, those two kept whispering to each other about something.

The wedding reception was not unlike a live show, with plenty of music buddies present. There were former members of SAVER TIGER, Hikaru, who used to be the bassist of X for a while during their indies days, and the current, much more famous X Japan-bassist heath.

SAVER TIGER served as the lead act. With hide jumping in, it was like the illusion of a SAVER TIGER revival session. The song they played was “Double Cross”.

The title of the song seemed a bit too fitting for the situation, but they chose it because it was representative of SAVER TIGER.

So REM, unsteady and hugging his guitar, started to play (“Ei!”) with the timing he was used to, only to be met with perfect silence from everyone else involved.

Thus, he declared, “It can’t be helped, you’re all doing it wrong,” regained his composure and started playing the phrase again.

Once again, hide and the others met him with grinning silence.

And REM thought, “I’m being deceived!”, finally realizing that he was falling victim to a prank, and that the prank smelled strongly of hide. Surely, hide and Jimmy had set this up when they were whispering to each other before.

In that moment, the room erupted into laughter and hide smiled earnestly at REM while looking very satisfied.

REM’s memory of the events after this point are essentially nonexistent.

Among the things that he vaguely remembers are heath getting up on stage and accepting a trophy he had won at their bingo tournament with a smile, and hide’s younger brother Hiroshi being delighted about having won a guitar.

From what REM could put together from the stories of his wife and the others, hide gave a musical performance that day, looking truly happy. This was not X Japan’s hide, this was an amateur at a free-for-all, lost in the spur of the moment, strumming his guitar with a relaxed smile on his face.

“At least, he was grinning as he played and looked like he was truly having fun.” That’s what Jimmy always murmurs when remembering that wedding reception.

[December 1995: REM's wedding reception. Photos exist for when your memory doesn't. (Click on the image for full view if tumblr cut it weirdly.)]

Due to REM’s work, the newlyweds couldn’t go on honeymoon right away. Only in the following year, in spring 1996, was he able to take the time off for it.

REM and his wife immediately agreed on the destination they wanted to visit. They both recalled at once how hide had told them to come to L.A. at least once, so that was where they wanted to go for the occasion of their once-in-a-lifetime, somewhat late honeymoon: The L.A. where hide was.

REM called hide over there at once. When he told him, “We’re thinking of travelling to L.A.,”, hide said, “Wait a second, I’ll call you back,” and hung up.

He had probably gotten a call for work, was certainly busy right now… REM and his wife speculated such while they waited, but when hide called them back after only a sort time, he gave them a list of the major hotels in Los Angeles, with information on their rating, how far they were from the airport, the price, if it was okay to smoke in there, what attractions were nearby…

After hanging up on them, hide had researched all that at the speed of light. REM and his wife were nothing but grateful. Hide, for this part, was very enthusiastic about their upcoming visit.

“What do you want to do when you’re here?”

The two of them told him they wanted to watch a Nomo Game [Note: Probably referring to Japanese baseball pitcher Hideo Nomo, who was playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers at the time.], visit the Universal Studios, and other things. And hide said brightly, “I got it! You don’t need to take care of anything, just make the reservations for the flights and the hotel…”, and then quickly hung up the phone.

The weather in L.A. was clear.

They arrived at the hotel they had picked from hide’s list, checked in, and rested in their room for about an hour before hide arrived, going “Yaa, yaa, yaa!”

Hide was in the middle of recording his solo single “Misery” at the time and hadn’t slept in three days, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he acted. He was wearing his usual hat and sunglasses, and his usual smile that lit up his whole face when he said, “So, what’s the plan?” He pulled out pen and paper and wrote down the schedule for their stay in the city, while asking REM and his wife for their wishes. Then, he asked, “How do you feel about Las Vegas?” and added his own recommendations, arranging everything from flights to hotel reservations.

He also insisted that REM’s wife, pregnant at the time, had to eat! And handed over a bundle of ten onigiri that he had brought for her.

Her due day happened to coincide with hide’s thirty-second birthday. Whenever he stroked the bulging stomach of REM’s wife, he would tell the unknown baby to better get born on schedule, so they could share their birthday.

In any case, to REM and his wife, hide was the world’s best tour conductor, taking care of every aspect of their journey. His thoughtfulness, attentiveness, kindness and warmth were extraordinary and he made sure that they got whatever they wanted. REM and his wife could only be grateful and impressed by his warmth that asked for nothing in return.

It was thanks to him that this trip became one of the best memories of the couple.

One day, after hide had left for recording, his manager at the time, Kudo-chan, took them downtown for dinner. After parking the car, they waited at a traffic light, discussing where they wanted to eat.

As they waited, REM spotted a man waiting at the opposite side of the road who looked like a musician to him, from the way he dressed to the way he wore his long, lustrous hair. Then, the signal turned to “WALK”, they did just that, and as the guy came closer, REM thought that his face looked like he had seen it somewhere before…

It couldn’t be. Here, on this giant continent of America, in the middle of this giant city of Los Angeles…But damn, if that guy did not look exactly like…

And so it came that REM and heath embraced right there in the middle of that pedestrian crossing in L.A., celebrating their unexpected reunion. Babbling along the lines of:

-“Hey, what are you doing here? No, this is where I… Where are we, anyway…”

-“N- no, I heard from hide-chan that you were in L.A., REM, but that I would meet you here…”

Since the time heath came from Osaka to Tokyo, REM had often gone drinking with him. Their meeting here was as much of a surprise as when hide had told REM that heath had joined X.

Thanks to this prank of the gods, they all went to a Japanese restaurant together, chatting happily. It was a day full of surprises and deep emotions.

Just two or three days before REM and his wife were to return home, hide invited REM to the studio and asked him to play the guitar solo of “Misery”. So REM borrowed hide’s guitar and contemplated the song’s guitar phrase there in that place.

And after he played it, hide said, “Well, REM-chan, let’s have you record it before you go home!”

Somewhat incredulously, REM agreed.

However, the next day, something urgent came up with X Japan and the recording of “Misery” had to be interrupted.

Looking regretful, hide told REM over and over that it would resume the next week. But REM’s work did not allow for the delay. And so, with painful reluctance, REM and his wife boarded the plane home.

The day before their return, hide somehow managed to take them out for dinner despite his busy schedule. Since REM’s pregnant wife couldn’t drink, REM and hide drank beer and wine for three. Afterwards, they returned to hide’s apartment building, hung out on the roof at the pool, and continued to chat while looking at the giant, illuminated HOLLYWOOD-sign.

At some point, without anyone noticing, hide had taken off his sunglasses. Hide, who had returned to bare-faced Matsumoto Hideto, and REM, who had returned to bare-faced Araki Masahiko, continued talking with a beer in hand for a long time.

It had been more than ten years since REM had first come to this city as a middle school student. Now, the L.A. night breeze was as fresh as it had been back then, and so dry they could basically hear it.

[2 May 1996: Last night in L.A.]

The next day, hide was driving the car himself when he picked up REM and his wife who were puking all over due to hangover and morning sickness respectively and took them to the airport.

Hide seemed to enjoy himself when he looked over his shoulder at their pale faces in the backseat and asked with a smile, “Honored passengers, how did you enjoy your trip?”

That kind smile of hide, that rare entertainer, was swaying before their eyes.

Hide had been serious about what he had said at the studio in L.A., as REM came to understand that the afterparty of the secret live hide and his band gave at the Yokosuka Art Theater that autumn. He had really meant for REM to play the guitar for “Misery”. REM had been baffled, and felt that now there was another major depth he was owing hide.

He murmured those words as he watched hide’s cheerful form fussing around. His wife, who had heard him, nodded in agreement. She was approaching her due date.

“He’s really supported us at every important point, hasn’t he?”

And so he had. When REM and his now-wife had been dating, it was hide who had looked at them and declared that they absolutely had to get married. He kept saying it. He even said it on New Year’s Day of the year they did get married, just like hide had predicted.

In that moment, REM and his wife likely had the same mental image: Of hide, cheerfully playing guitar at their wedding reception with a mischievous smile on his face, or his kind hospitality in L.A., happily going along with everything they wanted. REM’s thought of, “I want to repay hide for all he’s done” turned to “I must repay hide” turned to “No matter how many years it takes, one day for certain,” and finally arrived at “I must start at once.”

On the sixth of December, 1996, about one week before hide’s birthday, REM’s wife gave birth to their first child without problems. It was a boy, and they called him 柊衣. [Note: The Japanese names strike again. This is probably read either “Hii”, “Toui”, or “Hiragi”.]

Hide came to meet their beloved son the following year, in February 1997.

Hide loved children. Even now, REM remembers how hide played with their son tirelessly all day. He passionately gave this baby, only two months old, rhythm training and taught him how to hold a guitar pick.

This was another day when hide took off his sunglasses. It is their absence that REM blames for the fact that hide, holding the baby in his arms, looked so innocent and vulnerable it hurt.

Continued in part 2

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[bisexualhobi]

hmm apart from the obvious differences in the album packaging, i think hobi's solo did what it was supposed to do i.e. introduce him to Korea as a rapper hence that glam hip hop community party. rm and suga were from the underground rap scene before itself, but this was hobi's chance to introduce himself as a Rapper TM. in a way, getting the album rollout with a photobook would've undermined how serious he was taking his rapper sona outside of being an idol.

honestly i didn't feel like listening to the album again, but i think it did help hobi establish himself within that community. the numbers were not good for an idol especially with BTS name, but nothing to scoff at, right?

no it's not just the packaging!! it's the distribution - jin gets fucking US and europe retailers for one shitty song meanwhile jack in the box was only available through weverse korea and it was never given a digital single store, no radio licesing even though stations requested it, no fucking physical cd. it was given the same treatment as their fucking mixtapes so atp they should've just saved hoseok the humiliation and called it another mixtape

[oliviamartinphotography]

Week 10 contact sheet

Creating a photobook with 'finalist' images in week 9 allowed me to see my images together and helped me identify the gaps that needed to be filled in my K'Road narrative. My final shoot in week 10 was about taking the images to fill these gaps and improving on images taken previously. On the first day, I shot in the afternoon. I went back to the Underground and took shots of the carpark outside it from the inside. I've got framing as a strong convention in a lot of my photos so I wanted to continue this. I really like the look of shooting an exterior with the interior space still in frame eg through a doorway or a window. The interior tends to turn out quite dark in comparison to the exterior (depending on lighting) which really highlights what's in the frame. I then moved outside, to the carpark, and took shots of the buildings there that I found interesting. They look quite brutal and have graffiti on them which I think looks cool and has a bit of narrative to it. Additionally, the afternoon sun really lit them up well. I focused on the line and shapes they created when taking these. I then moved on up the road getting various shots of buildings - I didn't end up liking most of these as they weren't strong and didn't contribute to the story I was trying to tell. I then visited my boyfriend's apartment where I took some photos of K' Road through the window. I wanted to include the window frame and interior space as context - it really juxtaposes the brutal cityscape beyond. I wasn't really fond of these compositions however. The next day I took the same shots but in the morning. The morning light lit K' Road up, highlighting it amongst the sea of buildings which I thought this was really cool. I knew that I wanted my sequence to start with one of these photos - it made sense to start with a morning photo. From there, I made my way to work. I took lots of photos from the ground as I was lacking good street view shots. My favourites were some that I took that look back on the apartment which I wanted to include in my series as it shows a great change in perspective. I got some shots of my work building from over the street which establish it as a setting - I also got some up close ones of the signs and door but I didn't like these very much as they seemed to obvious and didn't have strong composition. In week 9 I noticed that the lights and wires on the ceiling were really interesting so I wanted to get better shots of these, using William Eggleston as an inspiration. I found that with the light on it was too hard to get the exposure right - my favourite ended up being a photo of a light turned off. The wires on the ceiling and the light-shade create an interesting composition. The only colour in it is white yet it's still an interesting photo. The texture on the ceiling is also interesting. I then took shots out of the 2 doors that lead into my work - 1 leads onto K' Road and the other onto Mercury lane. Again I was trying to bring in the 'shooting an exterior through a frame from an interior' element. I liked the Mercury lane photos the best as the red cars are super eye-catching and go with the colours present in my images. The morning light creates an interesting shape in the doorway too. The photos from the other doorway were at a weird low-angle with less interesting subject matter. The cars through the Mercury Lane doorway also fit in with other images I have that include cars.

After testing out these images with my existing images in a photobook I was able to fill in the gaps to create my narrative.

[leseditionsshirokuro]

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"THE WEDDING OF THE EARTH". collector box

10 volumes / gradient covers in green

fluorescent stickers

1 different poster in each book

Numbered & limited edition of 10

collector’s box

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Lina Pallotta al centro Pecci di Prato

Aperta fino ad ottobre presso il centro Pecci di Prato, la grande mostra Volevo vedermi negli occhi è la prima personale in un’istituzione pubblica italiana della fotografa Lina Pallotta, che ha lavorato a progetti fotografici con un’accentuata attenzione etica, riconoscendo al medium della foto un grande compito sociale. Il Centro Pecci presenta una selezione delle fotografie del progetto Porpora, scattate a Porpora Marcasciano, che conobbe la Pallotta nella Napoli degli anni Settanta e le due donne ebbero fin da subìto un profondo legame. Nel 1990 Pallotta iniziò a fotografare Porpora in  scene quotidiane che attraversano il personale, i contesti politici e di movimento, le geografie dei loro incontri tra l’East Village, Roma, Bologna e la campagna napoletana, con uno sguardo vicino e un tocco immediato. Volevo vedermi negli occhi raccoglie un ritratto prolungato di un’amica, una compagna e una persona, dove immagini sfocate, scene contrastate in bianco/nero, momenti rapidi ed effimeri restituiscono il racconto e gli intrecci di tempi, luoghi e corpi. A cura di Michele Bertolino e Elena Magini, la mostra è accompagnata dalla pubblicazione Porpora, edita da Nero, che raccoglie parte delle foto di Lina, un archivio visivo con un possibile percorso nella storia a partire dagli anni Settanta e alcuni saggi sul lavoro fotografico di Lina Pallotta. Lina Pallotta, fotografa e docente italiana che vive tra Roma e New York, è nata a San Salvatore Telesino nel 1955, e alla fine degli anni Ottanta si è trasferita nella Grande Mela, dove si è diplomata in Fotogiornalismo e Documentario fotografico all’International Center of Photography. Il suo obiettivo è legato ai movimenti underground, dalle sottoculture, dalle storie meno gridate, dagli aneliti di rivalsa, con una serie di progetti a lungo termine e un approccio personale sulla quotidianità in situazioni di marginalità, tematiche femminili, genere e identità. Ha pubblicato per varie riviste nazionali e internazionali, lavorato per Impact Visuals Agency di New York e per l’Agenzia Grazia Neri di Milano, con lavori come Basta  – to Work and Die on the Mexican Border  del 1999, sulla vita delle lavoratrici messicane nelle fabbriche di frontiera e Porpora e Valerie, un reportage di vent’anni d’amore e amicizia tra due importanti figure dell’attivismo italiano. Oggi Lina insegna presso la Scuola Romana di Fotografia, tiene workshop e conferenze in tutta Italia e a New York, anche presso l’International Center of Photography e l’Empire State College, ha fatto parte della giuria di numerosi premi fotografici ed è stata direttrice artistica di Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival 2017. Read the full article

[iridescentspacewhale]

do you think OOO will release a sort of repackaged album witth all the solos (+ art pOp remix) when they are done with the project before a group comeback OR the group comeback will include all the solos + art pOp remix in the album (plus of course the main song) ?

I've restrained myself from buying the solos album bc they cost a lot + international shipping is veeeery expensive so i can only affort 1 or 2 album ; ; i'm just gonna wait to see what they will do.... and in case none of this come true i'll just buy Yoojung solo + the new album

okay so I think they SHOULD release all the solos as an album and I think they might because I think the photo book would consist of couple shots from all the photoshoots because so far each duo had their photobooks shot together

I think that would be a really cool way to conclude the series, maybe with a group song and mv to wrap up loose ends of the stories

I think the group comeback will be entirely separate from the underground idol series and possible compilation album

I'm praying it's if surface m, but if it still isn't that I think it will still be an album to kickstart the next era of ooo's universe especially since I feel they are finally settled in the new formation and have a strong foundation again as a group

and oh anon I get that and I'm giving you a hug I hope they do a compilation album so you can get that but if they don't, getting yoojung's solo sounds perfect. idk if you picked that because he's your bias or not but I'd definitely pick his if I could only go with one....Yoojung's solo is just so so so special, begin is beautiful and it really was the start of something wonderful for the group and their future

[carmenvicinanza]

Lina Pallotta

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/lina-pallotta/

Lina Pallotta è una fotografa e docente italiana che vive tra Roma e New York.

Nata a San Salvatore Telesino (BN) nel 1955, alla fine degli anni ’80 è andata a vivere nella Grande Mela, dove si è diplomata in Fotogiornalismo e Documentario fotografico all’International Center of Photography.

Il suo obiettivo è stato sempre attratto dai movimenti underground, dalle sottoculture, dalle storie meno gridate, dagli aneliti di rivalsa.

Sviluppa progetti a lungo termine con un approccio personale sulla quotidianità in situazioni di marginalità, tematiche femminili, genere e identità.

Ha pubblicato per varie riviste nazionali e internazionali, lavorato per Impact Visuals Agency di New York e per l’Agenzia Grazia Neri di Milano

Numerose le mostre personali e collettive tra Europa e Stati Uniti a cui ha partecipato e che ha curato.

Tra i suoi lavori più conosciuti c’è sicuramente BASTA – to Work and Die on the Mexican Border  del 1999, sulla vita delle lavoratrici messicane nelle fabbriche di frontiera e Porpora e Valerie (2013) un reportage di vent’anni d’amore e amicizia tra due importanti figure dell’attivismo trans italiano.

Insegna presso la Scuola Romana di Fotografia, tiene workshop e conferenze in tutta Italia e a New York, anche presso l’International Center of Photography e l’Empire State College.

Ha fatto parte della giuria di numerosi premi fotografici ed è stata direttrice artistica di Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival 2017.

Lina Pallotta ha ritratto evoluzione, cambiamenti sociali e culturali. La sua fotografia si è intrecciata alla poetica attraverso generi, politiche, culture e amori.

Il suo occhio ha saputo fissare in ogni scatto tanta esistenza.

Immagini sfumate, mosse, tese continuamente ad altri piani o dimensioni, in un movimento costante che caratterizza e rende unica la sua fotografia. Sprazzi lontani di verità, iconografie di momenti privati che trovano ragione e valore oltre l’ideologia.

Tante sono state le borse di studio e le onorificenze ricevute tra Europa e Stati Uniti.

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Italian punks in the 1980s. Pictures by & © Fabio Sgroi, from his book "Palermo 1984-1986", (p) Yard Press 2018.

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Photographs by visual artist Seana Gavin that take a trip back to the '90s underground rave scene. In her Photobook, Spiralled, she is taking us on a trip back to the nineties when she was an underage devotee of the underground rave scene. Her images reveal a life of travelling and parties, just as the UK government introduced the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act that clamped down on illegal raves and other forms of "anti-social" behaviour. It was around that time that sound systems like the famous Spiral Tribe quit Britain for Europe, and Seana went with them. She lived this travelling life, kept a diary, took the pictures and then, for near on two decades, kept it under wraps. Until now. “Spiralled” is a personal visual history of the "fuck-the-system" movement of truck and caravan convoys that crisscrossed Europe staging free festivals, raves and largely peaceful parties in open fields and disused industrial buildings. Featuring her photographs and thoughts, the book also includes an ephemeral archive of posters and flyers. Her images certainly document a great but largely lost freedom. Freedom from smartphones, social media and Zoom calls. And, of course, freedom of movement. She adds: "Spiralled is a document that celebrates all of this while taking you on the winding journey through a decade of my life."

"Spiraled" by Seana Gavin was released by IDEA in 2020 and was available in a limited edition of 750 copies. You can see more of Seana Gavin's work on her website and instagram.