The Issue of Authenticity

LATERAL VIEWSThe issue of authenticity: beauty, friction, and the spaces in between. At LDF, we often find ourselves returning to the same question: what does it mean, today, to create something that feels real? Not just polished, relevant, coherent but alive. Something that doesn’t simply reflect the world, but moves it. Or at least disturbs […]

Japan: where emptiness creates meaning and excess never overflows

LATERAL VIEWS Japan: where emptiness creates meaning and excess never overflows Japan is a living aesthetic short-circuit. It’s the only place in the world where absence can weigh more than presence, and where excess is never noise, but code. Every time we speak of Japan from this side of the world, we risk slipping into a […]

“One Is Not Enough” by Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller

FROOM OUR BOOKSHELF “One Is Not Enough” by Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller Among the most urgent and discomforting books on our shelf, One Is Not Enough does not simply gather images, it unfolds as an embodied theory of photography as a serial act, as repeated exposure, as a radical form of resistance. Friedl Kubelka vom […]

“Preston Bus Station
” by Jamie Hawkesworth

FROOM OUR BOOKSHELF “Preston Bus Station” by Jamie Hawkesworth Some places don’t need to be photographed, they need to be listened to. Preston Bus Station is one of them. Brutalist, oversized, seemingly impersonal, this concrete landmark in northern England became, for Jamie Hawkesworth, a visual and human laboratory, a site of return, a school of […]

“Bare handed” by  Holly Lynton

FROOM OUR BOOKSHELF “Bare Handed” by Holly Lynton In Bare Handed, Holly Lynton constructs a photographic language that resists categorization. It is not documentary in the journalistic sense, nor is it staged fiction. It operates somewhere in between, in that threshold space where ritual, vision, and social observation collapse into one another. Over the course […]

“Hot Mirror” by Vivian Sassen

FROOM OUR BOOKSHELF “Hot Mirror” by Vivian Sassen Hot Mirror is a hypnotic, visceral, at times unsettling book. A journey that doesn’t ask to be linear but disorienting. It’s not an anthology, not a monograph, not a coherent narrative. It’s a symbolic atlas where photographic language implodes and regenerates. Viviane Sassen moves along boundaries: between art […]