Your Sunday Inspiration ✨

Daido Moriyama, Daniel Meadows and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Andreas Gursky’s [Visual Spaces of Today]( continues at Fondazione MAST until the start of January, and it was revealing to hear curator Urs Stahel speak about the show on the occasion of Foto/Industria’s opening last week. Bringing together these observational works – some of which are over 30 years old – is as much about engaging with today’s visual culture as it is appreciating their quality. The power of large-format to capture the gravity of human experience has perhaps gone out of fashion over the last decade, as a focus on identity and the portrait’s ability to become a cipher for broader social forces has reigned. Looking at Gursky’s pictures of a bustling Tokyo stock exchange or retail warehouse reasserts the power of breadth – of a scale which demotes individuality. Gursky’s achievement is the enduring ambiguity of this rebalancing: his F1 car engineers acting as part of a high-performance team signal both the beauty of collaboration, but also the flattening of personality required in service of a cause – so often one tied to work and industry. We’re also looking ahead to the 14th edition of LagosPhoto this week, which carries the intriguing theme, Ground State – fellowship with the uncanny. The festival, which for the first time extends beyond Lagos, taps into a near-nihilistic sense of doom from which to ponder how photography might “restore, repair and restitute mysteries of oral histories that are necessary for our survival.” Featured artists include Zora Murff, Wesaam Al-Badry and Carlos Idun-Tawiah. Behind the scenes of Moriyama’s London takeover Curator Thyago Nogueira spent three years working with Moriyama on The Photographers’ Gallery retrospective [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( ‘I was a privileged white man, but I was trying to do something radical’: Daniel Meadows’ Free Photographic Omnibus Ahead of the release of his new volume, Book of the Road, the photographer discusses his work, his inspirations and how a multiple sclerosis diagnosis led him to revisit his archive [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( From the Archive: Uwa Iduozee unspooling the hopes and dreams of first generation immigrants A collaboration with writer Maryan Abdulkarim, the work is, ultimately, about presence and the act of belonging [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [1854 Media Ltd, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Rd, Cambridge Heath, London, E2 9DA, United Kingdom Click here to update your email preferences]( [Click here to unsubscribe from all emails](