“I have been photographing my brothers for the last ten years, watching them grow up and seeing myself growing up with them,” says German-Dutch photographer Julian Slagman on his series Looking at My Brother, which has previously been awarded the Aenne Biermann Prize and shortlisted for the Carte Blanche Students prize. Newly published as a photobook by Danish imprint Disko Bay, the body of work forms Slagman’s most extensive to date.

Based in Stockholm, Slagman has long been fascinated by the medium of photography, explaining that “the photographic image cuts itself through time on every level”. He continues: “It’s surgery. Like a doctor sealing a wound, with careful stitches. Like me, sealing light onto film.”

More than a beautiful comparison, this analogy actually speaks to one of the key themes within the work. The human body, and in particular the scars that adorn his brother following a surgical procedure for scoliosis, is a prominent feature in Looking at My Brother.

Mixing individual portraits with group shots, the book follows the boys as they journey through adolescence, navigating the world around them. Intimate compositions reveal moments that are by turns pensive and playful, wild and serene.

We see the brothers hug, wrestle, swim, run and explore. They pose for revealing close-ups and unknowingly fill the frame for candid shots. There is the sense of a slow passing of time, as the faces change, and the bodies grow, but this process is not presented in chronological order.

“It became very clear to me that the edit of the book could not work chronologically,” writes Slagman. “I wanted to keep big gaps and jumps in time and work mutually opposed. Turning the pages and jumping back and forth in years, days and hours, even seconds, underlined this feverish dream of coming of age. This slightly disorienting experience of reading the book [was] very interesting to me.”

Slagman explains that this feeling is further cemented by his choice to pair certain images together that were taken only moments apart, giving the impression that “the camera [is trying] to keep its subjects in time and place, while they move forward, backward and to the sides.”

As such, the experience of boyhood is communicated authentically, shown through snapshots that speak to a fragmented journey many young boys go through – “one day you can feel strong, confident and without doubt about yourself, and within moments all this inverts”.

“Growing up does not follow a simple timeline – it is a process which unfolds itself on many layers and in all directions at once,” he says.

Looking at My Brother by Julian Slagman is published by Disko Bay; diskobay.org

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The new show, “Rialto,” at the Ukrainian Museum in New York spotlights the first formative decade of Peter Hujar’s career. It’s an apt venue: the late photographer was raised by his Ukrainian grandparents on a farm in New Jersey before moving to the city, where he lived in an old theater less than a block from the museum. Hujar became an East Village fixture, one familiar to Peter Doroshenko, the institution’s director.

“I met Peter at a dollar-slice pizza when I was a student in 1985, and it was a two-minute encounter,” he told me. “Then I saw him six months later on St. Marks when I was walking down the street and he said hello. I realized who it was and I thought, well, I’ll contact him later. But he passed six months later, so there was never a later.”

Installation view of “Rialto” at the Ukrainian Museum. Photo: Min Chen.

Doroshenko believes Hujar must have visited the museum, even if the Ukrainian diaspora was perhaps unaware of his work or presence. An exhibition, he said, made sense, particularly one that centered on Hujar’s earliest body of work, from 1955 through 1969, which is likely lesser known. 

“Rialto,” which means meeting place, alludes to Hujar’s Second Avenue studio, at which his fellow artists and downtown denizens often congregated. But it also befits an exhibition of some 75 photographs showcasing Hujar’s range and roving eye. Though the photographer is now recognized for his images of New York’s gay and downtown subcultures, the show is a reminder that he also captured children and animals, street scenes and country roads, famous faces and nameless corpses.

Peter Hujar, Drag Ball, Hotel Diplomat (1) (1968). Courtesy the Ukrainian Museum, New York. © The Peter Hujar Archive – Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

At the heart of the exhibition are three series of original prints: Hujar’s images from his 1957 visit to a Southbury, Connecticut school for children with learning difficulties; his 1958 trip to Florence, Italy; and his tour of the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo in 1963. The settings vary, but the photographer’s tender gaze runs throughout. None of the human subjects, Doroshenko pointed out as we walked through the show, wear a “photo face.”

Peter Hujar, Girl on Swing, Southbury (1957). Courtesy the Ukrainian Museum, New York. © The Peter Hujar Archive – Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

“Peter was very good at capturing that moment,” he said. “But to catch that moment, he was also very good at making people feel comfortable where they forget that he’s taking their picture. It was very much about creating an atmosphere or a dialogue and then getting that particular picture.”

Also included in the show are Hujar’s spontaneous shots of street scenes—a cat in a bodega, a crowd on Times Square—and portraits of artists including Iggy Pop, Jackie Curtis, and his partner Paul Thek.

Peter Hujar, Paul Thek on Zebra (1965). Courtesy the Ukrainian Museum, New York. © The Peter Hujar Archive – Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

While Hujar’s later work from the 1970s and ’80s may be better known, Doroshenko locates a seed in these early pieces. He noted Hujar’s strict Ukrainian upbringing (he didn’t speak English until he entered kindergarten), as much as how he entered the field of photography without any formal training. These experiences, he said, “created those vectors of series and control” and influenced “how he positioned himself as a photographer.”

“This exhibit shows that throughout his work processes, his interests and his engagement with people and different situations, there were things that people would never expect,” he added. “Photographers like Diane Arbus had a particular kind of hyper-focus; Peter had that but not this tunnel vision. There were always surprises.” 

“Rialto” is on view at the Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street, New York, through September 1. 

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At Least Until the World Stops Going Round is a new book by photographer Charlie Tallott, winner of the 2024 Photo London X Nikon Emerging Photographer award. Although the images are flash laden and blissful, much of the book stems from a tough period in Tallott’s life. Three years ago, he spent months in the care of an NHS crisis team following a suicide attempt. During this time, Tallott used photography as a refuge as he strived to create utopian realities through his images. At Least Until the World Stops Going Round is published by New Dimension

Today, we’d like to invite you to explore the surreal images created by Finnish photographer Juuso Hämäläinen. Besides his talent for capturing exceptional moments and stunning landscapes, Juuso is also a digital artist, 3D animator, composer, and musician, currently based in Vancouver, BC. As stated on Juuso’s website: “Through his art he wants to share the magical quality of life that is experienced when one stays present and perceives the world as it truly is and not through the concepts of the mind as most of us have unknowingly learnt to live.”

Scroll down to see a collection of astonishing photographs by Hämäläinen, and let us know in the comments which places you’d like to visit the most.

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