Konrath

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Andreas Laszlo Konrath: Back to Mystery City

Words by Alex Bec, Friday 02 September 2011

There’s no doubt we like Andreas Lazlo Konrath’s work here at It’s Nice That. Having featured on the blog before, it’s always very difficult to turn down the verve that oozes from his new projects. This time, the New Yorker has been working on a skate photo story in Finland, and as we imagined, the results were too good not to pop up here.

Trump protest pins by Sagmeister & Walsh, Hort, Olimpia Zagnoli and more 27 September 2016
“Nymphomaniac” photographer Casper Sejersen's explosive images 22 September 2016
Kalen Hollomon's collages mix sex with fortune cookies 23 September 2016
Graphic designer Timo Lenzen fuses hyperreal, architectural forms with vivid colours 28 September 2016
Google and INT Works commission 19 illustrators to create over 500 works for Allo app launch 22 September 2016
Anja Wicki's sarcastically sweet comic illustrations 20 September 2016

Work / Photography Photographer Ilyes Griyeb takes us to Senegal's salt lakes

In the constant stream of emails touting obscure art exhibitions at temporary galleries in Brooklyn, the good stuff is sometimes hard to spot. Luckily, the work of photographer Ilyes Griyeb not only made it into the hands of the It’s Nice That team but impressed us so much that we struggled to narrow the 50-something page long PDF of his Retba Lake project down into ten images.

Bryony Stone — 30 September 2016
Work / Photography Ewen Spencer on new commission, Kick over the statues

Since kicking off his photography career shooting nightlife for iconic late 90s, early 00s mags The Face and Sleazenation, subculture obsessive Ewen Spencer has kept his lens firmly on the seedier side of youth culture, from the Moet-clutching clubbers of the UK garage scene to nascent grime MCs battling it out in Jammer’s dungeon; from the moped-riding, bikini-wearing mob kids of Naples to liquid-bodied Ballroom dancers in Rotterdam.

Bryony Stone — 29 September 2016
Features / Photography An appetite for destruction: Nikita Teryoshin photographs weapons and canapés at an arms fair

“I’m generally interested in trade fairs. Access for ordinary people is forbidden to these events and the visitors are usually exhibitors, professionals and reporters,” explains photographer Nikita Teryoshin. “Inside, you have a chance to take a look behind the scenes at the goings-on of an industry and also find some remarkable motives. It was only a question of time before I would visit an arms fair. After a hunting exhibition (Sons and Guns) I planned my next project. I wanted to show the opposite side of war and destruction.”

Owen Pritchard — 29 September 2016
Work / Photography Photographer Laura Pannack finds inspiration in a Romanian folk tale

London-based photographer Laura Pannack will exhibit a new body of work Youth Without Age, Life Without Death: Chapter 1 at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery next month. The work is inspired by a Romanian folk tale that follows a young prince on a quest for eternal life. The work, which was created over the past four years and shot on expired film, presents the viewer with mysterious landscapes, portraits and still lives that pose questions about life and death. Together they create a sober and absorbing narrative loaded with atmosphere and meaning, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.

Owen Pritchard — 28 September 2016
Work / Photography Four photographers explore life in London's liminal spaces

This Thursday, Now Gallery at Greenwich Peninsula opens Intimate Spaces, an exhibition inspired by photographer George Plemper’s Riverside School series which captured the working-class life in Thamesmead from 1976 — 1979. Originally imagined as a futuristic utopia on sea, Thamesmead was built at the end of the ‘60s by the Greater London Council to provide housing for families moving from increasingly crowded Victorian houses in south east London.

Bryony Stone — 28 September 2016
Work / Photography Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia

Transnistria, AKA the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, is a self-proclaimed republic on a strip of land between the River Dniester and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine. “During the collapse of the Soviet Union the narrow strip of land declared independence from Moldova. Since the civil war in 1992 the central government lost control and an unofficial currency, parliament, national anthem and citizenship was formed,” explains Julia. “But the self-proclaimed state is not recognised by anybody, not even by Russia – yet there is a huge Russian impact on political, economical and public life.”

Rebecca Fulleylove — 27 September 2016