Photographs on the Brain
My generation and generations after me, young generations, are less and less interested in fact of perfect compositions and action…
By Bryan Formhals
I view obsessions much like I view instincts, the good and the bad are all mixed up in there…there being…
By Bryan Formhals
©Emma Hardy I’m just interested in good photographs. I’m not a documentarist. I’m not trying to document anything. It’s more…
By Bryan Formhals
This is the new golden age of photography: Billions of people take photographs and share them. Billions of people are…
By Bryan Formhals
The greatest outpouring of personal narratives in the history of the planet has occurred on the Internet; as soon as…
By Bryan Formhals
It’s the reason why photography was easier in the beginning. It’s like a dart game: at the beginning, you can…
By Bryan Formhals
In the early days, as any kind of psychedelic cyber-utopian would, I was into that gnostic trip, that Kurzweillian “omigod,…
By Bryan Formhals
You learn more about images when you work with them, when you collect them,” he says. “When I see one…
By Bryan Formhals
To break out of its documentary cage, photography must risk a kind of intellectual and existential promiscuity, an all-absorbing hunger…
By Bryan Formhals
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work…
By Bryan Formhals
A dreamlike quality is often created by reducing the specificity of a place and a culture to such a degree…
By Bryan Formhals
“I think of photographs like they’re clues to something, there’s some element of mystery or something mystical––a hint at something…
By Bryan Formhals
When I’m at the end of my life and thinking about what I’ve given back, the last thing I’m going…
By Bryan Formhals
Now, we’re a species of editors. We all recycle, clip and cut, remix and upload. We can make images do…
By Bryan Formhals
Uncertainty good. Inevitability bad. In tournaments, photographs, and life. – Blake Andrews ©Throwingbull ©Aleksandra Perovic ©Sebastian Reiser ©Chris Dorley-Brown ©Simon…
By Bryan Formhals
“I didn’t really have a script or a strategy. For the most part, it was just walking with my camera…
By Bryan Formhals