Pipeline - Issue 49

In this issue

Every photography issue of Pipeline has been different.
We made our first efforts to acknowledge the medium in 2011, with a special issue about photographers, then put out a call inviting them to participate a year later. Last year I invited co-jurors to help us expand our judging muscles, and we have kept this model for this second juried issue of our Photo Annual. The various approaches have reflected our intention to poke around and discover things, try new angles and enjoy the level of experimentation that a non-commercial, independent magazine affords us.
For this issue I had the pleasure to be joined as co-jurors by curators Alia Swastika and Esther Lu. We came up with a selection in which no one series resembles another. They include a photo essay by Ange Ong, who roams the post-umbrella-movement streets of Hong Kong
experimentally; and young practices of self-exploration through geography, such as Mahroo Movahedi’s
mirror images, John Clang’s superimposed portraits about family ties, and the Nordic reveries documented in Cédric Maridet’s landscapes. We slipped in a couple of more established series: a documentary but artistic take on portraiture of young male street prostitutes in Thailand by Ohm Phanphiroj, and a project by Wawi Navarroza that is both street-based and rather plant- and earth-oriented. There is also room for staged photography and Photoshop, with Allysa Sing Zhi Bing’s kitsch, amulet-like
constructions, and Daniel Eskenazi’s smoke machines resembling Chinese stones.
We will always value photography as a medium and are thrilled to offer a platform for the expression of projects that place an idea or concept at their core. I would like to encourage more original takes, critical vision and openness from artists, especially in a medium that still has so much unexplored potential.

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Pipeline杂 志是供艺术家、艺术研究者、策展人和艺术爱好者头脑风暴的平台。我们集思广益、开诚布公，致力于严肃艺术但不限于精英份子。在某几期刊物中， 我们为艺术家 和试验型项目提供了一个游乐场，而在每一期我们都旨在将当代艺术中分门别类、跨越地域的艺术实践联系起来，其中包括众多美术馆、展览以及非营 利性艺术空 间。Pipeline由香港Double Pipe出版社主办，每年出版六期。作为一本独立艺术杂志，Pipeline内容面向国际题材同时提供当地美术馆指 南。