Markus Krottendorfer

Stock Car

Stock car racing in the United States has long outgrown its country-bumpkin origins – under the aegis of NASCAR, it’s one of the fastest-growing American sports, thick with corporate sponsors and fat purses for drivers. But in the United Kingdom, stock car racing is still true to its rough-and-tumble origins. Austrian photographer Markus Krottendorfer’s new documentary series, Stock Car, brings us into this world of racing in the UK. Graphically printed and expertly photographed, these grainy black and white images capture the gritty, hands-on sensibility of the UK stock car racing community. An excellent document that succeeds in capturing not only the racing but the devoted fans, drivers and speedways that house this action-packed sport.

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The Sun

Rika Noguchi

Rika Noguchi captures the abstract beauty of the everyday using the camera’s eye, through compositions the emphasize the otherworldliness of geometrical forms. The Sun, begun in 2005, depicts images recorded by shooting directly into the sun using the most primitive type of lens-less device for capturing images: the pinhole camera. The soft-focus glow of these works suggest the unknown the resides within the possibility of human experience. The series was included in the 2008 Carnegie International exhibition, as well as the Walked Art Center and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City. This limited edition book of 1500, featured in a custom slipcase, includes 36 color images, as well as a secret photographic image on the front cover using thermal-sensitive ink, brought only into exposure through ambient heat and light.

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