Writing — DARIA TUMINAS

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Maria Fusco, Master RockEN

Portfolio text about Maria Fusco's 'Master Rock' for Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES - The Environmental Issue.

Katya Lesiv, I Love YouEN

Summer Read column for Trigger (FOMU, Antwerpen) - a reflection on Katya Lesiv's 'I Love You' (ist publishing, 2021).

Productive Archiving Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid IdentitiesEN

An essay for the volume 'Productive Archiving Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities' edited by Ernst van Alphen. The book includes contributions by Aleida Assmann, Annet Dekker, Lars Ebert, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Monika Huber, William Kentridge, Pablo Lerma, Inge Meijer, Santu Mofokeng, Merapi Obermayer, Walid Raad, Ana Paula Saab, Drew Sawyer, Carla Subrizi, Marjan Teeuwen, Jeffrey Wallen.

To Destroy Is To BuildEN

An essay on the project 'To Destroy Is To Build' by Czar Kristoff for Foam Magazine #61: Talent.

Favorite Photobooks of 2021, LensCultureEN

A brief introduction of 'Rato, Tesoura, Pistola' by Pedro Guimarães as my 'favourite photobook' of the year.

InterviewEN

Archivo Platform (Ana Catarina Pinho and Chiara Lucchesi) interviewed me about the exhibition 'Pass It On. Private Stories, Public Histories' at FOTODOK.

Cut to a Photobook >EN

An essay on photobook editing co-written with Tine Guns for 'Belgian Platform For Photobooks.' In a form of a downloadable double-sided poster. Focusing on the publication 'Rocambolesco’ by Guns.

Oil & MossEN

An essay on the project 'Oil & Moss' by Igor Tereshkov for Foam Magazine #58: Talent.

doc! photo magazineEN

In September 2020, BLOW UP PRESS co-produced an issue of the magazine with FOTODOK. I co-edited this issue #46 with the team of BLOW UP, and contributed an interview with Stefanos Tsivopoulos, co-written with Natasha Christia.

Is a Book Worth a Tree?EN

Material for YET issue 12 'What We Have Learnt About Publishing' about ecological sustainability of photobooks. Co-produced with Amelie Rose Schüle and together with nineteen publishers, designers, artists, printers, distributors and paper manufacturers.

Favorite Photobooks of 2019EN

A photobook pick for Lensculture: Lassen by Małgorzata Stankiewicz. Published by Meta/Books

Wiosna van Bon about her photobook dummy Family StrangerEN

The 4th interview in a series of interviews with artists whose dummies were shortlisted in Unseen Dummy Award 2018.

Open source booklet What? Market? Market! EN

Unseen Book Market and Photobook Week Aarhus present: What? Market? Market! - the second edition of a joint discussion between the platforms and invited contributors. While the first edition Market? What Market? (2017-2018) focused on the general role of the photobook market today, the current one (2018-2019) explores solutions for the field’s challenges. Artists, independent publishers, collectors and mediators reflect on new developments, the importance of reaching different audiences, and consider sustainable models of book production. Role: managing editor, writer.

Interview with Unseen Dummy Award Jury 2019: Natasha ChristiaEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with Unseen Dummy Award Jury 2019: Jenny LindheEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with Unseen Dummy Award Jury 2019: Christina ToepferEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with Unseen Dummy Award Jury 2019: Rebecca FertinelEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with Unseen Dummy Award Jury 2019: Paul van MamerenEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with the winner of Unseen Dummy Award 2018: Rebecca FertinelEN

On her photobook Ubuntu. For Unseen Platform website.

Maria Sturm about her photobook dummy You Don't Look Native To MeEN

The 3nd interview in a series of interviews with artists whose dummies were shortlisted in Unseen Dummy Award 2018.

Mariela Sancari about her photobook dummy The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts EN

The 2nd interview in a series of interviews with artists whose dummies were shortlisted in Unseen Dummy Award 2018.

Anastasia Mityukova about her dummy Project IcewormEN

The 1st interview in a series of interviews with artists whose dummies were shortlisted in Unseen Dummy Award 2018

How Books BeginEN

Material on selected photobook dummies from Unseen Dummy Award 2018 shortlist for Unseen Magazine Issue 6.

My Birth by Carmen Winant / personal favourite for LensCultureEN

For the compilation Favorite Photobooks of 2018: "An eclectic list of personal favorites — Specialists from all over the world name their top photobook picks from 2018".

Open source booklet Market? What Market?EN

Market? What Market? is a cross-platform discussion and open source booklet initiated by Unseen Book Market and Photobook Week Aarhus. Materials reflect on the state of the photobook market in 2017-2018. Role: managing editor.

Episodes of Script and PhotographyEN

Focus Essay for Foam Magazine #51: SEER/BELIEVER.

How We See: Photobooks by WomenEN

Contributing a chapter on 10 selected photobooks by female artists from Eastern Europe to the latest project in nonprofit 10x10 Photobooks’ - How We See: Photobooks by Women. The project presents a global range of one hundred 21st-century photobooks by female photographers and will appear as a book and a travelling presentation.

Documentary Today: Transmedia and Collaboration - Hans Gremmen & Ad van DenderenEN

Transformations published extracts from conversations within Documentary Today: Transmedia and Collaboration series of meetings with experts from documentary field. The third piece is a selection of themes discussed with Hans Gremmen (Fw:Books) and photographer Ad van Denderen.

Documentary Today: Transmedia and Collaboration - Bas VroegeEN

Transformations published extracts from conversations within Documentary Today: Transmedia and Collaboration series of meetings with experts from documentary field. The second piece is a selection of themes discussed with Bas Vroege, the director of Paradox.

Salt in My EyesEN

Essay on the Salt Lake series of Boris Mikhailov for Foam Magazine #50: Water.

Documentary Today: Transmedia and Collaboration - Clément SaccomaniEN

Transformations published extracts from conversations within Documentary Today: Transmedia and Collaboration series of meetings with experts from documentary field. The first piece is a selection of themes discussed with Clément Saccomani, the director of NOOR photography agency.

Photobooks 2017: 23 Curators Pick Their FavoritesEN

A photobook pick for Lensculture: “Lullaby 1” © Katya Lesiv. Published by Rodovid Press

Interview with founders of Radical Reversibility, a practice and research-based art cooperativeEN

For the brochure of Radical Reversibility presented at CO-OP at Unseen Amsterdam 2017.

Interview with the Jury Unseen Dummy Award 2017: Dieter De LathauwerEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with the Jury Unseen Dummy Award 2017: Ann Christin-BertrandEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with the Jury Unseen Dummy Award 2017: Delphine BedelEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with the Jury Unseen Dummy Award 2017: Paul van MamerenEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Interview with the Jury Unseen Dummy Award 2017: Rémi CoignetEN

For Unseen Amsterdam's website.

Opgespannen spieren Fotografie tussen antropologie en performancekunst

An essay about the photobook “Maximilian Stejskal – Folklig idrott" and relations between photography, anthropology and performance art. Published in EXTRA 21 in Dutch.