Signature Drop #004: Mikhael Subotzky Jonas Bendiksen Fine Prints Eugene Smith Fellowship

Eugene Smith Fellowship

with each photographer selecting and critiquing six key works by another of the agency’s 87 photographers along with a commentary explaining the rationale behind their choices

A black billboard and a procession of bent streetlights stand silhouetted against a gradient sky ablaze with deep orange and crimson—a horizon that feels both electric and eerily still

Werner Bischof set up his studio near the end of the 1930s in a suburb of Zurich

Signature Drop #004: Mikhael Subotzky Jonas Bendiksen Fine Prints Eugene Smith FellowshipFor this release, Mikhael Subotzky presents a hand signed print titled Kole Subotzky, 19672025. Using his signature sticky tape transfer process, Subotzky combines two photographs by Magnum photographer Ernest Cole (1940 1990) a 1967 self portrait and a 1971 portrait of a woman in New York City. The Signature Drop 16. 9 x 12. 3 print reproduces the original collage onto Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, from which selected parts are removed from the surface