30 August 2026 — Petrograd, December 1915. The Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich hung his Black Square in the corner of an apartment converted into a gallery.
Remember the VIPs from “Squid Game”? White Western men (and a woman) wearing black-and-gold masks, lounging on sofas with glasses of champagne as they watch impoverished Koreans kill each other for money.
The notion of “generation” in photography is often reduced to stylistic difference or cultural stereotype. Yet more significantly, it marks a shift in the underlying logic of image-making.
Long before Sex and the City became synonymous for cosmopolitan fantasy, Western television had already mastered the art of serial storytelling. Star Trek debuted in the 1960s.
