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| | | | The winner of the Prix Pictet 'Fire' will be announced at the evening of 15th December, the opening of an upcoming exhibition of works by the twelve shortlisted photographers 16th December 2021 - 9th January 2022 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. |
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| | | |  | | | Andreas Jorns: Jule, Nieblum, Januar 2020
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| | Rania Matar, Mariam, Khiyam, Lebanon, 2019
25 1/2 x 30 inches - (other sizes & pricing available)
Pigment print from a limited edition of 8 | | | | | | | | Exhibition extended through January 8, 2022 | | |  | | | | | | | | | | Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present a selection of photographs by Boston-based photographer Rania Matar in SHE, a series of portraits depicting women and womanhood across cultural boundaries.
The women photographed in SHE contain multitudes: They’re playful but self-assured; soft yet strong; curious and adventurous. From Massachusetts to Beirut, Matar collaborates with young women to create images that reflect their experiences leaving home and entering adulthood.
"Whereas in earlier projects, I photographed young women in relationship to the curated and controlled environment of their bedrooms," says Matar, "I am photographing them here in the larger environment they find themselves in after they leave home, the more global and complicated backdrop that now constitutes their lives in transitions."
Below, Matar shares the stories behind four of the works that are now on view at the gallery. | | |
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| | He Yunchang
Golden Sunshine, Photograph, 1999
© He Yunchang | | | | | | | | Reopen 17 December – 20 February 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | He Yunchang (*1967 in Kunming, Yunnan) is one of the most important performing artists in China. He studied painting at the Yunnan Art Institute and moved to Beijing in the 1990s, where his first performative works were created. Over the past two decades, he was best known for a series of radical actions. For instance, he had his hand cast in concrete for 24 hours, tried–hanging from a crane–to divide a river in half with his own blood, burned the clothes he was wearing, ... | | |
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| | Abdourahmane aus dem Werkzyklus "Tools For Conviviality" // Franceline aus dem Werkzyklus "Tools For Conviviality" //
Fotos: courtesy the artist, Office Impart and KOW Berlin | | | | | | | | Reopen 17 December – 27 February 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anna Ehrenstein (b. 1993) found inspiration for her Tools for Conviviality during extended stays in Dakar in 2018 and 2019. In the Senegalese capital the artist met Saliou Ba, Donkafele (Mandé Mory Bah and Thibault Houssou), Nyamwathi Gichau, Lydia Likibi, and Awa Seck, all of whom would become her friends and artistic collaborators. Ehrenstein’s own migration experience between Germany and Albania sensitized her to the living conditions of her collaborators, who all migrated at various times to or from Senegal. She views Dakar as a special place that attracts a broad spectrum of Africa’s creative diversity, in part because it is possible to work there without a visa. ... | | |
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| | | Geta Brătescu, Towards White (Self-portrait in seven sequences), 1975 . Courtesy of The Estate of Geta Brătescu, Hauser & Wirth and Ivan Gallery, Bucharest. | | | | | | | | Reopen 17 December – 20 February 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the exhibition "Geta Brătescu – The Woman and the Bird" the Francisco Carolinum is the first museum in Austrria, offering an insight to the work of the Romanian artist. Geta Brătescu was born in 1926 in Ploiești, Romania. She developed an impressive understanding of playful, artistic freedom in her work during the period of communist Stalinist dictatorship (1965 to 1989) under Nicolae Ceaușescu. She not only witnessed the revolution against the regime but also the tremendous changes that the introduction of democracy and a free market economy triggered, both socially and politically, and worked on them artistically in her studio in Bucharest until she passed away in 2018 with of over 90... | | |
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| | | Action Psyché, 1973/74 © Gina Pane | | | | | | | | Reopen 17 December - 20 February 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With her spectacular actions, pushing her body to its bearable limit, Gina Pane (1939-1990) is considered as one of the most radical performance artists of the 1970s. She studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Influenced by the social upheavals and student protests in Paris in May 1968, she developed a performative oeuvre characterized by self-harm in the short spell between 1970 and 1978. Her "actions" targeted what she considered a devastatingly desolate political reality–evoking a so-called "anesthetized society".... | | |
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| | Blackwater 3, 2008 – 2012 - From the series Blackwater, 2008–12 Tintype
© Sally Mann, Gagosian, Prix Pictet - Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16 December 2021 – 9 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Twelve series of powerful photographs by 13 international photographers exploring the topical theme of ‘fire’ will be presented in the exhibition Prix Pictet: Fire at the V&A, London, 16 December 2021 – 9 January 2022.
The exhibition will showcase the world-class photography shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Prix Pictet, the global award with a unique commitment to promoting discussion and debate on issues of sustainability and the environment.
The bodies of work shortlisted for the prize draw their inspiration from both major global events and personal experiences. The photographic images span documentary, portraiture, landscape, collage and studies of light and process. The shortlisted photographers are based in five continents across the world. | | |
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| | | Ragnar Axelsson © Farmer Guðjón Þorsteinsson, Mýrdalur, Iceland, 1995 | | | | | | | | The first retrospective. | | | | 15 December 2021 – 27 February 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The first retrospective exhibition by Ragnar Axelsson from the series' Faces of the North, Glacier, Last Days of the Arctic, and Arctic Heroes. The eminent Icelandic photographer's themes are the changes in the physical and traditional realities of the North.
For over 40 years, Ragnar Axelsson (RAX, b. 1958) has photographed people, animals, and landscapes in the most remote regions of Greenland, Iceland, and Siberia. In simple black and white photos, he captures the elementary human experience in nature on the edge of the habitable world.
RAX highlights the extraordinary relationships between people, animals, and places in the Arctic and their extreme environment - relationships that change in profound and complex ways due to unprecedented climate change.
RAX was a photojournalist at Morgunblaðið from 1976-2018. He has worked as a freelancer in Latvia, Lithuania, Mozambique, South Africa, China, and Ukraine. His photographs are widely published (i.e., Life, Newsweek, Stern, GEO, National Geographic, Time, and Polk) and have received numerous awards. | | |
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| | Garage Still #05/2016 Napoli, Italy
© Jacquie Maria Wessels | | | | | | | | 18 December 2021 – 13 January 2022 | | | | Opening reception: Saturday 18 December 2021, 18:00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The poetic and meticulous photo series "Garage Stills" by Jacquie Maria Wessels (Amsterdam - NL) take us on a journey through raw but painterly still lifes made in various interiors of different traditional auto repair garages around the world. We are welcomed into a reality that is slowly disappearing, as computer technology is taking over the work previously done by men. The more than 30 works in this series shown at the PAN have been made with an analogue camera.
For her project "Garage Stills", Wessels is looking for old garages from all over the world, fascinated and intrigued by the shapes and colours of the mysterious objects she discovers along the way. From Cambodia to Naples to Sri Lanka, she moves and removes these objects to create a poetic still life. At first glance, the pictures contain the same elements, but at second glance the viewer notices the cultural differences, often found in small details. In the photos from Naples, Wessels focuses on details characteristic of the people of southern Italy, such as the juxtaposition of religious representations and images with an erotic background. She also gives these pictures an extra dimension with her artist’s gaze of an 'outsider'.
What does the artist tell us by chasing images of an elusive environment which was once characterized by human presence and now replaced by technological intelligence? If the past is gradually disappearing, photography is the only way to stop it and reinvent it. Wessels analogue camera is moved by the desire to alter the gaze on objects: objects that are all repositioned, returned to a dimension of "still life", characteristic to the Dutch and Flemish style. With a reference to the iconographic tradition of Norther… | | |
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| | | |  | | | | Michaela Moscouw: from the series "Die Loge", 1991/ 92 |
| | | | Bilder, Dokumente, Artefakte | | | | | | | 12 Dec 2021 – 19 Mar 2022 | | | | | |
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| | | |  | | | Partitur aus der Ausstellung "one artist − one minute"
Tamara Grcic, 2021 (Detail) |
| | | | | | | | Artists from 40 Years of FOTOHOF | | | | | | | 12 Dec 2021 – 19 Mar 2022 | | | | | |
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| | | 유크로니아 Uchronia 2111-2, 42x80.5cm, Pigment print,2021 | | | | | | | | 10 December 2021 – 19 February 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Museum of Photography, Seoul(MoPS) holds a solo exhibition, entitled mirrorscape , of artist CHO Duck Hyun, who has presented ‘photo-like’ drawings and installation works in which faded photos are transferred to canvas. In this show, CHO introduces not only photography, but also various works that have been used photography as motifs. It is an exhibition that shows the artist's thoughts on the role, meaning, and relationship with other genres of photography that have been asked and conceptualized through his work along with his idea of "photo-like picture, picture-like photo." Since the 1990s, CHO has been working on ‘photo-like’ drawings that recall and re-illuminate the figures of the past in the photos by using pencils and charcoal to elaborately transfer them on canvas. Photography, which guarantees the facts of the past, is an important medium that forms the starting point and foundation of the artist's work. The exhibition introduces about 30 pieces of ‘picture-like’ photographs, including the series of mirror walk, uchronia, and painterly, as well as 6 large-scale installations, and 5 middle and small-scale paintings. Among them are installation works and drawings that homage to Korean modern and contemporary photography collection of MoPS. Furthermore, approximately 200 photographic works will be shown on FHD display. In this exhibition, the mirror is a key device and a keyword. The artist place photography in a cube filled with mirrors or by installing a mirror under the canvas to create a double image through mirror reflection. In addition, the works directly reveal the image reflected in the mirror like decalcomania, or are closely connected in the form of 'black & white and color' and 'photo-like picture and picture-like photo' facing each ot… | | |
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| | | © Sara Bastai | | | | | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To keep pace with contemporary creation, Images Vevey has joined forces with ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, to launch Images Vevey x ECAL, a new prize offering a first solo exhibition to a student completing his/her studies in photography. The first ever Images Vevey x ECAL prize has been awarded to Sara Bastai for her RAM_2.0 project involving artificial intelligence. The artist ran the hundreds of photos in her smartphone through an algorithm, which analysed the images and described what it observed. She then photographed new scenarios based on the generated captions. This created a dialogue between the artist and the machine, exploring the notion of memory through the eyes of technology. | | |
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| | | Radial Grammar (3D re-edit), 2021 © Batia Suter | | | Batia Suter » Radial Grammar (3D re-edit), 2021 | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Batia Suter has been collecting books and magazines for over twenty years. Most of them are second-hand and include scien- tific papers, glossaries, promotional catalogues, art and history books, periodicals on the animal kingdom, and much more. These pages provide the raw material for her artistic practice, whereby she extracts, decontextualises, and correlates images to reveal them in a new light. Her extensive project Radial Grammar is showcased in an exhibition, a book, and a video. This visual montage evokes a bookshop packed with treasures and encyclopaedias. In L'Appartement, the projection evokes the giant sphere of the Chiesa Madre in the town of Gibellina, Italy. Suter designed this slide show for a monumental video- mapping as part of the for the bienniale Images Gibellina 2021. The fluidity takes us on a mysterious visual journey through ico- nography, the formal and narrative characteristics of images. | | |
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| | Aircraft: The New Anatomy, 2020
© Maxime Guyon | | | Maxime Guyon » Aircraft: The New Anatomy, 2020 | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From 2017 to 2020, Maxime Guyon explored the most significant aviation factories and met numerous protagonists of this impressive sector of the economy. His keen eye for detail and aesthetics is apparent in his series of photographs questioning the fascinating evolution of the aeronautical industry and the rat race for technological performance. The book entitled Aircraft: The New Anatomy published by Lars Müller in Zurich, presents a collation of his work. Complemented with an essay by Nicolas Nova, a Swiss-French researcher and anthropologist, these images serve as an evolving metaphor and launchpad for a broader reflection on human-made artefacts and the ambivalent link between nature and technology. | | |
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| | Animal Imago, 2013
© Lucia Nimcova | | | | | | | | 14 December 2021 – 30 January 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When artist Lucia Nimcova goes on a trip, she has a penchant for photographing the animals she notices on her excursions. Sending these images of urban creatures as postcards to friends and family initiates a reflection on communication. How do we, as city creatures of the 21st century, compare to other animals? What can we learn if we really try to listen to them, collaborate with them or put ourselves in their place? Can we understand one another? This tamed, humanised fauna farcically questions our status as a "superior" species. Fifteen of the artist’s street photographs have been collated in a display specifically designed for children. | | |
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| | Lot 38
Willy RONIS 1910 - 2009
Gare Saint-Lazare - Paris, 1955
Estimation 1,500 - 2,000 € | | | | | | | Stéphane Kovalsky Collection | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Auction will pay tribute to the photographic work of Willy Ronis, with some 200 exceptional photos coming under the hammer. There are both iconic and more intimate images tracing the career of this renowned photographer. An event not to be missed by collectors worldwide who will have an exclusive opportunity to discover both emblematic and previously unseen prints.
Following the highly successful first sale of photographs from the Stéphane Kovalsky Collection in 2016, Artcurial is delighted to present the second part of the sale "Willy Ronis: Iconic & Unseen", Collection Stéphane Kovalsky, taking place on 15 December in Paris.
The sale, comprising over 200 works of both iconic and more intimate images, looks back at the career of this important artist photographer, who was friends with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and Edouard Boubat.
The photographs in the sale all come from the estate of Willy Ronis, one of the collections of Stéphane Kovalsky, the artist's grandson. He would like, with this sale, to pay a personal tribute to his grandfather, as well as recall his place in the history of photography during the second half of the 20th century.
Willy Ronis was born in Paris in 1910, in modest surroundings. His father owned a photographic studio and gave his son his first camera at the age of sixteen. Willy Ronis began by taking photos of the Eiffel Tower and he signed the family photos. He soon abandoned stereotypical subjects, preferring to record what he saw on the spot. He was present during the workers' demonstrations in the 1930s. Society was changing and he was a witness to this. His father died in 1936 and the family business went into bankruptcy. This… | | |
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| | | | | | Butterflies Frolicking on the Mud: Engendering Sensible Capital | | | | | | | 18 Dec 2021 – 31 Mar 2022 | | | | | |
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| | | |  | | | | Leopoldo Cebrián Alonso — Cortesía de TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes |
| | | | International Photography Festival of Tenerife | | | | | | | – 9 Jan 2022 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | 19 exhibitions of Greek and international photography, of 94 artists from 18 countries | | | | | | | – 20 Feb 2022 | | | | | |
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| | | Wang Yimo, Rhapsody in the World, 2021. Light box printing cloth, dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist. | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... until 3 Januar 2022 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Seventh Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival will open in Xiamen on November 26, 2021, and run until January 3, 2022.
The Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival was co-founded in Xiamen's Jimei District in 2015, and it is jointly organized by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Tianxia Jimei Media. Since its founding, Jimei x Arles has presented more than 200 exhibitions from China and the rest of Asia, as well as a selection of excellent shows from Les Rencontres d'Arles. To date, the festival has attracted 350,000 visitors.
For this edition of Jimei x Arles, Christoph Wiesner, director of Les Rencontres d'Arles, and RongRong, Chinese contemporary photographer and co-founder of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, will serve as Co-Directors, with noted photography critic Gu Zheng serving as Art Director. This year's festival will present 25 exhibitions featuring more than 50 artists from France, Singapore, Brazil, the Czech Republic, mainland China, and elsewhere, including four brilliant exhibitions from Les Rencontres d'Arles, ten Discovery Award exhibitions highlighting young Chinese photographers, three Greetings from Singapore exhibitions, one China Pulse exhibition presenting how photography developed at one Chinese art academy, three Crossover Photography exhibitions, one Tribute exhibition, one Collector's Tale exhibition, and two Local Action exhibitions showcasing Xiamen.
The exhibitions will be primarily presented in the Jimei Citizen Square Main Exhibition Hall and the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Xiamen, as well as other sites across the island of Xiamen. During the opening weekend (November 26 to 28) and the entire run of the festival, art lovers and the general public will be able to enjo… | | |
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| | | | African Photobook of the Year | | | | Call for Entries: until 1 March, 2022 | | | The prize will apply to a book published between January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2022.
www.eigerfoundation.org | | | | | | | | | | | | | Initiated by the EIGER FOUNDATION in September 2021, the EIGER FOUNDATION African Photobook of the Year Awards celebrates the photobook’s contribution to the evolving narrative of photography, with a focus on the African continent.
1. Conditions for Entry
* The EIGER FOUNDATION African Photobook of the Year Award distingues a book in which the dominant content is photography, featuring the work of one or more photographer(s). The book must be produced in physical form.
* Books must be produced or published between January 1, 2019, and January 1, 2022.
* Entries for either award may only be submitted by the photographer, the publisher, or a third party acting with the consent of the photographer.
* Books must be by an African photographer or a publisher established on the African continent.
* Books on an African theme by non-African photographers or non-African publishers are also admitted.
* Exhibition catalogues or museum publications, as well as text-only publications, are not eligible.
* The book may be comprised of photographs of any genre or topic.
2. How to Enter
You can generate your submission here before March, 1, 2022.
Please note that you will need to provide the following information on the submittable entry form:
* Book title, year of publication, and publisher information
* Book blurb, a short description/summary of the book
* The photographer or author’s name
* Book dimensions, number of pages
* Distribution information
* An image or render of the book cover (JPG file)
* A digital copy of your book in PDF format
There is no fee for the entry for the Eiger Foundation Book Awards.
By submitting your work to the EIGER Foundation African Photobook of the Year Awards, you are found to be in agreement of the terms and conditions.
3. Prizes
* A $20,000 prize will be awarded to the photographer(s)/artist(s) whose finished, publicly available photobook is judged to be the best of the year.
* Five books will be selected for the shortlist, presented on the EIGER FOUNDATION website accompanied by the jury’s comments. The four runner-ups of the shortlisted photographers will receive a prize of $3,000 each.
* The shortlist will be produced on, or before, the 1 September 2022, and the winner will be announced shortly after.
4. Terms and Conditions
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| | August Sander: Zirkusartisten, 1926–1932
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur August Sander Archiv, Köln
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2021 | | | August Sander Award - Prize for Portrait Photography 2022 | | | | Open for artists up to 40 years old | | | | Deadline: 28 January 2022 | | | | Application: here | | | | | | | | | | | | | The August Sander Prize for portrait photography, donated by Ulla Bartenbach and Prof. Dr. Kurt Bartenbach, will be awarded for the third time in 2022 in cooperation with Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne.
The idea behind the award is to promote young contemporary artistic approaches in the sense of objective and conceptual photography. Against the background of August Sander's important portrait photographs, the photographic works of the applicants should primarily relate to the theme of the human portrait. The prize is awarded every two years. Eligible are national and international artists up to and including the age of 40 with a focus on photography. The prize is endowed with 5,000 €. In addition, the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur will organize an exhibition of the award winner's work, if possible and by individual agreement.
A series of no more than 20 photographs that has already been largely developed is suitable for submission. Only works that follow a thematically bound image group or sequence will be evaluated; individual images will not be considered. The works submitted should not have won a prize in other competitions.
The jury is composed of five members Albrecht Fuchs, artist, Cologne; Dr. Roland Augustin, Saarlandmuseum/Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken; Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, art historian, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster; Dr. Anja Bartenbach, donor family, Cologne; Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, director, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne.
A shortlist will be published at the end of March 2022. The winner, resulting from the shortlist, will be announced at the end of April 2022.
The award ceremony will take place in September 2022 at Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur in a festive setting in Cologne.
The deadline for entries is January 28, 2022.
The detailed call for entries can be downloaded here | | |
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