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The Seven of Champagne In the summer of 2019, after a renewed reading of the novels of Chrétien de Troyes, I am undertaking personal research into medieval literature. I discovered a number of authors who, because they belonged to the same period and shared a common territory, reminded me of familiar places in the Champagne region where I grew up. The following autumn, I began a field survey in search…
Totoro Youth is a project in progress, a look at possibilities. In a world confined by paradigms; a society losing its bearings and haunts, there is a youth who, far from wanting to overthrow the system, are building the conditions day after day to escape the suffocation of the Establishment. The BBY’s project aims to show an inventive and creative youth who flees political debate to build a radiant present. Three axes…
Postcards This new project was born by chance, while I was cleaning out my external hard disk. Looking again at these photos taken in September nine years ago on Lake Maggiore, I made this consideration, that if I had had in my hands postcards purchased in Stresa or on Isola Bella, and not digital files, I would certainly have perceived a decidedly different emotion, more immersive, that emotion that can…
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Espace jeunesse et multimédia
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from October 20th, 2023 to October 24th, 2023
Rotterdam Photo
Willemsplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands
from February 1st, 2024 to February 4th, 2024
Biennale internationale de la photographie d'Ostende
Ostende, Belgium
from September 16th, 2023 to November 12th, 2023
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Marseille
from October 23rd, 2023 to October 27th, 2023
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from May 18th, 2023 to January 8th, 2024
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from October 7th, 2023 to December 3rd, 2023
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from September 21st, 2023 to October 1st, 2023
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6 Rue des Citronniers, 64700 Hendaye
from August 24th, 2023 to October 1st, 2023
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Today’s edition is dedicated to Erwin Olaf. The Dutch photographer passed away this past Wednesday at the age of 64. Through the years, we published numerous times his work, you will find today a selection of the features from our archives. His studio carried a statement saying that Olaf recently underwent a lung transplant. “The recovery seemed to be going very well. He suddenly became unwell on Wednesday morning and…
Archives of March 15, 2023 His Majesty the King Willem-Alexander awarded the Medal of Honor for Art and Science of the Order of the House of Orange to photographer Erwin Olaf on March 13, 2023 at Noordeinde Palace. The medal of honor is awarded to persons of exceptional merit in the fields of art and science. The award is also based on a special bond with the Royal Household. Erwin…
Archives of February 17th, 2023 Galerie XII presented the first exhibition of Erwin Olaf on the West Coast. The opening was part of the Art and Soul of Santa Monica in conjunction with Frieze. Considered as the most important Dutch photographer of his generation, Olaf is celebrated for his bold and sometimes controversial approach. His practice centers around society’s marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, and the LGBTQIA+ community.…
Archives of March 11th, 2022 Hamiltons Gallery presented Im Wald is a new series by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, and is the first of his series to be photographed purely on location in the beauty of the Bavarian and Austrian Alps. “In The Forest” draws attention to several global issues, including climate change, wanderlust, immigration and the COVID19 pandemic, directly investigating nature’s impact on our lives. Olaf highlights the role of…
Archives of June 11th, 2021 As part of the Biennale ‘Fashion and Style in Photography 2021’, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents an exhibition by Erwin Olaf, one of the world’s most important contemporary photographers. Our museum has exhibited Olaf’s projects at several spring biennales, demonstrating the variety of this artist’s creative ideas and methods. Grandiose artistic projects in the spirit of theatrical productions permeated with the grotesque and irony…
Archives of March 31st, 2021 Edwynn Houk Gallery presents Erwin Olaf New Series: April Fool and In the Forest, opening on April 8. The exhibition will be available online through May 22. A photographer and multimedia artist, Olaf takes as his subject society’s marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community, to explore everything from pressing social and political issues to more meditative aspects of human emotion,…
Archives of October 23, 2014 Erwin Olaf’s works depict the unspoken. His stylized and skilfully quoted visual worlds address taboos, social conflicts, and middle-class narrow-mindedness – themes that he disguises aesthetically in order to unsettle the viewer. Bar Barbette showcases the series Fall (2008), which presents adolescent portraits separated by austerely composed still lifes set in pale gold-coloured interiors of the late 1950s. Posed before curtains and wallpaper reminiscent of…
Archives of March 14, 2013 Last week we covered the Erwin Olaf exhibition in London. Now the same series, Berlin, is on view at the Hasted Kraeutler gallery in New York. The photographs of Erwin Olaf are intriguing for their preciousness, their sense of detail and their strangeness. Olaf has long worked in his studio with a whole team of designers, but for his new series, Berlin, he used the…
Archives of December 3, 2010 Born in Hilversum in the Netherlands in 1959, Erwin Olaf lives and works in Amsterdam since the early 80’s. In celebration of the reopening of Amsterdam’s De La Mar Theater, Erwin Olaf created photographic reinterpretations of iconic theatrical plays.
Archives of November 11, 2010 Erwin Olaf‘s Royal Blood series, which includes the Diana look-a-like picture, attempts to stir debate about public fascination with fame and violence by using blond models to portray celebrities who met a violent end. The tiara-wearing look-alike stares out at a camera in a pose not unlike those in actual portraits taken of Diana. But Olaf‘s image bears a bloody wound on her arm in…
UNSEEN which takes place over the next 4 days in Amsterdam is the most important photography fair in the Netherlands. John Devos, our correspondent for Belgium and Holland, has prepared this fantastic edition for you. UNSEEN is an art fair dedicated to the latest developments in contemporary photography. Contemporary photography offers unexpected perspectives and stems from different backgrounds. We see photographers making use of the medium in innovative, intelligent, inspiring…
Ag Galerie Teheran - Mohsen Yazdipour (1980 Iran) (Images 9) Project title A Site (Not) to See - Tehran is one of the largest and most populated cities in the world. About fourteen-million people live here. Some are native to the city but most have come to this city to escape the unemployment, lack of resources and opportunities in their own. The city has grown faster than it can be…
Contour Gallery Rotterdam – Nele van Canneyt (1973 Belgium) (images 23 ) Nele van Canneyt is drawn to objects and scenes in the serenity of the city at the end of the day and the dawn of night, when everything seems to stand still, and the city takes on its own story. All while a dialogue between the playfulness and conceptual work of the three artists sits in the spotlight,…
Gallery Untitled Rotterdam - Vincent van de Wijngaard (1968, The Netherlands) (images 37) Vincent van de Wijngaard’s work is characterized by a deft treatment of color and investigative style, giving rise to imagery of crisp detail and profound allure. Following an early interest in music and graphic design, he studied photography at The Royal Academy in The Hague. His projects have since taken him to more than seventy countries, fostering…
Kana Kawanishi Tokyo Yoshiki Omote (1992 Japan) (images 50 ) Yoshiki Omote is an artist renowned for his works that convert large-scale schemes and phenomena into sizes of daily life. In the “Turbulence” series, he represents atmospheric movements on a two-dimensional surface. A massive amount of resin is poured onto the surface of a mirror, with several ink drops added. He then leaves the work as is for a few…
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