Random Encounters Chance encounters in the neighbourhoods of Brussels have led to this series that portrays the diversity of the city, its inhabitants and visitors. The people portrayed represent the many different beliefs, ethnic origins, nationalities, social situations, as well as gender and sexual preferences that we find in the city. Through the universal symbol of the hug, we want to emphasise the symbiosis and human connection. As such, it…
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Corsa Degli Scalzi - The origins of the race Every first Sunday of September the faithful of Cabras (Oristano, Central-West Coast of Sardinia) celebrate San Salvatore (Santu Srabadori) through an evocative celebration involving hundreds of men and boys, the Procession of San Salvatore di Sinis, also known as the "Barefoot Race". As the name of the religious event suggests, the race takes place barefoot, along a route of approximately 7…
Seaside houses The "crampotes" of the old harbor in Biarritz (photographs 1 to 5) helped me to create this series, beacause of their simplicity. I have continued my work in Yeu Island where the facades of houses or huts extended this seaside resorts atmosphere (photographs 6 to 14) . I opted for a square format to focus on the graphic aspect. All of them belong to “Clean Lines” theme of…
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A.Galerie and its owner Arnaud Adida present a selection of photographs : Rankin & Marco Antonio. Rankin co-founded the seminal magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1991, and has since published the likes of AnOther and AnOther Man, alongside over 40 books and the biannual fashion, culture and lifestyle print and digital platform, Hunger. His photography has been published everywhere from his own publications to Elle, Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone,…
Tungtvann (heavy water), film photographs, 2012 - 2018. Frames exposing psychological dynamics within the psychological landscapes producing tensions experienced as dread and wonder, grandeur and abjection, reverence and levity, control and acceptance. Foggy, damp, evasive, grainy senses of what was, is, or could happen in the nuanced relationships between emotion and cognition invite viewers to spend time looking where in the out-there vision of the world can be found the…
The Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease) At first glance, this autobiographical project - which I've titled after a Kinks song « The Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease) » - looks like a funny series, but it's actually a serious introspective essay. Ron Padgett, the great American poet (and friend) who has seen some of…
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Fethi Sahraoui Wins the 2024 Edition of the Eiger African Photobook of the Year Award. The 2024 edition of the Eiger African Photobook of the Year Award saw a wealth of photobook submissions from across the African continent. While the photographic series ranged from documentary to more artistic or conceptual projects, the formats of the participating books were equally diverse. This diversity played a crucial role in the jury's decision…
The 30 winners of the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund, launched by Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture for the third time this summer have been announced. Started in 2021, the Creator Labs Photo Fund is an initiative providing financial support and visibility to encourage photographic artists at formative moments in their careers. This third season has continued the ongoing mission of making a dedicated financial commitment from Creator Labs &…
The first major exhibition of Southern photography in more than 25 years, A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, will be on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond from Oct. 5, 2024, to Jan. 26, 2025. A Long Arc comprises more than 175 years of photography from a broad swath of the American South — from Maryland to Florida to Arkansas to Texas…
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents the exhibition, American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy, on view at the museum from October 5, 2024, to January 26, 2025. The exhibition will fill a missing chapter in art history and is slated to be the most comprehensive exhibition to examine the geographical reach and extensive influence that Hungarian American photographers have had on 20th-century photography.…
This is the reissue by Damiani of a legendary book published 50 years ago: When Two or More Are Gathered Together by Neal Slavin. He sent us this text and these images. One of my first inspirations for the idea of group portraiture was through the work of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville who, on a trip to a young United States in 1840, remarked on the value of…
Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents Baldwin Lee, a photography exhibition, will open at the Museum on October 5, 2024. Baldwin Lee will feature a selection of over 40 gelatin silver prints culled from thousands of images Lee made across the South in the 1980s, many of these photographs being exhibited for the first time. The exhibition will include compelling portraits of Black Americans, as well as a collection of…
Nostalgia, nostalgia! Thanks to Arnaud Adida and his gallery. A.galerie 4 rue Léonce Reynaud 75116 Paris T : + 33 6 20 85 85 85 www.a-galerie.fr IG : @agalerieparis
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Surrealism, Keith de Lellis Gallery in New York present an exhibition “Out of this World” featuring vintage photographs that honor some of the leading figures of the Surrealist movement along with some lesser-known artists that were contributing to the art of surrealism with surprising images many of which have rarely been exhibited. Out of this World - Surreal & Fantastic Art in…
ACC Art Books releases Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold. When they met at a party in the early 1950s, Marilyn Monroe remarked to Eve Arnold that she’d seen the photographer’s images of Marlene Dietrich. ‘If you could do that well with Marlene,’ Monroe said, ‘can you imagine what you could do with me?’ A star in her day and one that continues to captivate the world, Monroe’s multifaceted persona is…
This is a first in France and Europe: a major monograph dedicated to American photographer Barbara Crane is being presented by the Centre Pompidou. Crane, who passed away in 2019, was a prominent figure in the United States, and her work is part of the most prestigious collections. However, her name remains relatively unknown in Europe, and this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to discover her prolific and diverse body…
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) celebrates the acquisition of some 300 Cuban photographs from the Chicago-based collectors Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography traces the medium’s evolution in Cuba over nearly six decades -- from promoting the Revolution following Fidel Castro’s 1959 overthrow of the Batista government, to engaging in social and political critique in more recent times as the triumph of the Revolution…
Until December 2, the Raclin Murphy Museum presents an astonishing exhibition dedicated to Father Francis Browne. It is accompanied by this text. Father Francis Browne—known to family and friends as Frank—lived a life of devotion and religious service. In his own time, he pursued photography as an avocation. His large and diverse oeuvre distinguishes him as a leading twentieth century Irish photographer. The youngest of eight children, Francis Mary Hegarty…
Marly Porto is curator of the collection “A Brazilian photographic collection at the BnF” with Héloïse Cones. She just sent us this portfolio by Raphael Alves called “Riversick”. “Riversick” is a work about how people, nature, and the urban environment share space in Manaus (the author’s birthplace, in Amazonas, Brazil) and its surrounding areas — the aspiring metropolitan region. More than that, it is a reverie about the relationship between…
Sad news: photograph, the guide to New York's photographic galleries founded in 1988 by Bill Mindlin, is closing. This is one of the increasingly frequent signs of the incredible transformation that photography will once again experience! Anthony Beale, Jean Dykstra and Fabio Cutró write : It is with heavy hearts and tremendous gratitude for all of your support that we are announcing that photograph magazine is closing. The magazine has…
in camera gallery presents around twenty artist portraits by Michel Sima until November 23. Among them Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, Dora Maar, among others. Born in 1912 in Poland, Michel Smajewski, known as Michel Sima,was a photographer and sculptor. In 1929, aged 17, he moved to Paris to become a sculptor and was admitted to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he took drawing lessons…