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Canım “Through the boat's window, an infinite, glittering expanse of water, enigmatic and indifferent, its waves lost on the horizon beneath a steel sky dotted with thick clouds, opens the solitary journey towards an unknown quest like a promise of adventure and uncertainty. A narrow, lonely line of asphalt winds and splits the desert as far as the eye can see, stretching towards the horizon between silent hills and vast,…

Natura "I could still feel that optimism vibrating through the decades: that our bodies are full of power, and furthermore that their power is not despite but because of their manifest vulnerabilities." Olivia Laing. «Everybody». It’s been a year and a half since I started working as a model in the sculpture workshop of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. The frozen body is like a metaphor for my life, frozen…

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…

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…

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…