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London Gallery Weekend, the biggest gallery weekend in the world, has announced returns return from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 June 2023. Established in 2021, this third edition of the free public event will bring together the city’s galleries and attract tens of thousands of visitors to engage with art at locations across the city. With over 120 participating galleries confirmed so far and including 15 new participants, 2023 will…

After 18 months on the road, the Prix Pictet Fire, the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet photography prize arrived at the Fotografiska Museum in New York for its final destination. Today’s edition is entirely dedicated to the extensive exhibition and the body of work of the 13 photographers presented, headlined by the winner of the prix Pictet : Sally Mann. With our thanks to Isabelle von Ribbentrop, Michael Benson,…

Filmmakers and artists, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige question the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries, and the writing of history. Their artworks create thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation and cinema. The artists are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents, with particular interests in the traces of the invisible and the absent, histories kept secret such as the…

 Born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, Rinko Kawauchi lives and works in Tokyo. In 2001 she simultaneously released a series of three photographic books – UTATANE, HANABI, and HANAKO from publisher Little More, and in 2002 she was awarded prestigious 27th Kimura Ihei Award for UTATANE and HANABI. Hanabi, 2001 Artist statement I photographed fireworks every summer between 1997 and 2001, and this collection represents that body of work.…

Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her works explore family, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann began studying photography in the 1960s, attending the Ansel Adams Gallery’s Yosemite Workshops in Yosemite National Park, California and the Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont. She received…

Christian Marclay studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva from 1975 to 1977, at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1977 to 1980, and as a visiting scholar at Cooper Union in New York in 1978. Marclay's work has been shown in museums and galleries internationally, most recently in the major one-person exhibition, “Compositions,” at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2019). From August 25 to October…

Fabrice Monteiro is an Agouda, the descendant of Brazilian slaves with Portuguese names. His background is multicultural: he was born in Belgium, grew up in Benin, and now lives and works in Dakar, Senegal. Monteiro worked as a model for around a decade before becoming a photographer himself in 2007, after meeting the New York based photographer Alfonse Pagano. Photography came naturally to him, first as a professional model, he…

I received a BA, cum laude, in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in Film/Video from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2002. I completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2003 and from 2004-2006 was a Resident Artist at the Rijksakemie van beeldene kunsten in Amsterdam. For more than fifteen years, I have exhibited in galleries and…

 Mak Remissa is regarded as one of the most successful Khmer photographers of his generation. He credits his first and third place awards in the 1997 National Photojournalism competition, held by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and chaired by Phillip Jones Griffiths, as a major catalyst in his career. Currently working as a photojournalist for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), his work is often seen on the international news wires. His…

Carla Rippey is an American-born visual artist based in Mexico City. Her work seeks to expand the margins of drawing and graphics, applying strategies of appropriation, selection and edition. She works extensively from her collection of archives (images from photographs, postcards, family albums, newspapers, magazines, books and internet sources), which she translates into drawings, artist’s books and prints. She was educated in Nebraska, La Sorbonne, Paris, The State University of…

Born in Pennsylvania, 1954, Mark Ruwedel lives in Long Beach, California. He received his M.F.A. from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught there from 1984 to 2001; he is currently Professor Emeritus at California State University. He received major grants from the Canada Council for the Arts in 1999 and 2001. In 2014 he was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Scotiabank Photography Award and was short-listed…

Brent Stirton is special correspondent for Getty Images, and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, Stirton specializes in documentary work, generally photographing at the intersection of man and the environment. He works regularly for Stern Magazine, Human Rights Watch and with The Environment Investigation Agency and LAGA as well as the Gates and Clinton Foundation and various UN groups. He has received many awards, including multiple awards from the Overseas…

 David Uzochukwu is an Austrian and Nigerian artist. Growing up in Luxembourg and Belgium, Uzochukwu delved into self portraiture at age thirteen, and began developing a largely digital practice. It lead to vivid collaborations with artists FKA twigs and Iris van Herpen among others, as well as a commission for the World Wildlife Fund. Their self portrait series A FAMILIAR RUIN was included in group show Dey Your Lane! at…

Daisuke Yokota was born in Saitama prefecture in 1983, In 2010, he won the Grand Prix at the 2nd “1_WALL” Photography Competition. and the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2016. In 2019, he won the 45th Kimura Ihei Photography Award. He has published numerous photo collections including “MATTER/BURN OUT,” “VERTIGO,” and “Tarachine.” His major exhibitions include “Site/Cloud” (2014) at the photography museum Foam, “SHAPE OF LIGHT” (Tate Modern, 2018).  …

Tim Walker’s major retrospective (a Victoria and Albert Museum international touring exhibition) opened at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. On this occasion, Michael Hoppen Gallery shares with us the new images Tim Walker just approved for publishing. With more than two hundred pictures on display, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things is the largest museum show of the artist’s work to date, and the artist's solo museum show début…