Vince Aletti, collector, author, curator and winner of this year’s AIPAD Award, lives in a seven-room apartment in New York’s East Village. It’s filled to the brim with his enormous collection, or as he describes it, “a collection of collections”, of magazines, photographs, books, vinyl records, and all manner of ephemera. Still, there’s always room for more. How would you describe yourself as a collector? – As someone who looks…
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In September last year, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of a collection of 209 photographs by the French photographer Eugène Atget. It had been built over 25 years by Dan and Mary Solomon, by carefully adding one masterpiece after another. The couple prefers to keep a low profile in the photography world but are incredibly active as collectors, curators, publishers, and most significantly as generous donors to…
AIPAD presents the 2nd edition of the Monumental exhibition. This special project show- cases large-scale photographic works throughout the public areas of The Park Avenue Armory, providing a unique opportunity for galleries and their artists to display new, challenging and impactful pieces not generally shown at fairs, creating a captivating visual spectacle for visitors. This article originally appeared in the AIPAD Catalogue sponsored by MUUS Collection. The Photography Show…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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Thomas Hoepker was 27 years old when he set out on his ambitious journey across the United States—one that took him from coast to coast and back again over the course of three months and resulted in thousands of photos. The year was 1963 and Hoepker had been commissioned by the German magazine Kristall to “discover” America through his camera. The photo reportages he made, published in five issues of…
The word ordeal is used here in all its polysemy. The point is to submit to experience so as to test its qualities; the photographer’s proof print, the trials and tribulations of the traveller, the ordeal of entire peoples, the test of poetry that transcend the test of art. According to Lévi-Strauss, man can change his behaviour because he is a being of culture(s). Understanding and sensitivity structure his perception…
Véronique de Viguerie (1978) is a Paris-based photoreporter. This woman, who ironically presents herself as a "war photographer, mother of two, blonde-yet-not-dumb", is constantly driven by the desire to show what needs to be seen. For Véronique, it all began in Afghanistan, in 2003. Very quickly, war reality caught up with her: she narrowly escaped a suicide bombing. Very quickly too, her composure and her sense of image were acknowledged…
Adrienne Surprenant (1992) is a French-based Canadian photographer. She joined the MYOP agency in 2022 and is a member of Women Photograph. Her favourite themes are on the boundary between the visible and the invisible, in order to give the situations, she tackles the complexity that helps to confront them in an honest and empathetic way. Identity, mental health, human rights and the environment are intertwined in her projects, which…
Édouard Elias (1991) is a journalist and photographer living in France. At the age of 21, he left to cover a Syrian refugee camps in Turkey and ended up in Syria. On his return, he showed his pictures of the rebel offensive in Aleppo. Getty Agency hired him and published his coverage of "The Martyrdom of Aleppo". In June 2013, whilst in northern Aleppo, he was taken hostage by Islamic…
Gabrielle Duplantier (1978) is a French-American photographer who lives in the Basque Country. Since her first steps as a photographer, she has tirelessly travelled to the same familiar places from which she draws strange landscapes, twilight moments, fragile or powerful portraits. Gabrielle gives her subjects the right to be themselves, watches for contact, the link, the truth in a determined and concerned quest. "When I take a shot, in the…
Anaïs Tondeur (1985) is an artist rooted in ecology. She lives and works in Paris. Anaïs is committed to an interdisciplinary practice through which she explores new ways of narrating the world, that can transform our relationship with other living beings and the earth’s great cycles. Composing a kind of awareness lab, she develops her work through research and fiction, presented in the form of installations, photography or procedures related…
Dmitry Markov (1982) is a Russian photographer. His iPhone pictures are icons of ordinary people’s lives in small-town Russia. He lives and works in Pskov, in the East of the country, near the Estonian border. Dmitry has a passion for documentary photography, on the fringe of journalism. His images are captivatingly truthful, a raw testimony to a peripheral society without many prospects. He shows the reality of the social outcasts,…
More than 500 women and women-identifying photographers from around the world responded to an open call by the RPS Women in Photography Group. A curated selection of 50 self-portraits can now be viewed in an online exhibition. SELFIES celebrates the current take on a classical form of artistic expression, with the winning entries announced on social media and presented in digital form in keeping with the most visible modern iteration…
Monroe Gallery of Photography presents an exhibition celebrating the Gallery’s 20th anniversary in Santa Fe. “Imagine a World Without Photojournalism” is a multi-photojournalist presentation of news events of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Across America and throughout the world, photojournalists working to bring the world vital news have come under attack, often from authorities, governments, and groups using violence and repression as a form of censorship. In 2021, there were…
Olga Merrill recently had a solo exhibition "Enigma" at the Griffin Museum of Photography, MA, USA. She introduced her work as follow. Enigma is my interpretation of the relationship between our human existence and the Earth. This bond is a full mix of fantasy and mystery that stimulates our minds to invent and invigorate possibilities. My process is to use in camera double-exposures as metaphors for my vision. In these…
This is the fifteenth dialogue of the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue dedicated to the theme of the wounds that rip our body apart and to the images that, by recording these gashes, transform the experience of pain into an experience of knowledge. The measure of this collection is emotional composure even where the eyes, the mind, the heart sometimes wince. But it is to these impassive and hypnotic faces…
Firefighters, rural, musette, clandestine... the popular ball not to be missed is that of July 14th! Will we dance? Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
Until the end of August, Karla Hiraldo Voleau exhibits at the MEP, images gathered under the title: Another Love Story. Karla Hiraldo Voleau carries out an artistic work on the intimate as a critical space. Gender, sexuality, emotions and the body are all subjects that she addresses in her photographs in order to reveal what is at stake beyond appearances. The artist does not hesitate to stage herself in her…
Archivist and passionate collector since 1971, well known to specialists and historians of modern music, Dominique Boile is the owner of a collection that includes more than three thousand pieces, and covers the sixty-year career of Leonard Cohen. It is from the Dominique Boile Collection that the members of the KETHER project have designed a photographic exhibition revealing rarities, unique, unpublished, or sold out pieces. It includes in particular: -…