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Archives - August 13, 2020 During the last Triennale of Photography in Hamburg, I ran accross the photographer Katja Ruge during the opening at the Deichtorhallen. Apparently, she had recognized me over Instagram. Due to her great energy and radiant freshness, we kept in touch. In 2019, I met her again during the big anniversary exhibition tour of the BFF – Berufsverband Freier Fotografen and Filmgestalter, I promoted in Stuttgart,…

Archives - August 13, 2024 Little Chelsea Experience, a photography gallery and cultural venue based in Lisbon, announces its participation in the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles OFF Festival. Named after the iconic Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan—a legendary retreat for creative icons like Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, and Bob Dylan, among many others—the gallery is dedicated to creating a community of artistic exchanges and inspiration. The photographers featured…

The desire to capture ephemeral forms of social reality underlies all of Brassaï best work of the 1930s – both the photographs of graffiti and the images of Parisian nights and their “secrets”  and reflects the particular cultural climate of the late 20s and 30s in which the emergent science of ethnography had much in common with the Surrealist avant-garde. – Marja Warehime, Brassaï: Images of Culture and the Secret…

Published by Kehrer Verlag, “Unspoken” by Jo Ann Chaus uses staged self-portraits to explore womanhood and self-empowerment. Over the course of more than a decade, Unspoken evolved from the artist’s private exchange with her camera into a profound visual investigation of identity. In this series, Jo Ann Chaus embodies a range of female stereotypes and archetypes figures shaped by inherited expectations and internalized roles. Though a modern, independent woman, the…

Holidays – a time to put your everyday worries aside for a while and see things from a different angle, such as visiting a non-photographic exhibition… and there to rediscover new perspectives from which to approach the medium of photography critically… Leon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism. He was born in Ostend, grew up there and also worked there during what was arguably the most innovative…

Jayne H Baum – JHB Gallery presents a selection of photographs by Yuki Onodera. “Yuki Onodera is a Japanese photographer who has lived in Paris since 1993. Her work explores the concepts of floating and weightlessness by means of technical and artistic experimentation. In the series ‘Portraits of Second-Hand Clothes’, she photographed clothes she acquired during an exhibition by the artist Christian Boltanski, at which visitors could buy bags of…

Archives - August 12, 2022 James Hyman Gallery presented recently the very first London exhibition of one of the greatest figures in the history of photography, the Countess of Castiglione. This major solo exhibition includes over fifty rare portraits of the Countess from the 1850s to the 1890s. Directed and staged by the Countess, herself, and created in collaboration with the studio photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson, these “self-portraits” are some of…

Archives - August 12, 2020 Daniel Blau presents Backstage and Kammerspiele - an exhibition comprising Margaret Bourke-White’s backstage photographs of burlesque dancers shown alongside the 1920s theatrical pictures of Li Osborne (1883-1968). Bourke-White’s sensual photographs of Broadway burlesque performers give us a glimpse of New York’s entertainment world in the mid 1930s. The subjects of these striking photos are New York’s chorus girls and performers as they prepare their makeup…

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary photographer and enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation whose work explores Indigenous identity, history, and the relationship between people and place. His work is currently on view at The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Church in Sag Harbor, the Memorial Gallery at Farmingdale State College, Floyd Memorial Library, the North Fork Art Collective, WaterFire Arts Center, and the Long Island Museum. Based on the…

The Galerie du Bolero in Versoix Switzerland presents the exhibition Cités Délaissées by Jean-Marc Yersin; Les carnets d’un autre temps No. 5 is the accompanying publication. Jean-Marc Yersin writes: In 2016, an old childhood friend, settled in Gary Indiana, south of Chicago, invited me to explore his city, hit hard by the crisis. During that trip, I used a sketchbook to build coherence into the series and lay the first groundwork…

Galerie Sakura presents a series by Aikaterini Theocharidou. Aikaterini is a Greek visual artist based in Italy, whose work sits at the crossroads of photography, digital art, and graphic design. Trained in architecture in Florence, she has developed a minimalist, surrealist world in which color, geometric forms, and pared-down compositions give rise to poetic, dreamlike images. Galerie Sakura 58 rue Gioffredo 06000 Nice www.galerie-sakura.com

One day in June 2024, having just finished a few darkroom tests as part of my research into natural alternative developers this time formulated with chicory I sent my results and my new recipe sheet to Gilles Decamps, our editor-in-chief at The Eye of Photography. Among the black-and-white images I had taken in the field, I sent him some poppies that had caught my eye. During our phone call, Gilles…