The Little Black Gallery presents its new online exhibition Beneath The Surface featuring the work of Canadian photographer Lucas Murnaghan, who died in 2021, on its BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! platform which promotes queer and gay fine art photography. Ghislain Pascal, editor and curator of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! and co-founder of The Little Black Gallery, said: “Lucas joined BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! at the very beginning, in 2018, and the response to…
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The Berlin space presents a retrospective of the committed Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT. From her first successes to her practice of land art, through her reinterpretations of classic paintings, the exhibition retraces an entire body of work dedicated to the cause of women. In 1967, at the age of 27, she took the pseudonym VALIE EXPORT. A capital act for the woman who, through this means, got rid of the…
With Cars and Cows, Ute Behrend presents us with her subtle observations on the myth of progress of the American Dream and the fragility of our era – a poetic look beyond the roadside! Just as the American Dream is coming of age and gradually deteriorating, Ute Behrend‘s photographs bring together two outdated models reminiscent of the good old days in the United States: American Classic Cars and old Breeds…
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Kourtney Roy - Enter as Fiction 3 Kourtney Roy was born in 1981 in Ontario, Canada. She studied Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in photography. Kourtney Roy began making self-portraits at the university. Between fashion portraiture, theatricality and everyday photography, her work shows the cross-over influences between these worlds. Her work blends fiction and self-fiction, and explores the sublime and the strange in everyday life,…
Here is The Best Of from November 2021 by Arthur Dayras. Arthur Dayras is responsible for partnerships for L'Œil de la Photographie and editor at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole. Co-founder of the literary review L'Allume-Feu, he also worked as an assistant curator for the Dia Art Foundation or the independent Arles platform Extramentale.
Cattle that mean the world to the Mundari With 12 million cattle, South Sudan is the country with one of the highest cattle populations in Africa. The Ankole-Watusi cattle of the Mundari are considered the "kings of cattle" thanks to their imposing horns. To say that the Mundari love their cattle is an understatement. Their entire world revolves around them. When I arrive at the camp, located in a clearing,…
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Because only the print on the wall can show you what the photographer intended. Seeing the pictures currently on display at Peter Fetterman’s gallery is a revelatory experience. First, because Fetterman is a consummate collector and his holdings represent a lifetime of choosing with a discerning eye. Then because the images reveal themselves to be even more beautiful this way than seeing them on any screen. Most readers of L’oeil…
The exhibition Bande-annonce, The Pigozzi Collection in Cannes proposes a journey through contemporary African creation, one of the most dynamic art scenes in the world. This event also foreshadows the new museum project of the City of Cannes, devoted to contemporary African art and Jean Pigozzi’s world-renowned collection. The Gare maritime of Cannes, a hub for meetings and exchanges and a symbol of travel and new horizons, is the ideal…
It was one of the most original exhibitions of the Gaspesie Festival. It is called A Fragile Landscape. It is signed by Ewa Monika Zebrowski. It is accompanied by her text. Venice continues to seduce me: limpid, operatic, ephemeral. A destination of 118 islands, 177 canals and 400 bridges. suspended between heaven and earth. A city floating in time and space. I always prefer to visit Venice in winter when…
The Bonne Espérance gallery based in Paris is one of the most specialized in contemporary artistic creations and works from Southern Africa. In the field of photography, the gallery is the custodian of a large part of the photographic work of the great German photographer Jurgen Schadeberg. The major part of his activity was in South Africa and was devoted to the important evolution of this society over half a century. His…
Robert Mack, photographer, visual artist, photographed and filmed criminally insane men for his project, Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity. These extremely rare black and white photographs were taken in 1981 and are compassionate yet sobering portraits of insane patients many who have committed murder. The legal courts determined these men to be dangerous to themselves or others, and so they are were sent to a maximum security hospital for…
John Alinder, son of a farmer, was born in 1878 in the village of Sävasta, Altuna parish, in Uppland, a province in eastern central Sweden. Alinder remained in the village all his life. He chose not to take over his parents’ farm and instead became a self-taught photographer and jack of all trades. He was a music lover, holder of the Swedish agency for the British record label and gramophone…
Nature * Patterns is a multidisciplinary photography-based exhibition presented by Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam). Italian artist Maura Biava approaches her exhibition Nature * Patterns in a collaborative, sustainable and inclusive way, inviting visual artist Anne Geene (NL) and Emily Joyce (US) and a fashion designer Saskia Van Drimmelen (NL) to elaborate with her on the theme of patterns. The show combines several techniques and opens up photography to fashion, performance…
Hungarian photographer Anna Fabricius loves to portray people and more particularly today's modern women. Her portraits are a mixture of genres. Her approach to images is very cinematic while flirting with the world of comics. She meticulously directs the entire scene and the placing of the protagonists in the image. She also likes to take situations and people out of context to get a new perspective, while adding a humorous…
Bruce Silverstein presents Michael Wolf: Facade, a special online exhibition featuring the abstracted images of one of the artist’s most recognizable subjects - skyscrapers. Wolf’s highly detailed large-scale photographs, shot from windows, rooftops, and terraces, depict the architecture of steel and glass and offer a dystopian view of the exteriors of the urban habitat while leaving traces of the lives within. Michael Wolf investigated new perspectives on urban life and…
Once upon a time before crack, inner-city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment—but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and mindless addiction. Once upon a time before crack, pride and style were as inseparable as a beatbox and mixtape, or as a pair of shoes and matching purse. Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working…
Her name is Séverine Sajous. She sent us a very touching story. Here it is ! Nestled between the very chic Galeries Lafayette and the Opéra Garnier, in the heart of the opulent 9th arrondissement of Paris, a former five-star luxury hotel (the W), which has never reopened since the first confinement, has been transformed until July 2022 in an emergency reception center for 82 women and 63 children in…
Vancouver Beaches Beaches, mountains and forests surround Vancouver and frame the glass towers and other usual city dwellings created by humanity. Perhaps this is why Vancouver excels in surveys which judge quality of life. This natural beauty is a constant reminder that we are the ones that are invading nature and that nature will always be bigger than us. There are several beaches that can be enjoyed throughout Vancouver and…
On August 6, 1965, exactly 20 years after the destruction of Hiroshima, Kawada Kikuji (born 1933) published his landmark photobook Chizu / The Map, a searing humanitarian statement about the profound effects of the nuclear bombings in Japan. Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced the important acquisition of the book’s 87 photographic images as well as their negatives, Kawada’s binders containing contact sheets and personal notes, and…
Declaration of love to Nature: photographer Joel Sartore photographs 20,000 species and fights against mass extinction. A former photographer for National Geographic magazine, Joel Sartore is the founder of the National Geographic Photo Ark. His personal commitment is clear: to photograph every species in captivity in the world. He was approached by CNN as part of the Call to Earth initiative. He explains the project: “The Photo Ark is the…
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the most important film festival in the country, the Centovalli and Pedemonte Regional Museum is pleased to pay tribute to the Locarno Film Festival with an exhibition by the well-known Swiss photographer René Burri. The latter, a great lover of the seventh art, attended the Festival for years, also sitting on the jury in 2004. Through his camera, which accompanied him on…