Tag: Alex Majoli

  • Coronavirus in Italy: Scenes From the Eye of the Storm | Vanity Fair

    Coronavirus in Italy: Scenes From the Eye of the Storm | Vanity Fair

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    Lockdown: Italy in the Eye of the Storm With Italy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and 60 million people across the nation ordered to remain indoors, documentary photographer Alex Majoli ventured out to record the quiet desolation of a modern plague. via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-in-italy-scenes-from-the-eye-of-the-storm With Italy reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and 60 million…

  • Cesuralab’s Micalizzi and Majoli photograph the Egyptian revolution | dvafoto

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    Link: This morning I saw Newsweek’s gallery of remarkable images Alex Majoli took in Cairo last week: “The Agony and the Ecstasy”. A few minutes later I got an email from a friend at Cesuralab inviting me to look at a series of pictures by photographer Gabriele Micalizzi also from Egypt.

  • Leica & Magnum — Portrait of Alex Majoli

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    Link: On Thursday, June 9, 2011, we had the pleasure of hosting a live judging of our 2011 Student Project Award that was open to the public at The Bridge Public Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lead Judge Michael Wichita of the AARP Bulletin led a panel of Gillian Laub (Photographer), Larissa Leclair (Indie Photobook…

  • Collective book: Congo by Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli published by Aperture – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to great…

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    Link: a photography and video commission started in 2013 with the work of Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Majoli, Jonas Bendiksen, Olivia Arthur and Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  • A Tragedy Unfolds on Lesvos – The New Yorker

    A Tragedy Unfolds on Lesvos – The New Yorker

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    A Tragedy Unfolds on Lesvos Alex Majoli’s stark black-and-white photographs show refugees’ continuing struggle to register with Greek authorities. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-tragedy-unfolds-on-lesvos Alex Majoli’s photographs are shot digitally, with a strong flash, to create “theatre out of reality,” as he puts it. Drawing influence from the Italian absurdist Luigi Pirandello, Majoli uses his…

  • Photographer Alex Majoli on Paris terror attacks – CNN.com

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    ‘I’m just worried’: A photographer reflects on Paris attacks | CNN Magnum photographer Alex Majoli was in Paris during Friday’s terror attacks. The next day he walked the Parisian streets taking photographs of the aftermath. via CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/15/world/cnnphotos-paris-attacks-alex-majoli/index.html On Friday, a series of terrorist attacks in Paris left the city in a state of blue,…

  • Alex Majoli, Skēnē – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: Italian photographer Alex Majoli documents the thin line between reality and theatre in a series of photographs, which will be on view from February 16 – April 1, 2017 at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. The photographs, made in Congo, Egypt, Greece, Germany, India, China, and Brazil between 2010 and 2016, explore the…

  • Edmund Clark and Alex Majoli both receive Smith Fund Fellowship – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: This year, as photographer Daniel Castro Garcia received the Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, the jury has decided to give the Smith Fund Fellowship not to one but two photographers. Edmund Clark and Alex Majoli were in fact honored this Wednesday night at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) Theater in New York…

  • All the world’s a stage in these photos of the ‘theater of life’ – The Washington Post

    All the world’s a stage in these photos of the ‘theater of life’ – The Washington Post

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    Perspective | All the world’s a stage in these photos of the ‘theater of life’ Magnum photographer Alex Majoli’s eight-year global odyssey via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/03/04/all-worlds-stage-these-photos-theater-life/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ad8ad2c52759 Alex Majoli has been a member of the legendary photo cooperative Magnum Photos for well over a decade. During that time, he has been so many places, including the…

  • Alex Majoli : « Today, the world is covered with images »

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    Alex Majoli : « Today, the world is covered with images » The Italian-born photographer presents his “Scene” series at the BAL in Paris until April 28th. Armed with an imposing device made with electronic flashes as in a studio, Alex Majoli catches the image of a group of people in strong situations, sometimes in events of…

  • Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin photograph the Republic of the Congo in their book, Congo.

    Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin photograph the Republic of the Congo in their book, Congo.

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    These Untitled Photos of the Republic of Congo Leave Viewers to Find Their Own Interpretations Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo has not been widely documented. Alex Majoli… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/08/16/alex_majoli_and_paolo_pellegrin_photograph_the_republic_of_the_congo_in.html Compared to its larger Central African neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the…

  • Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” – The New Yorker

    Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” – The New Yorker

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    Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new book by the photographers Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin, and yet you never know exactly what you’re looking at. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/nothing-but-pictures-alex-majoli-and-paolo-pellegrins-congo There are a lot of great pictures in the colossal new…

  • See Photos from the Mad Men Set

    See Photos from the Mad Men Set

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/03/27/mad-men-set-photos/#1 “The whole shoot was fascinating,” Majoli told Lightbox. “[The show’s creator] Matthew Weiner is so meticulous in his job that you want to be equally diligent. It’s all about trust — the more trust you receive, the more responsible you feel…

  • Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia

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    Link: Magnum On Georgia, For Georgia: This month Magnum Photos releases Georgian Spring: A Magnum Journal, a group project for which ten photographers—Thomas Dworzak, Martine Franck, Mark Power, Alex Majoli, Martin Parr, Alec Soth, Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Paolo Pellegrin—traveled to the Eastern European country to document the contemporary culture and national…

  • meeting Alex Majoli (part 2)

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    The F Blog: meeting Alex Majoli (part 2): I’m asking them: “hey, why you’re sitting?” Why you don’t use it? They keep philosophying on photography instead. “C’mon guys! Move the ass now! Make some pictures!” And they sit, they criticise other photographers! I mean” “who are you man?!” And it’s common within young photographers, I…

  • The F Blog: meeting photographers: Alex Majoli

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    From The F Blog: meeting photographers: Alex Majoli: Mr Majoli, how would you describe your work? You are photographer, photojournalist, war-photographer, or documentary photographer…? Check it out here. via dvafoto.

  • Access to Life

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    In Access to Life, eight Magnum photographers portray people in nine countries around the world before and four months after they began antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Paolo Pellegrin in Mali, Alex Majoli in Russia, Larry Towell in Swaziland and South Africa, Jim Goldberg in India, Gilles Peress in Rwanda, Jonas Bendiksen in Haiti, Steve McCurry…

  • PDN Pulse- Photographers Evicted from Brooklyn "Kibbutz"

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    PDNPulse: “Paolo Pellegrin, David Alan Harvey, Alex Majoli, Robert Clark, Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen are among the photographers who had to evacuate their building in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on Sunday due to fire hazards and building code violations. An AP story reports that the loft building at 475 Kent Street –…

  • 9 reasons I have a crush on Alex Majoli

    9 reasons I have a crush on Alex Majoli

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    Alec Soth’s blog: 1) In 2004 I applied to Magnum. The night before the members voted on my application I attended a Magnum party in New York. The room was packed with great photographers from around the world. I was intimidated. One photographer approached me and said, “I just want to tell you that I…