Cruel and Unusual (Noorderlicht Photo Gallery) presents revealing, and quite unexpected photography dealing with life behind bars. For this exhibition the guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, most of which has never before been shown in Europe. As background for the exhibition Noorderlicht is publishing a newspaper with articles, interviews and extra photo material.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Pays-Bas: Looking at jails
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Cuba: Ernesto Bazan’s Self-Publishing Photography Philosophy
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For every boon that Ernesto Bazan has received, he can point to a parallel moment where he gave to someone else. “I strongly believe that in life, the more you give, the more you get back,” the Sicilian-born photographer said. “There’s no doubt that that’s the way it should be.”
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Photographing the Pleasures, and Terrors, of Kissing
One Kiss, Many Meanings
A kiss is just a kiss — and yet so much more, as James Friedman learned over seven years asking friends, family, and strangers to kiss for him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/one-kiss-many-meanings/?pagewanted=all
In “Pleasures and Terrors of Kissing,” James Friedman encounters the expressions of love, lust, intimacy and friendship through subjects young and old, black and white, straight and gay, human and canine.
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Off the Shelf: Luigi Ghirri’s It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…
Off the Shelf: Luigi Ghirri’s It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/off-the-shelf-luigi-ghirris-its-beautiful-here-isnt-it
One of our favorite photo books from the past few years is Aperture’s “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…” It was the first American publication of the work of Luigi Ghirri, who at the time was little known in the U.S., and highlights the photographer’s preoccupation with spatial relationships and color photography, and his engagement with concepts that would come to define the New Color and Topographic movements and influence such photo titans as William Eggleston and Martin Parr.
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The Dark Side: Roger Ballen’s ‘Asylum’
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Roger Ballen’s photographs are as much alluring as they are unsettling. For nearly 50 years, Ballen has used photography to explore some of the most upsetting parts of the psyche—and, in that period, he has created some of the most exquisite and unique images of everything from people and skeletons to animals and nature.
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Make Some Mischief Today!
David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben: Make Some Mischief Today! – LENSCRATCH
Happy April Fool’s Day….I think we are taking ourselves too seriously these days…and I think a little irreverant mischief might be just what is needed in our depressed economy and changing times…ALWAYS love the work of David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben, and you might consider using them for inspiration… David Shrigley, Lost David Shrigley,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2012/04/make-some-mischief-today/
Happy April Fool’s Day….I think we are taking ourselves too seriously these days…and I think a little irreverant mischief might be just what is needed in our depressed economy and changing times…ALWAYS love the work of David Shrigley and Jan von Holleben, and you might consider using them for inspiration…
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Russian Photographers Featured at FotoFest 2012
A Festival for Talent and Possibility
After decades of research and carefully nurtured relationships, Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss are mounting an ambitious exhibition of contemporary Russian photography at FotoFest 2012 in Houston.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/a-festival-for-talent-and-possibility/
Long interested in the tradition of photography in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, they have centered this year’s festival, which begins Friday in Houston, on contemporary Russian photography. About 40 photographers will be coming from Russia to give talks and show their work, some of them placing their images up for auction for the first time.
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Quirky Photographs of a Fictitious Olympic Team
Oli Kellett is a London-based photographer who earned his degree from St. Martins Art College. He worked at several London ad agencies as an art director before leaving in 2008 to pursue photography full time. His recent project is entitled ‘Team Vodkovia’ and features a digitally-designed team of olympic hopefuls from the fictitious country of Vodkovia.
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Paul Szynol: Looking For Short Stories Everywhere
Paul Szynol has a passion for street photography in the great tradition of narrative photojournalism. He came of age in Warsaw, Poland and first came to the United States in 1984, which, as he ironically observes “was the year that New York City’s transit fare rose from 75 cents to 90 cents, 33 previously unknown Bach pieces were found in an academic library; and Canon demoed its first digital still camera
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Herb Ritts at the Getty Museum
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“He always had a vision about how he wanted every picture,” Campbell says. “He liked strength in his pictures, and he got you to do things that you never thought you could do. He was very encouraging and would talk to you about a picture first, and slowly get you there to where he wanted. And you’d be amazed that you even could do that. It was always a pleasure working with him. He was a complete gentleman, and I loved every picture he took of me.”
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Sean Kernan’s Noirish Prison Photographs
Breaking Into Prison
Sean Kernan wanted to take pictures inside a prison. To his surprise, the warden let him in and left him to wander.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/breaking-into-prison/?pagewanted=all
Sean Kernan’s noirish photo essay on prison life was not the result of careful planning, research or even an interest in issues of incarceration.
It was a crime of opportunity
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Covering the Suddenly Hot War Between the Sudans
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TIME photographer Dominic Nahr has been on assignment in South Sudan’s ironically named Unity State, whose northern edge includes disputed boundaries with its enemy Sudan — one of which is marked only by a white cargo container
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Eric Dessert’s other China
Éric Dessert’s work seems to be nourished and regulated by his travels, Romania, Georgia, Estonia, Japan, and here, China, shown at the Camera Obscura Gallery until May 26, 2012. A different China, far from the dazzling changes of the past few decades. Rural China. It is no surprise that from 2002 to 2009, Eric Dessert visited four rural provinces of China, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Ganau, for, as he comments, “The notion of rural seemed essential, not only for China, but for what remains elsewhere. All of my pictures for the past 25 years have dealt with this issue.”