The 2017 edition of the Lianzhou Photo Festival, held from December 2, 2017 to January 2, 2018, mainly focused on the selfie and looked at how social networks have changed photography. Among the works presented were Huang Guaier’s images of the world who question the indistinct border between virtuality and reality; Jiang Zhenqing’s humanistic project on Tibetan people; Kurt Tong’s series on Mak Ngan Yuk, an eighty seven year old woman who was his nanny and worked for his family for nearly 40 years; and He Bo’s images about the French terrorist attacks.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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Lianzhou Festival 2017: He Bo, Kurt Tong, Jiang Zhenqing & Huang Guaier – The Eye of Photography
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Top Photos of 2017 – Jonesblog
This is my now traditional New Year’s post, written in the late hours of December 31st, sipping something delicious while waiting for Midnight. Like previous years summaries, this entry is a bit of a year end summary and a selection of my best photographic efforts for the year that reflect where the year has taken me.
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Stéphane Lavoué, Dream of a Winter Night – The Eye of Photography
With the title of his series The Kingdom, Stéphane Lavoué, right from the beginning, puts us in a double reality. It is a very concrete “kingdom”, that of the Northeast Kingdom, a region of lakes and forests in the northeast of Vermont, one of the least populated states in the United States (twelve inhabitants per square kilometer). However, it is also a fictional territory constructed by his photographs, a country of melancholic haze inhabited by unique figures, each seeming to reign over their own world, reawakening the dreams of Henry David Thoreau, who, close by in Maine and Massachusetts, lived a life of rebelliousness and fusion with nature in the 19th century.
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Dan Ziskie’s pulsating street life images of New York – The Eye of Photography
Dan Ziskie is a Manhattan-based photographer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his recurring role of Vice President Jim Matthews in House of Cards and the politically connected banker in post-Katrina New Orleans in Treme, among other parts. He began photographing in the early 1970s in Chicago while working for the commercial photographer Curt Burkhart. During this period, he also began to work in improvisational theater and in off-Broadway and experimental theatres that were developing at the time.
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Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories – The New York Times
Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories (Published 2018)
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
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Muchismo: Cristina de Middel’s retrospective – The Eye of Photography
Cristina de Middel, one of the most singular and prolific photographers in the world, has carried out numerous projects since her successful series The Afronauts in 2012. A former journalist, for the past several years she has been pursuing personal research, following a more conceptual approach and gradually abandoning the press for the art world. In 2017, she is a Magnum Photos nominee and received the National Photography Prize awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In her exhibition Muchismo, installed in Madrid in June 2017, Cristina de Middel decided to revisit the totality of her work and display it just the way she keeps it in her studio, that is without any apparent order and crowded together. The exhibition features over 400 images made in Zambia, Brazil, Lagos, India, the Niger… This monographic exhibition is part of the Vagamondes Festival in Mulhouse, France, and is curated by the writer and curator Christian Caujolle.
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The Eurazeo collection: fifteen years supporting photography – The Eye of Photography
From the January 17th to February 25th, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris is showing the winners of the Grand Prix of the investment company, Eurazeo. The exhibition is showing a selection of a bout sixty works from the photographic collection, comprising photographs by Floriane de Lassée, Michael Kenna, Georges Rousse.
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Mary Frey: The States Project: Connecticut | LENSCRATCH
Mary Frey: The States Project: Connecticut – LENSCRATCH
I first met Mary Frey in 1983. I was a freshman in college. Mary quickly came to represent all that I could hope for myself in the future. She is an influential and internationally recognized artist, an admired teacher, a brilliant mind, and the kind of person you just want to know. Her honest but
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2018/03/mary-frey-the-states-project-connecticut/
I first met Mary Frey in 1983. I was a freshman in college. Mary quickly came to represent all that I could hope for myself in the future. She is an influential and internationally recognized artist, an admired teacher, a brilliant mind, and the kind of person you just want to know. Her honest but tough, constructive criticism was always delivered in a way to encourage and push you. My time with Mary as teacher/student then colleague and friend, left lasting marks on my work as an artist and eventually as a teacher and art administrator. I am a much stronger thinker and maker for knowing her. She has remained a great mentor and supporter.
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15 Events Not to Miss at the 10th Anniversary Edition of MOPLA – Feature Shoot
15 Events Not to Miss at the 10th Anniversary Edition of MOPLA
© Liz Palm, from The Print Swap: Reflections of A Dream The 10 Anniversary Edition of the Month of Photography Los Angeles has arrived! Since 2009, MOPLA by the Lucie…
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The 10 Anniversary Edition of the Month of Photography Los Angeles has arrived! Since 2009, MOPLA by the Lucie Foundation has been a premiere destination for photographers, collectors, curators, and editors, bringing together exhibitions, projections, and discussions featuring some of the world’s most influential voices. The month-long event includes something for everyone, from classic photography buffs to Instagram influencers. With a focus on everything from fine art to commercial photography, MOPLA is one of the biggest events of the year, and the 10th Anniversary Edition promises to be one of the best ever.
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A 97-Year-Old Photographer and Her Love Affair with New York – Feature Shoot
A 97-Year-Old Photographer and Her Love Affair with New York
Harlem Antoinette, Chelsea “Her photographs are etched into her mind,” the curator Daniel Cooney says of Vivian Cherry, the artist behind the current show at his gallery, titled Helluva Town.…
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/05/a-98-year-old-photographer-and-her-love-affair-with-new-york/
“Her photographs are etched into her mind,” the curator Daniel Cooney says of Vivian Cherry, the artist behind the current show at his gallery, titled Helluva Town. Pick out any one of her pictures, and chances are, she’ll be able to tell you the story from memory. Cherry entered the New York photography scene in the 1940s as a darkroom technician when she was a dancer in her early twenties, and she would continue to document her city and its streets for more than seventy years. She lives in Manhattan today.
