The alphabet is reinvented in this display of critically acclaimed photographers exploring new notions of the age-old teaching tool for children – the alphabet book. I is for… Imagine, N is for… Now, W is for…Who, What, Where, Why?
The exhibition brings together a collection of international photography heroes and acclaimed photographers from various walks of life. Among the 26 artists are Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alec Soth, Simon Roberts, Peter Lindbergh and Sebastiao Salgado.
This display is based on a book recently published by Berlin-based publishing house Tarzipan Books.
More information here:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/exhibitions/abc-photography/
Prints from The Last Moment are included in this group exhibition at The Pully Museum of Art.
‘Evidences of Reality – Photography Face With Its Shortcomings’ addresses the materiality of the medium and some strategies developed by contemporary artists that cut, tear, puncture or scratch paper to better reveal the essence. This exhibition allows to present to a broad public works of international but also local artists with a stage design in partnership with the CEPV (Centre for Vocational Education of Vevey), under the direction of Nicolas Savary. It is a great pleasure for the Art Museum and the City of Pully able to organize this exhibition under the scientific police Pauline Martin, art historian and specialist in photography but also associate curator at the Musée de l’Elysée.
Artists presented include: Martina Bacigalupo, Eric Baudelaire, Rebecca Bowring, Aliki Braine, F & D Cartier, Cai Dongdong, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Mishka Henner, Laurent Kropf, Bill McDowell, Simon Rimaz, Simon Roberts, Miguel Rothschild and Joachim Schmid Vionnet.
For Pauline Martin, “the work presented in this exhibition play with the frustration caused by photography, which awakens the desire of reality without it nevertheless allows to grasp it. The artists deliberately play with the tension between one side paper that is exhibited and the other a referent disappears. The viewer can touch neither the first nor the second ever see. It will, however, pleased to note, with the artists themselves, that photography is more than a picture: it raises questions constantly about our relationship to the living, and its possible disappearance. ”
I’m launching a new series of work as part of the group exhibition ‘Unfamiliar Familiarities: Outside Views on Switzerland’, an initiative of the Swiss Foundation for Photography, co-produced by the Musée de l’Elysée and with the support of Switzerland Tourism.
Switzerland’s image has been significantly shaped by photographs dedicated to tourism. With spectacular mountain panoramas, rural idylls or portraits of local people the country could be successfully marketed, and these photographs also made an important contribution towards national identity. Another consequence, however, was that the respective pictorial repertoire became inflated and stereotyped.
Switzerland Tourism has chosen an unusual project to mark its 100th anniversary in 2017 with the aim of exploiting the potential of photography anew. The Swiss Foundation for Photography (Winterthur) and the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne) invited five internationally renowned photographers to scrutinise Switzerland in their capacity as independent, subjective and sensitive observers – unrestricted by any advertising commission.
What Alinka Echeverría (Mexiko/UK), Shane Lavalette (USA), Eva Leitolf (Germany), Simon Roberts (UK) and Zhang Xiao (China) discovered on their travels around the country or along its borders is both inspiring and revealing. Their exciting, poetic or mysterious-enigmatic images invite viewers to see the familiar with the eyes of an outsider.
My series is called ‘Sight Sacralization: (Re)framing Switzerland’ and includes this photograph:
Image: Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland, 2016 (Lambda Print, 48×60″)
Unfamiliar Familiarities is curated by Tatyana Franck, Peter Pfrunder and Lars Willumeit. A boxed set of publications to accompany the exhibition is being published by Lars Müller Publishers.
Exhibition at the Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur: 11 February to 7 May 2017; at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne: 25 October 2017 to 7 January 2018
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Several prints from my series Polyarnye Nochi are included in this group exhibition in the Print Sales Room at The Photographers’ Gallery.
WHEN FROST WAS SPECTRE-GREY
18 November 2016 – 15 January 2017
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush, 1899
An exhibition of winter landscapes featuring; Evgenia Arbugaeva, Tamas Dezso, Paul Hart, Nicholas Hughes, Martina Lindqvist, Simon Roberts & Pentti Sammallahti.
Join us for a one-day symposium accompanying Museums Sheffield’s new exhibition at the Graves Gallery, Street View: Photographs of Urban Life.
Featuring images primarily drawn from Sheffield’s own photographs collection, the exhibition explores the diversity of the street; as a social space, as a battleground for protest and as a source of artistic inspiration. Visitors will discover a range of works which, in many cases, have not been exhibited for over 20 years.
This symposium will contextualise the exhibition within the broader theme of street photography and the long-term development of photography in Sheffield. It also aims to emphasise the importance of UK-wide photography networks to continued development and research in the field. The symposium will offer the first chance to find out about the Photographic Collections Network. This is a new organisation, supported by Arts Council England, for anyone involved with photography archives and collections. It launches in October 2016 and Paul Herrmann, one of the co-founders, will give more information about its aims and plans.
Speakers will include Susanna Brown (Curator, Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum), Simon Roberts (UK-based contemporary photographer), Paul Herrmann (Director, RedEye: The Photography Network and Chairman of the Photographic Collections Network), Paul Hill (UK-based photographer and Professor of Photography) and Ken Phillip (Sheffield-based photographer and former Lecturer of Photography, Sheffield Hallam University).
The symposium will be followed by a special evening viewing of the Street View exhibition 5.45pm-7.45pm with curator Catherine Troiano.
Tickets are priced 12 / £10 concessions and are available now – please book via Eventbrite
For further information please contact Catherine Troiano: [email protected]
I’m giving a talk on Tuesday 15th November at FOMU foto museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
Entry is free but you must register here: http://www.fotomuseum.be/workshops-en-events/lezingen/inschrijven-artist-talk.html
The talk has been organised by the photography department of Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
XV edition: ROME, THE WORLD
The fifteenth edition of PHOTOGRAPHY – International Festival of Rome will be entirely dedicated to the city of Rome with the theme of Rome, the world. I have been commissioned to make a new series of postcards about Rome following on from my project New Vedute.
The festival is curated by Marco Delogu and Flavio Scollo. My commission was supported by funding from the British Council.
Inauguration: October 20, 2016
For more information about the festival programme visit: www.fotografiafestival.it
My photograph, ‘Fountains Fell, Yorkshire Dales, 2008’, from We English, has just entered the Sheffield Museum Collection and is included in the group show Street View: Photographs of Urban Life.
This exhibition explores how photographers have captured city life on camera in Sheffield, around the UK and abroad, bringing together a series of highlights from the collection, many of which have not been on display for over 20 years.
The invention of smaller, lighter hand-held cameras in the late 19th century enabled photographers to escape the restrictions of the studio and take their practice onto the street. Ever since, the street has appeared in photographs as both a primary subject and an informative backdrop, contextualising the rest of the scene. This exhibition explores the diversity of the street; as a social space, as a battleground for protest and as a source of artistic inspiration.
Street View showcases photographs by both internationally recognised photographers and local artists. The images on display span the everyday to the extraordinary, from familiar depictions of work and leisure to images of national celebration and political activism.
The exhibition is supported by loans from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Hyman Collection.
This exhibition has been organised in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum, supported by the Art Fund with the assistance of the Foyle Foundation.
I will be taking part in the conference: Photography and Britishness on November 4–5, 2016, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.
This two-day international conference investigates the various ways in which ideas about Britain have been communicated, inflected, and contested through the photographic image. It questions how photographs are understood to mirror, reinforce, or interrupt what constitutes “Britishness” in national, local, imperial, colonial, and postcolonial contexts. Papers cover a wide range of international perspectives from the nineteenth century to today. The conference will incorporate a panel discussion with practitioners, and delegates will be able to sign up for break-out sessions in Yale’s special collections.
I’ll be involved in a panel discussion with Angela Kelly and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski moderated by John Tagg, Professor of Art History at Binghamton University.
This conference is co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art; the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London; and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California.
Schedule- For more information about the conference and for a full listing of events, please download the following schedule:
Photography and Britishness (pdf; 1.30 mb)
I will be giving an artist lecture about my practice at Fotomuseum Antwerpen on Tuesday, November 15. See here for more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1730436877218775/