Parrworld. The Collection of Martin Parr reveals this artist’s hidden side as a collector of books, photographs, postcards, objects and photographs by British and international artists, alongside the photographs from his “Luxury” series
Category Archive: photography
A few months before the 50th anniversary of Congolese independence from Belgium, Extra City is showing one of Tillim’s recent series: Avenue Patrice Lumumba. The work examines modern history in Africa against the backdrop of its colonial and post-colonial architectural heritage
I met dear dear Betty at the Parrworld exhibition, she was dancing the night away
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While visiting the Work Now exhibition at Z33 in Hasselt, i got pretty excited by the work of young Belgian artist Helmut Stallaerts
Photojournalist Geert Van Kesteren shows the disorienting reality of war-torn Iraq as he chronicles the lives of ordinary Iraqi people living in Baghdad, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey during 2006 and 2007. The book and exhibition combines Van Kesteren’s professionally photographed images with the stories of Iraqis in their own words and hundreds of cell phone pictures and digital snap shots taken by the Iraqis themselves. Some reveal places that journalists dare not tread
Photographer Danny Treacy recovers discarded clothing he finds lying around in streets, car parks and waste ground. He then stitches the garments together into spooky suits, which he wears in life-sized portraits to become Them
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Sarah Pickering’s b&w photographs document the interiors of purposely-designed buildings have been repeatedly set on fire then extinguished for training exercises at the UK Fire Service College
Nick Hannes traveled across the former Soviet Union by bus and train in search of remnants of the region’s Communist past and signs of recent social transition and evolutions
Danish artist and environmentalist Tue Greenfort’s photo series, Daimlerstrasse 38 lured foxes living in the industrial area in eastern Frankfurt with frankfurter sausages towards a hidden camera
One of the reasons i visited Antwerp is that i had never seen the Museum of Photography. This is going to be one of my regular stops. The exhibitions i checked out last week are now closed but the upcoming ones look great
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Meet Jimmy Kets, one of the most brilliant photographers i’ve seen this year. He shot photo series around the world but the ones i found most remarkable were taken in Belgium
The latest exhibition at Laboral, AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL, showcases 100 artworks which, each in their own way, explore the relationship between car culture and art creation in recent decades
Peter Bialobrzeski’s photographies attests men’s desire to built themselves a place they can call home, even from the garbage thrown away by civilization
Couples are geometrically arranged into compositions of up to 110 bodies with two colours. The Acts feature the various possible combinations of penetrator / penetrated: white man-white woman, white man-white man, white man-black woman, white man-black man, black man-black woman, black man-black man, black man-white woman, black man-white man
Dimly lit barrooms, shop windows long after the last client has gone, prostitutes tempting passersby and back alleys. These are moments and places that might sound darker than the night itself but the photographer managed to imbue sins and despair with some tenderness
Women with Fire Masks, a photo taken in 1941 by photographer, reporter and model Lee Miller
Jordi Colomer studies the way in which the modern city influences human behaviour and explores the ubiquity and drawbacks of modernism in the urban environment
An exhibition in Paris brings together works by teachers and students of the celebrated Dusseldorf School: Bernd and Hiller Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and many others
This is the fourth section of a work of seven dedicated to the Chernobyl tragedy and it focuses on Slavutych, a model city purposefully built to host the personnel of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families, evacuated from the abandoned city of Pripyat
Looking beyond the form given to buildings by architects, the curators of the pavilion question the durability of edifices. Their project tries and forecasts how the passage of time, the changes in social or environmental conditions will affect and slowly modify buildings
Adrian Street was a glam rock wrestler who gained fame for dressing in flamboyant platform shoes and glitter capes, wearing extravagant make up, kissing his opponents on stage and tarting them up with make up when he had them pinned down
Xavier Ribas’s photos explore the phenomenon of entertainment, of leisure, of what people do in their ‘free’ time, showing the extent to which such activities take place in Barcelona’s residual spaces
The International Center of Photography had an exhibition about Bill Wood, a commercial photographer in Fort Worth, Texas, whose negatives were bought by Diane Keaton
13 Japanese artists explore themes such as the tension between individual expression and collective identity in contemporary Japan, the relationship of the adult to the child and the fight between human culture and nature
The artist has just received a Design for our Future Selves award for Commuter Thrival, a brilliant communication campaign that aims to raise awareness of the issues surrounding public transport through posters visualising people’s emotions with quirky costumes
The always very stern and morose Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin is currently running a retrospective dedicated to Ugo Mulas. The focus is on the photographer’s relationship with the art scene of his time
Weegee gained fame for his photos of crime scene and villains, his documentation of life in the city from the 1030s Depression to the postwar period, but he was also keen on bringing into light social problems
Photographer Burtynsky propses a 10.000-year gallery to go along with the foundation’s plans for The Clock of the Long Now in a remote mountain site.
The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities
Situated just off Leicester Square in London, The Photographers’ Gallery is launching an annual exhibition presenting the most striking works by visual arts graduates from BA and MA courses across the UK
A group exhibition at the Haunch of Venison in London focuses on images and invocations of landscape which explore contemporary South Africa. As its curator writes, ‘The particular historical trajectory of South Africa and the politics of race and place have left their mark upon the landscape through monuments, structures, maps and borders. These, in turn, have found their way into pictures, often providing the keys to the identification and interpretation of events, legacies and locations.’
The bitter-sweet protagonist of the photo festival currently held in Madrid
One of the highlights of PHotoEspaña, this exhibition displays the work of ten photographers who use the genre of topography photography as a medium to go beyond the representation of physical places and reflect on a series of social, historical or political issue.
Descubrimientos is PHotoEspaña Festival’s portfolio review and launching platform for new talents in international photography. This year the exhibition highlighted 70 photographs coming from 42 countries. A selection
Running around Photo Espana in Madrid and encountering serene and luminous portraits of the Mennonite communities
Native American girls attacked by spaceships, spaceships assaulted by cavemen, textile carcasses, military equipments, and cargo a gogo
A look at the best of 2007’s photojournalism shows that what makes the news these days is not for the faint-hearted but does our sensibility really deserve to be handled with delicacy?
Medical robots and mannequins humanized into subjects by the personnel charged with their care. They name them, dress them in holiday attire and construct a narrative through their care
For the 500.000 Chinese who have emigrated to the ‘dark continent’ there is the promise of a 21st century Wild West. Some have struck gold and run large conglomerates that span whole regions of Africa, others are still selling cheap goods on the burning hot roadsides of the poorest countries in the world