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.
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.
Hastings Pier is proud to present an exhibition from Simon Roberts Pierdom collection on the Pier Head.
At the turn of the 20th century, the British coastline boasted over 100 pleasure piers. Now only 58 survive. Simon Roberts spent three years photographing them, culminating in a fascinating record of these monuments of Victorian engineering and eccentricity.
Roberts’ 4×5 inch field camera, used for the series, reflects the rapidly developing photographic technology during the Victorian era.
This presentation presents the first time Pierdom has been exhibited on a pier.
To find out more information please visit the Hastings Pier Trust website or download a flyer here.
There will also be several pinhole camera workshops available to attend: http://hastingspier.org.uk/event/pierdom-free-pinhole-camera-workshops/
The exhibition has been made possible with support from the Hasting Pier Trust, PhotoHastings and Flowers Gallery.
MC2 Gallery (Milan) will be presenting a series of my New Vedute prints at the UNSEEN Photo Fair in Amsterdam, alongside the work of Jonny Briggs and Nicolas Feldmeyer.
If you’re at the fair, please visit the gallery at Booth 34.
Image: New Veduta #15 – It took us 36 hours to get here (1985)
Unseen welcomes 54 galleries from across the globe, focusing on new photography, highlighting the most recent developments by presenting emerging talent and new work by established artists. By bringing together leading figures in the industry with artists, curators, collectors and photography enthusiasts, Unseen creates an exchange of dialogue, artistic expression and ideas. Complementing the fair, on-site at the historic Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, is a three-day speakers programme jam-packed with lectures and debates at the Unseen Living Room, as well as a celebration of the printed world of photobooks at the Unseen Book Market.
The fifth edition of Unseen Photo Fair will take place from the 23rd to the 25th of September 2016. The daily opening times are as follows:
Friday 23 September — 11.00-21.00
Saturday 24 September — 11.00-20.00
Sunday 25 September — 11.00-17.00
An exhibition curated by The Photographers’ Gallery, London, includes a series of my We English prints. It is continuing its tour this summer to Three Shadows Gallery in Xiamen, China from August 16th – October 2016.
Installation view, Work, Rest & Play: British Photography from the 1960s to Today , Three Shadows Photography Centre, Xiamen, China, 2016
Work, Rest & Play is structured chronologically, with the themes of ‘work’, ‘rest’ and ‘play’ providing a backdrop through which to experience the images and the subjects they focus on. This exhibition features over 450 works by thirty-seven acclaimed photographers and artists working across a wide range of genres and disciplines including photojournalism, portraiture, fashion and fine art.
Artists included in the exhibition include Terence Donovan, James Barnor, Linda McCartney, Shirley Baker, Derek Ridgers, Martin Parr, Toby Glanville, Jason Evans, Tim Walker, Nigel Shafran, Lorenzo Vitturi, Melanie Manchot and Simon Roberts, to name a few.
The exhibition has previously been exhibited at OCT-Loft, Shenzhen; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai and Visual Arts Centre, OCT-Chengdu as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Culture organized by the British Council.
A specially commissioned essay by writer and historian Lucy Soutter, on the key themes of the show, can be read here. Installation views of the exhibition in Xiamen can be viewed here, alongside documentation of all the other installations of the project.
Festival Images Vevey is Switzerland’s first visual arts biennale. Every other year, the festival features unique large-scale photography exhibitions in the streets of Vevey as well as a series of exhibitions in indoor venues, and presents the winning project of the international photography competition Grand Prix Images Vevey.
http://www.images.ch/en/festival-images-2/presentation/the-festival/
For the fifth time under its current guise, Festival Images will transform Vevey into a real ‘city of images’ from 10 September to 2 October. Confirming its status as Switzerland’s first Biennale of visual arts, the Festival will present original installations by international artists and up-and-coming talents in unexpected places, indoors and outdoors, providing a genuine large-scale, free of charge photographic experience for all visitors.
Based on the theme of ‘immersion’, visitors will get to discover, free of charge, some fifty indoor and outdoor projects, some in monumental format, by such artists as Hans-Peter Feldmann, James Casebere, Mat Collishaw, Christian Jankowski, Martin Parr, Laurie Simmons, Pierre et Gilles, Stephen Gill, Alec Soth, Simon Roberts, Chema Madoz and Guido Mocafico.
My series The Last Moment will be shown on billboards outside the Gare de Vevey.
Dates: 10 September – 2 October 2016
Free entrance
Opening: Saturday 10 September
Opening hours for indoor exhibitions: Every day, 11:00-19:00
Festival Images is an outdoor photography festival, which encourages you to walk around the city to discover installations on walls, in streets and in parks.
The exhibition map will be available once the programme has been announced.
More information about the program can be see here: http://www.images.ch/en/festival-images-2/presentation/the-festival/
