GUP #041 - The Professions Issue

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special edition Cor Jaring

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photo file Will Steacy

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collectors tip Jeroen Hofman

38 portfolios

Henrik Spohler

Simon Menner

Zed Nelson

Jana Romanova

Jackie Nickerson

Carel van Hees

Maria Gruzdeva

Philipp Spalek

Spencer Murphy

151 guide upcoming photography 36 column

Ode of Remembrance exhibitions

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Contents Š Jason Larkin Cover Š Jackie Nickerson. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY

GUP#41

PROFESSIONS GUP #41 features miners, firemen, farmers, boxers and dockworkers.

We focus, in other words, on people that enable our society to function, through their expertise and hard labour. However odd their jobs might be.

Depending on the culture, different professions hold varying degrees of power, prestige and value. The tanners in Cairo that Philipp Spalek encountered on one of his journeys through Egypt have been pushed to work literally on the periphery of the city but, as reflected in an interview with Will Steacy, those people responsible for delivering content in print media are under a similar but more figurative threat of being pushed aside.

From India (Supranev Dash) to Great Britain (Zed Nelson), we have found photographers who are concerned with professions that are under threat of extinction; that have changed due to technological innovation and scientific progression (Maria Gruzdeva), or that have become obsolete due to changes in the political system (Simon Menner).

We also make special mention of the legendary Dutch photographer Cor Jaring, who spent a lifetime among the ‘proletariats’ of Amsterdam and abroad up until his recent passing away.

Erik Vroons, Chief Editor

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People of the 20th Century

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by August Sander

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Over the course of his life, August Sander (1876-1964) produced hundreds of single and group portraits, arranging them according to professional, social or familial aspects. The result is a general cross-section of German society, essentially during the Weimar Republic.

People of the 20th Century is a comprehensive portrait of a society, compelling and close to life; a project that in scope, importance and compositional clarity has to this day remained unparalleled. The earlier re-edition of this monumental work was presented in a sevenvolume series (2002), but now, in celebration of Schirmer/Mosel’s 50th anniversary, it has been produced as a single, massive edition, containing all 619 of the original full-page duotone plates.

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Odd & Odder Jobs

© Nancy Schiff

by Nancy Schiff

Horse chiropractor, mermaid, odour examiner. These are just a few examples of the unusual occupations that Nancy Schiff encountered during her career as a photographer. Not by coincidence, though: she spent almost ten years hunting down the oddest jobs on this planet.

These portraits are of real people who perform actual jobs, the likes of which most nine-tofivers can hardly fathom. Some of these jobs are so rare that only a few or even just one person in the world performs them, either because of their unique sensitivity to smell or touch or for the more banal reason that no one else could be found to perform the task. The longitudinal research that Schiff conducted eventually resulted in the publication of two books: Odd Jobs (2002, sold more than 40,000 copies) and Odder Jobs (2006). Considering the theme of this issue of GUP Magazine (‘Professions’), we thought it a good idea to give these titles a reprise.

Odder Jobs Hardcover 144 pages 188 x 185 mm Ten Speed Press, 2006 ISBN 9781580087490 Odd Jobs (2002) can also be ordered via amazon.com

DEADLINE

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Deadline An interview with Will Steacy

Many print newspapers today, coupled with the democratization of information on the Internet, are struggling to hold readers’ attention and create a profitable platform. Will Steacy (1980, USA) has a strong urge to explain what it's like to work in a newsroom these days, and sheds light onto a complex story that is not only personal but also deeply rooted in the history of modernity, specifically in the United States.

You were embedded in the The Philadelphia Inquirer for the last five years. Its newsroom had nearly 700 employees in the late 1990’s, now reduced to 200.

What happened?

A close examination of the newspaper industry and in-depth narrative explaining the events that landed newsrooms in their current predicaments has largely gone untold. The de-newspaperization of America and bloodletting of newsrooms appears to have gone unnoticed by the general public. But these are the facts: since 2000 the newspaper industry has shed nearly 30% of its jobs, and since the Great Recession it has shed a greater percentage of jobs than any other sector making it America's fastest shrinking industry.

Why are you so motivated to report on this issue?

Many newspapers were local, and family owned businesses, committed to quality journalism. Over the past quartercentury or so, most have been consolidated into publicly owned national media chains.

As the downward spiral of a troubled industry unravels before our eyes, this is a matter of great personal significance. My great, great, great grandfather, Hiram Young, started The Evening Dispatch in 1876, and my father was an editor at The Inquirer for 29 years until he was laid off in 2011 in yet another round of staff cuts. >>

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Ode of Remembrance

by Erik Vroons

August Sander (1876-1964, Germany) first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who worked for a mining company. He spent his military service as a photographer’s assistant and soon after decided to wander across Germany.

In the early 1920s, he initiated an ambitious plan to document contemporary society through a series of portraits. His efforts eventually evolved into the body of work known as People of the 20th Century, a project that over time expanded to over 40,000 photographs. Through this impressive archive, Sander was attempting to illustrate a cross-section of German society in the period between the two world wars.

As he himself stated: “People are formed by the light and air, by their inherited traits, and their actions. We can tell from appearance the work someone does or does not do; we can read in his face whether he is happy or troubled.”

Sander’s photography was not only meant to chronicle a significant and historical period in time; his longitudinal approach was also staged to represent an idea. That is to say, he had intended to categorise the people he photographed by certain social types. The series is thus divided into seven sections: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, The Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City and The Last People.

Several of his most striking images have meanwhile achieved iconic status on an individual basis, but Sander was keen on the significance of his archive as a whole.

According to him, “a successful photo is only a preliminary step toward the intelligent use of photography […]

Photography is like a mosaic that becomes synthesis only when it is presented en masse.”

Only when viewed in its entirety, as a categorisations body of work, could there be value in making categorizations. In that sense, Sander should also be considered an incredibly influential conceptual photographer and his approach can to this day be recognised in photographers working in the field of ‘documentary portraiture’.

Marginal Trades, for example, an on-going project by Supranav Dash, focuses on the rapidly vanishing trades, professions and businesses in India. These images are informed and inspired by the works of Eugène Atget (Les Petit Metiers), Irving Penn (Small Trades), and the Indian ethnographic images of John F. Watson and John W. Kaye (The People of India, 1868-75), but certainly also by August Sander’s People of the 20th Century.

In India, trades and professional practices have always been intertwined with the caste system, with a person’s caste often dictating his occupational station. This tradition of trades, passed down from father to son, continued for generations but, as a side-effect of globalisation and rapid socio-economic changes, it is becoming increasingly obsolete.

This turmoil is what triggered Supranav Dash, along with so many other photographers in the last few decades, to create conceptual documentations of people and practices that are on the verge of disappearing, in a style and approach that is very much reminiscent of the pioneering work that August Sander once produced.

Lest we forget.

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henrik spohler

The third day Henrik Spohler (1965, Germany) addresses the relationship between human beings and flora by depicting how modern food production companies employ technology. Interior views of research institutes provide insights into those places where new varieties are constantly being grown and tested. In an almost anaesthetised aesthetic, Spohler presents gigantic outdoor monocultures, in which standardised products flourish under industrial conditions. With that also come the typical fabrics (glass and plastic) that are used in order to maximise efficiency, consumer safety and profit.

Hardcover 96 pages 305 x 258 mm Hatje Cantz, 2013 ISBN 9783775736107 â‚Ź 35

This business of man, assuming the role of Creator through genetic engineering that gives plants features based on profitability, is a global industry. Nevertheless, climatological circumstances (weather conditions, fertility of the soil) still make subtle differences between the different regions visible.

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simon menner

Simon Menner (1978, Germany) has gained wide recognition for having discovered remarkable photos of East German undercover agents, as he conducted research through the Stasi archives over a period of two years.

However, considering Menner's career as a conceptual artist, this 'claim to fame' remains surrounded by the mist of a pun.

We know that the archives of photos from seminars were meant to teach incoming Stasi employees how best to disguise themselves. These strange details based in reality are what ultimately makes the difference here: these photos could be real.

Trainees wearing fur hats pushed deep onto their heads, with gold-rimmed sunglasses and fake moustaches.

Photography was a key tool for the Stasi whenever they conducted on-site operations. But they are so close to the clichĂŠ of the Eastern Bloc spy that one wonders if they took their tips from a classic James Bond movie!

When breaking into the private apartments of suspected undesirables, these agents took Polaroid pictures of the arrangements in all the rooms. After they were done, the pictures would help them to rearrange everything to look untouched - when in reality they had searched through everything, right down to dirty underwear.

These kinds of devious missions gave rise to a type of photos that could easily be mistaken for art. simonmenner.com

zed nelson

Disappearing Britain Zed Nelson (1965, Uganda) focuses on people or ways of life that are becoming extinct; on a Britain facing rapid change, for good or bad. Some professions are being swept away for political reasons, like the coal-miners in Yorkshire whose industry was decimated in a series of pit closures during government privatization. Others due to environmental change: the livelihoods of Cornish fishermen, for example, are disappearing along with depleted fish stocks.

Other groups are under threat due to cultural and moral changes. The Duke of Beaufort foxhunters are an anachronistic group of aristocrats who demand their right to hunt, but are slowly becoming obsolete in the face of growing public condemnation of their ‘sport’ - as are the boxers who continue to fight despite waning interest amongst fans.

Some groups, like the shipbuilders in Scotland who work on despite the oncebooming industry being in terminal decline, are victims of the shrinking British Empire. Others are literally dying out - like the Second World War veterans who fought in a war that took place 68 years ago. zednelson.com

Zed Nelson is an internationally renowned photographer whose work has been published and exhibited in the UK and worldwide. Having gained recognition as a documentary photographer working in some of the most troubled areas of the world, more recently Nelson has turned his focus on Western society, adopting an increasingly conceptual approach to contemporary social issues.

Zed Nelson is represented by Institute artist management: instituteartist.com

jana romanova

The Book of a Savior

All rescue officers in the Russian Federation receive a ‘Book of a Rescue Worker’ after their first certification. Every owner of this book must fill it out by hand, writing down all the accidents (s)he has been involved in as a rescue officer.

Day after day, throughout their career, this booklet becomes a sort of a lifetime experience record of seeing people suffering and dying.

Curious about how someone can endure these extremities as part of a daily routine, Jana Romanova (1984, Russia) embedded herself in a St. Petersburg platoon of rescue workers for more than two years.

When said in Russian, there is not much difference between two words: ‘spasatel’ (‘rescue officer’ or ‘firefighter’) and ‘spasitel’ (‘saviour’, ‘redeemer’).

Despite this, and despite any assumptions that rescue workers are seen as ‘heroic’ by the public, particularly in the case of firefighters in the United States, in Russia their job is not considered to be so ‘heroic’. Is this a regional distinction, or more indicative of an ever more demanding public? Regardless of the answer, rescue workers around the world are expected to be the first to arrive... after the tragedy has already occurred. janaromanova.com

jackie nickerson

Terrain Jackie Nickerson (1960, USA), building on an earlier series that she made on African farms, created powerful staged portraits of farm workers in South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Kenya.

She pushed the scale of her works to largerthan-life, so the subjects assume monumental proportions, transcending portraiture.

Despite the fact that these photographs undeniably address the issues of food production and labour, Terrain is not exactly what you’d expect from a photo essay on agri-business.

Obscured by the crops, sacks, and rubber tubes that they carry, the figures become armatures, sculptural and almost symbolic.

They may disappear behind their burdens, but the labourers that Nickerson shows are not anonymous.

Jackie Nickerson intentionally masks the individuals’ faces in order to arrive at a higher awareness of their plight. With the problems of our world becoming more complex and progressively difficult to visualize, ‘curve ball’ social documentary portraits are slowly marking a genre in their own right. Terrain is a striking example of these photographic attempts to balance between the thought-provoking and the aesthetically pleasing. jackienickerson.com

carel van hees

Eversteijn Carel van Hees (1954, The Netherlands) is a Rotterdam native, born and raised in the city known for its no-nonsense attitude and high work ethic. It was there that he encountered the boxer and part-time barber Cor Eversteijn, back in 1977. Initially, Van Hees was just assigned to photograph a boxing match but, over time, he and the flamboyant Eversteijn became friends.

When Eversteijn died in 1983 (at the age of 33), Van Hees decided to make a book about his life. The idea never managed to manifest, until Van Hees met once again with Eversteijn’s daughter and decided it was about time. Unlike his other projects, for this publication Van Hees decided to mix his own pictures with images from the Eversteijn family archives, adding to the enigma of this life story.

Paperback 336 pages 165 x 220 mm Post Editions, 2011 ISBN 9789460830471 sold out/ collectable

Cor Eversteijn lived on the edge of things. He was a dandy, energetic and self-destructive, a combination that turned out to be lethal. The force of the dark side of life made his career as a professional boxer (he was a national champion multiple times) a painful struggle, for himself as well as his entourage. But his sensitive character and vulnerability also made him an attractive and loveable person. Eversteijn, the book by Van Hees, should be understood as a tribute to that unique personality. carelvanhees.nl

maria gruzdeva

Direction – Space!

Maria Gruzdeva (1989, Russia) has great interest in the rich history of cosmonautics, leading back to the ‘rat race for space’ between the United States (astronauts) and the USSR (cosmonauts) in the 1960s. This competition between the East and the West has lead to some amazing achievements as part of the Soviet Space programme, mainly from Star City and Baikonur – Kazakhstan.

Now, also known as 'The Yuri Gagarin Russian State Science Research Cosmonauts Training Centre', Star City is still a military research centre and consists of a training facility and a residential area for the cosmonauts and their families, as well as for the military and civilian personnel serving the facility.

Beyond the rhetoric of the Cold War, what Gruzdeva encountered there, as she got a chance to visit and photograph these places, was an echo of the idealism of that time. The people stationed there during those days were mainly aimed at further mapping the universe and were less concerned with the politics that surrounded their work. The air that they breathed then is still covered with stardust... mariagruzdeva.com

Maria Gruzdeva is a Russian-born photographer based in London. She has been the recipient of the Ideas Tap & Magnum Photos Photographic Award, and the winner of the Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer in 2012. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including group and solo shows in Russia, UK, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Malaysia. The book Direction-Space! was published by Dewi Lewis in 2011.

philipp spalek

SKIN Philipp Spalek (1984, Germany) explored the district of noisy and smelly tanneries located beyond the Old City Walls of Cairo. Since the 1920s, people say, not much has changed.

Many have inherited the business of skin manufacturing from their fathers. Only a few owners have had the money to modernise their tanneries with new technology. Hence, most of them are forced to stick to traditional work methods, meaning: they work by hand.

Down these busy, dusty streets, skin is dragged through the burning sun or carried into a poorly-lit cellar, where it is stored, washed and dried, before being sold. Apart from the local sales, only a few foreigners regularly buy cheap skin. Instead of investing to save the traditional economic sector, the government has planned to remove the factories, and, with them, the means of support for the workers. pspfoto.de

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spencer murphy

Pro In photography, we often debate the exact meaning of being a ‘professional’. The fact that every dictionary and encyclopaedia defines the word in a different way doesn’t help the matter. Nevertheless, a ‘profession’ can be understood to be ‘a vocation founded upon specialised educational training, the purpose of which is to supply objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation.’

Spencer Murphy (1978, UK) divides his time between creating personal artwork and taking on photographic commissions. In this portfolio, we present a mix of portraits that represents the wide range of ‘professionals’ that he has recently captured for various media. spencermurphy.co.uk

Spencer Murphy has exhibited throughout Europe and North America.

He has been included in the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition several times, and in 2013 the picture of female jockey Katie Walsh was crowned winner. The series of jump jockeys shot for Channel 4’s Original Extreme Sport campaign was awarded first prize in the Campaign section of The Sony World Photography Awards.

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

Natasha Jonas, Boxer

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AMSTERDAM Foam Keizersgracht 609 T: +31 20 551 65 00 foam.org Site/Cloud Daisuke Yokota – Jul 6

AUSTRIA FO.KU.S Fotokunst Stadtforum 6020 Innsbruck T: +43 0 50 53 33 1417 btv–fokus.at Elfie Semotan – Jul 27

Stedelijk Museum Museumplein 10 T: +31 20 573 29 11 stedelijk.nl Bad Thoughts Martijn & Jeanette Sanders Jul 19 – Nov 9

Galerie für Fotografie Ostlicht Absberggasse 27 1100 Wien T: +43 1 996 20 66 ostlicht.at David LaChapelle Jun 2 – Sep 7

Eduard Planting Gallery Eerste Bloemdwarsstraat 2 L T: +31 20 320 67 05 eduardplanting.com A Suitcase Full of Dreams 100 years Dirk de Herder Jun 28 – Aug 2 Kahmann Gallery Lindengracht 35 T: +31 20 846 07 70 kahmanngallery.com New York, New York Various Artists – Jun 28 DEN HAAG Fotomuseum Den Haag Stadhouderslaan 41 T: +31 70 338 11 11 fotomuseumdenhaag.nl Machiel Botman – Aug 24 ROTTERDAM Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332 T: +31 10 203 04 05 nederlandsfotomuseum.nl Photostudio Ermakov Dimitri Ermakov Jun 14 – Aug 31

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Mannerheiminaukio 2 Fin–00100 Helsinki T: +35 829 450 0200 kiasma.fi Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Alfred Jaar – Sep 7 FRANCE Jeu de Paume 1, Place de la Concorde 75008 Paris T: + 33 1 47 03 12 50 jeudepaume.org Kati Horna Jun 3 – Sep 21

BELGIUM S.M.A.K N. De Liemaeckereplein 2 9000 Gent T: +32 09 240 76 01 smak.be Thomas Ruff – Aug 24 DENMark Galleri Image Vestergade 29 8000 Aarhus C T: +45 862 024 29 galleriimage.dk New Generation: CAU Photography The Latest in Contemporary Photography From Korea – Jun 29 FINLAND The Finnish Museum of Photography Tallberginkatu 1 C 85 00180 Helsinki T: +35 896 866 321 valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi Ecological Fallacy Various Artists – Jul 2

Galerie Esther Woerdehoff 36 rue Falguière 75015 Paris T: + 33 9 51 51 24 50 ewgalerie.com Fictions Various Artists – Jul 12 Institut Finlandais 60, rue des Écoles 75005 Paris T:+01 40 51 89 09 institut–finlandais.fr Eyes as Big as Plates Karoline Hjorth & Riita Ikonen – Sep 14 GERMANY Deichtorhallen Deichtorstraße 1–2 20095 Hamburg Tel. +49 40 32 10 30 deichtorhallen.de Visualleader 2014 Jul 18 – Sep 21

Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg Hauptstraße 97 69117 Heidelberg T: +49 6221 58 34 020 museum–heidelberg.de Eine Stadt Bricht Auf – Sep 21 Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen Konrad Adenauer Allee 46 46049 Oberhausen T: +0208 412 4928 ludwiggalerie.de Homage to the Major Magnum Photographer Eve Arnold – Sep 7 Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg 10 10557 Berlin T: +49 30 200 57 2000 adk.de Fotografische Szenen und Porträts Gisèle Freund – Aug 10 ITALY Museo Fotografica Contemporanea Villa Ghirlanda, via Frova 10 20092 Cinisello Balsamo Milano T: +39 02 66 05 661 mufoco.org Storie Dal Sud Dell'Italia – Nov 12 Collezione Maramotti Via Fratelli Cervi 66 42124 Reggio Emilia T: +39 05 22 3824 84 collezionemaramotti.org Photographs of the 1980's New York Art Scene Jeanette Montgomery Barron – Jul 31

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Poland Festival Centre Tymienieckiego 3 Łódź T: +48 42 684 20 95 fotofestiwal.com 13th International Festival of Photography in Łódź Jun 5 – Jun 15 Lookout Gallery Ul. Puławska 41/22 02–508 Warsaw T: +48 690 011 771 lookoutgallery.com.pl Carbon Diana Lelonek – Jun 28 SPAIN PHotoEspaña C/ Verónica 13 28014 Madrid T: +34 913 601 326 phe.es PhotoEspaña 2014 Jun 4 – Jul 27 Fundación Foto Colectania Julián Romea, 6, D 2 08006 Barcelona T: +34 093 217 16 26 colectania.es PHOTOBOOKS – Here and Now Various Artists – Jul 30 Sweden BildMuseet Östra Strandgatan 30B 903 33 Umeå T: +46 90 786 50 00 bildmuseet.umu.se Carola Grahn – Sep 7

Jun 20 – Jul 20

Work It Out – About Unemployed Youngsters © Meriam Rouabah & Rosalie Nooter

Meriam Rouabah & Rosalie Nooter

Unemployment among youths in the Netherlands is currently very high.

Motivated by their own experience with unemployment and the need to help peers, photographer Meriam Rouabah and writer Rosalie Nooter asked diverse photographers to capture the daily lives of eight unemployed people. With their project, the duo hopes to open dialogue about the unemployment level, in a positive and inspiring light.

Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, ingang café 1017 PH Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31 20 531 81 81 melkweg.nl

– Jun 22

The Sochi Project – An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus Rob Hornstra

© Rob Hornstra

Noorderlicht Photogallery hosts the Dutch premiere of the magnum opus by photographer Rob Hornstra and writer/filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen: The Sochi Project. The two have been working continuously since 2009 on an extensive documentary about the controversial conflict zone around Sochi: the Caucasus. The selection of the sub-tropical Sochi as the setting for the 2014 Winter Olympics led to Hornstra and van Bruggen’s decision to travel to the South Russian city for a photo documentary. Now, eleven trips later, The Sochi Project covers the whole explosive region around this city, from the small, little-known, renegade country of Abkhazia to the south of Sochi, to the infamous Russian constituent republics like Chechnya and Dagestan on the other side of the mountains. Themes such as corruption, violence, terrorism and tourism run as threads through the project. The exhibition shows the final result of five years of investigations in thorough slow-journalism.

Noorderlicht Photogallery Akerkhof 12 9711 JB Groningen The Netherlands T: +31 50 318 22 27 noorderlicht.com

– Jun 14

Noortje Haegens

© Noortje Haegens

Noortje Haegens takes strolls on her own, photographing her surroundings as she goes, seeing it as her personal experience of the Dutch landscape. In a subtle way, Haegens manages to record images of constant movement: water rippling, trees rustling, the rhythm of a swing. The repetition of a small movement causes a meditative effect. She is not merely focused on the act of walking, but on the process of it, as it makes her feel more aware of her surroundings. “While walking I sense a slowing down in my perception and I return to the power of silence,” Haegens explains. “It is this experience I capture in a moving image.”

Gallery Pennings Geldropseweg 61b 5611 SE Eindhoven The Netherlands T: +31 4 02 293 02 70 galeriepennings.nl

– Sep 7

Nutty Tarts: Monokini 2.0 – Who Says You Need Two? Various Artists

© Pinja Valja/Monokini 2.0

The Finnish Museum of Photography Tallberginkatu 1 C 85 00180 Helsinki Finland T: +35 896 866 36 21 valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi

Monokini 2.0 is a community art project that re-examines popular culture’s narrow idea about the ideal appearance of women. Swimwear is conventionally designed for women who have two breasts, but many women who have gone through mastectomy don’t wish to undergo breast reconstruction surgery. Monokini 2.0 swimwear do not hide the scar, but overexpose it – after all, with the breast gone, there’s no longer anyhing to hide. The name Monokini 2.0 is based on the swimsuit Monokini that exposed both breasts, designed by Rudi Gernreich in the 1960s. Now, a group of Finnish fashion designers designed a haute couture swimwear collection for Monokini 2.0 and explored what is acceptable and what is considered a beautiful human body.

The creations were photographed in a fashion shoot, with women who had undergone a mastectomy acting as models. The exhibition will display ten photographs on light boxes, resembling billboard advertisements.

– Jul 20

ICONS

Terry O’Neill

© Terry O'Neill

For over six decades the British photographer Terry O’Neill’s has photographed the frontline of fame, from actors and presidents, prime ministers to rockstars.

The Photogallery AB presents his most famous images. The exhibition shows photographs from a wide variety of icons, including Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Frank Sinatra, Nicole Kidman and Audrey Hepburn. O’Neill photographed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones when they were still struggling young bands in 1963, and he pioneered backstage reportage photography with David Bowie, Elton John, The Who and Eric Clapton.

The Photogallery AB Södravägen 41 302 90 Halmstad Sweden T: +46734486161 thephotogallery.se

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GUP Magazine Intl. Renowned Photography Magazine Issue #41, Professions Publishers Peter Bas Mensink Roy Kahmann Dirk Smit Chief Editor Erik Vroons Art Direction & Design Dirk Smit Editorial Team Katherine O. Matthews – online editor Nora Uitterlinden – assistant online Lisanne van Beurden – intern print Jochem Rijlaarsdam – proofreading Contributors Carel van Hees, Jackie Nickerson, Jana Romanova, Maria Gruzdeva, Philipp Spalek, Simon Menner, Spencer Murphy, Will Steacy, Zed Nelson Copy Editor Katherine O. Matthews Concept Het Hoofdbureau hoofdbureau.com

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