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4 intro 7 books 20
special edition Lee Friedlander
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photo file Yaakov Israel
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collectors tip Mandy Barker
42 portfolios Irina Rozovsky Alvaro Deprit Kirill Golovchenko Elspeth Diederix Sheila Zhao Valeria Scrilatti Tiago Casanova Yoshinori Mizutani Jane Hilton
153 guide upcoming photography 40 column Rescaped Magnificence exhibitions
GUP#42
open space Throughout the history of photography, whether in the name of science or art, people have been travelling far and wide in order to take pictures of remote places. In this issue of GUP Magazine, we pay tribute to the human tendency – or should we say 'attitude' – to size up all of space. The results, as always, are paradoxical. Kirill Golovchenko encountered people that seem to take part in the free market space, but they are somehow bound to the strip of land stitched to the highway. Jane Hilton scouted for brothels in the deserted American West, finding the opposite: unrestricted territory. Photographers continually explore unknown territory, in part to determine where they are in relation to it. Some have explored the underwater world, while others take a remote island as their destination. Islands, of course, have natural boundaries, but as Yaakov Israel explains in our interview, he too inevitably hit borders as he was attempting a road trip through his homeland. We would also like to introduce a recent discovery, resulting from one of the many international portfolio reviews that GUP Magazine has been involved in over the last few years: Valeria Scrilatti visited zoos around Europe, documenting the strange concept of keeping animals in captivity while also observing a natural instinct among these species to escape our attention. Furthermore, we'd like to expand on the urge of visual artists to explore the unknown. Even though some of the photographers featured here might not have travelled all that far, in geographic terms, the mysterious spaces that they delve into is as immeasurably deep and wide. Erik Vroons, Chief Editor
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Š Kirill Golovchenko
frontcountry by Lucas Foglia
Š Lucas Foglia
In his second monograph (following A Natural Order, 2012) Lucas Foglia delivers another loosely constructed narrative rooted in the American landscape. Between 2006 and 2013, Foglia travelled through rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming, some of the least populous regions in the United States. Hardcover 120 pages 254 x 330 mm Nazraeli Press, 2014 ISBN 9781590054062 â‚Ź37 / $50
Although not immediately apparent from the pictures, Frontcountry is a photographic account of people living in the midst of a boom in mining and energy development, which is transforming the modern American West. Unexpected contrasts and meticulous compositions together create a balanced middle ground and form another strong photo book by this still young photographer.
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by Lauren Marsolier
Located somewhere between idea and reality, Lauren Marsolier probes into the effects that a change of viewpoint can have on emotional, perceptual and spatial awareness. But, unlike many artists working with digital photomontage, she does not combine these elements in an overtly symbolic manner. Instead, her images draw their impact from the atmosphere of the spaces they depict. Hardcover 80 pages 250 x 250 mm Kerber Verlag, 2014 ISBN 9783866789944 â‚Ź30
Using unrelated fragments of reality collected over time in a wide variety of locations, what we see is a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change – reminiscent of the cool, stark aesthetic in many contemporary architecture and lifestyle magazines, but with a pervasive unease; a sleek minimalism transmuted to desolation. Transition includes texts by W.M. Hunt and Stefan Mattessich.
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Edges of the Experiment
Soda Mountains, California, 2006 © Marie-José Jongerius
by Marie-José Jongerius
Planted palm trees in Los Angeles, continuously running air conditioners in Las Vegas, green golf courses in the desert near Palm Springs and the panorama deck above the Grand Canyon. The American West is the fastest growing part of the country, but naturally also the driest. What are the consequences of this extreme cultivation?
Hardcover in box – 2 volumes 256 pages 170 x 240 mm Fw Publishers, 2014 ISBN 9789490119263 fw-photography.nl
With a sharp eye for the cracks in the ideal image, photographer Marie José Jongerius has been traveling through this area since 2002 in order to document the cultivated absurdity of exorbitant water needs. Produced in close collaboration with designer and editor Hans Gremmen, also responsible for the text contributions in volume 2, the Edges of the Experiment project indicates an effort to record the farreaching consequences for the people and their environment to maintain the iconic image of the American idyll, and the impact this has on the surrounding landscapes.
Photofile Yaakov Israel
Roadtrip An interview with Yaakov Israel by Nora Uitterlinden
Following in the tradition of American travel photographers, Yaakov Israel (1974) started taking trips in Israel, his own land of birth, ten years ago and documented the encounters he had on the road. With his 8x10” camera he captured wide deserts and nearly empty landscapes with usually not more than one person present. GUP Magazine invited him for a conversation: about seeing beyond borders and the complicated connection between man and land.
Your first project, South West Jerusalem, is an ongoing series about Kiryat Hayovel, the neighbourhood where you grew up. What are you looking for while photographing there? I grew up discussing social and political issues around the dinner table. My father was from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and my mother from South Africa, and their awareness of politics influenced me a lot. So when I started doing photography, I wanted to deal with how political and social issues affected my own life. This resulted in a project about the place where I grew up and still live today, a workingclass neighbourhood; many of the people who maintain the city live here. It’s not one of the celebrated parts of the city; it’s not on the tourist itineraries. I photograph this place from my own experience of living here. Even though I started the project back in 2001, I’m still always looking for new images and adjusting the narrative. I’ve been working on it for such a long time that it now also reflects the history of the place and how it has changed over the years. Your second project, The Quest For The Man On The White Donkey, started out as a road trip. What is it about that approach that appeals to you? As a kid, I only knew Israel through public transport, because my parents didn’t have a car. I remember that I was always envious of my friends whose parents would take them places in a car, but it wasn’t the vehicle itself that I envied, rather the idea of the adventures I was missing. So, after I graduated, I got myself a small shitty car, and just started to drive around Israel, getting to know it better. >>
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I like photography for its quality to expose more than we actually see when looking at the same things
irina rozovsky
How is it possible to show anything new about 'iconic' locations like Israel, Cuba, Russia and New York City? Because such places have been photographed, over and over again, using similar perspectives and aesthetics, be it on Instagram, Street View, or through photojournalism, we are already familiar with what they look like, photographically. To Irina Rozovsky (1981, Moscow), however, the places themselves are secondary, though not inconsequential. Her photographs reveal a different way of seeing what we already know--what we see is the mapping of imagined stories that layer the mundane experience of place. irinar.com
Irina Rozovsky has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Magnum Expression Award, Magenta Foundation, Lightwork, and the Philadelphia Museum. Irina lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the International Center of Photography. Island on My Mind, her photographic take on Cuba, has been short-listed for the International Photobook Dummy Award 2014.
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kirill golovchenko
Bitter Honeydew Dust and dirt are permanent sediment on the clandestine salesmen standing along the road, attempting to do business with people who pass by in cars – seemingly in a rush to get from A to B. Aside from the rare distraction of someone stopping to buy a watermelon, the fatigue that comes from passing the long hours at these so-called ‘tochkas’ can be unbearable. Kirill Golovchenko (1974,Ukraine) decided to join a group of these fruit sellers and photograph them after dark. The photographic result is as sweet as it is bitter. This effect is all the more intensified when realizing the harsh difference between the lives of the tourists, who seem mostly interested in squeezing prices to their lowest limits, and the everyday conditions of those trying to make a living from their merchandise. kirillgolovchenko.com
Kirill Golovchenko is represented by Dymchuk Gallery in Kiev and Focus agency, Hamburg. His photographs, which mainly present secret and undiscovered insights from Eastern Europe, have been exhibited internationally since 2004. Bitter Honeydew was the winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography (EPAP) in 2014 and will be published as a book in five different languages this autumn.
elspeth diederix
Still Life Submerged
Elspeth Diederix (1971, The Netherlands), while traveling the world, is attracted to the unknown. She has a distant view of the exotic, which is common among photographers, but in this case pushed to the extreme. Far removed from the use of digital manipulation, the surreal character of her photographs is achieved from self-arranged objects that are ‘foreign’ to the environment at stake. This kind of artificial interference allows her to further alienate what is already strange by nature: the wonderful floating plants and animals found at sea, both in the blurry waters of Zeeland and the clear waters of the Dutch Antilles. Together, these images deliver a strikingly balanced aesthetic. Diederix thus manages to make the extraordinary maritime flora and fauna appear even more eccentric. elspethdiederix.com
This series has been created with the support of MiaP (Message in a Photo): a private foundation that supports innovative ways of photographic storytelling. It is part of the group project Power of Water, to be exhibited at Fotodok: Space For Documentary Photography in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from September 7 - October 26, 2014. miap.nl fotodok.org
sheila zhao
Komorebi Komorebi is a Japanese word meaning ‘sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees’. Sheila Zhao (1983, China) is a Chinese-American photographer who grew up in the United States but recently moved to China, where she currently lives. Like the soft patches of light that comes through the leaves overhead, this series is her meditation on, and collection of, the quieter moments of life. Seemingly insignificant fragments of time eventually give a glimpse into places once visited or indicate how and who we were, once. It is what makes our otherwise ordinary lives feel extraordinary. As the French author Georges Bernanos said: “Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like meadow flowers which individually seem odourless but all together perfume the air.” sheila-zhao.com
All images Š Sheila Zhao
valeria scrilatti
Almost Wild Valeria Scrilatti (1985, Rome) has been visiting several zoological gardens across Europe for the past few years; facilities in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public. Throughout modernity, this has been one of the main points of focus for scientists in our Western civilization: reducing the unknown to the known. However, beyond just the ‘normal’ tendency of monitoring the animals, Scrilatti also has an eye for the untamed reflex of these animals to hide. This on-going project has so far been an effort in creating a balance between a tendency towards anthropomorphism (projecting human characteristics onto animals, for example of shame and shyness) and the paradoxical need for these zoological institutions to put animals on display while also creating a comfortable yet artificial copy of their natural habitats. valeriascrilatti.eu
All images Š Valeria Scrilatti
yoshinori mizutani
Something Somewhere Yoshinori Mizutani (1987, Japan) has a voracious visual appetite. It has only been a few years since he graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography, but his hunger for capturing images – regardless of place or subject – has already resulted in a stunning amount of portfolio projects that he presents online. Having a closer look, it also becomes clear that there is no particular embedding: the same images might return in another series and, when combined with other pictures, in a deviating context, also are to be seen in a slightly different manner. Here we present a poetic ‘mixed zone’ of pictures created by Mizutani – one of the nine emerging Japanese photographers in the Tokyo 2020 project, an initiative of IMA Photography Magazine and Lumix Meets. The wide range of his work seems to be in line with other Japanese photographers (ranging from Daido Moriyama to Rinko Kawauchi, and now also including some emerging talents) to discover the extraordinary in the mundane. yoshinori-mizutani.com
jane hilton
Break A Heart Road For fifteen years, Jane Hilton (UK) spent a lot of time getting to know the working girls from the legal brothels in the state of Nevada, repeatedly returning to document the women’s lives. The result of her visits to these houses, with names like Shady Lady’s and Moonlite Bunny Ranch, is an honest and intimate series of portraits. While all the women that she encountered were ‘precious’ in their own way, Hilton also felt the urge to photograph outdoors in order to show the deserted landscapes of the West. These images reflect not only the freedom and independence, but also the harsh disposition needed to maintain a living there. Precious Hardcover 104 pages 245 x 260 mm Schilt Publishing, 2013 ISBN 978905330 €40
It was on her first trip to Arizona, back in 1988, that Hilton developed an obsession for America or, more specifically, the contradictions inherent in the American Dream. Whereas the focus in her work is mostly on “the extraordinary realities of ordinary people’s everyday lives”, we present here a selection of her photographs in a more sequestered manner; to highlight the atmosphere of these outposts rather than the personal stories of the persevering residents. janehilton.com
Jane Hilton was commissioned by the BBC to make ten documentary films in several Nevada brothels. In 2010, Jane decided to return with a plate camera for her book, Precious: a collection of intimate nude portraits of working girls.
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AMSTERDAM Foam Keizersgracht 609 T: +31 20 551 65 00 foam.org Close Surrounding J.H. Engström – Jul 6 Eduard Planting Gallery Eerste Bloemdwarsstraat 2 L T: +31 20 320 67 05 eduardplanting.com Hidden Beauty Marie–Jeanne van Hövell tot Westerflier Sep 6 – Oct 25 Kahmann Gallery Lindengracht 35 T: +31 20 846 07 70 kahmanngallery.com Lorenzo Vitturi Sep 5 – Oct 31 Torch Gallery Lauriergracht 94 T: +31 20 626 02 84 Dust Nadav Kander Nov 27 – Jan 1, 2015 DEN HAAG Fotomuseum Den Haag Stadhouderslaan 41 T: +31 70 338 11 11 fotomuseumdenhaag.nl Paul Kooiker Oct 18 – Jan 11, 2015 ROTTERDAM Fotomuseum Rotterdam Wilhelminakade 332 T + 31 10 203 0405 nederlandsfotomuseum.nl Dark Knees Mark Cohen Sep 13 – Jan 11 2015
AUSTRIA Camera Austria Lendkai 1 8020 Graz T. +43 0 316 / 81 55 500 camera–austria.at The Militant Image Various Artists Sep 28 – Nov 16
DENMark Galleri Image Vestergade 29 8000 Aarhus C T: +45 862 024 29 galleriimage.dk Series Photographs Stephen Gill Aug 29 – Oct 26
Galerie für Fotografie Westlicht Westbahnstraße 40 T +43 (0)1 522 66 36–60 westlicht.com World Press Photo Sep 5 – Oct 12
FINLAND The Finnish Museum of Photography Tallberginkatu 1 C 85 00180 Helsinki T: +35 896 866 321 valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi # Snapshot Aug 21 – Jan 18, 2015
BELGIUM Botanique 236, rue Royale 1210 Brussels T +3202–2183732 botanique.be Le Mur et la Pleur Gael Turine Sep 11 – Oct 19 Bozar Ravensteinstraat 23 1000 Brussels T +32 2 507 82 00 bozar.be Monography Series Sep 19 – Oct 26 Czech Republic The Brno House of Art Malinovského nám. 2 602 00 Brno +420 542–211808 www.dum–umeni.cz/en Robert V. Novák Sep 17 – Nov 16
FRANCE Jeu de Paume 1, Place de la Concorde 75008 Paris T: + 33 1 47 03 12 50 jeudepaume.org Invent Possible Oct 14 – Feb 8, 2015 Henri Cartier–Bresson 32, Impasse Lebouis 75014 Paris T +33 1 56 80 27 00 William Eggleston Sep 9 – Dec 21 Visa Pour l'image Festival Perpignan visapourlimage.com Aug 30 – Sep 14 Paris Photo Grand Palais Avenue Winston Churchill 75008 Paris parisphoto.com Nov 13 – Nov 16
GERMANY Deichtorhallen Deichtorstraße 1–2 20095 Hamburg Tel. +49 40 32 10 30 deichtorhallen.de Secret Signs Nov 8 – Jan 25, 2015 No Wódka Pappelallee 10 10437 Berlin T: +49 3048623086 nowodka.com Sonia Szóstak Oct 13 – Nov 29 Museum für Fotografie Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin T +49 030 266424242 smb.museum.de The Quintessential Landscape Michael Reutz Jul 4 – Oct 10 Museum Folkwang Museumsplatz 1 D–45128 Essen Germany T: 492018845444 museum–folkwang.de Ende Eines Zeitalters – Sep 28 GREECE Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art 11 Filellinon & Em. Pappa St. 15451 Athína +30 210–6729460 www.deste.gr Jürgen Teller – Macho – Oct 29
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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 Venice Biennale – USA Pavilion Giardini, Venezia +39–41–2728397 joanjonasvenice2015.com Joan Jonas – 22 Nov 2015 Luxemburg Mudam Musée d'Art Moderne Grand–Duc Jean 3, Park Dräi Eechelen 1499 Luxembourg +352–4537851 www.mudam.lu Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 Various Artists – Oct 12 Poland Muzeum Historii Fotografii 16 Józefitów Street, Krakow T: 12 634–59–32 mhf.krakow.pl Legionowe Kadry – Sep 30 Russia The Lumiere Brothers Bolotnaya embankment 3, bld. 1 119072 Moskva +7 495–228 98 78 lumiere.ru Shigeru Yoshida – Calm Wayfaring – 21 Sep
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Breda International Photo Festival Various Artists
© Martha Kamminga
Parade 10 4811 DZ Breda The Netherlands T: +31 (0) 76 532 93 11 bredaphoto.nl
Breda Photo will be held September 11 until October 26. This year's theme is 'Songs from the Heart', focusing on the New Romanticism. The work that can be seen during the festival explores the tensions and ambiguities of romanticism as an artistic style and as a life-style, but also as a filthy word. The word 'romanticism' is sometimes said with a negative undertone, being thought of as superficial or idealised and fake. But the romanticism of the 18th century is still very present. Think, for instance, of the idealised image of the artist: a true genius, devoting his or her life to the arts, even at the cost of alcoholism or poverty. Or think of our desire to have ‘authentic’ experiences, pushing us to travel the world where we make Instagram pictures with nostalgic colours to emphasize the feeling of a timeless and true experience. During Breda Photo, all ideas revolving around the heavily criticised notion of romanticism can be seen, and maybe even new ones will rise.
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Sep 13 – Dec 8
De Marsellaises Various Arists
Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401 1016 EK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31 (0) 20 531 89 89 huismarseille.nl
Š Valerie Belin
Huis Marseille is celebrating its 15th birthday. Their collection has grown from 50 works in 1999, to more than 800 today. With such a relatively new and small collection, comprised entirely of contemporary work, the curators noticed that adding even just one artwork could have a large influence on the collection as a whole. For this reason, the museum decided, for this exhibition, to ask ValĂŠrie Belin, Jacqueline Hassink, Naoya Hatakeyama, Sarah Jones and Rob Nypels to each fill a room with their own works, combining them with some of the 'older' works from the collection. De Marsellaises is therefore an exhibition that shows the power of curating: how a museum can, by combining and juxtaposing works, tell a completely new story.
Oct 11 – Nov 8
Leiden International Photo Festival © David in den Bosch
Various Arists
From October 11 until November 8, the second International Photo Festival of Leiden will take place with the theme: ‘New Photographers’. The festival is an initiative of the non-profit foundation Stichting Talentvolle Fotografen (Foundation for Talented Photographers), which has the aim of highlighting new photography talent every year. With the discovery of talented photographers such as last year's winner Marijke Groeneveld, it became clear the festival should continue its mission this year. An international jury will select twenty photographers, whose work will be exhibited on large prints on different city squares in Leiden city centre.
Leiden (Several Locations) The Netherlands T: +31 (0) 6 512 281 36 internationalphotofestivalleiden.com
Aug 31 – Oct 26
Noorderlicht Photofestival Various Arists
© Tomas Tomaszewswki
Noorderlicht returns to the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, which will host the 21st edition of the world-renowned festival for photography with its main exhibition: An Ocean of Possibilities. This year’s festival takes as its focus those who think ‘outside the box’ and those who, dissatisfied with the status quo, set out to seek alternatives, or create their own. An Ocean of Possibilities is dedicated to ventures that underwrite the principle of freedom, understood as our capacity to start something new, to do the unexpected, particularly in a world where it can feel as though nothing fundamental will ever change. What emerges from the selected work is a portrait of the unspectacular, the mundane, the non-heroic – ideas that are portrayed by design in small, rather than grand, gestures.
Fries Museum Wilhelminaplein 92 8911 BS Leeuwarden The Netherlands T: +31 (0) 58 255 5500 noorderlicht.com
Sep 6 – Oct 31
Past Forward
Vincent Fournier
© Vincent Fournier
Ravestijn Gallery presents photographer Vincent Fournier’s work from his uncanny series Space Project and The Man Machine (2012). Shown for the first time in The Netherlands, these two series consider space and technology as still undiscovered countries on Earth. With Space Project, Fournier photographs space training facilities in different locations around the world. Images of gleaming shuttle and satellite equipment contrast sharply with retro auditoriums, classroom displays and hallowed accessories from Soviet cosmonauts. The Man Machine looks from a closer range at the intersections between science fiction, robots and contemporary society. Humorous, touching and at times unsettling, Fournier stages various scenarios in which machine and man interact not without a tangible sense of awkwardness.
Ravestijn Gallery Westerdoksdijk 603-A 1013 BX Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31 (0)20 530 60 00 theravestijngallery.com
Sep 16 – 21
Photokina
World of Imaging
Every two years the biggest photography fair in the world takes place in Cologne. It’s called Photokina and houses over 1,000 exhibitors and their mostly brand new photographic inventions, gadgets and toys. The emphasis of the fair is on the full spectrum of imaging: image capture, image processing, storage, and image output. Featuring workshops, symposiums, exhibitions, special events and awards. To see the full program visit Photokina’s website.
Cologne International Expocentre Gladbacher Wall 5 50670 Cologne Cologne-Deutz T: +49 180 510 3101 photokina.com
Sep 13 – Nov 23
Manifesto! An Alternative History of Photography Various Artists
Š Hiromi Tango
Manifesto! An Alternative History of Photography is the first exhibition to explore the historical relationship between photography and the manifesto. The result is an engaging cacophony of voices, often programmatic, sometimes angry, but always hopeful. Modernist manifestos form the core of the exhibition, but the photographic manifesto also has an intriguing nineteenth-century pre-history and a significant post-war afterlife. The exhibition also features a selection of powerful contemporary manifestos, suggesting a recent revival in the manifesto form (Ai Weiwei, Thomas Hirschhorn, Hito Steyerl, Hossam el-Hamalawy). In part a response to the rise of social media, this urge by artists suggests that photography is once again at a point of transformation, driven by the vast algorithmic power of the digital image and the role of the medium in contemporary social struggles.
Fotomuseum Winterthur GrĂźzenstrasse 44 8400 Winterthur Switzerland T: +41 52 234 10 60 fotomuseum.ch
Nov 16 – Dec 13
KIN
pieter hugo
Š Pieter Hugo
Kin is a bittersweet perspective on Hugo's homeland of South Africa. It is a meditation on the ideals of home, both familial and humanistic. It explores the tenuous ties that both bind us to and repel us from others. Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. It confronts complex issues of colonisation, racial diversity and economic disparity. Kin endeavours to locate his young family in a country with a fraught history and an uncertain future.
Foto Colectania Carrer de JuliĂĄn Romea, 6 08006 Barcelona Spain T: +34 932 17 16 26 colectania.es
– Oct 19
Dalston Anatomy Lorenzo Vitturi
© Lorenzo Vitturi
Lorenzo Vitturi’s vibrant still lifes capture the threatened spirit of Dalston’s Ridley Road Market. Vitturi – who lives locally – feels compelled to capture its distinctive nature before it is gentrified beyond recognition. Vitturi arranges found objects and photographs them against backdrops of discarded market materials, in dynamic compositions. These are combined with street scenes and portraits of local characters to create a unique portrait of a soon-to-be extinct way of life. His installation at the Photographers' Gallery draws on the temporary structures of the market using raw materials, sculptural forms and photographs to explore ideas about creation, consumption and preservation.
Photographers' Gallery 16-18 Ramillies St London W1F 7LW United Kingdom T: +44 20 7087 9300 thephotographersgallery.org.uk
– Oct 1
portraits
various artists
© Lorenzo Agius
Photogallery AB Södravägen 41 302 90 Halmstad Sweden +46 (0) 734 486161 thephotogallery.se
Alongside the work of Albert Watson, Lennart Nilsson and Terry O'Neill, Photogallery AB presents the work of celebrity photographer Lorenzo Agius. Renowned for his unique, intimate and often comical portraits of the stars, Agius has become known as one of the pre-eminent portrait photographers of his generation and he continues to work around the world for commercial and editorial clients. The photographer shot to great prominence in the world of photography with his ground-breaking images for the film Trainspotting. The artist is exhibited as part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Aug 28 – Sep 28
Getxophoto Festival
© Mikel Bastida
By coincidence, the inauguration of GETXOPHOTO 2013 was on the day of the fiftieth anniversary of the famous speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr, whose dream acknowledged a long struggle for civil rights in the United States and in the world. And that is still an ongoing endeavour. In turn, GETXOPHOTO 2014 will expand on the subject of struggles – for liberties, for dignity and for humankind. Conflicts that come about through the knowledge of elements in relation to each other, of species in relation to one another. Followed, of course, by the evocation of wars, now and in the past. Following the same editorial line as in the first edition, Getxophoto will witness a diversity of approaches, ranging from the documentary to the conceptual, leaning towards fresh international perspectives, and gazes that are yet to be discovered.
Various Locations in Getxo Spain getxophoto.com
to o t d om o t or od Concept, Design & Printmedia Tuindorpweg 25 3951 BD Maarn The Netherlands +31 (0)343 442 344 www.vandenbergnl.com
Oct 25 – Nov 26
Lagos Photo Festival
© Cristina de Middel
FESTIVAL
Launched in 2010, LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival of photography in Nigeria. LagosPhoto aims to establish a community for contemporary photography that will unite local and international artists through images that encapsulate individual experiences and identities from across all of Africa. This year's theme, 'Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction', examines contemporary photographers working in Africa that toe the line between photography and truth. While photography has historically been positioned as a “window to the world”, with an immediate and tangible relationship to its subject matter, many contemporary artists working on the continent incorporate image-based strategies that move beyond the confines of the photojournalistic gaze and produce works that negotiate the complex social and political concerns that define a new Africa in the twenty-first century. They explore how the ubiquity of images plays a vital role in how reality is constructed and understood.
Throughout Lagos Nigeria T +234 8097713079 africanartists.org/ lagosphotofestival.com
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