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Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 4th March, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up - POYi Awards, exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane and New York, an article on Why We Need Professional Photojournalists through Alison Stieven-Taylor and any other article at the need for diversity in visible storytelling by Anastasia Taylor-Lind.

Awards:

POYi 2015

This week features snap shots from the winners of 3 classes - Photographer of the Year Reportage, Feature Picture Story and World Understanding Award.

Photographer of the Year - Reportage

Paolo Marchetti for The Price of Vanity

This story became featured on Photojournalism Now in February last yr whilst Italian photographer Paolo Marchetti was named Professional Winner 2015 inside the Alexia Foundation Awards for this excellent frame of labor that exposes the reality of breeding animals for the style industry.

Feature Picture Story

Newsha Tavakolian

Freelance and Magnum nominee for Iran Coming Out of the Shadows

World Understanding Award

Hossein Fatemi

Freelance for An Iranian Journey

View the total winners listing at POYi.

Exhibitions: Melbourne

NO LILIES

Is the 6th annual exhibition by women photographers for International Women’s Day and a fundraiser for UN WOMEN.

Artists featured: Wendy Currie, Judith Crispin, Maggie Diaz, Pam Davison, Joyce Evans, Jill Frawley, Amy Feldtmann, Carole Hampshire, Susan Henderson, Sue Jackson, Cheryl Lucy, Helga Leunig, Ilana Rose, Carmel Riordan and Margot Sharman.

Until 2 April

Magnet Galleries

2/640 Bourke Street

Melbourne

Exhibitions: Brisbane

In Situ: New photodocumentary paintings

This new exhibition at Brisbane?S Maud Gallery functions the paintings of graduates from the Queensland College of Art Documentary movement. Curator Doug Spowart says, ?The documentary photographs in this exhibition are made by means of photographers working not as the informal iPhone snapshot ?Photographer? Of nowadays, but instead folks that embed themselves in human and natural environments to witness, to empathise and to report with a digital camera so a tale can be shared. The documentary photographers on this exhibition present their work as proof of what they have visible, felt and been touched by. This work represents new photodocumentary practice and will vicinity viewers in situ ? Surrounded by problems of current existence?.

(C)Thomas Oliver

The contributing photographers are: Chris Bowes, Richard Fraser, Gillian Jones, Louis Lim, David Mines, Thomas Oliver, Marc Pricop, Elise Searson and Cale Searston.

9-20 March

Maud Gallery

6 Maud Street

Newstead (Brisbane)

Exhibitions: New York

Meryl Meisler

Currently displaying at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York is an exhibition providing early paintings by way of Meryl Meisler who's taken into consideration one of the notable visible diarists of Americana. This display spans pics from the 1970s from the ?Kitsch-crammed? Rooms of her hometown of Long Island and images of her circle of relatives to New York?S disco-generation. This idiosyncratic series capabilities photos taken in suburban settings as well as extra notorious New York clubs which includes CBGB, Studio fifty four and The Magic Carpet.

Man in a 3 Piece Suit Dancing Within the Circle at a Wedding

Rockville Centre, NY, March 1976

Mom( Sylvia ""Sunny"" Schulman Meisler)

Reading A Scholarly View of the Jewish Mother,

Thanksgiving, North Massapequa, NY, November 1978

The Meisler, Forkash & Cash Clan Welcoming a

Sweet New Year, North Massapequa, NY,

Rosh Hashanah , September 1974

Butterfly Bedroom Telephone, East Meadow, NY , June 1975

My 2nd cousins Milton and Betty Schwartz's grandson

Todd jumping off their couch in the den, Florida, 1978

Mom Getting her hair Teased at Besame Beauty Salon,

North Massapequa, NY June 1979, 1979

Kissing in Black Leather Jackets During last

Dead Boys Concert CBGB, New York, NY April 1977

Until 9th April

Steven Kasher Gallery

515 West 26th Street

New York

Articles:

Why We Need Professional Photojournalists

One of the tenets of photojournalism is to give voice to those who are unable to speak for themselves, but what does this mean for our digital world where the photograph has never been more potent or more accessible? Are photojournalists still needed to tell stories when everyone supposedly has a camera-enabled smart phone and can tell their own stories?

The truth is that more than 2 billion people are still disadvantaged when it comes to digital communications and many of these people are those whose stories need to be told. The notion that everyone has a smart phone is a privileged thought and the digital divide that exists across the globe is widening despite advances in technology…(you read the full story published on L'Oeil de la Photographie here)

Why Photojournalism Needs Diverse Storytelling Approaches

Photojournalist and artist Anastasia Taylor-Lind has written an article on why photojournalism needs diversity in storytelling. This article discusses the issue through 'Victims of Paris', a photo project by Daniel Ochoa de Olza that was awarded third prize in the World Press Photo People Story category only to be withdrawn by the Associated Press.Read the TIME article here.

Her article feeds into the growing debate on defining photojournalism in the new media environment. It's an exciting time. Approaches like that of Daniel Ochoa de Olza and this year's FotoEvidence Book Award winner Daniella Zalcman's Signs of Your Identity are fine examples of how important stories can be told in creative, engaging ways without losing their integrity or message.

See last week's post for more images from Daniella's project.

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 29 January, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up - a photo essay on Tijuana's AIDS crisis, plus three very different exhibitions - PM New York Daily: 1940-48 (New York), Francesa Woodman (Amsterdam) and Martin Parr (Sydney).

Photo Essay & Book:

Tomorrow Is a Long Time

Sergio Borrego, who helps run Tijuana's Albergue Las Memorias HIV/AIDS hospice, puts a net over the face of Pedro Robles, 51, to prevent flies bothering him as he dies of AIDS. Pedro arrived at Las Memorias with full-blown AIDS six days earlier, but because of bureaucratic delays in Tijuana's medical system he received no HIV medication and died without having seen a doctor. Malcolm Linton/Polaris

In Tijuana AIDS afflicts many of the city’s poorest who live along the Tijuana River Canal in slum conditions. Photographer Malcolm Linton and writer Jon Cohen spent two years documenting the impact of HIV/AIDS and their work appears in the book Tomorrow Is a Long Time.

In an interview with Mother Jones, Cohen said, "Our aim was to describe people's lives in enough detail to make you care about them, and these are people who for the most part live in the shadows of communities and are ignored or outright despised".

Linton said when the opportunity to do the book came up he had just retrained as a nurse and was about to give up photography as "the market had gotten so bad...I went to Tijuana (and) began by working as a volunteer nurse there for the UCSD project that was looking at the link between injection and HIV in Tijuana. So I got to know the people living in the canal because I would run the HIV tests on them much of the time. They'd come to the research office, and they'd meet me. Pretty soon I told them that I was also a photographer and that I was interested in doing this project.

"The canal is foul. The ground is covered in used syringes, human excrement, bits of food, rats, and cockroaches. So I bought myself a small folding stool... I'd simply go down there and unfold my stool beside a group of people who were sitting around shooting up. And sit there, for maybe 20 minutes, half an hour, exchange the odd comment, and that was about it. There wasn't a need to say a whole lot. It was as much simply being there, and spending time, that earned me some sort of credibility."

These images are visceral and the story equally difficult to read knowing that with proper medical care many of these people would have a good chance at survival. But as Cohen said that may be the case in wealthy countries; it is the most vulnerable who “slip through the cracks”. And the figures are startling. Less than half the world’s 37 million HIV positive people receive treatment and live in countries where medical care is not readily available. And that's the recorded cases. How many others are under the radar is unknown.

Cohen has been covering the AIDS epidemic since 1990. He said, "I used to visit AIDS wards that had hundreds of people dying from HIV untreated. I never see that anymore. But things improved so dramatically because people the world over made noise about what was going wrong. Tomorrow Is a Long Time is in that same tradition".

To read the full interview visit Mother Jones

Outside her makeshift shelter in a section of the Tijuana River Canal known as El Bordo, Reyna Ortiz holds a heroin syringe in her mouth. Reyna was in one of the highest risk groups for HIV: a female who injected drugs and had regular unprotected sex with a male addict who was also injecting. Malcolm Linton/Polaris

Dr. Patricia González presses on a patient's neck at a Friday first-aid clinic that she began in July 2014 in the Tijuana River Canal. Malcolm Linton/Polaris

Villareal smokes crystal meth one evening in his room at a boardinghouse in downtown Tijuana. Malcolm Linton/Polaris

Transgender sex worker Fernanda Sánchez waits for clients at night on a street in Tijuana's red-light district. Transgender women and gay men have the highest HIV infection rates of any group in Tijuana. Malcolm Linton/Polaris

Exhibitions:

New York - Stephen Kasher Gallery

PM New York Daily: 1940-48

Weegee

First published in June 1940, the richly illustrated PM New York Daily and the Sunday version PM Weekly were vehicles for socially progressive thought. Its mandate was clear - “PM is against people who push other people around. PM accepts no advertising. PM belongs to no political party. PM is absolutely free and uncensored. PM’s sole source of income is its readers — to whom it alone is responsible. PM is one newspaper that can and dares to tell the truth.”

"PM considered photography a foremost instrument for communicating truth as opposed to objectivity, in the same vein as leftist illustrated periodicals from interwar Europe, such as Arbeiten Illustrierte Zeitung, Vu, and Ce Soir. PM declared that photographers are a vital and integral part of the very idea of PM — that they would write stories with photographs, as reporters wrote them in words."

Despite attracting renowned photographers including Margaret Bourke-White, Ralph Steiner and Weegee, and writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker and Tip O’Neill, founder Ralph Ingersoll, the former managing editor of Time-Life Publications couldn’t make PM pay. With a mandate to accept no advertising, PM’s loyal readership wasn’t enough to cover costs and in 1948 PM closed its doors.

But its legacy lives on and PM New York Daily: 1940-48 features more than 75 black and white photographs from PM staff and freelancers showing the breadth of coverage that appeared within the pages of this groundbreaking publication.

Bernie Aumuller

Gene Badger

Helen Levitt

Irving Haberman

Margaret Bourke-White

Morris Engel

Weegee

Photographers on show: Weegee, Helen Levitt, Morris Engel, Margaret Bourke-White, Lisette Model, Mary Morris, Irving Haberman, and Arthur Leipzig.

PM New York Daily: 1940-48

Until 20 February

Steven Kasher Gallery

515 W. 26th St.

New York

FOAM - Amsterdam

Francesca Woodman - On Being An Angel

Francesa Woodman Untitled MacDowell Colony Peterborough New Hampshire 1980

During her short life, American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) used self-portraiture to explore gender, representation, sexuality and corporality inserting herself as the subject in each image or on occasion using stand-ins. At the age of 22 she committed suicide leaving several hundred silver gelatine prints of which 102 photographs including several large-format diazotype prints and six short videos are on show at Foam. Since her death her work has been exhibited widely and she is said to have inspired artists around the world.

Francesc Woodman Self-portrait talking to Vince Providence Rhode Island 1977

Francesca Woodman From Space2 providence Rhode Island 1976

Francesca Woodman Self deceit 1 Rome Italy 1978

Francesca Woodman Untitled Rome Italy 1977-78

Until 9 March

Foam Fotografiemuseum

Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam

Sydney - ACP

Martin Parr - Life’s a Beach

It is fitting that Magnum photographer Martin Parr’s exhibition 'Life’s a Beach' is housed at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery on the shore of one of Australia’s most iconic beaches. Taken over a number of years on beaches around the world from Italy, China, Japan, the US and the UK, 'Life’s a Beach' is Parr at his irreverent best. Loud, kaleidoscopic, banal, bizarre.

Until 27 March

Bondi Pavilion Gallery

Queen Elizabeth Drive

Bondi Beach