This week on Friday Round Up a image essay via Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica, a new e-book that documents the records of the Greek milk bars in Australia, Sandro Miller's excellent Homage: Malkovich and the Masters opens in New York, and a few exciting weekend reading. Don't overlook if you're in Sydney Head On Photo Festival is on till twenty second May. You can study my Head On Diary for L'Oeil de los angeles Photographie here.
Photo Essay:
Pierpaolo Mittica - Living Toxic
The thirteen,000 atypical residents of Karabash, a remote Russian copper mining city about 160km north of Kazakhstan, live in a polluted environment that Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica describes as ?Submit-apocalyptic?. Mittica photographed Karabash for his ongoing series Living Toxic which he began in 2013. Living Toxic documents a number of the sector?S most environmentally damaged towns. Here the stench from the copper smelting plant makes the air definitely unbreathable, the river is poisoned and a huge black slag heap runs for approximately 1.5km through the metropolis.
(C) All images Pierpaolo Mittica
Book:
Greek Cafes & Milk Bars of Australia
In the 1940s Greek milk bars started springing up around Australia, becoming focal points for regional towns where entertainment options were limited. This wonderful new book Greek Cafes & Milk Bars of Australia features hundred of photographs, stories and even old sample menus. It’s a great addition to Australia’s rich migrant history. How bland our world would have been without immigration. To find out more or buy the book click here.
Exhibition: New York
Sandro Miller - Homage: Malkovich and the Masters
Andres Serrano / Piss Christ (C) Sandro Miller
Dorothea Lange/ Migrant Mother (C) Sandro Miller
Herb Ritts/Jack Nicholson The Joker (C) Sandro Miller
Coinciding with the release of the book, which I'll be reviewing in the coming weeks, Chicago photographer Sandro Miller's Homage: Malkovich and the Masters opened last night in New York. I interviewed Sandro when he was in Australia last year for Head On Photo Festival and since then I've written a number of stories on his work. He's collaborated with John Malkovich for more than two decades and this body of work is nothing short of extraordinary - he and Mallkovich have painstakingly recreated some of the most iconic images of the 20th Century. Sandro is one of the most generous and talented photographers I've had the pleasure to interview and his work with Malkovich will be exhibited far and wide this year - from New York it goes to Amsterdam and then onto Russia. If you're in New York check it out. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Until 1 July
Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Street,
New York, NY. 10011
Weekend Reading:
BJP interview the new CEO of NOOR Clément Saccomani
Don McCullin on Digital Photography (an older article but still relevant)
Visa pour l'image previews its 2016 programme
Caleb Cain Marcus's photo essay on the Ganges on National Geographic Proof Why Facts Aren’t Always Truths in Photography - Peter van Agtmael TIME magazine
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