This week Friday Round Up features exhibitions in Berlin, Eugene Smith’s assistant Takeshi Ishikawa releases his book Minamata Note, Sydney’s Art and About launches, and Bill Henson’s show closes at the Art Gallery of NSW. Next week my report from the Noorderlicht Festival in beautiful Groningen, The Netherlands. Have a great weekend wherever you are.
Berlin and Photography
Last week I turned into in Berlin to check out a few galleries. In particular the Neue Schule fur Fotographie (New School for Photography) has an thrilling exhibition programme along side workshops. A privately run college with an super exhibition space, the Neue Schule?S modern day show features paintings from Ulrike Brase, Thommy Gebhardt, Dirk Hoffmann, Anni Jeroch, Yasmin Opielok, Jennie Schwartz and Jinhwan Seol.
Celebrating the launch of this exhibition Neue Schule has produced a tremendous boxed set of catalogues at the works of every artist. You should buy a unmarried catalogue or the full set. The black embossed booklets are beautifully crafted and a clever concept as they'll quickly turn out to be collectors objects.
Two artists? Work stood out for me ? Jennie Schwartz? ?Mommy, what shall I dream about tonight?? And Jinhwan Seol?S ?Industrial?. Schwartz explores subject matters of childhood nightmares and worry of the dark through ambiguous imagery, blurred figures and abstract shapes. Her play with mild and angle creates exciting pics that display extra the longer you look. Schwartz?S work is easy to relate to, evoking recollections of imagination withdrawing when the lighting fixtures go out.
(C) Jennie Schwartz
Seol?S portrayal of the Yeosa National Industrial Complex in South Korea, the biggest petrochemical complex inside the united states, is like a storyboard for a futuristic film. Operating around the clock, Yeosa?S equipment is constantly in motion, its homes constantly lit developing an unnatural glow on the horizon that Seol uses to high-quality impact in these black and white photographs.
(C) Jinhwan Seol
Until 20 October
Neue Schule fur Fotographie
Brunnenstr 188-190/10119 Berlin
At Camera Work Gallery is Stockholm photographer Blaise Reutersward?S exhibition ?Aktstudien und Deutsche Landschaften? A panoramic collection wherein massive scale German landscapes are juxtaposed against Reutersward?S nude studies, for which he is perhaps higher recognized. With each Reutersward?S aim ?Is to seize a experience of thriller that simmers underneath the phantasm of best form and beauty?. The space too wherein the gallery is housed is in itself really worth a go to.
Until 12 October
Camera Work
Kantstrasse 149
10623 Berlin?Charlottenburg
Book:
Takeshi Ishikawa ? Minamata Note
Eugene Smith at paintings in Minamata (C) Takeshi Ishikawa
When he was in his early twenties Takeshi had a danger meeting with Eugene Smith on the streets of Tokyo, an stumble upon that would trade the young photographer?S life. At that point Smith became approximately to embark on his now well-known Minamata challenge, which uncovered the terrible outcomes on that city?S population from the excessive mercury contamination of shellfish and fish due to the discharge of tainted business waste water. Takeshi joined him in this adventure, operating regularly for nothing but bed and board, assisting Smith and additionally taking his very own pix. Now forty years later in "Minamata Note" Takeshi stocks the snap shots he shot throughout this time, many of which might be intimate snap shots of Smith that have in no way been published.
40 years later - Takeshi returned row final on right with some of the human beings he met while he first went to Minamata
C) Takeshi Ishikawa
Festival:
Art and About ? Sydney
With this yr?S theme "Private Lives?Public Spaces" Art and About Sydney launches an intensive programme such as a remarkable possibility to have your portrait taken by way of one among Sydney?S satisfactory documentary photographers Louise Whelan.
Louise Whelan ? Cultural Connections 
(C) Louise Whelan from New Settlers published by T&G Publishing
Sydney-based photo documentarian Louise Whelan will set up a portrait studio in public spaces around Sydney and take “stylised portraits of members of the community”. Whelan’s recently published book "New Settlers," which I wrote about in the Australian Weekend Magazine (toread click here) encapsulates the diversity of multicultural Australia. The portraits taken during Art and About will add to this body of work exploring concepts of cultural identity and representation. To find out more click here.
Louise Hawson - 52 Suburbs 
(C) Louise Hawson
Also part of Art and About is the exhibition 52 Suburbs. Hawson spent a year traversing the globe with her eight year old daughter visiting 10 countries, 14 cities, and 52 suburbs. This exhibition captures ordinary moments in suburbs that most travellers wouldn’t visit. It’s an interesting collection that reveals a commonality that defies cultural boundaries.
Museum of Sydney
Cnr. Bridge and Philip Sts, Sydney
Sydney Life
"Sydney Life" at Hyde Park features the finalists in this year’s competition. You can also take a guided tour of the exhibition with one of the judges, Sandy Edwards 2pm Saturday 12 October, detailshere. Pictured are three finalists.
(C) Cam Cope
(C) Stephen Weissner
(C) Jgor Cavallina
Art and About 20 September to 20 October
Various Venues
Exhibition:
Bill Henson – Cloud Landscapes
If you haven’t seen this exhibition by one of the world’s best photographic artists you’ve got two days - it closes on Sunday at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Have a great weekend.
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