Friday Round Up this week comes to you from Paris. It?S been a hectic week for Alison Stieven-Taylor, there are such a lot of exhibitions presently on in the City of Light. Here is a sample to whet your urge for food. Plus the second version of the Photo Reporter Festival starts on Saturday at St-Brieuc Bay.
Exhibition:
Sebasti?O Salgado ? Genesis
The window of the Taschen Bookshop, Paris
Earlier this yr I interviewed Sebasti?O Salgado approximately his Genesis challenge, which is a visiting exhibition and ebook. This week I had the privilege of assembly the man himself at his exhibition on the Maison europ?Enne de la photographie, the high-quality European Photography Museum inside the heart of Le Marais.
Sebasti?O Salgado signing my Pro Photo Story
Salgado is one of the maximum humble, and beneficiant people I?Ve ever met. He spent hours signing books and talking to those who coated up within the rain patiently ready their flip to go into the exhibition. He instructed me he hopes that Genesis will come to Australia, however in the interim none of the main galleries have devoted. I hope it involves Australia too and can't accept as true with that the powers that be in the gallery world could pass on an exhibition like this; it is considered one of a kind.
Genesis is one of the most fantastic projects, and seeing the exhibition reinforced for me Salgado?S precise method to photography and his innate capability to capture the essence of something he's photographing. There were such a lot of moments in the exhibition whilst his pics stopped me in my tracks. If you're in Paris, this has to be a have to-see.
(C) Sebastião Salgado
(C) Sebastião Salgado
Here?S an excerpt from my interview with him:
Salgado spent eight years running on Genesis. During this time ?Salgado travelled via mule, boat, aircraft, hot-air balloon and truck, relying on locale. Many trips had to be carried out taking walks and timing turned into worked around small home windows of excellent weather ? Summer season in Antarctica and the Arctic, before the rains in Indonesia and the floods in Brazil. Salgado travelled in -month blocks, making 4 trips annually over the 8 years.
The quit result is an superb collection of more than two hundred black and white images. L?Lia (his wife) is over again the editor, curator and dressmaker of the collection, which is divided into 5 sections ? Planet South, which is self-explanatory; Sanctuaries together with The Gal?Pagos, Indonesia, Madagascar and Papua New Guinea; Africa; Northern Spaces and; Amazonia and Pantanal.
In thinking about the highlights of this eight-year opus, Salgado remembers the 850 kilometres trek he made from one of the holiest cities in northern Ethiopia, Lalibela, to the town of Gondar. Famous for its castles and religious structure, Gondar is situated at 2300 metres above sea level.
?The stroll took about two months via the mountains,? Says Salgado. ?It turned into a unique revel in and I walked because there aren't any roads. These tribes live as they did in Old Testament times and produce the whole lot they need ? Meals, textiles even farming equipment. After the primary week of strolling, I became very some distance from any cities and roads, and I was inspired to be part of this society that was completely dwelling in any other generation, and in concord with the land??
You can read the full interview with Salgado here.
Until 5 January, 2014
Maison europ?Enne de l. A. Photographie
Wednesday ? Sunday 11am ? 8pm
five-7 Rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris
Exhibition:
Am I Beautiful? - Russiantearoom (RTR)
(C) Oleg Dou
This week I met Liza Fetissova, owner and director of RTR inside the 3rd arrondissement. Liza opened the Gallery seven years in the past with the goal of presenting a discussion board for Russian photographers, each mounted and rising artists.
"Am I Beautiful?" is the 38th exhibition for RTR and presents the paintings of 7 young Russian photographers exploring the concept of beauty in contemporary society. Along with works by using Fulbright Scholar Margo Ovcharenko, who has received numerous awards and the acclaimed Oleg Dou, are pics through sisters Dasha and Maria Yastrebova, the latter at most effective 19 years old and making her European debut with a clean visual signature. There are pics also via inventive duo Sonia and Mark Whitesnow. And a documentary multimedia task via Tina Chevalier which centres on a lady,
?Christina? And her belief that being lovely will remedy all her problems.
(C) Dasha Yastrebova
(C) Maria Yastrebova
(C) Margo Ovcharenko
(C) Sonia and Mark Whitesnow
In commenting on the display?S subject matter Liza says ?The idea of beauty, at the start an abstract concept, has now turn out to be a foreign money, an on hand and doable dream. If sure intervals of history have liked equally mind, information, technology and love of beauty, our society these days seems to fee appearance over meaning...Nowadays beauty is measured, weighed, valued and judged in keeping with standards installed through the canons of global advertising?.
?The younger artists from ?Am I lovely? "are part of this new technology that reuses and reinvents of their creations the codes of cutting-edge visible language?At the centre in their paintings, they all, perhaps without absolutely realising it, evoke the human image with its myriad differences.?
Liza says ?RTR is the suitable vicinity to discover the fascinating, energetic, ironic, poetic and courageous Russian artists who've been supported by way of RTR gallery for the past seven years?. This exhibition is properly worth a visit and there may be a small book shop and print room with photos from Russian photographers together with photojournalist Sergey Maximishin, Igor Moukhin's post-Perestroika paintings and Antanas Sutkus perhaps most famous for his photographs of Jean-Paul Satre shot in 1965.
Until 2 November
Russiantearoom
forty two Rue Volta
75003 Paris
Exhibitions ? In Brief:
Beyond the Veil - Catalina Martin-Chico
Until 31 October
Cosmos Gallery
fifty six Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg
75007 Paris
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969)
Photographs, drawings, photomontages
More than 300 works spanning 1910-Sixties
Until 26 January, 2014
Jeu du Paume
1 area de los angeles Concorde
75008 Paris
Sergio Larrain (1931-2012)
Magnum Photos first South American member, Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain took to the streets of Santiago within the Fifties and Sixties with his Leica. This exhibition celebrates this period.
Until 22 December
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
2 deadlock Lebouis
75014 Paris
Festival:
Photo Reporter ? St-Brieuc Bay
The 2nd version of Photo Reporter Festival kicks off tomorrow. Its introduction was primarily based on two targets: to provide a platform for exposition of first magnificence photojournalism to a broader target audience and; to help photojournalists in traversing the changing landscape in terms of the profession?S financial surroundings. To this stop the Festival has mounted an Endowment Fund ?That allows a enterprise, irrespective of length, to invest in a mission which not handiest benefits the neighborhood economic system, but gives access to facts for at some stage in images?. Last yr the Fund ?Amassed? 150,000 Euros.
This year thirteen photographers are on show from a pool of three hundred submissions from 46 countries.
Philip Blenkinsop ? Burma Before the Change
Stefano De Luigi ? Reality Wedding (Italy)
Peter Dench ? The British Abroad
Agn?S Dherbeys ? Mother (South Korea) 
Marie Dorigny ? Women Pay the Price of Peace (Nepal) 
Robin Hammond - LAGOS ? Rhythms of an African Mega-City 
Guy Martin - The Rise of Turkish Soft Power 
Catalina Martin Chico - Saint-Martin or Paradoxes in Paradise (West Indies) 
Kosuke Okahara - Surviving for the Existence: Abkhazia, a Country that doesn?T Exist 
Darcy Padilla ? Drill Baby Drill (USA)
Claude Rives - The Loire River Invaders (France) 
J.B Russell - An Iraqi Journey (USA)
Donald Weber - War Sand (France)
Photo Reporter
19 October to St Martin's Day
For more statistics go to the Festival Website
W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
Awarded
Congratulations to Robin Hammond who is this yr?S recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. The Grant of $30,000 will permit Hammond to continue with his long term project into the troubles facing those with intellectual contamination in Africa. Hammond was also this yr?S FotoEvidence Book Award winner and his e book Condemned changed into released in New York yesterday. A large week for the New Zealand-born Hammond who now is living in Paris.
Next week Friday Round Up will now not seem as Alison can be in transit again to Australia, however look out for extra stories on 1st November. Until then....
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