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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 30 May, 2014|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up we look to New Zealand and the 11th Auckland Festival of Photography. Featured today is Alison Stieven-Taylor's interview with this year's commissioned artist, Tanu Gago, a young Samoan exploring cultural identity in the Pacific. Also this week are showcases from Ayala Gazit’s "Was It A Dream", iconic, and controversial photo documentarian Ann Westra’s “Our Future,” Chloe Riddell’s "Memories Enclosed…Handle with Care," and Chinese photographer Yang Jianchuan's Melody of Kunqu Opera. Lots of words and images to prompt thought, so if you're not heading "over the ditch" this year, enjoy this selection.

Festival: New Zealand

The Auckland Festival of Photography

Interview with Tanu Gago

Falency, Moe, Nana From the series: Tama'ita'i Pasifika Mao'i 2014

In Tanu Gago’s new body of work “Tama'ita'i Pasifika Mao'i” commissioned by the 2014 Auckland Photography Festival, this New Zealand artist challenges how Pacific women are represented with the desire to move imagery away from cultural stereotypes. Promulgated by the media and in advertising images Pacific women, and men, tend to be portrayed as symbols of Pacific tourism, or as living on the margins of contemporary society. Both are narrow views that Gago is keen to expunge... please click on the tab above - Feature Articles - to read this story in full and see Gago's photographs.

Selected Exhibitions on this year's theme - "Memory"

The 11th edition of the Auckland Festival of Photography features ten exhibitions concerned with the theme of memory in its Signature Series. Encompassing works by local and international photographers, the Series allows audiences to contemplate the meaning of memory and how time, circumstance and recollection can impact our understanding of ‘what has been’; that unique juxtaposition between the present and the past as described by French philosopher Roland Barthes in his seminal work Camera Lucida.

This week’s selection features Ayala Gazit’s "Was It A Dream", iconic, and controversial photo documentarian Ann Westra’s “Our Future” and Chloe Riddell’s Memories Enclosed…Handle with Care, plus a photo gallery with images from performance artist Tatsumi Orimoto and Chinese photographer Yang Jianchuan.

Ayala Gazit’s "Was It A Dream" is a work created by loss. In this deeply personal work Gazit creates a portrait of a brother she never knew. Born in Israel to an American mother and Israeli father, at the age of 12 Gazit learned she had an older brother, James, living in Australia. But before she could meet him he committed suicide in 1996 ending her dream of knowing her sibling. She says this series of photographs in “Was it a Dream” is her “attempt to create a portrait of my brother whom I will never meet by photographing the ‘un-photographable,’ and following the traces and echoes of one’s existence after his passing”.

(All images C) Ayala Gazit

Was It a DreamAyala Gazit

29 May - 17 June

Silo 6, Wynyard Qtr

Auckland

Ans Westra has spent much of her life documenting New Zealand’s indigenous people. As a migrant from Europe Westra was fascinated with her new homeland and since the late 1950s she has amassed a collection of images that capture a world few have witnessed from the outside. While her pursuit has not been without controversy she says “No true appraisal of Maori from an outside perspective was happening at the time and their culture seemed to be on the verge of extinction. Arriving here…with a curiosity for humanity gave me a unique place. Though in later years Maori themselves questioned my authority and understanding as an outsider at the same time they gave me a view on their changing world…Now being more involved with documenting and preservation of this beautiful landscape I come to that with the love Maori have for their land, their Turangiwaewae.” In “Our Future” Westra showcases colour works from her book of the same name, along with a range of vintage black and white photographs.

All images (C) Ans Westra

Our Future

Ann Westra

31 May – 15 June

NorthArt

Norman King Square

Ernie Mays Street

Northcote Shopping Centre

Auckland

In“Memories Enclosed...Handle with Care” New Zealand photographer Chloe Riddell examines what she sees as the “inadequacies of conventional family photography to describe the reality of family life”. Exploring societal ideals and conventions around notions of family life that are perpetuated by the media and popular culture, Riddell juxtaposes the idea of “domestic truth…and family reality” in an attempt to “reclaim my own personal memories” and to frame them in what she labels “family truth”.

All images (C) Chloe Riddell

Chloe Riddell’s Memories Enclosed…Handle with Care

28 May - 7 June

Elam Projectspace Gallery

University of Auckland

20 Whitaker Place

Auckland

Also featured this year in the “Memory” themed exhibitions are New Zealand photographer Emil McAvoy's “Reflections on Lily Pond,”( 11 June - 21 June) Chinese photographer Yang Jianchuan’s “Melody of Kungqu Opera,” ( 29 May - 17 June) and Japanese performance artist and photographer Tatsumi Orimoto (29 May - 17 June). There is also a group show, Photoforum: History in The Taking; 40 years (6-28 June).

Yang Jianchuan

Melody of Kunqu Opera

"With a history of more than 600 years, Kunqu Opera is known as the “mother of Chinese dramas”, and considered an “orchid” in this field. In Chinese culture, “orchid” is recognized as elegant, neat, and clean; together with plum flower, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, they represent Chinese people’s interpretation on traditional “culture of elegancy”, says Chinese photo-artist Yang Jianchuan.

Melody of Kunqu Opera

29 May - 17 June

Visit the Auckland Festival of Photography website here for the full 2014 program.

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 12 June, 2015|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up - the third annual Portrait(s) Festival opens in Vichy, France, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale launches its annual fundraiser, and Yellow Korner's June Pop Up Galleries with Serge Ramelli.

Photos of the Week:

Road melts in New Delhi Heatwave May 2015

(C)Harish Tyagi/EPA

Migrants gather rain water, Myanmar June 2015

Festivals:

Portrait(s)

Vichy, France

12 June - 6 September

Bruce Wrighton - At Home

In 1988 American photographer Bruce Wrighton died at the age of 38 leaving behind an extraordinary series of portraits taken in the small town of Binghampton, in New York State, where he lived. These portraits capture ‘the disinherited of America,’ anonymous citizens who came across Wrighton's path. Around 30 of these portraits are on show at Vichy. Wrighton's work sits amongst some of my favourite street photography.

Kourtney Roy - Self-Portraits

Another favourite photographer is Canadian Kourtney Roy whose series of self-portraits tackle the issue of female stereotyping. In these highly stylised, almost cinematic images, Roy poses as the pin-up, air hostess and beauty queen amongst others, exposing the farcical notion of the perfect woman.

Alejandro Cartagena - Carpoolers

Dominican photographer Alejandro Cartagena’s series Car Poolers documents thousands of Mexican workers as they cross Mexico City on their daily commute. Using the same framing for each image, Cartegena’s series evokes the monotony of this daily grind.

There are also works by Mat Jacob, Elliott Erwitt, Ronan Guillou and Martin Schoeller on show amongst others.

Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Annual Fundraiser

This year the Ballarat International Foto Biennale will be held from 22 August - 20 September in Ballarat, 90 minutes from Melbourne.

At the annual fundraising event for the Biennale, to be held Sunday 12 July, 150 prints from 150 photographers will be up for grabs. Buy a red dot for $125 and select your image. If you can’t attend on the day, you can select online. Photographs have been donated by Australian and international artists to help the Festival raise funds. Visit thewebsite for all the details.

Sunday 12 July

Gallery Eleven40

1140 Malvern Road

Malvern (Melbourne)

Yellow Korner POP Up Galleries

This month Serge Ramelli and his epic black and white works of Paris and New York are in focus at the Yellow Korner Pop Up Galleries - check out the website for details.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 4 September, 2015|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up - Getty Images announces its grant winners at Visa Pour l'Image, Photoville gears up in New York and Photo Shanghai has its second outing.

But before turning to those stories, I want to write briefly about this heartbreaking image that rocked the world.

(Dogan News Agency / European Pressphoto Agency)

Nothing underpins the capacity of a photograph to move public opinion than that of the body of 3 year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a beach in Turkey. This photograph has been published around the world and shared many thousands of times on social media. It has made millions question their role as a citizen of the world and to call for action from their governments. It is heartbreaking, yet the horror of this reality is galvanising people across nations.

It has also given the media an opportunity to take back their place as the Fourth Estate, if only temporarily. Newspapers across Britain have run the photograph shaming the British government who is anticipated to make an announcement that it will take more refugees. In the US newspapers are also pushing for a greater refugee intake.

Media are also justifying why they chose to publish the photograph. Here is an excerpt from an editorial published in the Los Angeles Times written by Kim Murphy, Assistant Managing Editor, Foreign and National News who said it was "imperative" the paper publish this photograph:

“We have written stories about migrants suffocated in trucks, run over by trains, drowned in capsized boats, but these tragedies have unfolded largely unwitnessed; here was a boy...whose fate forced anyone who saw him to confront the magnitude of the migrant crisis unfolding in Europe and the Middle East. A crisis that our nation, through the wars it has fought in the region, had a hand in igniting. A human drama that has seen European nations struggle to confront the streams of refugees, some of them fleeing horrific violence, who have turned up pleading at their doors — while the U.S. admitted just 36 Syrian refugees in fiscal 2013.” Click here to read the full story.

The Washington Post's Beirut Bureau Chief, Liz Sly, shared the photo of Aylan on Twitter on Wednesday after seeing it on a Turkish news site. Here's what she said:

“Instantly I received a huge response, mostly from people who said they too were deeply moved by the image. Some people, however, criticized me — and those retweeting me — for sharing the picture at all. This response puzzled me...How many photos of dead Syrian children show up on social media every day? Don’t people know what has been happening in Syria?

And then it occurred to me — perhaps they don’t.

My colleagues and I have been writing about Syria’s war for four years, about the desperation of the refugees who fled the country and the 250,000 people, including children, who have died over the course of the conflict. Some of us, Syrian and foreign journalists, have died, too, trying to tell their stories.

Yet it has seemed that no one really paid much attention — at least, not in terms of seriously trying to solve the problem, seriously trying to help. If it takes photographs of dead children to make people realize children are dying, so be it." You can read the full story here.

May the good in humanity prevail.

Awards:

2015 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

The winners for this year's Getty Grants were announced at Visa Pour l'Image yesterday:

Salvatore Esposito for What is Missing?

This project explores the complicated social layers of Naples, telling the story of the city by analysing the feeblest and neediest social structures within the city. The work is captured with a desire to show the negligence that has arisen as a result of the city’s ruling class.

Javier Arcenillas for Latidoamerica

Honduras is considered one of the most violent places on earth. Every day on the streets of Honduras’ cities murders, robberies and violence are commonplace. This project aims to document the axis of uncontrolled violence in Honduras as social and political factors aggressively feed the issue.

Mojgan Ghanbari for Zanan

Iran, with a population of 77 million, is the third highest populated country in the Middle East, with a 50 percent female demographic and over 60 percent of the population under the age of 35. Profound changes took place in the country as a result of the Islamic revolution in 1979, which had a significant impact on the lives of women. Legislative changes to Islamic rules resulted in further restrictions being imposed on women; restrictions on community participation, enforcement of the mandatory hijab and the Family Protection Law. Despite every effort by the State to convey a positive image of Shia Muslim Iran, there are still many clauses that limit women and their civil rights. Women are legally prohibited from the presidency, and are discriminated against in senior leadership positions, judgeships and educational fields; inheritance laws are significantly prejudiced against women.

Matt Eich for Carry Me Ohio

Heroin has seen a resurgence across the United States in recent years, but it is keenly prevalent in Ohio. In 2010, 315 people in Ohio died in heroin-related deaths. By 2012 that number soared to 725. The state's response has been wide-ranging, with new laws creating stricter penalties for drug traffickers and creative ideas to expand treatment and needle-exchange programs. Although Ohio is at the vanguard of drug-prevention policy, the state's efforts appear to have their limits. Statistics show heroin is winning.

This year Getty Images received almost 400 applications from 78 countries. Each photojournalist will receive US$10,000 as well as collaborative editorial support from Getty Images. Getty Images Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein said, “The 2015 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography recipients exemplify the dedication, determination and integrity that define the photojournalism community. We strongly believe in the power of imagery to move the world and I am extremely proud that our grants programme continues to provide emerging and established photojournalists with the freedom to bring global attention to complex issues that otherwise may remain unseen.”

Getty Images has also announced that one of the Getty Images Editorial Grants will be renamed The David Laidler Memorial Award, in honour of former employee, the late David Laidler, who passed away last month. David was instrumental in bringing the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography programme to life.

Festivals & Fairs:

Photoville - New York City

Photoville is the largest annual photographic event in New York City with exhibitions housed in re-purposed shipping containers that create a modular venue in Brooklyn Bridge Park. In addition to the exhibitions are workshops and nightly screenings and events in the famed Photoville Beer Garden. This year there are more than 70 ‘container’ exhibitions as well as those works featured on the FENCE in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Boston, Atlanta and Houston. Here's a peek at what you can expect from this year's program:

Brenda Ann Kenneally’s Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City, an examination of post-industrial America through photographs, film and collected ephemera of young people as they come of age on one block in North Troy, NY

Daniel Berehulak’s Scenes From The Ebola Crisis, which covers his four-month, Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Ebola crisis in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea presented by The New York Times.

Eugene Richards’ Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, an examination of life in the impoverished Arkansas Delta forty years ago and today. The exhibition interweaves old black-and-white photographs with recent color photographs and a short story.

Jeff Sheng's Fearless, for which he photographed over 200 LGBT student athletes between 2003 and 2015

Matt Black’s The Geography of Poverty, an exhibition of images collected during a three-month, 30 state trip on which Black photographed some of America’s most destitute communities

Radcliffe Roye’s When Living Is a Protest, documenting the everyday reality of those living in the struggle for racial equality

Stephanie Sinclair’s Too Young to Wed, an exhibition of photographs documenting the millions of young girls who are forced into marriage.

Photoville

10-20 September

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Photo Shanghai Art Fair

Organised by the World Photography Organisation, the second edition of Photo Shanghai art fair features 50 international galleries and over 500 works of art. In addition Photo Shanghai also presents its education series, which includes a discussion panel on the role of photography in international museums with Christopher Phillips from ICP New York and Liu Heung Shing from ScOP, Shanghai. Last year the Fair attracted 25,000 visitors.

11-13 September

Photo Shanghai

Shanghai Exhibition Centre