Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 26th September, 2014 |Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up Don McCullin’s exhibition opens in Sydney, John G. Morris in France, plus a look at Filter Festival Chicago, Photoville New York and Guernsey Festival in the Channel Islands. And last chance to see Robert Ashton's and Tom Evangelidis’ shows in Melbourne.

Exhibition: Sydney

Don McCullin

The Impossible Peace

From War Photographs to Landscapes

1958-2011

Don McCullin last year at Visa pour l'Image in front of one of his most

recognised images from the Biafra Civil War 1968 below

(C) Alison Stieven-Taylor

(C) Don McCullin courtesy Contact Press Images

Opening tonight, this exhibition, curated by Robert Pledge of Contact Press Images New York, marks the first time Don McCullin’s photographs have been shown in Australia.

I saw The Impossible Peace last year at Visa pour l’Image, where the retrospective filled the cathedral spaces of the Église des Dominicans in Perpignan, France. This exhibition features McCullin's conflict images, and also his landscape work as well as street photography, particularly his study of the homeless in the UK.

(C) Don McCullin courtesy Contact Press Images

During our interview McCullin told me he is now too old in body to trek the streets of London with camera in hand, but that street photography was something he had greatly enjoyed. “Young photographers don’t need to leave their homeland to find conflict, it is in their own communities, they just have to look,” he said. (My feature interview with Don McCullin will be published next week in NZ Pro Photographer magazine, in print and for iPad).

(C) Don McCullin courtesy Contact Press Images

The Impossible Peace

State Library of NSW in association with Reportage Projects 2014

27 September to 26 October, 2014

Exhibition: Rennes, France

Somewhere in France

John G. Morris

John G. Morris (L) with Robert Pledge Contact Press Images in Rennes 19 September 2014

At 97 years of age the former photo editor of LIFE magazine and the New York Times, John G. Morris is having the time of his life. His new book, Somewhere in France , is being lauded as the most personal view of World War II ever published. And thanks to the book's popularity, Morris is traversing the globe sharing his thoughts on photojournalism, and there are few, if any, who know more about the subject.

During our interview in Paris recently, Morris told me he was busier than ever. “Last week I was in Luxembourg giving a talk. This week I’m going to Rennes for the launch of my exhibition at the Hotel de Ville and a symposium the following day. Next month it’s New York. These are busy times”.

And Morris is loving every moment. If I didn’t know his age, I would have thought he was in his sixties, such is his energy, enthusiasm and sharp recollection.

In Somewhere in France Morris' recollects the summer of 1944. At the time Morris was based in London working for LIFE. Not satisfied with a remote view of the war, he determined to see events for himself. He left the London bureau to join LIFE photographers Robert Capa, George Rodger, Robert Landry, Ralph Morse, David E. Scherman, and Frank Scherschel in Normandy and Brittany, taking with him a dozen rolls of film. He wasn’t a photographer and the pictures taken were for his personal record.

Nearly 70 years later Robert Pledge of Contact Press Images unearthed the images and encouraged Morris to publish a book. Somewhere in France (which was all that soldiers could reveal to loved ones of their location) is the result and features not only Morris’ pictures, but also the love letters he wrote to his wife who was back in the USA.

All photos (C) John G. Morris courtesy Contact Press Images

He says the exhibition of these pictures in Rennes is personally significant for him. “I photographed in Rennes the day it was liberated on August 5th 1944. I walked into the Mayor’s office and there was a man seated at the mayor’s desk. I said 'are you the mayor?' He said no. So I asked, 'where is the mayor?' And he told me the mayor had left during the night. He had been a collaborator”.

The city of Rennes is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of its liberation and Morris’ photographs are being displayed in “gigantic print form on the town square at the Hotel de Ville (below).

My full interview with Morris will be published in the coming weeks. What an absolute delight it was to get the opportunity to speak with Morris who is not only a legend in photojournalism, but a really nice guy too.

Hôtel de Ville

Rennes, France

Until 19 October

Festivals: New York

Photoville

(C) Wall Street Journal

This year Photoville  features more than 50 exhibitions in the “Container Exhibition” program spanning the gamut of contemporary photography including curated shows from The Everyday Projects – Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Iran, Jamaica, Latin America, Middle East and USA; Australian Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms of the Fallen, and so much more.

Photos courtesy of Photoville Instagram

There are also more than a dozen outdoor exhibitions and installations, including Australia’s Head On Portrait Prize exhibition on show at Photoville for the first time. Plus there are workshops and talks and the Photoville FENCE exhibitions featuring work from 55 photographers.

On the FENCE

(c) Melissa Mooney

The Brooklyn FENCE (above), which was the original, and the Boston and Atlanta FENCES, attract thousands of visitors and really take photography to the people in large-sized prints that are impossible to ignore. You can view the Brooklyn FENCE Slideshow here

Check out the Photoville website here

Until 28 September

Festival: Channel Islands

Guernsey Photography Festival

(C) Sam Harris

Held in Guernsey in the Channel Islands off the coasts of England and France, this biennial festival presents its fourth edition with the theme “Faith, Family, and Community”. Featuring exhibitions by a diverse group of photographers as well as portfolio reviews, screen projections, live music, education and community streams, Guernsey Photography Festival presents a comprehensive program over four weeks.

This year Australia’s Sam Harris (we’ve adopted him since he moved from the UK to take up digs in Western Australia) has an exhibition of his work "Middle of Somewhere" along with a total of 24 exhibiting photographers including:

Liz Hingley “Under Gods: Stories from the Soho Road"

Abbas “Faces of Christianity”

Arno Brignon “Josephine”

Maria Kapajeva “Family”

Andrei Nacu “In the forsaken garden time is a thief”

David Moore “Pictures from the real world”

Sam Harris "Middle of Somewhere"

Until 18 October

Various Venues

Visit the Guernsey Photography Festival website here

Festivals: Chicago

Filter Photo

This week Filter Photo Festival in Chicago is in full swing with exhibitions, workshops and panel discussions as well as its core focus, portfolio reviews – this year 30 gallery curators and photography experts will review the portfolios. Held in downtown Chicago, Filter Photo is focused on connecting artists with curators and gallery owners and giving emerging artists in particular a unique opportunity to meet with those who may help direct their careers.

This May Have Happened

Group exhibition at David Weinberg Photography

© Eileen Keator

© Amiko Wenjia Li

© Daniel Coburn

Filter Photo Festival until 28 September

Various Venues

Visit the Filter Photo website for details

Exhibitions: Melbourne

Last chance to see:

Robert Ashton – Into the Hollow Mountains

A Portrait of Fitzroy 1974

Colour Factory  409-429 Gore St

Fitzroy

Tom Evangelidis – Façade

Edmund Pearce Gallery

Level 2, Nicholas Building

37 Swanston Street

Melbourne

Both Closing Saturday 27 September

Photography art Gallery Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 10 February, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up Steve Schapiro's new book Misericordia, the winner of the inaugural Mongolian Photography Scholarship is announced in Melbourne and a choice of pix from Donna Ferrato's Why They Marched image essay.

Book Review:

Misericordia: Together We Celebrate - Steve Schapiro

In the Sixties American photojournalist Steve Schapiro traversed the u . S . Photographing for LIFE and different news magazines, overlaying the essential political and cultural happenings of the time together with the Civil Rights Movement. He photographed Martin Luther King at Selma in 1963 and later covered King?S assassination. He spent months with Robert Kennedy, touring with him all through america and to South America. For Sports Illustrated he hung out with Muhammed Ali shooting the boxer over five days in Ali?S hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

In the Seventies Schapiro grew to become his digital camera on Hollywood setting up himself as a movie stills photographer. He created what's considered the enduring series for the Godfather Trilogy as well as taking pictures on Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Rambo and Risky Business amongst others.

Over a profession that has spanned greater than 5 many years Schapiro has photographed infinite celebrities, tripped the light exceptional with pop culture icons which include Andy Warhol, posted severa books, held exhibitions of his paintings around the globe and starred in the documentary film ?Steve Schapiro: An Eye on American Icons?.

It?S a stellar legacy, but Schapiro isn?T finished. Now in his eighties he's nonetheless making new paintings and his modern-day book, Misericordia: Together We Celebrate is a portrait of a unique network and one among Schapiro?S finest, and maximum celebratory collections to date.

Misericordia, this means that coronary heart of mercy in Latin, is domestic to more than 600 youngsters and adults with developmental disabilities. Everyday the citizens of Misericordia, which spans a 31-acre campus in Chicago, visit paintings, take training lessons, exercise, create artistic endeavors and enjoy the warmth of a loving and supportive surroundings.

In talking about Misericordia, Schapiro?S voice jewelry with actual pleasure. ?There is a flowering of personalities and that they have a exceptional experience of humour and each person is full of pleasure,? He tells me. ?You walk right into a room and a person holds out their hand and wants to recognize your name after which they want to tell you their name and it?S just a joyous place?.

Schapiro says he is now more targeted on doing documentary tasks and telling testimonies he?S interested by like Misericordia, that's beacon of desire and love in one among America?S biggest towns. Schapiro, who lives in Chicago, spent months working with the personnel and residents at Misericordia to create this intimate portrait of an high-quality facility in which many spend their complete lives.

Within the pages of this fantastically produced ebook published with the aid of powerHouse New York, Schapiro takes the reader on a visible adventure into the daily lives of this various network. Here we are delivered to citizens, their carers and family contributors, at paintings and play. ?When I?M taking a portrait, I want to seize the spirit of a person,? He explains. That objective could be very honestly met in the photographs in this e book, which radiate with optimism, love and sincerity.

?I love Misericordia. It is usually amusing to be with old buddies and meet new friends.

There are usually new things I can do here, I in no way feel bored.

I like the entirety approximately Misericordia and I love saying proper morning to all the staff on my way to paintings.

Misericordia allows me to constantly experience properly approximately myself!? Anna D., a resident.

This quote is simply one example of the sentiments expressed by folks that live at Misericordia. In the book there are comments from residents as well as workforce. The e-book is sectioned into eleven parts inclusive of Work Opportunities, Creativity Art, Technology, Children, Water Therapy and Athletics, Music and Dance, and Parties.

Misericordia presents a complete continuum of care and offerings for those suffering slight to profound disabilities throughout various racial, non secular and socioeconomic backgrounds. Founded in 1976 with the aid of Sister Rosemary Connelly, who is the Executive Director of the Center, Misericordia not simplest supports its residents, but additionally operates an outreach service that helps greater than one hundred fifty households within the network with kids dwelling at domestic.

Schapiro says, ?Being an excellent photographer comes from that specific point of view that we all have and trying to do matters with that experience of your self and additionally of doing things you in reality care approximately?. Misericordia is that philosophy in motion. It?S a extraordinary, uplifting e-book. Its arrival comes at a time when a few might try to shake our perception in humanity to the core. But Schapiro reminds us of the joy to be observed within the smile of a child, the power of a hand extended in friendship and wish, and the significance of a place where every body is welcome.

Misericordia: Together We Celebrate

Steve Schapiro

Published by powerHouse New York

186 pages

Winner:

Inaugural Mongolian Photography Scholarship

Last year Melbourne’s Magnet Galleries hosted the exhibition Mongolian Lens 1 curated by Melbourne photographer and RMIT lecturer Jerry Galea. A feature of the exhibition was a ‘silent’ auction of 30 individual prints to raise funds for a scholarship to be awarded to a Mongolian photographer.

I?M pleased to report that the inaugural Mongolian Photography Scholarship is going to Mr. Delgerjargal Davaanyam, a young freelance documentary photographer from Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar. A member of the Batzorig Foundation of Documentary Photography, Davaanyam teaches pictures on the Radio TV Institute, one of the few places where images is taught in Mongolia. The scholarship permits Davaanyam to spend 4 weeks in Melbourne, mentored by means of Magnet and RMIT.

(C) All snap shots Delgerjargal Davaanyam

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Donna Ferrato - Why They Marched

On the day Trump turned into elected I was due to interview Donna Ferrato. Of route the final results changed into so insane that considering doing an interview become the furthest element from Donna's thoughts. I'd waited years for Donna to commit to that interview - sure I'm tenacious - so waiting some other day turned into no massive deal. And it turned into worth the wait! We canvassed a whole lot of subjects and I'll share the interview in complete with Photojournalism Now readers in the no longer too distant future.

One of the matters I requested Donna approximately became what she noticed as her subsequent huge undertaking in pictures?

Here's what she informed me - "I assume my subsequent large challenge in images is going to be starting off to create a frame of work on Trump?S America, now not on my own I want to do it with other photographers. We need to pass wherein the people assume that they're simply going to benefit from Trump?S Administration. I want to see what?S running, what is taking place, with none judgement, but I think we honestly ought to comply with it, watch it, file it. This could be the most important component that?S came about right here given that 11th of September. We must get available and notice what?S taking place."

On January 21 Donna become obtainable, at the Women's March in Washington. Here are some of her photos taken forMacleans.

(C) All photographs Donna Ferrato

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