Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 6 November, 2015|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up three exhibitions feature, one in Melbourne and two in Paris. Next week I'll be posting from Paris Photo. Plus a preview to Greg Constantine's new book Nowhere People.

Exhibition:

Melbourne

John Williams - Taking a Camera for a Walk

My First 60 Years on the Streets

John Williams describes himself as “an historian who makes pictures and a picture maker who writes history…History can never be absolute fact, any more than photography tells truths or simply describes facts. The best the individual photographer/historian can hope for is to accumulate and interpret aspects of time and place. In his or her turn, the viewer-cum-reader brings to the image-cum-text a raft of accumulated beliefs and prejudices that enable the possibility of a whole new set of readings and interpretations beyond those imagined by the author”.

During the mid-70’s Williams, who was married to Australian photographer Ingeborg Tyssen, was the co-founder of The Photographers Gallery in South Yarra. His earliest work was captured in square format on a Rolleicord TLR and forms part of this exhibition.

This is the first exhibition of William’s work in Melbourne since his retrospective at the NGV in 1991 and he says “Treat these as an old man’s cry of alarm and sigh of resignation. Enough to say that I’m not finished yet with either the streets or the anti-landscapes to which they led me”.

Until 28 November

Artist Talk: Saturday 7 November

CF Gallery

409-429 Gore St

Fitzroy

Paris:

Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers

Musée de L’Orangerie and Musée D’Orsay

Until 24 January

A brilliant collection from some of the earliest female photographers and photojournalists.

Bishareen children Egypt 1914 Helen Messinger Murdoch

Self-portrait c1896 Frances Benjamin Johnston

New York c1940 Helen Levitt

President Roosevelt, 1904 Jessie Tarbox Beals

Trude and I masked, short skirts, 1891 Alice Austen

Vivien and Merlin 1874 Julia Margaret Cameron

We are Three Women. We are Three Million Women 1938 Barbara Morgan

Young Suffragettes 1909 Christina Broom

Magnum Photos and UNEP Exhibition

Above: (C) Paolo Pellegrin, eco-district France

In the lead to the COP21 climate summit in Paris this exhibition portrays the problems and some of the solutions for climate change. Commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) this group show features the work of ten Magnum photographers - Jonas Bendiksen, Michael Christopher Brown, Bieke Depoorter, Thomas Dworzak, Chien Chi Chang, Stuart Franklin, Sohrab Hura, Moises Saman, Paolo Pellegrin and Jerome Sessin.

(C) Bieke Depoorter Trinidad and Tobago

(C) Ethiopia Jerome Sessin

(C) Sohrab Hura Philippines

(C) Jonas Bendiksen Kenya

(C) Michael Christopher Brown Brazil

(C) Moises Saman, Chile

(C) Stuart Franklin, Peru

(C) Thomas Dworzak, Liberia

Until 4 January, 2016

Musée de l'Homme

17 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre

Paris, 75116

Book Preview:

Greg Constantine - Nowhere People

Over the past decade Canadian-American photographer Greg Constantine has travelled to 18 countries documenting some of the 12 million people who live without citizenship. These stateless people live on the fringes, unable to officially work, receive aid or health care or education.

Constantine says his interest in statelessness was sparked when he was living in Tokyo in 2005. “One of the first stories I worked on as a photographer was North Korean refugees. Most of the North Korean refugees I met in South-east Asia were women giving birth to children in China. The children were not North Korean citizens, they were not considered Chinese citizens, and until they actually set foot on South Korean soil, they would not be considered citizens of South Korea either, so really these kids were stateless”.

Since then Constantine has worked with NGOs, and received grants from the likes of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Open Society and others to help fund this massive undertaking. This work forms the basis to his new book Nowhere People which was released this week and is available from nowherepeople.org and Amazon.com.

“The intention of the...books is not so much to chronicle my work. They're really designed to let these people tell their stories and let my photos weave in and out of their testimonies,” he concludes.

(C) All images Greg Constantine.

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 10th June, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up the focal point is on girls photographers: photo essays, one depicting the survivors 70 years after the atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the other drawing cognizance on intellectual health in Bangladesh. Plus an exhibition of late nineteenth century images on the Tate Britain, and a few thrilling weekend studying about the New York Times, Snapchat and working with NGOs.

Photo Essay:

Keiko Hiromi - 70 Years After...

This is a great, and brilliantly finished, undertaking via Japanese photographer Keiko Hiromi. She has interviewed survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts and photographed them inside the places in which they have been at the day the bad strength of nuclear war became a truth. You can examine the entire interviews on her website here. Please take the time, these are crucial tales that have to now not be forgotten. Below are excerpts from a number of the stories.

"The next morning, Hiroshima had been burned to dirt. I saw skeletons, dead bodies of half burned, carbonized bodies, swelled bodies whose gender you could not tell. It was eerily quiet. I walked back to my home in Miyajima. This is when I found out that my younger sister had died.” Hiroshi Hosokawa (above).

"A beam of strong light came in from northern window, and I wondered what it was. Then the huge blast broke through the windows. We did not know what to do, we were panicking. Everyone was crying. I guess I was crying, too.”  Tamiko Shiroishi (above).

"On night of August 9th, we spent a night at the mountain. Nagasaki was burning. It was a cold night. I could not sleep. In the morning, I came down with my relatives to Nagasaki. This was when I first saw dead bodies. I was scared. But I also wanted to see it. I looked to the side. It was two men wearing a factory uniforms. They did not have any visible injuries. Nagasaki was covered with ashes, it was like snow. There was no road, we walked through ashes to air raid shelter. There were many skeletons in the ashes. There were a lot of dead bodies in the ruins. It smelled very strong. It must have been smell of bodies burning. Inside the air raid shelter, there were a lot of people. Many were badly injured and burned. The shelter was filled with crying and a horrible odor. They just lied there and dying, no one got treated." Sachiko Matsuo (above).

“On August 9, 1945, I heard a big bomb was dropped in Nagasaki. My entire family was in Nagasaki. I got ready, carried my youngest child (8 months old) on my back and held the hand of 3 years old Masahiro. I headed to Nagasaki within a few days. We took a boat to Mogi harbor, and walked approx. 10km to Nagasaki city. When I got to Nagasaki, I ran into one of my husband’s relatives. “Uragami is all gone” he said. I found a death toll. I did not see any of my family names. “Maybe they are alive” I had a hope. My hope was shuttered, when I found out that most of my family died of the blast instantly. There was no one to report the dead. There was nothing left in Uragami district. I did get to see one of my sisters who survived the blast. We stayed with her over night. Next morning, I said to her "take care and I will return soon." and I went back to Amakusa. When I came back to Nagasaki next time, she had died. I did not think she would die like that. I heard she lost all her hair before dying. She was 21 years old." Misao Hirano and her son Masahiro (above).

Photo Essay:

Allison Joyce - Mental Health in Bangladesh

I discovered this frame of labor in a latest article in Huck mag on the Koan Collective a group of six younger photojournalists. Allison Joyce is based in Mumbai and is tackling vital topics: abortion, riots, rape, lifestyles, death and the surroundings. Here's a choice of snap shots from her mission on mental fitness in Bangladesh.

All images (C) Allison Joyce

Out of interest, a 'koan" is a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without an answer, utilized in Zen Buddhism to illustrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment. (Thanks to the Oxford Dictionary).

Exhibition: London

Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age

1906: Photographer Minna Keene reinterprets Rossetti?S 'Prosperine' with this portrait of her daughter Violet, who also went on to be a photographer.

This exhibition features a number of photographs taken in the late 1800s and early twentieth century, illuminating the connections between early photography and Pre-Raphaelite and impressionist works. Amongst the photographs on show are works by six women photographers who were successful portrait artists and commercial photographers at that time. Check out the dramatic captions of Julia Margaret Cameron's works. Wonderful.

Isabella Grace by way of Clementina Hawarden (1861-62)

Julia Margaret Cameron "Call, I Follow, I Follow, Let Me Die!" 1867

Julia Margaret Cameron "So Like a Shatter'd Column Lay the King" 1875

Zaida Ben-Yusuf "The smell of pomegranates" 1899

On on the Tate Britain till 25 September

Interesting weekend analyzing:

Poynter:The New York Times of the Future is Beginning to Take Shape

Less stilted writing and more visible stories. "[Masthead editors] have been assembly with branch heads and others to acquire thoughts about the way to construct a newsroom that produces fewer perfunctory articles and a more array of tale bureaucracy, along with more visual journalism, and conversational writing."

TIME: Why Snapchat Could Change How Photographers Tell Stories

?Snapchat brings the reader into the story. Each viewer turns into part of the project. They are my tour companions,? John Stanmeyer.

Lensculture: Working with NGOs

MYOP director Olivier Laban-Mattei talks to Kyla Woods approximately the benefits of operating with an agency and the ethics at the back of running for NGOs.

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 21 October, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up the finalists within the Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism, Melbourne's Strange Neighbour hosts its closing exhibition and by no means earlier than visible photographs from E.O. Hopp? On show in California.

Awards:

2016 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism

Photo of the Year: The Man on the working desk. Picture: Andrew Quilty

This year I was honoured to be a judge for the photojournalism awards. The Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism are Australia’s most prestigious journalism awards.

On 13th October the finalists for Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism had been announced at the side of the 2016 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year, which become received by using Andrew Quilty for ?The Man on The Operating Table? Pictured above.

The photo changed into shot by way of Quilty inside the M?Decins Sans Fronti?Res Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, following the October three, 2015, assault by means of an American AC-a hundred thirty gunship on the health facility in which forty two were killed, including MSF personnel, sufferers and patient carers.

This arresting photo changed into a clear standout for the judges.

Other winners introduced thus far are:

Nikon-Walkley Portrait Prize

Winner: Brian Cassey, News Corp Australia, ?Beaten Refugee?

Nikon-Walkley Community/Regional Prize

Winner: Marc McCormack, The Cairns Post, ?Body of Work?

This is one of the photographs inside the triumphing frame of work.

The finalists? Snap shots could be toured across the kingdom in a chain of free public exhibitions and are presently on display on the State Library of New South Wales and the ABC in Brisbane.

Finalists are selected via eminent journalists and photographers and common winners judged with the aid of theWalkley Advisory Board. The winners might be introduced at a gala occasion in Brisbane on second December.

You can see all of the finalists right here.

Farewell Exhibition:

Permanence - Strange Neighbour

The Grotesque

Melbourne's Strange Neighbour gallery is final, that is another blow to the town's dwindling wide variety of pictures-committed galleries. The very last show is presently on featuring work via the gallery's creator and curator, Linsey Gosper.

If you have time, pop in to seePERMANENCE, a solo exhibition of hand printed silver gelatin photographs that were taken in Europe and explore the mythological symbolic sculptures and architecture that have protected European cities and remained for centuries.

Death Always Comes

Mortarium

Mutter

The Guardians

Until 12 November

Strange Neighbour

395 Gore Street

Fitzroy

Exhibition:

Pasadena, California

E.O. Hopp?'s Amerika: The First Great American Road Trip

Rooftops and smoking chimneys, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1926

Curatorial Assistance presents an amazing collection of photographs in the exhibition E.O. Hopp?'s Amerika: The First Great American Road Trip, which showcases masterworks that have recently been uncovered from the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection archive.

E.O. Hopp? Changed into a German-born British Photo-Modernist who's taken into consideration one of the maximum crucial artwork and documentary photographers of the modern generation together with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Walker Evans. Renowned as a portrait photographer, Hopp? Additionally labored within the genres of landscape and journey.

In the 1926 he spark off throughout America documenting his wonderful transcontinental journey. The end result is a set of images that capture the various faces of America: city New York, Pittsburgh?S ?Metallic metropolis?, Detroit's burgeoning business factories, Florida?S palms, the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, Yosemite?S majesty and Hollywood?S attraction, are simply a number of the topics that caught Hopp??S eye.

Tahiti Beach, Coral Gables, Florida 1926

Towards the Evolution of the Modern Motor?, Ford Factory, Detroit, Michigan 1926

Pack yards, Chicago 1926

Gas Station, ?The Girl Behind the Pump? 1926

Signal Hill, Los Angeles 1926

Museum offerings employer Curatorial Assistance, which manages the E.O. Hopp? Archive, spent over a decade of organizing, cataloguing, conservation and digitizing Hopp??S works. Now the general public has a risk to peer a number of his top notch pix.

?Hopp??S insightful portrait of the USA is a revelation of range that ruminates on the usa?S beyond, gift, and future,? Says Graham Howe of Curatorial Assistance. ?This visionary work turned into the primary to survey America at a unique time in its records, anticipating the road journeys of other photographers inclusive of Edward Weston and Walker Evans within the past due Nineteen Thirties, and Robert Frank in the mid-Fifties.?

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1926

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California 1926

The exhibition will characteristic a selection of vintage prints, current prints from authentic negatives, and associated ephemera, presenting an extraordinary glimpse into Hopp??S archive.

Dick Matherck, rancher, Colorado 1926

Portrait of a person, Nassau 1926

21 October Until 31 December

Union Gallery at Curatorial Assistance

113 East Union Street,

Pasadena CA