LENSCULTURE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS: Call for Entries!

UPDATE September 2016: Magnum Photos and LensCulture announced 44 remarkable photographers from around the world who have been chosen by our international jury for the first annual Magnum Photography Awards www.lensculture.com....

"Mr. Leiter was a photographer less of people than of perception itself." In honor of our recently opened LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016, celebrate the street photography of the American master, Saul Leiter.

 Saul Leiter Link

 LensCulture ‪Street Photography‬ Awards 2016 

are open to all photographers and all approaches!

Final entry deadline - August 16, 2016
lensculture.co/street-photography-awards

UPDATE: Magnum Photos and LensCulture

announced 44 remarkable photographers from around the world 

who have been chosen by our international jury

for the first annual  

Magnum Photography Awards 

 www.lensculture.com.... 

THE CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD: 7 Years of Commitment To Freedom of Expression

Mona Al Ashqar

1st Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Kai Wiedenhöfer for the Fondation Carmignac

Mahnbanr (Qilagai), near the Dir border, Swat Valley, Pakistan,

2nd Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

March 2011 © Massimo Berruti, VU’ for the Fondation Carmignac

Portrait "ZIMBABWE, your wounds will be named silence"

3rd Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Robin Hammond, NOOR for the Fondation Carmignac

Shatoy from "Spasibo"

4th Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Newsha Tavakolian, Magnum for the Fondation Carmignac

A portrait of Somayyeh, a 32-year old divorced teacher.

5th Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Davide Monteleone,VII Photo for the Fondation Carmignac

Camopi, March 2015

6th Edition Laureate Carmignac Photojournalism Award

© Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

The 7th Edition Laureate will be formally revealed at the Visa pour l’Image Festival, Perpignan

THE CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD : SEVEN YEARS OF COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

The Carmignac Foundation launched the Carmignac photojournalism Award in 2009 with the aim of supporting and celebrating photojournalism. This unique Award funds a photographer to explore an area of the world at the centre of geostrategic conflicts, where human rights and freedom of speech are violated. Previous subjects have ranged from Gaza (Kai Wiedenhöfer), Pachtounistan (Massimo Berruti), Zimbabwe (Robin Hammond), Chechnya (Davide Monteleone), Iran (Newsha Tavakolian), lawless areas in France (Christophe Gin) and Libya.

A key aim of the Award is to support the winning photojournalist by providing a global platform for their work to be seen and collected. The Carmignac Foundation collaborates with the winner throughout the entire project by offering the laureate 50,000€ to go into the field, financing a monograph and developing and staging an international touring exhibition upon their return, in Paris and then in London at the Saatchi Gallery. Four photographs from this work will be integrated into the Carmignac Collection.

1st. Kai Wiedenhöfer
2nd. Massimo Berruti, VU’
3rd. Robin Hammond, NOOR
4th. Davide Monteleone, VII Photo
5th Newsha Tavakolian, Magnum
6th. Christophe Gin
7. The 7th Edition Laureate will be formally revealed at the Visa pour l’Image Festival, Perpignan, Summer 2016.

www.fondation-carmignac.com

 Call For Entries for the

8th CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD
Theme: Slavery and the Trafficking of #Women
Apply! #WomensRights #Slavery #photojournalism #Award

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THE 8th CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD: Slavery and the Trafficking of Women

CALL FOR APPLICATION THEME

SLAVERY AND THE TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN

The purpose of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is to support the winning photojournalist in undertaking a photographic and investigative assignment, and providing a global platform for their work to be seen and collected. The Carmignac Foundation collaborates with the winner throughout the entire project by offering the laureate 50,000€ to go into the field, financing a monograph and developing and staging an international touring exhibition upon their return, in Paris and then in London at the Saatchi Gallery. Four photographs from this work will be integrated into the Carmignac Collection.

The 8th edition of the Carmignac photojournalism Award is devoted to modern day slavery and its incidence among women.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that there are more than 2.5 million victims of modern day slavery, and women make up the majority of this number. According to Amnesty International, women represent 80% of the victims of human trafficking, of whom nearly 50% are minors. The types of exploitation are numerous: sexual, forced labor, domestic slavery…

Women are all the more vulnerable in situations where they have little protection. The countries of South and South-East Asia as well as those of Central Europe and the ex-USSR are the principal purveyors of these modernday slaves. Although abduction is the most common route into slavery, women are also sold by their own families or entrapped into joining the networks of traffickers.

Armed conflicts exacerbate discriminatory and violent behaviour towards women. In Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, numerous camps of Syrian refugees have emerged. These refugees provide easy prey for networks on the lookout for ‘merchandise’. In Nigeria, in the Darfur region of western Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls are subject to abductions carried out to provide their kidnappers with sexual or domestic slaves.

Chaired by Monique Villa, Founder of Trust Women, the 8th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award aims to make visible these forms of modern day slavery, by supporting a project with the potential to become a tool for reflection and concrete change in the fight against the trafficking of women.

THE JURY

The jury of the 8th Edition of the Award, chaired by Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of Trust Women, will meet in November 2016 in Paris.

The panel comprises:

- Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator specialized in photography books
- Francesca Fabiani, Photography Special Projects, Department for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Ministry of Culture, Italy
- Thierry Grillet, Chief Curator of Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)
- Olivier Laurent, Editor-in-chief of Time Lightbox
- Élisabeth Quin, Journalist, Writer and Arte TV Presenter (28 Minutes)
- The Laureate of the 7th edition, currently working in Libya

The pre-selection jury, whose task is to shortlist 12 to 15 submissions from all applications received, consists of :

- Patrick Baz, Photojournalist
- Dimitri Beck, Photo Director at Polka Magazine
- Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

http://bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

After the selection, the jury will meet the winning photographer in order to speak to him/her and to provide, if necessary, the support s/he will require throughout his/her project - from the preparation stage of the report, to its final exhibition.

The photographers must submit their projects before midnight (GMT) on Sunday 16th October 2016, by applying online on www.fondation-carmignac. com or at the following address:

http://bit.ly/CarmignacPhotojournalismAward

Theme: #Slavery and the Trafficking of #Women
Apply! #WomensRights #photojournalism #Award

CHRISTOPHE GIN : At The Collection Lambert in Avignon 3 July - 6 November 2016

 A ‘legal’ Guianese canoe, jump crossing. Oyapock River, 

April 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

Trois-Sauts, January 2015

© Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

Illegal service station on the Surinamese bank of the Maroni,

June 2015 © Christophe Gin for the Fondation Carmignac

An exhibition dedicated to Christophe Gin, 6th Laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, on view from 6 July to 6 November at the Hôtel de Montfaucon in Avignon, is the fruit of a unique partnership with the Lambert Collection and the Fondation Carmignac.

The Fondation Carmignac aims to support and promote works of investigative photojournalism documenting areas often under represented in mainstream news coverage.

The jury for the 6^th edition, chaired by Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders, chose Christophe Gin as the 2014 laureate of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award. 

Gin spent five months exploring the landscapes of Guiana, from border regions to the most remote Amerindian villages, where soldiers mingle with gold prospectors and exploited immigrant workers, and where local population is forced to integrate republican concepts. His photography bears witness to the reality of life in a land full of contrasts, far from the caricatures often presented through the mainstream press. 

  

CHRISTOPHE GIN  

The Collection Lambert en Avignon

5 rue Violette - 84 000 Avignon

3 July - 6 November 2016. 

Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm

Every day in July and August 11am to 7pm

collectionlambert.com

  

Christophe Gin was born in 1965 in Nevers. A self-taught photographer, he started his career in the early 1990s, with the photo report Nathalie conduite de pauvreté (Nathalie: Conduct of Poverty, 1994-2001), which was shot behind closed doors and explored the inner workings of misery by focusing on Nathalie, who agreed to have her daily life photographed for seven years. The method is minimalist, getting as close to the protagonist as possible, with the photographer disappearing to give the audience a better view of the subject.

Following this work, Christophe Gin wanted to avoid being trapped in a specific genre, and felt the need to discover new horizons, which led him to explore French Guiana for the first time in 2001. Encountering and understanding this society would be a long and arduous process, taking the photographer to Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and Suriname. A second series came out of it: Le Pont des Illusions (The Bridge of Illusions, 2002-2014).

His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, inlcuding Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane in the capital Cayenne, the Galerie Fait et Cause in Paris, at Shenyang (China), the China International Photo Festival in Lianzhou, the Visa pour l’Image event in Perpignan and PhotoEspaña.

christophegin.org

THE GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: 22nd Annual Juried Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition July 14 – Aug 28, 2016

Lissa Rivera

The Peter Urban Legacy Award

  Jennifer McClure

The Arthur Griffin Legacy Award

Rebecca Biddle Moseman

 The Griffin Award

Statement for the 22nd Juried Exhibition 

Juror: Elizabeth Avedon

“Garry Winogrand was, of course, an artist who practiced an art of having “something to say, sound or unsound.” In fact, I believe that he said more in his work than any photographer of his time.”– Tod Papageorge, Core Curriculum (Aperture)

I was honored to be invited to jury the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 22nd Annual Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition. With this call to entry, no boundaries were set, no requests were made to follow any particular theme, medium, style or schools of thought to participate. Traditional, contemporary, experimental and mixed-techniques were welcome and encouraged. I believe the unspoken commonality was our shared love of the medium and magic of the photographic image.

My introduction into the extraordinary world of photography began with the traditional study of Atget, Brassai, Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Robert Frank, the ‘core curriculum’ as relayed by Tod Papageorge. Instilled with a high regard for black and white images and a passion for “street photography” early on, I was later thrown into the high fashion and fine art worlds of Saul Leiter, Richard Avedon, Diana Vreeland and others, cultivating a taste for an eclectic range of color, motion, glamour, and unconventional work, reshaping my aesthetic and wide-ranging love around the medium.

Decades later, I find my interests evolving away from the photography I’ve worked with most of my career. I’ve razed old rules, burned some bridges, set horses free, and am now open to be delighted by whatever lays on the road ahead. I believe there is an audience for everything; from the inexplicably mundane to the super electrifying. As before, as now, and as we continue – meaningful work resonates regardless of what camera you prefer, what lens you choose, what app you favor, or what paper you swoon over. “Real” photography finds its audience.

With this on my mind and an open heart I began to review the 2000+ photographs entered into this year’s exhibition. The images ranged from mysterious and evocative to realistic and naturalistic. I recognized many from portfolio reviews, including friends and colleagues I’ve viewed and worked with over the years. I had to edit known work as if seeing it for the first time, and to view new work as if they were familiar images I want to get to know better. I spent weeks going back and forth, whittling down only a few each day, until I finally narrowed the 2000 images down to 300. I then had to turn a ruthless eye on the remaining 300 to arrive at the last, and most potent 50 or 60.

While looking for that elusive essence – what moved me visually or emotionally, what seduced me with a new point of view, striking a fresh chord – I tried to imagine how I would feel in a room with this photograph on the wall, and how I may miss it by its absence there.

These final pictures, including the award winning images, sit well with me in the end. Each image has a different voice that takes me on a journey I have not been on before. They whisper and call for me to look again, and isn’t that all we ask and hope for from the medium we love, and the photographs that find us?

Elizabeth Avedon
July 1, 2016

Susan May Tell

Honorable Mention

Ashly Leonard Stohl

Honorable Mention

Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Honorable Mention

Ben Altman, Craig Becker, Sheri Lynn Behr, Norm Borden, Chris Borrok, Joan Lobis Brown, Anja Bruehling, Lynne Buchanan, Lauren Ceike, Tom Chambers, Keith Conforti, Francis Crisafio, Francisco Diaz Deb Young, John Delaney, K.k. DePaul, Norm Diamond, Nicholas Fedak II, Selma Fernandez Richter, Bill Franson, Jennifer Georgescu, Laurent Girard, Tessa Gordon, Tamar Granovsky, Meg Griffiths, Tytia Habing, Suzy Halpin, Amanda James, Yoichi Kawamura, Asia Kepka, Jung S Kim, Karen Klinedinst, Molly Lamb, Yvette Meltzer, Ralph Mercer, Jenna Miller, Andrew Mroczek, Toni Pepe Dan, Jaime Permuth, Zoe Perry-Wood, Camilo Ramirez, John Rizzo, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Russ Rowland, Lee Saloutos, Wendi Schneider, Raphael Shammaa, Lacey Terrell, India Treat, Dawn Watson, Aaron Wax, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Guanyu Xu, Anna Katharina Zeitler

 The Griffin Museum of Photography

22nd Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition
Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
July 14 – Aug 28, 2016
Reception: July 14th, 7pm

67 Shore Road, Winchester MA

FREDERIC WEBER: Primary Light and Memento Mori at Klompching Gallery

 Untitled #53, 1994

from Memento Mori series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 Untitled #77, 1995

from Memento Mori series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 Untitled #108, 1997

from Primary Light series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 Untitled #122, 1998

from Primary Light series © Frederic Weber

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, NY

 

Frederic Weber

Primary Light and Memento Mori

Frederic Weber brings to his photographic practice, a visual sensibility that challenges the viewer to determine quite what they’re looking at. On show at the Klompching Gallery are selections from two bodies of work, Memento Mori and Primary Light, both of which draw attention to Weber’s penchant for making photographs that don’t always look like photographs.

Memento Mori is constructed from a combination of images, that the artist has excavated from comic books, magazines, newspapers, television, paintings and other printed matter. He presents images of tightly cropped heads of black and African subjects, presenting them almost as relics of a time past. The photographs are challenging, almost visually overwhelming, and difficult to fix within a specific framework. At once iconic, they echo historical post-mortem imagery, with a time-stamp that is not fixed or even knowable. Made of several layers of different images, the photographs are rich in color and painterly.

The Primary Light series share this painterly quality. Here though, it is the reference to photography’s Pictorialism past, that is most evident. Weber presents torsos and heads that are rendered in soft-focus, with each emerging from a depth of blue so saturated, the color transforms into an abyss, out of which the human forms glow like fire-flies. The ghostly figures seem nostalgic, classical even and partly unknowable. (text via Klompching Gallery)

Klompching Gallery
89 Water Street, Brooklyn
 through July 9, 2016 

CORNELIA HEDIGER : Puppenhaus

Bono in Lago, Italy, 2014 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

Bathtub, 2015 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

In Memory of Chancie, 2016 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

  Lily’s Dream of Fish, 2016 © Cornelia Hediger

Courtesy Klompching Gallery, New York

 Cornelia Hediger: Puppenhaus

Puppenhaus series, by Cornelia Hediger forms the artist’s third exhibition with Klompching Gallery and showcases the artist’s handmade photo-collages. Made between 2014–2016, the series is inspired by the likes of Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and Grete Stern among others. The photographs are constructed out of a combination of pigment and gelatin silver prints, with imagery originating from various sources including the artist’s studio practice, and scans of wallpaper, paint and cardboard. These are combined with recent photographs of travels in Europe, the patriarchal home in Switzerland and other family artifacts.

The hand of the artist is up front and center across the Puppenhaus series—pencil marks, irregular cuts left exposed, paint, hanging string, and individual elements attached in low relief, which together draw attention to the unusual focal planes, angles of view and shifts in scale. All of this combines perfectly with the seemingly whimsical narratives, that take the viewer on a journey through the artist’s fictionalized world. The use of self-portraiture prevails, linking this series back to the previous Doppelgänger work. We see ‘Cornelias’ having tea, balancing cups, acting out in odd domestic spaces and going on journeys. In one piece, reminiscent of the 19th Century Spencer y Cia Chilean Ladies, we see 100 heads—all of the artist—receding back into the distance. Hediger has created theatrical scenes, as if on a stage, images which are extraordinary and which pull you right into their three-dimensional space. (text via Klompching Gallery)

 Klompching Gallery
89 Water Street, Brooklyn

 through July 9, 2016

LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL 2016 : Sweden Invitation To Portfolio Review

The Landskrona Foto Festival 2016: Ten days of exhibitions, photo books, seminars, portfolio reviews, artist talks and more. The city of Landskrona, Sweden, founded in 1413, is on the coast of Skåne, between Malmö and Helsingborg, diagonally across the Sound is Copenhagen.

LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL PORTFOLIO REVIEW 2016

Landskrona Foto Festival again invites photographers to their portfolio review. The primary purpose is the show will lead to offers to the participating photographers to exhibit their pictures at festivals and events around the world. Previous years have seen good results, with participants having been invited to festivals in Derby, Leipzig, Dublin and Athens as a direct result of taking part in the review. Several photo books have also been published.

This year’s reviewers together select the »Best Portfolio«, allowing the winner to take part in the official exhibition program during Landskrona Foto Festival 2017. 2014’s winner was Johan Österholm from Malmö and 2015’s winner was Johan Willner from Stockholm. The selected photographers will be paired with 7 out of the Reviewers listed below for 20 minute sessions:

Reviewers:

Anastasia Lebikhova (RU), Independent curator in Moscow, Russia
Alison Nordstrom (US), Curator at the photo festival in Lodz, Poland
Alnis Stakle (LV), Curator at the photo festival in Riga, Latvia
Andrei Liankevich (BY), Curator at the photo festival in Minsk, Belarus
Laura Toots (EST), Curator at the photo festival in Tallinn, Estonia
Lars Willlumeit (CH), Curator at the photo festival in Krakow, Poland
Christof Tannert (DE), Artistic director at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, German
Andrey Martynov (RU), Curator the photo festival in Novosibirsk, Russia
Holly Roussell (CH), Independent curator and Prix Elysée Coordinator, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Einar Falur Ingolfsson (IS), Independent curator in Reykjavik, Iceland
Elizabeth Avedon (US), Independent curator and contributor L’Oeil de la Photographie

Michael Weir (UK), Curator at the photo festival in Belfast, Ireland

Date: Saturday 20 August 2016. Time: 10.00–17.00.
Price: SEK 2,500 including VAT (aprox. $300.90 U.S.), entry to the Festival’s International Seminar on 19 August and a weekend festival pass. Deadline for applications: 1 July 2016. You will be notified of whether or not your application is accepted by 15 July. 

Applications should be sent to: portfolioreview@landskronafoto.org

Instructions: Attach your digital portfolio and a detailed text in Swedish or English to your application. About 20 pictures is a reasonable number, to be sent as a pdf. Don’t forget to include your contact details on the first page of the PDF. The winning PDF will be displayed during the festival. It is therefore important that it contains the exact same images that you will be showing to the reviewers.

Nina Grundemark is in charge of the Festival’s Portfolio Review. Ms. Grundemark is the Owner and Managing Director, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin and  Stockholm.

The Landskrona Foto Festival Portfolio Review is arranged with support by Iaspis – The Swedish Arts Grants Committeé’s International Programme for Visual Artists.

The Landskrona Foto Festival Portfolio Review 

VISITOR INFORMATION

Artistic Directors Christian Caujolle and Jenny Nordquist

The new Artistic Directors for the 2016 Landskrona Foto Festival are internationally renowned curator and author, Christian Caujolle; and the Landskrona born photographer and gallery owner, Jenny Nordquist. The Landskrona Foto Festival 2016: Ten days of exhibitions, photo books, seminars, portfolio reviews, artist talks and more here.

www.landskronafoto.org

KRIS SANFORD: Through The Lens of Desire

 

Flowered Dresses 

Necklace

Intertwined

I met Kris Sanford (above) at Fotofest 2016 and was so impressed by the presentation of her series Through the Lens of Desire. I'm pleased to see her exhibition opens at the Elizabeth Houston Gallery in New York City June 15th and runs through July 24th, 2016. She will also be giving an Artist Talk and Pride Toast June 23rd from 6-8pm at the Gallery.

  

"Through the Lens of Desire creates implied narratives using snapshots from the 1920s-1950s.  Vernacular photographs from that era were created as private keepsakes and the unselfconscious intimacy they depict feels authentic and relatable.  As modern viewers, we witness personal moments that were never intended to be public.  By purposefully selecting images that picture men together and women together I am creating an imaginary queer past.  I am drawn to the subtle points of contact and the spaces between the figures pictured.  Each gesture or distracted glance holds a story, and it is these stories that reflect my own desire and experiences."

"Relationships, real or imagined, are at the center of this work.  Growing up queer, I searched for a history that spoke to me—included me.  In my family history, there were no couples that mirrored my own intimate relationships.  That didn’t keep me from imagining such couples. This project brings a contemporary rereading to old photographs to address sexuality and relationships in a subtle way. My images are works of fiction, where I project my own dreams onto moments from the past." – Kris Sanford.

 

Through the Lens of Desire / Kris Sanford

 June 15-July 24, 2016

Artist Talk and Pride Toast: June 23rd, 6 to 8pm

  

Elizabeth Houston Gallery

34 East 1st Street

New York, NY

www.krissanford.com

NICK BRANDT: Inherit The Dust, a monograph

Wasteland With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt's latest book, Inherit The Dust, is a tragic desolate look into our fast approaching future without the majestic beauty of wildlife. An elegant, beautifully designed and printed edition with 68 black-and-white tritone images; two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa; and a behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt’s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs. One of the most important Best Books of 2016.

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Quarry With Lion, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Rhinos, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Quarry With Giraffe, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Underpass With Elephants, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Wasteland With Cheetahs and Children, 2015

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Road Junction With Qumquat and Family, 2014

Photograph © Nick Brandt

Inherit The Dust Behind The Scenes

Elephant Panel on Dumpsite 

Photographs © Nick Brandt

 "Due to the urgent nature of the subject matter,

I'm on a mission to get this work exposed"-Nick Brandt

The wasted lands in Inherit The Dust were once golden Savannah, sprinkled with acacia trees, where elephants, big cats and rhinos roamed. These now dystopian landscapes - as Nick Brandt's unvarnished, harrowing but stunning work reveals - brings us face to face with a crisis, both social and environmental, demanding the renewal of humanity itself. -Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director, The Hurt Locker

Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls, Across the Ravaged Land, documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent’s natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs―showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras―placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. 

In 2010, Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham, co-founded the Big Life Foundation. Relying on a grass roots effort and calling on inclusive community collaboration, Big Life Foundation was the first organization in East Africa with a coordinated, cross-border anti-poaching operation covering the Kenya/Tanzania border. Five years after its creation, the Foundation now employs more than 300 rangers, 41 permanent and mobile outposts, 15 patrol vehicles, 2 planes for aerial monitoring, and protects over two-million acres of the land.

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

through May 7, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

through May 14, 2016

Inherit The Dust
Photographs by Nick Brandt
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

Nick Brandt: Inherit The Dust
Edwynn Houk Editions, 2016

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Future Exhibition Dates:

May 18 - May 22 2016
ATLAS GALLERY, SOLO EXHIBITION 

PHOTO LONDON, LONDON

May 20 - September 11 2016
FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM

May 13 - July 9 2016
CAMERA WORK, BERLIN

May 23-July 30 2016
A GALERIE, PARIS

June 1 - June 26 2016
LOOK3 FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

June 9 - July 23 2016
PHOTO-EYE, SANTA FE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA, MELBOURNE

July 26 - August 14 2016
SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHICA @ BLACKEYE, SYDNEY

September 15 - November 13 2016
WILLAS CONTEMPORARY, OSLO
 

AIPAD 2016 With Photographer Mona Kuhn

AIPAD: Jackson Fine Art #404

Photograph by Mona Kuhn from her Acido Dorado Series

 

AIPAD: Jackson Fine Art #404
Mona Kuhn photographs at Jackson Fine Art

from her Acido Dorado Series, 2014

An Interview With Mona Kuhn 

on her series

Acido Dorado and Private

AIPAD: FOLEY Gallery #421
Photographer Wyatt Gallery (artwork on the wall) 

with Michael Foley and Mona Kuhn

AIPAD: Kopeikin Gallery #109
Paul Kopeikin with Carolyn Louise Newhouse

 

AIPAD: ClampArt #108
Julie Grahame and Brian Paul Clamp

AIPAD: Howard Greenberg Gallery ##201
Alex Majou, Scene #0880, Brazzaville, Congo
Scene at a train station, 2013

AIPAD: Flowers Gallery, NY #418
Nadav Kander: Chongqing I, Chongqing Municipality, 2006

 

AIPAD: Monroe Gallery of Photography #104

Vintage PhotoJournalism 

 

AIPAD: Rick Wester Gallery #102
Photographer: Ima Mfon 

AIPAD: Robert Mann Gallery #409
Photograph Paulette Tavormina

Robert Mann Gallery #409
Photographers Mona Kuhn and Paulette Tavormina

AIPAD: Jackson Fine Art #404
Mona Kuhn at Jackson FineArt. Photographs: Kahn + Selesnick

*AIPAD, PARK AVENUE ARMORY, NY

April 14-17, 2016

*The Association of International Photography Art Dealers

Celebrating its 36th year in 2016, AIPAD was held in Manhattan’s Upper East Side at the Park Avenue Armory. This is a small glimpse into the work from 85 leading international photography art galleries exhibiting. Begin your photography collection here!

An Interview With Mona Kuhn

 • the Bordeaux Series

• the Native Series 

•Acido Dorado and Private