Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 12th May, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - three very different exhibitions are on in Melbourne with works by Helga Leunig, a group show on street photography and Tom Goldner. Plus David Katzenstein's fabulous Bronx Bodegas photo essay. And for those in Sydney, don't forget that Head On Photo Festival is on until the end of the month.

Exhibitions:
Helga Leunig - 3 weeks in Cuba
Australian documentary photographer Helga Leunig brings to life the everyday in her beautiful, relaxed and joyful images of Havana, Cuba.
















(C) All images Helga Leunig

Until 7 July
3 weeks in Havana
Epworth Art Gallery
1 Epworth Place
Waurn Ponds Geelong
(about an hour from Melbourne)

Group Show - Shot in the Heart of Melbourne
This annual street photography and photojournalism exhibition, which is now in its 6th year, features work by 21 diverse photographers who use the city as their canvas to “celebrate the decisive, and often indecisive, but always graceful moments that occur within our gritty, yet beautiful city”. Presented by the Australian Association of Street Photographers.

'Degraves Street Reflection' Mark Lourensz

'K9 Uber' Kathy Chapman 

'Footscray Station Footbridge' Joe Chow 

 
'Bourke Street from Spencer Street' Joe Chow

Until 22 May
Victorian Artists Society
430 Albert Street
East Melbourne 

Tom Goldner - Passage
Melbourne photographer, and gallery owner, Tom Goldner's Passage features photographs taken on medium format film and meticulously printed by Goldner in the Fox Darkroom which he founded in 2014. These contrasty, black and white images of the Mont Blanc regions of Italy, France and Switzerland taken in 2015 and 2016, capture this majestic landscape, and show how analogue practices can bring something new to the contemporary landscape discourse.

  

(C) Tom Goldner

Until 21 May
The Fox Darkroom & Gallery
8 Elizabeth Street
Kensington
(enter via laneway)

Photo Essay:

David Katzenstein - Radiant Excess: Inside Bronx Bodegas

I love this series that captures this American tradition in all its colourful eccentricity and celebrates the diversity of one of New York's most iconic boroughs, The Bronx. To see more visit David Katzenstein's website. 

(C) All images David Katzenstein

Photojournalism Now - Friday Round Up 20 January, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up,  it's all about Circulation(s) a festival in Paris designed to promote young European photographers. 

Special Feature:
Circulation(s) - Festival of Young European Photography

Le Damas des autres © Poline Harbali

Now in its seventh year, the 2017 jury for Circulation(s) received more than 800 entries from which 25 artists were selected. There is also a program of invited artists. The Festival is held at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, a residency and production space for artists from around the world. This vibrant cultural centre attracts more than 500,000 visitors a year.

I think it's interesting to look at the styles young photographers are engaging with and while I don't personally like all of these images, they do demonstrate the diversity in subject matter and approach.

Following the Paris showing, Circulation(s) will hit the festival circuit with projections shown in Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, UK, Italy and Poland. It’s great exposure for these young artists. Circulation(s) is a project by Fetart, a nonprofit created in 2005 to promote young photographers.

Circulation(s)
CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Opens 21st January until 5th March

Ibaba © Marie Moroni


Sparks © Wiktoria Wojciechowska


In your place © Ludovica Bastianini


Kwei Yih © Zhen Shi 

Lingering Ghosts © Sam Ivin


Even This will pass © Aida Silvestri


Home Again © Thodoris Papadakis


A couple of them © Johanna Benaïnous & Elsa Parra


Skateboarding Tehran © Mathias Zwick


Nothing Personal © Yiannis Pantelidis


Veteran © Sasha Maslov


Je suis morte à Auschwitz et personne ne le voit © Brétin Frédérique


Oxymoron © Kostis Argyriadis

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Friday Round Up - 26 August, 2016

This week we celebrate the 28th edition of Visa pour L’Image, which opens this Saturday. It’s a fantastic line up once again showcasing some of the most important reportage work, that which is known and also that which flies under the radar and perhaps doesn’t garner the attention it should. 

This week Friday Round Up previews the work of four female photojournalists exhibiting at Visa – Marie Dorigny, Catalina Martin-Chico, Anastasia Rudenko and Claire Allard. Next week more on the world's most important, and longest running, photojournalism festival in the beautiful French town of Perpignan. 

Feature:

Visa pour l’Image: Part One

Four Female Photojournalists

Marie Dorigny: 

Displaced - Women in Exile 

In a report commissioned by the European Parliament, French photographer Marie Dorigny documents the women and children, who now make up more than half of the refugees who are fleeing war, violence and terror. 

Lesbos, Greece. A young Greek volunteer with a sea rescue team comforting a distressed and pregnant Iraqi refugee who has just made the crossing from Turkey. © Marie Dorigny / MYOP for the European Parliament 2016

Hotspot, Moria, Lesbos, Greece. Refugees who reach Europe first register at the “hot spot” where they are sorted according to nationality. The waiting seems interminable as the formalities go on and on. © Marie Dorigny / MYOP for the European Parliament 2016

Catalina Martin-Chico: 

The Last and the Lost - The Brave Nomads of Iran

A century ago there were five million nomadic people in Iran. Today they number only 1.5 million. While many are trying to assimilate into urban environments and adapt to a sedentary existence, others continue to lead a traditional nomadic lifestyle, but it is feared they will disappear as the government moves to end their roaming. 

During transhumance, the Bakhtiari people, such as Mahsan and her family, spend the night at a different point so that their animals can graze on fresh pastures. Shirin Bahar, near Lali, Khuzestan, Iran, April 2016. © Catalina Martin-Chico / Cosmos

Primary schooling in the mountains to learn basic literacy and numeracy. For any further education the children have to move to the city and abandon their traditional nomadic lifestyle. Near Qir, Fars province, Iran, February 2016. © Catalina Martin-Chico / Cosmos

Zohreh and her sister-in-law, their bodies misshapen from their harsh living conditions. For nomads, “women are men” so that means doing the same physical work. Basoft, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran, April 2016. © Catalina Martin-Chico / Cosmos

Anastasia Rudenko:

Institutions for the Mentally Disabled in Russia
In this series, Anastasia Rudenko, who won the Canon Female Photojournalist Award 2015 (supported by ELLE magazine) is pursuing the project she started in 2012, investigating life in institutions for mentally disabled people in the Russian provinces. According to official statistics in 2013 there were more than 1,000 mental care centres for adults in Russia. 150,000 patients reside in these centres including 50,000 who are in long-term social care institutions known as Internats, which are for adults who were previously housed in orphanages for mentally disabled children.

Women near the fire bucket stand outside the women's asylum.
Over the past three years more than 100 patients in mental institutions in Russia have been victims of fires. Ryazan region, Russia, 2015.
© Anastasia Rudenko


The “House of Mercy” is a facility for severely dysfunctional patients, and those likely to run away and get lost. Ryazan region, Russia, 2015. © Anastasia Rudenko

Patients walking in the forest near the village. Elat’ma, Ryazan region, Russia, 2012. © Anastasia Rudenko

Claire Allard:

Backstage
This series by Claire Allard extends over a number of years in which she followed and observed the technical crews who work behind the scenes to make sure the show goes on.  

During an alternative music festival, Yann, the lighting technician, is doing an emergency repair perched on the scaffolding – a great vantage point for the concert. © Claire Allard

Summer is the peak season for rock festivals across Europe, and technicians rarely have a break. Here, Thierry, the sound engineer, is busy setting the stage speakers. Other crew members have brought him something to eat.  Ronquières Festival, Belgium, August 2, 2015. © Claire Allard

To see the full programme visit the Visa pour l'Image website.

Friday Round Up - 6th May, 2016

This week on Friday Round Up exquisite images by Michel Rawicki from his exhibition Touched by the Cold currently on in Paris. Also the exhibition Refugee on at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, Ingetje Tadros launches crowdfunding campaign for her book This is My Country and L'Oeil de la Photographie dedicates a day to Head On Photo Festival.

Exhibition: Paris
Michel Rawicki - Touched by the Cold

Nature and wildlife photographer Michel Rawicki has made more than 30 trips over the past 20 years traversing the length and breadth of the polar regions from Antarctica and Greenland, through Siberia and Alaska, in order to photograph people, wild animals, and the incredible landscapes of this region.

Against a backdrop of climatic upheavals, this photographer bears witness to a world that is changing, offering us a positive and honest look at this sensitive and fragile white universe that echoes current environmental concerns. This stunning exhibition features 80 photographs. 

(C) All images Michel Rawicki

Until 17 July
Luxembourg Gardens
Paris

Exhibition:
REFUGEE - Group Exhibition

(C) Tom Stoddart

REFUGEE features photographs taken around the world by five photographers: Martin Schoeller (USA 2016), Graciela Iturbide (Colombia 2105), Tom Stoddart (Europe 2105), Lynsey Addario (Myanmar 2015) and Omar Victor Diop (Cameroon, 2015). Current statistics from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says 60 million people are displaced globally. 

This exhibition "allows audiences to engage with aspects of the plight of refugees not previously encountered, and to reflect on a full range of refugee experiences through singular images. The compelling exhibit offers visitors insight into the plight of refugees, including their efforts to survive, their needs, their dreams and their hopes for a better future".

(C) Graciela Iturbide

(C) Lynsey Addario

(C) Omar Victor Diop

Watch the video narrated by Cate Blanchett here. 

Until 21 August
Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles

Crowdfunding: 

This is My Country - A Book By Ingetje Tadros

Dutch photographer Ingetje Tadros has called the remote Western Australian town of Broome home for the past twelve years. Over the past four years she has been documenting the Aboriginal communities around Broome, which is a tourist mecca known for its pristine beaches, high-priced resorts and stunning scenery.

But Ingetje has uncovered another side to Broome, one the Western Australian government would prefer to sweep under the rug. Tadros says she is appalled by the way the Aboriginal people are treated by the community, and by the authorities. Many live in atrocious, squalid conditions.

Working to gain the trust of elders and other community members Ingetje spent many visits just talking and getting to know the community before she picked up her camera. As her relationship with the community strengthened she began to document daily life - funerals, hunting, family fights, a wedding and intimate family moments. In the last seven months her focus has turned to a single community; Kennedy Hill, one of around 100 indigenous communities that are facing closure under the government’s new edict. Her powerful black and white images have gained international attention and won Tadros a prestigious Walkley journalism award.

Ingetje is working with FotoEvidence to produce a high quality book that will give voice to the stories of the indigenous community in Broome, and wider recognition of the plight of the Australian Aboriginals. It is important work and you can help Ingetje to bring this book to fruition by supporting her Indiegogo campaign here.  

(C) All images Ingetje Tadros

Head On Photo Festival on L'Oeil de la Photographie

(C) Catherine Leutenegger Kodak City

(C) Daniella Zalcman Signs of Your Identity

(C) Giles Clarke Waste in Time

You can read My Diary, interview with Hollywood portrait photographer Michael Grecco and see My Picks (10 exhibitions) on today's L'Oeil de la Photographie.