Friday Round Up - 9 September, 2016

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up three diverse exhibitions - Guido Harari's The Kate Inside (London), Catherine Balet's homage to the masters (Paris) and University of the Third Age (Melbourne). Also Sydney's Head On Photo Festival is calling for exhibition submissions for 2017.

Exhibition & Book:

London

The Kate Inside
Kate Bush photographed by Guido Harari 1982-1993

For all the Kate Bush fans out there, and I know there are a few of you, this book, and exhibition, features photographs spanning ten years.

Taken by Italian music photographer Guido Harari from 1982-93 The Kate Inside limited edition book contains over 300 amazing images many unseen and unexpected photographs, Polaroids, contact sheets, personal notes from Kate and out takes covering the period of her boldest albums. 

Guido’s photographs "capture the complexity of Kate, uniquely talented, astonishingly vulnerable and open, creative and strong". 

These images are currently on show at Art Bermondsey Project Space.

(C) All images Guido Harari

The Kate Inside
13-30 September
Q&A with Linsday Kemp and Guido Harari 6-8pm 16th September
Art Bermonsdey Project Space
183-185 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3UW

Exhibition:
Paris

Catherine Balet - Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes 

Hommage à Robert DOISNEAU, Les Pains de Picasso, 1952

In 2013 French artist Catherine Balet was in Arles for Les Rencontres photographiques. While watching her friend, Ricardo Martinez Paz, over breakfast she was reminded of Robert Doisneau's famous photograph of Picasso, the resemblance of Paz to the artist striking. 

Little did she know that the portrait she took of Paz that day would be the catalyst for a body of work which she has spent two and a half years creating. 

The result is an extraordinary collection of portraits of Paz that explore the history of photography, from the first self-portrait by Robert Cornelius in 1839 to today's selfies. 

This is important work that introduces many of these photographic masters to a new generation hopefully piquing interest to learn more.

Hommage à Erwin BLUMENFELD, Vogue, 1952

Hommage à Robert MAPPLETHORPE, Ken Moody and Robert Sherman, 1984

Hommage à Nan GOLDIN, Nan and Brian in bed, NYC, 1983

 

Hommage à August SANDER, Jeunes paysans, 1914

Hommage à Man RAY, Noire et blanche, 1926

Until 29 October

Galerie Thierry Bigaignon
Hôtel de Retz – Bâtiment A 

9 rue Charlot

75003 Paris

Exhibition:

Melbourne

New Shoots - Group Show

Marylou Phillips Fishermen on Inlet Lake 

New Shoots showcases the work of more than 28 photographers from Melbourne’s University of the Third Age (U3A), which advocates life-long education and the pursuit of knowledge. This collection demonstrates the energy and aspiration of U3A students in exploring the breadth of photography and proves you're never too old to set your creative heart free. 

Bernard Peasley The Night it Rained Forever

Bernie Boundy On Vacation

Gaye Paterson I Protest 

Greg Davies Starburst

Until Sunday 11 September  

Magnet Galleries Melbourne

Level 2

640 Bourke Street

Melbourne

Call for Submissions:
Head On Photo Festival 2017

Head On Photo Festival, Australia’s largest and most expansive photography festival, is calling for exhibition submissions for its 2017 program.

The call is open to photographers at all career stages and for all genres, including multi-media presentations. Successful applicants will be invited to exhibit during Head On Photo Festival 2017 as either ‘Associated’ or ‘Featured’ Exhibitors. Some artists may be invited to exhibit as part of a Head On curated exhibition. Closing date 25 September 2016.

Friday Round Up - 2nd September, 2016

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up part two of the Visa pour l'Image special with work from Peter Bauza, David Guttenfelder, Andrew Quilty, winner of the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award - 2016 Niels Ackermann and Winner of the Humanitarian Visa d’or award – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2016 Juan Arredondo. Also the winners of the Getty Grants and some cool book signings happening Friday afternoon, so get down to La Poudrière: Rue Rabelais if you're in Perpignan.

Special Feature:
Visa Pour L'Image - Part Two

Exhibitions

Peter Bauza
Echo Photojournalism

Maria Eduarda (12) lives in one of the five unfinished buildings of what should have been a middle-class condominium. The site where 300 families have found shelter is near Rio de Janeiro, but far from the public gaze. © Peter Bauza / Echo Photojournalism

Maria Eduarda in the bedroom she shares with four siblings. © Peter Bauza / Echo Photojournalism

David Guttenfelder

Coming Home

 An old tank is now a swimming pool on the farm. Van Meter, Iowa, USA. © David Guttenfelder

North Korean veterans of the Korean War entering a cemetery for fellow veterans during a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the armistice ending hostilities on the Korean peninsula. Pyongyang, North Korea, July 24, 2013. © David Guttenfelder / Associated Press

Andrew Quilty

Afghanistan: After Enduring Freedom

Afghan National Army officers resting during a clearing operation in the final days of the counter-offensive by government forces to retake Kunduz City from Taliban insurgents. October 10, 2015.
© Andrew Quilty / Agence VU’

 A baby girl who suffered burns from an oil heater at home. Boost Hospital, Lashkar Gah (capital of Helmand Province), Afghanistan. February, 2014. © Andrew Quilty / Agence VU’

A mother with her daughter waiting for emergency treatment. Boost Hospital, Lashkar Gah (capital of Helmand Province), Afghanistan. February, 2014. © Andrew Quilty / Agence VU’

Niels Ackermann
Winner of the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award - 2016

Employees of a local TV and internet provider (Maket) during the city’s annual day celebration.
Slavutych, Ukraine, June 1, 2013 © Niels Ackermann / Lundi13

 Zhenya and Yulia with their witnesses, Irina and Artiom, at their wedding ceremony in the City Hall.Slavutych, Ukraine, June 1, 2013 © Niels Ackermann / Lundi13

In a playground in one of the neighborhoods in the city. Slavutych, Ukraine 2012 © Niels Ackermann / Lundi13

Juan Arredondo
Winner of the Humanitarian Visa d’or award – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2016

A father carrying the coffin of his son killed by FARC forces (46th front) as the indigenous community of Tortugaña Telembi walks through the mountains to bury 11 of their members accused by FARC of aiding the Colombian Army, including two young boys who deserted. Bellavista, Nariño, November 12, 2014. © Juan Arredondo / Getty Images Reportage 

 A field trip to the city for former child soldiers taking part in a government program to help them return to civilian life. Manizales, March 31, 2015. © Juan Arredondo / Getty Images Reportage 



Members of the ELN (Ejercito de Liberación Nacional) at their camp. A quarter to half of child combatants are girls. Chocó, Colombia, February 17, 2014. © Juan Arredondo / Getty Images Reportage 

 

Awards:

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

This years recipients of Getty Images’ annual Grants for Editorial Photography programme were announced last night at Visa. Congratulations to the five photojournalists:

Sergey Ponomarev for Exodus, a project which explores the migrants and refugees of the Middle East and Africa.

 
Katie Orlinsky for Chasing Winter, which examines the effects of climate change in Alaska. 

 
Mary F. Calvert for Prisoners of War: Male-on-male Rape in America’s Military, a body of work that documents American military rape survivors who are forced out of service.

Jonathan Torgovnik for The ‘Hijacked Life’ of African Migrants in Johannesburg, a project which examines the complex issues faced by migrants from the African continent upon arrival in South Africa. 

Kirsten Luce receives the David Laidler Memorial Award for Border Security. Her project, captured in the southernmost point of Texas, examines the busiest corridor for human and drug trafficking in the US. 

Each receives a grant of US$10,000, as well as collaborative editorial support from Getty Images.

ANI-PrixPalace Award: Australian-based Dutch photographer Ingetje Tadros has won this year's Ani-PrixPalace Award for her work This is My Country, a visual documentation of Australia’s indigenous people. It communicates the legacy of historical domination and oppression of Australia’s first inhabitants within a contemporary context. BOOK SIGNINGS AT VISA: This is My Country Ingetje Tadros Signing: September 2nd at 3 pm at La Poudrière: Rue Rabelais, Perpignan Ingetje Tadros’s, This is My Country is a compelling book, which takes an in depth look at the indigenous community of Kennedy Hill, in Broome, Western Australia, a people balanced on the precipice of life, who for the most part are disenfranchised, neglected, and often forgotten. Ingetje has won numerous awards for this body of work including the Walkley Award for Excellence in Photojournalism - Feature Photographic Essay - 2015; the Amnesty International Media Award 2015, photography; Best Feature Photographic Essay at the West Australian Media Awards 2015; the Exposure Award, digital display at The Louvre in Paris 2015. Talibes Modern Day Slaves Mario Cruz Signing: September 2nd at 3 pm at La Poudrière: Rue Rabelais, Perpignan Mario Cruz gained rare access to the dark side of many darras (Koranic schools) in Senegal and captured disturbing but stunning photographs of the lives of young boys subjected to slave-like conditions. The book Talibes Modern Day Slaves documents an alarming development among the darras that impacts at least 50,000 young boys in Senegal, aged between five and 15. The work received the 2016 World Press Photo Award for Contemporary Issues and was a finalist for the 2016 FotoEvidence Book Award. Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear Paula Bronstein Signing: September 2nd at 4 pm at La Poudrière: Rue Rabelais, Perpignan World-acclaimed photojournalist Paula Bronstein presents a photographic portrait of this war-torn country’s people across more than a decade. With empathy born of the challenges of being an American female photojournalist working in a conservative Islamic country, Paula gives voice to those Afghans, particularly women and children, rendered silent during the violent Taliban regime.

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 - 19 August, 2016

This week on Friday Round Up we celebrate two world days - World Humanitarian Day and World Photography Day, both on 19 August. It seems apt that these 'days' fall on the same date as photography has been concerned with humanitarian issues since its nascent years. Also Friday Round Up features the 10th edition of SP-Arte/Foto, which opens in São Paulo next week and applications are open for the inaugural Philip Jones Griffiths Award.

Feature:
World Humanitarian Day in Pictures

‘One picture is worth a thousand words. 

Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words.’ 

William Saroyan

This photograph from TIME magazine is, to me, truly devastating. On a day when the world is to celebrate humanitarianism, this photograph serves as a potent reminder that on a daily basis innocent lives are transformed in an instant. Shame on this world and those who have the power to stop this insanity. 

Aleppo, Syria - read the story on TIME

(C) Andrew McConnell

(C) Gonzalo Bell - Refugees in Austria


(C) Gonzalo Bell - Refugees in Austria


(C) Gonzalo Bell - Refugees in Austria

(C) Dani Cowan

(C) Dan Romeo, India


(C) Dan Romeo, Madagascar

(C) Dan Romeo, India

(C) Lisa Kristine, Nepal

(C) Lisa Kristine, Ghana

(C) Lisa Kristine, Nepal

(C) Reza Deghati, Afghanistan

(C) Stephanie Sinclair, Too Young to Wed

Foto Fair:
SP-Arte/Foto 

Guilherme Ghisoni - Arte 57

The 10th edition of the SP-Arte/Foto runs 25-28 August at the K Iguatemi shopping mall in São Paulo, Brasil. In 2016, the Fair will present a host of new exhibitors - Andrea Rehder, Biographica, Blau Projects, Luciana Caravello and Pinakotheke - alongside returning galleries Casa Triângulo, Fass, Gávea, Luciana Brito, Millan and Vermelho.  Works on show are from modern and contemporary international and local photographers. There will also be a selection of photobooks on show.

Leticia Lampert - Biographica

Valdir Cruz - Bolsa de Arte

Renata Siqueira Bueno - Biographica

Betina Samaia - Arte 57

SP-Arte/Foto/2016
Shopping JK Iguatemi | 3º floor
Av. Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek, 2041 – Vila Olímpia, São Paulo, Brasil
Free entrance

Award:

Philip Jones Griffiths Award

Trolley Books is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the inaugural Philip Jones Griffiths Award from The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation. The award is for documentary photography and subject matter must be related to issues of social and political importance. The photographer will receive £10,000. To find out more click here. Applications close 10 October.