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March 17, 2017

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 17 March, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - a preview of FORMAT 17, the UK's largest photography festival which opens next week in Derby. Also Melbourne's Kristian Laemmle-Ruff showcases MIND THE GAP at fortyfivedownstairs. Plus Glenna Gordon's wonderful Diagram of the Heart.

Preview:
FORMAT17

Next week Derby hosts the latest iteration of the UK's largest photography festival, FORMAT17, which first appeared on the international calendar in 2004. With a festival theme of HABITAT, this year FORMAT17 will showcase work from more than 200 international artists and photographers who explore what this theme means to them.

In a program that sees 30 exhibitions in which emerging and established artists reside side by side, FORMAT17 will feature works on subjects as diverse as landscapes, digital worlds, migration, displacement and regeneration, all of which reflect HABITAT.

These are some of the artists in the Open Call exhibition:

Additionally, the FORMAT17 program also includes a photo book market, workshops, portfolio reviews and more. Check out the program here.

From one of the feature exhibitions:
AHEAD STILL LIES OUR FUTURE

Curated by Hester Keijser and Louise Clements

FORMAT 17

Opens March 23

Exhibition: Melbourne
Kristian Laemmle-Ruff - MIND THE GAP

Since I first saw his work back in 2014 in the beautiful book, In the Folds of Hills, I've been a fan of this young Melbourne photographer, who keeps pushing the bar. Last year I featured some of the images from this exhibition on Photojournalism Now, which at the time was showing in Perth.

Now Mind the Gap is making its Melbourne debut next week at fortyfivedownstairs in the CBD.

Combining photography, sound, text, documentary and installations, Mind the Gap is an intriguing exhibition as each of its components come together to create a powerful, complex narrative that when stripped bare, is essentially about our connection to the Earth, about our humanity.

Put Mind the Gap on your "don't miss" list.

21 March - 01 April
fortyfivedownstairs

45 Flinders Lane

Melbourne

Monograph:
Diagram of the Heart - Glenna Gordon

American photographer Glenna Gordon drew inspiration from romance novels written by Muslim women in Northern Nigeria to create her monograph Diagram of the Heart, which was published last year by Red Hook Editions.

These female novelists don’t only write about love. Some address controversial issues such as child marriage and human trafficking. Others pen dreams of escape and rescue.

The penning of romance novels seem an unlikely pursuit in a country that is usually associated with misery, conflict and death. These images tell a different story.

All images (C) Glenna Gordon

March 10, 2017

Photojournalism Now - Friday Round Up 10th March, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up the celebration of women photographers continues in honour of International Women's Day, which this year fell between two blog posts. This week features some of the work of three female photographers from the early to mid 20th century - Imogen Cunningham, Nina Leen and Margaret Bourke-White. All three had a unique way of seeing, were passionate, determined and talented.

Special Feature:
Women Photographers

Imogen Cunningham

American Imogen Cunningham came to photography in 1906 when she was studying chemistry at university. In the early years she worked from her studio in Seattle where she established herself in portraiture. Later she moved to San Francisco and began her study of plants. She was a co-founder of the Group f/64, along with Ansel Adams, which is credited with establishing a West Coast style of photography. Imogen continued to photograph until her death at 93.

Nina Leen - Circus Girls

Russian-born photographer Nina Leen moved to the United States in 1939. She was one of the first women photographers at LIFE magazine and started shooting for the title in 1945. Her association with LIFE continued until the magazine folded. Fascinated with the ways in which people lived their lives, Nina travelled to Sarasota, Florida in 1949 to shoot an essay on circus girls.

Margaret Bourke-White

New Yorker Margaret Bourke-White began her illustrious career with Fortune magazine in 1929. Later she became the first woman to shoot for LIFE. She established herself initially as an industrial photographer. But her oeuvre is vast and includes documentation of the Great Depression and also some of the most important photographs of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. She was ambitious, intelligent, bold and fearless.