Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 7th April, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - the Photographic Emotion festival is on in France until 30 April plus some great weekend reading. Next week I'm taking a break for the Easter holiday, so there won't be an edition of Friday Round Up, but I'll see you back here on 21st April.

Festival:
Photographic Emotion - Angouleme, France

I always enjoy featuring lesser known festivals, especially those from Europe where there seems to be such a vibrant photographic community. This week it's the Photographic Emotion festival held in the south-western French commune of Angouleme and the surrounding area of the Charente. Angouleme is not far from Bordeaux, a lovely part of France for which I have fond memories, not just of the great red wine!

This year the festival features three guest photographers: Warren Saré, Jean-Daniel Guillou and Jean-Michel Leligny who have been selected to represent a facet of the theme ‘History and Short Stories’. Plus 21 photographers have been chosen to exhibit from the open call: Bruno Mercier, Michel Claverie, Paul-Emile Objar, Brigitte Manoukian, Christophe Hargoues, Jean-Charles Dehedin, Anne-Lore Mesnages, Arnaud Hubas, Louis Oke Agbo, Arnaud Makalou, Baudouin Mouanda, Cushmok, Nicolas Auvray, Amaral and Barthes, Irina Sovkine, JL Aubert, Anna Bambou, Jean-Michel Delage, Emilie Masson and Sébastien Pageot.

These are my picks:

(C) Bruno Mercier

(C) Bruno Mercier

(C) Arnaud Hubas

(C) Cushmok

(C) Cushmok

(C) Michel Claverie

(C) Michel Claverie

(C) Anna Bambou

(C) Anna Bambou

(C) JL Aubert

(C) JL Aubert

Photographic Emotion

Until 30 April  

Some interesting weekend reading/viewing:

Times-Standard: Photographer researches the earliest women in her field

The Guardian: "The disease enslaved me": Living with leprosy in Ghana - in pictures

TIME: Nordic Noir: Fleeing the Darkness in Scandinavia

Impressa: Long Distance Relationship 

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 24th March, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - group shows for Sydney and Melbourne and the winner of the 2017 BJP International Photography Award, Daniel Castro Garcia's exhibition Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016 is on at TJ Boulting Gallery, London.

Exhibition: Sydney
HOME - Group Show
This group show featuring Brian Cassey, Daniel Grendon, Godelieve Mols, Isabelle Baumann Ivana Jovanovic, Lola Alexander, Michael Jalaru Torres, Nick Pont, Samantha Mackie and Zorica Purlija explores the theme of 'home'. As you can see from these images, it's a theme that means a whole lot of different things for the individual. And it's one of my favourite themes because of the unique perspectives it evokes.


“Fragility Of Home" © Brian Cassey

“Fragility Of Home" © Brian Cassey

"My Place" © Brian Cassey 


© Isabelle Baumann


© Ivana Jovanovic


© Lola Alexander


"Making Sense of The Vast" © Samantha Mackie


© Nick Pont


Bending Light © Michael Jalaru Torres


Watching © Godelieve Mols


© Zorica Purlija


© Daniel Grendon

Until 2 April
Contact Sheet Gallery
60 Atchison Street
St Leonards, Sydney


Exhibition: Melbourne

An Inconsistent Look - Group Show

(C) Felipe Devoto

This group exhibition examines how people often see the same things differently; how what one person notices another will overlook. Once again, it’s all about perspectives. 

"An Inconsistent Look" takes the viewer to the streets of Melbourne and Argentina in black and white, and in colour. Italian-born photographer Carlos Oggioni captures the daily commute in Melbourne; Scottish-born photographer Barry C. Douglas steps back to look in; and Felipe Devoto presents an abstract view of his native Argentina.


(C) Barry Douglas


(C) Barry Douglas


(C) Barry Douglas


(C) Felipe Devoto


(C) Felipe Devoto


(C) Carlos Oggioni


(C) Carlos Oggioni


(C) Carlos Oggioni

6-27 April
Magnet Galleries
Level 2
640 Bourke Street
Melbourne

Exhibition: London
Daniel Castro Garcia - Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016



Daniel Castro Garcia was this year's winner of the British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award for his series depicting migrants caught up in the European refugee crisis.

Castro Garcia spent weeks with his subjects, interviewing almost everyone before he photographed them. He says this engagement is “the backbone of the work. Going up to people and speaking to them, discussing their situation before even mentioning photography. I really have a strong belief that it’s a collaboration. Without engaging with the individuals and conveying what you’re trying to do with them, it’s worthless.”

(C) All images Daniel Castro Garcia

"Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015-2016" is also a self-published book.


Until 8 April
TJ Boulting Gallery
59 Riding House Street
London W1W7EG

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 3rd March, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up a special edition in celebration of International Women's Day on 8th March featuring the laureate and finalists of this year's International Women Photographers Award.

These Awards don't get the kind of coverage in the media that World Press Photo, POYi and others receive and that's one good reason to feature them this week. The other, and the most important, is that these Awards demonstrate the amazing work being done by women photographers all over the world. These images will go on show at an exhibition in Dubai which opens on International Women's Day.

Plus in Melbourne Magnet Galleries hosts its 7th annual women's exhibition which raises funds for UN Women.

Special Feature:
in celebrating International Women's Day
The 2017 International Women Photographers Awards

Laureate 

Farah Salem (Kuwaiti)
Chicago 
“Cornered” 2015-2016. Photography, Performance.

Finalists
Ana Alexandrescu
Romania









Anne Ackermann (German)
Uganda  

Behind Veils and Walls - Female Somali refugees living in exile

Cécile Smetana Baudier (Danish/French)

Denmark  

Mexican Citizens of African Descent 

Florencia Trincheri
Argentina

Haruhi Fujii
Japan

Marcela Barrios-Hernandez (Colombian) France  

ALGERIA, The mysterious giant

Neus Solá (Spanish)
France
Poupées - identity and freedom of young gypsy girls of the suburb of La Cité of Perpignan  

Ranita Roy
India
Chhordima, my grandma

Soheila Sanamno
Iran
(Rape destroy’s the victim’s future - Roghayyeh is a 26 year old Iranian girl who was raped in her 20’s. This is her story.)

Sumy Sadurni (Spanish)
South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda 

Exhibition: Melbourne

GAIA - Group Exhibition of Women Photographers
Magnet Galleries, Melbourne 

(C) Sandra Kontos - Iris

Nineteen women photographers exhibit 65 photographs in the 7th annual Women Photographers’ exhibition to celebrate International Women’s Day. Hosted by Magnet Galleries Melbourne, the exhibition is also a fundraiser for UN Women.

(C) Chong Wei Wei - Wisteria

(C) Susanne Silver - Survival 

(C) Judith Crispin - Rosy & the Flame Tree Seedpods

(C) Marisa Ho

(C) Jenny Hodge - Sand

(C) Carmel Riordan

(C) Juno Gemes - Bush Madonna and Child

(C) Amy Feldtmann

Until 25 March
Visit the Magnet site to see when the artists talks are on.

Magnet Galleries
Level 2
640 Bourke Street
Melbourne