“Chronorama”: Photography as a Work of Art
Palazzo Grassi in Venice is devoting a superb, and first major, exhibition to the Condé Nast archives acquired in part by the Pinault Collection. Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century spotlights some of the richest and most astonishing works produced for this media company.
The Waste Pickers of Dandora
The scavengers of Dandora — men, women, children, flesh-eating Marabou storks, and wild pigs — battle daily for the discarded waste generated by the people and businesses of Nairobi, Kenya. With a population of almost 4.5 million, Dandora, the 30-acre central dumping site for the city, appears to heave and groan as it releases fumes into the air, creating a toxic stew unparalleled on the continent.
Abbas: The Eye of Men and Gods
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) spotlights the work of Abbas Attar in a book published as a tribute. Blind reviews the book and, calling on testimonies by Abbas’s family and friends, looks back at this master of light and a major figure at the Magnum Agency, who died in April 2018.
The Outsider of Humanist Photography
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier’s work is featured in the exhibition “On the Edge” at Galerie Rouge in Paris. It’s an opportunity to (re)discover a great photographer.
Gabriele Stabile: Hiccups of Memory
In his new book “Swim till I Sank”, Italian photographer Gabriele Stabile revisits more than 20 years of his archive, giving new life to photographs initially shot and distributed in the course of his career as a photojournalist.
Thomas Boivin: The Art of Hand-held Camera
In his “true” second book, Belleville, Boivin homes in on a territory that is familiar to him, without trying to comment on it socially or even intellectually. Pure joy.
Life Along Boston’s Orange Line Before its Demolition
In the mid-1980s, Boston’s transportation authority scheduled part of the city’s elevated Orange Line for demolition. Photographer Jack Lueders-Booth spent 18 months photographing the communities along the Orange Line to create a record of those who lived there.
Byker: From Here to Modernity
Northeast England has been home to some of the great visual chroniclers of post-industrial Britain. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is one of these photographers. Her newly rereleased book, Byker, is a warm but hard-edged record of a neighbourhood that is being demolished even as she captures her photographs.
Hip Hop’s Golden Anniversary
From bebop to hip hop, Jamil GS takes us on a journey through music, fashion, and art over five decades.
Elemental Forms
Without the help of any digital tools, the artist Nadezda Nikolova builds imaginary landscapes. Her inaugural exhibition at the Esther Woerdehoff Gallery is on view through March 25, 2023.
Northern Silence
In his book Northern Silence, the Norwegian photographer Cato Lein paints a portrait of deep, untamed Finnmark, a region in Northern Norway. This personal project was carried out over a period of twenty-five years.
A Ukrainian Melancholy
The American photographer Joe Perri created a photographic series in the city of Donetsk, in the Donbass, entitled Vitaly’s House. This project was carried out just four months before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022.
Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party
Comrade Sisters is the first book to tell the story of the women of the Black Panther Party. The book contains 100 photographs by photographer Stephen Shames, along with interviews with 50 female party members and their families, organized by Erika Huggins, a former leader of the Black Panther Party. Today, the issues and solutions raised by the Black Panther Party are just as relevant as when the party was founded in Oakland, California, in October of 1966.
Coming of Age
Carolina Arantes chronicles the lives of Black women building new lives for themselves in adopted lands.
The Eyes of the City
Starting in 1977, photographer Richard Sandler wandered the streets of Boston and New York, creating photographs that captured the changing city with its dramatic juxtapositions of class and race. The first major retrospective of Sandler’s work is on display at the Bronx Documentary Center through March 26th. The exhibition includes photographs from his monograph The Eyes of the City, other never-before-seen prints from his archive, and three of his films.
West London’s Working-Class
Roger Mayne’s pictures of London in the 1950s capture a city on the verge of change. In his images, you can see the destruction of the Second World War and the dullness of austerity mixing with the dynamism of migration and the rise of youth cultures. He shows a city that is alive, where the tarmac, the pavements, and the houses are part of a living culture that will come into full bloom in the decades to come.
Sports Photography: A World Apart?
While the cultural world has recently begun opening up to all photographic genres, dismantling the hierarchies between fashion, reportage, amateur, etc. practice, sports photography has been left outside this momentum. For now.
Marseille Pays a Tribute to Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine enters a second year, the Centre Photographique de Marseille presents Ukraine(s), an exhibition bringing together three visual projects that explore the Ukrainian territory and its cultural heritage before its invasion.
Best Regards, Christer Strömholm
They are heirs to a time in suspension, and their images continue to enrich the world history of photography and our own impatient eyes. Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Christer Strömholm, the underside of life.
Revue Noire, History of African Photography
A new exhibition celebrates the work of African photographers who transformed contemporary art across the continent — and beyond.
With Light and Love: Looking at Ming Smith
The new show “Projects: Ming Smith” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) celebrates light and love in the photographer’s work.
Sabyl Ghoussoub: “Gabriele Basilico has Captured Beirut”
On the occasion of the exhibition Back to Beirut, devoted to the work of the photographer Gabriele Basilico, the French-Lebanese writer and journalist Sabyl Ghoussoub, the author of the novel Beyrouth-sur-Seine, which won the Goncourt des Lycéens Award in 2022, revisits in these photos the Lebanese capital of his memories.
Forty Years of Trekking in the Himalaya
Inspired by the devoted practice of Tibetan Buddhism they encountered in the villagers they met on their first trek to Nepal in 1981, photographer William Frej and his wife Anne Frej set out on a quest to document Asia’s highest peaks. A chronicle of their 40 years of Himalayan journeys is now available in a new book entitled Travels Across the Roof of the World.
Honor your Father and Mother
Italian photographer Fabiana Sala reflects on the subjects of time, love and loss prompted by the death of her grandmother, an Alzheimer’s patient.
We Cry in Silence
For 7 years photographer Smita Sharma investigated and photographed the cross-border trafficking of underage girls across India, Bangladesh, and Nepal for sex work and domestic servitude. The project focuses on the highly organized trafficking rings and reveals the vulnerability of the girls and how they become trafficking victims. Her book We Cry in Silence is now out published by FotoEvidence.
Ewan Lebourdais and the Titans of the Seas
He has immortalized the nuclear submarines at l’Île Longue, the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the Queen Mary 2, the frigate Hermione… His latest book, Carènes Acte II, is an ode to the ocean, to ships, and to the imagination. It takes us into the world of one of the few photographers to have been appointed Official Painter of the Navy.
Unframing Colonialism: Images Out of Sync
Using materials from its own archives and those of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou explores the interwar period from a postcolonial perspective. This is the last chance discover Unframing Colonialism, a free exhibition in the Photographers’ Gallery, open until February 27.
A Lioness in Paris
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie inaugurates the first French retrospective of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi. The exhibition centers on a body of work that recounts civic battles waged by the black LGBTQIA+ community.
Kourtney Roy: On the Highway of Tears
In The Other End of the Rainbow, Kourtney Roy takes a road trip along Highway 16, known as the “Highway of Tears.” This project is also the subject of an exhibition at the Filles du Calvaire gallery in Paris, until February 24, 2023.
Revisiting Susan Sontag
An illustrated edition of Susan Sontag’s classic On Photography breathes new life into the essays by a woman who, with unflinching passion, showed the sometimes-decisive influence of photography on our society.
Brands, Models, and Copyright: How Photographers Can Protect Themselves
In this article, you will find everything to know about photography copyright laws to help you safeguard your art and protect your interests.
Matt Wilson’s Travelog
From January 19 to March 31, 2023, Matt Wilson exhibits his work at the Leica Store in Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. Unreal landscapes follow images taken on the fly, offering glimpses of the world of this British globetrotter.
Elizaveta Porodina: Psychedelic Melancholy
Fotografiska New York showcases the fashion and art photographer Elizaveta Porodina with the exhibition окна [okna] (windows). A world première.
Soul is the Goal for Killip and Smith
Blind highlights two of Britain’s greatest documentary photographers. While Chris Killip has become well known over the last few years, Graham Smith remains an elusive figure whose images are hard to find. Here’s what we’ve been missing.
House of Bondage: A Checklist for Apartheid
In 1967, House of Bondage was published to international acclaim. It told the story of South African apartheid and the ways transportation, housing, identity checks, and education inequities were used to repress an entire people. Now, House of Bondage is reprinted for the first time since its first sell-out edition.
Bruno Barbey’s Italy, or Two Countries in One
Les Italiens, published by Delpire & Co., brings out Bruno Barbey’s Italian images from the 1960s.
Larry Fink: The Time It Takes
On the occasion of his retrospective at Robert Mann Gallery in New York City, the legendary Larry Fink reflects on his photographic career and the values that inspired it.
Trading Your Photo Equipment With MPB is Ecoresponsible
MPB has specialized in buying and reselling secondhand photo and video equipment for over ten years. It offers a safe and ecoresponsible way for amateurs and professionals alike to acquire equipment without going to the new goods market.
No Justice, No Peace
In 2015, Devin Allen’s photographs were thrust into the public eye when an image he created during the protests in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray landed on the cover of Time magazine. In his book No Justice, No Peace, Allen shows his photographs while giving the community a way to take back the narrative and tell their own story.
I Just Wanna Surf
Surfer and photographer Gabriella Angotti-Jones creates an inclusive space for Black women and non-binary athletes.
Phyllis Christopher: A Lesbian Aesthetic
Dark Room by Phyllis Christopher gathers over fifteen years of personal archives. Between 1988 and 2013, the American photographer captured the lives and passions of a San Francisco group of lesbians searching of freedom. This is an inspiriting look at an era of struggle and lightheartedness.
The Wheels of Hope: Skateboarding in Wartime
French photojournalist Thomas Girondel recounts the story of Yurii Korotun, a twenty-five-year-old Ukrainian professional skateboarder who teaches the sport to refugee children in Hannover, Germany, to help them forget about the war. Skateboarding becomes a therapy.
Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire: Time, Silence, and Nature
The fifth Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire, a photographic festival on the theme of nature, runs through February 26, 2023.
Janette Beckman’s East Side Story
Janette Beckman revisits the summer she spent with the El Hoyo Maravilla’s community in Maravilla Park, on the East Side of Los Angeles, during the height of a bitter turf war.
Andy’s Pop Life
Revisiting Steve Schapiro’s historic 1965 visit to Andy Warhol’s Factory and his travels across the US with a cadre of Superstars.
