One year after Paris Photo was closed down in the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks on the French capital, Paris Photo returns to the Grand Palais for its 20th edition, accompanied by several independent satellite events riding on the back of what has undoubtedly grown to become the key art event in the global photography calendar.
In January and February 1991, as the United States–led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s troops retaliated with an inferno. As the desperate efforts to contain and extinguish the conflagration progressed, Sebastião Salgado traveled to Kuwait to witness the crisis firsthand.
British Journal of Photography’s annual International Photography Award is a leading showcase for contemporary photographic talent. Simon Bainbridge, editor of The British Journal of Photography since 2003, and the original founder of the magazine’s signature award, is overseeing its 11th edition. When he sits down to judge the prize with an elite panel of industry professionals, what does he look for in a winner?
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He may be better known for Candle In The Wind, but Sir Elton John Collection possessions one of the world’s greatest private collections of photography, and it’s about to go on show, for the first time, at Tate Modern.
On the opening of Museum Of Machines, a major new exhibition on Dayanita Singh at Mast Gallery, Bologna, the exhibition curator Urs Stahel writes of the iconic Indian photographer’s ability to “shape internal and external life, society and personal history, presence and absence, fullness and emptiness, reality and dream into a fragmented whole, a new and unique body of image and poetry.”
Around Ai Weiwei, a new exhibition at Turin’s Camera gallery, highlights the various stages of the artistic career of Ai Weiwei, investigating not only his artistic works from his debut right up to the present day, but also his role in the cultural, social and political debate, both in China and throughout the world, exploring the genesis of Ai Weiwei as an icon of the Asiatic world.
A new exhibition of work by German photographic artist Hans-Peter Feldmann is about to go on show at Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, exploring the crossover between classical painting and contemporary photography.
Greg Miller’s series, We The People, started out as an assignment for Esquire in 2004 – the year in which John Kerry lost to George W Bush. He has photographed the American election ever since.
