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Thomas Albdorf wins ING Talent Award at Unseen

The Austrian photographer Thomas Albdorf is the winner of the 2016 ING Unseen Talent Award. The award and the €10,000 prize to fund a new project was accepted at the opening event of Unseen Photo Fair, which took place in Amsterdam on 22 September.

22 September 2016

The 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Live Uncertainty launches in Brazil

Conceived of as a garden, Live Uncertainty occupies the Bienal Pavilion. Seventy percent of its projects commissioned for an art and photography festival that sees itself as “permeable and accessible, participating in the ongoing construction of Ibirapuera Park as a public space and expanding its sense of community.”

5 September 2016

John Latham's ERTH, from 1971

First shown as part of Inn7o – Art and Economics at The Hayward Gallery in 1971, John Latham’s Erth utilised recently available images of our planet from space, pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica, recounting the age of the universe, positioning human existence in relation to what Latham called ‘the whole event’.

2 September 2016

Living through 71 operations… and Counting

Katherina Halser, a young Dutch-British woman has, at aged 24, undergone seventy-one operations, and counting. She talks exclusively to BJP about the award-winning photography that came out of the experience.

3 August 2016