Lomography

Photo Exhibition: Letizia Battaglia – Sono Io

2023-04-29 – 2023-11-01 · Italy

Letizia Battaglia today has taken on a fundamental significance in the history of international photography. In “Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes,” by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert, Laetitia Guillemin recalls Letizia Battaglia especially during the years of her collaboration with the Palermo daily L’Ora, during the bloody war of the Mafia in the 1970s and 1980s. Sono io is not a statement Letizia Battaglia would have ever said. We do so, extrapolating it from a sentence of hers much more articulate phrase that appeared in an interview a few years ago. With this exhibition we maintain the tradition of breaking schemes, erasing themes, ignoring chronologies, and constructing a polyphonic work, as representative as possible, offering a unified vision of a body of work that has lasted almost five decades. Photography and everyday life come together in a single path that highlights the extraordinary visual sensitivity, and the courage to be at the distance of a punch or a caress to conquer the image, often achieved in extreme contexts but always full of dignity. Photography reached Letizia Battaglia thanks to a series of fortuitous elements and becomes an important tool for her emancipation as a woman and mother.

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30 Years of Lomography

A Lomography Hang Out
2022-11-23 – 2023-11-23

In November 1992, the Lomography story began in the grand-old city of Vienna, Austria. We’re now 30 years old and are proud to be an eccentric, free, enthusiastic, creative, experimental, social, wonderful Lomography Community, uniting millions of analogue admirers from around the world who are keen to help us keep film photography alive. Get ready for a full year of birthday celebrations, the experimentation must go on!
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Listen Until You Hear
2023-05-05 – 2023-10-22 · New York City

Fotografiska is proud to partner with the artist-led organization, For Freedoms, to present Listen Until You Hear, featuring artworks by Hank Willis Thomas, Cassils, Maia Ruth Lee, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Eric Gottesman, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed. All from diverse backgrounds, these six artists collectively create an exploratory forum for visitors to consider the idea of “visual listening,” a concept where we ask you to not only listen with your ears but to connect more deeply with your own body and to be more aware of your relationship with others.
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Resistance and Rescue: Denmark and the Holocaust exhibition opens at the George Eastman Museum
2023-06-10 – 2023-10-01 · New York, United States

Resistance and Rescue: Denmark and the Holocaust, is an exhibition featuring American photographer Judy Glickman Lauder’s portraits of Danes who participated in rescuing Jews from deportation by Germany during World War II – and of Jews who were rescued. The portraits, taken in the early 1990s, are each accompanied by the story of the individual’s experience. The exhibition will be presented in George Eastman Museum’s new Gallery Obscura through October 1.
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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm
2023-06-28 – 2023-10-01 · London, United Kingdom

The National Portrait Gallery reopens with an unprecedented exhibition, revealing – for the first time – extraordinary photographs taken by Paul McCartney using his own camera. The photos capture a time when The Beatles were catapulted from a British sensation to a global phenomenon. These never-before-seen images offer a uniquely personal perspective on what it was like to be a ‘Beatle’ at the start of ‘Beatlemania’.
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The Bridge
2023-07-11 – 2023-11-04 · New York, United States

The Bridge is a groundbreaking, 16-week vision for mentorship-based education, designed in collaboration with the American Society of Media Photographers New York to lift the barriers of Time, Money and Access and help talented young artists who face tough decisions about their road ahead.
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Past Lives: Performance Art through the Camera
2023-08-05 – 2023-11-18 · Pasadena, California

Past Lives: Performance Art through the Camera features a selection of influential performance artworks from the 1980s to the early 2000s. In showcasing these works from the Museum’s holdings, the exhibition underscores the significance of performance as a fine art form, while also highlighting the strength of Asian and Asian-American artists in the field.
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Markéta Luskačová
2023-08-12 – 2023-10-07 · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This year Stills will present the first exhibition in Scotland dedicated to the work of Prague-born, UK-based photographer, Markéta Luskačová. The exhibition will concentrate on Luskačová’s photographs of children. An interest in the life of children permeates almost all of Luskačová’s work and there were several years when this was the main subject of her photography as seen in the series, ‘Citizen 2000’ (1986-2000) and in her work from the 1960s onwards documenting: Pilgrims; Juvenile Jazz Bands in the North of England; Durham Cathedral and Chorister School; London markets; Chiswick Women’s Aid; and carnivals in the Czech Republic.
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The Water Holds Me: Photographs by Suda House
2023-08-16 – 2023-10-15 · San Diego, United States of America

The Water Holds Me reflects forty years of Suda House’s creative output. House’s large-scale photographs combine her journey as a woman, a mother, an artist, and an open-water ocean swimmer, each connected by a care and concern for our damaged planet. Experience the ocean and the mythology presented by Suda House, “Stroking. One, two, three, breathe. Kick, kick, kick, always kicking. We set out in the open ocean. The entire bottom bends back and forth with the current. We have no choice, but to become part of the motion.”
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PhEST 2023 – FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI FOTOGRAFIA E ARTE
2023-09-01 – 2023-11-01 · Italy

PhEST is photography, cinema, music, art, and contaminations from the Mediterranean. PhEST is born out of the need to give back a voice to the thousand identities that form the “sea within the lands”, the need to redefine a new, original imagery. The necessity is not to erase the distance that the Mediterranean creates among these identities, because this sea, in fact, creates them and blends them. The need is rather to stitch back together the divide between reality and its representation, beyond the theater of truth, beyond that stage of the real that the West has often set up.
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