Zhe Chen Bees at Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai

BEES
Beaugeste is honored to invite you to the opening of Zhe Chen’s exhibition: (Recipient of the 2011 Inge Morath Award from Magnum Foundation) – Saturday 3rd of September 2011 from 3PM to 8PM

“Brought up in Beijing, China, Zhe Chen is a photo-based artist currently living in Los Angeles. In the past four years, Zhe has created a series of projects focusing on body modification, human hair, identity confusion, post-traumatic stress disorder, and memory. Zhe’s winning project is a document of self-mortification among a community of disaffected Chinese. The difficult nature of her subject is made more complex by Chen’s lyrical approach, identifying the physical self-destruction of her subjects as an act of spiritual cleansing.” That is how in some sixty words the Inge Morath Foundation and the Magnum Foundation have summarized the essence of Zhe Chen’s early master piece Bees in their introduction to the 2011 Award presented to her. Continue reading Zhe Chen Bees at Beaugeste, Shanghai →

Forthcoming from Galerie CLAIR, Munich

As a world stage, New York seems to provide an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration to photographers from a wide variety of backgrounds. This catalogue reveals the views of international photographers and authors who feel like New Yorkers. Some of them live or have lived there, many however are just passers-by, who have cultivated a secret pact with this city as they return over and over again. Featuring selected works from the years 1954–2010, including some previously unpublished works by renowned photographers, VIEW YORK offers nine personal insights into the essence of this super-metropolis.

Artists:
Leonard Freed, Gundula Friese, Erich Hartmann, Guy Le Querrec, Andrew Lichtenstein, Inge Morath, Hally Pancer, Klavdij Sluban and Patrick Zachmann

Authors:
Gundula Friese, Ruth Bains Hartmann, Andrew Lichtenstein, Anna-Patricia Kahn, Arthur Miller, Hally Pancer, Klavdij Sluban and Patrick Zachmann

Exhibition Dates:
15 September to 22 October 2011, Galerie CLAIR, Munich
from 15 September 2011, German-American Institute, Tübingen
from 25 April 2012, German-American Institute, Freiburg

Publisher: Kerber Verlag

My Viewpoint Program Exhibition at Venice Arts

On August 6, 2011, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, Venice Arts Gallery will hold an opening reception for Shipping & Receiving: Photographs and Letters between Venice, CA and Dupree, SD. The exhibition highlights a photographic and personal storytelling exchange between youth in Venice and youth on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and wil feature texts and panoramic, collaborative double-exposure photographs, paired with over thirty black-and-white and color photographs taken by youth who have participated in the My Viewpoint Photography Program since its inception in 2005.

This is the first public exhibition of their work. Inge Morath Award winner Emily Schiffer, founder of the My Viewpoint Photography Program, wil accompany five of the students from the Cheyenne River Reservation to Los Angeles for the exhibition. “This exchange and exhibition has helped our students to view their artwork within a larger context. The students who participated in the exchange have been studying photography for years, but this project enabled them to really look at their lives, identify what is important to them, and turn that reflection into photographs,” says Schiffer. Continue reading My Viewpoint Exhibition at Venice Arts Gallery →

Children of the Cheyenne Nation by Emily Schiffer

OPENING JULY 23
On view through September 4th. Reception 7/23, 5-7pm.

ARTIST TALK
Second Saturday, August 13th 5pm.
Schiffer’s subjects are her students—from six to 20 years old—of the Cheyenne River Reservation in rural South Dakota, where she founded a photography program in 2005. This exhibit is comprised of medium format black & white photographs of them, and photographs taken by her students.

Emily Schiffer was the recipient of the 2009 Inge Morath Award for an early version of this project. Congratulations Emily!.

Fovea Exhibitions is located at 143 Main Street in the town of Beacon, New York.

Presented with support of the Farnsworth Museum, the Magnum Foundation, Great American Signs, & Chateau Routas.

2011 Inge Morath Award Winner Announced

The Inge Morath Foundation and the The Magnum Foundation are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2011 Inge Morath Award.

Each June, the winner of the Inge Morath Award is selected by the full membership of Magnum Photos, and the Director of the Inge Morath Foundation, during the annual Magnum meeting. The recipient of the 2011 Inge Morath Award is Zhe Chen, for her project Bees.

Brought up in Beijing, China, Zhe Chen is a photo-based artist currently living in Los Angeles. In the past four years, Zhe has created a series of projects focusing on body modification, human hair, identity confusion, post-traumatic stress disorder, and memory. Chen’s winning project is a document of self-mortification among a community of disaffected Chinese. The difficult nature of her subject is made more complex by Chen’s lyrical approach, identifying the physical self-destruction of her subjects as an act of spiritual cleansing. Continue reading 2011 Inge Morath Award Announced →

Léonie Hampton featured in May Firecracker

Firecracker’s featured photographer for May is Léonie Hampton, who was 2008 finalist for the IM Award for her project “In the Shadow of Things.” Firecracker is an online platform dedicated to supporting European women photographers. Léonie Hampton is a British photographer who after graduating in Art History, continued her studies in Photojournalism at the London College of Communications. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Paul Huf Award 2009 and the ‘F’ Award for concerned photography 2008. Her work is part of the permanent collection of

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France and Foam Museum, Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Palazzo Delle Esposizione in Rome and Foam Museum Amsterdam. In May 2011 Contrasto published her first book: In the Shadow of Things.

Inge Morath featured in Foam 26: Happy Issue

In Happy, we explore happiness and its relationship with photography; photos that make us smile, the memories they evoke, the humour that makes us laugh.

Happy as a state of mind immediately draws us back to our childhood, when this innocent straight forward feeling is more common without being consciously aware of it. As we grow older and our self-consciousness takes over, happiness seems much more difficult and complex to achieve…

Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 19 Documentary Photography Exhibition

The Open Society Foundations invite photographers to submit a body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 19 group exhibition. The deadline for applications is Friday, April 1, 2011, 5pm EST. Moving Walls is an exhibition series that features in-depth and nuanced explorations of human rights and social issues. Thematically linked to the Open Society Foundations mission, Moving Walls is exhibited at Open Society offices in New York and Washington, D.C., and includes seven discrete bodies of work. See Moving Walls 18 slideshow. For information about the application process, please view the Moving Walls guidelines.

Emily Schiffer receives Emergency Fund Support

Inge Morath Award recipient Emily Schiffer (2009) is one of ten photographers selected by the Magnum Foundation to receive project support from the Emergency Fund during 2011. The Foundation has committed $100,000 to support experienced independent photographers working to document critical issues that have been overlooked or underrepresented by mainstream media.

According to the Foundation’s press release, “A group of 10 photography professionals nominated 100 photographers to submit proposals. The recipients were selected—based on the strength of their work and the importance of the issues they proposed to address—by an independent Editorial Board comprised of: Bob Dannin, former editorial director of Magnum Photos and professor of history at Suffolk University, renowned author Philip Gourevitch and Marc Kusnetz, former senior producer for NBC News and consultant for Human Rights First.”

The other nine recipients are: Balazs Gardi, Ian Teh, Jonas Bendiksen, Julius Mwelu, Justin Jin, Stephen Ferry, Teun Voeten, Yuri Kozyrev and Zalmai.