Anna Boyiazis: Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition

 Via Willy-Brandt-Haus

© Anna Boyiazis, Global Peace Photo Award

Fr., 01. Oktober 2021 12:00 Uhr bis So., 24. Oktober 2021 18:00 Uhr

GLOBAL PEACE PHOTO AWARD

The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose images capture the human quest for a peaceful world and the search for the beautiful and good in our lives. The prize goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence. 

Ausstellung im Willy-Brandt-Haus | 1. Oktober - 24. Oktober 2021 | Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag - Sonntag 12:00 - 20:00 Uhr

Zutritt nur mit Zeitfensterticket, keine Tageskasse vor Ort.

Kostenlose Online-Tickets ab sofort HIER

Der Global Peace Photo Award würdigt und fördert Fotograf:innen aus aller Welt, deren Bilder das menschliche Streben nach einer friedlichen Welt und die Suche nach dem Schönen und Guten in unserem Leben festhalten. Der Preis geht an jene Fotografien, die am besten die Idee zum Ausdruck bringen, dass unsere Zukunft im friedlichen Miteinander liegt.  

Die 25-köpfige Jury des Global Peace Photo Award kürt seit 2013 die besten Friedensbilder. Den Vorsitz 2020 hatte der französische Fotograf Pascal Maitre, 2021 wurde die Jury vom UNESCO-Diplomaten Eric Falt geleitet. Das Peace Image of the Year 2020 heißt „Love Story“ und kommt aus der Hand des iranischen Fotografen Sasan Moayyedi: Nachdem der damals 15-jährige Salah Saeedpour 2001 in der iranisch-kurdischen Provinz Marivan nahe der Grenze zum Irak auf eine Landmine trat, verlor er mehrere Körperteile. Trotzdem trainierte er unerschöpflich und wurde schließlich mit zahlreichen Medaillen im Schwimmen ausgezeichnet. 2014 heiratete er die Liebe seines Lebens. 

Das Children Peace Image of the Year 2020 ist das Foto “Flight of the Soul” und wurde von der 14-jährigen Anastasiya Bolshakova aufgenommen. Die junge Russin hat eine Liebeserklärung an den Sommer fotografiert. An die Zeit, in der - wovon sie überzeugt ist - „alles lebt“ und „die Natur aus voller Brust atmet“.  

Die Gewinner:innen des Contests 2021 werden am 21. September gekürt.  

View Anna Boyiazis' Finding Freedom in the Water fine art print collection here.

 

 

 

Visualizing the scale of loss to Covid-19

Via CNBC 

October 5, 2021

National Geographic reporter Stephen Wilkes describes his photographic attempt to capture the loss caused of life during the Covid-19 pandemic

‘It is becoming unbearable:’ Journalists say they have become ‘scapegoats’ at anti-vaccine protests

 Via Committee to Protect Journalists

October 4, 2021

Journalists covering demonstrations against COVID-19 countermeasures have been called “terrorists,” “pedophiles,” “murderers,” and “scumbags.” Protesters have harassed and assaulted members of the press, and told them that “the nooses are ready.”

Threats like these have become increasingly familiar for reporters in Europe and the United States, where the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a CPJ partner, has recorded threats and assaults against reporters in cities including Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. 

Full report here - “Being a journalist has always meant a certain level of risk,” Ambrožič said, “but the level of anxiety and stress due to the threats have increased enormously and it is becoming unbearable. It is a very harsh world for journalists, right now.”

Artist Panel: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 with Ashley Gilbertson

 

Via Harvard Art Museums

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

4-5 PM Eastern

In this virtual panel discussion, curator Makeda Best will be in conversation with photographers Terry Evans, Ashley Gilbertson, and Will Wilson, each of whom has works in our latest special exhibition, Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970. The exhibition is on view at the Harvard Art Museums through January 16, 2022.

Devour the Land explores the unknown and often hidden consequences of militarism on habitats and well-being in the United States. Featuring approximately 160 photographs across 6 thematic groupings, the exhibition reveals the nationwide footprint of the U.S. military, the wide network of industries that support and supply its work, and the impacts of—and responses to—this activity.

Speakers:

Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
Terry Evans, Ashley Gilbertson, and Will Wilson, Photographers

This panel discussion will take place online via Zoom. The event is free and open to all, but registration is required. To register, please complete this online form.

Please read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom. For general questions, email am_register@harvard.edu.

Devour the Land: An Introduction with Curator Makeda Best and commentary from photographers Nina Berman, Sharon Stewart, and Robert Del Tredici

Via Harvard Art Museums  

Curator Makeda Best, alongside commentary from photographers Nina Berman, Sharon Stewart, and Robert Del Tredici, provides a brief introduction to our new special exhibition, Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970. Featuring approximately 160 photographs from 60 artists, the exhibition invites you to explore the impacts of military activity on the American landscape—and how photography supports activism in response to these effects.

Make your reservation to visit the Harvard Art Museums today.

Philip Cheung, Kris Graves, and Daniella Zalcman in conversation with National Geographic Executive Editor Debra Adams Simmons discuss their ongoing projects visualizing racist and discriminatory histories through a new lens.

 Via Photoville

Sunday October 3

4:00PM EST

Online Event

Register here

Who owns history? Whose monuments do we erect and whose do we erase? Whose stories are remembered? Join National Geographic photographers Philip Cheung, Kris Graves, and Daniella Zalcman, as well as National Geographic Executive Editor Debra Adams Simmons, as they discuss visualizing racist and discriminatory histories through a new lens.

Philip Cheung’s “The Central Pacific” is an ongoing documentary photography project exploring the history of Chinese migrant laborers employed at the Central Pacific Railroad between 1864-1869. He is continuing this work on assignment through a collaboration between National Geographic and For Freedoms.

Kris Graves’ story and exhibit, “Monuments”, examines passive relics of America’s racist past in the Confederacy, the dynamic changing of these landscapes, and who will be honored now.

Daniella Zalcman’s “Signs of Your Identity” project examines the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America through multiple exposure portraits. She has continued that project through a grant by National Geographic Society and has documented the repatriation of recently-identified Indigenous child remains in the United States while on assignment for National Geographic.

"The epic COVID-19 memorial on the National Mall, in one stunning photo"

 

Stephen Wilkes: “In America: Remember”, Day to Night, National Mall, Washington, DC, 2021

Via National Geographic

September 30, 2021

4,882 photos taken over 30 hours. More than 670,000 flags representing American lives lost. An incalculable measure of grief.

For more than 30 hours, photographer and National Geographic Explorer Stephen Wilkes watched people move through the sea of white flags below him on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. He saw young children bend down curiously to examine the small flags, and cyclists lay down their bikes to take in the 20-acre expanse of them. He saw skateboarders roll through, selfie-takers frame shots—and passersby slowly realize that each flag represents a life lost to COVID-19.

On September 18 and 19, starting before sunrise and finishing after sunset, Wilkes took 4,882 photographs of the art installation In America: Remember, an exhibit that aims to convey the enormity of the country’s pandemic losses. He and his team then blended the photographs into a single composite image, part of his Day to Night series. 

“One of the things I tried to capture was the epic scale of this,” says Wilkes. “It’s almost impossible to take it all in.”

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970

The exhibition includes work by Gallery photographers Nina Berman and Ashley Gilbertson.

Via Harvard Art Museums

Devour the Land shines a light on the unexpected and often hidden consequences of militarism on habitats and well-being in the United States. Featuring approximately 160 photographs across 6 thematic groupings, the exhibition reveals the nationwide footprint of the U.S. military, the wide network of industries that support and supply its work, and the impacts of—and responses to—this activity.

How do photographs portray environmental damage that can be difficult to see, much less identify and measure? By posing such questions, the exhibition provides visitors a space to consider our current challenges and shared future. At the same time, the works on view also suggest how preparations for war and the aftermath can sometimes lead to surprising instances of ecological regeneration and change.

Following a trajectory that originates in the Civil War era, Devour the Land begins with the 1970s, a dynamic period for both environmental activism and photography. From there, the focus expands to our contemporary moment.

The 60 artists showcased in the exhibition bring a variety of practices and approaches to their work. They range from professional photographic artists and photojournalists to lesser known and emerging photographers; they include Robert Adams, Federica Armstrong, Nina Berman, Robert Del Tredici, Joshua Dudley Greer, Terry Evans, Lucas Foglia, Sharon Gilbert, Ashley Gilbertson, Peter Goin, David T. Hanson, Zig Jackson, Stacy Kranitz, Dorothy Marder, Susan Meiselas, Richard Misrach, Barbara Norfleet, Mark Power, Sheila Pree Bright, Jeff Rich, Sim Chi Yin, Sharon Stewart, Robert Toedter, Phil Underdown, and Will Wilson.

The majority of works on display are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums collections, including many recent acquisitions. Additional works are on loan from other Harvard repositories, North American public institutions, and private collections.

An illustrated catalogue, presenting a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics, accompanies the exhibition. Besides critical essays, nearly a hundred plates, and poems by Ed Roberson, the catalogue includes interviews with nine of the artists featured in the exhibition.

Organized by the Harvard Art Museums. Curated by Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the generosity of the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support for the project is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Fund and the Rosenblatt Fund for Postwar American Art. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.

Online Opening Lecture: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970

Speaker:  Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art

Date: Friday, September 17, 2021, 3:00pm

This talk will take place online via Zoom. Free admission, but registration is required. To register, please complete this online form.

Devour the Land explores the unknown and often hidden consequences of militarism on habitats and well-being in the United States. Featuring approximately 160 photographs across 7 thematic groupings, the exhibition reveals the nationwide footprint of the U.S. military, the wide network of industries that support and supply its work, and the impacts of—and responses to—this activity.

9/11 In Remembrance Exhibition

 

Santa Fe, NM -- Monroe Gallery of Photography announces an exhibition of photographs commemorating the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that became known as 9/11. 

The twin towers design process started in 1965 and construction began in 1972. The twin towers were the tallest buildings in the world for a very short time. Photographs in the exhibit document the construction of the World Trade Center, its prominence in the skyline of Manhattan, and the devastation of September 11, 2001

View the exhibition here

Smithsonian Museum of American History Sept. 11 Photographic History Collection Acquisitions, 2011 - 2021 includes Gallery Photographers Nina Berman and Ashley Gilbertson

 

Via The Smithsonian Museum of American History

Sept. 11 Photographic History Collection Acquisitions, 2011 - 2021

Between 2011 and 2021, the Museum has added over 160 photographs to its Photographic History Collection. The photographs include Nina Berman, Ashley Gilbertson, Marco Grob, and Joanne Leonard, and Jo Tartt.

New York City-based photojournalist, filmmaker, and professor, Nina Berman’s 55 color photographs, 36 x 36-inches, sample three bodies of work previously published in magazines and books: Homeland (September 2001 to 2008), Marine Wedding of Marine Sgt. Tyler Ziegler and Renee Kline (2006, 2008), and Purple Hearts (2003-2004). 

A limited-edition portfolio, 3/3, by Ashley Gilbertson includes fourteen-14 X 24-inch gelatin silver prints in which the photographer has handwritten a description of the fallen young solider on the print. The photographs are from a book project, Bedrooms of the Fallen. Gilbertson, a member of VII Photo Agency, is frequently published in the The New York Times and other media platforms.

Swiss photographer Marco Grob’s seventeen, oversized and framed gelatin silver prints were commissioned by TIME magazine for his series, “Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, to honor the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001.” Among the sitters are activist Cindy Sheehan; now-Senator Tammy Duckworth; Former US Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; flight attendant Cristiana Jones, who is associated with the shoe-bomber flight; Ali Abbas, who was a victim of misdirected allied bombing in Baghdad; US Army Chaplin James Yee ministered to Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention camp; and the artists Paul Myoda and Julian Laverdiere, two of the artists who designed Tribute.

During his military service as an aerial gunner in Afghanistan from March 2013 to June 2013, Ed Drew produced tintypes. Ten of his photographs are portraits of his fellow Combat Rescue crew members.

Photographer and professor-emeritus at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Joanne Leonard clipped newspaper photographs and paired them classical paintings, famous photographs, and other images found in book publications in her series Newspaper Diary. Among the 129 -24 x 36-inch color are seventeen related to images of the middle East clipped from the New York Times and newspapers (2006, 2009, 2010-2015, 2018). Images not available digitally at this time.

Jo Tartt, photographer and former DC-based gallery owner, documented newspaper headlines, often in newspaper boxes in 49 Polaroid instant camera photographs, between March 19, 2003 as the US prepared to declare war on Iraq and the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.