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Street Photography Contest Call for Entries. Our eighth printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "Street". Encyclopedia Britannica defines Street photography has "a genre that records everyday life in a public place." Photographers have been documenting their environment since the invention of photography. The image "View of the Boulevard du Temple" by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, shows a Parisian street in 1838. Later encouraged by improvements in the portability and quality of cameras many photographers decided to record urban life. Charles Nègre, Eugene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Andre Kertesz, Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier Bresson, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Vivian Maier, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston... are amongst the many iconic photographers who captured changes in the fast-paced world of life in towns and cities. Capturing the essence of the urban lifestyle...

Opening on Saturday October 12 from 3 to 8 pm October 12 - December 21st, 2019 108 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris Xippas Paris is pleased to announce Joel Sternfeld’s first personal show with the gallery. The exhibition features 13 large scale photographs from his renowned study American Prospects that have never been exhibited before. It will also celebrate the imminent release of a revised edition of American Prospects by legendary publisher Gerhard Steidl. Joel Sternfeld is a renowned photographer, celebrated for pioneering color photography in the seventies and for his many groundbreaking works since then. His legendary American Prospects series (first published in 1987) depicts the grand and sullied landscapes of America and helped to usher in a new breed of contemporary photographers, making him one of the most influential artists of his generation. In the late seventies, aware of the environmental and social changes sweeping through America, Joel Sternfeld set ou...

iMPACT DOC presents 'Of River and Lost Lands' by Sarker Protick 20 September - 27 October 2019 Press preview (20 September) Exhibition opening (21 September) Artist talk during Unseen Open Gallery Night (21 September) Artist dinner (22 September) Other side programs (t.b.a.)       'Of River and Lost Lands' 2011 – 2018     ‘Of River and Lost Lands’ is presented at  iMPACT DOC as a photographic exhibition accompanied by an audio-visual installation that depicts a grey, melancholic landscape of river Padma (Ganges) in Bangladesh. At first, the place seems abandoned; drowned, broken houses and floating trees are all that remains. These are traces of life that were once here. As the series continues, the land and the people come into view and find their place in the story. Together they portray a complex relationship between nature and human beings  that is intimate yet ruthless, defined by  dependency and de...

Opening on 16th of October, Fokion Zissiadis’ photo exhibition "Icebergs: From Genesis to Extinction" will be hosted at the Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos str. in Athens - Greece, for the period of 17 October - 17 November, 2019. Zissiadis body of work on the Icebergs of Greenland - Denmark, will be exhibited as a very vivid perspective of large-scale pictures (3m. length) along with sound effects, featuring the sounds of Arctica composed by Lolipop Studios of Thanassis Zlatanos. A journey to Greenland’s natural breathtaking beauty. A wayfaring to explore the Arctic and the greatness of the ever-floating icebergs, the most spectacular phenomenon of the Polar region. An adventurous reconnaissance masterfully captured that takes precedence at the photography exhibition of Fokion Zissiadis’ “Icebergs from Genesis to Extinction”, at the Benaki Museum from 17th October till 17th November 2019, curated by Stavros Kavalaris, under the auspices of the Embassy of Denmark in Athens. Al...