Arles, France: Grow Up

from July 3 to September 24, 2023 at 18 rue de la Calade — Arles, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation

Grow Up is a programme of exhibitions, offering a cross-section of views on the movement of plants around the world. Cradle of biodiversity and environmental tensions, the twenty or so artists are based in South America, Central America and Taiwan. Each focus highlights the relationship between plants and humans, exploring the local relationships of a territory but also international ones. This geographical scale cuts across political, social and environmental narratives and issues, as well as post-colonial issues. From the Amazon, to Costa Rica, to Taiwan, the projects cross master plants, shamanism, drugs but also the sensitive exploration of a territory.

This relation to plants is central, they are sacred and at the heart of local cultures and beliefs, Grow up wishes to cultivate and increase awareness of our relationship with living things. Fotohaus is invited to extend this programme with Nature et Société.

Artists: ATOCHA Pepe, BELTON Teo et GOUPIL Florence, BRASEY Thomas, COP Steph et PÖRNECZI Bálint, CROZE Céline, DE LATTRE Mathias, DINIZ José, ESCANDÓN Arguiñe et GROSS Yann, HENRY Nicolas, HERNÁNDEZ BRICEÑO Andrea, LAGHOUATI-RASHWAN Samir, LATHUILLÈRE Marc, MORAES Gabriel, NISSEN Mads, PROTTI Tommaso, RENARD Antoine. HSU Cheng-Tang, KUO Che-Hsi, WU Chuan-Lun. ALBANO Verdiana, CHAPUIS Isabelle, SCHAEFER Philippine, LesAssociés, Docks Collective, fiVe collective

Curators BEAUSSE Pascal, BOGET Christel, CHANG Meg, DEVIA BARCO Paola, MELLO Ioana, KEHRER Klaus

Art director BASILETTI Florent

More information here: https://mrofoundation.org/MRO-Foundation

AAP Magazine #34 Shapes, $1,000 Cash Prizes + Publication

More information here: https://www.all-about-photo.com/all-about-photo-contest.php?cid=73 Our 34th printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "Shapes". A shape is the form of an object or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. Look around you, observe all the points, lines, patterns or silhouettes that surround us. Square or circle, triangle or hexagon, rectangle or oval, the choice is yours!

Reveal us the elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow!

The rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation... an organic coordination of visual elements Henri Cartier-Bresson

Send us your images - series preferably- both where shapes may not just influence the pictures, but where it may also be the subject solely. Whether in architecture, portrait, landscape, nude, street or any other form of photography - classic or experimental: we're open to all genres and we want to discover the best and most interesting photography from all over the world.

Winners will receive $1,000 in cash awards, their winning images printed in AAP Magazine #34 and extensive press coverage

All winners will have their work published in the fourth printed issue of AAP Magazine, a free copy of the magazine and their portfolio showcased in the Winners Gallery of www.all-about-photo.com.

1st Place winner
Cash Prize: $500 (US Dollars).
Exclusive interview and winning image(s) or portfolio published in AAP Magazine, Volume 34: Shapes
One free copy of AAP Magazine that will be for sale and distributed on Blurb.com
Winning work showcased on the online Winners Gallery of All About Photo

2nd Place Winner
Cash Prize: $300 (US Dollars).
Winning image(s) or portfolio in AAP Magazine, Volume 34: Shapes
One free copy of AAP Magazine that will be for sale and distributed on Blurb.com
Winning work showcased on the online Winners Gallery of All About Photo

3rd Place Winner
Cash Prize: $200 (US Dollars).
Winning image(s) or portfolio published in AAP Magazine, Volume 34: Shapes
One free copy of AAP Magazine that will be for sale and distributed on Blurb.com
Winning work showcased on the online Winners Gallery of All About Photo

Particular Merit Mention
The next 17th winners (ranked from 4 to 20) will have their best image(s) or portfolio published in AAP Magazine Vol.34. More information here: https://www.all-about-photo.com/all-about-photo-contest.php?cid=73

Win an online solo exhibition in September 2023

Get International Exposure and Connect with Industry Insiders, Art Collectors and Potential Buyers

Each month an amazing photographer will be awarded a Solo Exhibition in our new dedicated showroom pages. Next exhibition dates: September 1-30, 2023

We want to showcase incredible work. Photography that awakens our imagination, transforms our way of thinking, or simply resonates with who we are.

The Solo Exhibition enables you to reach a wider audience through our independent magazine that has become one of the most vibrant portals of photography on the web.

The Solo Exhibition competition is open to any category of photography or subject matter. Photojournalism, street photography, artistic photography, portrait, nudes, landscapes, nature, wildlife, urban, architecture, fashion, fine art, or documentary photography, the subject doesn't matter, unleash your creativity!

Whether you are a professional photographer or a photography enthusiast, please send us a cohesive body of work or portfolio.

Only a unified group of photos will be published as a solo exhibition.

Make your online photo gallery stand out. Submit one project or a body of work that showcases unity.

You can submit between 6 and 16 images for a flat fee of $45!

The Solo Exhibition is an amazing promotional tool designed to showcase your work worldwide!

Juror: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Founder All About Photo

ENTER HERE: https://www.all-about-photo.com/all-about-photo-contest.php?cid=74

Italy: Farnaz Damnabi - Unveiled

29 Arts in Progress Gallery

Via San Vittore 13
20123 Milan - Italy

 

Farnaz Damnabi - Saffron worker, 2022 - Courtesy of 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery

 

 

29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery is delighted to present the first personal exhibition of the young Iranian Artist Farnaz Damnabi,open now and extended owing to popular demand until the 30th September ’23.

The exhibition is entitled ‘UNVEILED’ and it brings together a selection of works that tell visitors the tale – as refined as it is powerful – of a young female photographer from contemporary Iran, suspended between past and future.

Women play the absolute starring role in her shots: Damnabi both illustrates and pays tribute to the Iranian female identity, which is shown here in the routine of women, mothers and workers ignored by a strictly patriarchal society, which is so late to recognise their equality, value, and freedom.

Many of the photographs on display highlight issues such as discrimination against women in the labour market, the gender gap in salaries, and the failure to recognise their silent contribution to key sectors of the Iranian economy and craft industry (such as the harvesting of saffron in the fields of Torbat-e Heydarieh or the production of carpets).

In her Lost Paradise series, female figures are portrayed from behind in front of a traditional Persian rug and appear to blend in – and almost merge – with the background, a metaphor for both their optical and social invisibility.

Some of her most famous reporting work, which is both poetic and dramatic, is dedicated to children and has the dual purpose not only of showing the difficulties of a childhood spent in this country, but also the ability – typical of youngsters – to find magic even in the most adverse circumstances because, as the emblematic title of one of her projects reminds us, Playing is my right.

Women, children and teenagers also crowd the shots in her Metamorphosis series: a veritable collection of suspended moments, scenes of everyday life, rituals, garments and emblematic traditions of Iran. With her recent project Be like a Butterfly, the artist documents the attempt made by the younger generations of women to improve their condition, marking changes so slow and tardy that they seem imperceptible, comparing them to the same metamorphosis that chrysalides undergo to become butterflies.

In the highly personal and moving account she makes of her homeland, Damnabi also documents the experiment of the new city erected a few kilometres from Tehran.

Sadly ironically called Pardis (Paradise), it was intended to reverse the migration of the most densely populated cities; the mass construction of new buildings has, however, led to the devastation of the mountain ecosystem and the destruction of its natural habitat, making connections to the capital even worse. The pictures on display, that are part of the namesake Pardis series, appear somewhat suspended between reality and dream and show the bleak outlook of a ‘lunar landscape’ – as defined by the Artist herself – of a Paradise denied and which is in fact a dormitory district where a great many workers and most of the poorest families simply survive, in ghettos deprived of the most basic amenities.

Damnabi’s photographs turn Iran’s unheard voices into images: they are the stories of women, marginalised from all aspects of the society in which they live; the stories of children, deprived of the inalienable right to a carefree childhood; they are the stories, all things considered, of all the invisible Iranians who have always been relegated to the farthest confines, both geographical and social.

The aim of her portraits is not to be controversial but rather representative, showing us with her own eyes a world which we are certainly aware of, but which now touches us more intensely and to the core.

Among these tales of isolation, loss and exclusion, Farnaz Damnabi’s young voice rises with refined elegance as a shout of indignation combined with trust.

Her photographs are concurrently delicate and powerful and while they impress us, they above all force us to see, to reflect, and to hope alongside her.

 

Farnaz Damnabi - Pinwheel, 2020 - Courtesy of 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery

 

 

Paris: Uchronie by Vincent Fournier

Uchronie, an exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature), is dedicated to the work of photographer and artist Vincent Fournier.
Uchronie is the name given to a fictional reconstruction of history that might have differed from what we know. With this title, the exhibition is seen as so many disturbing parallel histories. What if?

In an alternative version of history, the Uchronie exhibition explores humanity's relationship with nature and technology. It raises questions about the possible evolution of life on Earth. Fournier is inspired by the utopian visions of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as space exploration and the redesign of life itself. His concept of 'future bursts' blends the phantastical and the believable, creating compelling stories from the past and present. The exhibition is a light-hearted exploration of how life as we know it has evolved over time.

Recognizing his unique work, the Museum invited Fournier to exhibit within its permanent collections. His 'augmented' animals, displayed alongside traditional taxidermy, create a wonderful juxtaposition. Observant viewers are drawn into a captivating game of spotting details that transform animals into enhanced future beings.

When in Paris, visit the exhibition at Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, 62 rue des Archives, 75003 Paris. For any further information on Vincent Fournier or on any of his works for sale, please contact the gallery at info@theravestijngallery.com.

More information: HERE
More exhibitions: HERE