Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival was co-initiated by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Les Rencontres d'Arles in 2015, supported by Jimei District Committee of the CPC and the Government of Jimei District, and co-hosted by Three Shadows and Xiamen Tianxia Jimei Media Co., Ltd. Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival introduces excellent photography works from overseas with an inclusive and multicultural attitude while synchronizing with the latest international insight. It supports and encourages the creation, studies and curation of Chinese photography so as to facilitate its presence in the public as well as on the international stage. Since its inception, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival has presented nearly 300 exhibitions from China and other Asian countries, as well as a selection of outstanding works from Les Rencontres d'Arles. Over 600 artists’ works have been presented and the festival has attracted a total of 430,000 visitors.

The 9th Jimei x Arles establishes an Art Committee including director of Les Rencontres d’Arles Christoph Wiesner, noted photography critic Gu Zheng, co-founder of Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) and founding director of DECK Gwen Lee, Chinese contemporary photographer and co-founder of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre RongRong，executive director of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Yan Qi..

This year the Art Committee takes over the Art Directors’ jobs to co-organize 32 exhibitions, featuring works by over a hundred artists from France, Germany, the United States, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. “Jimei x Arles Discovery Award” and “Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image” will announce this year’s winners during the opening week of the festival. Starting from this year, Jimei x Arles has established the 'Dummy Book Award,' aimed at encouraging and supporting artists in their creative endeavors centered around photography books..

This year, the exhibitions of Jimei x Arles will be held at Jimei Art Centre and Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, as well as in galleries and art schools in Xiamen and Fuzhou as the sub-venues. The Jimei Art Centre is located on the 1st to 4th floors of the podium of the Jimei Chengyi International Business Center, an iconic landmark in Xiamen. It will be open to the public for the first time as the main venue of Jimei x Arles..

The 2023 Jimei x Arles introduces the “Isles Project” under the theme of “Art is Never Alone.” Centered around the Jimei x Arles main venue, this project radiates and collaborates with diverse cultural, artistic, and living spaces, inviting the audience to embark on an urban art stroll. During the Jimei x Arles opening week from December 15 to 17, a series of engaging activities, including the opening ceremony, portfolio reviews, lectures, workshops, artist-guided tours, performances, and educational tours, will warmly welcome you to the vibrant city of Xiamen!

For more information visit Three Shadows Photography Art Center

With around 50 works spanning five decades, the exhibition ANTI-FASHION takes an in-depth look at the fascinating dialogue the artist maintains with the fashion world. Since the 1980s, Sherman has been drawing on a number of commercial commissions from renowned fashion houses and designers such as Chanel and Stella ­McCartney as well as international fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar as a constant source of inspiration. By the same token, the artist influences and stimulates the aesthetics of the fashion world and continues to inspire an entire generation of photographers.

Sherman’s provocative photographs do not convey the glamour, sex appeal, or elegance that we commonly associate with fashion. Instead, they show characters that are anything but desirable and run counter to the fashion world ideals of flawlessness. Last, but by no means least, the exhibition reveals the subject of fashion as the starting point for the artist’s critical examination of aspects of identity, sex, gender, and age. Sherman’s myriad characters demonstrate the artificiality and mutability of identity, which appears – now more than ever – to be selectable, (self-)constructed, and fluid.

With national and international loans as well as exclusively selected material from the artist’s New York archive, the exhibition is the first to be devoted to the subject of fashion in Sherman’s work. The show is accompanied by a selection of photographic and artistic positions from the Falckenberg Collection. From the collection, works by the following artists are shown:

Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Aidas Bareikis, Karla Black, John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Olaf Breuning, Thorsten Brinkmann, Sophie Calle, Clegg & Guttman, Michael Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Walker Evans, Valie Export, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Peter Hujar, Christian Jankowski, Astrid Klein, Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Urs Lüthi, Paul McCarthy, Dieter Meier, Marilyn Minter, Joyce Pensato, Richard Prince, Markus Schinwald, Cindy Sherman, Christopher Williams

For more information visit Deichtorhallen Hamburg

For more than sixty years, Daido Moriyama (森山 大道 b. 1938) has used his camera to interrogate and revolutionise the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images. Even today, Moriyama’s pioneering artistic spirit and visual intensity remain groundbreaking. 

The exhibition traces the path of a photographer who transformed the way we see photography and questioned the very nature of photography itself.

The retrospective focuses on different moments of Moriyama’s vast and productive career -  beginning with his early works for Japanese magazines, interest in the American occupation, and engagement with photorealism. The show then moves through to his work from the self-reflexive period in the 1980s and 1990s, following on to his explorations of the essence of photography and of his own self, reflecting on reality, memory and cities through tireless documentation and the reinvention of his own archive. 

Fittingly, Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective, brings together more than 200 works and large-scale installations, as well as many of Moriyama’s rare photobooks and magazines, for the first time in the UK. One floor of the gallery has been transformed into a reading room - a dedicated space offering a rare opportunity to spend time with his legendary publications.

Immerse yourself in Moriyama’s world at The Photographers’ Gallery, showing until 11 February 2024. Tickets available now. 

For more information visit The Photographers' Gallery

“What is it that we actually see when we look at Thomas Demand’s photographs? Demand, born in Munich in 1964, has spent almost three decades exploring the intersections of history, images, and architectural forms. In his large-scale photographic objects, history presents itself as banal, gnawingly disturbing facsimiles of places and episodes that we cannot quite identify. While his images may appear to depict the real world, upon closer inspection they resonate with a fragile similitude as these are in fact photographs of impermanent sculptural recreations. Demand selects images from the media, recreates them as life-size models using paper and cardboard, and then photographs them. The key to his work is understanding this feedback loop: from the actual events, through their photographic record in the media, to Demand’s sculptural recreations and his uncanny para-photographic versions that are launched back into the world.”

For more information visit The Israel Museum.

Explore Black identity through a compelling compilation of photographs from African diasporic culture. Drawn from Dr. Kenneth Montague’s Wedge Collection in Toronto, a Black-owned collection dedicated to artists of African descent, As We Rise looks at the myriad experiences of Black life through the lenses of community, identity and power.

Organized by Aperture, New York, the exhibition features more than 100 works by Black artists from Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, the United States and South America, as well as throughout the African continent. Black subjects depicted by Black photographers are presented as they wish to be seen , recognizing the complex strength, beauty and vulnerability of Black life.

To learn more, visit Peabody Essex Museum’s website.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Michael Snow: A Life Survey (1955-2020). In a career that defied categorization in medium or genre, Snow’s work embodied originality over novelty, the cerebral over the conceptual, and evolution over conclusion. It is with this expansive vision that A Life Survey is mounted, offering an intricate and dynamic portrait of Snow’s life and work.

Born in Toronto in 1928, Snow showed an early affinity for creative experimentation. Throughout his youth, he played piano in local jazz bands and received prizes for his early paintings. This led him to the Ontario College of Art where he studied from 1948 to 1952. When declaring his major from rigidly divided academic departments, he chose Design, comprehending that it was the “common aspect of all disciplines.” Fascinated by pushing the limits on ways of seeing, Snow was influenced most by Modern artists who made work on their own terms, including Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp, Willem De Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Yves Klein, and Mark Rothko. In these early years, he described embarking on a “try this, try that” period through which experiences from his professional career, daily life, and jazz improvisations inspired pieces like A to Z, 1956, Drawn Out, 1959, and The Drum Book, 1960.

To view more, visit their website.

Foto Relevance is pleased to present chroma(to)-graphy, a solo exhibition of works by Deborah Bay. As part of an ongoing exploration of color, Bay shifts away from exploring the non-materiality of colored light and optics through film gels, lenses, and prisms toward investigating the physicality of color itself in this new series. Drawing from the Dadaists and Surrealists in its use of material created without artistic control, the work is based on small “chromatograms” that produce an unexpected grammar of color. Chromatography (to write with color) is a process for separating the substances of a mixture. Through chemical manipulation, Bay deconstructs various inks and dyes, creating a visual analysis of their composition. Through this, she reveals the subtle and unseen aspects of color relationships. chroma(to)-graphy will be on view at Foto Relevance from November 18, 2022 through January 7, 2023.

Admire nearly 130 outfits ranging from haute couture pieces to stage costumes, alongside custom accessories, sketches, videos, images by leading fashion photographers, and spectacular installations that mirror the approach of fashion visionary Thierry Mugler.

Brooklyn Museum's "Thierry Mugler: Couturissime" explores the fascinating, edgy universe of the French designer. Mugler established himself as one of the most daring and innovative designers of the late twentieth century through bold silhouettes and unorthodox techniques and materials, including glass, Plexiglas, vinyl, latex, and chrome.

The exhibition isn't just a visual treat—it also brings in the sense of smell. An expanded section dedicated to fragrance centers on Mugler’s trailblazing scent Angel.

The show is on view at the Brooklyn Museum from November 18 through May 7, 2023.

Opening reception & book-signing for the new publication by Damiani on Thursday, November 17, 6-8pm

Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging draws attention to complex notions of community and belonging, and in particular how our social and familial relationships have been reimagined as a result of the conditions of isolation and uncertainty imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Shared tendencies bring this geographically and ethnically diverse group of artists together, including the impulse to explore complex political histories, challenge modes of self-representation, excavate personal and family trauma, and an intense yearning for connection, kinship, and community.

Gitterman Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of Christiane Feser’s three-dimensional unique photographic based work from three ongoing series; Felder, Gitter and Nullpunkte.

Christiane Feser’s works are photographs of complex assemblages of repeated forms and shadows with actual elements from the assemblage projecting three-dimensionally from the surface of the photograph. Feser flattens a sculptural object through the act of photography and then reconstitutes that dimension in a new way by turning the photograph into a relief sculpture. The works challenge our perception of dimension and perspective as well as our assumptions about what a photograph is. They also introduce a tension between the past and present: the original photograph is of a thing that has existed, but it has been transformed into a new object that now exists. And in this new form, the constant change of light and shadow across the relief surface will continue to keep the work in the present moment.

The PHOTOVILLE Festival, New York City’s FREE premier photo destination, returns on September 18 for its 10th anniversary year with a free community day, virtual online storytelling events, artist talks, workshops, demonstrations, educational programs, community programming, and open-air exhibitions across parks and public spaces throughout New York City till December 1, 2021.

https://photoville.nyc

The Brooklyn Museum to Present Major Retrospective of the House of Dior in September 2021

September 10, 2021 to February 20, 2022

The New York premiere of the exhibition Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams traces the groundbreaking history and legacy of the House of Dior and features unique pieces drawn primarily from the Dior archives

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams explores the more than seventy-year history of the House of Dior with over two hundred haute couture garments as well as photographs, archival videos, sketches, vintage perfume elements, accessories, and works from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. Presented in the Museum’s magnificent 20,000-square- foot Beaux-Arts Court, designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1893, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams is based on major exhibitions held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 2017, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2019, and the Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, in 2020. The exhibition is curated by Dior scholar Florence Müller, Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art and Fashion, Denver Art Museum, in collaboration with Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture, Brooklyn Museum, and will be on view from September 10, 2021, to February 20, 2022.

Andy Warhol: Photo Factory

Fotografiska New York

September 10, 2021 - January 30, 2022

Fotografiska New York is pleased to announce an incredibly comprehensive survey of Warhol’s photographic oeuvre, Andy Warhol: Photo Factory, featuring four films and over 120 images—20 of which have never been exhibited. The show will pay homage to Warhol’s iconic New York City studio and offer a distinctly intimate visual diary of the artist’s life and work.

The Armory Show returns for its 27th edition from September 9-12 featuring 212 leading galleries from all around the world. 157 of these exhibitors will participate in-person at the Javits Center, the fair’s new permanent home in NYC. 55 exhibitors who cannot participate in the physical fair due to ongoing COVID-related travel restrictions will have a virtual presence on The Armory Show’s new digital platform, Armory Online, developed in partnership with Artlogic. These galleries have also deferred their in-person participation to the 2022 edition of The Armory Show.

The Photographer in the Garden

Alice Austen House | September 7 to December 31, 2021

The Alice Austen House is proud to present The Photographer in the Garden September 7- December 31, 2021. Since the invention of the medium, photographers have been drawn by the allure of flowers. This group exhibition is excerpted from the book The Photographer in the Garden, co-published by Aperture and the George Eastman Museum, celebrating the rich history of artists working in the garden as a site of inspiration and reinvention.

The exhibition features works by acclaimed artists: Sam Abell, Alice Austen, Mark Cohen, Stephen Gill, Lonnie Graham, Justine Kurland, Lori Nix, Bill Owens, Sheron Rupp, Collier Schorr, Mike Slack.

In her introduction to the book Jamie M. Allen, associate curator of photography, George Eastman Museum, writes, “When photography was introduced to the public in 1939, it immediately began to displace the record-making function of other art forms, such as drawing and painting. At the time, photographs seemed to be a direct transcription of reality, precisely recording what was put in front of the camera or in contact with photographic materials. In creating these early transcriptions, it is not surprising that most photographers turned to gardens for inspiration.”

Contemporary photographers continue to call into question the “human-nature relationship that these public and private spaces have inspired.”

The compilation of photographs illustrates what Allen describes as, “the changing relationship between humans and nature from the nineteenth century to today. From private flowerbeds to sweeping public spaces, photographers have documented our ever-changing attitude toward the natural world. Their history takes us from an agricultural society through industrialization and suburbanization to today’s global community engaged in discussions about past and present land use.” 

FotoCal — Photography Awards, Grants and Open Calls Closing in July 2021

Don’t miss out on these Awards, Grants and Open Calls!

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS:

American Photographic Artists Awards (despite the name, this is open to photographers worldwide) — Closes next 6 July
Charta Dummy Award (for photobook dummies) — Closes next 9 July
Lucie Photo Book Prize — Closes next 15 July
Open theme @ InCadaques Photo Festival — Closes next 15 July
Residency Program @ Tusen Takk Foundation — Closes next 15 July
International Photography Awards — Closes next 21 July
Emergentes 2021 @ Encontros da Imagem — Closes next 26 July
Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography — Closes next 29 July
Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture — Closes next 2 August

PHOTOGRAPHY GRANTS:

Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program — Closes next 1 July
Sony Alpha Female Plus — One submission period closes next 4 July, and another one closes next 1 August
Ian Parry Scholarship — Closes next 9 July
Jane Farver Curatorial Residency @ International Studio & Curatorial Program(for curators from the Global South. Scroll down to the “Upcoming Application Deadlines” section to find the call’s details) — Closes next 12 July
Photography Graduate Mentoring @ Redeye (for photography students) — Closes next 26 July
TPA/RPS Environmental Bursary — Closes next 30 July
Fine Art Scholarship, 
Emerging Artist Scholarship, 
Photo Taken Scholarship, 
Photo Made Scholarship @ Lucie Foundation — All close next 1 August

OPEN CALLS:

Hamburg Portfolio Review — Closes next 1 July
Portfolio Review @ Museum of Contemporary Photography — Closes next 3 July
Vantage Point Sharjah 9 @ Sharjah Art Foundation — Closes next 3 July
Open theme @ The Curated Fridge — Closes next 4 July
Pandemic Perspectives @ International Photography Awards — Closes next 4 July
Open theme @ Photoworks+ The Graduate Issue (for photography students) — Closes next 8 July
Collaborating with the archive @ Filter Photo Festival — Closes next 10 July
we like small things v4 @ Filter Photo Festival — Closes next 10 July
Young Photographers from Italian Academies — Closes next 10 July
Notions of Home @ Lucie Foundation — Closes next 15 July
Vacation @ F-Stop Magazine — Closes next 15 July
Your body belongs to you @ Shutter Hub — Closes next 15 July
In Conversation with the Land @ Center for Fine Art Photography — Closes next 18 July
Forecast 2021 @ SF Camerawork — Closes next 23 July
In Focus Portfolio Reviews @ Ballarat International Foto Biennale — Closes next 23 July

For more information, click here.

The Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) is proud to present the 2021 Month of Photography Denver Festival, with 75+ exhibitions and events at over 50 museums, galleries, and other spaces across the Denver Metro area during the month of March. Enjoy exhibitions of outstanding photographic art by local, national, and international artists, as well as artist talks, workshops, portfolio reviews, and more! Most events are free, and you can participate by attending events indoors at a safe social distance, online, or outdoors. For a complete list of events, map, and more, visit denvermop.org.