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Treasures of the Rhone

2009-10-26T08:55:26Z

Photographers Remi Benali and Patrick Landmann have spent 10 weeks working with Luc Long and a team of archaeologists and divers who have been excavating the Rhone River. The Roman Treasures that they have found, unseen for 2000 years, include a marble portrait of Julius Caesar, the only carved while he was alive, a gold-leaf statue of Victory and a bronze captive awaiting his death sentence. All are considered to be chefs d'oeuvres by the French Ministry of Culture and can be seen now at the Musée Départemental de l'Arles antique.
Trésors archéologiques du Rhône

PhotoEspaña2009

2009-05-26T09:04:57Z

PHotoEspaña 2009 will take place from 3 June to 26 July. The Festival of Photography and Visual Arts will offer at this twelfth edition a proposal comprising 74 exhibitions, 31 in the Official Section, 7 in other venues and 35 in the Off Festival, spread in a total of 60 exhibition spaces such as museums, art galleries, art centres and exhibition rooms. 259 artists and creators of 40 nationalities will participate at the Festival.

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The Official Section of PHE09 will develop the concept of The everyday. The Festival will include exhibitions by artists belonging to different generations, geographic origins and artistic and conceptual tendencies. It will preferably focus on recent productions, but will also try to reveal historic times where connection between photography and the everyday has acquired special importance. The Official Section will be completed by Historical exhibitions and Grand Masters, and it will also open its doors to invited projects. Meanwhile the Off Festival will bring together the best exhibition projects by the main art galleries in Madrid.

This new edition of PHotoEspaña consolidates Madrid, Lisbon and Cuenca as host cities. In this edition, the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon will participate in the Festival with two exhibitions; Cuenca, PHotoEspaña host city by its third consecutive year, will host OpenPHoto, an exhibition programme consisting of proposals coming from embassies and foreign institutions of 8 countries; and for the fist time this year, Alcala de Henares will join the Festival hosting photography workshops of Campus PHE. Fundación Canal will organized the contest El Agua de Madrid (Water of Madrid) and workshops for children and youths.

PHE09 will deepen into programmes with pedagogical and professional aims. A novelty in this edition will be Festival Campus PHE Edición de Libros, a programme devoted to publishing projects which will take place at the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, in Mostoles (Madrid), joining Campus PHE Grand Masters, photography workshops and master classes that will be held in Alcalá de Henares. Besides, Descubrimientos PHE expands its scope and organizes portfolio reviews in Lima and Mexico City. For the first time, PHotoEspaña and the Banco Santander Foundation will organize an educational programme for the youth, in which 198 students of 6 Madrid's high schools will participate. The programmes for general public, which are addressed to people of every age and education level with an interest in photography, will include guided tours of the Festival exhibitions, workshops for children and young people as well as family programmes to allow families to enjoy PHotoEspaña all together.

PHotoEspaña faces a new challenge in 2009: the international promotion of the Festival as per PHotoEspaña International. This ambitious project, which will not be carried out during June and July, the regular dates of PHotoEspaña, promotes the spread of exhibitions and professional programs of PHotoEspaña beyond Spanish boundaries. The exhibition programme of PHE09 will include two exhibition venues outside Spain: Portugal will host again some of the exhibitions of the Official Section of the Festival and, for the fist time, Italy will also be international venue. The Italian programme, created with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Regional Government of Madrid as part of the Made in Mad programme, will be carried out in Milan starting in October. The internationalization of the Festival will be also applied to programmes with pedagogical and professional aims. PHotoEspaña will allow the viewing of portfolios Descubrimientos PHE Madrid, Lima and Mexico City with the support of the Cervantes Institute and the AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation).

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Nature and Cultures - Photographic Gallery in Arles

2009-05-11T00:59:05Z

Celebrating 20 years of award-winning photography, Remi Benali reveals his sensibility for light and color at his gallery in the heart of Provence. Located in the historic city of Arles, the Nature & Cultures Photographic Gallery offers a rotating selection of 25 prints as well as the possibility to order from an online portfolio and an extensive collection photographed in over 80 countries. Nature & Cultures was formed as a means of sharing Remi's enthusiasm for the diversity of our civilizations and the wonders of our natural world.

Munem Wasif

2008-09-06T07:55:51Z

Munem Wasif, is in Perpignan (France), until September the 14th, for "Visa pour l'image 2008". He presents "Bangladesh, standing on the edge."

Laurent Geslin

2008-05-19T20:10:46Z

Laurent Geslin photographer of urban wildlife.

View Laurent Geslin's website

Alain Pons

2008-03-03T08:45:54Z

Photographer Alain Pons has released a serie of photo guides of Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, Botswana, and India. His models are tigers, bears, oryx and elephants. He is one of six animal photographers (Tony Crocetta, Vincent Munier, Michel et Christine Denis-Huot, Dominique Delfino) showing their work int the exhibition "Latitude Animal" in Drancy (France ) until march the 30th.

Michał Szlaga

2007-11-24T16:08:17Z

Michał Szlaga lives and works in Gdansk.
"Gdansk Shipyard has always been my biggest interest: since 2002 I have been taking pictures to show the changes it is going through, its workers and beautiful architecture."
He works for Newsweek Poland, Przekroj, Twój Styl...
Michał Szlaga

Travel Images

2007-11-24T15:48:54Z

Travel Images, a visual journey through Europe.

Visa pour l'image - Perpignan 2007

2007-09-13T09:22:50Z

France - Perpignan - until Septembre the 16th.
PR : Visa pour l'Image is now 19 years old.
And these nineteen years have been devoted to promoting a certain type of photography analyzing events around the world and going beyond the coverage presented by the traditional medial. Some people may find this attitude provocative, but that is the goal, as this is the only way of exposing and speaking out against so many negative forces in the world.

]]> Visa pour l'Image is an event supported by 4000 professionals working in photography and who come from many countries. 2007 will also be a milestone year, registering the three millionth visitor, and this gives an idea of the scope of the festival and the way it has grown.
Visa pour l'Image is not a festival of glitter, and it must continue to expose all the dramatic events which, unfortunately, still prevail and spread, while people so often turn their backs on a spirit of kindness or tolerance to fellow humans, doing so for any number of reasons (e.g. ethnic, religious, economic or political reasons, or simply for personal ambition). Every day more numbers are added to the already millions of victims - abused, forced to join groups or militia, or exterminated - so many innocent victims.
Visa pour l'Image also has its own battle to wage, defending a profession under threat with a wabe of restructuring, and defending individuals in cases of hostage-taking, an ever more prevalent threat, and sometimes reality, for photographers and journalists whose only fault has been to pursue the quest for truth out in the field, despite the dangers involved.
They are not reckless, they are simply doing their job, and we are duty bound to condemn any such violations of human rights and freedom. Visa pour l'Image asserts its commitment. The event is built around basic values of respect for individuals and individual rights. You may rest assured that we shall not shift from that position.
Guy Peron June 2007

Rencontres d'Arles 2007

2007-06-30T12:48:04Z

After the Depardon maelstrom, our joy at the success achieved (52,000 visitors, 20% of them foreign; overall, a 50% rise on 2005) was tinged with concerns: what future could we invent so as not to lose the impetus generated and the movement that had carried us along. This perplexity definitely has a starry-eyed “forever onwards and upwards” side to it.

]]> But is it an option to do otherwise, planning from year to year a sudden change of pace – a slow movement for the peace of body and soul, after a few crazy high-tempo numbers? Pierre Barouh writes on the discs of his Saravah label a pensée that has become famous: Il y a des années où l’on a envie de ne rien faire (“There are years when you feel like doing nothing”). Even for supporters of economic “degrowth”, this appealing suggestion is hard to implement. And you don’t know François Hébel and the Rencontres teams very well if you can imagine them ironing crumpled clothes while they wait for the next wedding. Listening to creators and aspiring to change and inventiveness calls for limitless impatience and the absolute need to encounter more people, to find out more, to look further, to see and see again, fearing only an unthinkable loss of desire and the familiar threat of a cruising speed fit for laidback holidaymakers. Continuing means doing more and being better, and only responding to the everlasting questions – “How will you manage? Is there life after Parr and Depardon? Who will be the new artistic director? Quick, a name!” – by inventing new pleasures and fresh discoveries. Thus it was in 2005, the year of a magnificent edition of the Rencontres, which François Hébel devised and set to music and images without relying on a deus ex machina. We didn’t fall back on our own strengths; rather, we adopted another kind of openness, more attentive to the diversity of artists’ eyes. And this kind of alternation is, we feel, suitable. So the 2007 Rencontres will be a well: the water of lives and cities, drawn from the creative springs. Whereas 2006 revolved around one man, his artistic siblings and the French-speaking world, 2007 will venture far afield, to China and India, in search of a living history of modern and contemporary times.

Arles (France)
From jully the 3rd until September the 16th
Source Rencontres d'Arles

Alive Exhibition - Paris

2007-05-22T18:21:57Z

“Alive” is not only beautiful pictures of animals. It is also about our lifestyles, with facts and figures, and presents the paths we should follow in the future. We are all responsible for our planet. It is up to each and every one of us to realize that we must act by taking some simple and obvious measures. Let us all adopt more meaningful everyday gestures. Now is the time.

Yann Arthus Bertrand

Paris - France
Quai Branly : from 21st may to 22nd august 2007

PHotoEspaña 2007

2007-05-21T12:10:23Z

Between May 30 and July 22, PHE07 will be offering more than 60 exhibitions with work by photographers and visual artists from 31 countries. Twenty-six international curators are involved in the programming of this edition.

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Bruce Davidson, Lynn Davis and Sylvia Plachy will all be exhibiting in Spain for the very first time. The Festival will include retrospectives on the work of Zhang Huan, Andres Serrano and Man Ray. Sebastião Salgado and Raymond Depardon also feature.

Neorealism. The new image of Italy, 1932-1960; Local. The end of globalisation; and Margins are the major group exhibitions on this year's programme.

PHotoEspaña will also include work by a new generation of young Spanish photographers at an exhibition of the NOPHOTO Collective and Five European perspectives. Spanish and Latin- American photography (Cinco miradas europeas. Fotografía española e hispanoamericana).

World Heritage Site Cuenca is one of the new Festival venues.

For its tenth anniversary, PHotoEspaña will be crossing the border: Le Jeu de Paume gallery is joining the official programme with an exhibition in Paris. The Arles Festival will also be staging an exhibition on Alberto García-Alix, organised by PHotoEspaña.

The exhibition rooms of the Teatro Circo Price, the BBVA and the Instituto Cervantes are set to make their Festival début. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Biblioteca Nacional and the Fundación Canal are also taking part in the Official Section.

PHE Encounters (Encuentros PHE) will bring more than 50 international specialists to Madrid to analyse the present and future of photography. Campus PHE will be organising workshops in Aranjuez with Peter Beard, Isabel Muñoz, Gilles Peress, Anders Petersen, Eugenio Recuenco and others.

A particularly special event will also be descending on Madrid's famous arts district, “El Barrio de las Letras”. Photography Night will include slide projections and live music in the streets and squares of the Spanish capital.

The general catalogue will take the form of a dictionary featuring the 190 artists who have had their own exhibitions over the ten years of the Festival's history.

More at www.phedigital.com

Olivier Laban-Mattei

2007-04-08T10:13:57Z

AFP photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei has been awarded the 11th "Georges Bendrihem" prize for European political photography, for a picture of the French ruling UMP party chief and former interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, talking to journalists during his party's summer conference in Marseille in September 2006.

AFP

Andreas Gursky

2007-03-19T09:34:55Z

If you’ve never seen Andreas Gursky ‘s giant photos, here is your chance. His work is to be seen in Munich’s Haus der Kunst until may the 13th

PMA 2007

2007-03-10T11:15:49Z

The leading international convention and trade show, PMA 07 hosts retail entrepreneurial memory makers from around the world, including photo retailers, professional photographers, mass merchandisers, professional labs, custom picture framers, and scrapbook retailers. The PMA 07 International Convention features more than 200 sessions, encouraging the discovery of more opportunities, professional development, and the inspiration to act on emerging trends. Further opportunities are found at the PMA 07 Trade Show, offering more picture-related products than any other event. PMA® members help people everywhere create, keep, display and share memories through pictures.

PMA 07 International Convention and Trade Show
March 8-11, 2007
Las Vegas Convention Center, South HAll
Las Vegas, Nevada USA