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| | More than 110 galleries from around the world exhibit at this year's Photo London 11 – 14 May 2023.
Exhibitions in London: here
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| | In Cologne the Photoszene Festival will take place 12-21 May 2023. In addition to the core programme over 70 other venues in Cologne are participating with their current exhibitions: here
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| | | Rodney Smith, ODALISQUE NO. 1, WINFIELD ESTATE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK | | | | | | | | ... until 30 June 2023 | | |  | | | | | | | | | | Elegant, charming, and stunningly beautiful, Rodney Smith’s fashion photography is a delightful revelation.
Mystery and manners, romance and fun—the sophisticated compositions and stylish characters in the extraordinary pictures of fashion photographer Rodney Smith (1947–2016) exist in a timeless world of his imagination. Born in New York City, Smith started out as a photo-essayist, turned to portrait photography, and found his niche, and greatest success, in fashion photography. Inspired by W. Eugene Smith, taught by Walker Evans, and devoted to the techniques of Ansel Adams, Smith was driven by the dual ideals of technical mastery and pure beauty.
Best known for his exceptional fashion photographs, Rodney Smith’s life in photography brought him full circle—away from everything that he knew, and then back to the place he so desperately tried to leave behind. Over the course of a successful career that lasted more than 45 years, Smith developed a unique photographic vision, one that is beautiful, ordered, and inhabited by well-dressed ladies and gentlemen. In each of his carefully crafted compositions, Smith banishes the chaos of modern life for another that is grounded in a romantic view of the past. Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, he asks us to follow him down the rabbit hole to a fantastical place that is just beyond our reach, but one intended to inspire us to be better versions of ourselves. For Smith, who, like many gifted creatives, suffered from bouts of depression and anxiety, photography was a means of staying engaged with the world around him. It was also a tool for spiritual exploration and self-understanding.
-Paul Martineau, Curator of Photography at the J. Paul Getty Museum | | |
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| | | © Saïdou Dicko. | | | | | | | | 14 May – 8 July 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Saïdou Dicko was born in Burkina Faso in 1979. He lives and works in Paris, France.
Saïdou is a self-taught visual artist (photographer, videographer and painter).
At the age of five, Saïdou, a Fulani Shepherd, learns to draw by collecting shadows of his sheep on the Sahel soils. Naturally, the shadow is present in all of his work. In 2005, he embarked on photography. Six months after his photographic debut, he presents his first exhibition in the 2006 Dakar Biennial Off, where he won a prize, the first in a long series.
To the question "Who are you?" Saidou Dicko will answer: "I am an adult child" From the child he has his unbiased and curious view of the world in which there are always new secrets to discover. From the awakened one a critical and questioning view of the same world.
The portraits of people Dicko photographed on his travels through West Africa, presented in this show of works, show these two sides of his identity. | | |
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| | | © Shahryar Nashat. | | | | | | | | 13 May – 2 July 2023 | | | | Opening Reception May 13, 4–7PM | | | | | | | | | | | | | We met for lunch to continue our conversation, soon noticing the celebrity, incognito, taking a meeting nearby, and such serendipity prompted a reaction: Use this strange presence as a device to work through the current moment in relation to how bodies, whether living currency or undead, circulate, distort, unalive, and, yet, love.
— Bruce Hainley
This project is made possible with the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. | | |
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| | Roseanne Lynch, Untitled [31.5.4] 2019
Graphite on Silver gelatin solarised unique print, 40x50cm | | | | | | | | 11 May – 12 July 2023 | | | | Official Exhibition Launch From 5.00pm Saturday 13 May 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | This exhibition of recent works by Roseanne Lynch highlights her consideration of photography’s material and speculative edges. Her images record the compelling remnants of 20th century utopian movements through her time at the Bauhaus Buildings Research Archive and with various architectural sites in Europe and Canada. These connect with her non-representational images made through darkroom processes and interventions on photographic surfaces. Using light manipulations, plays with time and ambiguities of space, her approach to image-making sustains her photographic concerns regarding image construction. Her images harness the material traces of light, offering gradations and consequence to create concentrated optical plays of shape and representational spatial forms. By engaging with the structures and functions of photography, this gathering of Lynch’s work explores how photographic transformation influences the ways in which cultural memory and imaginaries are visually produced.
The exhibition title borrows words from The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind E. Krauss. | | |
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aus der Serie: Zweisamkeit, 2021
C-Print
Bildmaß: 18,2 x 14,7 cm / Rahmenmaß: 54,8 x 48,7 cm |
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| | | A Burden consumed in Sips_©Lebohang Kganye Mov Productions | | | Lebohang Kganye »
Shall you return Everything, but the Burden | | | | 12 May – 5 October 2023 | | | Sunday 14 May 11:00 Spot On: Lebohang Kganye
Matinée for the exhibition in the presence of the artist Lebohang Kganye and the curator Lucia Halder | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lebohang Kganye (*1990 in Johannesburg / South Africa) is a visual artist and photographer living and working in Johannesburg. She gained her first experience in photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg in 2009 and completed the Advanced Photography Programme in 2011. She received a Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Johannesburg in 2014 and is currently pursuing her Masters in Fine Arts at Witwatersrand University in South Africa. In 2022 she was one of three contemporary artists representing South Africa at the Venice Biennale.
Kganye, who is best known for her photographic work, often combines the archival and the performative with a practice that focuses on storytelling and memory as it plays out in the familial experience. Her ongoing interest in the materiality of photography is variously explored through the use of sculpture, performance and moving images. While reflecting a particular South African experience, she also critically examines oral traditions and memory as an unreliable repository.
The starting point for Lebohang Kganye's project is a collection of images by the German painter and photographer Marie Pauline Thorbecke, which are kept in the archives of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Thorbecke undertook an expedition to Cameroon with her husband Franz from 1911-1913 on behalf of the German Colonial Society. Some 110 years later, Kganye is travelling through the country again on these tracks and weaving memories, impressions and narratives from a female perspective into a video work and a spatial installation. | | |
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| | THE OPENING. AN INSTITUTION, A DEPOT, THE BOXES, 2023
© Pablo Lerma, Maurice Kohl | | | | | | | | THE OPENING. AN INSTITUTION, A DEPOT, THE BOXES | | | | 12 May – 18 June 2023 | | | | Opening: Friday 12 May 13:00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pablo Lerma (*1986 in Barcelona / Spain) is an image-based media artist, publisher and educator based in Amsterdam. He studied Painting and Studio Art at the University of Barcelona, General Studies of Photography at the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya and Image Text at Ithaca College in New York.
Pablo Lerma's artistic practice develops at the intersection of photography and writing with a focus on visual archives and vernacular materials that address concepts of time, erosion, identity and counter-narrative. His work consist of a rich variety from photographic installations to publications.
He is the founder of the publishing house Meteoro Editions (US-NL), a platform for the creation of art publications with a focus on projects engaging with non-art photography, archives, utopias and fictional representations of the world. He is currently teaching social art practice at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and is a faculty member in media and photography at Webster University in Leiden. For the past ten years he has been a faculty member in photography and social justice at the International Center of Photography in New York and a professor of photography at Kean University in New Jersey.
As an artist, theorist and mediator, Pablo Lerma questions the archive of the Nazi Documentation Centre with its photographic holdings from the National Socialist era for aspects of visibility and invisibility, representation and trauma, and (sub)seeks the historical and contemporary power structures that are fixed in it. Through a reenactment, the memorial's holdings will be activated and the opening, viewing and storage of archival materials will become the subject of a performance. | | |
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| | GHOSTS@WORK, 2023
© Lilly Lulay | | | | | | | | 12 May – 11 June 2023 | | | Spot On: Lilly Lulay Sunday 14 May 13:00
Guided tour and talk with the artist and Johanna Gummlich followed by a workshop | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lilly Lulay (*1985 in Frankfurt / Germany) is currently based in Frankfurt and Brussels. She studied photography, sculpture and media sociology at the HfG Offenbach and the ENSBA Bordeaux. In times of the flood of images of the digital age, Lulay uses her own and other people's private photos as "raw material" for her projects, which she processes with different techniques such as embroidery, laser cutting or painting. This results in collages, videos, paintings and installations that critically question the two-dimensional, purely visual perception of photographic images.
In her project for Artist Meets Archive in collaboration with the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Lilly Lulay explores the question of how artificial intelligence views images and what, in comparison, guides its own artistic attention when viewing images. The basis for this is the archive of the Cologne (stereo) photographer Karl-Heinz Hatlé, who travelled many parts of the world from Europe to Latin America and Asia between 1961-1999, capturing the first signs of a globalised world of goods with his camera. Together with students from the Holweide Comprehensive School, Lulay reflects on today's image culture, which is shaped by algorithms and image recognition programmes. In her works, photographs are literally deconstructed so that perception is directed from the visual surface to the material, technical and social structures in which our photographs are embedded.
In Lilly Lulay's current projects, she investigates the influence of the smartphone on our everyday photographic culture and collective social behaviour. In doing so, Lulay identifies the smartphone as a popular photographic tool that has not only produced new globally networked image cultures, but… | | |
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| | | HUDO-ZAKA, NEGISHI: MISSISSIPI BAY © Naoya Hatakeyama | | | | | | | | 12 May – 17 September 2023 | | | | Opening: Friday 12 May 15:00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Naoya Hatakeyama (b. 1958 in Rikuzen-takata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan) is an artist and photographer based in Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tsukuba in 1984 with a degree in art from Japanese photographer and photo-theoretist Kiyoji Otsuji. Known for a series of extensive works dealing with the relationship between nature and civilisation, he has created a thoughtful panorama of images showing places and landscapes shaped by industrialisation and urbanisation since the 1980s.
Hatakeyama's work features series on landscapes and architecture that document a man-made nature in which he himself, however, no longer appears. In Germany, Hatakeyama photographed, among other things, the controlled detonation of the Westfalen I/II Zeche in 2003. Furthermore, he was awarded the Kimura Ihei Award of Photography in 1997 and the Mainichi Art Award in 2000.
For his exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Naoya Hatakeyama uses photographs of Japanese landmarks from the Meiji era of Japan (1868-1912) as inspiration for his own photographic investigation of these places. He is interested in the temporal aspect that lies between the tourist views of the time and the landscape of today. The playful juxtaposition of archive material and his own photographs also opens up the spectrum between photography as a document and photography as a work of art. | | |
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| | | |  | | | | THOMAS ALBDORF: APPLES AND ORANGES, PART TWO, 2022 |
| | | | Fragile Infrastrukturen | | | | | | | Fri 12 May 18:00
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| | Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
'Memoryscapes, St Petersburg, Russia', 2000
Photograph; Diasecâ
148 x 208 cm
© Ursula Schulz-Dornburg | | | | | | | | 13 May – 1 July 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Memoryscapes is a solo exhibition by the German artist Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, realised in collaboration with Lucy Rogers.
In 2012, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg travelled to north-eastern Kazakhstan to photograph the remains of the Soviet Union's largest nuclear weapons programme. Located in a vast area south-west of the city of Kurchatov, Opytnoe Pole was once a top-secret open-air laboratory, used to measure and record the devastating effects of nuclear weapons. Taken almost twenty years after the closure of the facility, Schulz-Dornburg's photographs portray a desolate landscape, devoid of life and still suffering the effects of radiation. The area was looted after its closure in 1991 – an act which inadvertently dispersed radioactive material across the continent – and later subject to an intensive clean-up operation by the Kazakh, Russian and US authorities. It is a landscape still laden with the artefacts of an architecture built to be destroyed.
Born in Berlin in 1938, Schulz-Dornburg grew up in the aftermath of the Second World War – in a divided Germany and an era defined by new borders in Europe and elsewhere. Since the 1970s, she has sought out places of transit and borderlands, locations geographically and politically caught up in a state of in-between, where multiple layers of history intersect, coexist and collide. Reflecting the lands in which she has travelled, her archive reveals a constellation which extends beyond the scope of individual images – an entanglement of narratives which overlap in time and space. Exhibitions and publications become a method for thinking through the archive, bringing together new and familiar works into new combinations and sequences. | | |
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C-Type colour print
29.7 x 41.9 cm 11 11/16 x 16 7/16 ins (11857)
© Eliza Hatch |
| | | | Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection | | | | | | | Tue 10 May
11 May – 14 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | Bieke Depoorter, We walked together, Portland, Oregon, USA, May 2015 © Bieke Depoorter/Magnum Photos. Courtesy the artist | | | | | | | | | | | ... until 11 June 2023 | | | | Winner will be announced Thursday 11 May | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition will feature a selection of work from the nominated projects of the four 2023 shortlisted artists. Their nominated projects are:
Nominated for her exhibition A Chance Encounter at C/O Berlin (30 April – 7 September 2022).
Bieke Depoorter (b. 1986, Kortrijk, Belgium) blurs the traditional relationship between photographer and subject. She questions the role and responsibilities of the photographer, the possibility or impossibility of truth in representation and grapples with personal and professional boundaries. Her nominated project presents two unfolding, ongoing, bodies of work, Michael and Agata . In both, a chance encounter develops into an enduring personal relationship and, thereafter, into an interrogation of the medium. A selection of work from the Michael project will be on display at The Photographers’ Gallery.
In Michael , Depoorter examines the life and the disappearance of a man she met on the streets of Portland, Oregon in 2015. Gifted three suitcases of Michael’s personal items, sketchbooks and essays, his subsequent disappearance turns Depoorter detective. Depoorter’s work documents her immersive, perhaps obsessive, quest to find Michael and to understand his life. In Agata, a first meeting in a Parisian strip-club in 2017 evolves with complex tension into an intricate, changing narrative. The project explores questions of collaboration, the limits of a creative friendship, performance, boundaries and authorship. | | |
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| | Ruby Rumié
AYELE AGYARE, 2022
C-print
58.27 x 58.27 in. (148 x 148 cm) | | | | | | | | 12 May – 16 July, 2023 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 11 May, 6pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | "As an artist, my work always involves people, with them and for them,I create unusual narratives around daily situations to reveal new insights to what we have become overly accustomed to seeing."
Ruby Rumié’s fourth solo exhibition at the Nohra Haime Gallery, "Nosotros 172 años después," consists of a series of 100 photographs referencing the Colombian Caribbean: its people, their diversity and its food.
"Colombia is considered a country of many regions each with its own identity and characteristics. The Colombian Caribbean is no stranger to this. I started this project from the perspective of a Colombian woman, with a desire to question, as we are now living through a very tangible social fragmentation of our identity. During this questioning process of our history. I found and researched the collection of images of The Chorographic Commission and a series of academic texts from the 19th century. This allowed me to transfer this inquisitiveness to the nearest context that I am also familiar with, which is the Caribbean."
From this encounter and confrontation with these documents, "Nosotros 172 años después," Rumié invites us to reflect through these photographic portraitures on the lack of visual representations of the historical discourses that have defined the identity of the Colombian Caribbean from the New Granada to the present. "I chose food as a vehicle to create new narratives that celebrate the cultural diversity of this territory.
"The project puts together one hundred people from the Caribbean region whose unique characteristics share the passion and commitment for their trade, and express in a special way their taste and … | | |
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| | LAURA STEVENS
Altar (2023)
Archival pigment print, 70 x 100 cm | | | | | | | | 11 May – 30 June 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Galerie Miranda is delighted to present the second solo exhibition by artist Laura Stevens, entitled Tu oublieras aussi (You will also forget).
One of France’s most solicited portrait photographers, in her personal projects Stevens explores a resolutely feminine and contemporary point of view of the private sphere, questioning notions of desire, the passing of time, solitude and loss, the connection between the artist and her subject. For her first exhibition at Galerie Miranda, Corps d'hommes (2020), Stevens presented her perspective on the male nude, photographed in the private space of her Paris apartment bedroom. For this second exhibition, she pursues her questioning of the intimate sphere but this time considers two bodies, lovers, and what binds them, asking herself the question of the memory of desire and how to represent it.
Until now, the history of erotic photography has largely been written by and for men (Araki, Newton, Molinier, Mapplethorpe…), for the most part with explicit and performative images within a dominant-dominated framework. Several women photographers have made a mark in this territory but in general with a transgressive or militant posture (Krull, Natalia L, Ionesco, Cahun) that doesn’t fundamentally offer an alternative to the status quo. Fortunately, the list is longer of landmark women artists in other fields of photography - documentary, conceptual and experimental.
Confronted by the weight of these historical signatures, Laura Stevens quietly follows her own path, one that is feminine, free and egalitarian. In the tradition of Anglo-Saxon women photographers of the private sphere, such as Jo Ann Callis, Nan Goldin, Lise Sarfati and Mona Kuhn, Laura Stevens proposes a… | | |
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Gaza, Palaestina, 2017
aus der Serie: "Like a Bird"
© Johanna-Maria Fritz |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | 11 – 14 May 2023 | | | | Preview: Wednesday 10 May 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Photo London today announces details of its eighth edition, opening Wednesday 10th May 2023
Photo London today announces its eighth edition with the legendary British photographer Martin Parr named Photo London Master of Photography 2023 and an impressive global group of exhibitors already confirmed.
Commenting on their plans for the 2023 edition, Photo London Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad say: “Looking at the amazing global response to Photo London, and on the back of the announcement of our partnership with Creo to establish a new Fair in New York, we thought this was the right moment to turn the spotlight on Britain. And where better to start than with Martin Parr — the godfather of British photography. Martin is not only a towering figure in the UK photography scene but the British in all their eccentric glory have been his great theme for over half a century. Shot in the brand of heightened colour that Parr has made his own, his photographs are not only individually brilliant, but cumulatively amount to nothing less than a dazzling hymn to the brilliant, slightly bonkers nation that we call home and to the people with whom we live, work and play. More than that though, without Martin Parr’s exemplary practice today’s British photography scene would be much impoverished — and certainly a great deal less fun. So, it is with considerable delight that we will award Martin Parr this year’s Master of Photography. We very much look forward to the exhibition of his recent work for Photo London.”
Martin Parr is the eighth recipient of the award, which is presented every year to a living artist who has made an exceptional contributi… | | |
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| | Anastasia Samoylova
Untitled (Tokyo) 2022
Image Cities
100 x 125 cm
Archival Pigment Print, mounted, framed
© Anastasia Samoylova / courtesy of Galerie—Peter—Sillem | | | | | | | | | | | 11 – 14 May 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anastasia Samoylova (1984) is an American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. By utilizing tools and strategies related to digital media and commercial photography, her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque.
Image Cities is an exhaustive and conscientious work, produced in various locations, on how photography and images are integrated into the urban environment. Anastasia Samoylova revamps the vision and language of documentary photography in a working process that she defines as artisanal. Her images express the ambivalence and contradictions of today’s urban landscape.
Her books FloodZone and Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans were published by Steidl, her latest book Image Cities is out with Hatje Cantz. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art; Orlando Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; The Print Center Philadelphia, the Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, C/O Berlin, Germany, and the KBr Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, Spain, among others.
Anastasia Samoylova was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 and received the first KBr Photo Award by KBr Fundación | | |
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| | Gideon Mendel
Amjad Ali Laghari, Goth Bawal Khan village, Sindh Province, Pakistan 2022
Drowning World (Submerged Portraits)
70 x 70 cm
Chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper
© Gideon Mendel, courtesy ARTCO Gallery | | | | | | | | 11 – 14 May 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ARTCO Galleries are proud to announce a solo presentation of the world-renowned photographer, artist and activist Gideon Mendel at Photo London.
Mendel’s forty years of socially engaged photographic practice amount to a profound act of witnessing. His partisan projects are made with the intention to be of use, to both record the world we live in, and also to change it. The resulting photographs feature people from some of the poorest and wealthiest communities on the planet, at the moment of disaster all equally vulnerable to the floods and flames that envelop them.
The fundamental elements of fire and water become a levelling factor bringing Mendel’s subjects together in visual solidarity as they gaze directly at the camera, demanding the viewers close consideration of man-made global warming. In these devastated landscapes reality can seem inverted. With surreal reflections and ghostly charred remnants, we see the impressions of these climate events on both intimate personal spaces and areas of natural beauty. There is often an eerily precise symmetry to be found within the chaos.
Artco will showcase prints from the multiple narrative threads of Gideon Mendel’s highly acclaimed Drowning World and Burning World projects which capture the human experience and physical impacts of climate change.
Recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary photographers, Mendel’s intimate style of image-making and long-term commitment to socially engaged projects has earned him international acclaim. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied Psychology and African History at the University of Cape Town. He began photographing in the 1980s, during the final years of apartheid. It was this work … | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | 12 – 21 May 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | THE PROGRAMME OF THE 2023 PHOTOSZENE FESTIVAL
The renowned Photoszene Festival will take place in Cologne from May 12 to 21, 2023.
Seven exhibitions at ten locations in Cologne will form the core programme of the Photoszene Festival 2023: they include a show of current photographic positions in the Photoszene Co-Labs! and the residency project Artist Meets Archive #3.
In addition, more than 70 museums, galleries and art spaces in Cologne are participating with their photographic exhibition programs in the festival's large citywide participatory exhibition format. The NEXT! Festival der Jungen Photoszene is also aimed at young photographers and visitors with an extensive program.
Also new this year is the Thousandfold Photobook Fair, an international photobook market inviting visitors to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum on the opening weekend of May 13-14. It will be held in conjunction with the Portfolio Review SICHTBAR, which is now open for registrations! The opening weekend also offers an extensive program of events including a symposium, guided tours, and artist talks. | | |
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| | | | | | festival of contemporary photography | | | | | | | 12 – 14 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | 50 publishers and a programming and book signings. | | | | | | | Fri 12 May 18:00
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| | | | | | Soft and weak like water | | | | | | | – 9 Jul 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | THEME OF 2023 "BORDER" | | | | | | | – 14 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Rencontres photographiques de Montpellier 18th edition | | | | | | | 6 – 28 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale 2022 - 27 artists | | | | | | | – 27 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | European young photography festival | | | | | | | – 21 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Europe Matters | | | | | | | – 11 Jun 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Latvia via AI | | | – 31 May 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Thinking Historically in the Present | | | | | | | – 11 Jun 2023 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Turning Point. Turning World | | | | | | | – 11 Jun 2023 | | | | | |
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