Tony Ray-Jones & Martin Parr - Only in England

Event details

The first exhibition at Media Space shows 50 previously unseen works by British photographer Tony Ray-Jones alongside rarely seen early black and white photographs taken by his fellow countryman Martin Parr. Between 1966 and 1969 Ray-Jones created a body of photographic work documenting English customs and identity. Humorous yet melancholy, these photographs were a departure from anything else being produced at the time. Tragically, in 1972, Ray-Jones died from Leukaemia, aged just 30. His short but prolific career had a lasting influence on the development of British photography. Inspired by him, Martin Parr produced The Non-Conformists, a project shot in black and white that started within two years of Ray-Jones’ death and demonstrates his legacy and influence. Parr was invited to select the works by Ray-Jones for show, from 2700 contact sheets and negatives in the archive.

September 21, 2013 till March 16, 2014 United Kingdom London

Mon-Sun: 10am-6pm

Venue details

Media Space
2nd floor Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2DD
United Kingdom
T: +44 20 7942 4000

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/mediaspace

Sanne De Wilde - The Dwarf Empire

 

De Brakke Grond presents The Dwarf Empire, the first solo-exhibition by the Belgium photographer Sanne De Wilde. The Dwarf Empire, a theme park in the South of China, is the empire of 70 dwarfs. Every day the dwarfs present a show for tourists. In the exhibition, different realities rub against, alongside and over one another. De Wilde reveals a diffuse role-play and shows how she, as a photographer, became part of this artificial reality. The exhibition will open on Friday 31 January, 7pm.

 

February 01, 2014 till March 14, 2014 Netherlands Amsterdam

Mon-Fri: 11am-6pm Sat-Sun: 1pm-6pm

Venue details

Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond
Nes 45
1012 KD Amsterdam

www.brakkegrond.nl

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Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games – Women’s Hockey Photo Inspiration

Concept for Women’s Hockey Photos

Up here in Canada, we take our hockey pretty seriously.  The women on the Canadian Woman’s Hockey Team who are over at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games right now are perpetually one of the top woman’s hockey teams in the world.

That is to say, Canadian women’s hockey players are pretty badass – and if we were going to use them for inspiration for this shoot – it couldn’t be all prissy and pink.

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Not a Metaphor: An Interview with Alisa Resnik

Photographer Alisa Resnik

Alisa Resnik’s (b. 1976, Russia) gloomy photos of dark interiors, people in bars and streets at night, have received a lot of attention recently. Her series One Another won the 2013 European Publisher’s Award for Photography, and as a result was published simultaneously by the five publishers supporting the award. On Christmas Eve, Resnik made time to speak with GUP about loneliness, looking for the light in the dark and how that is not a metaphor.

Your photographic work takes place mostly at night in restaurants and bars, but you also work as a waitress. Do these two occupations influence each other?

When you are a waiter, you are an observer. It’s interesting to look at people. Just to see how a person moves: how does the person order, how does the person eat, how does the person relate to the waiter? People don’t know that you are an observer, they’re eating and drinking, they’re just relaxing. They don’t know that there’s somebody who’s looking at them in a phenomenological way! (Laughs) I’ve learned a lot about people while working as a waitress, and I use it in my photography.

 

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Tiksi - An interview with Evgenia Arbugaeva

Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva

Since her graduation from the International Centre of Photography (ICP) in 2009, Evgenia Arbugaeva (1985, Russia) has gained worldwide recognition for her work on Tiksi, a small town in Northern Russia resting on the coast of the Arctic Ocean, where she spent the early years of her childhood. In 2012 she received the Bright Spark award in the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Competition for emerging photographers, and a Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant.

In 2013 Arbugaeva was named one of PDN’s ‘30 Emerging Photographers to Watch’ and she won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award at the Rencontres d’Arles. She has also been selected for the 20th edition of the Joop Swart Masterclass, the annual masterclass for emerging photographers organised by World Press Photo.
Things seem to be taking off in your photography. Where did it all start for you?

When I was an exchange student in high school in Connecticut (USA), I took a class in photography.
There I learnt many things that got me into photography. Somewhat later, when I was around 19 years old, I met a female ‘Even’: a member of a nomadic indigenous tribe of Yakutia (Russia) who lives part-time in the city and part- time in a reindeer herd. Her son was wounded after a gas explosion and she didn’t have money for his surgery. 

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Eyes in progress - Social Documentary workshop with Tomasz Gudzowaty

Tomasz Gudzowaty

Photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty hosts a social documentary workshop at Eyes in Progress in Paris from 14 until 17 May. Gudzowaty began his photographic career with nature photography, later turning to social documentary. For the past few years he has focused on sports photography and is particularly interested in non-commercial sports. His work has been published in Max Magazine, L’Equipe, The Guardian, Newsweek, Forbes, Time, Photo, British Journal of Photography and Spook Magazine. Gudzowaty has won many of the profession’s premier contests, including nine previous World Press Photo awards, as well as Pictures of the Year and NPPA Best of Photojournalism awards. 

The workshop is open to professional photographers, advanced amateurs and journalists.
Applications will be open until April 14th, 2014
For more information visit Eyes in Progress  

Top Photography Films

Photographer David Barreiro

In one of his most recent projects called “The Hill of the Restless Wolves”, Daniel Barreiro went to Iceland to document the construction of a neighbourhood from scratch in the face of the dooming economic crisis of 2008.

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International Kontinent Photography Awards

Categories:

• Advertising - Single Image
• Fine Art - Single Image
• Fine Art - Projects (2-5 Photographs)
• Editorial/Documentary - Single Image
• Editorial/Documentary - Projects (2-5 Photographs)
• Nature - Single Image

Awards

• Grand Winner
  • Title Award - Kontinent Photographer of the Year
  • Kontinent Award Trophy and Certificate
  • 1,000 USD Artlica Agency Grant
  • Cover of Kona #2 Annual Book
  • Winning photograph/project will be exhibited in annual exhibition
  • Showcased in Artlica Projects/Network for 1 year
  • Think Tank Photo Sling O Matic 20 Bag
  • Worldwide Press and Exposure
• Awards for each Category Winners
• Also several Honorable Mentions will be given for the successful photographs from each category.

Winners will be announced on the awards website on June 2014. 

You may submit as many entries, in as many categories, as you see fit. Online submission of digital photographs via the website or by email. Judging criteria: artistic merit, originality, subject and style

Image requirements: JPG format; 72 dpi; up to 1500 pixels in height or width; no embedded marks, logos, names or borders. Digitally manipulated images are accepted in Fine Art and Advertising categories. For Editorial and Nature categories; minor corrections (color corrections, cropping etc.) are acceptable.

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Fifty Awesome Photo Workshops Around the World

You could go alone to New Zealand, Mexico, Cuba, or wherever your wanderlust takes you, and bring your camera along for the trip — hope to stumble upon the ‘photographic’ spots, and take some pictures you think might be good.

Or, you could sign up for an amazing, fully immersive photography workshop in an exotic locale with a pro photographer who knows the land, guides you to all the best spots, gives you feedback during critiques, and helps you edit your new travel portfolio along the way. We prefer the latter — and after finding out about all the amazing photography courses happening all over the world this year, we had to share. Wherever and whatever your heart desires to go and photograph, there’s probably a workshop to guide you through it.

Here’s a list of just some of the photography classes happening around the world in 2014. So throw a dart on a map, and follow your arrow wherever it points.

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