FRANCE’S MINISTRY OF CULTURE COMMISSIONS 200 PHOTOGRAPHERS for RADIOSCOPIE DE FRANCE
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
FRANCE
December, 2021
The first hundred photojournalists have been commissioned to document the state of the country and its territories in the time of the ongoing health crisis. The Bibliothèque nationale is managing this enormous and historic project which will ultimately include 200 photographers. In 2023 it will organize an exhibition and accompanying catalogue and ultimately be the custodian of the works in its formidable collection. Jane Evelyn Atwood will produce a social and environmental profile of the westernmost point of France, the isle of Ouessant off the coast of Brittany.
BNF Press Release (in French) click here
The Photobook Phenomenon: 1999-2021
MoMA FORUM, New York
December 8, 2021
Miyuki Hinton and Joshua Chuang (among others) speak in MoMA’s Forum on Contemporary Photography on their scholarship regarding Kikuji Kawada’s Chizu maquette which resides in the collection of the NYPL. This presentation coincides with the new book, Chizu (Maquette Edition), MACK, 2021.
Click here to attend virtually via Zoom.
SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN
PARIS PHOTO 2021
November 11, 2021
SIRKKA-LIISA-KONTTINEN in Paris Photo spotlight - ELLE Magazine
WITHO WORMS BOOK SIGNING
PARIS PHOTO 2021
November 12, 2021
Witho Worms will be present at booth B30 to sign copies of his new book,
Fantastik Fangst at 4:00 PM CET Friday, November 12.
Paris Photo, 2021
The Gallery will be presenting in this year’s Paris Photo at the Grand Palais Éphémère.
The Gallery (booth B30) will be presenting a three-person exhibition titled Community Ties/Liens Communautaires with vintage ART FAIR - PARIS PHOTO 2021
November 10 – November 14, 2021works by Jane Evelyn Atwood, John Cohen and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
This year’s edition of Paris Photo will be held at the Grand Palais Éphémère, situated on the Champ-de-Mars, facing the Eiffel Tour. This temporary space designed by architects Wilmotte & Associés, will bring together leading galleries and art book dealers for it’s long-awaited 24th edition. The best of photographic creation from vintage and modern masters to the latest contemporary trends will be presented alongside an ambitious program of exhibitions, conversations, artist signatures sessions and curated fair paths.
Jacques SONCK, Untitled (Ghent), 1984
ANIMAL HOUSE
L. PArker stephenson photographs
New York, NY
September 18 – November 13, 2021
The Gallery’s new exhibition honors dogs and assorted feathered, hoofed, and scaled companions.
Scheduled to coincide with Madison Avenue’s “Shop With Your Dog” Welcome Back Saturday on September 25th, this exhibition and other neighborhood events will help to benefit the Humane Society. A percentage of sales from this day will be donated to the worthy organization.
Come share in the celebration of our loving, supportive and productive animal companions and their irreplaceable roles in our lives !
John DAVIES. Durham Ox, Sheffield, 1981
IN CONVERSATION: Photographers from the Sheffield Project
Weston Park Museum
Sheffield, UK
Saturday, September 25th, 2021
John Davies joins Kate Mellow, John Kippin, Patrick Sutherland, Tim Smith, Graham Gaunt and Bill Stephenson in conversation led by curator of the upcoming exhibition LINK
EXHIBITION: During the 1980s, Sheffields’ Untitled Gallery (now Site Gallery) commissioned a series of photographers to document the city at a pivotal moment in its history. The Sheffield Project will show how socially-engaged photographers reflected on this monumental period of change for the city and its people.
On view October 23 - November 28th. Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, UK
FACING BRItain: british photography since the 1960s
Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany
september 3, 2021 – january 9, 2022
This second venue of the touring exhibition Facing Britain paints a portrait of Great Britain from time of its application to join the European Economic Community in 1963 to its exit from the EU. in 2020. Historically virulent topics such as youth unemployment, the decline of the mining industry or protests and demonstrations against Margaret Thatcher's policies are examined as well as current issues such as gender justice, consumer society, Brexit or migration. Examples of work from both Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and John Davies are included.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
NANTUCKET SUMMER ANTIQUES SHOW
AUGUST 6-9, OPENING PREVIEW AUGUST 5TH, 2021
Boys and Girls Club, Nantucket, MA
The Antiques Council is presenting the sixth annual Nantucket Summer Antiques Show with over 30 antiques dealers and art galleries from the US and abroad.
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs will be showcasing international art from the 1970s, in addition to earlier work from c. 1960 and contemporary photography. The rhythm of the presentation will be stylish, creative, and vibrant. Jan Yoors’ bold and colorful abstract tapestry and charcoal nudes and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s timeless photographs of seaside activities will offer works in a variety of media, scale, and texture. These will be balanced by a grid of Witho Worms’ contemporary minimal and meditative platinum prints of coastal landscapes.
SEASIDE: PHOTOGRAPHED
Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange
Traveling Exhibition
NewLyn, uk
Wednesday, May 19 — Saturday, July 3, 2021
The British seaside is represented from the 1850s to the present. Over 60 photographers from the UK, Europe, and US are represented including Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, whose Writing in the Sand series will be on view.
https://newlynartgallery.co.uk/activities/seaside-photographed/
Madison Avenue Gallery Walk
MADISON AVENUE GALLERY WALK
Saturday, May 15, 2021
It’s spring, time to re-emerge and see art!
ARTnews and the Madison Avenue BID are once again organizing this season's Gallery Walk. This free event invites the public to visit over 30 participating galleries to view their spring exhibitions and, with a reservation, to attend talks led by artists and gallerists from East 57th Street to East 86th Street.
On view at the Gallery will be Witho Worms’ Polderland series. Addressing issues of land reclaimed from coastline, Worms’ divides the horizon into sea or soil and atmospheric Dutch sky. These minimal yet detailed contact platinum prints present a landscape manipulated by human intervention for the purpose of creating agricultural fields and sites of habitation.
Sign-up for a talk between gallerist and photographer, who will be joining via Zoom.
Lancashire Photography Festival
Lancashire, UK
Friday, April 2 - Sunday, May 23, 2021
Accessible for all to view in a COVID safe manner, John Davies' iconic British Landscape series is installed in Preston’s square in the form of large scale free standing pieces.
BOOK: KIKUJI KAWADA 20
At 87 years of age, Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada shows no signs of slowing down. Founding member of the influential VIVO group and internationally renowned for his photographic oeuvre, Kawada’s latest photobook “20” is composed of images originally uploaded by Kawada to his instagram page between 2019 and 2020. CLICK TO ORDER
KIKUJI KAWADA: ‘ENDLESS MAP’
Exhibition at PGI, Tokyo
JANUARY 20 - MARCH 13, 2021
A new interpretation of master Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada’s series, The Map, this new selection includes never before seen images from his original negatives as well as iconic favorites. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima which this series references, this ever curious eighty-eight year old photographer revisited, scanned and printed images that he made in the early 1960s.
The resulting rich detailed pigment prints appear to glow on the warm textured 16 x 20 inch thick washi paper. This presentation translates into a completely new language from versions of the past. Currently on view at PGI in Tokyo, the prints (in editions of 3) are also available through us in the US.