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Alfredo De Stefano: Where Life and Death Meet

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MEXICO: conceptual and performative images that capture the physical nature and metaphysical possibility of deserts around the world.

10 April 2021 Americas

Robyn Stacey: Bringing the Museum to Life

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AUSTRALIA: Photographic tableaux that bring new life to the artefacts of historical and natural-history museums nationally and internationally.

27 March 2021 Oceania

Virginie Maillard: Metaphors of the Real

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FRANCE: As the old civilisation collapses generating crisis, illusion and corruption, the paradox of the real echoes through the imaginative lens of memory.

13 March 2021 Europe

Nana Frimpong Oduro: Frames of Mind

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GHANA: With few resources and no connections into the wider art-world, Nana Frimpong Oduro has developed a distinctive photo-art practice gaining recognition internationally.

6 March 2021 Africa

Judith Crispin: The Compassion of Country

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AUSTRALIA: a remarkable synthesis of timeless Aboriginal wisdom and radically innovative printmaking that creates pictures of intense poetic beauty.

27 February 2021 Oceania

Cássio Vasconcellos: A Bird’s-Eye View

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BRAZIL: Spectacular images that extend the concepts of time, space and perspective to explore the complex and multifarious nature of our contemporary world.

13 February 2021 Americas

Bohnchang Koo: Shades of Being

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Bohnchang Koo finds in the simplest of objects and surfaces a nuanced expression of traditional Korean values of humility, practicality and acceptance of the imperfect nature of being.

23 January 2021 Asia

The 12 Days of…: Revisiting the Festive Season

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INTERNATIONAL: Impressions of Christmas and the New Year through the kaleidoscopic lens of artists from Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

19 December 2020 Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Elaine Duigenan: The Pursuit of Clarity

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UNITED KINGDOM: A forensic examination of plants, zoological specimens, snail trails or nylon stockings that finds poetry in precision and unexpected grandeur in the mundane.

5 December 2020 Europe

Nippon América: Taeko Nomiya, Marcio Takeda, and Luis Okamoto

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LATIN AMERICA: Three Latino artists of Japanese heritage spend a month photographing in the Land of the Rising Sun. What will their images tell us about their identity?

28 November 2020 Americas, Asia

Nippon America (español): Taeko Nomiya, Marcio Takeda and Luis Okamoto

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LATINOAMÉRICA: Tres artistas latinoamericanos de origen japonés pasan un mes fotografiando la Tierra del Sol Naciente. ¿Qué nos dirán sus imágenes acerca de su identidad?

28 November 2020 Americas, Asia

Sian Bonnell: Insights of the Absurd

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UNITED KINGDOM: Throwing the paradoxes of the domestic environment into sharp relief, Sian Bonnell uses absurdity to critique the socially constructed role of women in the home.

14 November 2020 Europe

Wendy Sacks: Water and the Art of Healing

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USA: Employing the symbolic and physical qualities of water, Wendy Sacks makes photographs that speak of the complex nature of human relationships, both light and dark.

31 October 2020 Americas

Alejandro Chaskielberg: A Radiant Darkness

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ARGENTINA: A nocturnal explorer who seeks to communicate the richness of everyday lives and the profound histories of ordinary people.

24 October 2020 Americas

Marian Drew: Natural Wonders and Human Conceits

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AUSTRALIA: With a subtle insistence, Marian Drew’s still-life and light-painting images question how we might inhabit and share the natural world in a sustainable and equitable way.

17 October 2020 Oceania

Dominique Teufen: Photographs In the Mind’s Eye

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SWITZERLAND: Playing with the nature of visual perception, Dominique Teufen discovers the creative possibilities of the photocopier, photoflash, glossy photographic paper and grey paint.

26 September 2020 Europe

Christophe Canato: Principles of Uncertainty

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AUSTRALIA: Rather than illustrating an idea, Christophe Canato’s images propose a paradox that animates questions around gender, sexuality and the transition from child to adult.

19 September 2020 Oceania

Catherine Nelson: Distilling the Essence of Landscape

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BELGIUM: Visual poetry, nature photography and digital design come together in Catherine Nelson’s transcendent landscapes to evoke the complexity of ecological equilibrium.

5 September 2020 Europe

Dulce Pinzón: Practical Magic

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MEXICO: Dulce Pinzón creates latter-day visual fables that address real social issues: racial prejudice, low-paid workers, environmental damage.

22 August 2020 Americas

Antonio Briceño: The Marvel of Boundless Diversity

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VENEZUELA: Images evoking the powerful mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the southern Americas that emphasise the interdependence of humankind and Nature.

1 August 2020 Americas

Ellen Jantzen: The Quest for Deep Meaning

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USA: Ellen Jantzen uses digital imaging processes to synthesise a visual language through which to evoke the existential conundrums of our place in Nature and the impermanence of life.

25 July 2020 Americas

Diana Thorneycroft: Long Shadows in the North

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CANADA: Combining humour with cultural critique; history with psychology, Diana Thorneycroft constructs visual stories of the anxiety and contradiction embedded in the dark subsoil of Canadian national mythology.

11 July 2020 Americas

Esteban Pastorino Díaz: The Invented Eye

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ARGENTINA: An artist and inventor who builds cameras to capture both space and time: from brooding art deco architecture to mind-bending aerial imagery and the world’s longest continuous photographic negative.

4 July 2020 Americas

Hyunmi Yoo: Dancing the Perceptual Edge

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Creating a fluid and ambiguous aesthetic space between painting, sculpture and photography, Hyunmi Yoo challenges our understanding of the relationship between visual representation, ‘truth’ and ‘reality’.

27 June 2020 Asia

David Stephenson: Of Heaven and Earth

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AUSTRALIA: David Stephenson’s photographs are about very big ideas: the endless Antarctic icecap; the vastness of the heavens; the great domes of European architecture, and the luminous excesses of the modern metropolis.

20 June 2020 Oceania

Luis González Palma: The Art of Sadness

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GUATEMALA: Luis González Palma’s grew up during thirty years of civil war, but while his images evoke sadness, they neither sentimentalise nor do they counsel despair. Rather they affirm the transcendent nature of the human spirit.

6 June 2020 Americas

Patricia Casey: Inner Worlds

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AUSTRALIA: Photography, digital montage and embroidery combine in images that draw the viewer into the often-disquieting aesthetic of dreams.

16 May 2020 Oceania

John Paul Evans: At Home with Otherness

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UNITED KINGDOM: Quintessentially British in their rigorous formality, these allegorical tableaux grow from the personal experience of an intergenerational life partnership condemned to the margins of ‘otherness’.

9 May 2020 Europe

Pushpamala N: India’s Entertaining Iconoclast

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INDIA: Described as “the most entertaining artist-iconoclast of contemporary Indian art”, Pushpamala N’s pioneering and influential feminist–conceptual photographic performance works seek to subvert the dominant cultural and intellectual discourse in India.

2 May 2020 Asia

Hillerbrand + Magsamen: The Stuff of Dreams

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USA: Repurposing their household possession to create a mandala or build a spaceship, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen use photography, video, performance and installation to explore the paradoxes of the American Dream.

11 April 2020 Americas

FORMAT: Photography in an Age of Change

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UNITED KINGDOM: A festival that celebrates its sense of place and community while engaging the leading edge of technological possibility and international innovation.

8 April 2020 Europe

Simon Harsent: Portrait of an Iceberg

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AUSTRALIA: the stark reality of global warming given particular poignancy by an artist who identifies with the melting icebergs.

14 March 2020 Oceania

Calum Colvin: Picturing Scottish Identity

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UNITED KINGDOM: An exploration of Scotland’s cultural and historical figures through an innovative hybrid of photography, painting, sculpture and installation.

29 February 2020 Europe

Roberto Fernández Ibáñez: Renaissance Man

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URUGUAY: An artist, chemist, craftsman, essayist, poet, and teacher, who imbues photography with a newfound physical and philosophical dimension.

8 February 2020 Americas

Cecilia Paredes: Artist of Nature & Artifice

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PERU: Art and Nature entangle the body in images that speak of the camouflage adopted by an outsider.

22 January 2020 Americas
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