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Elena Sukhoveeva & Victor Hmel: On Experiment and Authenticity

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RUSSIA: An artistic partnership with experimentation at the heart of a creative process that blends the sensual and the conceptual.

11 March 2023 Europe

Sasha R. Gregor: The Beauty of Ideas

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SPAIN: an artist who is also a scientist, harnessing scientific technologies to visualise the invisible.

4 March 2023 Europe

Tomoko Sawada: The One and the Many

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JAPAN: The photo-booth, the class portrait, the high-street studio, the job-applicant’s mugshot… hundreds of photographs and beneath them a single artist–model.

11 February 2023 Asia

Dayanita Singh: Cabinets of Curiosity

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INDIA: Exploring radically different ways to think about museums, books, and photography, Dayanita Singh emphasises curiosity over cognition.

14 January 2023 Asia

Hyongryol Bak: Views Beyond Utility

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Land art seeking a fresh perspective on Nature freed from notions of territory and property.

6 January 2023 Asia

Evgeniy Zaets: Overture to Strength

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UKRAINE: Visualising the journey towards self-realisation that dances between empathic attunement and the artist’s own interior sensibility.

3 December 2022 Europe

Alison Bennett: Queering the Paradigm

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AUSTRALIA: Distinctive ways of being and knowing, experienced through a queer perspective on expanded photography.

12 November 2022 Oceania

Frank Rodick: A Marvellous Compulsion

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CANADA: Personal and historical trauma inspire a creative practice unafraid of the twilight world of the unconscious that lies beneath the veneer of rational civilisation.

17 September 2022 Americas

Saleh AlDaghari: Harmony and Invention

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SAUDI ARABIA: Fascinated by harmony and dissonance, and the cycles of return, Saleh AlDaghari’s picture-making sits on the cusp between surrealism and allegory.

3 September 2022 Asia

Ingrid Weyland: That Which Cannot Be Undone

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ARGENTINA: delicate, hybrid works that speak to the fragility of life and the vulnerability we share with the planet we call home.

13 August 2022 Americas

Shira Gold: Against the Haste of Things

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CANADA: Delicate still-life images that capture a sense of tranquillity while celebrating the small and fleeting things in life.

30 July 2022 Americas

Manit Sriwanichpoom: The Colours of Dissent

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THAILAND: Scathing satirical tableaux critiquing the country’s turbulent socio-political scene, created by one of Southeast Asia’s leading artists.

23 July 2022 Asia

Wen Hang Lin: Reflections on Identity

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TAIWAN / USA: Haunting images inspired by the migrant’s ongoing negotiation of memory, perception, and identity.

16 July 2022 Americas, Asia

Mark Kimber: Imperfect Memories

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AUSTRALIA: Luminous yet elusive images that navigate the gulf between the world of the senses and the interior realm of the self.

2 July 2022 Oceania

Serena Dzenis: Out of This World

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AUSTRALIA / ICELAND: Haunting images of natural, urban, and industrial landscapes that rekindle a mythical past or spark ethical speculation about the future.

18 June 2022 Europe, Oceania

Diego Moreno: The Rebel and His Monsters

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MEXICO: Named one of the top twenty talents worldwide by FOAM magazine, Diego Moreno’s monsters have much to show us about familial love and about domestic abuse.

11 June 2022 Americas

Sergio Fasola: Pintar con luz ilógica

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ARGENTINA: La sensibilidad de la pintura y las técnicas de la fotografía se conjugan para crear un realismo mágico irónico pero extrañamente familiar.

29 May 2022 Americas

Sergio Fasola: Painting with Illogical Light

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ARGENTINA: The sensibilities of painting and the techniques of photography blend to create an ironic but strangely familiar magic realism.

28 May 2022 Americas

Roman Mart: The Quest for Ways of Being

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RUSSIA / USA: One man’s quest for a more nuanced way of being, teasing apart notions of morality from those of dogma, of identity from those of normality.

7 May 2022 Europe

Patty Carroll: Death by Décor

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USA: Patty Carroll’s ‘Anonymous Women’ parody and personify the frenetic consumerism and suffocating domesticity of ‘idealised’ notions of femininity promoted in the post-war era.

23 April 2022 Americas

Suk Kuhn Oh: By the Book

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Satirical imagery that critiques the impact of colonialism in Korea and its enduring legacy of historical trauma.

9 April 2022 Asia

Ayman Kaake: Beyond Words

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LEBANON / AUSTRALIA: Dreamlike psychodramas that envision the émigré’s feelings of separation, longing and isolation.

26 March 2022 Asia, Oceania

Andy Wiener: The Story Behind the Mask

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UNITED KINGDOM: Conjuring the familial past and a satirical future through the evocative power of photographic masks.

12 March 2022 Europe

Claudia Fährenkemper: Fathoming Dimension

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GERMANY: The uncanny and the documentary synergise as temporal and dimensional shifts reveal a prescient vision in the context of current events.

19 February 2022 Europe

Jonathan Conda: Singing My Heart Out

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USA: With an emphasis on the dignity of all living things, these lo-fi collage works seek to emphasise harmony and our shared human nature, free from judgement.

12 February 2022 Americas

Zelko Nedic: Of Ambiguity and Personal Truth

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BOSNIA / AUSTRALIA: Darkly beautiful images that use alternative photographic processes to convey the ultimate ambiguity of life as experience.

22 January 2022 Europe, Oceania

Murray Fredericks: The Space Between Somewhere and Nowhere

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AUSTRALIA: From the arid heat of central Australia to the windswept ice sheet of Greenland, powerful and austere images that push the very notion of landscape to its extreme.

8 January 2022 Oceania

Why: Reflections on Photography

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INTERNATIONAL: Nine photographic artists from across five continents reflect on what motivates them to create photographs.

18 December 2021 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe

Sergey Melnitchenko: Young and Free?

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UKRAINE: The artistic trope of the male nude re-imagined as emblem of a new generation of young Eastern European men.

4 December 2021 Europe

Marcus Lyon: The Bigger Picture

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UNITED KINGDOM: A photographer who looks beyond the momentary click of the shutter to understand the wider social, historical, economic, and environmental context of our globalised world.

26 November 2021 Europe

Atta Kim: Because We Are Human

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: For the Korean artist Atta Kim, the process of making art has been an ongoing philosophical journey of discovery.

6 November 2021 Asia

Fede Ruiz Santesteban: The Gifts of the Garden

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URUGUAY: Delicately poetic images printed sustainably without inks or chemicals, using naturally occurring plant materials.

30 October 2021 Americas

Jeremy Blincoe: The Honest Mythmaker

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NEW ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA: A visual storyteller exploring the interior world of the mind through the shared imagination of the community.

2 October 2021 Oceania

Fernando Montiel Klint: Seeking the Eternal

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MEXICO: Obscure rituals that blend the contemporary with the timeless, the personal with the collective, to suggest imaginary states and real-world paradoxes.

11 September 2021 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’.

28 August 2021 Asia

Han Sungpil: Travels in Hyperreality

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Exploring the liminal space at the threshold of realty and simulation, original and replica, fact and fake.

7 August 2021 Asia

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.

31 July 2021 Americas

Wilfred Lim: Happy on the Outside

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MALAYSIA / SINGAPORE: Apparently whimsical images that critique community erasure in Malaysia and the re-wilding of a hyperreal city-state in lockdown.

24 July 2021 Asia

Thomas Kellner: A Dance to the Music of Time

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GERMANY: Reworking the traditional contact sheet on a grand scale, Thomas Kellner makes architecture dance.

10 July 2021 Europe

Denis Darzacq: The Body Liberated

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FRANCE: For Denis Darzacq, the body is an instrument of social critique with which to explore the constraints and barriers suffered by people marginalised by materialist society.

22 May 2021 Europe

Erika Diettes: A Poet of Grief and Humanity

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COLOMBIA: In addressing the trauma resulting from the ongoing multilateral armed conflict in her country, Erika Diettes focuses not on violence but on bearing witness to the grief of survivors.

24 April 2021 Americas

Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume

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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Constructing from the catalogue of British oil painting ironic self-portraits that situate the alienated Asian man in the midst of Britain’s aristocratic past.

17 April 2021 Asia

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

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 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
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