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NEXT: Re-Imagining the Post-Pandemic World

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INTERNATIONAL: Eleven artists reflect on what they learned during the pandemic, picking just one thing they would reimagine for the better in the future.

17 December 2022 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

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

Shen Wei: Navigating the Multivalent Body

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CHINA / USA: Delicately ambiguous self-portraits exploring the tension between freedom and boundaries, self-reflection and self-discovery.

25 June 2022 Americas, 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

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

Xiangjie Peng: Tributaries of the Mainstream

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CHINA: Documentary images highlighting communities that, while they may seem outside of the mainstream in China, are in fact simply some of its constituents.

5 February 2022 Asia

William Yang: Stories from the Margin

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AUSTRALIA: A contemporary story-teller who combines photography and words to synthesis rich and complex narratives of family, community and sexuality.

16 October 2021 Oceania

Diana Blok: The Beautiful Imperfect

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NETHERLANDS: Portraits that speak to the entanglement of individual, interpersonal and collective identity, the mutability of the body, and the fluidity of being.

18 September 2021 Europe

Neo Ntsoma: Picturing People with Dignity

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SOUTH AFRICA: Capturing the spirit of a new creative generation, fighting for gender equality and exposing the continuing plight of the working poor.

5 June 2021 Africa

Hoda Afshar: Compassion and the ‘Other’

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IRAN / AUSTRALIA: Poetically perceptive imagery that engages the layers of displacement, difference and marginality that define what it means to be ‘other’.

15 May 2021 Asia, Oceania

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

Michelle Sank: Coming of Age

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UNITED KINGDOM: Portraits exploring the transition from child to adult as it is expressed through modes of dress, social behaviour and body image.

6 February 2021 Europe

Alasdair Foster: Question the Image

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AUSTRALIA: Alasdair Foster, a curator, researcher, and writer who draws on an array of experiences from around the world, offers his perspective on photography – and where it’s going next. Interview by Alexander Strecker.

9 January 2021 Oceania

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

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

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

Ciro Battiloro: An Unexpected Beauty

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ITALY: Spending extended periods with poor and itinerant families, Ciro Battiloro discovers, beneath the domestic discomfort and social neglect, a tenacious humanity and a love that turns “despair into delicate sweetness”.

29 August 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

Kirk Crippens: The Grit in the Oyster

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USA: Kirk Crippens explores the tension between the American Dream of home and increasing precarity – gentrification, downsizing and foreclosure – but also the haven of the unorthodox.

15 August 2020 Americas

FotoFest: A Meeting of Minds

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USA: Few recent cultural initiatives have had more impact in the world of photography than Houston FotoFest, with its multi-layered approach to the medium as a means to an end and not just an end in itself.

17 June 2020 Americas

Encontros da Imagem: Theme and Variation

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PORTUGAL: The long-running annual festival of photography in Braga takes a lively approach to integrating imagery and architecture, concept and conviviality that has sustained the engaging freshness that is the hallmark of the event.

10 June 2020 Europe

Chobi Mela: Curating Social Justice

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BANGLADESH: Asia’s longest-running photo festival, founded on a powerful vision of social justice and driven by a tenacious dynamism, it forms one arm of a tripartite structure including a news picture agency and a media school.

3 June 2020 Asia

PhotoVisa: Sharing the Language of Photography

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RUSSIA: A festival that engages the viewer in a rich visual dialogue made vibrant by its openhearted warmth, aesthetic vigour, and intelligent enthusiasm for the medium.

27 May 2020 Europe

FestFoto: Celebrating the Brazilian Soul

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BRAZIL: a festival pioneering the use of screen-based technologies to reach out from the metropolitan art institutions to connect with communities in the poorest districts of the urban margins: to engage, to educate and to empower.

20 May 2020 Americas

Angkor Photography Festival: Small is Beautiful

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CAMBODIA: With a focus on discovery, education and sharing, this festival and workshop program provides a generous and egalitarian environment in which to learn new skills, exchange ideas and establish new friendships.

13 May 2020 Asia

Auckland Festival of Photography: Perspectives from the Edge of the World

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NEW ZEALAND: Located on the rim of the Pacific, this is a festival of and by the people: stimulating creativity, encouraging participation, and celebrating the many and diverse expressions of human imagination.

6 May 2020 Oceania

Festival de la Luz: Passion and Opportunity

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ARGENTINA: One of the world’s longest running photographic festivals, Festival de la Luz it is both a celebration of photography as a means of enlightenment and an egalitarian meeting of diverse people and cultures.

15 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
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