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Ella Morton: A Fragile Sublime

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CANADA: Experimental photographic techniques that poignantly evoke the subtle grandeur and ultimate fragility of the Arctic region.

1 July 2023 Americas

Renata Buziak: Biophilia

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POLAND / AUSTRALIA: Blending the chemistries of photography and vegetative decay to create hauntingly beautiful images exploring themes around memory, time, habitat, health, and inner contemplation.

20 May 2023 Oceania

Peter Wiklund: Worlds Through a Pinhole

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SWEDEN: A simple pinhole camera used to create images that evoke the primordial and the post-apocalyptic; a tension between humankind and the rest of nature.

6 May 2023 Europe

Boris Eldagsen: The Woman Who Never Was

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GERMANY: What are the implications of an AI generated image winning the world’s largest photography competition? For photography, for society, and for the arts?

1 April 2023 Europe

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

Raúl Cantú: The Artist and the Algorithm

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MEXICO: Harnessing artificial intelligence to create photo-based images that may well come closer to the true nature human visual perception than will ever be possible with a camera.

15 October 2022 Americas

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maleonn: Theatre of the Mind

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CHINA: A fusion of theatre and photography that, with an eccentric magic, weaves together the light and dark of the human condition.

26 June 2021 Asia

Roger Ballen: The Enigma of Organised Chaos

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SOUTH AFRICA: With a unique visual signature, Roger Ballen’s existential psychodramas have maintained their uncompromising independence, vividly capturing the imagination of generations over five decades.

20 March 2021 Africa

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

The Jackson Twins: Seeing Double

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UNITED KINGDOM: A collaboration between identical twins drawing on the traditions of European folklore, Gothic Romance and Hollywood cinema, blending British whimsy with a darker psychological ambiguity that lends depth and complexity.

3 October 2020 Europe

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

Pat Brassington: 1+1=3

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AUSTRALIA: Pat Brassington exploits the legacies of Surrealism while subtly subverting those (primarily masculine) traditions with a clearly feminine and feminist inflection.

8 August 2020 Oceania

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

Peter Solness: The Worlds of a Light Painter

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AUSTRALIA: An artist painting with light to create richly coloured and emotionally intensified images of the natural and human worlds.

13 June 2020 Oceania

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

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

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

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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