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Carlo Ontal: Performing Rites

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CONGO: Eccentric, impromptu performances set in the warlord-controlled villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo that challenge the established conventions of humanitarian representation.

25 March 2023 Africa

Maika Elan: A Gentle Curiosity

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VIETNAM: Focusing on people at the margins of society, these relaxed domestic moments explore, without sensationalism, the intimate companionship that is a foundation of our shared human experience.

25 February 2023 Asia

Stephen Dupont: Don’t Look Away

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AUSTRALIA: Images of conflict that avoid the explosive spectacle of war, to explore the lives of individuals caught up in events beyond their control.

18 February 2023 Oceania

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

Colin Gray: Restaging the Parents

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UNITED KINGDOM: Whimsical, poignant, fantastical, dark… these family photos restage the complex nature of parenting and the domestic dynamic, from ageing and the shift in mutual dependence, to ultimate departure.

4 February 2023 Europe

Lin Zhipeng / No.223: Open Intimacy

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CHINA: Youthful Asian women and men engage in the conscious but unselfconscious presentation of self within a milieu of open intimacy.

21 January 2023 Asia

Angelika Kollin: The Worth of Being

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ESTONIA / AFRICA: Images of love and loss delicately exploring the essential mystery of human interconnection.

26 November 2022 Africa, Europe

Aneesa Dawoojee: Fighting Chance

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UNITED KINGDOM: an insider’s sensitive depiction of a group of south London fighters who find self-discipline, confidence, and connectedness through martial arts.

22 October 2022 Europe

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

Robin Schwartz: The Communion of Animals

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USA: Spanning two decades, a mother and daughter explore the deep connection between people and their animal companions.

10 September 2022 Americas

Renée C Byer: Catalyst for Change

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USA: Pulitzer-prize-winner Renée C Byer reveals how photography and journalism used together can catalyse action in the face of escalating inequality at home and abroad.

27 August 2022 Americas

Dina Goldstein: Telling Tales

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CANADA: a satirical retelling of familiar stories as Disney princesses, deities, and US presidents tumble into the real world like Alice in reverse.

20 August 2022 Americas

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

Allison Plass: Contours of Masculinity

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USA: A mother’s delicate reflections on masculinity within the everyday intimacy of family life as boys become men and men become middle-aged.

4 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

Luminous-Lint: A Dynamic Genealogy of the Photograph

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CANADA: With well over 100,000 images and millions of possible interconnections, Luminous-Lint offers a near-infinite range of ways to pursue the study of photographic history.

30 April 2022 Americas

Anthony Luvera: The Art of Assisted Self-Portraits

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UNITED KINGDOM: Going beyond the clichés and prejudices about homelessness by facilitating each participant to create their own self-portrait.

16 April 2022 Europe

Michal Chelbin: Navigating the Oddly Ordinary

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ISRAEL: An exploration of the equivocal transition from child to adult in portraits of adolescents in Ukraine, Russia and Spain.

2 April 2022 Asia

Belinda Mason: Humanity in Difference

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AUSTRALIA: Challenging misconceptions around disability and making evident the violent abuse that can sometimes be its cause.

5 March 2022 Oceania

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

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

Roberto Tondopó: A Photographic Act of Atonement

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MEXICO: The fluidity of domestic intimacy explored through the lens of childhood imagination and transformational community ritual.

15 January 2022 Americas

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

Alexia Sinclair: The Art of the Historical Present

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AUSTRALIA: Figures from history and legend elegantly reconceived with the technology and sensibility of the present.

11 December 2021 Oceania

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

Dona Schwartz: On the Nest

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USA / CANADA: A visual ethnographer, Dona Schwartz photographs expectant parents and empty-nesters marking those moments when each couple stands outside the gates of family life.

9 October 2021 Americas

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

Deborah Luster: Evidence of Life

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USA: Timeless portraits made in collaboration with the inmates of three penitentiaries in the northeast of Louisiana, the US state with the largest per capita prison population.

4 September 2021 Americas

Oleg Videnin: Photographs from My Heart

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RUSSIA: Gently observed portraits of the people of Bryansk that touch on the mystery of everyday life.

21 August 2021 Europe

Daniëlle van Zadelhoff: Of Time and Authenticity

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BELGIUM: Contemporary images that evoke the past while looking to the future.

14 August 2021 Europe

Viktoria Sorochinski: The Mystery of Human Connection

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UKRAINE: Psychological dramas that play out the emotional interior of their protagonists: the aching desire to connect that can never be fully realised.

17 July 2021 Europe

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

Agnieszka Sosnowska: Veritable Myths

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ICELAND: Picturing the resilient lives and enduring landscapes of a small farming community in the East of Iceland caught between harsh reality and timeless myth.

3 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

Tim Hetherington: Of War and Compassion

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UNITED KINGDOM: Four friends of the late Tim Hetherington discuss the work of this compassionate war photographer who sought to depict Big History through the lens of small history.

19 June 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

Maureen Bisilliat: Poet of Fragile Realities

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BRAZIL: Evocative images of the rural and indigenous peoples of this vast country, captured by one of its most distinguished visual poets.

28 May 2021 Americas

Daniel W. Coburn: The Enigma of Family Connection

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USA: Emerging from person crisis, these images unfold a domestic conversation around the paradox of family ties and the quest for redemption.

8 May 2021 Americas

Margaret Mitchell: Of Love & Imperfection

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UNITED KINGDOM: Environmental portraiture exploring family ties across three generations in an area of high socio-economic deprivation.

3 April 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

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

Elena Givone: The Value of Practical Dreaming

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ITALY: Elena Givone uses photography and storytelling to help young refugees imagine a better future – images to inspire hope in the child and compassion in the viewer.

16 January 2021 Europe

Ilan Wittenberg: Real Men

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NEW ZEALAND: Ilan Wittenberg’s extensive catalogue of Auckland men captures the uniqueness and imperfection that lays bare the inhumanity of commercially idealised masculinity.

7 November 2020 Oceania

The Mirror of Three Kingdoms: Shanxi Family Portraits

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CHINA: Reflections on the meanings and value of family photo archives in traditional homes in Shanxi Province.

10 October 2020 Asia

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

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

Daniel Schumann: At Home with Love and Loss

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GERMANY: Images that speak with quiet compassion of the impermanence that marks us out as human, and the dignity to be afforded to all, regardless of situation, apparent difference, or stage of life.

18 July 2020 Europe

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

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

Head On: Facing Up to Controversy

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AUSTRALIA: In a world that all too often seeks to segregate professionals from amateurs, celebrities from ordinary people, Head On provides an alternative based on mutual respect and a passion for photographic creativity.

29 April 2020 Oceania

Jannatul Mawa: Images of Conscience

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BANGLADESH: A photographer with a strong social conscience and a deep concern for the welfare of the marginalised members of her society.

4 April 2020 Asia

Tatjana Plitt: The Beautiful Mundane

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AUSTRALIA: An unconventional approach to portraiture that subverts clichés and stereotypes to emphasise the value of real human relationships over fantasy or caricature.

28 March 2020 Oceania

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
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