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Social Critique

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barbara Alper: Images of Moment

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USA: Past and present converse in an archive of American life shot from a refreshingly tangential perspective.

19 March 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

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

Herman van den Boom: The Domain of Domestic Diversity

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BELGIUM: The Belgian spirit of whimsical individuality found hiding in plain sight at the edge of suburbia.

23 October 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

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

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

Edgar Alvarez: Imaginary Worlds and Sad Realities

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COLOMBIA: An artist using clay figures to tell the stories of real people – stories of homelessness and social invisibility.

12 June 2021 Americas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Glenn Sloggett: Damaged Goods

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AUSTRALIA: Documenting the dysfunctional, the dispossessed, and the dogged hope that lingers amid the ashes of failure.

1 February 2020 Oceania
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