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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

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

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

Alisa Sibirskaya: The Art of Light

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RUSSIA / SPAIN: Alisa Sibirskaya creates photographic tableaux echoing themes from the Dutch Baroque and Siberian folktales that capture the luminous glow of a bygone age.

24 September 2022 Asia, Europe

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

Arno Rafael Minkkinen: The Body Re-Imagined

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FINLAND / USA: After five decades re-imagining his body as something malleable and re-interpretable, Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s images remain as vital as those of his youth, and as refreshingly original.

6 August 2022 Americas, Europe

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

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

Polixeni Papapetrou: Tales from Elsewhere

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AUSTRALIA: Fables that are at once personal and universal, familial and public, recounting childhood perspicacity and adult frailty far the here and now.

14 May 2022 Oceania

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gerard & Marc: Storytelling on a Grand Scale

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AUSTRALIA: Raucous, irreverently grandiose images that bring to mind the diverse traditions of William Hogarth’s 18th-century satirical etchings, 19th-century history painting and 20th-century cinema.

1 May 2021 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

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

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

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

Erwin Olaf: A Hesitant Beauty

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NETHERLANDS: Knighted by the Dutch Government, Erwin Olaf has earned a world-wide reputation for his immaculately choreographed tableaux that subtly suggest the ultimate uncertainty of being.

12 December 2020 Europe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kaunas Photo: At the European Crossroads

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LITHUANIA: Set in the historical centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life, KAUNAS PHOTO is a festival that sits at the intersection of tradition and innovation, all laced with a dash of humour.

1 April 2020 Europe

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

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

Thomas Friedrich Schaefer: In Search of Lost Time

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GERMANY: Experiential space and resonant fragments of childhood memory brought to life in precise yet elusive detail.

18 January 2020 Europe
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