Foto8 reporting from photography festivals worldwide.
Click the links to see reports from these recent festivals:
New York Photo Festival 2008
PhotoEspaña 2008
Upcoming festivals:
Les Rencontres d'Arles (July 08)
Visa Pour L'Image (Sep 08)
Brighton Photo Biennial (Oct 08)
Colophon (Mar 09)
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Arles 08
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03 Jul 2008 |
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 The photography festival "Les Rencontres d'Arles " begins next week as will Foto8's coverage. Our guest bloggers include photographer George Georgiou, who will be sending us photo-haikus from the festival, and Caroline Niemant of Peeping Tom Gallery, Paris who will be sending us her thoughts, (possibly in haiku format- we'll see). And Vanessa Winship will be launching her new book, Sweet Nothings , published by Foto8, at Arles as well...
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Photo Espana 08
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08 Jun 2008 |
 Our first stop of our final day, Saturday, was Museo de
Arte Contemporaneo, to see Buried Memories: The Photographs of Henryk
Ross. We were familiar with the photographs through the Chris Boot book
Lodz Ghetto, so were hoping for an innovative approach to exhibiting.
Although the photographs were displayed in thoughtful groupings, not a
single caption (beyond the obligatory explanatory panel outside the
show) was to be found. Context is everything in such a body of work,
and although we knew important facts – Ross was the official
photographer of Lodz Ghetto’s statistics department, who took
extra-curricular photographs to document daily life in the ghetto and
then buried his archive which he later recovered – we wanted more. We
didn’t need to know every name, or precise date, but an explanation of
some kind would have been beneficial or a copy of the book to
reference. (read more...)
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Photo Espana 08
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07 Jun 2008 |
 Day three dawned sunny at last (did we mention the rain?) and we set off to see Robert Smithson. His work, at the Reina Sofia, was displayed as a slide-show with his voice-from-beyond-the-grave as spoken captions. Hotel Palenque was clearly absolutely compelling, driven, brilliant work, but unfortunately, the laconic voiceover was delivered or recorded at a pitch difficult to discern coherently. We could make out bits and pieces but we were straining so hard to hear it tarnished our experience. (Just read in the catalogue that it was a lecture given in Utah and Smithson was believed to be ‘a little drunk on whiskey’ at the time!) ,,,
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