RECOLLECTION: 30 Years of Photography at the New York Public Library

This exhibition currently on at the NYPL till January 3, 2011 celebrates 30 years of photography at the library with a selection of portraits that have become part of the Photography Collection. Photography at the NYPL traces its origins back to the opening of the Astor Library in 1849, a decade after Louis Daguerre announced the first commercially viable photographic process to the world. Photographs have been part of the Library ever since, which today comprises 500,000 photographs by 6,000 photographers. 

One of my Papua New Guinea 'raskol' photographs has been selected in this landmark exhibition.

Check this link for more details and video.

" Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library "

 

 

William Klein at Visa Pour l'Image

I met William Klein...I can go home now! The madness of the festival is now over, I can reflect and sleep. My highlights, besides meeting and seeing the amazing work of William Klein, was hanging out with Bill Allard, and seeing his incredible retrospective ( I urge you all to buy his new book on 5 decades of photography and stories). I really liked the exhibitions of Cedric Gerbehaye on the Congo, the best I've seen from this region, Antonio Bolfo's work on the NYC police force, Andrea Star Reese's The Urban Cave and Tomas Van Houtryve's work around the last Communist countries.

 

Me next to William Klein as he is signing a book for Robert Pledge, Couvent de Minimes, Visa Festival, Perpignan, September 4, 2010.

William Klein signing book for Paolo Pellegrin at Visa Pour L'Image, 2010.

Visa Pour L'Image Festival 2010

I am in Perpignan right now for this year's Visa festival. I have a show on my Afghanistan retrospective titled Generation AK hanging in the Caserne Gallieni on Rue de l'Academie. I only arrived yesterday but got see the work of Michael Nichols Redwoods, Athit Perawongmetha's Bangkok riots, Tomas Van Houtryve's Last communists and Munem Wasif's Islam in Bangladesh, all very strong shows!

The Gravure Room

"The Gravure Room" is born. Chris Reid and I have set up our photogravure press here at my studio. Long live photography etchings by light. Master photographers like Emerson, Stieglitz and Strand brought photogravure to the world's eyes. For more info on photogravure, go to Art Of The Photogravure.

 

 

Congratulations to the 2010 Moran Photography Prize Finalists

Last week I judged this year's Moran Photography Prizes for both the Open and School student sections. Photography lives on! It was a momentous task with several thousand entries in both open and school sections. Many of the works were of a very high standard, fresh and inspiring. I was particularly taken back with the Year's 9 and 10 works, and much of the student's work in general. Well done everybody.

 

 

10th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition

I have just returned from Shanghai. I was invited by the Beijing based Chinese curator Zhimin along with other guest photographers including Didier Ruef, Andy Spyra, Christoph Lingg, David Doubilet, Tsuchida Hiromi, Paul Kranzler, Zilola Saidova and Bela Doka. Our exhibition "Documentary Photographers In The New Century" was curated by guest ICP curator Christopher Philips.

Photos Courtesy of Andy Spyra.

Room 1109, Everbright International Hotel Shanghai

The Exhibition venue Shanghai

Inside the Shanghai Exhibition Centre

Checking out Didier's book of Black Africa

PMA Melbourne

I'll be running around PMA at the Melbourne Convention Centre on the 5th, this Sunday and making a presentation of my work alongside my good friend Tim Page at 2.45 - 3.45pm. Follow this link.