NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER COMPETITION WINNER

Posted on 2019-02-28

Launched in 2011, this annual competition seeks the UK’s best new travel photography talent across five categories: Cities; Nature; People; Food; and Portfolio.

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), says: “At a time when we’re surrounded by travel photography, this year’s shortlist reminds us there’s so much more to using a camera than ‘point and shoot’. From documenting local customs and traditions to awe-inspiring landscapes and incredible wildlife, this year’s entrants prove once again how powerful a medium travel photography can be.”

The judging panel consisted of Emer O’Shea, landscape and wildlife photographer; Nori Jemil, travel photographer; Craig Parry, nature and adventure photographer; Ben Rowe, picture editor, Time Out; Amy Davies, features editor, Amateur Photographer; and Chris Hudson, art director, National Geographic Traveller (UK).

The winners for 2019 are:

Grand prize winner: Daniel Burton, mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

Category winners:
Portfolio: Simon Urwin, Pengzhen, Chengdu, China
Cities: Annapurna Mellor, taxi driver in Kolkata, India
People: Justin Cliffe, dyeing wool in a Marrakech souk, Morocco
Food: Pablo Borrego, Kandy Central Market, Sri Lanka
Nature: Daniel Burton, mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

www.natgeotraveller.co.uk

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ED SIEVERS – IN MY CORNER

Posted on 2019-02-25

Interested in the visual layering of meaning within his work and energy of American youth culture in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Sievers’ photographs captured decisive moments of people interacting with the public space.

Ed Sievers was born in 1932 in St. Louis, MO and attended Grinnell College, graduating with a degree in Speech in 1954. In 1966, he was accepted into the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design to study photography with his mentor Harry Callahan and contemporaries such as Linda Connor, Jim Dow, Emmet Gowin, Bart Parker and Bill Burke. Sievers’ focus was very much in the tradition of street photography, using a 35mm Leica camera (or as he called it “taking Larry out for a walk”) to shoot in cities such as Providence, Boston and New York City. Sievers would hide behind blinding sunlight to capture people emerging out of the shadows, isolating and framing them in darkness. It was in these moments that Sievers discovered his ability to catch his subjects in uninhibited instants before they could realize what was happening.

Opposite – Untitled (Send Batman to Vietnam), c. 1970’s

Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019

Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street, Floor 2
New York
10001 NY

www.robertmann.com

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LUIGI GHIRRI – THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY

Posted on 2019-02-25

This first retrospective of photographs taken outside his native Italy by Luigi Ghirri (1943- 1992) focuses on the 1970s. It covers a decade in which Luigi Ghirri produced a corpus of colour photographs unparalleled in Europe at that time.

Luigi Ghirri, who was a trained surveyor, began taking photographs at weekends in the early 1970s, devising projects and themes as he roamed up and down the streets, the piazzas and the suburbs of Modena. He cast an attentive and affectionate eye on the signs of the outside world, observing, without openly commenting on them, the changes wrought by humans to the landscape and the housing in the Reggio Emilia, his province of birth. It was a barometer for a local vernacular exposed to the advent of new forms of housing, leisure and advertising.

Opposite – Rimini, 1977

Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2019

Jeu De Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008 Paris

www.jeudepaume.org

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SALLY GALL – HEAVENLY CREATURES

Posted on 2019-02-25

Heavenly Creatures are kites, billowing in the air, as observed at festivals in Italy, Denmark, Washington and New Jersey. She records the skyward movement of cloth and paper flying machines, fragile objects connected to earth by tenuous strings – and like laundry, a universal human occupation. As in Aerial, these images are transformative, a celebration of color and suggestive abstract form. Both Aerial and Heavenly Creatures continue Sally Gall’s lifetime investigation of the sensual properties of the natural world; light, air, wind, and sky. Abstracted by composition, context, and color, these anthropomorphic photographs suggest sea creatures, constellations and other planetary forces, blooming flowers, microscopic amoebas.

Gall states “…I’m drawn to abstract painters that reference a landscape just by a few strokes of paint…” Indeed, the abstract forms against bright and atmospheric sky evoke Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keefe and Howard Hodgkins, among others. Both Aerial and Heavenly Creatures embody Sally Gall’s search for poetry in the everyday, the miraculous in the ordinary, and as Fischl observes “capturing the elusive distractions of fleeting beauty.”

Opposite – Heavenly Creatures, 2016

Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019

Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York
10011 NY

saulgallery.com

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ISABELLE MENIN

Posted on 2019-02-18

Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin’s lush, painterly floral images combine an expressiveness that blossoms to create beautiful photographic compositions. Her exploration of nature and its volatility is apparent in each of her images. The tumultuous and orderly collide and coexist in every bold and colorful photograph. The large scale of Menin’s photographs presents the viewer with an immersion in her unique vision. Born in 1961, Isabelle Menin lives and works in Brussels. After graduating from the Graphic Research School (ERG) in Brussels, she has explored painting for 10 years while working in graphic design and illustration. Nature has always been a recurring theme for the artist, particularly flora. After exhibiting several times in Belgium, Isabelle Menin decided to abandon painting to turn to digital photography. Taking pictures, scanning pieces of nature, the artist constantly plays with textures and colours, transforming them, mixing them, in order to give shape to a fictional nature, dense and flamboyant at the same time.

Opposite – Avant Que Le Monde Ne Fut Roi 7

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2019

Gilman Contemporary
661 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum
83340 ID

www.gilmancontemporary.com

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HOUSES FOR SALE

Posted on 2019-02-18

From the country to suburbia to the New Jersey Shore, this exhibition is a survey of domestic domiciles that offer comforts of home, even in the most questionable settings. PDNB Gallery artists, and some artists new to the gallery, will be featured.

The photo essay, Last House Standing, by German born artist, Ben Marcin, is represented in this group show. Marcin documents isolated, decaying two and three floor walk-ups found in Baltimore and Philadelphia. The old buildings stand alone on the street, waiting next in line to be demolished. The old-age metaphor is quite graphic.

Actor and photographer Jason Lee’s road trip around Texas, recently culminated in the book, A Plain View. Included in his colorful Texas series are homes like Marcin’s, worn and haggard, some empty of life. These structures, found in the landscape of country towns, each have long stories to tell.

Ira Wagner’s 10-year document of raised houses on the New Jersey Shore explores how people live comfortably while knowing the future location of their property will be in the ocean. Ira’s book, Houseraising, published last year, offers an essay written by PhD Sociologist, Rachael Shwom, who has researched climate change and its effect on society. Ironically she also lives in one of these raised homes near the rising sea in a floodplain.

Opposite – Jason Lee, Paris, Texas(2), 2017

Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019

PDNB
154 Glass St. #104
Dallas
75207 TX

pdnbgallery.com

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