FILM Series i Robert Frank and John Cohen: High Lonesome Sounds
MoMA, NEW YORk
Friday, November 29, 6:30pm & Saturday, Dec 7th, 4pm
From November 20 - December 11th, MoMA Film Department will present a retrospective of Robert Frank’s films. This runs in conjunction with the exhibition Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue and the installation Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage. Films by others relating to the artist and his circle of family, friends, and collaborators will be presented as well including two films by John Cohen.
Exhibition: The 80s: Photographing Britain
Tate britain, london
November 21, 2024 - may, 5, 2025
A landmark survey brings together nearly 350 images (including work by John Davies and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen), and archive materials to explore how photographers, collectives and publications responded to the seismic social, political, and economic shifts (resulting in race uprisings, miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification) during the Thatchers years. Press Release.
Press: The Art Newspaper
The Guardian - Review
The Guardian - My Best Shot (John Davies)
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY HONORARY FELLOWSHIP
Announcing the recipients of The Royal Photographic Society Awards for 2024. RPS celebrates the individuals who are making significant contributions to both still and moving image. Awarded in recognition of a significant personal achievement in, this case, the art of photography and moving image.
To view all recipients of the RPS Awards, click here
BOOK SIGNING: jane evelyn atwood horses
Paris photo, Atelier EXB
Saturday 3pm, November 5, 2024
This new book reveals Atwood's little-known but long-running series on horses, or rather her relationship with horses. The horse is here the vector of many themes dear to the Franco-American photographer. Click to order.
exhibition: l'Age Atomique (The Atomic Age)
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE (MAM), paris
October 11, 2024 - Feb 9, 2025
This presentation invites visitors to take a new look at the history of modernity in the 20th century via the imaginary world of the atom. Kikuji Kawada's post WWII series, The Map, is on view and published in the accompanying exhibition catalog.
SCREENING OF JOHN COHEN’S FILM PERICLES IN AMERICA
Photometria International Photography Festival, GREECE
OCTOBER 7, 2024
This musical portrait of immigrant clarinetist Pericles Halkias and the Epirot-Greek community explores the aspirations and ambivalences of Greek-Americans. Cohen’s film accompanies a photography exhibition "Balkan Antilles | Sound-Portraits from Southeast Europe 1962–1987 | Photographic narratives by Martin Koenig, at the Museum of Silversmithing, in the context of this year's celebration of the European Cultural Heritage Days (EHCD), with the theme "Tracing Routes, Networks and Links in Cultural Heritage".
LIFE DANCES ON: ROBERT FRANK IN DIALOGUE
MoMA, NEW YORK
September 15, 2024 - January 11, 2025
Coinciding with the centennial of Frank’s birth, the exhibition explores his restless experimentation across mediums including photography, film, and books, as well as his dialogues with other artists and his communities. It will include some 200 works made over 60 years until the artist’s death in 2019, many drawn from MoMA’s extensive collection, as well as materials that have never before been exhibited.
Presenting the jovial and collaborative nature of their sphere in the late 50s, is a wall of John Cohen’s photographs from the filming of Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie’s Beat classic, Pull My Daisy, .
UK Women - British photography between social criticism and identity 28 photographic positions from the United Kingdom
Ludwiggalerie Oberhausen, Germany
May 26 - September 15, 2024
In this exhibition, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is one of 28 British photographers from three generations to examine highly topical issues such as social criticism, migration, gender identity, community and diversity in serial works. The stories behind the photographs are inextricably linked to the people depicted in them or the photographers' personal experiences. More about the exhibition.
By the Seaside
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
June 28 - September 8, 2024
A summer exhibition celebrating the British seaside in all its eccentric splendor. From the glitzy heydays of the '60s and '70s to today’s trend of 'staycations', seven UK-based photographers capture the quintessential spirit of the great British holiday. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s work from the 1980s is presented alongside photographs by John Hinde, Martin Parr, Simon Roberts, Luke Stephenson, Rob Ball, and Anna Fox.
Mikael levin: The Lin Uprising of 1849
lincoln school, canton, missouri
June 22-23, 2024
To celebrate Juneteenth, the newly restored Lincoln Schoolhouse has invited Mikael Levin to exhibit the Lin Uprising story from his Critical Places project. from his American Slave Rebellion series The event, represented by Levin through text and photography took place in the country in which it is being shown.
KIKuji kawada - Los Caprichos, Demon of Tomorrow
PGI, Tokyo
April 15 - June 1, 2024
Ever engaged with current events (and posting his photographic reflections), Kikuji Kawada describes this most recent project: “My ‘Caprichos’ series has been drifting through synchronicities and coincidences in search of new meanings. Forever unfinished, its chaos continues, chained to the demon of tomorrow.”
KIKuji kawada - The map / visions of the invisible
Kyotographie International Photography Festival, KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
April 13 - May 12, 2024
This exhibition brings together three of Kawada’s series: The Map, a highly symbolic work about Japan in the years immediately following the war; The Last Cosmology, which captures Japan between the end of the Showa period and the end of the millennium; and Los Caprichos, a series begun during the economic boom years and recently revived by the artist.
CRITICAL PLACES: SITES OF AMERICAN SLAVE REBELLION
Belles Lettres Hall, Alcorn State University, Lorman, MS
April 3 - May 31, 2024
Alcorn State, the second largest HBCU (historically black college or university), is presenting a number of locations from Mikael Levin’s series on enslaved uprisings. This is the fourth presentation to date of this ongoing project which has been accompanied by programs encouraging participatory dialogue, storytelling, and community building.
artist talk : jens knigge & witho worms
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, NY
March 16, 2024
We invite you to join us Saturday March 16th, 1pm at the gallery for a conversation about these two landscape photographers’ practices. Their work is part of New York Public Library’s upcoming The Awe of the Arctic : A Visual History exhibition (March 15- July 13), curated by NYPL’s Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography Elizabeth Cronin. Worms is also included in the Asia Society’s Coal + Ice exhibition (February 13 – August 11).
To attend, please RSVP here
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History
New York Public Library, New York, NY
March 15 - July 13, 2024
For centuries, what lies above the Arctic Circle has been a source of intrigue and fascination for those who live below its border. NYPL's exhibition, drawn almost exclusively from its rich collections is a large, multipart survey of how the Arctic has been visually depicted, defined, and imagined over the past 500 years. Ranging from 16th-century explorers to contemporary artists, the works on view - which include the photographs of Jens Knigge and Witho Worms - invite us to consider how this history relates to our current understanding of the Arctic.
Collection du Centre Méditerranéan de la Photographie
Musée de Bastia / Museu di Bastia, Corsica, France
February 16 - March 23, 2024
This group presentation offers an aesthetic approach to landscape, portrait and reportage in a photographic style specific to each of the photographers exhibited. The CMP has a considerable photographic heritage, which contains works by artists of different styles and origins, relating to Corsica, the Mediterranean and beyond. “Whether on a documentary, photojournalistic or visual level, through offbeat or more classic visions, the aim here is to focus on the aesthetic fields that make up a collection, but also to show that these different photographic attitudes participate in the construction of the gaze” explains M.ichel Fortini. This exhibition presents the photographs of Jane Evelyn Atwood, Letizia Battaglia, Stéphane Couturier, Joan Fontcuberta, Constantine Manos, Bernard Plossu, Reza, among many others.
Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World
Michelin Design Gallery, V&A, Dundee, ScotlanD
March 29 - october 27, 2024 |
This group exhibition, exploring the way we experience our cities, will showcase Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photograph Girl on a Spacehopper from the Byker series about a neighborhood of Newcastle upon Tyne where she lived and photographed from 1969-1976.
For more information click here
COAL + ICE : Inspiring climate action through art and ideas
Asia Society, New York
February 13 - August 11, 2024
This is the third venue (following the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco) for this immersive photography and video exhibition. From deep within coal mines to the melting glaciers of the greater Himalaya, across the globe rising sea levels and extreme weather events are wreaking havoc. Work by JOHN DAVIES, WITHO WORMS and 50 others from China elsewhere aid in visualizing the causes and consequences of the climate crisis and foregrounds creative solutions.
A series of related programs will accompany the exhibition.
To see installation images click here
MIKAEL LEVIN |Critical Places: Sites of American Slave Rebellion
melrose, Natchez National Historical Park, Mississippi
January 26 - April 1, 2024
Exhibited in a former enslaved cabin on Melrose estate are three sites/stories from Levin’s ongoing photographic project. One of these, The Second Creek Conspiracy of 1861, took place in the county presenting the work. The Newton Revolt of 1708 which took place in Queens, NY and the Lin Uprising of 1859 in Lewis County Missouri which are also on view illustrate the varied nature and broad geographic range. In celebration of Black History Month, this exhibition encourages reflection on how revolts of the enslaved in the United States are remembered or not remembered in the landscape.
The Alluvial Collective - an organization which engages in a participatory dialogue using deep listening, storytelling and community building - is a co-sponsor and will facilitate discussions about the exhibition and its themes both at the outset of the exhibition and at its conclusion.
Artist Talk: Jan 25, 6:30 at the Historical Nachez Foundation
Artist Reception: Jan 26, 2-5pm at Melrose south slave cabin
Dialogue Circle: Jan 27, 2pm at Nachez Association for the Preservation of African American Culture
PRESS:
To read Press Release click here
The Natchez Democrat (front page) read here
The Natchez Democrat Opinion: read here
JACQUES SONCK |PORTRAITS 1977-2019
Fondation A Stichting, Brussels, Belgium
January 18 - March 31, 2024
This solo exhibition presents more than forty years of portraits which Sonck has made of every day characters and very unique fellow Belgians.
To read article in De Morgen click here
For installation views click here
Jane evelyn atwood
Le Parvis Espace Culturel E.Leclerc, Pau, France
January 11 - April 6, 2024
Revealing the humanist side of JANE EVELYN ATWOOD’s work, this solo exhibition spotlights her series on blind children and another on Paris’ trans community dating back to the late 1970s. Below is an interview from French television with Atwood in the exhibition space.
To watch TV spot click here
To read more click here
Press: La Rép des Pyrénées article click here
Press: Sud Ouest article click here
Bob Dylan: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE
Book by Callaway Arts & Entertainment, 2023
At over 600 pages, this richly illustrated and deeply researched volume is the ultimate reference on America's most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists. Musician/photographer/filmmaker/writer/folklorist JOHN COHEN encountered the younger musician shortly after Dylan’s arrival in New York. Among the precious nuggets in the book, is a little known interview Cohen had with Dylan, published in the Oct 1968 issue of Sing Out magazine which accompanies photos Cohen took of him in 1962 and 1970.
More images of book here
SING OUT interview read here
A STORY OF IMAGES
Musée De Grenoble, France
December 16th, 2023 - March 3rd, 2024
The exhibition is the first assessment of the photographic collection, donated to the museum by French collector Antoine de Galbert and his foundation. Through the works of 95 photographers, including JANE EVELYN ATWOOD, SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN, Sammy Baloji, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Luc Delahaye, Dorothea Lange, Martin Parr, and Wiktoria Wojciechowska, this exhibition and accompanying book offer an impressive panorama of our time and the determining role played by photography in the shaping of our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.
PRESS:
Le Journal des Arts article here
Les Inrockuptibles article here