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Dupont at Jack Bell Gallery London

The Jack Bell Gallery in London, UK presents an exhibition of Stephen Dupont’s Raskol and Sing-Sing portraits. These images are all part of the larger body of work for which Dupont was recently awarded the 2010 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by Harvard University.

Polaroid 665 film renders these prints with a beautiful tonal range and a physical appearance quite unlike other gelatin silver prints. The telltale border is the outcome of splitting apart the negative from the positive – a process producing an immediate print that can be offered to the subject. The negatives are beautiful and finely grained, but also fragile and often haunted by scratches, streaks, or unprocessed corners or holes. The result is a finished print that seems to mesh perfectly with the subject, as if the physical processing of the film somehow captured the essence of each situation.

Giorgia Fiorio’s “The Gift” at C/O Berlin

C/O Berlin presents an exhibition of Giorgia Fiorio’s highly acclaimed "The Gift." The exhibition has been touring Europe and was shown in 2009 in Paris at the Maison Européenne de la photographie and Rome at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, amongst other venues.

In search of the perception of the sacred, Fiorio (born in 1967 in Turin, Italy) spent nine years travelling in 38 countries – along the banks of the Ganges river to cloisters in Poland, from ancient Cambodian temple complexes to meditation centers in Myanmar and waterfalls in Japan. With clarity and dignity, Fiorio’s images capture the point at which the rational dimension is transcended – through the medium of the body – to reach a spiritual plane. In so doing, she documents astonishing parallels among the cultures and religions.

2010 © Giorgia Fiorio
From March 20 - May 02, and for the first time in Germany, C/O Berlin presents approximately 80 black-and-white photographs of a work that has received numerous international awards.

Louie Psihoyos Wins Oscar

Contact Press Images congratulates former Contact contributing photographer Louie Psihoyos, who won an Oscar for Best Feature Documentary for his film "The Cove," about a secret dolphin cove in Taiji, Japan, which is the site of the largest slaughter of dolphins in the world.

Psihoyos assembled a team of activists and special ops experts to covertly film the documentary using cameras suspended by mini ballons, helicopters and hidden in fake rocks around the cove. The film makers conducted raids on the secret dolphin cove for two killing seasons in spite of being followed by the police who had 24-hour surveillance on the film.

2008 © Louie Psihoyos
This is the second Oscar won by a former Contact Press Images contributor for Best Feature Documentary. Zana Briski won in 2005 for her film Born into Brothels.

Paolo Pellizzari at the Vancouver Olympics

Belgian photographer Paolo Pellizzari was at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada, using his signature panoramic style to create a unique perspective on the Games. Paolo first collaborated with Contact Press Images at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, where he also used a wide-format panoramic camera.

Click on the slideshow above to see the full gallery of panoramas in greater detail.

Burnett at Woodrow Wilson Center

David Burnett lectured and presented images from his book 44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

The event was moderated by Robert Litwak, Vice President for Programs and Director of International Security Studies at the Wilson Center.

C-Span was there to capture the event. Click to watch the video.

Don McCullin - New Releases


Don McCullin’s Southern Frontiers: A Journey Across the Roman Empire (released March 4th, 2010, in the UK), is the result of numerous journeys to the fringes of the Roman Empire by McCullin over the past several years. Taken with large format cameras, these images from historic sites across the Middle East and Northern Africa are reminiscent of the works of nineteenth-century explorers and photographers, yet remain consistent in mood with McCullin’s earlier landscapes of his native England and his famed images of conflict. The book contains an introduction and texts by Barnaby Rogerson, an authority on the Roman empire, and an author’s note from McCullin.
Simultaneously, the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, presents the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of the famed war photographer.

The exhibition contains over 200 photographs, a number of which are on public display for the first time. The exhibition catalog "Shaped By War," produced in book-form by Jonathan Cape, accompanies the show and can be purchased on the museum’s website.