Kristen Ashburn’s images of AIDS in southern Africa, “Bloodline: AIDS and Family” opened at the 401 Gallery in New York on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, and has been extended through February. A fund-raising event, the exhibit was co-hosted by musician Lenny Kravitz and supermodel Iman. In the exhibition space four days later, a roundtable discussion on the role of the media in the AIDS crisis moderated by Chris Anderson was joined by MaryAnne Golon, photo editor for Time magazine, Leigh Blake, the founder of Keep A Child Alive, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Laurie Garret. A web presentation of “Bloodline” is also being featured on Mediastorm.
November 2006 | Sections:
Agency News,
Exhibitions
| CONTACT/S:30, Chobi Mela, Dhaka Bangla. |
right © Shehab Uddin, left © Amin (DRIK) |
CONTACT/S 30: The Art of Photojournalism, an exhibition which debuted at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, and at Visa Pour l’image Festival in Perpignan, France over the summer, is featured at the fourth installment of the Chobi Mela Photography Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, opening on November 9, 2006. The exhibit showcases 32 huge contact sheets, and the work of thirty photographers from the last thirty years of Contact Press Images.
| Pingyao International Photography Festival |
© David Burnett |
2006 is the fifth year that the preserved ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi province has hosted the preeminent international photography festival in the People’s Republic of China. The “CONTACT/S: 30″ exhibition, the centerpiece of this year’s events, featured nearly 400 images, including thirty giant contact sheets with a single individual print from each; 22 additional “satellite” exhibitions by individual photographers — founders, members and associates — and three special sections: thirty Olympic images by David Burnett: thirty images from 1976, Contact’s first year, by Burnett, Annie Leibovitz, Li Zhensheng, Don McCullin, and Alon Reininger; and a 30-image photographic tribute to fallen colleagues Gilles Caron and Olivier Rebbot.
Twenty Contact photographers and staff were on hand in China for the occasion, engaging in a variety of forums, portfolio reviews, and special workshops.
Contact photographers clockwise top left; Lori Grinker, Kenneth Jarecke, Alexandra Avakian, Nadia Benchallal, Charles Ommanney, Stephen Dupont, Yunghi Kim, Edward Keating, Sean Hemmerle, Jane Evelyn Atwood, David Burnett, Frank Fournier, Nick Danziger, Kristen Ashburn.
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| AFTERWAR: Veterans from a World in Conflict |
© Lori Grinker |
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| Lori Grinker and Ken Jarecke will participate in the “Making Stories Work” forum at the Minnesota Center of Photography on November 18, 2006. Grinker, whose AFTERWAR exhibition is on view at the center until January 7, 2007, will be joined by Jarecke to address how personal projects can be transformed into marketable entities. |
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| Iraq, 1991 |
© Kenneth Jarecke |
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Grinker was recently interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio about her exhibition and images from AFTERWAR were also featured in Time Magazine online.
| Jean-Luc Godard, 1967 |
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin ©Gilles Caron |
The exhibition Gilles Caron - Portraits, on view at Simon Studer Art, Geneva, Switzerland, from November 11 to December 22, reveals an aspect of the photographer that goes beyond journalistic photography. Through his portraits Caron shows himself to be a keen observer of humanity, amazingly agile in his ability to extract something essential from the person in front of his lens. His subjects become larger than the context of their time and speak of hope, of revolt, of courage and of love. Henri Cartier-Bresson said of Gilles Caron: technique and an eye… this guy is worthy of becoming my successor.
November 2006 | Sections:
Books,
Photographers' News
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Jane Evelyn Atwood has authored a new book, À Contre-Coups (Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris, 2006). Produced with Annette Lucas, the book includes fifteen intimate portraits of women who have rebuilt their lives after being victims of domestic violence.
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