This exhibition marks the first occasion for the internationally renowned British photographer, Martin Parr’s works to be seen in India. Parr is amongst the most influential photographers of our age, known for his innovative imagery and oblique approach to social documentary. This exhibition brings together photographs made both in Britain and India, examining his keen observations of people and particular aspects of culture.
Parr’s curiosity about the world brought a lively irreverence in the world of photography from which it is still recovering. Imbued with humour, irony and satire, Parr’s photographs make him an unusual documentarist. His photographs of the British working class in The Last Resort (1986) were highly controversial and he was accused of being voyeuristic, a tag he refuses to defend even today. Parr brought noise and subversion to photography. He coloured it with a saturated palette using fill-flash and celebrated the demise of the perfectly composed frame. His fascination for food and in particular junk food resulted in a series, British Food (1995), which heightened the debate around what people ate. Parr’s photographs are a sharp commentary on gluttony and the excesses of junk food culture. In 1994 Parr joined the legendary agency ‘Magnum’ and continues to be one of its celebrated photographers. Parr has traveled the world in search of new subjects and his idiosyncratic gaze has not escaped India. Martin Parr in India 1984–2009, a book that will also be released during this exhibition, mirrors his evolution as a documentarist of the banal and everyday life.
Martin Parr’s relationship with photo books is extraordinary: he has been extensively published, has edited photo books and has been regarded as one amongst the most significant collectors of photo books in the world. Photoink is delighted to add another book, Martin Parr in India 1984–2009, to his ever-growing basket.
DIEHL starts its “Flaneur” selection with 42 works of the Soviet photo journalist Dmitry Baltermants. Best known for his pictures of the Soviet battlefield during World War II.
During World War II, Baltermants covered major battles for Izvestia and for the Red Army newspaper Na Razgrom Vraga. He fought and photographe...
Le 24 mars 1976, le peuple argentin subit un coup d’état militaire. C’est le début d’une ère de répression sanglante, où quelque 30 000 personnes disparaissent et près de 500 bébés sont volés. Mais s’ouvre également une période d’ultralibéralisme d&ea...
Blindspot Gallery is pleased to present Coastline featuring emerging Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao’s award-winning series Coastline that focuses on the continuous 18,000 kilometres of China’s coastline. The series does not merely capture the seaside landscape of these coastal areas, but also witnesses the changes o...
Du dépouillement des clichés de Catherine Lambermont se dégage une poésie narrative. Ses images composent une suite d’instants d’observation libre. Son travail réhabilite le continuum qui caractérise chaque frontière. La frontière est le lieu du lien. Entre le corps et l’es...
Eric Rondepierre a choisi de montrer au sein d'un travail multiforme, certaines des oeuvres qui ont partie liée au cinéma, depuis ses débuts en 1992. Sur un parcours de vingt ans, 56 pièces ont été prélevées dans dix séries : Excédents, Annonces, Précis...
Simone Nieweg is a photographer of gardens and landscapes. Her work, as it has manifested itself over the past thirty years, knows no other interest. At the same time, a certain serenity hovers over her pictures. In them, nature seems entirely focused on itself. One immediately notices that human beings are absent. The allure of colors and shapes...
« Je ne peux m’empêcher, atteste Gérard Uféras, d’associer la pratique de l’Art à la notion d’amour et de partage ». (extrait de son livre Etats de grâce, éditions du Fantom)
«Egyptian pack» evokes many associations - here are both Petersburgers favorite topic of werewolves (see the movie of E. Yufit «Corpsmen werewolves») and references to the Perm animal style.
Also we can recall British film «The Wicker Man» (1973) with its ritual procession of the man-beasts, ho...
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