Coming Saturday, 5 June, World Environmental Day, the unique photographic Consequences by NOOR street exhibition opens on Istanbul's centrally located Galatasaray Square. The street exhibition will be on show through to 20 June, and forms the opening event of the Intercultural Art Dialogues Days and Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture.
With the participation of : Nina Berman (Path of Destruction: Mountain Pine Beetles, Canada) | Philip Blenkinsop (The Fires Within: Burning Coalfields, India) | Pep Bonet (Blackfields: Poland’s Coal Industry, Poland) | Jan Grarup (Climate Refugees, the Horn of Africa) | Stanley Greene (Shadows of Change, Greenland) | Yuri Kozyrev (Karabash and The Yamal Peninsula, Russia) | Jon Lowenstein (In The Oil Sands: Alberta, Canada) | Kadir van Lohuizen (Brazil's Range War: Assault on the Amazon, Brazil) | Francesco Zizola (A Paradise in Peril, The Maldives)
Featuring the work of NOOR's nine internationally acclaimed documentary photographers, the 100 exhibited photographs show the devastating effects of climate change around the globe.
Consequences by NOOR is a showcase for creativity in photography and an eyewitness record of the causes and the humanitarian effects of world-wide temperature changes. Produced in the autumn of 2009, these visual reportages show not what might happen in the future but what is happening today, emphasizing the urgency of addressing the issues at stake.
Yuri Kozyrev | NOOR, Russia, October 2009.
Kadir van Lohuizen | NOOR, Brazil, October 2009.
Pep Bonet | NOOR, Poland, September 2009.
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...