New Visions on Social Documentary Photography. The Encontros da Imagem (Image Meetings), the oldest photo festival of the Iberian Peninsula is back in 2011 under the theme New Visions on Social Documentary Photography. From September 16th until the end of October 13 exhibitions will be shown at historical, cultural and modern spaces of Braga, Portugal, in an event that also includes a 7500 Euros prize for the best portfolio presented to an international jury.
The current crisis in Portugal and the transformations of Eastern Europe after the fall of the communism are two of the main attractions of this year edition. The current situation of Portugal is portrayed in the exhibition of the KameraPhoto collective that will be shown at the D. Diogo de Sousa Museum. “It’s a portrait of the social and politica...
Twelve years ago Anya Stonelake arrived in London and started White Space Gallery. In that time she has missed twelve Russian winters in her beloved St Petersburg and twelve Baltic springs but it is our good fortune that we have not. Thanks to Anya we have discovered the freshness of the New Artists and Timur Novikov from St Petersburg and the poetry of unknown Baltic photographers. Her acute sense of both what has happened and what is happening has introduced the British public to new artists and photographers from 21st century Russia and Lithuania. She has also curated the work of the Portuguese photographer Jose Pedro Cortes and our own Martin Parr.
Larissa Tarkovskaya, San Gregorio, 14 July 1984, from Polaroid Portfolio, printed in 2007 © Andrey Tarkovsky
But Anya's name w...