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Benefit Photo Auction for Survival International's movement
The Little Black Gallery supports the Survival International Benefit Photo Auction with Paddle8, which goes live from 11-25 May 2015.
This auction of contemporary photography, curated by Ghislain Pascal of The Little Black Gallery, is raising the much needed funds for Survival International. It includes images donated by some of the world's best known photographers and some of the hottest emerging new names, such as Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher, Giovanni Cipriani, Bob Carlos Clarke, Nick Cobbing, Marco Glaviano and many others.
Survival International is the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights. It champions tribal peoples around the world, helping them defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
To watch the photos online : http://paddle8.c... - Livre
Vee Speers -The birthday party
The Birthday Party is a collection of children’s portraits. Speers has stripped away the stereotypes of childhood in a far cry from the usual idealisation of the ‘happiest days of our lives’. She reveals the cruelty, vulnerability and duplicity of children. She captures children happy to play with imperfection and embrace the grotesque; children with a sense of danger and disregard for the social expectations of a birthday party smile.
The resulting visuals are unsettling, with a transparency that is neither black and white nor colour, and the humanity neither that of an adult nor of a child.... - Festival
1ere édition du Festival du Regard à Saint-Germain !
Le Festival du Regard se déroule du 20 juin au 30 août 2015 sur la communauté d’agglomération de Saint-Germain Seine et forêts. Il est organisé par la société Marianne Participation avec le soutien des villes participantes, des résidences
intergénérationnelles «Les Maisons de Marianne» et de différents partenaires. Pour cette première édition, Eric Vialatel directeur du festival, a souhaité axer sa programmation sur la thématique de «l’Humain» qui permet de présenter différents domaines de la photographie, de l’humanisme à la photographie plasticienne. Les photographies présentées ainsi que les scénographies sont le fruit d’une collaboration entre les artistes ou les galeries qui les représentent et le festival. Les expositions... - Festival
Stages de photographie — les rencontres d'Arles
Arles, un séjour en immersion photographique
Les rencontres d'arles proposent un programme dense de stages de photographies qui se déroulera au fil de l'été, du 6 juillet au 21 août, dans un ancien hôtel particulier au cœur du centre historique de la ville. A deux pas des arènes, dans un cadre exceptionnel propice à la création, nos stagiaires bénéficient d’un matériel performant, des conseils et des astuces de photographes de renom ainsi que d’une équipe présente pour faciliter les aspects logistiques et techniques nécessaires aux productions de chacun.
Nos stages sont ouverts à tous les passionnés et donnent lieu à des soirées de projection et de prése... - Exposition
Exposition : « Jardin Secret » de Vee Speers
Communiqué de presse de la Wild Project Gallery
L’impact immédiat de l’imagerie de Vee Speers a un effet intriguant. Dans ses dernières séries, la photographe nous plaçait face au mystère de l’enfance (The Birthday Party) et éternisait la beauté fragile de l’adolescence (Bulletproof, Immortal). Une douce tension dramatique était suscitée à la vue de ces jeunes garçons et filles portant différents types de costumes et de masques, posant dans des attitudes très fières et aux visages dépourvus de sourire. La photographe cherche à capter des émotions, révèlent les secrets enfouis de ses modèles, à la frontière entre le réel et l’imaginaire.
Dans sa série la plus récente, Botanica, Vee Speers constitue une galerie de portraits de fleu... - Exposition
Exhibition : Bullet Proof by Vee Speers
This will be the first showing of Vee Speers new series BULLETPROOF in London, following its successful launch at Paris Photo last year. The series is also being exhibited at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, Sweden from April - June, and at Photo London from 20-24 May.
© Vee Speers, Bullet Proof
The new series follows six years after her infamous series The Birthday Party. Continuing the theme Speers now photographs these same children. Since then, much has changed - their bodies are taller, longer. Their faces have thinned and transformed. Speers has recorded it. She has taken them to imaginary lands, playing fields, and curious places where these characters are ever prepared and always win. Vee Speers eternalises the fragile beauty of adolescence. She photographs a time that follows the f... - Exposition
« Transmission » de Vee Speers
Pernod Ricard a confié 18 de ses collaborateurs à la photographe australienne Vee Speers pour réaliser la campagne photo du rapport annuel Pernod Ricard 2013/2014.
Fidèle à la tradition depuis sa création, Pernod Ricard a donné « carte blanche » pour cette 39ème édition de son rapport annuel à la photographe australienne Vee Speers. L’artiste est installée à Paris depuis les années 90, après avoir fait ses débuts à Sydney. Ses séries « Bordello », « Birthday Party », « Immortal » et « Bullet Proof » lui ont permis d’accéder à une renommée mondiale.
Travaillant sur le thème de la transmission, Vee Speers a choisi de présenter 9 diptyques de collaborateurs du Groupe. Dans le quotidien professionnel, chaque ... - Exposition
Vee Speers exposé à la Little Black Gallery
« She shows beauty where beauty can be terribly absent » Karl Lagerfeld
The romantic decadence of Paris nightlife in the 1920s and 30s (eternalized most famously by the photographs of Brassai) comes to life afresh in this series of sensuous photos shot on location in former bordellos where the lavish decors have survived intact.
Vee Speers, an Australian artist who has lived in Paris for more than 20 years, has created edgy photos that play with seduction, sensuality and femininity.
The photographs have been printed using a hand-rendered Fresson charcoal process which gives a more authentic, painterly quality to the images.
© Vee Speers
Vee Speers was born in Australia and has lived in Paris since 1990. Her timeless portra... - Exposition
Nostalgie de « L'Anté-Numérique » à l'atelier TOZF
"La photographie est, de façn primordiale, une "sun picture", comme le disait Fox Talbot, l'un des inventeurs. Une image formée par la lumière, dans un piège optique (la camera obcura) et chimique (les sels d'argent développés et fix&s). Ce qui nous fascine dans ce piège, c'est son autonomie (The Pencil of Nature : la nature se peint elle même), la maîtrise de l'image nous échappe, et quelque chose de la vérité, de l'âme des choses, est ici enfermée.
Cette absence de maîtrise est un piège délicieux, qui permet à quelque chose de plus grand que ce nous imaginions de se manifester. Un mystère.
Le numérique nous permet un contrôle de l... - Exposition
Vee Speers - Immortal
Vee Speers is an Australian artist living in Paris. She studied fine art and photography in Brisbane which was followed by a five year career in Sydney with the ABC television as a stills photographer. A short stay in France in 1990 became a permanent move to Paris, which for Speers is a place with ‘unlimited potential and endless creative inspiration.
In 2002, her passion for life backstage in the cabarets of Pigalle inspired her to revisit the smokey, 1920’s world of les maisons closes in Paris, using the backdrop of actual opulent locations which still remain intact today. During this period, Speers also began photographing eccentric people she met along the way, satisfying her attraction to those who dare to be different. But it was not until she turned towards her own childhood and family for insp... - Exposition
SHOW OFF - PARIS David Lachapelle - Vee Speers - Pascal Bernier
For its fifth édition, SHOW OFF 2010 becomes the SOLO SHOW art fair of Paris.
SHOW OFF will take place October 21-24, 2010 during Paris’s Contemporary art week and will be set in a luminous, élégant tent in the heart of Paris, a few steps away from the Grand Palais and the banks of the Champs Elysees. Painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, vidéo, and installation; all media will be presented en a unique format highly favorable to participating artists.
«Amidst the overwhelming profusion of autumn art fairs in the heart of this outpouring of art which sometimes remindsus of what it’s outpouring of art which sometimes reminds us of what it’s like to stroll through a busy bazar, I look forward to the breath of fresh air that SHOW OFF promises, because art is no g... - Exposition
Vee Speers The Birthday Party Aurelia Mihai Transhumanţa
You Aren't Happy At All!: Vee Speers' "Birthday Party" Series
The list of photo artists who have taken the theme of childhood for themselves is long. That's understandable, for it is a rewarding photographic subject. What's fascinating is the position of in-between, the ambiguity of being a child: The child's ego is fragile, there are plenty of options. Is this only at the beginning: in a paradisiacal state, as has often been written?
When Vee Speers places children in front of the same white wall to photograph them in their costumes for the "Birthday Party" series, one might at first wonder about this visual concept. We tend to associate childhood with spontaneous movement rather than immobility. This is different with Vee Speers: Her models act within a strictly laid-out frame.
Lisette Mode... - Exposition
Vee Speers Print Sales Featured Photographers
Print Sales presents the most recent body of work by Vee Speers. All prints are available to purchase, please ask for further information.
Prints available as:
20 x 24" signed c-type, from an edition of 10, from £1500
29 x 36" signed c-type, from an edition of 8, from £2000
40 x 50" signed c-type, from an edition of 6, from £3000
All prices exclusive of vat and framing.
Vee Speers' most recent work is The Birthday Party, a collection of portraits of children inspired by her daughter's birthday party. Having observed children playing at being adults, Speers imagined what characters they would create if they pushed their role-playing to imaginative extremes. In these photographs she has stripped away the idealistic stereotypes of childhood to question the adult idealisation of...
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The Little Black Gallery supports the Survival International Benefit Photo Auction with Paddle8, which goes live from 11-25 May 2015.
This auction of contemporary photography, curated by Ghislain Pascal of The Little Black Gallery, is raising the much needed funds for Survival International. It includes images donated by some of the world's best known photographers and some of the hottest emerging new names, such as Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher, Giovanni Cipriani, Bob Carlos Clarke, Nick Cobbing, Marco Glaviano and many others.
Survival International is the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights. It champions tribal peoples around the world, helping them defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
To watch the photos online : http://paddle8.c...
The Birthday Party is a collection of children’s portraits. Speers has stripped away the stereotypes of childhood in a far cry from the usual idealisation of the ‘happiest days of our lives’. She reveals the cruelty, vulnerability and duplicity of children. She captures children happy to play with imperfection and embrace the grotesque; children with a sense of danger and disregard for the social expectations of a birthday party smile.
The resulting visuals are unsettling, with a transparency that is neither black and white nor colour, and the humanity neither that of an adult nor of a child....
Le Festival du Regard se déroule du 20 juin au 30 août 2015 sur la communauté d’agglomération de Saint-Germain Seine et forêts. Il est organisé par la société Marianne Participation avec le soutien des villes participantes, des résidences
intergénérationnelles «Les Maisons de Marianne» et de différents partenaires. Pour cette première édition, Eric Vialatel directeur du festival, a souhaité axer sa programmation sur la thématique de «l’Humain» qui permet de présenter différents domaines de la photographie, de l’humanisme à la photographie plasticienne. Les photographies présentées ainsi que les scénographies sont le fruit d’une collaboration entre les artistes ou les galeries qui les représentent et le festival. Les expositions...
Arles, un séjour en immersion photographique
Les rencontres d'arles proposent un programme dense de stages de photographies qui se déroulera au fil de l'été, du 6 juillet au 21 août, dans un ancien hôtel particulier au cœur du centre historique de la ville. A deux pas des arènes, dans un cadre exceptionnel propice à la création, nos stagiaires bénéficient d’un matériel performant, des conseils et des astuces de photographes de renom ainsi que d’une équipe présente pour faciliter les aspects logistiques et techniques nécessaires aux productions de chacun.
Nos stages sont ouverts à tous les passionnés et donnent lieu à des soirées de projection et de prése...
Communiqué de presse de la Wild Project Gallery
L’impact immédiat de l’imagerie de Vee Speers a un effet intriguant. Dans ses dernières séries, la photographe nous plaçait face au mystère de l’enfance (The Birthday Party) et éternisait la beauté fragile de l’adolescence (Bulletproof, Immortal). Une douce tension dramatique était suscitée à la vue de ces jeunes garçons et filles portant différents types de costumes et de masques, posant dans des attitudes très fières et aux visages dépourvus de sourire. La photographe cherche à capter des émotions, révèlent les secrets enfouis de ses modèles, à la frontière entre le réel et l’imaginaire.
Dans sa série la plus récente, Botanica, Vee Speers constitue une galerie de portraits de fleu...
This will be the first showing of Vee Speers new series BULLETPROOF in London, following its successful launch at Paris Photo last year. The series is also being exhibited at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, Sweden from April - June, and at Photo London from 20-24 May.
© Vee Speers, Bullet Proof
The new series follows six years after her infamous series The Birthday Party. Continuing the theme Speers now photographs these same children. Since then, much has changed - their bodies are taller, longer. Their faces have thinned and transformed. Speers has recorded it. She has taken them to imaginary lands, playing fields, and curious places where these characters are ever prepared and always win. Vee Speers eternalises the fragile beauty of adolescence. She photographs a time that follows the f...
Pernod Ricard a confié 18 de ses collaborateurs à la photographe australienne Vee Speers pour réaliser la campagne photo du rapport annuel Pernod Ricard 2013/2014.
Fidèle à la tradition depuis sa création, Pernod Ricard a donné « carte blanche » pour cette 39ème édition de son rapport annuel à la photographe australienne Vee Speers. L’artiste est installée à Paris depuis les années 90, après avoir fait ses débuts à Sydney. Ses séries « Bordello », « Birthday Party », « Immortal » et « Bullet Proof » lui ont permis d’accéder à une renommée mondiale.
Travaillant sur le thème de la transmission, Vee Speers a choisi de présenter 9 diptyques de collaborateurs du Groupe. Dans le quotidien professionnel, chaque ...
« She shows beauty where beauty can be terribly absent » Karl Lagerfeld
The romantic decadence of Paris nightlife in the 1920s and 30s (eternalized most famously by the photographs of Brassai) comes to life afresh in this series of sensuous photos shot on location in former bordellos where the lavish decors have survived intact.
Vee Speers, an Australian artist who has lived in Paris for more than 20 years, has created edgy photos that play with seduction, sensuality and femininity.
The photographs have been printed using a hand-rendered Fresson charcoal process which gives a more authentic, painterly quality to the images.
© Vee Speers
Vee Speers was born in Australia and has lived in Paris since 1990. Her timeless portra...
"La photographie est, de façn primordiale, une "sun picture", comme le disait Fox Talbot, l'un des inventeurs. Une image formée par la lumière, dans un piège optique (la camera obcura) et chimique (les sels d'argent développés et fix&s). Ce qui nous fascine dans ce piège, c'est son autonomie (The Pencil of Nature : la nature se peint elle même), la maîtrise de l'image nous échappe, et quelque chose de la vérité, de l'âme des choses, est ici enfermée.
Cette absence de maîtrise est un piège délicieux, qui permet à quelque chose de plus grand que ce nous imaginions de se manifester. Un mystère.
Le numérique nous permet un contrôle de l...
Vee Speers is an Australian artist living in Paris. She studied fine art and photography in Brisbane which was followed by a five year career in Sydney with the ABC television as a stills photographer. A short stay in France in 1990 became a permanent move to Paris, which for Speers is a place with ‘unlimited potential and endless creative inspiration.
In 2002, her passion for life backstage in the cabarets of Pigalle inspired her to revisit the smokey, 1920’s world of les maisons closes in Paris, using the backdrop of actual opulent locations which still remain intact today. During this period, Speers also began photographing eccentric people she met along the way, satisfying her attraction to those who dare to be different. But it was not until she turned towards her own childhood and family for insp...
For its fifth édition, SHOW OFF 2010 becomes the SOLO SHOW art fair of Paris.
SHOW OFF will take place October 21-24, 2010 during Paris’s Contemporary art week and will be set in a luminous, élégant tent in the heart of Paris, a few steps away from the Grand Palais and the banks of the Champs Elysees. Painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, vidéo, and installation; all media will be presented en a unique format highly favorable to participating artists.
«Amidst the overwhelming profusion of autumn art fairs in the heart of this outpouring of art which sometimes remindsus of what it’s outpouring of art which sometimes reminds us of what it’s like to stroll through a busy bazar, I look forward to the breath of fresh air that SHOW OFF promises, because art is no g...
You Aren't Happy At All!: Vee Speers' "Birthday Party" Series
The list of photo artists who have taken the theme of childhood for themselves is long. That's understandable, for it is a rewarding photographic subject. What's fascinating is the position of in-between, the ambiguity of being a child: The child's ego is fragile, there are plenty of options. Is this only at the beginning: in a paradisiacal state, as has often been written?
When Vee Speers places children in front of the same white wall to photograph them in their costumes for the "Birthday Party" series, one might at first wonder about this visual concept. We tend to associate childhood with spontaneous movement rather than immobility. This is different with Vee Speers: Her models act within a strictly laid-out frame.
Lisette Mode...
Print Sales presents the most recent body of work by Vee Speers. All prints are available to purchase, please ask for further information.
Prints available as:
20 x 24" signed c-type, from an edition of 10, from £1500
29 x 36" signed c-type, from an edition of 8, from £2000
40 x 50" signed c-type, from an edition of 6, from £3000
All prices exclusive of vat and framing.
Vee Speers' most recent work is The Birthday Party, a collection of portraits of children inspired by her daughter's birthday party. Having observed children playing at being adults, Speers imagined what characters they would create if they pushed their role-playing to imaginative extremes. In these photographs she has stripped away the idealistic stereotypes of childhood to question the adult idealisation of...