The word ‘Underground’ is a tricky one for curators. It rather predicts failure. Conjuring up unspoken dark secrets, it leaves one to ask certain ethical questions as a consumer, wondering around through the dark concrete tunnels of the artist’s subconscious, who can’t even chase...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

Shadi Ghadirian catapulted quickly through the ranks of Iranian artists at home and abroad. Wry images addressing traditional social roles and paradoxes in her homeland, Ghadirian’s photographs feel instantly iconic. Drawing heavily from her life for themes, each n...

26.04.2011[ read full story ]

There are few places in the world more difficult and dangerous for journalists to work than in lawless Somalia. Similarly, living in the country which has been embattled by civil war since 1991 involves unrelenting poverty, unrestrained violence and little hope for sudden ch...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg will be showing the exhibition Series of Portraits – A century of Photographs, a collection that will bring together 400 photos from 35 international artists. With the aim of offering the visitor different approaches...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

The Mona Bismark Foundation is hosting the photo exhibition An Eye for an Eye, photographs by teenagers from La Courneuve and from Altgeld Gardens, a neighborhood in southern Chicago where Barack Obama began as a social worker.

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Forma Foundation for Photography in Milan presents an exhibition by award-winning photographer Léonie Hampton (formally Léonie Purchas) about her mother’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Sammy Davis, Jr. in his dressing room, lost in a cigarette’s reverie. Liza Minelli pushing half-sister Lorna Luft in a stroller. Frank Sinatra, in white tie, offering a light to JFK at the new pr...

20.04.2011[ read full story ]

The Lives of Great Photographers, a free to enter exhibition at the National Media Museum in Bradford, draws on the Museum’s renowned collection to focus on the pioneers behind the camera, exploring the extraordinary stories surrounding some of photography’s most important innovat...

20.04.2011[ read full story ]

This past summer a new complex of buildings in Neu-Ulm (Germany) opened to the public. It is owned by The Walter Family Foundation and the stated purpose is to show photography. In addition to exhibitions the beautifully conceived spaces will be used for curatoria...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Forma Foundation for Photography presents the exhibition Dies Irae, photographs by Paolo Pellegrin. Dies Irae is the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of Paolo Pellegrin. The show includes more than 150 images through which he ...

28.04.2011[ read full story ]