An Edwardian Summer, a new book and an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney showcases for the first time an extraordinary collection of photographs that capture Sydney at the turn of the century at one of the most rapidly changing times in Australia’s history.

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

Unknown in the West, Albanese photography is perhaps one of the most important in the Balkans and maybe one of the most consequential in Europe. The story begins with Pjetër Marubi, a supporter of Garibaldi who fled Italy and took refuge in the city of Shkodra, in the Ottoman...

23.03.2011[ read full story ]

In 1960 Ida Kar (1908-1974) became the first photographer to have a retrospective exhibition at a major London art gallery. Fifty years after her groundbreaking installation at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery presents a re-evaluation of the work of one of...

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

In 1999, after a Masters degree in Sociology and studies in cinema, Sophie Carlier accompanies a humanitarian convoy in Albania and begins her work in photography. Since then, she has accumulated self-portraits in staged settings where simple objects produce an operational discrepa...

23.03.2011[ read full story ]

Entitled « Worldview, » the Museum of Photography of Charleroi presents until May 15th 2011 the retrospective exhibition of the photographer Leonard Freed, who passed away in 2006, not long before this exhibition. Conceived in collaboration with the Parisian office of Magnum agency and t...

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Alongside the retrospective on Leonard Freed, the Museum of Photography of Charleroi presents an exhibition on the American photographer Simone Lueck, « The Once and the Future Queens. » To produce this work, she placed an ad reading « Seeking fabulous, striking, interesting older woman t...

23.03.2011[ read full story ]

From crooked police, politicians and judges, through to the shysters, hucksters and thugs who ran Sydney’s sub terrain, few cities have experienced such overt corruption as Sydney during the 20th century.
Sin City explores organised crime in Sydney, from the sly grog dealers and d...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

The first major exhibition in over 30 years dedicated to the photographer E.O.Hoppé has opened at the National Portrait Gallery. Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century and much of his work has only recently...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

Until April 24, le Botanique will be honoring one of Belgium’s master 20th century photographers, Norbert Ghisoland. Born in 1878, this miner’s son’s subject over 40 years were the residents of Borinage. Through these carefully composed pictures, this “involuntary anthropol...

18.03.2011[ read full story ]

When I started working on my “Chinese interiors” photography project in June 2004, about a year after having finished my “Cuban Interiors” project, I believed that I could take the same approach in China as in Cuba…..photographing people inside their homes, meeting them, ge...

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