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© Christopher Anderson | | | | 8th session at L'Appartement - Espace Images Vevey | | |
6 December 2023 – 14 April 2024
OPENING: Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 6pm
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© Christopher Anderson | | | | | | | 6 December 2023 – 14 April 2024 | | | Christopher Anderson naturally began photographing his family after his son Atlas came into the world in 2008. When his daughter Pia was born, he continued the fatherly attempt to stop time and not let a single moment of this new life slip away. Marion features throughout these albums, as a woman, mother, and partner. As a documentary photographer, Christopher Anderson had never considered these personal photos as a ‘series’, but his opinion changed when war photographer Tim Hetherington pointed out that “They’re all about the passage of time.” Christopher Anderson began seeing his family pictures in a new light and realised that they may well be his best work. Pia, Son and Marion were published as three separate books, forming a unique and moving intimate family trilogy.
Christopher Anderson was born in Canada and grew up in west Texas. He first gained recognition for his pictures in 1999 when he boarded a handmade, wooden boat with Haitian refugees trying to sail to America. The boat, named the Believe In God, sank in the Caribbean. In 2000 the images from that journey would receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal. Christopher is a member of Magnum Photos. He is the author of four monographs of photography. | | |
| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Kristine Potter, from the series Dark Waters, 2015-present | | | | | | | 6 December 2023 – 14 April 2024 | | | Kristine Potter’s latest photobook, Dark Waters, focuses on the violence that permeates the territory and popular culture of the USA. She contrasts a series of portraits of women with scenery that appears serene but is in fact views of places with sordid names, such as Murder Creek, Bloody River, and Rape Pond, evoking the domestic violence that allegedly took place there in the past. Drawing on the musical genre of murder ballads from the 19th and 20th centuries, Kristine Potter alludes to the flippant popular glorification of violence towards women that still pervades today’s cultural landscape.
Kristine Potter (born in Dallas, 1977) is an artist based in Nashville. She holds an MFA from Yale University and her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2019/2020). Potter is an assistant professor of photography at Middle Tennessee State University. | | |
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Jean-Marie Donat, France (1962)
Christmas Nightmare, 2016 | 
Jean-Marie Donat, France (1962)
Christmas Nightmare, 2016 |
| | | | | | | 6 December 2023 – 14 April 2024 | | | Advertisements generally encourage us to picture Santa Claus as a cheerful chubby man with a bushy white beard and a smart red suit, always smiling and huggable. But what’s he really like? Collector Jean-Marie Donat scoured flea markets all over Europe to compile this extraordinary collection of photographs from the 1930s to the 1970s, in which we see the beloved myth become a nightmare of triviality and awkward clumsiness. This witty series seems most likely to confirm our childhood suspicions: Is Santa Claus just an ordinary man, after all?
Jean-Marie Donat was Born in 1962 in Paris. He is a publisher and savvy collector who scouts the world in search of original prints, whether anonymous or by known artists. He has collected a body of images that offer a singular interpretation of the century. His collection has been exhibited in Europe and published at Ãditions Innocences. | | | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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