Frieze Week returns, taking place from 5–7 October, Regent's Park London, with two Preview Days on
Wednesday 3 October and Thursday 4 October.

With more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries at Frieze London» and 130 at Frieze Masters» , the two fairs together catalyze the most significant week in London’s cultural calendar, with more than 100 photographic artists.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair» London returns for its sixth edition at Somerset House between the 4-7 October 2018. The fair will welcome 43 leading galleries from countries across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America, presenting also over 30 photographic artists from Africa and its diaspora.

Now in its fourth iteration, the 2018 FotoFocus Biennial encompasses more than 90 projects at museums and galleries across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton, and Columbus, and features more than 400 artists, curators, and educators - the largest of its kind in America.

Masahisa Fukase » Private Scenes

Fukase incorporated his personal struggle with loss and depression into his work in a surprisingly playful manner. His subjects are personal and highly intimate: over the years, his wife Yoko, his dying father and his beloved cat Sasuke regularly featured in sometimes comical, at other times sombre visual narratives. Towards the end of this working life, the photographer increasingly turned the camera on himself. The huge number of self-portraits – precursors to today’s ubiquitous selfie – testifies to the singular, almost obsessive way that the artist related to his surroundings, and to himself.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya » Double Enclosure

Christian Vogt » The longer I look

Christian Vogt is one of the most important contemporary Swiss photographers, from a generation of artists who revolutionized photography from the 60s. The longer I look is his first solo exhibition in France since 1990 and presents a selection of his recent works.

With a perfect mastery of the photographic technique that he has been practicing for fty years, Christian Vogt explores all the speci cities of the medium and its evolution. The photographer wonders about the changing relationship to reality, the spectator’s involvement in the aesthetic emotion, the discourse between text and image, the importance of the size and scale of the print. His photography is entirely commited to desire, to the marvelous possibility of freezing time, to the amazement of seeing the moment of shooting becoming an image. But it also allows the photographer to question reality and its perception, to confront the visible to its photographic interpretation.

Christian Vogt completely accepts to create an illusion of reality, ltered by the physical-chemical device of the camera and the printing. He ponders precisely about the work produced, its size, its printing technique and its edition. He selects his photographs with an extremely strict criteria keeping those that meet his ambitious quest: to see beyond the visible.

Carlo Naya (1816 - 1882) »

22,000 photographic prints on paper, these holdings are little known and barely researched. The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna began collecting photography in 1855. The photographs range from city vistas and views of historic buildings to landscapes, studies of ‘types’ in traditional costumes from around the world, art works, and flora and fauna.

The works by Carlo Naya (Tronzano Vercellese near Turin 1816 – 1882 Venice) belong to the larger sets of prints in the collection by renowned photographers.

After studying law in Pisa and several years travelling extensively through Italy, Europe and Mediterranean countries, Naya settled for a time in Istanbul before opening his first studio in Venice in 1857. From an amateur photographer, he developed into one of nineteenth-century Italy’s leading travel, architecture and art photographers.

His scenes of Venice, its palaces, bridges, squares, and canals, defined the city’s image for decades. The hand-coloured Venice views are especially picturesque. In some cases, particularly where the colour was applied thickly, it is even difficult to identify them as photographs. Naya’s views of Venice were highly prized by his contemporaries and won numerous awards and medals at World Exhibitions.

The Graphic Collection has nearly 100 of Carlo Naya’s photographic prints of buildings and art works in Venice. Acquired by the Academy in the late nineteenth century, they provided visual materials for art students. Naya…

Deborah Kelly » Life In The Ruins

Discarded books and encyclopedias are as much source material for Deborah Kelly (*1962) as her avid studies, her boundless curiosity and vivid imagination. She describes it as her "obsession with constructing new possibilities for the symbolic order from abandoned books, and their sorrowful status as the ruins of a civilization – which is ours."

As the Australian artist travels the globe from residency to biennial to workshop to arts festival and back home, she investigates local folklore, religious imagery, stories and personal experiences while picking up wildly diverse printed materials on her way. It’s as if she collects fragments of the world’s memory, which she reassembles into eloquent, spirited and allegorical fantasies, audacious proposals and cautionary tales that speak to the state of this very world.

The resulting artworks seem like exercises in resistance: refusing the vanishing of our material, corporeal, social, and natural world that threatens to become a digital, virtual, asocial, asexual and man-made dystopia. They also seem like lessons in dissent: protesting the loss of voice and agency, but also the erosion of liberty and solidarity. After all, collages and photomontages always appear in times when other modes of artistic expression fail to capture the mood and urgency of crises. Deborah Kelly presents us in Life in the Ruins with her-story, showing us that another world is not just possible, but has always been there.

Deborah Kelly’s works have been included in the Biennales of Singapore, Venice, Thessaloniki, …

Douglas Mandry » EQUIVALENCES

"Seductively beautiful in the use of color, the diversity of form and the choice of materials while, simultaneously, being conceptually sophisticated in terms of subject-matters and photographic processes: the starting points for the artist Douglas Mandry (b. 1989 in Geneva), who has moved to Zurich in 2013, are real world phenomena and experimenting with various photographic techniques. Oscillating between historical analogue and contemporary digital imaging methods, the artist creates his very own pictorial worlds. Observations in nature and the examination of current issues merge in his work with his reflections regarding his chosen medium photography - documentation with abstraction, reasoning with sensuality. Conceptual rigor and experimental liberties are well balanced in Douglas Mandry's work, and the autonomous nature of photographic processes bears serendipitous results: the unforeseen meets intention and idea. This way, complex issues receive poetic allure. Each work retains a productive riddle that encourages us to question our perception of the reality of the world and the reality of images". (Nadine Olonetzky )

Mandry's practice is a direct response to the digitalization of photography and the technological accelerations that came along with it. Always shooting his initial images in analogue, all of Mandry's interventions in the image are done by hand, through the application of different historic photographic pr…

The 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin » Latif Al Ani » Claudia Andujar » Catherine Balet » Roger Ballen » Chen Baoyang » Xu Bing » Beni Bischof » Dirk Braeckman » Marcel Broodthaers » Vanja Bucan » Natasha Caruana » David Claerbout » Rochelle Costi » Marcel Duchamp » Carl Johan Erikson » Patrick Faigenbaum » Joan Fontcuberta » Anna Fox » Robert Frank » Daniela Friebel » YANG Fudong » Weronika Gęsicka » Gayatri Ganju » Luigi Ghirri » Luigi Ghirri » Anni Hanén » Eddo Hartmann » Sarah Mei Herman » Todd Hido » Pieter Hugo » Zhang Jin » LI Lang » Leandro Lima » Mário Macilau » Man Ray » Edgar Martins » Bruno Morais » Richard Mosse » Gisela Motta » Zanele Muholi » Laura Pannack » Giuseppe Penone » Leonard Pongo » Barbara Probst » Jo Ractliffe » Berna Reale » Rosângela Rennó » Lua Ribeira » Gerhard Richter » Jewgeni Roppel » Sara, Peter & Tobias » Viviane Sassen » Malick Sidibé » Jiehao Su » Taca Sui » Caterine Val » Emmanuel Van der Auwera » Jan Vercruysse » Jeff Wall » Aby Warburg » Shen Wei » Hu Xao » Gao Yan » Wang Yishu » Vasantha Yogananthan » Shizuka Yokomizo » Zhang Yongji » ...

Eventually, with the extensive involvement of photography, public and private spaces, the boundaries between the individual and the group, and the "others" and "I" are reconstructed and redefined. During the process of these changing relationships, photography interacts and resonates in new ways with a lot of important factors such as history, reality, religion, philosophy, civilization, war, science & technology, politics and human emotions. In such a spatial-temporal environment where the public and the private are mixed, the modes of organization and thinking are extremely complex, and the atmosphere is full of a sense of ritual and absurdity, how can we start an adventure of thought – what kind of world is it? How is it related to us? It may be a Utopia or Dystopia, or even a Heterotopia or Protopia [1], and in their ideological and visual field, the way we deal with the relationship and expression of the public and private by photography will become our common goal that built on a relatively broad, distant and higher point, which is also the main point that inspired us to plan this exhibition. Therefore, this exhibition will center on photography as an interdisciplinary research field as well as its complex coexistence of the social, public and private, and it aims to explore the role and significance of photography in the tensional relationship between the public and the private...

The European Month of Photography Berlin EMoP 2018

Maria Austria » Richard Avedon » Sylvia Ballhause » Cecil Beaton » Sibylle Bergemann » Peter Bialobrzeski » Erwin Blumenfeld » Bogdan Dziworski » Alinka Echeverría » Nicolai Howalt » Bernice Kolko » Kai Löffelbein » Nathan Lerner » Vivian Maier » Thomas Mailaender » Douglas Mandry » Sven Marquardt » Helmut Newton » Martin Parr » Martin Parr » Andrej Pirrwitz » Angelika Platen » Richard Renaldi » Richard Renaldi » Cindy Sherman » Alice Springs (June Newton) » Masao Yamamoto » ...

photomeetings luxembourg 2018

Liza Ambrossio » Gisèle Freund » Isabel Muñoz » Ada Trillo »