Paper Journal. - Hot Zone, full article here.

THE LATEST EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY

FRESH EYES 2021

The third edition of FRESH EYES invites you to discover a fresh batch of emerging talents from across the European continent. Powered by GUP Magazine, our expert jury has selected 150 new artists from a diverse array of backgrounds — freshly graduated photography students and autodidactic photographers among them — all of whom are making their first foray into the exciting world that is photography. Whether as a collector, curator, publisher, fellow artist, or simply a photography aficionado, FRESH EYES is sure to provide you a compelling, varied outlook on the state of affairs in contemporary photography today, through the eyes of this exciting new generation of photographers.

The book includes an introduction interview: “Talent’s Vision: a door to Unfamiliar Realities, a conversation with Francesca Marani”

FRESH EYES, link here.

For the first time, Copenhagen Photo Festival and Artland are working on an online auction together. During the festival, you will get the chance to see, bid and buy the Censored Exhibition artists’ works. The collaboration involves a combination of an online and physical auction, where the auction takes place online on Artland’s platform during the exhibition period and will be held as a physical event at Copenhagen Photo Festival on the last day of the festival.

OPEN TO EVERYONE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD...

The collaboration with ARTLAND gives the Copenhagen Photo Festival the opportunity to embrace the possibilities of new technologies and new ways of experiencing and collecting photography. Artland’s 3D-scanned exhibition will give art collectors the opportunity to travel in a virtual space to see, bid and buy the artworks of the Censored Exhibition from all over the world.

A UNIQUE EXHIBITION SPACE

The Censored Exhibition will take place in Hal 12 on Refshaleøen, for the first time between the 3rd and 13th of June, 2021. Thus, the exhibition gives new life to an older industrial building, while the building is also used actively in the installing of the works…

Online Auction starts on 3 June on @artlandapp’s platform

Amin Yousefi - Life, Death and other similar things (2020)
Anouchka Renaud-Eck- Ardhanarishvara (2020)
Claudia Fuggetti - Hot zone (2021)
Rebecca Najdowski - Ambient Pressure (2020)
Rita Puig-Serra Costa - Anatomy of an oyster (2019-2020)
Sari Soininen - Transcendent Country of the Mind (2021)
Nikita Teryoshin - Nothing Personal - the back office of war (2016-2019)
Meredith Andrews - Island Home (2020)
Michele Spatari - Ballads from the End of the Desert (2021)
Franziska Kaufhold - Untiefe - Thoughts on the Island (2020)
Steffi Drerup - Ichfolgedessen (2020)

Here the 3D tour of The Censored Exhibition powered by ARTLAND.

3D tour here.

Guest-Room
Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition with open submissions curated in real-time by personalities from the international photography scene.

Mirjam Kooiman
Curator - May 2021

Guest Room aims to spark collaborations. That’s why Foam curator Mirjam Kooiman is teaming up with Dominic Hawgood in choosing the theme for this instalment. This open call is aimed at artists working with photography as a tool or input material to create virtual realities or alternative perceptions of reality. We hope to see work that focuses on enhanced ways of capturing, representing, and interacting with the physical world, or that uses photography to create hyperreal virtual worlds.

Link here.

Copenhagen Photo Festival is the largest photo festival in the Nordic region, running on June 3-30, 2021, with more than 50 exhibitions in collaboration with galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Copenhagen and southern Sweden. Each year, 250 Danish and foreign photographers contribute, and the festival is visited by around 55.000 people. In June, photography is on the agenda under the three main pillars Framing Identity, Framing Society and Framing Vision, through exhibitions, workshops, talks, portfolio reviews and more.

Copenhagen Photo Festival focuses on development. New forms of exhibiting, new ways to use photography as well as new perspectives and emerging talents. The festival presents a programme of high quality – artistically and conceptually – building bridges between fine art and documentary photography. Copenhagen Photo Festival is for those who want to break new ground and challenge the idea of what photography is and can be, now and in the future.

The festival centre is located on Refshaleøen, an island in Copenhagen with an industrial history. The raw atmosphere has made the island a creative centre with art institutions such as Copenhagen Contemporary, Reffen – Copenhagen Street Food, theatres, and cultural events which draws an audience from the entire world. Through the festival we challenge traditional presentation methods, finding new and innovative ways to present the artists’ vision.

The festival prioritizes experimentation and sustainability in its production. We work with partners within architecture, crossing the border between in- and outside through innovative use of our established festival centre and its surrounding exhibition park.

The Censored Exhibition

The Censored Exhibition is a group show that seeks to present a contemporary selection of international fine art photography. Around 60 works produced within the past two years will be selected by an international jury based on an open call. The works will be exhibited at Copenhagen Photo Festival June 3-13 2021. The exhibition is part of the festival’s programme pillar Framing Vision, which focuses on the aesthetics and techniques of photographic expression.

We received a total of 380 applications from 49 countries, of which 24 artists have been selected from 15 countries by an international jury based on an open call.

This year, the jury consisted of Roderick van der Lee, Executive Director at Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, Audrey Hoareau, Artistic Director at Photo Basel & freelance curator and Michelle Eistrup, critically acclaimed artist.


For the edition 2021 of Copenhagen Photo Festival, here are the selected artists:

Tirdad Aghakhani, IR
Steffi Drerup, DE
Sari Soininen, FI (based in UK)
Rita Puig-Serra Costa, ES
Rebecca Nadjowski, US (based in AU)
Pierre St-Arnault, CA
Nikita Teryoshin, RU (based in DE)
Nicolas Serve, FR
Nadja Ellinger, DE
Michele Spatari, IT (based in SA)
Michael C. Madsen, DK
Meredith Andrews, BM
Maria Lax, UK
Lesia Maruschak, CA
Kukka-Maria Rosenlund, FI
Imane Djamil, MA
Franziska Kaufhold, DE
Fion Hung Ching Yan, HK
Emma Sandström, SE
Claudia Fuggetti, IT
Beatrice Schuett Moumdijan, DE
Aoife Herrity, IE
Anouchka Renaud-Eck, FR
Amin Yousefi, IR

The Noorderlicht Festival
Noorderlicht is an international platform for artists who use photography and adjoining media in all its stories, forms and changes to portray their engagement with society. ‘The Makeable Mind’ is the 28th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival and takes place from 7 August till 3 October 2021 in the provinces Groningen and Friesland.

Link here.

Artdoc Magazine Issue #5 2020 - Human Stories, Gaps - link here.

Artdoc is an international online magazine dedicated to the world of photography. Here you find portfolios and interviews with photographers from around the world. On Artdoc Magazine, you also find detailed information on events like photo festivals, exhibitions, and open calls. Artdoc brings a huge list of photo books, history and theory books about photography. Moreover, on the resources page, you will find a detailed resource on all photo museums around the world, as well as major galleries, a list of photo festivals, and publishers. Artdoc is the hub for all photographers and any interested person in the most promising art medium of our time.

Retratos hechos con redes neuronales artificiales por Claudia Fuggetti - full article here.

Hèxis on Sina News, link here.

THE BESTSELECTED BOOK VOL. IV - Nite Clubberz, Open Call Winner.
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Here we are at the fourth volume of the Bestselected Book. It is always a great pleasure to have collected on paper, in these years, 338 stunning pictures, which are products and expressions of authors whose aim is to communicate their own voice of what photography is in the contemporary world.

Year after year, the Bestselected Book tries to choose, with careful selection, authors who offer a valuable and artistically interesting representation of how photography is being expressed today.

This fourth volume highlights the terrible year of 2020: the year of COVID-19 and the pandemic. It is absolutely normal and even necessary that it does so. The year when the world came to a standstill in an extraordinary and unthinkable way.

Despite everything photography is still alive and represents an anchor of salvation for many people. It is an escape into another dimension, in a salvific place for the heart and mind.

The book opens with some emblematic pictures which tell this worldwide and epochal tragedy, which has been lived and experienced by all. Page after page, proceeds to celebrate the desire to live that gives the strength to resist and react by moving forward. The 89 extraordinary pictures thus speak of everything that allow us to still have faith in the near future. Life itself is still beating very fast and this book idealistically represent the pulse and the benevolent wish for the times ahead.

Despite the tragedies, human beings constantly continue to express themselves, in all the allowed forms. Art and photography are voices that we will continue to hear because they are unforgettable traces of existence of the man in this world and in the entire universe.