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ART GOSEE ART presents : ‘Drummies’ by photographer Alice Mann, a book published at Gost
20.03.2022 •
This long-term project by Alice Mann, born in South Africa and home away from home in London, explores the unique sport of drum majorettes. The images by the photographer depict the magnificently colored subculture surrounding all-female teams of drum majorettes affectionately known as ‘drummies.’
We quote : “The sport has a long history in South Africa, but in recent years, participation in the sport has dropped dramatically. However, in many marginalized communities, it is still taken seriously and considered a highly competitive sport. For those involved, being a ‘drummie’ is a privilege – an achievement, indicative of success, hard work and commitment both on and off the field. Participants often gain a sense of belonging and self-worth in communities where opportunities for young women can be severely limited.”
Alice Mann on her project : “This is part of my ongoing work, exploring notions of femininity and empowerment in modern society. With my continued investigation into this subculture, I hope that these images can communicate the pride and confidence these girls have...
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ART GOSEE Book TIP : ‘Material’ – the first monograph by British photographer Jet Swan is a collection of powerful portraits of strangers, appearing at Loose Joints Publishing
10.03.2022 •
“Often the most seemingly ordinary people are the most fascinating,” – British photographer JET SWAN tells us. Jet Swan (born 1990) grew up in North Yorkshire. Her work is somewhere between documentation and classic portrait photography. Over a period of three years, she photographed people in temporary studio spaces across the UK – including a shopping center in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and a community hall in Ramsgate, Kent, where Swan lives and works. Created during these chance encounters with complete strangers were traditional studio portraits and detail photos which she presents us in ‘MATERIAL’.
“‘Material’ is a meeting of several very personal bodies of work. For me, it feels like a real embodiment of themes I wasn’t able to articulate in words or even in a sequence of images before … Those tactile, sometimes dangerous scenes feel like something I’ve dreamt about or something I remember but can’t describe,” says Jet Swan
Loose Joints Publishing on the book (160pp, 190 × 242 mm, 100 photos) : “A striking new photographic voice engages with street portraiture to create dark,...
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ART SHOTVIEW represents KITTY LEE SCHUMACHER, international Director, Art Director & Digital Visual Artist, now based in Berlin
07.03.2022 •
KITTY LEE SCHUMACHER is an exciting new entry at SHOTVIEW. The Swedish artist has an impressive visionary portfolio full of visual effects and models seemingly from another world – or worlds for that matter. A trained dancer herself, the photographer is quite familiar with the human physique. She plays with unusual perspectives, and each image becomes an emotional portrait of individuality – offbeat, spellbinding and full of beauty.
KITTY LEE is a Swedish photographer, director, art director & digital visual artist based in Berlin. By crossbreeding a strong creative vision and great technical knowledge, she focuses on cutting-edge, format-fluid visual solutions and explorations. With vast experience in post production and CGI, she now specializes in the creative direction of complex virtual productions. Originally trained as a dancer, the physical impact of an image is of great importance to Kitty Lee as she portraits the human body with a future-forward visual langue. Questioning what is confirmative by portraying the weird and alienesque.
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ART GOSEE TIP : ‘The Hard Core of Beauty’ – early portraits and serial works by Ingar Krauss at Galerie Springer Berlin
02.03.2022 •
For the first time, Galerie Springer Berlin presents artist and photographer Ingar Krauss with an exhibition from 1 March through 14 May, 2022. On display are early portraits, still lifes and serial works. At the heart of his work is portraiture. He became known with pictures of children and adolescents whom he portrayed during their development in melancholic-meditative images. To arrange his still lifes, he constructs stage-like boxes within which he captures natural light. The title of the exhibition, ‘The Hard Core of Beauty’, is named after a poem by William Carlos Williams.
“Krauss works solely with analogue equipment and preferably in black and white, i.e. in the darkroom. No computer is used in his image production, and whenever he processes images, he does so by hand, with a paintbrush and varnish. His pictures reflect a realism that is magical in a natural way: as a perception of the poetic, the surreal and sometimes sinister in everyday life.
Ingar Krauss was born in East Berlin in 1965. He lives and works in Berlin and Oderbruch. He has participated in numerous...
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ART Call for entries now open for the 2022 edition of the international UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest
28.02.2022 •
Young photographers born between 1986 and 2004 have the chance to submit their portfolios until 10 April. The contest is promoted by the Fondazione culture e musei and MUSEC Lugano in collaboration with the 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS Gallery in Milan and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice.
Unpublished Photo is a contest aimed at young contemporary photographers between the ages of 18 and 36. Its goal is to promote and enhance the photographic art form through an initiative which seeks to support creativity without limits. For this reason, the contest does not set a specific theme and welcomes works created using all techniques. Initiated in 2018 and now in its fourth edition, the contest attracts a growing number of young artists each year from all over the world. The initiative was launched initially by the 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS Gallery and was then embraced in 2020 by the Fondazione culture e musei and MUSEC in Lugano, with the aim of strengthening cross-border collaboration and supporting the promotion of work by young artists.
A jury composed of major...
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