Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV}

Schlagwort: Amy Elkins

  • CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

    Curated by Pete Brook and Hester Keijser
    Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh County Cork, Ireland
    Exhibition: 13 June – 7 July 2013
    Reception and Gallery Talk by Co-Curator Hester Keijser on Saturday 22 June 2pm

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    Works by:
    Alyse Emdur, Amy Elkins, Araminta De Clermont, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Christiane Feser, Jane Lindsay, Natalie Mohadjer, Deborah Luster, Lizzie Sadin, Yana Payusova and Lori Waselchuck

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    Worldwide, prisons are ‘home’ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades.  But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by locking up such massive numbers of offenders? CRUEL AND UNUSUAL is a collection of revealing and quite unexpected photography illustrating life behind bars. The exhibition looks at the ways the prison system is presented in images and how these images are created, distributed and consumed. (mehr …)

  • Photographs Not Taken

    Photographs Not Taken

    Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers‘ essays about failed attempts to make a picture.

    Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph—camera, lens, film—and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it through the lens. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind the image. (mehr …)