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The call for entries for the 7th edition of the City of Levallois Photography Award is now open until May 10, 2014. The 2014 panel of judges will be announced soon. This contest is open to any photographer aged 35 at the most, regardless of nationality. Artists must present a not previously published or exhibited …
Sirius Arts Centre An Cóbh, Cork, Ireland Opening: 14 September 2013, 2pm Exhibition: 15 September – 20 October, 2013
The Time of Dreaming the World Awake is a portrait of a place, a landscape of possibility.
This photographic body of work is based in a small region in Southern France.
It centres on the story of Bugarach, the ‘magic’ mountain. Bugarach was somehow connected to a Mayan prophecy which indicated that the world as we know it, would end on December 21st, 2012. The prophecy claimed that this date would mark the beginning of a new era for humanity, a new and sublime future. Bugarach was to be the first bastion of this modern Arcadia. (mehr …)
ACMV Contributor Enrico Smerilli is featured in SMBHmag Issue 14 ‚The Mountain‘!
Zhang Xiao created They series in over 3 years from 2006-2008 during his time working as a photojournalist in Chongqing city. Chongqing, as the largest and fastest growing city in China, probably represents the most extreme example of urbanization and rapid development in the country. Zhang photographed the people he encountered on his daily travels around the city. The characters in They are the ordinary people in real life – they carry out all kinds of mundane activities in public venues. In Zhang’s images, these ordinary people become the protagonists in the scenes they occupy, often seemingly departing from reality and entering a performance state. These images perhaps reveal some loss of balance and normality caused by the rapid development of modern Chinese society.
“Each of them has their own ordinary life … yet in the images they appear bizarre and absurd, as if they belong to another planet and are completely unique,” Zhang Xiao said.
Apart from its documentary nature, They also reflects the artist’s strong subjective point of view about contemporary life in China: kitschy, absurd, surreal and humorous. (mehr …)
Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV} has been invited to the Belfast Photo Festival 2013 to give a talk about „Spectacle and Photography“ on June 9th 2013. Now we uploaded the accompanying slides of our talk to Slideshare in case you’re interested to know what we were talking about. Thanks again to curator Peggy Sue Amison and Festival Director Michael Weir for their kind invitation. (mehr …)
Curated by Actual Colors May Vary + AM Projects
Crescent Arts Centre / 2-4 University Road, Belfast
Saturday June 8th, 11:00pm (mehr …)
Belfast’s 2nd Photo Festival aims to be picture perfect This event, which has been two years in the planning, aims to attract thousands of visitors to exhibitions and events being held in 30 different galleries, museums and public spaces across the city centre. An exciting programme of exhibitions under the thematic ‘Spectacle’ will present a …
The 2013 Programme: Spectacle“ for the Belfast Photo Festival is now online!
The full list of exhibitions and events can be viewed/downloaded as PDF on issuu.
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ACMV is excited and looking forward to participating in two events on Saturday, June 8th 2013 during the opening weekend of the Belfast Photo Festival: (mehr …)
ACMV is now accepting photographic submissions based under the broad theme „Spectacle“. Selected submissions will be presented in a one-time public projection at the Belfast Crescent Arts Centre during the opening weekend of the International Belfast Photo Festival 2013 in Northern Ireland, taking place this June.