Held at the prestigious Palais des Festivals, Cannes, between the 21st and 25th April 2008, The Sony World Photography Awards proudly give tribute to photographers around the globe in all categories. From landscape to music, photojournalism to fashion, the Sony World Photography Awards showcases the world’s best images taken by the most renowned photographers as well as the yet undiscovered.
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Starting Thursday May 8th, Canvas is broadcasting the six-part BBC documentary ‘The Genius of photography’, at 10pm.
If you don’t have the patience you can also find the complete series on torrentsites.
Genius of Photography
© Audrey Corregan
One of the selected photographers at Hyères 2008 is Audrey Corregan, upcoming talent and living at Amsterdam. In her work “Obviously”, she shows impressive pictures of birds photographed from behind. Her backward portraits of birds reminds me of the reversed portraits by Marjaana Kella.
© Marjaana Kella
More work by Audrey Corregan you can find here.
More on Marjaana Kella you can find here and here.
Due to technical problems the Sem Presser Lecture 2008 by Martin Parr couldn’t start in time. The full lecture will be available here from Monday 28 April until Sunday 4 May.
This year, for the first time, you can follow the Sem Presser Lecture through live streaming.
The lecture is an initiative of World Press Photo and the Sem Presser Archief and is part of the Awards Days program for the 6th consecutive year. Martin Parr, member of Magnum Photos, has entitled his lecture “Photobiography”. He will examine his long photographic career and explain his motivation as a photographer and how this has changed over the last 35 years. Parr throws light behind why he feels it is important to document our world in a new and different way. The lecture will be live streamed on Saturday, 26 April 2008, starting at 15.00 hours (CET). The estimated duration of the presentation is 1,5 hours. You can catch it all on http://worldpressphoto.kanaal11.tv
© Grzeszykowska & Smaga
Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga are a Polish duo who take pictures from a bird eye’s view. The pictures microscopically investigate people’s domestic space. The photographs look as if they are scannings taken by a huge scanner attached on the ceiling, capturing with exactitude the details of daily life. When you look closer at the pictures with patience and curiosity, you will discover subtletys in the objects their relationship with the environments they inhabit.
© Grzeszykowska & Smaga
© Ryan McGinley
At this moment there is an interesting exhibition at the “Team Gallery” in New York by the New York based photographer Ryan McGinley. I love the way some pictures shows the body and its relationship to nature.
© Bert Teunissen
In 1996, Bert Teunissen started to make a series of photographs that were made in houses that still have the ‘old and antique available daylight’. This is a series of photographs about a certain atmosphere that Teunissen knew from his childhood. The work is made in Holland, France, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Japan and will find its continuation around the world. Here Teunissen uses available light to photograph people in their kitchen, livingroom or bedroom. It is a search for a way of living that has been around for centuries and that is disappearing from society fast, due to architectual changes but also because of new regulations in the EU and other parts of the world.
© Jeff Brouws
The more I look at the photographs by Jeff Brouws, the more I want to see them again. Today I watched for the second time at the serie “Freshly painted houses”. The first time it didn’t catch me that much but now … Maybe it’s because I love typographical photography. Not all of it of course but certainly a lot of it. Maybe it ’s because these kind of series always remind of Bernd and Hilla Becher. I think I’m always attracted by the quantity of these series. Watching one picture after an other knowing that the next one will be similar but different.
A photograph, actually it is a photogram, known as “leaf” is coming up for auction at sotheby’s on April 7th. and could be possible the oldest photographic representation found.
It has been previously attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot who is one of the founding fathers of photography. He made a number of leaf pictures and this one is thought to be made by him at 1839.
