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31/3/2011

Two exhibitions

Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam

Antiphotojournalism

curated by Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan

Photojournalism is in the midst of a remarkable, and singularly unexpected, renaissance. New practices, strategies, viewpoints, techniques, and agents have radically transformed the institutions and the fundamental concepts of the field. Whilst it has become fashionable to lament the death of photojournalism, actual events suggest that something quite different is taking place. The group exhibition Antiphotojournalism charts these new developments in exciting ways.

Included is work by Broomberg & Chanarin, Mauro Andrizzi, Jonathan Cavender, Robbie Wright, Shane McDonald, Hito Steyerl, Ariella Azoulay, Paul Lowe, Goran Galic & Gian-Reto Gredig, Laura Kurgan, Renzo Martens, Kadir van Lohuizen, Allan Sekula, Phil Collins, Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, Paul Fusco, Gilles Peress and Susan Meiselas. Compilations by Sohrab Mohebbi, Eyal Weizman, with Yazan Khalili and Tony Chakar.

New methods of reporting the news, new imaginations of what the news might be, have challenged the hegemonic figure of the photojournalist at its core and given birth to the most interesting ideas. This critical approach is called, following Allan Sekula, 'antiphotojournalism'. It has a multiplicity of forms, such as film, video, slides, web-based presentations and many more.

Antiphotojournalism provides a profound and passionate fidelity to the image, unleashed from the demands of the traditional approach of photojournalism. It is freed to ask other questions, to make other claims, to tell other stories. Sometimes the gesture is reflective. Sometimes the desire is evidentiary not in the old sense of simply offering the 'evidence' of images to an assumedly homogenous public opinion, but in a much more precise way: photographs have become evidence in war crimes tribunals. Sometimes the innovation is technological, whether it involves working with the hi-tech resources of advanced satellite imagery or the low-tech crowd-sourcing of participatory protest imaging. Sometimes the practices are archival. And sometimes the question is simply whether we even need images at all.

The exhibition juxtaposes reportages by established Magnum practitioners with material from autonomous artists and even amateurs. The works can be viewed in a myriad of ways, from slide shows to YouTube films, from music videos to satellite imagery and archival material.

The exhibition is produced by the City of Barcelona, Institut de Cultura: La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.

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Anne Schwalbe
Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt
1 April - 11 May 2011

The series Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt by photographer Anne Schwalbe can be seen as an ode to slowness - an ode to nature, light and emptiness. Schwalbe photographs her surroundings intuitively, with no preconceived ideas. Compiled in a publication or hanging together in an exhibition, the photos become the lines of a poem. Photographed prose.
Anne Schwalbe visualizes stillness, providing another voice and a welcome change from the contemporary visual bombardment.

In the series Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt (translated literally as: slow worm and grant leaf) Anne Schwalbe has reduced the world around her to core images. With no reference to location or other narrative aspects, she reveals what has caught her notice, or the things that fascinate her. Rain dripping into water, a close-up of a dung-hill or colourful confetti on the asphalt: each image has its own strength and tells its own story in the mind of the viewer. A rhythm of colours and forms is created, invoking contemplation and peace.

Bio
Anne Schwalbe (Berlin, 1974) graduated from the Ostkreuz School for Photography in Berlin in 2009. Schwalbe has participated in exhibitions such as Self Publish, Be Happy in the Photographers Gallery, London (2010), Ulsan International Photography Festival South Korea (2009), New Visionaires 2008, the New York Photo Festival (2009) and the Epson Art Photo Award, Best Selected Works, Art Cologne (2008).

Her book Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt was self-published in 2010.

Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt was made possible with support from Van Bijlevelt Stichting and &Samhoud.

Image: Afterlife 1 © Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin

For information and visual material please contact Communications, e-mail foam@foam.org or phone +31 (0)20 5516500.

Foam
Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam The Netherlands
Open daily 10 am - 6 pm, Thurs/Fri 10 am - 9 pm.
Tickets: € 8,00

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