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A good world
dal 15/2/2007 al 31/3/2007

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15/2/2007

A good world

Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen

Works by photographers Ingvild Arnesen, Arja Hyytiainen, Christien Jaspars, Dorothy Richardson, Jerome Sother and Alessandro Tattini. Curated by Machiel Botman.


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Ingvild Arnesen, Arja Hyytiainen, Christien Jaspars, Dorothy Richardson, Jerome Sother and Alessandro Tattini

curated by Machiel Botman

At times it seems as if unpolished, poetic photography has passed The Netherlands by, notes the photographer and guest curator Machiel Botman (Heartbeat, Rainchild). Certainly, names like Robert Frank, Christer Strömholm and Daido Moriyama are part of the canon here too, but how many here know the work of Anders Petersen, Antoine d'Agata or J.H. Engström? These six do, says Botman of the photographers he selected for the exhibition A Good World in Noorderlicht Photogallery. They maintain contacts with each other and with the photographers named above, by mail and at workshops, on the basis of friendship and equality. More important yet: like their kindred spirits they have the gift of looking within themselves with photography.

They are also newcomers. Not necessarily because they are young ­ they range in age from 20 to 70 ­ but they are new to the discipline. Several of them have just begun photographing, others have been working for years in the seclusion of their own world. None of them commands a wide audience yet. It is precisely these stories that have not yet taken shape that intrigue Botman. He compares them with receiving a present: You get excited, you get to unwrap it, make it part of yourself.' He feels it is a great privilege to literally be able to look inside another's mind and soul, because this is about people who are prepared to expose their vulnerabilities and open themselves up by means of photography.'

The title of the exhibition comes from the question posed by Robert Frank in his foreword to Crocodile Tears, the photobook with which Jerome Sother has just debuted: Is this a good world for him and us?¹ A Good World is comprised of many-layered images that stimulate, enchant and alarm. Each and every one of them, says Botman, are part of a search for an answer to Frank's question: Is this a good world?

Opening Friday, February 16, at 5:00 p.m.

Noorderlicht Photogallery
Akerkhof 12 - Groningen

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