Residents of China’s unfinished buildings the focus of new photo collection
HUAWEI Themes collaborates with HIPA: turning photography into digital masterpieces and bringing a new world of unique and exclusive art to your pocket
DUBAI, UAE, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — One of the best features of modern mobile devices is how easily users can customize their appearance to fit their personal style, a brand-new outfit, or their current mood. Our favorite daily gadgets have evolved into a means of self-expression, and Huawei has a longstanding tradition of stellar product design, providing consumers with some of the market’s most aesthetically distinctive smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches. When attractive looks are coupled with the enormous array of themes readily available on HUAWEI Themes, personalization takes off to a whole new level.
Now, HUAWEI Themes, in partnership with the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), brings an entire universe of award-winning photography to all HUAWEI smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches through a new, exclusive series of Themes Collections. The new collections fall into 12 separate thematic categories: Love of the Earth, Happiness, Beauty of light and others. Every collection has been meticulously curated to include the most artistic and inspiring photographs from the HIPA competition over the years.
HIPA is a prestigious international photography award established in Dubai in order to encourage and spread the culture of photography both regionally and internationally. The Award is open to all talented photographers across the globe, and it additionally promotes national talent, which will in turn attract international art and cultural attention. What’s more, the Award highlights how Dubai is rapidly developing into one of the most artistically conscious and established cities in the world.
Through this collaboration, HIPA enabled HUAWEI Themes with a free access to their 12 annual books to select the pictures and adapt them into HUAWEI Themes and Watch Faces. By doing so, HUAWEI Themes helped HIPA increase the exposure and awareness on the inspiring stories behind each of these photos. The first HUAWEI Themes Collection in collaboration with HIPA has just been released, covering the “Love of the Earth” thematic category. Users of HUAWEI devices have the opportunity to delve into a selection of breathtaking, award-winning photographs portraying our planet in its wilderness and uniqueness. Each week, HUAWEI Themes and HIPA will be launching new Theme Collections brimming with creativity, originality, and imagination.
“We are delighted to introduce the new HUAWEI Themes Collections, which are centered on award-winning HIPA photographs and have been created to place artistic creativity in the hands of the users of our extensive range of mobile devices,” said Mr. William Hu, Managing Director of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Middle East and Africa Eco Development and Operation. “Huawei actively supports Dubai’s visionary leadership’s commitment to encouraging and advancing art, culture, and innovation, and we are confident that these new Themes Collections will help spread the culture of photography and the work of photographers across the world.”
Secretary General of HIPA, Ali Khalifa Bin Thalith Al Humairi, said: We have collaborated with Huawei Themes to create a new style that inspires creative individuals to capture moments of boundless joy. The diverse range of features and ideas incorporated in this collection provides audiences with an array of styles to suit all preferences. Carefully curated, the Huawei Themes collection of images possesses the ability to inspire photographers, aesthetes and visual artists to take a qualitative leap in their artistic pursuits.
HUAWEI Themes turns HUAWEI smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches into a bold expression of self-identity via an endless array of themes, fonts, watch faces, Always-on Display (AOD) options, wallpapers, and ringtones. Whether sportive, casual, smart-chic, or elegant, HUAWEI Themes ensures that your style and personality will be reflected on your HUAWEI mobile devices. Simply open the HUAWEI Themes app to access a fascinating universe of personalization and artistic exploration.
About Huawei Mobile Services (HMS)
Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) is a part of Huawei Consumer Business Group, which aims to provide a complete, all-scenario mobile ecosystem to Huawei device users. HMS users can enjoy official services such as AppGallery, Mobile Cloud, Themes, Video, Petal Search, Petal Maps and more which come along with EMUI. HMS covers users in over 170 countries and regions, serving as an ultimate and premium smart living experience to benefit every user. As the era of a fully connected world has arrived, HMS continues evolving to provide an optimised mobile experience and fulfil the commitment to bring the world closer.
Visit huaweimobileservices.com for more information on HMS.
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Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum
VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon…
Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum
Greece’s prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon Sculptures currently in the British Museum. But he ruled out any deal that would be considered a loan. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told The Associated Press during an interview on Thursday that if he’s victorious in upcoming elections, he would look to build on “progress already made” in talks about the sculptures. Greece has campaigned for decades for the return of the 2,500-year-old marble Parthenon Sculptures, which once adorned the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens.
Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum
VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum. But he rules out any deal that would include the word “loan.”
Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum
Greece’s prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon Sculptures currently in the British Museum
Kovel’s Antiques and Collecting: Remington sculptures often copied
Q: I follow your column regularly in the Sunday Republican and enjoy it very much. I own four bronze sculptures by Frederic Remington. They are all about 12 inches tall.
Photography project ‘form of therapy’ for female Ukrainian refugees in Liverpool
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n exhibition showing 24 portraits of Ukrainian women who fled the war and resettled in Liverpool has gone on display in the city during the Eurovision Song Contest, and was described as being like a “form of therapy” for those photographed.
Photographer Ean Flanders, 58, told the PA news agency that he was inspired to undertake the project after meeting two Ukrainian women who were living with his friends after being forced to flee their country.
The portraits, showing the Ukrainian women standing or sitting against a dark grey studio background, are on display at Baltic Creative in Liverpool and are accompanied by testimonies written by the women in Ukrainian and translated into English.
From being awoken in the early hours by a panicked phone call informing them of the invasion, to grappling with pregnancy and separating from their husbands in the months after arriving in the UK, the testimonies tell the women’s heart-breaking and inspiring stories.
Mr Flanders said he wanted the portraits to give the general public in Liverpool “more of an in-depth understanding” of the hardship faced by the female Ukrainian refugees living in the city, as well as showcase the women’s strength.
The Liverpool-based professional photographer, originally from London, said: “All these women are going through some form of trauma due to the war, due to not being with their families, due to not being able to speak English, so I just wanted to show their feelings, their emotions, their anger.”
He added: “Not all of us have contact with Ukrainians who are in the city so I thought having this exhibition with these women’s portraits on the wall would give an opportunity for some of these women’s experiences to be shared.”
Among the subjects of the exhibition is Olena Malenk, 37, who fled Kyiv with her two sons Platon, seven, and Lev, five, after seeing military aircraft soar over the capital and drop missiles on her city.
Forced to flee without her husband, Gregory, as most men of fighting age are not permitted to leave the country, Ms Malenk discovered upon arrival in Liverpool that she was pregnant with twins.
Wearing a long black dress and standing against a grey studio background, Ms Malenk’s photograph shows the mother looking down as she holds her bump.
The photoshoot allowed her to recognise her “power and confidence” as a pregnant woman who has sought to protect her children from war and create a new life, according to a testimony she composed for the exhibition.
Mr Flanders was inspired to undertake the project by Ukrainian women, Olha Kruglova, 40, and Anastasiya Sydorenko, 33, who were being hosted by his friends in Liverpool and who he ultimately collaborated with to bring the exhibition to life.
“They were telling me about the difficulties they had in adjusting and adapting to UK life and the Liverpool accent,” Mr Flanders said, which prompted him to take their photographs and find more Ukrainian women for an exhibition.
Ms Sydorenko was informed that Russia had invaded her country by the trembling voice of her sister, Nastya, over the phone at around 5am on February 24 2022, and several minutes later she heard the wail of an air alert siren.
Ms Sydorenko, her husband and their daughter stayed in the basement of her father’s home for 10 days, until missiles fell on the neighbourhood and made the walls of the house shake as their daughter slept on a sack of potatoes.
“She didn’t deserve such a childhood, to hear these sounds, to fear, to cry, to wake up at night and run to hide not understanding what was going on,” Ms Sydorenko wrote in her testimony.
After arriving in Liverpool, Ms Sydorenko learned that her husband had left her and she fell into a “deep depression” for a period, before slowly pulling herself out of the depths of despair.
She wrote: “I am proud of myself that I didn’t give up and I didn’t let this situation take over me. Everything that was meant to destroy me became my power.”
An unexpected outcome of the project was that it felt like a “form of therapy” for the women photographed, as it allowed them the opportunity to discuss their experience, Mr Flanders said.
He said: “I didn’t think about it at the time, but many of the women have told me that taking part in this project is one of the best things that they’ve done because it’s allowed them to look at themselves and talk about their experiences openly, and to feel some sort of self-worth and strength.
“There’s so many things that I didn’t think the project would bring out.”
Tell us your big arty ideas | City of Sydney
If you’ve got an idea for a project or artwork that will bring colour and joy to the heart of Sydney, we want to hear about it.
We invite Australian and international artists, curators and creatives of all genres to share their ideas and be part of our Art & About Sydney program.
Whether you’re a visual artist, performer, filmmaker, musician or a theatre company, we’re looking for inspiring ideas that are new, innovative, demonstrate artistic excellence, are participatory and inclusive, and create unique experiences through diverse and interesting collaborations.
For each project that is selected to be part of our program, we’re offering up to $60,000 as well as resources to assist artists including creative concept development, support with production and development applications, security, marketing and PR.
Since it was established 22 years ago, Art & About Sydney has become an internationally renowned program that attracts artists and collaborators from all corners of the globe.
Previous Art & About works
Works that have previously featured as part of Art & About Sydney include:
Lost Figures – a large outdoor mural that tells the story of Patyegarang – a young Aboriginal woman who played a significant role between the Aboriginal and British in 1788 – and William Dawes – an engineer and astronomer who worked with Patyegarang in 1790-91 to create what is now considered the first written account of the Sydney Aboriginal language.
Passenger – an immersive work that involved the audience riding in a moving suburban bus through Sydney streets, overhearing a conversation between 2 fellow ‘passengers’.
Bandaloop – one of the world’s leading dance companies brought its pioneering ‘vertical dance’ to Australia for the first time. Turning the dance floor on its side, the work had previously been performed in theatres, museums, on skyscrapers, bridges, billboards, historical sites and on cliffs around the world.
Bodies in Urban Spaces – a group of movement artists clad in colourful sweat-shirts ran, jumped and squeezed themselves into, on, around and under the urban landscape in a performance of living human sculpture.
A Million Things That Make Your Head Spin – an art installation in Customs House that incorporated 10 kilometres of different coloured ribbons woven together to create a multi-storey kaleidoscope.
HEARD.SYD – 30 life-size ‘horses’ dancing in unique, choreographed pieces transformed Pitt Street Mall into a large performance space.
“Art & About Sydney is renowned for showcasing works that attract thousands of visitors into the city to enjoy each year,” Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore said.
“This is about celebrating our city’s creativity and imagination, with local and international artists bringing their unique ideas to our parks and squares, streets and laneways.”
Applications close on Tuesday 13 June and works can be presented from November 2023.
Somerset lockdown ‘Slow Time’ photography exhibition opens
Carolyn LefleyAn exhibition featuring ‘Slow time’ photographs during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 has opened.
Led by artist Janette Kerr, the six-month project featured 150 pinhole cameras scattered across Somerset.
John Gammons, who worked on the project, said the cameras made out of recycled drink cans, gave a “very unique snapshot of what was going on in Somerset at that time”.
The exhibition will run until 21 May at East Quay in Watchet.
The cameras featured light-sensitive material, eventually creating long-exposure photographs of the Somerset landscape.
Each camera can captured light waves as they travelled through the air, passing through a pinhole and then onto black and white photographic paper.
The photos were then processed months later by scanning the paper, uploading it onto a computer and then manipulating it using a photo editor.
Ms Kerr said the idea first started after she made and gifted her friends and neighbours pinhole cameras for Christmas in 2020.
“Everyone got excited about it and then I happened to mention it to Somerset Artworks and they asked me if I could extend it to the whole of Somerset,” she said.
Eventually over 100 participants took part, with each camera pointed at a different viewpoint, in places including Glastonbury, Minehead, Frome, Taunton and Stokes-Sub-Hambdon.
“I think that because it was lockdown and because people weren’t travelling so much, the emptiness of the landscape reflected that time because there was an absence of people,” she added.
While 170 images were captured, only 36 were selected for the exhibition, with Ms Kerr asking those that were chosen to write something to accompany their image – from what their experience of lockdown was to how the image made them feel.
Mr Gammons, who works as an artist and helped coordinate the project said it was “lovely to see people’s faces light up with curiosity on how it was all going to work”.
“The images themselves provide a really unique viewpoint – given the fact it was a very odd time where you could go out your front door and not hear cars, not see people, people were more aware of birdsong, you noticed how clear the sky was – it was a very very strange time and the little cameras encapsulated that perfectly,” he said.
Calling them “little time cameras”, Mr Gammons said they managed to record their own perception of time.
“We don’t sort of notice the movement of the sun and we also take for granted everything moving around us,” he said.
“I do equate it to if a tree had any perception of what’s going on around it.”
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