Photography lovers rejoice! Another edition of the GuruShots exhibition happens on the island this June, featuring a series of stunning images from around the world. Taking place once again at 6×6 Centre for Photography in Limassol, the GuruShots exhibition happens for the fourth consecutive year on the island on Friday.

GuruShots is the world’s greatest photography game that connects, inspires and educates photo enthusiasts around the world. Two exhibitions will run in parallel at 6×6, both in print and digital. The Art of Photography exhibition received 62 million votes and includes 57,000 photos from 39 countries with 511 members exhibited. The Dramatic Lighting exhibition, with 39 million votes and 28,000 photos has 288 members exhibiting their work. Visitors can browse the photos in Limassol all weekend long until Sunday evening when the exhibition ends.

GuruShots is built to give people a platform to show and nurture their talent. More than just a photography ground, GuruShots transformed the art of sharing stunning images into a game packed with plenty of opportunities to showcase the craft of photography. Through the platform, members can receive feedback on their work and even exhibit their images in galleries and magazines around the world. This month, images from around the world and by diverse photographers are reaching Cyprus.

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Two international photography exhibitions. June 7-9. 6×6 Centre for Photography, Limassol. Opening night: 7pm-9pm. Saturday-Sunday: 10am – 6pm. Tel: 25-354810

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Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark, Shanay Jhaveri (editor), Cornerhouse, 424pp, £39 (pb)

More than 40 scholars, artists and curators go under cover of darkness for this analysis, exploring how artists, film-makers and photographers tackle nighttime as a subject. Jhaveri, the book’s editor and head of visual arts at the Barbican in London, says that the publication reflects “how the experience of the night can be represented and communicated and translated”. Tenebrous images by the Indian photographer Dhruv Malhotra show people bedding down after the sun sets in Noida, a New Delhi district, while the US artist Ming Smith captures the pop star Grace Jones performing at New York’s Studio 54 club in 1978. Other artists featured include David Goldblatt, Dayanita Singh, Gaspar Noé, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger and Chantal Akerman.

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures mid-1977–1980 (Volume 6), Neil Printz (ed), The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Phaidon, 804pp, £500 (hb)

The Andy Warhol art machine rolls on with the publication of the latest volume of the Pop artist’s catalogue raisonné, the last of four volumes dedicated to Warhol’s works of the 1970s (the tome is the third to document the paintings that Warhol produced at 860 Broadway, the studio he ran until 1983). The volume includes 741 paintings and sculptures, including Shadows (1978-79)—one of Warhol’s most celebrated abstract works—and the Retrospective series (1978), which includes the famous Electric Chair screenprint. Other key works featured include Warhol’s headline-hitting BMW Art Car (BMW M1, 1979) and his famous, epoch-defining portraits of celebrities such as Liza Minnelli (1978).

Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Frances Lincoln, 240pp, £25 (hb)

Queer theory is currently a publishing trend, covering areas such as trans history, queer photography culture and the places that shaped LGBTQ+ pioneers. In this overview, Gemma Rolls-Bentley “mixes the high-brow with the low, blue-chip artists with Instagram creatives, and the racy with the fabulous”, according to a publisher’s statement. Artists featured include Nina Chanel Abney, Leilah Babirye, Elmgreen & Dragset, Amy Sherald and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Rolls-Bentley adds: “Two years in the making, my book investigates the role of queer art today and acknowledges the history-defining impact of our communities in the cultural landscape.”

Vilhelm Hammershøi: Silence, Felix Krämer and Florian Illies (contributors), Hauser & Wirth publishers, 106pp, £25 (pb)

Hauser & Wirth inaugurates its new gallery in Basel this month with an unusual choice of artist— Vilhelm Hammershøi, the 19th-century Danish painter who was heavily influenced by the Old Masters. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue focus on 18 works made between 1883 and 1914, including Landscape, Gentofte (1903). The German art historian Florian Illies writes in the catalogue: “[Hammershøi] anticipated the atmosphere of René Magritte’s mysterious interiors as well as Oscar Schlemmer’s chiselled back views. The magic of the forlornness in pictures by Andrew Wyeth or Edward Hopper, too, seems to derive from Hammershøi’s works, even if these artists can hardly have known him.”

ROCKPORT — From June 1 through June 27, the Rockport Public Library will host a show of photography by local photographer Jim Dugan entitled “Rowing in Eden.” The exhibit will feature images of fourteen watercraft on Penobscot Bay, “striking seascapes which capture the indelible magic of sailing along the Midcoast in the summer,” said the Library, in a news release.

The public is invited to meet Dugan at his artist’s reception on Saturday, June 22, from 3 to 5 p.m., in the lower level of the Rockport Public Library.

“My nautical photographs celebrate the timeless nature of the vessels and the hard work, dedication, and passion of the crews and owners,” says Dugan, in the RPL news release.

Dugan knows a thing or two about crews, having worked aboard schooners in various capacities for the past twenty-five years.

Jim Dugan came to Maine in 1989 to study photography at the Maine Photographic Workshops (now the Maine Media Workshops). He stuck around, working first as a photographer’s assistant, then as a print and website designer. Design work for the schooner Mary Day led to trips aboard and a few stints filling in as deck crew and galley hand. Dugan now teaches photography for a week every summer aboard the schooner Mary Day, where he has also served as relief crew and sails a few times every summer. Learn more about Dugan’s photography at JimDugan.com.