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Archifoto 24: European Award of Architecture Photography

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Archifoto 24: European Award of Architecture Photography

La Chambre – exhibition and education space for photography in Strasbourg, France – has launched de 7th edition of Archifoto – european awards of architecture photography.
The applications are open, each candidate is required to send 5 pictures and a small presentation text, answering the theme Architecture under construction.

The building site is one of architecture’s defining moments, it implies movement and experimentation. Whether it is on the scale of a building, or even on the scale of a city, it can be the embodiment of a social project, summoning up the collective, verging on disorder. This concept, full of meaning, evokes either a stage in construction, a place to store materials, a support for work or, in a more familiar way, the unfinished.

Based on the premise that architecture is itself a construction site, a constant process that implies an incessant renewal of practices, materials and people, this theme stimulates reflection: what will the architecture of tomorrow be ? What are the major projects, construction sites of today?

Since 2010, Archifoto has brought together documentary and artistic views on current architectural issues. By favouring a free and subjective viewpoint, it rewards photographers whose vision helps us to understand the urban and natural landscape, the ways of living and living together, and the new ways of building the world and society.
Prize money: 500€ for each of the 5 nominees + 2000€ for the winner
The nominees will be exhibited at La Chambre in autumn 2024, and the exhibition will then be hosted in several partner venues in the Upper Rhine region.

Download the information related to this competition here.

  • Title

    Archifoto 24: European Award of Architecture Photography

  • Type

    Grants, Scholarships & Awards

  • Website

    http://www.archifoto.org/en/contest/

  • Organizers

    La Chambre

  • Registration Deadline

    May 31, 2024 04:51 PM

  • Submission Deadline

    May 31, 2024 04:51 PM

  • Venue

    La Chambre

  • Price

    10

  • Country Restrictions

    Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Holy See (Vatican City State), Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Kosovo

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Portraits by Toronto’s photo laureate Nadya Kwandibens part of city’s Doors Open festival

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Portraits by Toronto’s photo laureate Nadya Kwandibens part of city’s Doors Open festival

A photography exhibit featuring portraits of Indigenous people will be on display outside Toronto City Hall for the next two months.

Nadya Kwandibens, who is Toronto’s photo laureate, recently had portraits from her Red Chair Sessions series installed at Nathan Phillips Square as part of both the Contact photography festival and Doors Open Toronto. 

Kwandibens is Anishinaabe (Ojibway) from Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation (formerly Northwest Angle) in northwestern Ontario. 

The installation features nine 2.3-metre tall portraits photographed in and around Toronto. 

“Some of the portraits, they really do look like they’re larger than life,” she said.

Her Red Chair Sessions series featured 35 prominent Indigenous community members, including journalist and author Tanya Talaga and fashion designer Sage Paul. 

She said she felt it resonated with people.

“Red chair, to me, represents Indigenous peoples’ connection to the land, where we come from, the places and different nations that we visit,” Kwandibens said. 

“That red, that blood colour, a connection to our ancestors.”

Woman in front of sign.
The installation is also a part of the Contact photography festival and will be on display until June 25. (Nadya Kwandibens)

She said she thinks of the sessions as visiting with people and getting to know them, thereby creating a safe space for her subjects to relax and be themselves.

Talaga said Kwandibens has taken one of her favourite headshots which she’ll be using on the jacket of her next book.

“She’s a master of what she does and the stories she tells with her photographs are so incredible and beautiful,” said Talaga.

“I think it’s important to have, especially, you know an Anishinaabe woman, she sees you for who you are.”

She recalled Kwandibens brought the red chair to her home in the east end in an Uber and then they carted it to the beach. 

“My daughter had to come along as well and help us carry the chair to the water,” she said. 

Having lived in the area for over 25 years, Talaga said Lake Ontario is a special place for her.  

Hidden histories theme

Doors Open is an annual event where buildings of architectural, historic, cultural, and social significance — including some that may not otherwise be open to the public — offer free access.

Jeanne Holmes, Toronto’s manager of programming for city cultural events, said this year’s Doors Open theme is Hidden Histories, which encompasses the stories that aren’t told or widely known about the city.

Woman sits on red chair on busy downtown sidewalk.
A portrait of actor Devery Jacobs that is part of the Red Chair Sessions series. (Nadya Kwandibens)

For example, the area that’s now Nathan Phillips Square, she said, was a neighbourhood that was a receiving point for new immigrants from the 1890s through to the 1950s. The land was then expropriated to build the new City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square. 

“So we’re doing site walks that sort of talk about the different elements of the square and give people like a little bit of insider knowledge about things that they might not necessarily know, literally are happening under their feet,” said Holmes.

Liz Zeppa, who works with Doors Open, said Kwandibens’s body of work not only aligns with the theme of Hidden Histories, but advances the discourse of reconciliation and Indigenous people as stewards of our lands.

“I’m just happy to move forward with it because it’s just such a beautiful body of work to present,” she said.

Kwandibens’s portraits will be on display at Nathan Phillips Square until June 25. They will also be highlighted during City Hall’s participation in Doors Open May 25-26.

A Sensitive Portrait of an American Women’s Prison

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A Sensitive Portrait of an American Women’s Prison

As his new book of Polaroids is published, Jack Lueders-Booth talks about creating a humane portrait of inmates at a women’s prison in Boston during the 1970s

May 06, 2024

Jack Lueders-Booth appears on my screen wearing a red jumper and crinkly brown tweed jacket, surrounded by books and neat piles of printed materials in his charming Boston home office. “I’m not quite in order,” the 88-year-old American photographer and former Harvard professor says. “I’m just waking up. As a matter of fact, I was up all night working on a paper.” He smiles when I say I haven’t slept well either; “We can be not very lucid together.”

8Women Prisoner Polaroids by Jack Lueders-Booth

Lueders-Booth’s work as a documentary photographer has brought him into the fold of outsider communities over several decades, photographing chronically ill people, motorcycle crews, and families living on the dumps of Tijuana. We are here to discuss a series of Polaroids he shot in the 1970s at MCI Framingham, a women’s prison in Boston, which have been published for the first time in a new book from Stanley/Barker. Pairing dignified portraits of over 50 inmates with raw personal stories and poetry, Women Prisoner Polaroids is a testament to Lueders-Booth’s ability to cast a human gaze upon people who have found themselves in incredibly difficult circumstances. 

Lueders-Booth never set out for the project to be a book; in fact, he never intended to shoot the women at all. He first went to MCI Framingham as part of his master’s degree at Harvard. “I had a specific idea in mind, and that was to teach in photography programmes in institutions of confinement, as a way of boosting morale,” he recalls. “I found in my own life that photography did me a lot of good in that respect. It was intellectual on the one hand, but primarily, it was a craft you could do with your hands. Anyone could do it and derive enormous pleasure from it. That was my proposal to the school, and they accepted it.”

When Lueders-Booth arrived at the prison in 1977, it was undergoing a “normalisation experiment” which sought to offset the psychological effects of incarceration. Cells were furnished by inmates with home comforts, and neither prisoners nor faculty wore uniforms. The guards themselves were primarily criminal justice students from Northeastern University, and the environment was such that everyone interacted more or less as peers. “You couldn’t distinguish a guard from an inmate unless you knew who they were,” Lueders-Booth recalls. “I had no idea what a prison was like and I was actually scared when I first went, but it’s like so much in life – the more you [become acquainted with] something, the more normal it becomes.”

Early visits saw the photographer and his daughter Laura, who was 18 at the time, transform 19th-century jail cells into darkrooms with the help of volunteer inmates. “Laura was the same age as the majority of the prison population,” he remembers. “I was in my early forties as a white male in this prison and I think that helped me a lot at that time.” Wanting the women to fall in love with photography the way he did as a teen, watching his dad develop photos in their family bathroom, Lueders-Booth started lessons in photograms and the darkroom, later graduating to pinhole cameras made with cereal boxes and finally cameras with lenses. “It was a magical thing when they [developed images] the first few times,” he says. “It’s still magical for me and I’ve been doing it for decades.”

Lueders-Booth only started taking the women’s portraits as a way of teaching them to use a camera. Slowly, image by image, a documentary project began to take hold. “The women were compelling in many ways; their backgrounds, their assertion of certain values,” he says. “I became quite fond of them, really, as people.” Lueders-Booth only intended on working at the prison for a year, but these friendships meant he stayed on for an entire decade. “I was jokingly referred to by some administrators as the high school photographer,” he says. 

While these images are only being formally published now, the initial idea to make them into a book came in the 1970s from a friend of Lueders-Booth’s, the legendary photographer Bruce Davidson (he also suggested the women narrate their images with their life stories). Lueders-Booth borrowed some recording equipment from Harvard and set up space in his prison office. “I said to the women, ‘Listen, I am recording life stories or anything you want to put on tape for eternity’,” he remembers. “‘Just whatever you want to tell the world. Here’s a microphone, and here’s your chance.’ Until then, we never discussed in detail why they were there.”

Collated anonymously in the back of the book, the accounts shared in that office are full of female rage and vibrant resolve, with personal stories of domestic violence, drug abuse, sex work, police brutality and murder. “I sat listening and I just was aghast at some of the things they’ve endured,” says Lueders-Booth. “These women had been through some truly hard times.” In reading their stories, an understanding of the circumstances that could lead to even the gravest of offences is offered, such as one woman who killed her abusive boyfriend; “I do not feel sorry for defending my body ‘cause I’m a woman and I have had it. I have had it.” 

“In all of my work, an ambition I have is that people will come to recognise that a person’s most obvious dimension is not their most significant dimension,” the photographer says, when asked what he hopes others will take away from the book. “Things are not always as they appear, and generalisations and assumptions about certain populations are largely unfounded.”

Women Prisoner Polaroids by Jack Lueders-Booth is published by Stanley/Barker, and is out now. 

Volume 3 of photographs by Shane Balkowitsch is available to preorder

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Volume 3 of photographs by Shane Balkowitsch is available to preorder

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – For nearly 10 years, Shane Balkowitsch has been on a journey to photograph 1,000 Native Americans in his studio using wet plate photography, a technique that is over 100 years old. He has published two volumes of his work and will soon be releasing his third.

At the Nostalgic Wet Plate Studio, Balkowitsch has taken over 700 photographs of Native Americans.

Some of his work contains well-known people, such as Native American U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, but most of his images cover ordinary individuals.

“I’ve had Native Americans come as far as Florida to have their portraits taken,” said Balkowitsch.

He began his journey after photographing Ernie LePoint, the great-grandson of Sitting Bull. The rest is history. His art subjects are typically photographed in traditional Native American regalia, representative of their culture.

“What’s really important is that we keep the integrity of the series, so they need to bring whatever regalia they want to wear, I don’t provide anything for anyone, whatever’s worn for the series, they have to bring it in, and then we just create together,” said Balkowitsch.

The funds gained from the sales of his published works are donated to the American Indian College Fund, which provides scholarships and assistance to Native American students.

“I have Native Americans come in all the time that were actually benefactors of the money from the American Indian College Fund, so it’s this fabulous way of kind of giving back,” said Balkowitsch.

Balkowitsch’s project has taught him a lot about Native American culture and given him a personal connection. Six years ago, he was adopted into the Hidatsa tribe and given the name Shadowcatcher.

“Ever since I was adopted into the Hidatsa tribe, these people are not strangers that come in, they’re my brothers and sisters,” said Balkowitsch.

Now retired, Balkowitsch will put his time into finishing the series. However, this is not the end.

“One of the biggest questions I get now that I’m getting close to the end is, will I stop taking photographs of Native Americans, and the answer is absolutely not,” said Balkowitsch.

Balkowitsch will be working on Volume 4 for an estimated time of three years. That said, Volume 3 of his series is available to pre-order now on the Nostalgic Wet Plate Studio website and will be fully available in July.

Copyright 2024 KFYR. All rights reserved.

Native American Art Showcased At Tulsa Indian Club’s Mother’s Day Market

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Native American Art Showcased At Tulsa Indian Club’s Mother’s Day Market

Tulsa Indian Club showcased Native American art, clothing and music at its Mother’s Day Art Market on Sunday.

Sunday, May 5th 2024, 10:10 pm

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TULSA, Okla. –

Tulsa Indian Club showcased Native American art, clothing and music at its Mother’s Day Art Market on Sunday.

The event featured some local native vendors, a fashion show and live music from native drummers and singers.

It also showcased traditional songs and different styles of powwow dancing.

For a list of all the artists and businesses at the event, go to Tulsa Indian Club on Facebook.

The Weeks | May 5: Heather Hill basin discussion, D161 transportation contract, sculpture move, Homewood trustee resigns, redevelopment of former Brunswick Zone moves forward

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The Weeks | May 5: Heather Hill basin discussion, D161 transportation contract, sculpture move, Homewood trustee resigns, redevelopment of former Brunswick Zone moves forward
THE WEEK > Your government Flossmoor School District 161 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, May 6, in Normandy Villa, 41 E. Elmwood Drive, Chicago Heights. Find the agenda here. Attend the meeting remotely here. ►► Highlights: The board will consider extending its transportation contract with Kickert with a proposed 5.5% increase over this[Read More…]

Nye & Company Will Host Two Online-Only Photography Auctions On Wednesday, May 15Th, At 10 Am EDT

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Nye & Company Will Host Two Online-Only Photography Auctions On Wednesday, May 15Th, At 10 Am EDT

(MENAFN– ForPressRelease) Bloomfield, NJ, USA, May 2, 2024 — Nye & Company Auctioneers will hold two online-only photography sales on Wednesday, May 15th, starting at 10 am Eastern time, with The Photographer’s Lens; A Collection of Images auction, featuring about 200 lots of contemporary photography from a private New York City and Ibiza, Spain collection; followed by a Various Owners Photographs auction at 2 pm Eastern, featuring over 100 lots of traditional and contemporary photography.

The single-owner Photographer’s Lens; A Collection of Images sale features a variety of contemporary photography from artists across the globe. The captured images will be sure to delight even the most seasoned and scrupulous collector, dealer and institution alike.

The auction includes several well-known and museum collected photographers from across Europe, South America and the Middle East – artists such as Tono Stano, William Ropp, Philippe Pache, Didier Ben LouLou, Valdir Cruz, Virgill Brill, Lynn Bianchi, Slim Aarons, Houshyar Kashani, Mario Cravo Neto, George Silk, Flip Schulke and John Rooney.

Highlights include works from the Brazilian artist Valdir Cruz. Gypsy Woman I and Girl from Mokarita are both striking images that seem to portray the heart and soul of the sitter. John Rooney, George Silk and Flip Schulke have all captured the magic of Muhammad Ali in their photographs. Somehow, they all managed to capture lightning in a bottle.

Israeli-born artist Didier Ben LouLou has managed to depict the people of Israel and illustrated some of the struggles they face and the hardship of the landscape. This is especially poignant relative to what has been happening as of recent. His use of the Fresson printing technique is incredibly rare and difficult.

Tono Stano, the Slovakian-born photographer, has masterfully portrayed the beauty and sculpture of the human body in his works. The interplay of light and shape create visually exciting images. The American photographer, Lynn Bianchi, also captures the human form within a more Classical context. Her use of the gelatin silver print with a gold wash serves to deliver a warm and almost retro look to her works.

The Various Owner Photographs sale has a nice mix of both traditional and contemporary photography. Artists represented in the sale include Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Roman Loranc, Tom Millea, Doris Salcedo, Jay DeFeo and others.

The Alfred Stieglitz picture is a portrait of famed painter Georgia O’Keeffe. This striking image captures the very essence and soul of the artist in a stoic photograph. Not to be outdone is a terrific photograph by the celebrated photographer Ansel Adams. His image of two skiers in the glades is a perfect balance of light, shadow and atmosphere.

Following in the footsteps of Adams, Roman Loranc’s Western style landscapes are visually stimulating and transformative. His use of gelatin silver prints is a time-honored tradition.

For more contemporary photographs, Doris Salcedo, Willie Cole and Jennifer Bolande are all represented with a variety of c-prints, inkjet and pigment prints. Salcedo does a masterful job of capturing the urban landscape of Istanbul in her series of works, while Willie Cole uses the c-print to capture his modern interpretations of objects.

Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, BidSpirit and the Nye & Company website. Telephone bidding will also be available on a limited basis.

For more information about Nye & Company Auctioneers and the two online-only photography auctions planned for Wednesday, May 15th, beginning at 10 am Eastern time, please visit , , or Updates are posted frequently. The full color catalog will be available to viewed online shortly.

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