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Ancient Female Ballplayer Makes Public Debut
The statue will be part of “Ancient Huasteca Women: Goddesses, Warriors and Governors” at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
Photography Show Director Lydia Melamed Johnson’s Artists to Watch
As AIPAD’s Photography Show returns to New York City’s Park Avenue Armory in full force, Melamed Johnson lends her well-honed eye to Surface and shares the names to know from this year’s fair.
April 26, 2024
Credit: Courtesy of the Photography Show.
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As New York City’s dizzying calendar of fairs, exhibitions, and cultural events has returned to peak calendar craziness, AIPAD has led the pack with a comeback to its longtime home at the Park Avenue Armory. The venue of choice for creatives on the cutting edge of arts—Justin Peck, Robert Icke, and Rashaad Newsome among them—is welcoming the fair back to its Gothic Revival halls following a post-pandemic hiatus from the venue. Fair director Lydia Melamed Johnson shared the news in an exclusive interview with Surface this past year, explaining that fellow organizers “knew the organization was ready to once again grow and inhabit such a distinct space” following two successful but scaled-down editions in 2022 and 2023.
Fast forward to today, and the fair is in full swing, showing the latest photographs and prints from 78 galleries and hundreds of exhibiting artists. It’s enough to make anyone’s head spin, so Surface tapped Johnson for her expert recommendations on the photographers she has her eye on as their star rises.
Artist Toshiko Okanoue, “Two Women.”
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Toshiko Okanoue at The Third Gallery Aya
Toshiko Okanoue is an fascinating artist that I’d love more people to learn about. The surrealism inherent in the images and her mode of depicting femininity are beautiful and entrancing. Her work was rediscovered in the ‘90s after her practice was paused for many years, and it’s quite exciting to have The Third Gallery Aya present her work at the fair this year.
Marcia Resnick, “In her drama club, she would re-enact scenes from violent movies.”
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Marcia Resnick at Deborah Bell Photographs
The narrative in Resnick’s work is playful, dark, and dramatic. It’s great to present a New York–based artist that has been inspired by the cultural scene in the city at a historically New York fair. To have a female artist put her own imprint on the violence historically acted upon female bodies in horror movies, long before the current mode of reconsideration and reckoning happening now, is important to witness.
Edward Weston, “Shells 6S.”
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Edward Weston at Scott Nichols
Gifted to the art critic for the L.A. Times, from Weston. According to Weston’s log, only six vintage prints were done. Pictured on the cover of Amy Conger’s Edward Weston book. The classic beauty of Edward Weston’s work is iconic and deeply AIPAD. He shaped American photography, and I can’t wait to see this rare, vintage print.
Marilyn Minter, “Goldi.”
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Marilyn Minter at CLAMP
The power, grit, and glamour in this image is captivating. Minter never digitally manipulates her photographs, and the way she explores gender and sexuality through her distinctive style always challenges the viewer.
Simone Rosenbauer, “Like Ice in the Clouds (Japan) No129.”
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Simone Rosenbauer at Laurence Miller Gallery
Simone Rosenbauer is a young artist that I’m looking forward to seeing at Laurence Miller Gallery. This work is part of a series called Like Ice in the Clouds, which depicts ephemerality through the melting of Popsicles. The colors are lush, and I enjoy the use of such a simple, childish motif to capture time.
Dieter Appelt, “Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch schafft (The Mark on the Mirror Made by Breathing).”
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Dieter Appelt at Les Douches la Galerie
It appears both I and our galleries are leaning into Surrealism this year. As a motif for today’s deep, necessary investigations of self and the construction of society around us, it seems only fitting.
Jaromír Funke, “Untitled,” from the series Cas trvá (Time Persists).
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Jaromír Funke at Gitterman Gallery
A gorgeous, enigmatic image that immediately captures your attention from an artist I’ve only recently discovered through Gitterman Gallery’s fantastic program.
Tim Walker, “James Crewe, Fashion: Valentino Haute Couture.”
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Tim Walker at Michael Hoppen
A dress and a dream I’d love to live in for a moment. Tim Walker’s photographs are escapist fantasies I want to get lost in. I’m looking forward to seeing its unique, domed presentation in person.
Alma Haser, “Rhodanthemum.”
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Alma Haser at Candela Gallery
Artists playing with the medium with three-dimensionality add new layers (wink wink) to photography. I enjoy the experimentation and playfulness of Alma Haser’s work, with its sculptural and voyeuristic quality that seems, on the surface, to be simply floral.
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Baskets Holding the Identity of an Indigenous People
The baskets of Jeremy Frey from the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine have caught the attention of the art world.
This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel.
Long before painters such as Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth arrived in Maine to capture its spectacular natural beauty on canvas, the native Wabanaki people used materials from the landscape to weave black ash and sweet grass baskets, the oldest continuously practiced art form in the state.
“It’s said that our cultural hero, Glooskap, fired an arrow into the black ash tree and our people came dancing out — it’s tied to us,” said Jeremy Frey, a 45-year-old, seventh-generation basket maker from the Passamaquoddy tribe, one of several in the Wabanaki Confederacy.
Frey’s vibrant and innovative baskets — remarkably contemporary forms woven with ancestral knowledge — have caught the attention of the art world and put him at the forefront of a wave of interest from museums, galleries and collectors in the work of Native artists. (This month, Jeffrey Gibson is the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.)
“There was this hierarchy that still sometimes exists within the museum practice of what is art, what is craft, who is an artist,” said Jaime DeSimone, chief curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. She was a co-organizer of “Jeremy Frey: Woven,” the first solo exhibition of a Wabanaki artist at a fine art museum in the United States. The show will be on view from May 24 to Sept. 15 at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.
The show, a retrospective spanning Frey’s career of more than two decades, includes 50-plus baskets and will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago — one of several major institutions to have recently acquired Frey’s work for their permanent collections — and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn.
DIVE’s Big Shot – Caves, Caverns and Overhangs
Our next Big Shot underwater photography competition starts now – send us your best shots from caves, caverns and overhangs for the chance to win an Aggressor Adventures liveaboard trip to Thailand
Our Big Shot underwater photo competition continues to be a great success, with some absolutely stunning photographs entered into previous iterations of the contest.
For the Summer 2024 issue of DIVE, we’re asking you to send us your best shots taken from the caves, caverns and overhangs of the underwater world. The best pictures will be printed in the magazine, with the overall winner rewarded with a seven-night trip to the Similans on board the Thailand Aggressor, (worth $3290) courtesy of Aggressor Adventures (flights not included).
The deadline for entries is midnight (GMT) on Sunday, 26 May 2024. Check out a preview of the Thailand Aggressor here.
Previous competition winners:
How to enter:
- Submit your images (minimum 1, maximum 10) using the form below, AND:
- Tag your shots on Instagram with: #DIVEsBigShotCaves @AggressorAdventures @Divemag OR
- Tag your shots on Facebook with: #DIVEsBigShotCaves @AggressorAdventures @DigitalDive OR
- Tag your pics on X with: #DIVEsBigShotCaves #AggressorAdventures @DiveMagazine
- You can submit a maximum of 10 pictures to the competition, but you can only use the form once, so make sure you submit them all together; you can’t upload them one after the other.
- That’s it! Note that the photos are moderated so may take up to 24 hours to appear in the gallery.
Important Information – please read!
- Please read the terms and conditions carefully before entering.
- You must be the original photographer and copyright holder of the picture you submit
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DIVE’s BIG SHOT CAVES CAVERNS AND OVERHANGS Photography Competition Terms and Conditions
By entering this competition; entrants agree to be bound by these rules.
- The competition opens on 26 April 2024 at 11:00am and closes on 26 May 2024 at 23:59 (BST)
- The best images will be selected by the judges for publication in the Summer 2024 issue of DIVE. One image will be selected as the overall winner by the judges and the overall winner will receive an Aggressor Adventures liveaboard trip to Thailand
- The judges’ decision is final; no correspondence will be entered into.
- The prize is a week’s trip for one person aboard the Thailand Aggressor on dates to be agreed with Aggressor Adventures.
- Flights are not included; prize winners are responsible for their own transport to and from Phuket, Thailand.
- Local taxes, visas, health requirements and travel insurance are the responsibility of the prize winner.
- Included: accommodations in a shared deluxe stateroom (with person of same gender), diving and snorkeling, compressed air tanks, weights and weight belts, all onboard chef-prepared meals and snacks, non-alcoholic beverages and sodas, and local beer and wine
- Not Included: Airfare (international and domestic), insurance, equipment rentals, nitrox fills, certification or specialty courses, hotel stays, day rooms, dinner on last evening, staff gratuity, port/park fees, fuel surcharges, transfer, or taxes.
- All entrants submitting a photograph that is selected for publication will receive one year’s digital subscription to DIVE Magazine.
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World’s Largest Smokey Bear Sculpture, world record in Hill City, South Dakota
Hill City, South Dakota, United States–Completed in just 10 days by seven wood artists from around the country, Smokey Bear stands 30 feet tall and is 25 feet wide; located in Hill City, South Dakota, it sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Smokey Bear Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Sports Photographer of the Year gives pro advice on shooting dramatic speedy action
Finn’s winning image for the Sports Photographer of the Year 2023, at the International Photography Awards (Image credit: Finn O’Hara)
Finn O’Hara submitted his photograph, titled ‘Mikaël Kingsbury, Olympic Freestyle Skier’, to the prestigious International Photography Awards, an annual competition that attracts entries from top professionals, amateurs and students worldwide.
His skiing photograph was originally a commission from a client, however, Finn saw its potential and decided to follow his instincts. “I took it another step further by creating an image that I couldn’t take during the pandemic. I had imagined what it would be like if we had a skier flying through a cloud of coloured smoke, and how incredible that would look,” says Finn.
Constrained by the pandemic, time and money, he decided to photograph skier Mikaël Kingsbury in a studio in Canada where he was based. The photographer’s point of view is crucial to showcasing movement in sport and action photography. “The skier is on his back on a waist-high platform so he can articulate his skis, poles and body. I’m on a 12ft-high platform above him, shooting directly down. He’s looking at a monitor that shows him what I’m shooting so that he can get his body positioning correct,” says Finn.
Fast gear
Finn used a PhaseOne IQ3 100MP medium format camera with a Schneider Kreuznach LS 55mm lens to capture this shot, adjusting his camera settings to 100 ISO, f/11 and setting the shutter speed to 1/320sec. The combination of aperture and a fast shutter speed enabled him to freeze the movement. Since the photo was taken in a studio, artificial lighting played a big role in creating the shot.
“Our lighting system is powered by five ProPhoto Pro-10 power packs. I took shots of the mountains to give the skier context, and then photographed green smoke from several smoke bombs but turned them red in post,” he explains. In post-production, Finn worked closely with a retoucher to seamlessly combine the elements that he had captured in the camera into one photograph.
Finn’s most used kit
“The most used items in my camera kit are my Canon R5 and RF 28-70mm f/2L lens. With reliable autofocus and respectable ISO, they allow me to be flexible. I love my travel tripod with Gitzo carbon fibre legs and Manfrotto 410 geared head – it’s versatile and solid. But the tools I most rely on are my SanDisk memory cards and field SSD drives. I need them for every photo I take and they never let me down.”
When photographing in snowy conditions, Finn uses a hard shell backpack made by ThinkTank. He says, “It’s not only rugged but it’s waterproof too. Water can silently ruin camera equipment, so by having a waterproof and shockproof case, I never worry about my equipment.”
Pro Advice
Major League Baseball star for the Toronto Blue Jays (Image credit: Finn O’Hara)
Get ready for the perfect moment
1. Visualize the image
“Think ahead and visualise your photo days ahead of time and circle back to those visualisations at the end of the day. Compare those visualisations to what you captured. Boom! You’re developing your mind’s eye.”
2. Speed up workflow
“I use a few custom button functions to make my workflow easier. I use back button focus which helps a lot when shooting high-speed sports. It allows me to be more reactionary to constantly changing subjects. I also have assigned a custom button on the back that resets the focus point back to the centre of the viewfinder.”
3. Embrace the unexpected
“Selecting an aperture of f/8 helps to keep the action sharp within the frame. Indeed, the popular saying ‘f/8 and be there’ still holds up. Don’t be overly concerned by the tech and technique, instead, pay close attention to where you are and who or what you are photographing.”
4. Follow a one-shot mentality
“When shooting athletes with strobes, I never shoot in burst mode. This is partially because when I shoot with a PhaseOne system, there is no option for burst mode, so I have to take my images one shot at a time. Athletes can only repeat their performance for so long, so I really have to nail it first time. Even when shooting athletes with the Canon R5 and a strobe, I still like shooting with the one-shot mentality. It keeps myself, the athlete and my client focused on what we really want, rather than just spraying the camera and hoping I get something.”
Driven by a passion for storytelling, Finn takes photos that are intimate, situational and visceral. His most notable work includes projects for Nike, Adidas, ESPN and The New York Times magazine. Finn has won many international photography awards and was recently named Sports Photographer of the Year by the IPA. His images are held in the permanent collections of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
[Ready to proof] Sports Photographer of the Year gives pro advice on shooting dramatic speedy action
Finn’s winning image for the Sports Photographer of the Year 2023, at the International Photography Awards (Image credit: Finn O’Hara)
Finn O’Hara submitted his photograph, titled ‘Mikaël Kingsbury, Olympic Freestyle Skier’, to the prestigious International Photography Awards, an annual competition that attracts entries from top professionals, amateurs and students worldwide.
His skiing photograph was originally a commission from a client, however, Finn saw its potential and decided to follow his instincts. “I took it another step further by creating an image that I couldn’t take during the pandemic. I had imagined what it would be like if we had a skier flying through a cloud of coloured smoke, and how incredible that would look,” says Finn.
Constrained by the pandemic, time and money, he decided to photograph skier Mikaël Kingsbury in a studio in Canada where he was based. The photographer’s point of view is crucial to showcasing movement in sport and action photography. “The skier is on his back on a waist-high platform so he can articulate his skis, poles and body. I’m on a 12ft-high platform above him, shooting directly down. He’s looking at a monitor that shows him what I’m shooting so that he can get his body positioning correct,” says Finn.
Driven by a passion for storytelling, Finn takes photos that are intimate, situational and visceral. His most notable work includes projects for Nike, Adidas, ESPN and The New York Times magazine. Finn has won many international photography awards and was recently named Sports Photographer of the Year by the IPA. His images are held in the permanent collections of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
Fast gear
Finn used a PhaseOne IQ3 100MP medium format camera with a Schneider Kreuznach LS 55mm lens to capture this shot, adjusting his camera settings to 100 ISO, f/11 and setting the shutter speed to 1/320sec. The combination of aperture and a fast shutter speed enabled him to freeze the movement. Since the photo was taken in a studio, artificial lighting played a big role in creating the shot.
“Our lighting system is powered by five ProPhoto Pro-10 power packs. I took shots of the mountains to give the skier context, and then photographed green smoke from several smoke bombs but turned them red in post,” he explains. In post-production, Finn worked closely with a retoucher to seamlessly combine the elements that he had captured in the camera into one photograph.
Finn’s most used kit
“The most used items in my camera kit are my Canon R5 and RF 28-70mm f/2L lens. With reliable autofocus and respectable ISO, they allow me to be flexible. I love my travel tripod with Gitzo carbon fibre legs and Manfrotto 410 geared head – it’s versatile and solid. But the tools I most rely on are my SanDisk memory cards and field SSD drives. I need them for every photo I take and they never let me down.”
When photographing in snowy conditions, Finn uses a hard shell backpack made by ThinkTank. He says, “It’s not only rugged but it’s waterproof too. Water can silently ruin camera equipment, so by having a waterproof and shockproof case, I never worry about my equipment.”
Pro Advice
Major League Baseball star for the Toronto Blue Jays (Image credit: Finn O’Hara)
Get ready for the perfect moment
1. Visualize the image
“Think ahead and visualise your photo days ahead of time and circle back to those visualisations at the end of the day. Compare those visualisations to what you captured. Boom! You’re developing your mind’s eye.”
2. Speed up workflow
“I use a few custom button functions to make my workflow easier. I use back button focus which helps a lot when shooting high-speed sports. It allows me to be more reactionary to constantly changing subjects. I also have assigned a custom button on the back that resets the focus point back to the centre of the viewfinder.”
3. Embrace the unexpected
“Selecting an aperture of f/8 helps to keep the action sharp within the frame. Indeed, the popular saying ‘f/8 and be there’ still holds up. Don’t be overly concerned by the tech and technique, instead, pay close attention to where you are and who or what you are photographing.”
4. Follow a one-shot mentality
“When shooting athletes with strobes, I never shoot in burst mode. This is partially because when I shoot with a PhaseOne system, there is no option for burst mode, so I have to take my images one shot at a time. Athletes can only repeat their performance for so long, so I really have to nail it first time. Even when shooting athletes with the Canon R5 and a strobe, I still like shooting with the one-shot mentality. It keeps myself, the athlete and my client focused on what we really want, rather than just spraying the camera and hoping I get something.”
Mandala Club Unveils Daniel Arsham Sculpture Installation in Tribute to Mr. Lee Kuan Yew
Explore Singapore’s vibrant art scene at Mandala Club.
Week in wildlife – in pictures: a lazy leopard, a moonwalking elephant and hitchhiking ducklings
Authorities try to persuade Emerson, a 500lb elephant seal in Victoria, Canada, to move along. Emerson had previously been relocated 126 miles away from Victoria, ‘far from human habitation’, for his own safety. But less than a week later, he made an epic trek along the coast of Vancouver Island back to the city, a return that has left conservation officers in disbelief
