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Episode 193: Behind the lens, this photographer has a love of sports — and a ‘dad instinct’
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Rick Agan’s sports photos are described as action-packed and intense.
On this episode of “Muthaship,” the owner of Takoeye Sports Photography shares how a combination of “dad instinct” and his love for sports sparked his newfound passion.
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13 Bronze Figures Reinterpreted from Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ Line Up in a Central Venice Plaza
The large-scale installation is the work of Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th Venice Biennale that opened earlier this month.
13 Bronze Figures Reinterpreted from Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ Line Up in a Central Venice Plaza
‘Las Meninas a San Marco’ (2024). All images courtesy of Contini Art Gallery, shared with permission
Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th Venice Biennale that opened earlier this month.
Known for recontextualizing the iconic figures, colors, and textures throughout Western art history, Valdés once again pulls from well-known source material for Las Meninas a San Marco as he reinterprets the subjects of Diego Velázquez’s 1656 painting “Las Meninas,” or “The Ladies-in-waiting.” Led by the monumental “Infanta Margarita” who stands at the center of the original painting, the trailing figures are “Reina Mariana,” a nod to the infanta’s mother framed in a portrait in the background of Velzázquez’s work.
Las Meninas a San Marco has come under fire from Italia Nostra-Venezia, an organization that opposes galleries paying for public spaces to stage artworks and what it calls the “‘biennalization’ of the city.”
The project will be on view through June 15, when one of the “Reina Mariana” sculptures will be donated to the city.
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2024 Sony World Photography Awards: Winners revealed
Take a look at this year’s winning images in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024
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A French photographer has scooped the most prestigious prize at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards for a documentary project about the sterilization of women in Greenland.
Juliette Pavy was named as the overall winner of the annual competition at a ceremony in London on Thursday for her series entitled “Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women.”
Now in its 17th year, the Sony World Photography Awards celebrates powerful images that resonate with audiences around the world. Pavy’s winning portfolio set out to chart the severe and lasting impact of the Danish authorities’ involuntary birth control campaign in Greenland in the 1960s and 1970s, which affected several thousand Inuit women, some as young as 12.
Pavy, who received a cash prize of $25,000, was selected from the winners of the competition’s 10 professional categories. Her submission won the documentary category. Other professional categories include sport, the environment and portraiture.
Sony World Photography Awards 2024 winners
In a press release issued ahead of the event, Monica Allende, chair of the 2024 jury, said of Pavy’s win: “The Sony World Photography Awards jury lauded Juliette Pavy’s empathetic portrayal of her subjects, capturing them in a manner that is both dignified and profoundly intimate, thereby highlighting her exceptional talent.”
Liam Man, a landscape photographer from the UK, was announced as the competition’s Open Photographer of the Year for his otherworldly shot (pictured above) entitled “Moonrise Sprites over Storr.”
It depicts the Old Man of Storr rock formation on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, taken late at night during a powerful blizzard.
A series about the landscape, wildlife and people of the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico garnered American photographer Kathleen Orlinsky the Sustainability prize. A regular contributor to National Geographic and The New York Times, Orlinsky has spent the past decade documenting the impact of the climate crisis.
Student photographer of the year went to Kayin Luys from Belgium, who interpreted the brief — which was simply entitled “Home” — to submit an intimate portrayal of his partner’s family.
Meanwhile, 15-year-old Daniel Murray’s photograph of a solitary surfer on an empty beach in Cornwall, England earned him the youth photographer of the year accolade.
Internationally acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado received the Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize for his distinctive black-and-white works, captured over his five-decade-long career. Forty pictures taken by Salgado, who divides his time between his homeland of Brazil and France, will be on show as part of an exhibition featuring the work of the competition winners, finalists and others shortlisted at London’s Somerset House this spring.
The show will also feature work by last year’s overall winner, Edgar Martins from Portugal.
Last year’s competition attracted controversy when a German artist rejected the prize for the creative open category after revealing that his entry was generated by AI.
In its guidelines, the competition’s organizers state that entries “may feature manipulation, but where Entries are manipulated, the extent of which must be described in the image description section when submitting.” Computer-generated images are not allowed, however.
The visual feast of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 is revealed
Announced today (18 April), the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 explores the newest and finest international artists and trends in its field. This year’s selection of nominees for the Architecture & Design category spans ten talents from as far afield as Canada, Malaysia and Finland. The winner, Ireland’s Siobhán Doran, scooped the top gong with her series Sala Mayor (Living Room).
© Albrecht Voss, Germany, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
(Image credit: © Albrecht Voss)
Sony World Photography Awards 2024: the winner and shortlist
The Architecture & Design category winner’s work focuses on the majestic documentation of historic mansions and is part of a book project by Doran, titled Houses that Sugar Built: An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes.
© Francesco Amorosino, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
(Image credit: © Francesco Amorosino)
‘I largely set about photographing the houses against a spoken “backdrop”, as my colleague interviewed the owner or custodian, but sometimes worked in complete silence. The sala mayor (main living room) typically showcases the character of the architecture and the lifestyle of the people, but also leaves room for the viewer’s interpretation of these unique residences,’ wrote the artist.
© Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist, Finland, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
(Image credit: © Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist)
Notable entries among the finalists are Germany’s Albrecht Voss’ series Enlighten, which ‘presents modern alpine architecture as surreal man-made sculptures’; and Malaysia’s Nick Ng’ Blue Boy, a visual exploration of a 1962, seven-floor residential haven in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, designed by the architecture firm TY Lee and Sons.
© Joseph Horton, United Kingdom, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
(Image credit: © Joseph Horton)
The Architecture & Design entries of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024, alongside the prize’s other categories, will be presented and celebrated in a dedicated photography exhibition that launches at Somerset House in London this spring.
© Nick Ng, Malaysia, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
(Image credit: © Nick Ng)
© Marc Koegel, Canada, Shortlist, Professional competition, Architecture & Design, Sony World Photography Awards 2024
(Image credit: © Marc Koegel)
‘Sony World Photography Awards 2024’ will be on show at Somerset House in London, UK, 19 April – 6 May 2024
Get your hands dirty at this immersive printmaking workshop in Bandra
A six-day long exhibition at a Bandra café revives the magic of printmaking. Participants will be encouraged to get their hands dirty while delving into the pro
How Dallas Pioneer Plaza Bronze sculpture showcases the city’s past, present and future
Dallas real estate developer Trammell Crow asked Texas native Robert Summers to build the plaza in the ’90s to honor the cattle drivers who passed through Dallas on the Shawnee Trail in the mid-1800s.
Native artists support sovereignty through art
Themes of sovereignty, preservation of language, and art expressing these issues peppered the agenda for the Symposium on the American Indian, and the logo for this year’s event celebrated 100 years of recognized citizenship.
Makiya Deerinwater designed this year’s logo that populates flyers, programs and T-shirts, for the annual event at Northeastern State University.
“In 2023, I was commissioned to create the logo for this now 51st symposium. All I was provided was the theme, which was 100 years since the Indian Citizenship Act,” Deerinwater said.
Deerinwater wanted to convey the celebration that Native peoples are almost recognized people, and legally, they are finally acknowledged.
“I felt a way to present that was showing a traditional practice that many indigenous people do, which is stomp dance,” Deerinwater said.
The logo is a homage to the stomp dance and depicts a lineup alternating between man and woman, and the dancers circle counterclockwise. The figures represent a timeline – left to right – of Indigenous people. It starts with modern, then female seminary, to the trading era, and all the way back to pre-contact.
“So they go around the sun to represent the fire of the stomp dance but also a new generation – a new day,” Deerinwater said.
In the session “Soft Power: Proclaiming Tribal Sovereignty through Visual Arts,” three presenters shared how Native artists support sovereignty through their art.
Amber DuBoise-Shepherd, a member of Navaho, Sac and Fox/Prairie Band Potawatomi tribes, shared the work “Artspace At Untitled” in Oklahoma City, commissioned for an exhibit.
The project was woodblock printing. DuBoise-Shepherd began by drawing three figures on a 2-foot by 3-foot panel of wood. With chisels, she carved out the designs and then rolled ink over the board, each time creating darker and lighter highlights.
“A lot of my paintings are very narrative-based, so I try to tell a story from my Native background,” DuBoise-Shepherd said. “I will put in my french heritage – DuBoise – it means ‘the woods.'”
Her grandparents on her mother’s side were Navaho silversmiths, and her great-grandmother was a weaver. On her father’s side, her grandmother was a seamstress and fashion designer and created ribbon skirts and jingle dresses.
America Meredith, Cherokee Nation citizen, is publishing editor of “First American Art” magazine.
“[It was] impressed upon me that all the opportunities I have as an artist is because people sweated and made those opportunities happen,” Meredith said. “They fought a lot of heavy duty racism and lack of funding and support for the arts.”
The theme of Meredith’s talk was, “What does a tribe look like?” She said most people don’t have a clue what a tribe looks like. Who gives a tribe its image is the artist, Meredith said.
“Now we have lovely things like Osiyo TV and there are more and more tribal culture centers, which is absolutely fantastic,” Meredith said. “But in that thin thread of time during the ’60s and ’70s – before the internet – you kind of disappeared.”
It was the artists who showed what tribes were, Meredith said.
“And by artists – I use that as a big umbrella. Because regalia makers are absolutely artists,” Meredith said.
Stacy Pratt, a member of the Mvskoke tribe, spoke on the art that adorns the walls of the Council Oak Comprehensive Healthcare campus in Tulsa.
“The hospital opened in August 2021, and can treat Natives and nonnatives – so [with] sovereignty, we’re the nation within your nation – and I was really proud of that,” Pratt said.
The art collection was part of the hospital’s conception, Pratt said.
“Having a national art, respecting it and using it for your daily life is so important for your identity, but also as a nation,” Pratt said.
Part of the money to open the hospital was dedicated to pay artists for pieces to adorn the walls of the facility, Pratt said.
“All the art was either bought from Muskogee artists or commissioned, so we have some massive murals in there,” Pratt said.
More than 30 Mvskoke artists are currently in the collection, but it is ongoing, Pratt said.
“I’m also a patient of the hospital and a Muskogee citizen and those are two ways I experience this art collection,” Pratt said. “When you [enter the front doors] the first thing you see is Bobby Martin’s massive piece that goes all around [the lobby].”
Martin’s piece is about the Council Oak story – which is when the Muskogee reinstated their government after the tribe arrived in Indian Territory.
“It tells the story all the way through the removal until the establishment of the government in Oklahoma,” Pratt said.
