November 9, 2023

PHOTOS

New iPhone photography exhibition debuts in Paris on November 10

The two-day event held at the Salon Corderie features work from five esteemed photographers, all shot on iPhone

“I Remember You,” a two-day photography exhibition opening in Paris on Friday, November 10, will highlight original work shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max celebrating the intersection of photography and nostalgia. The collective work of esteemed artists Malin Fezehai, Karl Hab, Vivien Liu, Mika Ninagawa, and Stefan Ruiz incorporates people, places, and things that move them, exploring the transience of their most precious memories and the power of photography to preserve them. And in doing so, they showcase the utility, ease of use, and image quality enabled by the impressive capabilities of the camera system on their iPhone 15 Pro Max.

“‘I Remember You’ brings together five photographers who share their deeply personal conceptions of memory, connection, and nostalgia,” explains Isolde Brielmaier, Ph.D., the exhibition’s curatorial advisor. “It is a moving glimpse of life, preserved in time.”

A picture has the power to both preserve and amplify a memory. It can transport people to a moment in time, evoke a feeling, and reveal new perspectives in a nearly universal visual language. And with iPhone 15 Pro users having access to a professional camera in their pocket — with the equivalent of seven pro lenses and an all-new 5x Telephoto camera on iPhone 15 Pro Max to capture stunning detail from afar, as well as a 48MP Main camera that offers a new super-high-resolution 24MP default with incredible image quality — everyone around the world is empowered to document their experiences.

In celebration of the opening, each artist spoke about how iPhone has contributed to their creative process and what they hope people will remember from their featured work.

Malin Fezehai is an Eritrean/Swedish photographer, filmmaker, and visual reporter currently living in New York. She has worked in over 40 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and America. Fezehai is a National Geographic explorer, and in 2023, she became a Climate Pledge grantee. She is working on a project about adaptation to living on water. Her career started in her native Sweden, where she studied photography before attending the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work focuses on communities of displacement and dislocation around the world. She was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme to photograph survivors of violent extremism across sub-Saharan Africa and published a book titled Survivors. She has received a 2015 World Press Photo Award and the Wallis Annenberg Prize, and was named one of the “30 Emerging Photographers to Watch” in 2015 by Photo District News. Her image depicting a wedding of Eritrean refugees in Israel was the first iPhone photo ever to receive a World Press Photo Award.

“The integration of the iPhone into my photography workflow marked a significant shift in how I perceive and capture the world around me — feeling more inclined to capture life as it happens — the fleeting, candid moments that often define the human experience,” Fezehai says. “Its ease of use and ability to capture high-quality images effortlessly enables me to explore and document the ordinary in extraordinary ways. That sentiment is embodied in the work I created for the show.”

Karl Hab, born in 1990 and currently residing in Paris, is a well-established photographer who also holds a certification as an aeronautics engineer. When he’s not on the move, Hab’s passions for aviation, design, art, and fashion come to the forefront. His frequent travel allows him to immerse himself in international fashion and street culture, which serve as inspiration for his personal projects. A true wanderer at heart, Hab has been capturing the world through his lens for over 15 years, and there’s no sign of him slowing down. His natural inclination leads him toward action-packed moments, and with his new iPhone 15 Pro Max, his work has gained a new perspective.

“Shooting with iPhone is like having a third hand that could capture exactly what I wanted when I wanted,” Hab says. “I know I can rely on iPhone to precisely match what I see on the screen. And with this recent model, the 5x lens made me see things differently. You can truly push the limits of the device and showcase a different perspective on your work.”

Vivien Liu is a photographer based in Hong Kong. She received her Master of Architecture degree at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the prestigious Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design. After 15 years in architecture, Liu discovered a passion for photographing the urban scenes of Hong Kong and other cities around the world. Because of her professional background, she is known for portraying space and subjects with a trained architectural eye. The synergy between people and space is a consistent theme in her work, which has brought an international spotlight on the cultural identity of Hong Kong, highlighting its architecture, people, and natural landscape.

“iPhone first became an integral part of my process when I started traveling and snapping scenes from my journeys,” Liu recalls. “I’ve come to rely on it for my commercial work at various stages in the creative process with its wide array of focal lengths and shooting modes. The 5x lens on iPhone 15 Pro Max was indispensable when trying to zero in on the details and textures of the aged buildings around me. Combined with the abundance of natural lighting, I was able to create images that are full of contrast between light and shadow.”

Mika Ninagawa is a Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist who works in photography and film. In 2020, she published her photo book, TOKYO. The appeal of her photography can best be summed up by a signature approach that is bathed in vivid, dreamlike colors. Whether it is portraiture, landscape, or still life, at the heart of her work are themed looks that rotate between flora, fauna, landscapes, and empowered women to create Ninagawa’s lush tableaux. Ninagawa is one of Japan’s most celebrated photographers. Her retrospective, “Mika Ninagawa: Into Fiction / Reality,” opened at Beijing Times Art Museum in spring 2022.

Stefan Ruiz is based in Brooklyn, New York. He has taught art at San Quentin State Prison in California and was the creative director at COLORS magazine. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, and TIME. His photographs have been exhibited at International Center of Photography Museum in New York, the Photographers’ Gallery in London, Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHotoEspaña, Havana Biennial, and the CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto. He has published four monographs, including The Factory of Dreams, a book on Mexican soap operas published by Aperture in 2012, and Mexican Crime Photographs, published by GOST Books in 2016.

“The iPhone is able to make my shoots feel less formal, which helps make the subjects feel comfortable,” Ruiz says. “When they’re able to pass the phone around to see and comment on the images, it makes the whole process feel more collaborative.”

“I Remember You” will be on display at the Salon Corderie in Le Marais in Paris on Friday, November 10, and Saturday, November 11, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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The 350th Anniversary Steering Committee is proud to announce the continuation of its historical photography exhibit that highlights the history of the Town and its people over the past couple hundred years. The second installment of this popular exhibition is titled “Growing Southbury” and will run November 2 – 29, 2023 in the Gloria Cachion Gallery at the Southbury Public Library.

This month features a completely new set of photographs that are mix of old and newer ones, curated from the collections of Southbury Historical Society, Heritage Village Foundation, Southbury Land Trust, Bent of the River Audubon Center, Ludorf Family, Robert S. Bryan and many others.

This free photographic exhibit is the second of three months worth of changing images that celebrate some of Southbury’s outstanding people, places, institutions, and events. The changing exhibit is over a three-month period from October to December.

The first offering, “Early Southbury”, ran the month of October and has been very well-received. Guest book comments include: “Great Exhibit. Items I had not seen before in other history books.” “Spectacular pics! And extremely helpful captions.” “Interesting step back in time.” “A trip through the past.”

Captions for the photographs are once again provided by John Dwyer, Town historian and co-chair of the 350th Committee, and Melinda Elliott, Southbury Historical Society President and 350th Committee member. Gosia Liedlich, the town’s Digital Communications Specialist and a member of the 350th Anniversary Committee, was the point person for this project, including collecting and assembling the photographs.

The 350th Anniversary Steering Committee hopes that residents and visitors will return for this second offering, learn something new about the town and come away with a deeper appreciation of Southbury.

The exhibit will be open during regular library hours which are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:30am to 5:30pm, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30am to 9:00pm, Saturdays 9:30am to 4:00pm and Sundays 12:00pm to 5:00pm. Please note, that the library will be closed for on Friday, November 10, Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24, 2023.

Gallery link https://www.southburylibrary.org/using-the-library/spaces/art-gallery

The Town of Southbury is holding events and activities all year long to celebrate 350 years of community, culture and history (1673-2023), aimed at highlighting the past and progress of the one and only Southbury.

The 350th Anniversary Steering Committee is: John Dwyer and Kevin Bielmeier (co-chairs), Brian Jones (vice-chair), Justin Bette, Lynn Dwyer, Melinda Elliott, Michael Ganem, Kara Kenney, Mary Korsu, and Gosia Liedlich.

For more information on all the 350th events, visit www.southbury-ct.org/350.

Alida O’Loughlin presents us with more than 40 treasured moments in her new exhibition by the same title at the Edgartown library, through the end of November.

For such a prolific artist, it’s amazing to learn that O’Loughlin didn’t take photography seriously until her 70s. She came to the U.S. from her native Holland as a graduate student in 1951 with $80 in her pocket. As a single mother of three kids in four years, her career was in politics, working with international nonprofit organizations. “Life has always been one of hard work and making sure people get provided for,” O’Loughlin tells me.

“I’m not a photographer. I came to it accidentally in the course of time,” she explains. Although O’Loughlin had been using a point-and-shoot camera to take photos for her own pleasure, it wasn’t until her partner, artist Washington Ledesma, enlarged and framed one of her works as a present that she even entertained the idea of it as a profession. “I looked at the photograph and was quite shocked because I thought it looked very good. From that time on, photography became a more serious business for me,” she says. “Bit by bit, I started developing the shots, and people were ‘oohing’ and ‘aahing’ about them.”

O’Loughlin started selling here at the artisan fairs, and had exhibits in Boston and Cambridge. “I was able to do it with the help of Washington. I wasn’t wandering out in the desert by myself by any means. So I became a photographer, which was a surprise. My life had been about politics,” she adds.

As we look through her broad scope of work, O’Loughlin repeatedly emphasizes, “I never became a technical photographer. I couldn’t get into cameras and settings and all that sort of stuff. Basically, I worked with what I saw. If I catch it, great, wonderful. If not — nothing lost. I did not manipulate.” In fact, it took her a long time to switch from film when digital cameras initially came on the scene in the 1980s and ’90s. “I said, My eyes do not see digitally. When I see something, I focus, and everything else becomes background, but with digital, everything is sharp. At some point, everybody became a photographer, and it became much more important to manipulate things digitally, so I stopped exhibiting.”

Shooting just for herself again, O’Loughlin says, “I became more and more interested in what I saw that other people didn’t see; that intrigued me.” And her sharp eye is evident throughout the exhibit. The show starts with that first “official” photograph Ledesma framed — the icy cold winter image of the Shenandoah at the pier in Vineyard Haven in the early 2000s, and her final piece, titled “Urban Energy.” The composition of a teeming construction site at South Station in Boston pulses with industrial energy.

The rest of the show, however, is about nature — sometimes up close, sometimes from a distance. The images are grouped by themes, the initial one being intimate portraits of tree bark. By isolating sections of tree trunks, O’Loughlin revels in their texture, patterns, and colors. They become abstract compositions from which images emerge, like a sensuous woman’s naked body in one, or Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” in another.

O’Loughlin’s next grouping is landscapes, and close-ups of flowers reflect a keen sensitivity to natural beauty. The story of how she became sensitive to looking at nature is poignant. “I learned to see thanks to the Nazi occupation of Holland. Young people weren’t allowed to gather together. All the youth groups were disbanded except the Netherlands Youth Bond for the Study of Nature,” she shares. “I joined when I was 12 years old. They would go out on Sunday excursions to the woods for birdwatching and identification of bird songs, moss, and trees.”

O’Loughlin’s eye for nature is also apparent in her grouping of seascapes. Here, the light is particularly striking, with the sun setting and creating distinctly atmospheric scenes. While different from one another, a sense of calm descends on them all, and augments the beauty and awe of the world around us.

In her artist statement, O’Loughlin writes, “There are all these sudden moments when I see the composition of the elements, and sometimes I have my camera with me, and sometimes my camera is capable of catching that one specific instant. These photographs are what they are — a conscious moment in time, a moment of light, not retouched or altered in any way. I hope the viewer will find some enjoyment of recognition in what my eyes and camera experience.”

O’Loughlin also hopes that after viewing her art, people will realize, as she says, “There is a whole world out there of many different forms and shapes … stop and think about how it makes you feel.”

“Treasured Moments” will be on view at the Edgartown library through the end of November.

YEREVAN—Armenia-based photographer and artist David Galstyan’s latest exhibition Nebula is “a story of alchemy: how the mundane transforms into a cosmic phenomenon,” in his words, offering a unique take on the so-called mundane, everyday elements of life. On the day of the opening ceremony of the exhibition on October 28, the moon was passing into the earth’s shadow, creating a partial lunar eclipse. This coincidental alignment made the exhibition even more enchanting and magical, leaving the guests in awe of both the artworks and the overall atmosphere at Latitude Art Space in Yerevan.

Running for two weeks, the exhibition contains over 40 scanographies, each one containing a piece of the home of the Armenian people. As Galstyan put it, the components of the artworks are “anything that is gathered from the ground. I have found these things in my own land. They represent my culture in its most grounded and physical way.” Although each art piece is open for interpretation, abstracted elements of fire, dirt, tree branches and more can be found in them. “To take something unimportant or something ordinary and to showcase it for it to gain life and form and for others to see. Something you step on – to see its beauty,” the artist reflected.

Born and raised in Yerevan, Galstyan studied acting at the State Theatre Institute in Yerevan. It did not take long for Galstyan to find his calling. “After serving in the army, I changed my path and began to express myself through photography,” he said. “I changed my path and found photography more close to my heart.”

For over a decade now, Galstyan’s works have been exhibited both locally and internationally, including at the Emerging Arts Exhibition in New York in 2012, the sixth Beijing International Art Biennale in 2015, the “Hello World. Revising a Collection” Berlin exhibition at Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum fur Gegenwart in 2018 and more. Galstyan was also the cameraman for Lucine Talalyan’s experimental film Post DIY, Adrine Grigoryan’s documentary film Bavakan and the Turkish documentary film A Piece of Armenia. 

“Art allows us to raise questions that otherwise we cannot. Art allows us to raise questions that other fields may not allow,” Galstyan said regarding the role of art in society. At the core of his beliefs, he thinks that in many ways, art reminds people not to think inside of a box. Reflecting on Nebula, the artist admitted, “I cannot say what the influence will be, because we have to allow people to integrate and process that which they saw.”

Galstyan’s technique for the exhibition was scanography. For the creation of each art piece, the artist used a basic scanner, but with a slightly different method than the norm – he chose not to close the top of the scanner. By leaving the scanner open, the information that each piece contains is infinite. There is no limitation on what each piece represents or how it is interpreted. “Because I cannot limit myself to a specific niche, this is an expression of this period of my life, as simple as something that reflects my current times,” he said. 

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Galstyan’s studio is at the Art Factory, which is in the same building as the Latitude Art Space. Latitude is an Art Space by the Yerevan Biennial Art Foundation (YBAF), whose mission is to showcase and support Armenian art. Galstyan is the newest member of the foundation, and this was his first exhibition with YBAF.

Latitude Art Space invites everyone to come and check out this exhibition, “where the mundane transcends into cosmic marvels, inviting us to ponder the magic within the every day.” It will run until November 11, and visitors can view the exhibit between Thursday-Saturday from 2:00-7:00 p.m. All the artworks featured in the exhibition are for sale, and a portion of proceeds will go to help families in need from Artsakh.

Hena Aposhian

Hena Aposhian is a freelance journalist who primarily focuses on Armenian arts & culture. She is a graduate of the American University of Armenia and holds a bachelor’s degree in English & Communications.

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My father, Mike Arron, who has died aged 94, was a Manchester-based press photographer. He spent most of his career as a freelance covering major news stories, some of them harrowing.

He covered the disasters at Aberfan (1966), Ibrox (1971), Manchester airport (1985) and Lockerbie (1988), as well as the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He rarely spoke of such experiences but was determined to show the world what had happened.

Mike was born in the Levenshulme area of Manchester to Joan (nee Ford), who was employed in service in Cheshire houses, and Morris, a master tailor; he had fled a pogrom of Jews in Lithuania in the late 1880s.

Brought up in Hale, Cheshire, where he attended Bradbury boys school, Mike started experimenting with photography as a young teenager. His parents let him have a darkroom in their back bedroom but banned him from trying out flashgun powder in the house after various dangerous incidents.

He left school at 15 to work at the Northern Press photographic agency in Hale, where, during the second world war, his first commission was to photograph German and Italian prisoners being held at a local camp. Cycling there with a large, old-fashioned Thornton Pickard reflex camera and glass plates balanced on his handle bars, he became friendly with the prisoners and would have tea with them.

In 1947 he signed up with the RAF for his two years of national service, and asked to go into the photographic unit. The officer in charge refused to write down his request on the relevant form, so when he had to leave the room for a short while, Mike liked to tell the tale of how he nipped round to the other side of the desk and wrote it in himself.

He got the posting he wanted, and was sent to Germany, where he was tasked with cataloguing photographs from the Nuremberg trials and of Belsen concentration camp. Despite the disturbing circumstances he developed a love of Germany, and indeed of continental Europe, which remained with him for the rest of his life.

After the RAF Mike gradually established himself as a freelance photographer. He was away from home a lot, but outside work, family and friends were very much his focus. He finally hung up his cameras at the age of 72, when he came home from a job complaining that a PR person had annoyed him so much that he was calling it a day.

Mike married Shirley Newton in 1959 after they had met at a dance in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. At their wedding she refused to wear a white dress because he refused to wear top hat and tails – and that was pretty much how they carried on for 58 years; very different but very together.

For many years Shirley ran the business side of Mike’s activities from home, and in retirement they became regular crown green bowlers. He also enjoyed fly fishing in the remotest parts of Caithness and Sutherland.

Shirley died in 2017. He is survived by me and his three grandchildren, Tom, Lucy and Neil. A son, Simon, died in 2022.

“Quiet and thoughtful” is how I’d describe my first meeting with 15-year-old Caleb Carr, a relatively new Camden Hills Regional High School student to the Midcoast from Massachusetts.

Turns out that’s an apt description for his photography, as well.

As we chatted in the school library, I got to know him a little bit and what he’s drawn to in life, and behind the lens.

“When I was in Massachusetts, I focused on sports and aviation, which is what I was interested in,” he said.

Hockey and football are his two favorite sports and he brings his Panasonic Lumix fz300 camera to capture the action in the games. But, once he and his family moved to Camden, Caleb started to really look around—and found that capturing images in nature was just as rewarding.

 He got the camera for his birthday but admits he didn’t know much about photography at the time. 

“I wasn’t super serious about it at first, but then I attended some Zoom meetings on photography and this guy who taught it worked for major magazines and taught us how to use the camera better,” he said.

This sparked an interest in knowing the camera’s settings and how he could master them. He began teaching himself how to take quality photos through YouTube tutorials and using the online photo editor, Adobe Lightroom.

Simultaneously, he began to explore the Midcoast from all angles and paid special attention to objects and scenes that weren’t obvious to everyone else.

“I have more nature photos now because I’m surrounded by it here,” he said. “I like natural photography and don’t alter too much of it except to preserve the colors. I find these little spots and try to capture images that aren’t necessarily seen by everybody.”

The following are a few of his photographs and what was the inspiration behind capturing the image.

Island

When taking this photo, I was drawn to the isolation of this island. Most photos of Maiden’s Cliff are focused on the cross that overlooks the Midcoast, but I wanted to look past that and focus on the smaller unnoticed features of Megunticook Lake.

Raft

While at Hosmer Pond this past summer, I was able to capture the sunset across the water. It created an amazing scene with the raft and the quiet pond. I did some color grading to make the light off the raft billets pop.

Lobster boat

While in Camden, I noticed The Gladys Wink tied up at the dock. They were unloading the boat and it appeared that no one noticed that compared to the other things happening in the harbor.

Hockey

After being beaten by Sandwich the previous season, Norwell was back for revenge in the MIAA D4 final. Timmy Ward, the star player of Norwell crosses over in front of the bench preparing to receive a pass.

Rockport Harbor

At 15, not many people know what they want to do, but Caleb is pretty serious about pursuing photography. Knowing that he loves to shoot sports, we offered him a guest column to cover the high school sports games, such as in this recent story. A chance mention of his photography on Midcoast Message Board led to this story and to a guest column—one never knows the opportunities that await, until you manifest your intent. For Caleb’s thoughtful approach to nature, beauty, and hidden gems, his photography career is only beginning.

Hail To The Rad Kids is an ongoing feature highlighting teens in the Midcoast with special talent. 

Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com