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IPA 2017: Introducing Hannah Watson, director of TJ Boulting, who will host the winner’s exhibition

BJP

This year marks the 11th edition of British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award. It is a commendation that has established itself as one of the key showcases of emerging photographic talent, offering a three-week solo exhibition at the renowned TJ Boulting gallery in the heart of London, as one of its prizes. This year, there will be just one award for the best photography series. The winner will also receive a £5000 production grant from leading print lab Metro Imaging, a three week home page residency on the WeTransfer website, offering a fantastic opportunity of worldwide exposure; and, their work will be published across all BJP print and digital platforms. Hannah Watson, the director of TJ Boulting and Trolley Books, an independent photography and contemporary art book publisher, which marks its 15 year anniversary this year, will once again be one of our judges on IPA’s prestigious judging panel. Watson has worked with some notable names in the photography world, including Alixandra Fazzina, Robin Maddock, Nina Berman and Stanley Greene, but is also known …

2016-09-29T15:34:47+00:00

Be Part of Portrait of Britain

Tom Seymour

The exhibition is also available in a limited-edition print sale. So, in this most public of art exhibitions, if you like something you see, you can buy a part of it for yourself. The BJP team envisaged an exhibition by the people, of the people and for the people. In our new portraiture issue, on shelves now, we reveal the selected images which, for the month of September, will be seen up and down the country. “The exhibition is about celebrating the diversity and the unique heritage of Britain and hopefully by doing so adding some nuance to the very divisive debate following Brexit,” BJP‘s editorial director Simon Bainbridge tells TIME. “The portraits say we aren’t easily categorized by class or race or age or region,” says Bainbridge. “Once you are confronted with a person, you have to engage with them as an individual and not as stereotype or a grouping. That’s something photography does very easily, it disrupts your prejudice or your usual thoughts about people outside your own bubble.” We’ve now launched a …

2016-09-26T15:37:28+00:00

 Chinese artist Ren Hang Receives 2016 Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen 

Tom Seymour

The Chinese artist Ren Hang, born 1987, as the recipient of the 2016 Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund, the curatorial committee for Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund.

2016-09-25T12:14:57+00:00

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Dieter De Lathauwer Wins Unseen Dummy Award

Tom Seymour

The Dummy, I Loved My Wife (killing children is good for the economy), by the Belgium artist Dieter De Lathauwer, will be published and presented during Unseen Photo Fair 2017. Dieter notes that his book “highlights one of the darkest sides of the previous century in Europe, which was and still remains under-exposed.” This year’s jury members, Paul van Mameren (Managing Director, Lecturis), Irma Boom (graphic designer), Sean O’Hagan (journalist, The Guardian) and Francesco Zanot (Chief Curator, Camera Centro Italiano per la Fotografia’s), said: “The combination of found photographs, stills from propaganda films from the German authorities, and Lathauwer’s own evocative images made for a powerful and unsettling narrative. “The subject concerns the psychiatric state hospitals where thousands of people were killed over two years in Austria, because they were Jews, gays or immigrants. His photographs of the locations merge with the found material to create a sustained mood that suggests the horror without depicting directly. “It is an accomplished photo book about a very dark subject matter that, to this day, remains relatively unknown.” …

2016-09-25T12:03:44+00:00

Kenyan artist Elspeth Diederix receives Meijburg Art Commission at Unseen

Tom Seymour

Talented, up-and-coming artists competed for the Meijburg Art Commission by submitting a proposal for a unique artwork with a focus on photography. After being nominated, five artists developed their proposals for a site-specific commission. These were then presented to an international jury, which included Wilbert Kannekens (Chairman Managing Board, Meijburg & Co), Genevieve Fussel (Senior Photo Editor, The New Yorker) and Unseen’s 2016 campaign artists, Christto & Andrew. Besides Elspeth Diederix, the nominees for this year’s Meijburg Art Commission are: Awoiska van der Molen (1972, NL); Mandy Barker (1964, UK); Motohiro Takeda (1982, JP); and Yoko Ikeda (1965, JP). The jury report says: “We were taken by the understated complexity of her images. Upon first glance, they are striking photographs of flowers. Upon a closer look, however, the viewer realizes that the work has great depth. “Elspeth is constructing environments, manipulating reality by creating flowers that don’t actually exist. Her work requires you to think a bit more, to wonder what is going on, what has she done to create the image? Her work reminds …

2016-09-25T11:55:59+00:00

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Thomas Albdorf wins ING Talent Award at Unseen

Tom Seymour

The Austrian photographer Thomas Albdorf is the winner of the 2016 ING Unseen Talent Award. The award and the €10,000 prize to fund a new project was accepted at the opening event of Unseen Photo Fair, which took place in Amsterdam on 22 September.

2016-09-22T16:44:31+00:00

Clare Strand’s Hoopla Stand at Unseen Festival

Tom Seymour

British photographer Clare Strand is using the game of hoopla, the well-known fun fair attraction, as a new way of interacting between artist and art fair audience, at Unseen Photo Festival in Amsterdam.

2016-09-21T16:46:56+00:00

Juno Calypso and Felicity Hammond on how the IPA launched their careers

Tom Seymour

The winners of British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award 2016 on how the award have helped launch them as two of the most talked-about photographers of their generation in the European photography scene.

2016-09-15T15:36:57+00:00

Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Announce Shortlist

Tom Seymour

The New York-based photographer Joni Sternbach is nominated for a ‘tintype’ portrait of a couple called Thea Adler and Maxwell Schultz, from a series called Surfland, created with the Victorian photography process wet plate collodion. Sternbach is a visiting artist at the Cooper Union art school and a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and the Penumbra Foundation, where she teaches courses the wet plate collodion process “Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary landscapes and environmental portraits and her work centres on man’s relationship to water,” Taylor Wessing said in a statement. “Her long-term projects involve the pursuit and understanding of the Western landscape and the series Surfland, which features tintype portraits of surfers.” 16.02.20 #1 Thea+Maxwell (Thea Adler and Maxwell Schultz) was taken in February 2016 at Davenport Landing, Santa Cruz, California, USA. Sternbach says: “This is the first image I made in February when I was invited to give a talk and book signing in Santa Cruz. My hosts and I planned a shooting day prior to the event and they arranged for several …

2016-09-12T16:36:09+00:00

The Unseen Dummy Award shortlist announced

Tom Seymour

The Unseen Dummy Award, one of the biggest prizes at Amsterdam’s Unseen Photography Festival, will give the winning photographer entry into the international photography industry.

2016-09-09T14:16:06+00:00

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