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California Über Alles - Steven Nestor
California Über Alles
As with most people throughout the world - and maybe especially Anglophonic Europeans - the United States has been a continual, largely one-way, cultural and linguistic presence in our lives. Similar, I imagine, to that of the inhabitants of the known world in the time of the Roman Empire. When I was a teen Levi’s or Wrangler jeans were de rigueur. Hit music and especially films were almost exclusively American in origin. Later at university I took American history as a module every year. Whether it was to be loathed or loved I wanted to understand this country that had come to dominate our lives so completely.
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| California Über Alles © Steven Nestor |
Finally in 2012 I got the chance to go to the United States on an 18 day vacation. Of course we were not visiting the whole country: it was just one part of one state. But it was California; one of the biggest and wealthiest of the states and the engine room behind the greatest projector of Americana.
This body of work came out of this journey and could be broadly defined as ‘travel photography’. However, it is not travel photography with the typical sole purpose of honouring or promoting key places, characters and rituals in the same way that a postcard might “sum up” a location. I suppose the core question surrounding travel photography is whether its superficiality allows for the revelation of anything insightful. By being so potentially “shallow” and literal, it often appears to offer no more than an exact reflection of a world we expect and desire: a globe squared and rationalized away while at the same time we are invited to “explore” and “adventure”. But how do you explore the explored? It seems to me that it can only be a profoundly personal experience and deep inner reaction to new surfaces, topographies, smells and sounds. In global travel today we are most likely only following the cartographer’s precision or the previous photographers’ multitude of findings.
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| California Über Alles © Steven Nestor |
'Still, We Work', Gallery of Photography, 19th-26th October
National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) will present STILL, WE WORK, an exhibition featuring artists Sarah Browne, Vagabond Reviews, Miriam O’Connor (prism #01) and Anne Tallentire. The exhibition has been devised as part of NWCI’s Legacy Project developed by project curator Valerie Connor for NWCI to mark their 40th anniversary year and is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies. The artists were asked to reflect on contemporary representations of women’s work in the context of the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout. They have responded by making new works addressing women’s experience of precarious contemporary working conditions and the invisibility of much of ‘women’s work’.
STILL, WE WORK will be launched in the Gallery of Photography, Dublin, on October 18 and is open to the public from 19th to 26th October. Admission is free.
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| Untitled from Attention Seekers (2010-2011), Miriam O'Connor |
'Warsaw Photo Days' Festival is launched
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| Sarah Maple “Lollipop Lollipop“, 2011 |
The Main Programme presented consists of three group exhibitions: "Female Metamorphoses of the Interwar Period" - a historical exhibition of Polish interwar photographs (curator: Magdalena Durda-Dmitruk), "PHOTO OBJECT" – an exhibition presenting the spatial objects created- with the use of photographs - between the '60s of the twentieth century and present days (curators: Leszek Golec, Jagna Olejnikowska) and "Princesses" - a multimedia exhibition about the world of 'girlish' desires and fantasies depicted by contemporary Polish and foreign artists (curator: Katarzyna Majak, substan-tive consultant: Agnieszka Żechowska).
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| Zofia Rydet, Metamorphosis series, 1957-80, courtesy of the Foundation of Zofia Rydet in Cracow |
There is a special highlight planned for the festival, an unique, in both concept and formula, Performative Symposius Gesture Towards Photography, during which the artists will partner with each other in order to exchange ideas and co-create photographic dialogue. The main idea is to investigate, describe, and above all, to "demonstrate" the visual and practical ways of expressing thoughts and "show" how the imagination and the critical mind work. The material recorded during the symposium will be a base for preparing the movie – a specific visual "treatise" on gesture.
Open Programme, themed "CLASH," will exhibit six projects drawn from more than 600 entries from around the world.
For full progamme and detailed information about the festival please visit their website.
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| Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Jadwiga Witkiewicz née Unrug, ca 1923, 17,2 x 12,5 cm (from the collection of S. Okolowicz and E. Franczak) |
prism #13
prism #13 has arrived featuring twelve amazing photographers: Yvette Monahan, Adam Byra, Sacha Vega, Deirdre McGing, Ricardo Yui, Vendula Knopova, Neven Petrovic, Regina Valkenborgh, Daniel Gentelev, Nadege Abadie, Steven Nestor and Mateusz Sarello.
prism #07 & #08 now available to DOWNLOAD
prism archival issues #07 & #08 are now available to download free of charge from our dropbox account.
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Warsaw Photo Days Festival calls for submissions!
Open Programme welcomes entries from international visual artists, supporting all disciplines of photographic (and photography-based) practice.
Jury will select 3-5 projects which will be exhibited during the festival.
The theme for the festival - ‘CLASH’ - may be understood and interpreted in a number of ways e.g.: mixed media practices, opposites, meetings, collisions, borders, body / spirituality, male / female, pixel / grain, full / void, culture / nature, passive / active, tradition / modernity, life / death, open / closed, light / dark, synthesis, pop culture / kitsch / high culture, global / local, documentary / fiction and others.
WPD is looking for both photographic and mixed media projects using photography or video.
prism is happy to officially support and be in partnership with first edition of the festival.
Guidelines can be found here.
Marian Schmidt - Three Regards
Marian Schmidt was born in Poland in 1945. He spent his childhood in Venezuela. At the age of 12, while studying at the Liceo de Aplicación in Caracas, he began to take photographs with his father’s rangefinder Konica and make documentary films with his Canon 8mm film camera.
Inspired by the films of Ingmar Bergman, he decided to become a film director and wanted to study filmmaking in Los Angeles. However, his father would not finance his plans and instead sent him in 1961 to the University of California, Berkeley to study engineering. His professors discovered he had a great talent for mathematics and a year later he transferred to the mathematics department where he obtained a B.A. with honours in 1965. He accepted a generous scholarship for Ph.D. studies in mathematics from Brandeis University in Waltham (Massachusetts). In his first year at Brandeis he was lucky to meet the great mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr (“A Beautiful Mind”), whom he befriended and admired. During his studies, he returned to his adolescent passions and began photographing again. Artist Ben Shahn after viewing one of his first pictures encouraged him to continue photographing. Schmidt also made an experimental film with the recently acquired cinema equipment by the university.
prism #12
Over the past two years we have done our best to provide our audience with fourteen amazing issues, each one completed with a great selection of contemporary photography. Each year, prism has provided us with new challenges and new experiences, which have been very rewarding for us. We were always thrilled to celebrate established names and happy to promote emerging artists and photographic initiatives. We were delighted to have partnered with photographic festivals and have always been looking forward to setting up new goals and meeting new friends!
We have also created a stable and growing platform for international audience to be exposed to 'what's hot' in the contemporary photography. We have launched a blog platform to provide you with articles, previews, reviews and interviews. We have also organised a few very exciting exhibitions as our own initiative and also in partnership with PhotoIreland Festival: a very successful international Instant Photography Exhibition, numerous group shows and collective shows in the past. During this year’s PhotoIreland we invite you all to an exhibition of Marian Schmidt, founder and director of Warsaw School of Photography, a photographer known for his humanistic approach to photography and his masterful composition skills, who has been widely exhibited around the globe.
We are also been proud to be actively supporting photographic prizes and introducing their winners to our audience. Our May issue featured the winners from The Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Lodz and in this issue we will introduce you to the winners of the 2nd edition of POPCAP'13 - piclet.org's Prize for Contemporary African Photography: Anhua Collective (Alvaro Laiz and David Rengel), Dillon Marsh, Alexia Webster, Graeme Williams and Cristina De Middel. Cristina has also contributed her work to be featured on this issue's cover. POPCAP'13 Winners are also a part of PhotoIreland Festival 2013 and will be exhibited in Dublin, Limerick and Cork.
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| prism #12 cover image by Cristina De Middel |
Prism has always been committed to be partnered with many festivals and photographic organisations and this year is no different: PhotoIreland.org, Belfast Festival, piclet.org, Neu Now, Slideluck Potshow Dublin, Actual Colors May Vary, PhotoMonth Krakow and Fotofestiwal Lodz, to name few of our good old and new friends.
All our efforts have been met with very positive feedback, which has reassured us that our work is noticed and appreciated. We couldn't have expected a better reward.
With this exalted moment of celebration we are thrilled to have discovered and to present, in addition to POPCAP'13 Winners, work of talented photographers: Isabelle Wenzel and her Building Images project, Karena Hutton and the story of her Father, Marieke Gelissen and her interpretation of a physical encounter between the body and the object, Alex Rose presents his myth of everlasting flowers, Nathalie Daoust takes us to a trip to one of the largest S&M "love hotel" in Japan, James Smith studies post modernist architecture, Marlous van der Sloot is featured with her 'body(ies)' of work and Pascal Fellonneau presents his 'Candidates' project.
Again, we would like to thank all photographers, curators and editors who contributed to this and all previous issues, our friends from galleries, institutions and organizations for their support and positive energy, and finally, most of all, we’d like to thank you, Dear Readers for building such a strong, supportive community of photo enthusiasts that keeps us motivated to deliver more amazing material in the future.
Let the light in.
Karol Liver / prism Editor
POPCAP'13 Prize for Contemporary African Photography
Piclet.org are interested in the idea of bringing networking back into the real world via social media and events such as POPCAP ‘13. Piclet.org was launched in 2009 by Berlin-based media artist Benjamin Fuglister as an international online portal for the presentation of contemporary photographers’ portfolios and as an international directory of important festivals, creative publications and Photography related institutions.
POPCAP was awarded for the first time in 2012. This year the five chosen works will be presented to both the international arts community and the general public during Art Basel 44 as well as at PhotoIreland Festival 2013. POPCAP ‘13 aims to enhance awareness and provoke discourse regarding African topics through public events running alongside the exhibition. Due to its extensive application in a day-to-day context, Piclet.org considers photography to be the ideal medium from which to foster an unhindered exchange of ideas.
Finalists of POPCAP’ 13:
Anhua Collective (Álvaro Laiz/David Rengel), Future Plan
Rebels of the Lord´s Resistance Army have been kidnapping children for over 25 years in the border between Uganda and Sudan, where they are trained as soldiers, deprived of education and brought up in a culture of extreme violence where they are forced to abduct and kill. The few that manage to return, including those photographed in this series, are rejected by a society who blames them for the deaths of their relatives and friends. Imagine your life was a great plain wall. Imagine you have a piece of chalk. What would you do with it?
Dillon Marsh, Landmarks
Rather than advocating a particular stance or message, Dillon Marsh prefers to show the subtle and curious manner in which the relationship between humans and the natural environment often plays out. Marsh seeks to find things that are out of the ordinary, picking them out of the landscape where they might otherwise blend in.
Cristina De Middel, The Afronauts
In 1964, still living the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program. Led by an ambitious school teacher Edward Makuka, and with only a few optimists supporting the project, this ambitious initiative was unfulfilled as the United Nations declined their support, and one of the astronauts, a 16 year old girl, got pregnant and had to quit. The Afronauts presents this exotic episode of the history of the space race.
Alexia Webster, A village in the clouds
This series explores the unsettled landscape of a mountain village in South Africa. Located high up in the forests of the Amatola Mountains it has been thought of as sacred ground by many the generations of people. Despite its beauty and charm, Hogsback holds a sad and complex history that in many ways mirrors the pain and contradictions that South Africa has faced.
Graeme Williams, On the other side
In small towns, townships and cities throughout South Africa there remains an uneasy stasis as the countrys social and physical landscapes continue to shift. Graeme Williams focuses on isolated, but telling facets of daily life within the country, in an attempt to mirror the complexity and fragmented nature of the process of transformation. The photographs emphasize both change and the lack of change, and comment on the intertwined relationship between past, present and an uncertain future.
Moxie Studios,Pembroke row, Lad Lane, Dublin 2
Opening day: 7pm Thu 11 Jul
Dates: 11-14 Jul
Opening hours: 11-6pm
OCCUPY SPACEOccupy Space, No. 7 Rutland St., Limerick
Dates: 18-21 Jul
Opening hours: Daily 12-6pm
CIT Crawford College of Art and DesignCIT Crawford College of Art and Design
Sharman Crawford Street, Cork
Opening day: 6-8pm Wed 24 Jul
Dates: 24-31 Jul
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm / Sat 11am-5pm
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