Malick Sidibé - Winner of Baume & Mercier award at Photo Espagna
Malick Sidibé was born around 1935, in a small village in Mali. Because of his talent for drawing, he was encouraged by his school tutors to enlist in the school of Sudanese Craftsmen in Bamako where he studied jewellery and graduated in 1955. This is where he met Gerard Guillat, who was looking for a student to decorate his "Photo Service" shop and studio. He chose Malick for the job and when it was finished he asked him to stay as his apprentice.
Jul 2, 2009 at 10:21 - discussion - info+

Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle is at once a writer, a narrative artist, a photographer, a filmmaker and sometimes even a detective. She inhabits these roles interchangeably and switches personas in order to play different characters, invent rituals and tell autobiographical stories. Her work usually consists of a combination of photographs and text and often adopts the format of an investigation.
Jul 1, 2009 at 10:41 - discussion - info+

Polaroids: MAPPLETHORPE
This exhibition traces the early use of instant photography by the celebrated and controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 – 1989). Presenting 92 of his Polaroid photographs taken between 1970 and 1975, the exhibition offers a fascinating insight into Mapplethorpe’s formative years.
Jun 30, 2009 at 09:45 - discussion - info+

Lea Golda Holterman - Orthodox Eros: The Body is a Temple
Dada Post is proud to present photographer and video artist Lea Golda Holterman's first solo exhibition in Berlin, entitled Orthodox Eros. Born in 1976 in Haifa, Israël, Holterman creates photographs that lure and provoke the viewer through a unique layering of Jewish philosophy Religious, historical, and artistic content.
Jun 29, 2009 at 08:05 - discussion - info+

2009 Digital Art L.A .-- International Call for Artists
The L.A. Center for Digital Art announces an international call to artists. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to their creation are acceptable: digital art stills of any kind, digital photogaphy, short experimental time based video, video loops, mobile media, interactive media, and internet art.
Jun 26, 2009 at 01:18 - discussion - info+

Olaf Martens – Blockschokolade DDR 1979-1989
Nobody has photographed everyday-life in the DDR quite as unvarnished as him. Martens mastered Street Photography of the East at a time when he couldn’t have even known the term existed Olaf Martens does what one is not supposed to.“ Hans Eberhard Hess Photo International
Jun 25, 2009 at 14:13 - discussion - info+

Murray Fredericks - Salt II
After his exhibition at Hamiltons in 2007, Australian artist Murray Fredericks has continued to make long, physically and emotionally challenging trips to Lake Eyre each year in order to capture the exquisite images seen in this ongoing series Salt II.
Jun 24, 2009 at 10:28 - discussion - info+

Anthony Wallace - Sealed up
During one of my explorations of the Heygate Estate, I heard a loud drilling sound coming from one of the upper floors. Several flights of stairs above, a small team of workers were sealing the front of a vacated flat by welding shut the doors and windows with thick grey sheet metal.
Jun 23, 2009 at 09:20 - discussion - info+

Robert Wilson - VOOM Portraits
The works by Robert Wilson (born 1941 in Waco, Texas, lives in New York) combine a wideranging variety of artistic media such as movement, dance, light, stage design, sculpture, music and text to a perfect whole. All his experiences as an image and object artist, as a stage designer and director, as a choreographer and curator have been concentrated in his "VOOM"-video portraits since 2004.
Jun 22, 2009 at 09:38 - discussion - info+