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Michel Medinger’s photographic universes
Dudelange (9 June – 16 December, 2018) CNA’s exhibition of the Luxembourg photographer Michel Medinger’s work aims to illustrate how as a talented young artist in search of his own individual style

Eddie Adams and the photograph that altered global opinion
Eddie Adams took a photograph that captured more than a death. It exposed the brutal face of a war many preferred to sanitize. In the silence that followed the click of his shutter the world confronted an uncomfortable question: can an image be too powerful for its own good? The Saigon execution still echoes in the conscience of those willing to face its gaze.

Transcending by Isabel Curdes
It is a story about life and death, about the beauty of our ephemeral existence and the acceptance that one day we will just be a memory…


Omo Tribe; the other Ethiopia by Antonella Monzoni
A piece of primitive, wild Africa. Men with Kalashnikovs driving herds of cattle along red-dirt paths to the banks of the river. Processions of women walking to the Omo River, returning with huge gourds filled with water balanced on their heads.


Huang Shan by Olivier Robert
This series of photographs is part of a long-lasting project dedicated to the Yellow Mountain in China. The classical Chinese landscape painting has been an important source of inspiration in my photography

Portraits by Neil Kremer & Cory Johnson
Character-based portraits and narrative-driven scenes are our thing. Sometimes quirky, sometimes serious, occasionally scripted, and often just REAL - they specialize in capturing authentic moments in even the most manufactured of settings.

Urban sprawl series by Emmanuel Monzon
Through my urban sprawl series, I want to photograph the in-between state found in the American landscape. So I capture places of transition, borders, passages from one world to another

Makeshift by Paweł Starzec
This common agreement takes shape of a narrative concerning both past and present times, serving as an explanation of the world and unifying the group around it.



India: The Ancient Festival of Color!
India! There's no one adjective to capture the essence of it! Superlatives would fall short, in describing the oldest continuously existing civilization in the world.

Triennale der Photographie Hamburg
Hamburg (7 Jun – 30 Sep 2018) [ENTER], [HOME], [CONTROL] and [SPACE]: one click of a keyboard command and portentous decisions are made, helping to change the world!

Anatomy of a photograph by Elizabeth Koning
The pre-production phase of my project is where all the planning takes place before the camera rolls. Whether its measured in minutes, hours or days, my planning phase sets the overall vision of my project.

Deconstructions by AymE
The concept of Deconstructions is to shed light on the female body, its shapes and shadows, its beauties and also its taboos. This series of photographs seeks to come back to a more elementary perception of the female body

Irving Penn: Master Photographer and Icon of Modernist Photography
Irving Penn was a master photographer and icon of modernist photography. His work is marked by its minimalist approach, attention to detail, and use of natural light. Penn's influence on the world of photography can still be seen today, and his legacy continues to inspire and influence photographers and artists around the world.

Thaipusam; through the night by Lucio Farina
Thaipusam ​hits you in the stomach, fills your senses with colors, sounds and harsh images, giving you thoughts about faith and worships. It is one of the most important Hindu festival celebrated by the Tamil community in honor of Lord Murugan​



Profound Azores II by Paulo Monteiro
In the introductory text of the first part of this series, kindly published by Dodho magazine, I wrote that I had started this work in 1998. However, in reviewing my file, I noticed that I started it in 1995.



Harold Feinstein ; Graciously yours
Paris (24 May – 31 Aug 2018) After a first exhibition in 2017 revealing the contagious optimism of the American photographer as he was depicting post-war youth and recklessness

Objectivity vs Subjectivity: Can Photography Ever Be Neutral?
Saying that photography lies is almost a cliché, yet it still ignites heated debates every time society needs to rely on an image to validate history. From Nicéphore Niépce’s first exposure on bitumen to the latest war report captured with a smartphone, nearly two centuries of technical advances, aesthetic conquests, and ethical dilemmas have passed.



Une memoire du 13 by Simona Bonanno
Simona Bonanno’s work, ”Un Mémoire du 13”, documents the devastating strategy of jihadist terror in the heart of Europe. The project was born by chance because the evening of the attack in Paris she was where it all began: at the XI Arrondissement.


Jean Pagliuso ; In Plain Sight
New York (16 May – 16 Jun 2018) Mary Ryan Gallery is pleased to present In Plain Sight, a retrospective exhibition of photographer Jean Pagliuso in celebration of her monograph of the same name published by Damiani in 2018.

Acid Survivors by Jan Møller Hansen
Acid attacks in Bangladesh are usually the result of land disputes, rejected marriage proposals, refusal or inability to pay dowry, resistance of being trafficked as sex worker or simply the desire for revenge.

Atopos by Lukas Vasilikos
Change is taking place in such rapid strides today that it leaves man with a sense of not belonging in his very own habitat. It almost feels as though, apart from the advances in every field of human activity



Now you see me! Muhammad Ali
Zürich (24 May – 7 July, 2018) Photographs by Thomas Hoepker, Gordon Parks, Marvin Newman, Flip Schulke, Steve Schapiro, Carl Fischer and Eric Bachmann

London street portraits by Lorenzo Grifantini
The sixties changed the relationship between the city and its inhabitants forever. From the ruins of Victorian austerity and the interminable years of war, arose a “swinging” time that revolutionised the inter-connection between people and their built environment.

Monster by Frank Machalowski
"When big masses walk into the same direction, everything is connected, you adapt yourself to it, everything becomes uniform." Most people that live or have lived in a big city before will probably know this phenomena Frank Machalowski describes so well in the quote above.

Invisibles by Nicolas Landemard
They call themselves the invisibles. Impossible to be sure how many they are in Ostende and around, certainly more than we can imagine.Coming from all around the planet they end here on the Belgium coast, where the railroad ends.

Plastic bags: Where Does It Go? by Probal Rashid
Bangladesh became the first country to regulate disposable bag use when the government banned single-use plastic bags in 2002. At that time environmental groups estimated that about 9.3 million plastic bags were dumped in the Dhaka city alone every day

PhotoEspaña 2018
Madrid (6 Jun – 26 Aug 2018) 29 galleries in Madrid participate in the Festival Off programme, with projects by Pedro Almodovar, William Klein, and Gorka Postigo, among others.

Journeys Abroad by Daniel Grant
After a few years of researching his family lineage, translations were made, paperwork was sent, self-portraits were produced and finally an Italian passport was handed over to an American man.

Kavadi Aatam of the Tamil Diaspora in Mumbai by Uday Tadphale
Kavadi Aatam or carrying the burden and piercings to inflict pain is a ritual traditionally observed by the people of the state of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil diaspora around the world. It can be seen during the Thaaipusam festival in certain ghettos of Mumbai where people

Escapism by Amanda Mason
Amanda Mason’s ‘Escapism’ series visually expresses an ethereal sleep state, a place between being awake and being asleep, a place where the mind is semi-conscious

Copenhagen Photo Festival 2018
Copenhagen (7 Jun – 17 Jun 2018) The vision of Copenhagen Photo Festival is to strengthen our ability to consider photography as a form of expression by curating, engaging, informing and debating.

Starting a New Journey by Michiko Chiyoda
After a long struggle with sickness, my mother passed away. Since then I have made a lot of trips. I have chosen to visit seaside, because I remember what my mother used to say to me before she died.

Northern Gothic by Maren Klemp
Maren Klemp, born in 1984, is a fine art photographer living and working in Oslo, Norway. She uses her photography to raise awareness of mental health, and her images portrays her personal challenges with mental illness.

I am a dreamer by Carmelita Iezzi
"I am a Dreamer" is a new project started in 2017, it is a conceptual series of surreal portraits interpreted in an ironic key and inspired by adolescence.