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Five Must-See Photo Festivals in Switzerland
Love photography? This is your chance to visit five must-see photo festivals on in Switzerland.
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Cenntenial, Irving Penn, C/O Berlin, Germany
Centennial celebrates the 100th birthday of photographer Irving Penn. The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York and the Irving Penn Foundation organised the exhibition. This is the first time in 20 years that Penn’s work has been displayed in Berlin. Spread across two levels, in more than five gallery spaces, the exhibition features close…
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AutoPhoto, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
As the name suggests, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, exhibits a wide array of contemporary art, usually staging two to three large exhibitions a year. This summer, photography and cars are the themes for the exhibition AutoPhoto. As summer shows go, it’s a big, well-planned and excellently curated exhibition, featuring a diverse range of international…
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Entre L’Art et La Mode, Musee Des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
This exhibition was a photography collector’s dream. So many big names. So many classic images. Works from 75 photographers. Some of the names that caught my eye, included László Moholy-Nagy, Walker Evans, Leni Riefenstahl, Ralph Gibson, and Berenice Abbott. There are too many amazing names to mention, but I will try to share a few more…
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Transitions: La photographie dans le canton de Neuchâtel 1840-1970, Musee D’Art et D’Histoire Neuchâtel, Switzerland
This summer, many galleries and museums in Neuchâtel are collaborating and celebrating photography. This retrospective exhibition at the Musee D’Art et D’Histoire Neuchâtel traces 130 years of photography in the canton of Neuchâtel from 1840-1970. The exhibition is comprised of 350 high-quality images from fifteen cantonal institutions and photography centres in Switzerland. The exhibition project is…
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Long Shot, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, USA
Long Shot is Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest’s annual summer celebration, sharing images shot over a 24-hour period during the longest day of the year – the summer solstice. I chose to submit three urban landscapes of Ellensburg, Washington, featuring some of my favourite fonts on buildings. I wanted to show the flatness of Ellensburg, the crispness of…
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Man Ray, Picabia et la revue Littérature, 1922 – 1924, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
The exhibition, Man Ray, Picabia et la revue Littérature, 1922 – 1924 focuses on Littérature, a surrealist magazine edited by three French writers – André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon. The first issue was published on March 19, 1919. After two years, Breton stopped producing the journal, and in Marche 1922, he decided to relaunch the magazine with the cover by Man…
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Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Fringe Program 2013
I’d heard about the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB), but I’d never had the chance to see it or be part of it until 2013. My good friend and university colleague Denise Regan, had attended some of the workshops in 2011 and waxed lyrically about the amount of exhibitions, the quality of the workshops and…
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