Fotografiska, the new museum of photography in Stockholm, opens with the exhibition A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 by Annie Leibovitz.
With approximately 200 photographs, the exhibition shows iconic images of famous public figures together with personal photographs of her family and close friends.
Category: Photography
Queer artist Heidi Lunababba writes: Welcome to the opening! – Tervetuloa avajaisiin!
May 6th5pm to 8pm, outside of Ateneum in the park facing Mikonkatu, Helsinki city centre in Finland. The Camera Obscura is outside of the museum, so you dont need to have the official invitation card to come!
The Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town will be putting up an exhibition by photographer, Zanele Muholi, from April 22 to May 29 2010. Queer photographer and activist Zanele Muholi explores the implications of being black and queer through a range of different series and strategies.
Muholi/ B(L)ACK – April 8 – 16, 2010, Exhibition by Zanele Muholi, South Africa, Opening Night: April 14, 5-7 pm.
Faculty Gallery, Faculty Art & Design, Art & Design Building (G), Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
Solo exhibition by photographer Anna-Stina Treumund. March 26 – April 18, 2010. Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Vabaduse Square 6, Tallinn, Estonia. The opening of ‘How To Recognize a Lesbian?’ is on March 24, 2010.
Angela Jimenez is a queer photo journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. In August 2009 she published her first book: Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival by photographer Angela Jimenez
The Spanish artists Cabello/Carceller (Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller) gave a talk about their art works at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center. The talk took place at the opening weekend March 23-25, 2007, of the Center at the Brooklyn Museum, USA.
‘Innovative Women exhibition’ is group show of black contemporary female artists from different parts of South Africa. Minister Xingwana says it features immoral artworks.
American photographer Cass Bird’s has given an artist talk, which was documented on video (15 min). Here she discusses her photography, which began as an outlet, a replacement for verbal communication.
Emilie Jouvet – Queer photographer and filmmaker, she works also as a freelance photographer for magazines. Here is a video with an interview with Emilie.
For the last couple of weeks I have been sharing some videos about queer photographers from the USA, which I have found on YouTube, with you. However, no presentation of the diversity of American lesbian/queer photography would be ‘perfect’ without a video about the works of the great woman, who founded lesbian photography in America: Tee Corinne.
In the autumn 2009 queer photographer Molly Landreth (USA) was interviewed by Michelle Bonfils about her art project ‘Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life In America’ which is a collaboration with Australian video artist Amelia Tovey.
Photographer Collier Schorr photographs wrestlers, mainly the Blair (highschool) wrestling team, and discusses why she’s interested in the sport and its athletes.
American photographer Judy Francesconi takes photos of lipstic lesbians. Judy has been shooting gorgous lesbian models with perfect bodies and beautiful faces for about 10 years. Here is a video about how she works with her models.
Artist Catherine Opie discusses identity and how it is perceived and shaped through portraits of close friends in the Los Angeles lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transvestite community.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize rewards a cash prize of £30,000 to a living photographer. Zoe Leonard (b.1961, USA) is among the nominees this year. She is nominated for her retrospective exhibition ‘Zoe Leonard – Photographs’, at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2009.
Tejal Shah (b. 1979) is an Indian visual artist working with video, photography and installation.Tejal is going to Sweden for the opening of the ‘Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive’ in Umea and she will be presenting her art works at the seminar ‘Queer in Theory and Pratctice’ at Bildmuseet, Umea University, Sweden, Saturday January 30, 2010.
Film Premiere of Stefanies Schneiders new film & Concert with Daisy McCrackin December 10, 2009 in Berlin, And on December 11, 2009 Stefanie Schneider’s 29 PALMS, CA a feature film/ art piece opens in ARTBAR 71 in Berlin.
‘Corpus Queer’ comes to Birmingham, UK, November 2009. The show spans over twenty five years of photographic exploration by Del LaGrace Volcano, a gender variant visual artist.
‘Fit und Schick’, photography exhibition by Veronika Boba Daňhelová and Karla Judytha Hostašováand Karla Judytha Hostašová. The exhibition is a part of the off-programme of the Czech queer film festival, Meziptra, in Brno. ‘Fit und Schick’ can be seen until November 11, 2009, at Marcus Gallery, Úvoz 24, Brno.