Round Up Week of June 5
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries:
1) Magnum Photos announces major new Paris gallery space
© Design Johnson Naylor / CGI - Anotherartist
“Walk down Rue Léon Frot, the historic street in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, and look out for the grand doorway at number 68.
Located behind that doorway, off an enclosed paved street, is a pivotal development for the medium of contemporary photography—a major new gallery space from Magnum Photos.
Magnum Photos is now “developing as a credible art market player,” the agency’s chief executive officer Caitlin Hughes said as the agency revealed details of the new Parisian gallery.
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2) Vlad Molodez captures the magic and melancholy of growing up in Siberia
© Vlad Molodez
Back in February, photographer Vlad Molodez returned to Sharypovo, Siberia, from Moscow and spent a few days seeing family and friends in his hometown. During his stay, he took a few photographs here and there — one of which he contributed to our monthly photography series, My Month in a Photo. The picture caught two young boys traipsing through the snow, their brightly coloured windbreaker jackets contrasting with their long shadows cast against the lavender-blue landscape behind them. It was a beautiful submission and a story we wanted to see more of.
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3) A collective of Latin American photographers tell the stories of their countries during the pandemic
I spent almost nine months covering the pandemic in the city of São Paulo, my hometown. This included covering the Vila Formosa Cemetery, documenting the life of the gravediggers, witnessing hundreds of burials and so much suffering. I also covered resistance stories such as the “street presidents” of Paraisópolis and the Guaranis Mbyá on the outskirts of the city.
It was a very painful experience in general. I was isolated during that time, alone in an apartment so as not put anyone at risk. Covering the pandemic didn’t allow me to “go back home,” to stop working and recover. The crisis was permanent, the fear of getting infected was always bigger and stronger.
4) Cache of Photos Reveals LA’s Old Chinatown
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In the late 1940s, writer Lisa See’s father and grandfather discovered a cache of rare, antique photographs and glass plate negatives in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. The more than 100 pictures date from the late 19th and early 20th century and may have come from an old photography studio previously located in the area. The photos capture daily life during the years between LA’s tragic Anti-Chinese Massacre in 1871 and the 1930s, when the city’s original Chinatown was demolished to make way for Union Station. See’s collection of bustling street scenes and intimate photographic portraits offer a glimpse at an important but under-documented period in Chinese American history. And now, thanks to her recent donation to the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, the images are available for public study and preservation.