Round Up Week of July 5
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries:
1) Artists Support Victims of Surfside Condo Collapse
© Hyperallegic, Nicole Salcedo, “Celestial Bodies I” (2020), digital drawing, available as part of a fundraiser for Support Surfside. (image courtesy Showfields)
Miami-based artists are stepping in to help the victims and families impacted by the tragedy."
© Aperture, Prarthna Singh, Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh: One Hundred Days of Resistance, New Delhi, 2020
Courtesy the artist
2) How Three Photographers Are Working through India’s COVID-19 Crisis
As India battles its second wave of the novel coronavirus, photographers are either out on the streets documenting the crisis or confined to their homes, focusing on their loved ones. In my rented apartment in the hard-hit Indian capital of Delhi, I’m on the phone with photographers who’ve retreated to their hometowns, and they tell me that the temporal distance between when their work was originally shot and the present appears disorienting. Will the city they photographed exist on the other side of the pandemic?
© British Journal of Photography, Marina Vitaglione
3) A new exhibition asks how we can better picture the climate crisis
WHAT ON EARTH explores how we can account for the myriad environmental concerns that continue to exist beyond the photographic frame. Ellen Taylor of Koppel Gallery and Hannah Fletcher, co-director of London Alternative Photography Collective (LAPC), conceived of the group show, which runs until 24 July at The Koppel Gallery Exchange, London, as a collaborative endeavour. The exhibition brings together nine artists — Victoria Ahrens, Katie Bret-Day, Alice Cazenave, Hannah Fletcher, Ramona Güntert, Melanie King, Liz K Miller, Diego Valente and Marina Vitaglione — united in their environmental focus through employing naturally derived materials. And it aims to “create a visually stimulating representation of the effects of climate change and broaden the conversation to sustainability and the use of organic matter in the photographic medium,” describes Taylor. “This will hopefully address the ever-growing conversation on how we are damaging the environment and how we could work more sustainably, not just in photography but in day-to-day life.”
© New York Times, Photograph by Carlos Soyos and Adam Ferguson
4) Migrant Portraits at the Mexican Border
They had a home, now they wait at the border.
The Times photographer Adam Ferguson worked with migrants in Mexico to create a series of self-portraits as they waited to cross the border into the United States.
5) Queer Love in Color Tells a More Inclusive Love Story
© W Magazine, Mike and Phil photographed at home in Detroit, Michigan by Jamal Jordan.
On Easter Day in 1967, Mike attended his first church service at a new congregation in Detroit, Michigan. It was there that he met Phil—a fellow newcomer who, unlike himself, had been out his whole life. It wasn’t long before they moved in together—first outside the city, then at a farmhouse that cost $90 a month. And, as Phil told the visual editor, journalist, and documentarian Jamal Jordan, they’ve spent “every night together for over forty years.”
© New York times, Cherry Grove Archives Collection
6) where gay Yorkers Became ‘Their Real Selves’
In the 1950s, the Fire Island hamlet was a refuge for gay men and lesbians. Dozens of enlarged photos from the era are now on view outside the New-York Historical Society.