Weekly Round Up of the Week of the August 31
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries.
Yayoi Kusama, Artist of Infinities, Dies at 97
She channeled her mental health struggles into kaleidoscopic artworks that enamored the world, rendering her an icon closer to a spiritual leader than a contemporary artist.
Rania Matar’s Where Do I Go? documents Lebanon’s women through a question the country won’t stop asking
Rania Matar returned to Lebanon for years to photograph the women navigating a country in perpetual crisis. By the time her book was published, war had returned with a question impossible to ignore.
Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo deconstructs the genealogy of the camera in Mänk’áčen
Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo’s Mänk’áčen explores the colonial history of photography and its encounters with Indigenous communities. The exhibition questions how the camera shaped who could look and who was observed.
My Mother Doesn’t Work: Motherhood and Invisible Labor in Pictures
What does it mean to “not work” when your days are consumed by keeping a family and household together? Olga Steinepreis answers with wit, surrealism and a camera.
Wild, dream-like photos of India’s monsoon season
Mumbai-based photographer Yash Sheth captures moments of tenderness, beauty and fear as he observes the country’s mercurial weather patterns.
