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Vanessa Winship at Galerie Vu

January 19, 2011 - 17:14 — Henning
Tags: Photo Art | Reportage

First VU' Workshops by Vanessa Winship: Environmental Portraits

January 18, 2011 - 15:01 — Henning
Tags: Reportage

For her first exhibition at Galerie VU', Not Only Rare Birds Sing, that will be held from 4 February to 19 March, Vanessa Winship opens the VU' Workshops.

2 sessions available : 4,5 and 6 February or 4,5 and 6 March 2011

Venue : Agence & Galerie VU' / Groupe Abvent - 58 rue Saint Lazare - 75009 Paris

Information and registrations: Thomas Doubliez - + 331 53 01 85 84, vuworkshop@abvent.fr

http://www.agencevu.com/workshops/

Facing the Impossible

December 8, 2010 - 09:48 — Henning
Tags: Analogue Photography | Exhibtions | Photo Events

Impossible is happy to announce the opening of a new exhibition at the Impossible Project Space in New York City: "Facing the Impossible".

One may call "Facing the Impossible" an artistic review and outcome of Impossible's ambitions during the last two years. When Impossible embarked on its mission to bring analog instant photography back, photographers worldwide were facing the extinction of one of their most legendary medium. But Impossible faced all challenges and developmental problems and has produced new instant films for Vintage Polaroid cameras.

The portrait series "Facing the Impossible" celebrates this accomplishment and faces the Impossible possibilities of analog instant photography today - in the form of portraits. Since the introduction of the first Polaroid cameras in 1948, portraits have been an extremely popular and practical use of analog instant film. Not only did Andy Warhol, Robert Mappelthorpe, Chuck Close and Lucas Samaras portray themselves and their contemporaries, but modeling agencies, artists, families, party people, parents and pet owners also shoot the subjects of their interest with a Polaroid camera. The directness and instant-ness of analog instant film in portrait photography is an easy metaphor for the instant and direct connection that human beings discover every single day – both with the people around them as well as with themselves.

For "Facing the Impossible", photographers Adam Goldberg, Adarsha Benjamin, Chloe Aftel, Irène Nam, Jen Altman, Lou O'Bedlam, Mikael Kennedy, Patrick Winfield, Rommel Pecson, The Gentlemen Amateur, Thibault Tourmente and Tim Mantoani have interpreted the artistic, historic, social and connective elements of the "Portrait" theme on Impossible PX 600 Silver Shade UV+ and PX 70 Color Shade PUSH! film.

FACING THE IMPOSSIBLE

Preview: December 15, 2010, 6 pm
Opening Hours: December 16, 2010 - 28 February, 2011
Mon-Fri: 11am – 7pm
Sat: noon – 5pm
Sun: closed

Impossible Project Space NYC
425 Broadway, 5th floor, NY 10013
USA

Workshop with Greg Gorman in Zingst Germany

May 19, 2010 - 15:19 — Henning
Tags: Nude Photography | Photo Workshops | Portrait

Greg Gorman took pictures of many stars like Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, Leonardo DiCaprio, Andy Garcia, Penélope Cruz or Al Pacino.

He will talk about his nude and people photography done in a 40 year long career in Hollywood and explain the photography techniques he used to get the results.

Workshop participants can use their own equipment and applied products of CALIFORNIA SUNBOUNCE.

Learn how to shoot like a professionel photographer in a nice atmosphere in Zingst at the german baltic sea.

zingst workshop