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      ‘The collie was trying to herd the lamb – but failing’: Mark Aitken’s best phone picture

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 6 July - 09:00

    The New Zealand-born photographer was planning to take a portrait of a farm owner when two animals caught his eye

    For the last two years, Mark Aitken has been working on a photo series in Lapland. “It’s called Presence of Absence ,” he says, “and it explores the liminal and sometimes uncanny boundaries between life and death experienced by people living in this extreme climate and landscape.”

    Aitken, who was born in New Zealand, raised in South Africa and has lived in London for years, took this photo in spring of this year, on a sheep farm. “Kukkola is a borderland hamlet in Finnish Lapland on the River Tornio, near Sweden. The farm has been running for 20 years and this lamb is one of about 100 born in March and April,” he says.

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      The week around the world in 20 pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 5 July - 16:35


    War in Gaza, Britain’s general election, fires in California and the Tour de France: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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      No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 5 July - 11:37


    Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks

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      Barbie graces London and the Rokeby Venus heads to Liverpool – the week in art

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 5 July - 11:15

    Plus Dominique White’s subaquatic sculptures, Lonnie Holley’s salvaged objects and a new Rembrandt at the British Museum – all in your weekly dispatch

    Dominique White
    Subaquatic sculptures that speak a powerful abstract language, by a hugely promising young British artist.
    • Whitechapel Gallery , London, until 15 September

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      Roger Mayne review – destitute kids running wild in the battered, bombed-out city

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 17 June, 2024 - 10:54

    Courtauld Gallery, London
    ‘Take our picture, mister!’ they shouted at Mayne, who not only captured children on the streets of postwar London, but helped turn photography into an art form

    In its 92-year history, the Courtauld Gallery in London has never acquired or exhibited photography – until now. Its inaugural exhibition is Roger Mayne: Youth , devoted to some 60 works by the self-taught British photographer best known for his documents of working-class children on the poor and battered streets of postwar London.

    When trying to open up programmes to new audiences, photography is a natural step for any institution that has previously ignored the medium. Mayne seems a safe choice for a gallery known mostly for its collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, one its usual audiences might not balk at. They might compare Mayne’s populated group shots to impressionism’s busy scenes of people at leisure. Even the ideas of the impressionists somewhat inform Mayne’s approach to documentary photography – the notion that there is a difference between what is in front of you and what you see.

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      ‘It’s never a pleasant image’: why fashion’s hottest photographer has a leg fixation

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 17 June, 2024 - 07:00

    He has worked with Miu Miu and shot Zendaya for Luca Guadagnino. But Alessio Bolzoni also makes artworks – from strangers’ bottom halves to people striking twisted poses while concealing their faces

    Halfway through our interview, I tell Alessio Bolzoni that he is unusual: a fashion photographer without an ego. He snorts with laughter. “There’s no way you can do the work and share it with people without a bit of ego,” he says. “But I try to talk to it and work with it.”

    Bolzoni’s ego has certainly been stroked recently: he worked on campaigns for brand-of-the-moment Miu Miu and took some very sweaty and sexy on-court shots of Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor to promote Luca Guadagnino’s stylish tennis film Challengers . But alongside this, the Italian-born photographer also produces artwork. An exhibition, There’s a Fine Line Between Love and Hate, You See, opens this month at VO Curations gallery in London.

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      Photoespaña: the exhibition where the staging is as impressive as the art

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 17 June, 2024 - 06:00

    Madrid’s yearly photography festival has shone light on new photographers, established industry names, and artists whose work has gone unrecognised for decades

    By the end of September, PhotoEspaña , Madrid’s yearly photography festival, will have hosted more than 80 exhibitions featuring the work of nearly 300 photographers and visual artists. Shows by established figures such as Elliott Erwitt, Paloma Navares, David Goldblatt and Erwin Olaf lead a roster that also includes less familiar names, Lúa Ribeira, the Widline Cadet and Consuelo Kanaga among them.

    Above: Erwin Olaf’s Narratives of emancipation, desire and intimacy at Fernan Gomez cultural centre. Photograph: La Fabrica. Right: Boris Savelev’s Viewfinder – A way of looking, at the Serrería Belga. Photograph: Oak Taylor Smith

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