Category Archives: Events

March Madness: 1 month, 2 exhibitions

By eyecurious | Published: 1 March 2010
Blogging has been slow this month since I am curating two exhibitions opening in March. The first of these, Tokyo Stories, with work by Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi and Shigeichi Nagano, opens at Stockholm’s Kulturhuset on 6 March. I’ll be giving a talk from 1-3pm that day on Japanese photography and photographing Tokyo, so for [...]
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Paris Photo: crossing the finish line

By eyecurious | Published: 24 November 2009
Paris Photo 2009 has just drawn to a close and already the reports are flowing in thick and fast. There is much less of a consensus than for NYPH, which was generally perceived to have been a bit disappointing (see my previous round-up post on this). I am just happy to have survived it all [...]
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Paris Photo and beyond

By eyecurious | Published: 16 November 2009
It’s that time of year: once again Paris Photo is breathing down the back of our neck and my diary is already getting out of hand. As always there is a lot to look forward to at Paris Photo itself, but the key to making it through these five days alive is leaving Paris Photo [...]
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Photography has died (again)

By eyecurious | Published: 10 November 2009
A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk at the American University of Paris given by Fred Ritchin, the author of After Photography, who has been thinking and writing about the future of photography in the digital age for longer than most people. The session was tantalisingly entitled Photography and human rights, but mercifully [...]
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“La rentrée” in Paris: upcoming exhibitions

By eyecurious | Published: 26 August 2009
As Paris slowly drags itself out of its long summer slumber, I thought this would be a good time to draw up a list of a few of the forthcoming photography exhibitions to look out for when the city switches itself back on in the next couple of weeks. The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in the 14th [...]
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Photo-journalism: leaving Nachtwey behind

By eyecurious | Published: 20 June 2009
The excellent dispatches magazine recently organized a debate at Brooklyn’s VII Gallery with Gary Knight, one of the magazine’s co-founders, and Tim Hetherington, a young photo-journalist (and ‘thinker’) who has made some interesting attempts to break out of the dark corner in which photo-journalism finds itself. The debate is available in its entirety on the [...]
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State of play: art criticism

By eyecurious | Published: 18 June 2009
Recently it seems like you cannot turn your head in the art blogosphere without reading about one of two things: the imperilled state of arts journalism or the existentialist quandaries of art bloggers. This question is even being discussed in the real world: last night I attended a conversation at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson on [...]
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NY Photo Festival Blogging Panel

By eyecurious | Published: 18 May 2009
Photo-bloggers of the world, rejoice. Photo-blogs have reached that critical mass where ‘blogging panels’ like this one at the NY Photo Festival now take place about the role of blogging in photography. If you missed that defining moment in photo-blog history (chaired by the almighty JM Colberg of Conscientious fame), you can see practically the [...]
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