Wu Tien-chang: Never Say Goodbye’, Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, opening on 9 May, 2015 will be a major solo exhibition by leading Taiwanese artist WU Tien-chang at the Palazzo delle Prigioni. Curated by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the exhibition, Never...
Interview with Nude photographer Olivier Valsecchi
Olivier Valsecchi was born in Paris in 1979. His work has been published and exhibited around Europe, the US, and Asia. After winning a Hasselblad Masters award for his stunning portrait series Dust, he created Klecksography in 2012. His new Drifting series is a journey through art history where each...
Nadav Kander: Dust
Nadav Kander (born 1961) is a recipient of the renowned Prix Pictet and one of today’s most successful photographers. When he learned of the existence of two “closed” cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, he knew that he would have to visit them. For Dust he photographed the...
Rachel Glass: The Domestic Aviary
These series of photographs are a representation of 2 things, firstly they document the tradition of owning a pet bird and their integration into life in the home. Showcasing the personality and sometimes eccentricity of the owners through the decor and the subtle hints of the importance of the birds...
Mission: Apollo 16 (1971-1972)
Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The second of the so-called "J missions," it was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles...
Lothar Wolleh: Vaticanum II
Gallery f5,6 is happy to announce the exhibition "Vaticanum II" with works by Lothar Wolleh (1930-1979). Between 1962 and 1965 Lothar Wolleh captured the proceedings of the Second Vatican Council in Rome. These photographs not only became part of the iconic memory of the 20th century, but even today provide...
PhotoBiography: Joakim Eskildsen
Joakim Eskildsen was born in Copenhagen in 1971 where he trained with Royal Court photographer, Mrs. RigmorMydtskov. In 1994, he moved to Finland to learn the craft of photographic book making with Jyrki Parantainen andPentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, graduating with an MA degree...
Interview with Architectural photographer Marco Castilla
How did you get into photography ? I got into photography quite naturally trying to catch things I like best, i.e. Architecture. Where do you get your creative inspiration from ? Quite different things influenced me : the American paintings of Edward Hooper, or those of the Italians of the...
Moises Saman: Kurdish Fight Against ISIL
In late-November 2014 Moises Saman returned to Iraq to photograph the ongoing Kurdish fight against ISIL. In late-2013 ISIL forces made serious gains in Iraq thus enlarging the conflict that had previously been isolated to Syria. The Iraqi military had reeled in the face of IS attacks while Kurdish forces...
Eric Bourret: Timescape
Eric Bourret is an "artist walker". His work has been influenced by English land artists and landscape photographers. Since the start of the 1990s, he has been travelling the world on foot, over every kind of terrain and at every altitude, making images he sees as "experiences of walking, experiences...