In Pastoral Alexander Gronsky portrays the outskirts of Moscow: the places where humanity takes refuge to find solace far from the cities, colliding with urban expansion and frailty of nature. Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. He moved to Russia in 2006 and he became member of...
Probal Rashid: Climate Crisis in Bangladesh
Probal Rashid, a photographer who has documented pollution and Tuberculosis in Bangladesh, where he is based, has turned his lens on climate change as it continues to affect the most marginalized populations of the city for his ongoing work “Climate Crisis in Bangladesh.” Bangladesh, a city that regularly experiences tropical...
Colourful Life of London in the 1970s
The 1970s were a period of intense political and cultural change, particularly when the three day week was introduced to tackle energy shortages caused by industrial action in the coal industry. The collection shows how iconic parts of the capital such as Soho's Carnaby Street - shown lined with independent...
PhotoBiography: Joern Vanhoefen
Jörn Vanhöfen (born 1961 in Dinslaken, Lower Rhine) studied photography at the Folkwang School in Essen and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in Leipzig. He works for international magazines and other publications. In 2001 he joined Manfred Schmalriede and Arno Fisher to found a photography...
Dmitry Markov: Gray Brick Road
By Russian law, in the event that a father fails to perform his duties – sending his child to school and applying for disability status – he may be restricted in his parental rights and his child may be taken into state custody. Unfortunately, the system does not provide disabled...
Ho Hai Tran: Pizza Hunt
Ho Hai Tran and his partner Chloe Cahill have traveled over 14,000 kilometers between Australia, New Zealand, and the USA on a very special road trip of sorts, dedicated not to the landscape of these majestic lands nor in an ode to Robert Frank (refreshing!) but to finding and documenting...
Pierre Leblanc: The bench
"It couldn’t go on like this. Things were turning for the worse. A long process of destruction had begun. It became uncontrollable, and spread like lightning… and what should have happened happened, a flash and then nothing. Overtaken by the events, men became afraid, entrenched themselves, isolated themselves. A resistance...
Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision
Galerie Edwynn Houk is pleased to present a selection of rare vintage prints by the photographer Ilse Bing (U.S., born Germany, 1899-1998). The exhibition "Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision", which opens in the Zurich gallery on September the 9th, 2015, features some of her most iconic works from a renowned...
Ying Ang: Gold Coast
"A sunny place for shady people" became a term that began circulating through the Australian media when referring to the ongoing melodramas of criminals that ended up settling on the Gold Coast. The city became known as a perfect strip of golden beach where one of ill-repute could reinvent themselves,...
Bangkok: Airplanes = Home
In a private field in a neighborhood just east of Bangkok, three impoverished Thai families have been living in disused jet airplanes for nearly two years. The families, who collect and recycle garbage, earning a few dollars a day, cannot afford to rent homes, and prefer to stay in the...