Karin Crona, born in Stockholm (Sweden), lives and works in Paris since 1999. Having graduated in graphic design and illustration, she has also been trained in photojournalism. Her favorite subjects are self-portraits and wandering around the city, especially in the suburbs. Her artistic work, inspired by art brut and surrealism,...
3rd Fine Art Photography Awards Winners Announced
Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) announced winners of their annual photography competition. In 2017 Fine Art Photography Awards received 6335 submissions from 89 countries around the world. Winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, Matilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette,...
Eric Bourret: Carnet de Marche
Born in 1964 in Paris, Éric Bourret lives and works in the South of France and in the Himalayas. His work as an “artist-walker” participates in the tradition of Land Art and land surveying photography. Since the early 1990s, he has been traveling the world on foot, hiking over all...
Fabio Barile: An Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land
Matèria is pleased to present An Investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land, Fabio Barile’s second exhibition at the gallery. The body of work draws its research material from James Hutton’s book ‘Theory of the Earth’, and photographic works such as Timothy O’Sullivan’s ‘Geological...
Thomas Kern: Haiti. The Perpetual Liberation
A powerful photographic portrait, Haiti: The Perpetual Liberation shows a different, more personal, and therefore also more “ordinary” view of the troubled country that reaches beyond what we think we know about Haiti. Heaven and hell on Earth – Haiti has long been known as a benighted place of poverty...
Antony Cairns: LA-LV / OSC
Antony Cairns (b.1980) is a British photographer living and working in London, England. He studied Photography at the London College of Printing, graduating in 2002 with first-class honours. He has a profound interest in the history of photography and alternative printing methods and his practice is rooted in chemical-based techniques....
Alec Soth: Gathered Leaves
FOMU is bringing the work of renowned Magnum photographer Alec Soth (US, °1969) to Belgium for the first time with the exhibition Gathered Leaves. This retrospective draws from four critical series from his oeuvre: Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010) and Songbook (2014). Alec Soth is...
2017 World Press Photo Contest Winners
View the collection of winning images from the 60th World Press Photo Contest. They were selected from 80,408 images made by 5,034 photographers from 125 different countries. Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş shouts after shooting Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey. Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş,...
Enrico Pedrotti: Retrospective
The exhibition shows 63 photos, one film and selected press material from the photographer Enrico Pedrotti, who worked in the Trentino South Tyrol region between 1920 and 1960. It is the first extensive opportunity to present Pedrotti’s oeuvre in its entirety. Till now, his work has been known only in...
Christian Nilson: The Swiss
The Swiss collects the work of Swedish photographer Christian Nilson, who has lived in Switzerland for more than ten years. During that time, he has traveled hundreds of miles throughout the country, camera in hand, capturing countless people and places through his inimitable self-taught technique, which involves using flash to...