The Shadow Pandemic

Violence against Women in Times of Covid

Matthew Hong

Prescription .118 / November 25, 2020

This other virus, which has existed for a far greater period of time and whose rate of contagion is perhaps the highest known – the population in denial even more staggering – has not yet a cure.

Photo Rachel Jump

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New East Photo Prize

2020 Winner & Finalists

Calvert 22

Calvert 22 has announced the winner and the shortlisted finalists for this year’s New East Photo Prize celebrating contemporary photography from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and Central Asia.

Photo Janos R. Szabo

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Aesthetica

Short Film Festival 2020

November 3–30, 2020

Aesthetica / Online & Streaming

Film is transformative. It can take you to new places and teach you new things. This year's festival offering spans the full range of genres and is presented with digital and live streamed events.

Image: Borderlands, Dir. Simon Lane

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I Know How Furiously

Your Heart Is Beating

Alec Soth

Through December 6, 2020

Foam

This exhibition comprised of large scale portraits and interiors focuses on Soth’s depiction of the individual, posing questions about what these images reveal about both the sitter and photographer.

Image Alec Soth

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30 Under 30

Women Photographers

11th Edition / 2020

Artpil / Nov 1 – Dec 31, 2020

For its 11th Edition, Artpil is proud to announce the exhibition of 30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2020, with styles ranging from art photography to documentary, portraiture to street and fashion.

Photo Iness Rychlik

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Sam Lewitt

CURE (the Work)

Oct 4, 2020 – Jan 3, 2021

Z33 / Art, Design and Architecture

Hasselt, Belgium

Sam Lewitt retools the economic transition of the demolition of the Ford Genk. This dispersed presentation at Z33 raises the question of where we locate the ‘work’ as an activity and as a product.

Installation Sam Lewitt

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Beyond the Land of Castles

Unwanted, Forgotten Promised land

Davide Degano

I re-discover parts of my cultural heritage, portraying the different facets of the life of mountain villages in between the Italian and Slovenian borders. What I found was a community of survivors.

Photo Davide Degano

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I Can Make You Feel Good

Tyler Mitchell

Through December 31, 2020

ICP International Center for Photography

Mitchell captures young black people in gardens, parks or in idyllic studio backdrops where they appear as free, expressive, effortless, sensitive and proud, bringing their humanity to the forefront.

Image Tyler Mitchell

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Interview

with Saul Leiter

By David Gibson

iN-PUBLiC

"History of art is a history of great things neglected and ignored and mediocre things being admired. At different times things are different. The history of photography is a history of changes." –SL

Photo Saul Leiter

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Southern Rites

Gillian Laub

Various engagements / 2020

International Center of Photography

This small town symbolized the archetype of pastoral American life. Yet this idyllic place was also held hostage by a dark past, manifesting in the racial tensions that scar much of American history.

Photo Gillian Laub

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Diary of a Pandemic

Magnum photographers

Ongoing / International

Magnum Photos

The COVID-19 outbreak has imposed restrictions in movement. As part of an ongoing initiative, Magnum photographers are sharing information and new work made in these strange and difficult times.

Photo Nanna Heitmann

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Flavio-Shiró

A Documentary

Directed by

Margaux Fitoussi & Adam Tanaka

Tres Mundos Productions

Flavio-Shiró is a cult artist, a painter’s painter. His work defies categorization or association with any artistic group or movement. For more than six decades, his work has simply been modern.

Image: Still from Flavio-Shiró

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A Matter of Black Lives

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Matthew Hong

Following the murder of George Floyd by police officers, demonstrations across the U.S. and beyond ignite against racism and police brutality, at times met with less than magnanimous authority.

Image: RaMell Ross

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