We are pleased to announce SPBH Editions will participate in Offprint Paris 2021! Our table will be located at Oddity Gallery from 11 – 14 November.
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SPBH Editions will present four new publications: Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now by Carmen Winant, To Be Determined: Photography and the Future by Duncan Wooldridge, Promise Land by Gregory Eddi Jones and Say So by Whitney Hubbs.
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OPENING TIMES
Thursday 11 November: 16:00 – 21:00 �Friday 12 November: 13:30 – 21:00 �Saturday 13 November: 13:30 – 21:00
Sunday 14 November: 13:30 – 19:00
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ADDRESS
Oddity
27 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris
France
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Covid 19 Information: Sanitary pass, masks and social distancing will be mandatory.
OPENING TONIGHT!
SPBH Lounge at Webber Gallery
From 6pm
Free Entry
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Click here: https://www.webberrepresents.com/exhibitions/self-publish-be-happy-lounge
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SPBH Lounge will exhibit new work by artists Rut Blees Luxemburg, Felicity Hammond, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Whitney Hubbs, Gregory Eddi Jones, Lijuan Liu, John Sachpazis, Michael Swann and Carmen Winant.
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The space will also function as a temporary bookshop featuring new SPBH Editions titles by Carmen Winant, Whitney Hubbs, Gregory Eddi Jones and Duncan Wooldridge, and will be furnished with pieces by emerging designers selected by curator Laura Houseley.
Since 2018, Gregory Eddi Jones has been producing images that exist between photography, drawing, print-making, and digital painting. Drawing from open-source stock images, video stills, and artist-made pictures, his source material undergoes several phases of physical and digital transformation in an effort to "un-photograph" and release pictures from photography's traditional relationships to truth, belief, and idealism.
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🌈Find out more about Gregory Eddi Jones' first monograph, Promise Land on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spbh/spbh-new-book-promise-land-by-gregory-eddi-jones
SPBH ❤ Promise Land by @gregoryeddijones
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Promise Land by Gregory Eddi Jones is a visual epic that usurps photographic convention to confront what the artist considers the spiritual poverty of common cultural pictures. The book uses T.S. Eliot’s Modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land (1922), as its point of departure, to create a sequence of images that picks up where the poem left off nearly 100 years ago. Using common stock and advertising photographs as his source material, Jones employs strategies of digital composite and physical ink manipulation to craft a new kind of picture that is untethered from the traditional burdens of photography’s relationships to truth and belief.
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🌈 Support Promise Land on Kickstarter!
Find out more about the book and our campaign rewards including early bird discounts, signed prints, portfolio reviews and more here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spbh/spbh-new-book-promise-land-by-gregory-eddi-jones
NFTs and Photography with Marco De Mutiis and @jonuriarte_
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A special masterclass in collaboration with @thephotographersgallery and @foto_museum
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Friday, 30 April 2020
Zurich 6pm / London 5pm / NYC 12 noon / Los Angeles 9am
2-hour masterclass
Live on Zoom
Free
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Sign up for free here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nfts-and-photography-with-marco-de-mutiis-and-jon-uriarte-tickets-150747853889
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Amid heated discussion about their role in the future of economics and governance, NFTs and blockchain technologies have begun to impact upon art and photography. NFT stands for non-fungible token, a unit of data or token stored on a digital ledger or blockchain that certifies a digital asset is unique and therefore non-interchangeable. It acts as a certificate of ownership for virtual assets, such as digital art, and allows a digital art work to be attributed to an owner.
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On one side, supporters of such systems promise that they are radically improving the art market, guaranteeing authenticity, offering more support to creators and even enabling spaces for new forms of art. On the other, critics have pointed to global environmental issues, financial speculation and problematic systems of value that contradict the fundamental promises of the internet as a space for the free circulation and exchange of culture.
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In this online masterclass, Marco De Mutiis (Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur) and Jon Uriarte @jonuriarte_ (Curator for the Digital Programme at the Photographers’ Gallery, London) will attempt to map the current development of NFTs and blockchain technologies from a curatorial perspective. They will focus particularly on both the perils and opportunities that these systems pose for artists, photographers, curators, collectors and institutions working with photography and visual culture.
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Image: Still from Going. Full time. 1 by @adambroomberg with Isaac Schaal and Gersande Spelsberg. Mp.4NFT, 1024 x 1024 px, 0:44 min, Edition 1
🎙Contemporary Photography and Africa with Ekow Eshun is now available on Vimeo on Demand!
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Rent here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/photographyandafrica
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How are contemporary photographers from Africa reimagining their continent and its people? In this masterclass, writer and curator @ekoweshun explores the work of a new wave of African photographers who are capturing the experience of what it means, and how it feels, to live in Africa today, in the process revealing the continent as a psychological space as much as a geographical territory.
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As a medium, photography has played a significant role in shaping Western views of Africa. Ethnographic-style imagery of the colonial period presented Africans as the primitive denizens of a dark continent. Modern news reports still often portray the continent as a place of corruption and disease. But today an emergent generation of photographers is looking both outward and inward: capturing life among the sprawling cities and multitudinous conurbations of the continent, turning the legacy of the continent’s history into the source of resonant new myths and dreamscapes, and exploring questions of gender, sexuality and identity.
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Ekow Eshun is a writer and curator. He is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, overseeing the most prestigious public art programme in the UK, and the former Director of the ICA, London. He is the author of Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent (Thames & Hudson) and Black Gold of the Sun (Penguin), which was nominated for the Orwell Prize.
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🎙Contemporary Photography and Masculinity with Alona Pardo is now available on Vimeo on Demand!
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Rent here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/photographymasculinity/523968654
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Curator @alona_pardo delivers a masterclass examining the representation of masculinity through contemporary photography. She explores the varieties of representation, from heteronormative masculinity and female masculinity to marginalised and queer masculinities, and more.
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Building on her recent exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Pardo asks among other questions: how does hegemonic masculinity perform itself and by extension who does it exclude? By looking at the work of artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Sunil Gupta, Catherine Opie, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Elle Pérez, Sam Contis, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Cassils, Karen Knorr, Clare Strand and Liz Johnson Artur, in conjunction with texts by James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, Paul Preciado, R.W. Connell and bell hooks, Pardo looks at how photography has been both a political tool to reinforce heteropatriarchal dominance, while also being an agent of resistance and change.
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Alona Pardo is a senior curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London, with a focus on photography and film. Recent exhibitions and publications include Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (2020); Trevor Paglen: From ‘Apple’ to ‘Anomaly’ (2019); Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins (2018), Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds (2018), Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing (2018), and Richard Mosse: Incoming (2017).
Contemporary Photography and Capitalism with Estelle Blaschke is now available to rent on Vimeo on Demand!
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Watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/photographyandcapitalism
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In this masterclass, Estelle Blaschke, professor in media studies at the University of Basel and lecturer at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, discusses the entanglement of photography, big data and artificial intelligence as a driving force of today’s capitalist societies. As billions of images are created, shared and archived every day, photography has become a valuable commodity and a currency that shapes many cultural, social and economic practices. Showing examples from industry, business and science, including banking, robotics, policing, mapping and navigation, Estelle argues that since these technologies and applications are becoming increasingly widespread and obscure, the field of contemporary art is the place for addressing, commenting and transcending these issues.
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Estelle Blaschke is a historian of photography working in the intersection between art and media history, the history of science and cultural history. She holds an interim professorship in media studies at the University of Basel and teaches at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. She is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Transbordeur. Photographie. Histoire. Société; the author of Banking on Images (Spector Books, 2016); and a part of several artistic research projects, including Image Capital, with Armin Linke.
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🎙Contemporary Photography and the Environment with Kim Knoppers is now available to rent on Vimeo on Demand!
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Watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/photographyenvironment
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The outbreak of the Covid19 pandemic prompts us to think about humans as the dominant and invasive species in an ecosystem that is under pressure. Our disenchanted, secular and rational world has little room for magic and for sensitivity to flora and fauna for their own sake.
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Curator, writer and art historian @kimknoppers takes us on her own journey in search of a closer connection with the earth and non-human beings through photography. How can we reconnect with the great conversation between humans and the rest of nature? How can we understand and respect nature, comprehend our place in the whole and experience nature as part of ourselves? To answer these big questions we desperately need the imagination of writers and imagemakers. In this Masterclass Knoppers tries to find out how the camera is used to create an animated language of images that attempts to engage our entire being with the earth and non-humans. She charts her questioning by focusing on the work of writers like Paul Kingsnorth and Eva Meijer and visual artists and photographers such as Melanie Bonajo, Jonathas de Andrade, Zheng Bo, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Sheng-Wen Lo and Suzette Bousema.
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Kim Knoppers is a curator at Foam in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has worked on solo exhibitions by contemporary photographers including Melanie Bonajo, Anne de Vries, Lorenzo Vitturi, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs and Sheng-Wen Lo. and group exhibitions such as Collectivism – Artists’ Collectives and Their Quest for Value (2017). She is also interested in bridging the (artificial) gap between historical and contemporary photography through a transhistorical approach to curating, such as in the exhibition Back to the Future: The 19th Century in the 21st Century (2018). Kim is a lecturer on the MA Photography program at ECAL in Lausan
Contemporary Photography and Queerness with Drew Sawyer
Contemporary Photography and Queerness with Drew Sawyer is now available to rent on Vimeo on Demand!
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Watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/photographyandqueerness/
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Art historian and curator Drew Sawyer presents a masterclass on the intersections of queerness and contemporary photography. How did photography help shape LGBT subjectivities and communities during the “gay liberation movement” of the 1960s and 1970? Subsequently, how have queerness and photography troubled our understanding of gender and sexuality? What does queer mean in the 21st century, and how can photography advance its aims?
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Sawyer considers the writings of Judith Butler, Cathy J. Cohen, Michel Foucault and David Getsy, along with the photographic work of artists including Paul Mpagi Sepuya, A.L. Steiner, and Carrie Yamaoka.
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Drew Sawyer is an art historian and a curator, and the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator at the Brooklyn Museum. His recent exhibitions include Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (2018), Garry Winogrand: Color (2019), Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha (2019), and Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989 (2019), for which he and his co-curators received the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for Excellence. He is a contributor to Aperture, Artforum, Mousse, and OSMOS, and has written on the works of Darrel Ellis, Buck Ellison, Elle Pérez, and Allan Sekula. He holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University.
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🎙Contemporary Photography and Activism with Mariama Attah is now available on Vimeo on Demand
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Watch here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/photographyandactivism/519907272
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How is the contemporary photograph used as a site of activism and representation? Whose voices have been left out of history and how can we reinsert them into the narrative? And why is it important to give a platform to these perspectives? Curator and editor @mariama_attah shares her thoughts on the social responsibility of photography, visual culture and curating, and explore what these areas are showing us about the world at the moment.
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Overwhelming images of climate catastrophe, uplifting images from Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and celebratory images from pride festivals all demonstrate different approaches to using photography as a tool of activism. With a focus on advocating for underrepresented communities and understanding how photography can be used as a tool to raise important issues, Mariama looks at a number of photographers whose work promotes activism, representation and a sense of social responsibility, including Arko Datto, Rahima Gambo, Seba Kurtis, Lorna Simpson and many others.
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Mariama Attah is a photography curator and editor with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, and how photography and visual culture can amplify under- and misrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool and was previously assistant editor of Foam magazine. Prior to this, she was curator of Photoworks, where she was responsible for developing and curating programs and events including Brighton Photo Biennial and commissioning and managing editor of the magazine Photoworks Annual.
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