NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER COMPETITION WINNER

Posted on 2019-02-28

Launched in 2011, this annual competition seeks the UK’s best new travel photography talent across five categories: Cities; Nature; People; Food; and Portfolio.

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), says: “At a time when we’re surrounded by travel photography, this year’s shortlist reminds us there’s so much more to using a camera than ‘point and shoot’. From documenting local customs and traditions to awe-inspiring landscapes and incredible wildlife, this year’s entrants prove once again how powerful a medium travel photography can be.”

The judging panel consisted of Emer O’Shea, landscape and wildlife photographer; Nori Jemil, travel photographer; Craig Parry, nature and adventure photographer; Ben Rowe, picture editor, Time Out; Amy Davies, features editor, Amateur Photographer; and Chris Hudson, art director, National Geographic Traveller (UK).

The winners for 2019 are:

Grand prize winner: Daniel Burton, mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

Category winners:
Portfolio: Simon Urwin, Pengzhen, Chengdu, China
Cities: Annapurna Mellor, taxi driver in Kolkata, India
People: Justin Cliffe, dyeing wool in a Marrakech souk, Morocco
Food: Pablo Borrego, Kandy Central Market, Sri Lanka
Nature: Daniel Burton, mountain gorilla in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

www.natgeotraveller.co.uk

  

ED SIEVERS – IN MY CORNER

Posted on 2019-02-25

Interested in the visual layering of meaning within his work and energy of American youth culture in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Sievers’ photographs captured decisive moments of people interacting with the public space.

Ed Sievers was born in 1932 in St. Louis, MO and attended Grinnell College, graduating with a degree in Speech in 1954. In 1966, he was accepted into the MFA program at the Rhode Island School of Design to study photography with his mentor Harry Callahan and contemporaries such as Linda Connor, Jim Dow, Emmet Gowin, Bart Parker and Bill Burke. Sievers’ focus was very much in the tradition of street photography, using a 35mm Leica camera (or as he called it “taking Larry out for a walk”) to shoot in cities such as Providence, Boston and New York City. Sievers would hide behind blinding sunlight to capture people emerging out of the shadows, isolating and framing them in darkness. It was in these moments that Sievers discovered his ability to catch his subjects in uninhibited instants before they could realize what was happening.

Opposite – Untitled (Send Batman to Vietnam), c. 1970’s

Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019

Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street, Floor 2
New York
10001 NY

www.robertmann.com

  

BAPE WIRELESS CHARGER

Posted on 2019-02-25

One for both streetwear aficionados and more stylish tech heads, the wireless charger will work with any phone that has wireless charging capabilities. BAPE’s charger takes the shape of the brand’s ubiquitous motif featured in its signature brown colorway with a white registered trademark symbol located at the lower right corner. The device also comes boxed in the brand’s trademark camouflage.

The Ape Head wireless charger will be available this Saturday, March 2, from A Bathing Ape locations.

bape.com

  

PATTA & STONES THROW X BENNY SINGS

Posted on 2019-02-25

In celebration of Benny Sings first release on Stones Throw, the independent Los Angeles, California record label, Patta has created two exclusive T-shirts. One T-Shirt features a drawing by Tokyo based artist Ryu Okobo on the chest, the other T-Shirt features the Benny College Logo.

www.patta.nl

  

H.C. WESTERMANN – WORKS ON PAPER

Posted on 2019-02-25

This exhibition is dedicated to the artist’s signature drawings and illustrated letters. Staged to coincide with “Going Home,” a major retrospective of Westermann’s work currently on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the presentation features over twenty-five works on paper, as well as a portion of the artist’s workshop and studio from his home in Brookfield Center, Connecticut.

Opposite – A Dried Up Desert Oasis, 1964

Exhibition runs through to April 6th, 2019

VENUS
980 Madison Avenue
3rd Floor
NY 10075
New York

www.venusovermanhattan.com

  

MAIX MAYER – NOTATION ZURKNOLLE DER MODERNE

Posted on 2019-02-25

Maix Mayer’s theme is ambivalence, the unrecognizability of recognizability in a time when certainties are increasingly going missing. His interest is in the conditions of people in the urban and suburban spaces of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the sense of Nietzsche’s Gay Science, he has gone in search of visual and acoustic aphorisms that can be assembled in a story about the legacy of modernism. Film images, photographs, models of cities, his own texts, quotations from the great thinkers of late modernism like Hannah Ahrendt, Marc Augé, Adorno, Bloch and Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Siegfried Kracauer, and borrowings from the cinematic strategies of Chris Marker and J.-L. Godard are montaged to installational media collages that must be as if bodily walked through in the exhibition room. The exhibition as a labyrinth of images, with no overview from any position. To move from projection to projection, receiving the recorded texts through wireless headphones, taking in images and texts synaesthetically, losing oneself in the streams of information and poetry, and thereby beginning to think for oneself: following the associations and placing one’s own thoughts beside the meandering thought of the author Maix Mayer. Nothing less is expected from the viewer. But nothing more, either.

Opposite – Wallpaper Type Berlin (barosphere III), 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2019

Galerie EIGEN + ART
Auguststraße 26
10117 Berlin
Germany

www.eigen-art.com