Rahim Fortune’s second monograph HARDTACK published by Loose Joints (March, 2024) uplifts the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions in the American South across ten years of portraiture rooted in history and the landscape.
KRISTINE POTTER’S DARK WATERS AT THE MOMENTARY
Kristine Potter’s Dark Waters will be on view at The Momentary from May 11 – October 13, 2024.
BARBARA BOSWORTH AT THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon now on view at The Cleveland Museum of Art from February 25 – June 30, 2024.
KRISTINE POTTER AT THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
Kristine Potter is showing work in Truth Told Slant: Contemporary Photography on view at the High Museum of Art from March 1 to August 11, 2024.
Truth Told Slant examines a recent shift in how photographers have taken on the challenge of making meaningful images of the world around them. Rather than using the traditional documentary approach of dispassionate observation, they work in a stylistically expressive manner akin to literary nonfiction, weaving between observational and narrative modes while embracing their own subjectivity.
Kristine Potter’s New Book Dark Waters Featured in the Guardian
Thank you to Sean O’Hagan for writing about Kristine’s new work in The Guardian.
Alessandra Sanguinetti featured in The Wall Street Journal
Thank you to William Meyers for writing about the “Kinship: Photography and Connection” exhibition at SFMoMA and featuring Alessandra Sanguinetti’s work in the Wall Street Journal.
Kristine Potter’s new book Dark Waters featured in The New York Times
Thank you Margaret Renkl for writing such an incisive piece on Kristine Potter’s new book Dark Waters (Aperture, 2023) in the New York Times on June 12, 2023.
Rahim Fortune and Kris Graves acquired by High Museum, Atlanta
Works by Rahim Fortune and Kris Graves were recently acquired by the High Museum, Atlanta.
Rahim Fortune wins the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022
Founded in 1970 by Arlesian photographer Lucien Clergue, writer Michel Tournier, and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette, Les Rencontres d’Arles has promoted and uplifted photography, supporting artists, curators, and publishers throughout its 52 year history. Les Recncontres d’Arles presents the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, a juried prize that honors an emerging artist and the gallery or institution that represents them, with the goal of broadening viewership of their work to an international audience.
We are more than pleased to announce that Rahim Fortune is the recipient of the 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery award! Congratulations Rahim!
Bryan Schutmaat featured in PBS and National Geographic
Bryan Schutmaat has recently shot a story for National Geographic about the Big Bend region of Texas. His work has also been prominently featured in the Ken Burns PBS documentary, Hiding in Plain Sight, a documentary about the mental health crisis amongst youth in America, directed by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers.
Work by Kristine Potter Acquired by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta
The High Museum of Art has added five Kristine Potter prints to their permanent collection. One of the images will be included in a survey of the history of photography in the American South opening at the High Museum in 2023. The show will also travel to the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
All of the works will be featured in a 5 person show that looks at expansive and innovative practices of documentary photography, opening in early 2024 at the High Museum.
Peter Kayafas included in multiple exhibitions
This past spring, Peter Kayafas’s work was included in the exhibitions Celebrating the City: Recent Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something Foundation, at the Museum of the City of New York, and Quirky, Beautiful, Ordinary: American Roadsides from the FAM Collection, at the Fitchburg Art Museum. An essay by Peter Kayafas is included in the forthcoming Aperture book, Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson.
Christopher Rodriguez in Wired and Les Others
Christopher Rodriguez has recently been profiled in Wired, in an article that features six of his images from Afterlife. He has also recently been published in the nature magazine, Les Others, where his image was featured on the cover.
Chris is set to embark on an Arctic Circle residency in the spring of 2023.
KADIST acquires Danielle Bowman work
KADIST, an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection, has recently acquired Danielle Bowman’s Vision (Bump’N’Curl), 2019.
Barbara Bosworth’s The Sea published by Radius Books
Since moving to New England in 1984, Barbara Bosworth has been photographing the sea and its awe-inspiring ability to transform sky, water, and light. The sea evokes calm introspection, romance, and poetry, while remaining a deeply unknowable and overpowering natural force, a contradiction that has drawn people to the shoreline for millennia. Radius Books has recently published a collection of this work, which can be found here.