A shorlist do Prémio Pictet 2009, anunciada a 9 de Julho nas arenas de Arles, inclui Edgar Martins ao lado de mais onze grandes fotógrafos de todo o mundo, alguns com nomes famosos e outros pouco conhecidos:
Darren Almond (Reino Unido, com imagens da China); Christopher Anderson (Canadá - Venezuela); Sammy Baloji (Rep. Democrática do Congo); Edward Burtynsky (Canadá); Andreas Gursky (Alemanha - uma só imagem de uma lixeira da Cidade do México); Naoya Hatakeyama (Japão); Nadav Kander (Reino Unido - China); Ed Kashi (EUA - o petróleo do Delta do Niger, Nigéria); Abbas Kowsari (Irão); Yao Lu (China) e Chris Steele-Perkins (Reino Unido - Fuji, Japão). Os respectivos portfolios, escolhidos entre mais de 300 candidaturas patrocinadas por 76 "nominators", foram projectados numa das noites de abertura dos 40ºs Encontros de Arles perante 2500 espectadores...
Criado pelo banco suíço Pictet & Cie e pelo jornal Financial Times, o prémio associa a fotografia à defesa do ambiente e de um desenvolvimento sustentável e teve em 2008 uma primeira edição dedicada à água. A terra é o tema desta edição, cujo vencedor será anunciado em Paris, a 22 de Outubro, pelo antigo secretário geral da ONU Kofi Annan, durante uma exposição dos 12 nomeados na Passage de Retz, por ocasião da FIAC, que entrará depois em digressão mundial.
Edward Burtynsky fotografou as pedreiras de mármore no Alentejo (três imagens de 2006, de Bencatel e Pardais) e outras em Carrara, Vermont (USA) e Rajasthan (Índia).
Edgar Martins apresenta 12 imagens dos fogos florestais em Portugal identificadas pelo título da série "The Diminishing Present", e acompanhadas no site pela data de 2008, embora tenham em geral sido publicadas no livro com o mesmo título, em 2006, e de novo em "Topologies", Aperture, 2008, então sob o título da série "The Rehearsal of Space" (2005-6).
Edward Burtynsky, Iberia Quarries # 8, Cochicho Co., Pardais, Portugal, 2006, Chromogenic Colour Print
121.9 x 152.4
Edgar Martins, Untitled, from the series 'The Diminishing Present', Portugal, C-Type print
98 x 127cm
ver tb artephotographica.blogspot.com - 20 de Julho
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Dois nomes a destacar, num conjunto de grandes fotógrafos
Sammy Baloji - born in 1978 in Democratic Republic of Congo, he lives and works in Lubumbashi.
da série "Mémoire", de 2006, de Sammy Baloji
He graduated in Humanities Studies from the University of Lubumbashi. Since the beginning of his studies, he was interested in film. Later on, he actively dedicated himself to photography and film.
In the past three years he has been analyzing the architecture discipline conceived as ‘trace’, and has created works about the cultural, industrial and architectural heritage of his country, Katanga.
Sammy has exhibited his works at several international exhibitions in Bruxelles; at Bamako Biennale; at Musee du Quai Brantly in Paris; and at Cup Biennale (South Afirca). In addition, he has exhibited his works in his hometown.
In 2007, he received two prizes from Bamako Biennale, namely Prix Afrique en creation (Cultures France) and Prix pour l’image (foundation Blachere).
In 2008, he joined PICHA! (literally, ‘image’ in swahili), a series of meetings about the conception of images. This project allows local populations to understand their history through both old images and photos by emergent artists. www.afriqueinvisu.org
e Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander is recognized as one of the most original and highly regarded photographers of our time. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Kander was born in Israel (1961) but grew up in Johannesburg. He began photographing at 13 and later, when drafted into the South African Air Force, worked in the darkroom printing aerial photographs. He moved to London in 1986, where he lives with his wife, Nicole and their three children.
His work appears in publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Another Man and Dazed & Confused. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Obama’s People, his 52 portraits of President Obama’s inaugural administration.
Exhibitions include ‘Obama’s People’ at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2009), Yangtze From East to West at Flowers Gallery, London (2008), Shanghai Art Museum, China (2006), Keep your Distance at the Palais de Tokyo (2005).
Kander has received numerous awards from the D&AD and the John Kobal Foundation in the UK; Epic in Europe, Art Director’s Club and IPA in the USA. He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s ‘Terence Donovan’ Award in 2005 and 2007. He’s also recently been awarded the Silver Photographer of the Year Award at Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2008 in China.
Nadav Kander is represented by Flowers Gallery in London and Pekin Fine Arts in Beijing.
Books: Beauty’s Nothing (2001), Night (2003).
Com um excelente site: www.nadavkander.com
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