Category: Photography

MADD Presents ‘Jes Fan: No Clearance in Niche’, Thru 4/30

The Museum of Arts and Design is pleased to present Jes Fan: No Clearance in Niche , running from March 2 through April 30. This marks the inaugural installation of Fellow Focus , an ongoing exhibition series highlighting the work of alumni of the Van Lier Arts Fellowship at MAD . Funded by the New York Community Trust and introduced to the Museum by its Education Department in 2016, the fellowship provides talented, culturally underrepresented rising artists with financial support and a dedicated studio at MAD for full-time use over four months.

Wellington photographer wins silver medal in Japan.

Amber Griffin Photography Amber Griffin, of Amber Griffin Photography Wellington, has been awarded a silver medal in the commercial category of the World Cup of Photography in Yokohama. This award validates Amber as a world-class commercial photographer as she was awarded the gold medal for the same category in Montpellier, France two years ago.

The world’s urban environment captured in photographs

An insight into urban life: A train passenger risking his life, a skateboarder riding into the sun and a mosaic of apartments feature among lifestyle photographic contest winners Hope, sadness, mundanity and optimism. Intimate moments set against expansive backdrops and claustrophobic spaces make up the batch of winning photographs, released as part of the CBRE Urban Photography competition.

Picture of Russian ambassador’s assassin wins World Press Photo award

The 60th World Press Photo award has been won by a Turkish photographer for an image of the direct aftermath of the assassination of the country’s Russian ambassador. Burhan Ozbilici, who works for Associated Press in Istanbul, beat 5,034 other photographers from 125 countries to the top prize in one of the world’s most prestigious professional photography contests.

See Photos of Muslim Life in New York City

A transit officer kneeling in prayer, a subway rolling past a mosque in Astoria, and a Halal food cart worker smiling into a camera nearly two decades ago – these are just some of the intimate moments of Muslim life in New York City captured on film. Muslim in New York , an exhibit opening at the Museum of the City of New York on Saturday, shows the works of four photographers who traveled the city to document members of communities working, worshipping, going to school, playing sports and posing for portraits.

Bondi Rescue star Anthony Glick, 22, is a photographer

Not just a pretty face: Meet the Bondi Rescue star, 22, whose stunning images of beaches and beyond are being snapped up worldwide Glick first started taking photos of the beach on his iPhone – but his passion grew so he bought a camera A talented self-taught photographer has revealed how his love for photography started at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach when he picked up his phone to take a snap of the breathtaking scenery. That was five years ago and lifeguard Anthony Glick, 22, who is one of the stars in hit TV show Bondi Rescue – has been obsessed with capturing the perfect picture ever since, combining his love for the sun and surf with his passion for photography.

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Museum gotta see – um

“EDITH HILLINGER: ABSTRACT COLLAGES,” AT THE PENINSULA MUSEUM OF ART IN BURLINGAME. The Peninsula Museum of Art presents “Edith Hillinger: Abstract Collages,” mixed-media works on canvas, whose influences range from Northern European Gothic to Middle Eastern ethnic patterns.

Pic credit: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Photographers, dance teachers, anti-slavery ambassadors, and charity and community workers are among those named in the New Year’s Honours list. The British Empire Medal is a medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown.

A girl rediscovers color in Adrien Broom’s images at Lyman Allyn

To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: In the photography exhibition “A Colorful Dream,” Adrien Broom’s large-scale photographs show a girl’s colorful journey. Step into the Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s Glassenberg Gallery, and you step into a world of lush color. In the vivid photographs that make up the exhibition “A Colorful Dream,” artist Adrien Broom – who grew up in Lyme and Hadlyme – has created a visually striking story of a girl “rediscovering the simple joys of color.”

Comprehensive retrospective include many of the Vik Muniz’s most recent works

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University serves as the only Midwest venue for a major mid-career retrospective of the celebrated contemporary photographer Vik Muniz in fall 2016. Co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Vik Muniz covers more than twenty-five years of the imaginative artist’s career and features over 80 photographs, including many of Muniz’s most recent works.