{"id":68584,"date":"2018-07-05T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=68584"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T08:42:05","slug":"photography-arles-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/photography-arles-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"5 photographers to get to know this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art"],"acf":{"main_category":false,"legacy":false,"subtitle":"As Rencontres d'Arles and Voies Off open their doors, SLEEK brings you the low-down on the festivals' hottest photographic talent.","hero":{"video":false,"image":false,"header_color":"black","overlay_color":"","overlay_text_color":"black"},"teasers":{"video":false,"image":false,"width":"6","proportion":"natural"},"related_articles":"","next_article":"","content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

While it’s Arles’ dinky caf\u00e9s and starry nights that have been immortalised by Van Gogh\u2019s paintbrush, the city in the South of France is perhaps best known for its photographic output. Each summer, as the Rh\u00f4ne-side\u00a0city plays host to the Rencontres d\u2019Arles and Voies Off festivals, Arles is transformed into a photographic playground. <\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Rencontres d’Arles takes “Back to the Future” as its thematic springboard. Until 23 September, the festival is open across 30 venues, exhibiting a multitude of international talent. Through the photographic lens, the festival takes an off-centre look at current issues in light of the past \u2014 looking back at the turbulent global uprisings of 1968, fast-forwarding fifty years to Trump\u2019s nationalist “Make America Great Again” rhetoric, and imagining a transhumanist future. Running alongside the fair, with an equally impressive programme of emerging photographers, Voies Off 2018 will pop-up in unexpected venues across the city. Here, we round-up the key talent to have on your radar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feng Li<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Surreality and synchronicity characterise the work of Chinese photographer, Feng Li. A native of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Li works both in the provincial Department of Communication in the local government, and as an independent photographer, alternating between producing images inline with the country\u2019s propaganda and personal photographs that offer a radically different take on China. <\/span><\/p>\n

Until last year, the artist was relatively unknown outside of China, where he had already collected a series of awards. But after being nominated for the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, he jettisoned into the photographic limelight. <\/span>The nominated publication, White Night<\/em>, captures the near-deserted streets of Chengdu between dusk and twilight, lit by the flashing lights of karaoke bars, LEDs and permanent construction sites of the country\u2019s hypertrophied modernity. His photographs expose a catalogue of characters drawn from the “theatre of everyday life”, from confused canines and colourful geriatrics in a daze, all caught in the midst of absurdist acts by Li\u2019s flashbulb like insects drawn to light. The project is currently being exhibited at Maison des Lices, and it will incorporate soundscapes collected from Li\u2019s nighttime wanderings, ensuring visitors are plunged immersively into the realm of White Night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christto and Andrew<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Doha-based photographer duo Christto and Andrew continue to push their slick, hyperreal aesthetic and idiosyncratic humour to new futuristic heights in Encrypted Purgatory<\/i>. The SLEEK-approved artists\u2019 latest project shown at Ground Control with <\/span>Rencontres d’Arles<\/span>, tackles transhumanism, questioning the place of the imperfect human in augmented reality. Ever playful and absurd, the duo’s photographs toy with ideas of the digital world, where frictionless screens display cyber representations of ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a world increasingly shaped and sustained by images, photography often becomes a work of fiction. It’s the product of storytelling \u2014 one that sustains the illusion of the image, and the world of appearances. In their series, in which primitive technologies and new technologies jarringly are placed together, the<\/span>\u00a0maverick image-makers invite us to scratch beneath the artificial veneer and pull out a multitude of encrypted meanings <\/span>\u2014 <\/span>discussing ideas of future, singularity, and new technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Graham<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

British photographer Paul Graham has been a well-known presence on the photography circuit since his early works on the British social landscape in the 1980s. In keeping with his predilection for producing trilogies of work, Graham\u2019s exhibition at Rencontres d’Arles, The Whiteness of the Whale, <\/i>brings together three series produced in the United States between 1998 and 2011. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first, American Night <\/i>(1998-2002), <\/i>pictures Graham\u2019s initial impressions of the US. Switching between images of a bleached seolate whiteness, to vibrant shots of perfective American suburbia, then plunging into dark shots of street corners, showcasing social inequality and class divisions in stark relief.\u00a0 <\/span>In a shimmer of possibility <\/i>(2004-06), Graham cited Chekhov’s short stories as inspiration. The series presents sequences of images, that tell macro stories of daily-life in America, where Graham\u2019s camera quietly explores without seeking finite conclusions. The last series, The Present <\/i>(2009-11) accomplishes what photography tries to resist, the freezing of time. By presenting groupings of photographs, each taken seconds apart, Graham creates continuums of moments in the “unfolding” of life. United by subject, but also issues such as racial and social inequality, the texture of everyday life is put under the microscope.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna Ehrenstein<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Returning to Arles for the second year, interdisciplinary artist Anna Ehrenstein\u2019s photographs will be showcased at the Arles Cosmos 2018 project, The Family of No Man<\/i>. The curatorial project aims to revise Edward Steichen\u2019s original “Family of Man” exhibition (1955), through inviting a selection of female and non-binary photographers to make work. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hailing from Germany but of Albanian heritage, <\/span>Ehrenstein\u2019s project <\/span>Tales of Lipstick and Virtue <\/i>is chiefly concerned with constructions of Albanian womanhood. <\/span>Riffing on the glossiness of fashion and advertising photography, Ehrenstein examines the<\/span> politics of textiles, material culture and systems of valorisation. Ultimately, asking how the image is utilised in these areas. Speaking to SLEEK, she said of her work, “<\/span>Tales of Lipstick and Virtue <\/i>is a multidisciplinary work that deals with contemporary concepts on authenticity. Especially for the textile industry, the line between an original, a fake or a bootleg is extremely thin and I like to use methodologies of popular culture and mass media to think about why intellectual property is so important.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Johanna-Marie Fritz<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":false,"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Billed as one to watch, Berlin-based photographer Johanna-Marie Fritz\u2019s exhibition Circus Folk in the Middle East<\/i>, is being shown at the <\/span>Anne Clergue Galerie as part of Voies Off 2018. An alternative festival that puts gives emerging photographers a platform, on the sidelines of Rencontres d’Arles. <\/span><\/p>\n

A recipient of the Inge Morath Prize in 2017, Fritz has always professed an interest in the itinerant lifestyle of the circus community, faithfully documenting its theatrics with her Hasselblad from Germany to Iceland, and Iran and Palestine. Her documentation in the latter countries makes for thought-provoking and compelling viewing. Shooting outside of the single narrative the media eagerly disseminates, Fritz captures clowns juggling in front of the Gaza Strip wall finding humour in living on the frontline between Hamas and the IDF, a young woman with a painted face and round red-nose, and young children enrolled in circus school. All images that capture the resilience of the human spirit, and how the big-top can offer a brief moment of escapism. Speaking from Arles, she said, “<\/span>For me, the circus doesn\u2019t care about your nationality, skin colour and religion. It\u2019s about different people from all over the world working together.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Voies Off <\/a>\u00a0and Arles<\/a> are on until 23rd September across various venues.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\n5 photographers to get to know this summer 5 photographers to get to know this summer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/photography-arles-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 photographers to get to know this summer 5 photographers to get to know this summer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/photography-arles-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-05T08:16:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-24T08:42:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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