Ka Xiaoxi Photography

Ka Xiaoxi's lens captures the new echo of China's alternative scene. The 27-year old photographer and artist from Shanghai and co-founder of the hot multi-artistic platform goooodie.com, has recently released his second book titled A Fragment of China's Youth, a great collection of rock n' roll mood - inspired snapshots of modern chinese youngsters and the big Asian country's new subcultures. This country is full of hidden treasures.

Miss Aniela

Miss Aniela is a fine art and commercial photographer from London. Her work has been featured in big media like Vogue Italia, the Guardian, BBC, NY Arts and more, exhibited internationally in Europe and US, while her two books "Self Portrait Photography" & "Creative Portrait Photography" have been massive hits.
Her images mostly feature ethereal figures, often multiple, defeating gravity, mysterious creatures from another dimension. Even her commercial works are pure art, moving beyond ordinary product campaigns, finally becoming classics.

She says about her work:
"I pour my mind into everything I create, and always aim to push the envelope with consistently compelling imagery with the highest production value possible. Photography is always my 'living' whether I am working on personal or commercial work, because it is creating that keeps me feeling alive. I want to stir people to question and to think, intelligibly - about the problems, the beauty, and the conflict between them, in the world around us today."

Miss Aniela is also active with events, workshops and talks, having delivered talks, photo-walks and workshops for Microsoft and Phase One.
She has also self-branded her own workshop-style event, the 'Fashion Shoot Experience' in London, to be extended to NYC in 2012. 

Miss Aniela Promo Reel from Miss Aniela on Vimeo.

Tokyo Tattoo 1970

Martha Cooper's tattoo photographic project started while living in Tokyo with her anthropologist husband during the 70's. Including images with master tattoo artist Horibun, she captured rared moments of this incredible art during her stay at the Japanese capital city. However, the era's morals and taboos prevented her from exhibiting her achievent. So now, almost fourty years after, her beautiful shots are being featured in the amazing book titled Tokyo Tattoo 1970, while being exhibited for the first time at the Urban Folk Gallery in Brooklyn. Just beautiful.

Steve McCarry Exhibition

Birmania, 1994

Macro museum in Rome presents a great retrospective exhibition for the work of legendary photographer and reporter Steve McCurry. 200 of his iconic photos from his 30-year carreer are hanging in big transparent igloos, as a sort of nomadic village in a special installation, giving the chance to the visitor to enjoy several breathtaking images of the famous artist’s collection from different countries, civilizations and ethnic groups. The Kuwait oil fields, the flaming Twin Towers on the September 11^th, the Sri Lanka fishers and the iconic green-eyed Afgan girl portrait from the super-famous cover of the National Geografic  are some of the masterpieces exhibited along with recent, never shown before images.

The exhibition will last by April 29^th, 2012.

Sri Lanka, 1995

Afgan girl, 1984

Japan, 2008

India, 2007

Kuwait, 1991

Burma, February 2011

Exhibition detail by Tommaso Martelli

All images courtesy of Macro museum

Inez Van Lamsweerde/Vinoodh Matadin: Pretty Much Everything

Taschen dedicates to the hottest photographic duo at this moment on earth a special, collectable edition  with some of their finest works. Gothic, eroticism , fetishism and fantasy are the basic characteristics of their work, which has been hosted by the greatest galleries and fashion magazines. The limited 3-volume edition of 1000 copies signed by the artists, also includes an original silkscreened poster, origami-folded over the top of the slipcase.
Find out more here

Peter Lindberg at FoMu

Robin Wright, Paris, France, 2010

FoMu museum in Antwerp presents an exciting exhibition dedicated to the work of Peter Lindberg, one of the most influential photographers of our time. The exhibition includes two series, the first is Berlin, a selection of photos made in the German capital city the last twenty years and the second is a special selection by curator, critic and professor Klaus Honnef, featuring rare street images, portraits, performance and fashion photos revealing different and perhaps unknown aspects of Peter Lindberg. The internationally acclaimed artist who is considered more than just a fashion photographer has captured through his lens some of the greatest supermodels like Kate Moss, Tatianna Patitz and  Linda Evangelista, along with hundreds other great personas,marking 25 years of a remarkable carreer in the art of photography.

The exhibition is complimented by two more sections, one dedicated to the recently deceased photographer Frank Philippi with a special selection of his post - war Belgium images and one for leading New-York magazine Visionaire.

From November 15, 2011 to January 29, 2012

Kate Moss, USA, 1994

Hommage a Pina Bausch, Paris, France, 1997

All images courtesy of FoMu

Paris Photo 2011

Guy Bourdin, Pentax Calendar 1980, Michael Hoppen Gallery

 Paris Photo, the biggest Art Photography Fair in the world celebrates its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais venue in Paris. With a selection of 135 exhibitors from 23 countries, along with 55 new participants, this anniversary photo exhibition is expected to be one of the most important events of the season and a unique experience for the visitors. The fair features many parallel exhibitions, a tribute to African photography from Bamako to Cape Town with a large number of african artists and galleries and the exhibition Recent Acquisitions with material from the London Tate, the International Center of Photography from New York and the Musee de l' Elysee from Lausanne. Additionally, the exhibition titled Private Collection features master works from private collectors and finally, an exhibition devoted to a cult photography book Love on the Left Bank, edited by Ed van der Elsken in 1956 is accompanying the Paris Photobook Prize awarding. This photography panorama is completed with various events from interviews, round tables and events promising four days of spectacular art.

From 10 to 13 of November, 2011


All images courtesy of Paris Photo

Mike Brodie, #5126, 2007, M+B

Darren Almond, Fullmoon@Neban Point, 2007, Xippas Gallery

Anonymous, Soudan, circa 1890, Lumière des Roses

Irving Penn, Scarred Dahomey Girl, Dahomey, 1967, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography

Fani-Kayodé Rotimi, Ecstatic Antibodies series, 1989, Revue Noire

Richard Mosse, Tutsi Town, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010, The Empty Quarter Gallery

Iwajla Klinke

Galerie Suvi Lehtinen in Berlin presents the first major solo exhibition of artist Iwajla Klinke titled Crowns and Gladiola. Klinke's medieval-style portraits are inspired by Yona Wallach's poem Jonathan in which the author imagines herself as a boy being slain  by other children carrying gladiolas as swords. Her photographic work features images of young people and children in various roles, with elaborate costumes and the most bizarre styling we've seen lately, from dead birds and mice to meat and lit candles. Simply amazing.

Running from November 5th to November 26th, 2011