RM students finalists at 2012 World Press photo
Sincere compliments to
SIMONA GHIZZONI
and
PIETRO PAOLINI
RM students finalists at 2012 World Press Photo!
View the gallery at http://www.worldpressphoto.org/gallery/2012-world-press-photo
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Hélène Duci
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Hélène Duci
Tibet’s Next Incarnation – Sumit Dayal
Sumit Dayal’s ‘Tibet’s Next Incarnation’, a story where he was assigned to shoot a series of portraits for Time magazine in Dharamsala, has been published as the cover story in this weeks international issue.
“Mcleodgunj, Aug 18 – 28, 2011
Excavating our way through the wet, steep and winding lanes of Mcleodgunj amidst a mist that ceased to dissolve, was an
extraordinary experience.
A considerable number Tibetans in exile, especially the ones who escaped from Tibet in the last decade or so speak fluent
Mandarin. There were certain points when the writer, translator and the person being interviewed would converse in
Mandarin and I would find myself completely alienated to the situation. It was hard to believe that this was happening in a
town where my grandmother’s house is just a ten minute drive down the hill. At times I would feel that I’m not in India anymore.
We met all kinds of people: artists, poets, flag-maker, rock stars, the prime minister, the Karmapa and the Indian Intel guys
surrounding him, an ex-PLA officer who escaped from Tibet, children & teenagers who risked their lives and crossed the Himalayas
in search of a better future and in some cases a Tibetan future. Their stories gripped us by our throats.
I’ve visited my grandmother on several occasions in the past decade since she moved there from Kashmir but this time my
perception of that hill changed completely. It’s almost as if Mcleodgunj had been wearing an invisible cloak this whole time.
You don’t realize but every time you set foot on those slopes your entering a different realm.
The article by Hannah can be found here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2095608,00.html
Time’s lightbox has also published some of the pictures online:
Appreciate your time in reading and browsing through the above links.
I send you and all my colleagues in RM my best wishes for Lugano and hope that the meeting will be a grand success.
Thank you for all you support.
Sumit Dayal”
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Hélène Duci
PIERRE CLAUSS personal page
Some of our previous students have now a new updated personal website, please visit
Pierre Clauss’
http://www.pierreclauss.comand Anne-Lise Cornet / Modi ’s
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Hélène Duci
Emanuela Bongiovanni invites You at her exhibition “Hotel LeDyr”
inside Circuito della X edizione di FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma.Opening Thursday 20th October,18h30
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Palazzo – Marina Cavazza
We are glad to announce Marina Cavazza’s exhibition in Milan:
PALAZZO
Fotografie di Marina Cavazza
Mostra a cura di Mario PelitiGalleria Fnac Milano
Dal 14 settembre al 18 ottobre 2011
Via Torino ang. Via della Palla
Lun-sab: 9.30-20; Domenica: 10-20
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Giovanni Melillo
Open City Museum
Hello everyone! I have been worked the last four months on a documentation of the cultural diversity in the contemporary society of Chiusa-Klausen, South Tyrol, as part of a museological project: it is a photo exhibition that plays a central role in the ongoing project “Open City Museum”, conceived and curated by Martha Jiménez Rosano. The project examines the traditional notion of museum and conceives it as a place for the dialogue, exchange and share of experiences among members of the community. Through it, people turn to be active part of the museum, of its artistic and cultural production, also becoming testimony of its own social relevance for the society.
“Giovanni Melillo Kostner experiments a participatory method of collaboration together with the portrayed subjects in the production of the images with the attempt to explore the states of being immigrant, being diverse, and being part of the city of Chiusa/Klausen, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. The author have not only photographed them, but also consulted and involved them in the making of the photographs and stories to be shown, all without disagreeing with the own point of view and aesthetical criteria. Thus he uses photography as an instrument for the cultural mediation putting into evidence alternative spheres of action and creation in the photographic research.”
I’m really happy to share with you that there will be two contemporaneous openings of the exhibition: one will take place on September 23th in the city of Chiusa/Klausen, and the next day, it will be inaugurated as part of the 3rd Dali International Photography Exhibition in the Yunnan province, China, curated by Alain Jullien. Alain, was born in 1952 in Lyon, France, he is a photographer and world famous photograph, art curator. During 2001 to 2003, Alain was Organizing Committee Deputy Curatorial Director and European Liaison Officer Chief Representative for Pingyao International Photography Festival. 2005, Alain became one of the first founder of the Lianzhou International Photography Exhibition and one of the main overseas curators. Alain is also a curator of “Biennial International Photography Exhibition” for Guangdong Art Museum. Go to this site to know more about.
Warm regards to all of you!
Giovanni
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Minny Lee
Nature Within exhibit
Hello everyone! I would like to let you know about Nature Within exhibit that I curated in New York City. It includes works that deal with personal relationship and experience with nature. One of my photographs in the show was taken during Reflexion Masterclass for Utopia theme.
Nature Within had the first venue at 25 CPW Gallery by the Central Park (October 14 – October 28, 2010) and the second venue at the Front Space of the Ise Cultural Foundation in SoHo (June 3 – July 1, 2011).
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Hélène Duci
Some exhibitions and personal successes…
We are glad and proud to paste here the infos on some of our Students’ initiatives:
Marina Cavazza, Simona Ghizzoni and Alessandro Imbriaco collective exhibition Fuori Centro at Palazzo Poli, Rome (former RM venue May 2011) May 25th-June 24th
Anne-Lise Cornet: Modi-Les possibles first personal exhibition at Ikona Venice Photography Gallery, during the Venice Biennal period May 29th-October 30th 2011
Yusuf Sevinçli collective exhibition Good Dog at Festival FotoMed, Sanary, France
Sean Lee, exhibition HOMEWORK June 1st-25th at OBJECTIFS, 56A Arab Street, Singapore
Gianni Cipriano’s personal project on Lampedusa is now online on his website
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Hélène Duci
Pride Photo Award competition
For all our Authors, an interesting competition that I wish to share:
http://www.pridephotoaward.org/the-contest/contest-rules-and-declaration
“Pride Photo Award is an international photo contest for top quality photography on sexual and gender diversity. The contest has started on April 1st and ends on June 30th.”
Have a look!
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Hélène Duci
Press release for the RM at Fondazione di Venezia Winter seminar
Reflexions Masterclass at Fondazione di Venezia and Selections 2011 RM class
Venice, 11’ 02’ 2011
On Monday 31st evening concluded in Venice the Winter meeting of Reflexions Masterclass, the international seminar for contemporary photography. The meeting, hosted on January 29th and 30th at Fondazione di Venezia venue, held twenty-one students from twelve different countries – Canada, Egypt, Ireland, India, Italy, Korea, France, Norway, Russia, The Netherlands and Turkey.
Beside the artistic direction of RM Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret, invited Master Guests were: Catalan artist photographer Joan Fontcuberta and Pinault Fondation Director Martin Bethenod.
The annual Selections Comitee of Reflexions Masterclass 2011, closed on Monday 31st evening at 19.30, elected the following 6 of 67 candidates:
unanimously
Sean Lee – Singapore
and in the order
Yusuf Sevinçli – Turkey
Ikuru Kawajima – Japan/Kazakhstan
Ying Ang – Singapore/Australia
Saana Wang – Finland
Pietro Paolini – ItalyThe Jury was composed by: Giorgia Fiorio, Gabriel Bauret, Martin Bethenod, Joan Fontcuberta, Mario Peliti and three Reflexions Masterclass veteran students, Ali Taptik, Anne-Lise Cornet and Chiara Goia.
After IDENTITY, the new theme assigned by the seminar during the meeting at Fondazione di Venezia meeting is NO. The theme, announced with a lecture by Martin Bethenod, will be developed in the following months by 2011 RM class and will be presented in Rome during the Summer meeting, May 14th-15th 2011, hosted by Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica at Palazzo Poli / Fontana di Trevi. Master Guests: English Pubilsher Dewi Lewis and Italian Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin.