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© Christie Goodwin, Taylor Swift, Century link center, Omaha, 13 March 2013. Official tour photography. This photo is in the current tour book that is on sale as part of the Red Tour merchandise. Commissioned by Taylor Swift’s management

The Life of a Music Photographer: Q & A with Christie Goodwin

August 29, 2021 by platformphotoorg

Christie Goodwin is an accomplished photographer, who started her pathway in to photography by studying for a BA Honours at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp. She began her photography career in the field of fashion, later turning to shooting editorial news photography for agencies. In 2005 she made the switch to music photography, a field in which she has thrived. Christie was given her first big break in the industry photographing Status Quo and these days captures global […]

Categories: Commercial, Features, Uncategorized • Tags: career, Christie Goodwin, commercial photography, Ed Sheeran, Music photographer, music photography, One Direction, photography, Usher

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© Adrien Broom, Direction, digital C-type print, 5 x 45 in, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Ronchini Gallery

Dream No Small Dreams curated by Bartholomew Bland at Ronchini Gallery

August 15, 2021 by platformphotoorg

Ronchini Gallery London will present Dream No Small Dreams curated by Bartholomew Bland, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Hudson River Museum. The exhibition features work by Adrien Broom, Thomas Doyle and Patrick Jacobs – three New York-based artists known for their depictions of artificial landscapes and alternative realities. Exploring the renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale hand-built artificial environments, intricate new worlds are presented in miniature as dioramas, models, sculptures, and photographs. Drawing from a variety […]

Categories: Europe, London, UK, What's On • Tags: Adrien Broom, Bart Bland, Bartholomew F. Bland, Drean No Small Dreams, fine art photography, Patrick Jacobs, photography, Ronchini Gallery, Thomas Doyle

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© Didier Massard, Aurora Borealis, 2013, chromogenic print, 70" x 87 1/2", ed. 5

Didier Massard: L’atlas Imaginaire at Julie Saul Gallery

August 13, 2021 by platformphotoorg

The Julie Saul Gallery is happy to announce our opening shows of the fall season, and Didier Massard‘s fourth solo exhibition entitled L’Atlas Imaginaire. The exhibition includes nine works, all produced since his previous show in 2007. His choice of subjects range from nature to mythology and architecture. Massard is known for his imaginative, elaborately fabricated photographs that record studio constructions meticulously crafted and masterfully lit. These projects begin with an idea, are extensively researched and are competed after months devoted […]

Categories: New York, USA, What's On • Tags: Aurora Borealis, Didier Massard, Julie Saul Gallery, L'atlas Imaginaire, Otherworldly diorama, photography, photography exhibition, photography exhibition New York

© Jacqueline Hassink, Hosein-In, North Kyoto, February 2011

Jacqueline Hassink: View, Kyoto (2004 – 2011) at the Wapping Project Bankside

August 11, 2021 by platformphotoorg

The Wapping Project Bankside now represents Jacqueline Hassink and we are delighted to announce the first UK exhibition of her acclaimed series View, Kyoto (2004 – 2011) this fall. Dutch visual artist Hassink is well-known for her interest in economic power and the spaces in which it is exercised, and staged. She was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Pictet 2012 and Henri Cartier Bresson Award in 2013. View Kyoto - Hassink’s most evocative and visually seductive project to date, is a detailed photographic study of […]

Categories: Europe, London, UK, What's On • Tags: exhibition london, Jacqueline Hassink, Kyoto, london what's on, photography, photography exhibition, the Wapping Project Bankside, View

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Nikolay Bakharev: Amateurs and Lovers at Julie Saul Gallery

August 9, 2021 by platformphotoorg

Julie Saul Gallery presents Siberian photographer Nikolay Bakharev (b.1946) will have his first solo exhibition in the United States. Bakharev appeared in the US in the 2011 Ostalgia exhibition at the New Museum which gathered art from Eastern European countries with a curious nostalgia for a difficult past. Massimiliano Gioni curated that show and has included Bakharev in the Encylopedic Palace compilation of over 100 international artists in the Central Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Bakharev‘s work has historically […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Amateurs and Lovers, black and white photography, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, Nikolay Bakharev, photography exhibition, photography exhibition New York

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Alto Rabagão power station: busbar shaft (view from the machine hall), 2011 from the series The Time Machine, An Incomplete & Semi-Objective Survey of Hydropower Stations
© Edgar Martins

Edgar Martins: The Time Machine at Photofusion

August 4, 2021 by platformphotoorg

In 2010 and 2011, Photographer Edgar Martins gained exclusive access to 20 power plants located across Portugal. Many were built between the 1950s and 1970s, a time of hopeful prospects for rapid economic growth and social change throughout the country. Forty years on, these plants are mainly computer operated. No more than half a dozen people, including specialists, cleaning and security staff, now run these plants which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just […]

Categories: Europe, London, UK, What's On • Tags: Edgar Martins, london exhibition, photofusion, photography exhibition, power stations, The time Machine

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Group Show: Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity at the Photographer’s Gallery

August 2, 2021 by platformphotoorg

The Photographers’ Gallery presents Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity, an exhibition exploring representations of motherhood through the works of eight contemporary artists. The exhibition will aim to challenge long-held stereotypes and sentimental views of motherhood by addressing issues such as gender roles, domesticity, the body and the identity of individuals within the family unit. The work of the eight artists tends to be autobiographical in focus and sits within the documentary genre. Large in both scale and scope, many […]

Categories: Europe, London, UK, What's On • Tags: exhibition arts, identity, london exhibition, motherhood, photography, the photographer's gallery

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© Dan Winters, Endeavour Passes Through the Clouds, May 16, 2011. Courtesy Fahey/ Klein Gallery.

Dan Winters talks to us about shooting “Last Launch”

July 31, 2022 by platformphotoorg

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Neil Armstrong Dan Winters grew up in the golden-age of space travel, watching the live launch of Apollo 11 with his family on their home television set and carefully following the mission unfold on TV, hanging on every detail as reported by Walter Cronkrite. This experience left an indelible impression not only on Dan Winters, but on the nation’s collective memory as a whole. Winters was one […]

Categories: Documentary, Features, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, USA, What's On • Tags: Dan Winters, exhibition, Fahey/ Klein gallery, last launch, photography, photography exhibition, space shuttle

Mike Mellia presents his latest project: “Self-absorbed”

July 29, 2022 by platformphotoorg

Mike Mellia is a conceptual photographer based in NYC dealing with American social and cultural issues of advertising, consumption, corruption, compulsion, and technology. His latest project SELF-ABSORBED, addresses the facebook generation’s egocentric compulsion with technology from a pop-art self-branded point of view. As an ongoing project since 2012, Mike Mellia Photography has been surreptitiously placing these self-branded products inside local bodegas, supermarkets, and people’s homes as an alternative to social media’s online status updates… With our self-portraits shared through social […]

Categories: Commercial, Features • Tags: "Mr. Michael” brand of consumables, Banksy, branding, Claus Oldenburg, Conceptual photographer, consumables, facebook generation, Marcel Duchamp, Mike Mellia, Mr. Michael, new york photography, photography, self-absorbed, The Dadaists, Warhol

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Alfred Gescheidt: “30 Ways to Stop Smoking” at Higher Pictures

July 20, 2022 by platformphotoorg

Known for both flattering and mocking American sensibilities, Gescheidt was brash, driven, New York and unique. He was a gun-for-hire photographic artist during the boom of the 50s and 60s Mad Men advertising era. His imagination, combined with his technical prowess, made him a sought-after idea man and innovator, quickly establishing him as leader of both technique and content in his field. Born and raised in New York City, he, like many artists of his time, was drafted into the Navy […]

Categories: New York, USA, What's On • Tags: Alfred Gescheidt, black and white photography, Higher Pictures, New York, photography exhibition

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Author Archives: platformphotoorg

The Life of a Music Photographer: Q & A with Christie Goodwin

Dream No Small Dreams curated by Bartholomew Bland at Ronchini Gallery

Didier Massard: L’atlas Imaginaire at Julie Saul Gallery

Jacqueline Hassink: View, Kyoto (2004 – 2011) at the Wapping Project Bankside

Nikolay Bakharev: Amateurs and Lovers at Julie Saul Gallery

Edgar Martins: The Time Machine at Photofusion

Group Show: Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity at the Photographer’s Gallery

Dan Winters talks to us about shooting “Last Launch”

Mike Mellia presents his latest project: “Self-absorbed”

Alfred Gescheidt: “30 Ways to Stop Smoking” at Higher Pictures

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