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“Civilization: Our Life in Focus” opens this week at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. This major exhibition features work by over 100 of the world’s leading photographers and explores key aspects of our increasingly interconnected 21st-century civilization.

The exhibition reveals that contemporary civilization is an extraordinarily complex collective enterprise. Never before have so many people been so interdependent. Across science, art, work, travel, and leisure, our lives are more connected than ever. The photographs on display capture both the functional and dysfunctional aspects of society—home life, pleasure, travel, religion, work, production and consumption—as well as alienation, pollution, social tensions, and conflict.

“Civilization” highlights major facets of our collective existence, from remarkable achievements to profound failings, expressed through the nuanced language of photography—from straightforward documentation to carefully staged compositions.

Since its debut in 2018, the exhibition has traveled to leading institutions around the world, including South Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Taiwan. Zurich marks the tenth stop on the tour, with the show opening this Thursday at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

Co-curators: William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell
in collaboration with Gianna Rovere (Co-Curator Museum für Gestaltung Zürich) and Justine Chapalay (Associate Curator FEP)
Project directors: Christian Brändle (Director Museum für Gestaltung Zürich) and Todd Brandow (Executive Director FEP).

The exhibition is co-produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (Minneapolis/Paris/Lausanne) and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, Seoul, and organized in collaboration with the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

Our internationally touring exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass is opening this Saturday at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV). The work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential portrait photographers will be on view from February 21 through August 2, 2026. Over nearly seven decades, Arnold Newman (1918–2006) photographed cultural figures in the arts, politics, and public life, including John F. Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, and Marilyn Monroe. His portraits helped redefine how people could be represented, capturing not just their likeness but the essence of their character and work. Curated by William A. Ewing and featuring 100 prints, Masterclass brings together works from across Newman’s career, highlighting his innovative approach to portraiture and the distinctive ways he revealed his subjects’ personalities and creative lives.

Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been awarded the Académie des beaux-arts Photography Award – William Klein in recognition of his lifetime achievement and lasting contribution to photography. Following laureates such as Raghu Rai, Annie Leibovitz, and Graciela Iturbide, Minkkinen joins a distinguished group celebrated for their major impact on the field.

This prestigious award honors a career spanning fifty years, marked by an artistic and spiritual commitment to exploring the relationships between the body, landscape, and nature.

FEP congratulates Minkkinen and is grateful to have collaborated with him. We are particularly proud to have produced the first museum touring exhibition dedicated to his work. This monographic exhibition, entitled Saga: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, was curated by A. D. Coleman and Todd Brandow. It premiered in the United States in 2005 and toured five venues across Europe and North America, including Canada.

FEP appoints Julie Bonzon as Associate Curator. She joins Todd Brandow, Executive Director, and Justine Chapalay, Associate Curator, forming the leading trio of FEP’s projects.

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Justine Chapalay is Associate Curator at FEP. She holds an MA in History of Art and specializes in contemporary art and photography.

For five years at FEP, she has managed exhibitions and publications in collaboration with renowned curators including William Ewing, Holly Roussell, and Taous Dahmani. These projects span major institutions such as The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Jeu de Paume; Saatchi Gallery; Kunsthalle München, and Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. Recent collaborations include monographs dedicated to Thomas Demand and Anastasia Samoylova—and thematic exhibitions such as Civilization, an international project featuring over 130 photographers. She is currently curating A Worldwide Web, an exhibition exploring insects through the work of 50 contemporary image-makers.

Chapalay also works independently, providing her expertise in cultural project management to institutions in Switzerland and internationally.

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Julie Bonzon is Associate Curator at FEP. She holds a PhD in Art History, specializing in South African photography, and has led research and curatorial projects since 2015 on decolonial representation and contemporary lens-based practices, particularly in African contexts. She is the author of The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the ‘Born Free’ Generation (Routledge, 2023).

Bonzon has collaborated with institutions worldwide, including Magnum Photos, The Photographer’s Gallery, Photo Élysée, Fondation H, and the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, and served as Director of Photography at Messums London. In 2020, she founded The Photographic Collective to champion lens-based artists working in Africa.

She teaches in the Department of Art History at the University of Zurich and contributes regularly to publications on contemporary photography. At FEP, she is preparing shows on Nadav Kander and Slim Aarons, and the thematic exhibition The Taxonomy of Shadows: On Photographic Collectivism.

We are delighted to announce that photographer Nadav Kander has been awarded a grant by the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation. This grant will contribute to the exhibition “Nadav Kander: The Edge of Things”, the first major survey of Kander’s work. Curated by David Campany and produced by FEP, the exhibition begins its international tour at FOAM Amsterdam in September 2026. We congratulate Nadav on this well-deserved honor and look forward to an exhibition that will offer audiences around the world a fantastic opportunity to engage with the depth and breadth of his work.

About Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander has made some of the most beautiful and celebrated photographs of recent times. From presidents and film stars to the banks of China’s great Yangtze river and the stark landscapes of Chernobyl; from portraits of the unknown and studies of the human form, to the Arctic Circle and the shores of the Thames estuary, Kander’s path has been epic yet intimate. A master picture maker and a tireless experimenter, he searches for the unexpected resonance in people and places, those moments when something profound is revealed to the eye and the camera.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Lee Krasner was committed to supporting the work of the generations of artists who would come after her, and she established the Pollock-Krasner Foundation to provide vital funding for emerging, mid-career, and established artists. To date, the Foundation has awarded over 5,200 grants to professional artists in 80 countries.

BURTYNSKY: EXTRACTION/ABSTRACTION Makes Asian Debut at Seoul Museum of History

December 13, 2025 – March 2, 2026, Seoul Museum of History South Korea

Seoul Museum of History—renowned for charting the city’s evolution from its origins to the present—will host the first large-scale exhibition of Edward Burtynsky’s works in Seoul. Bringing together local memory and global scale, BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction invites visitors to reflect on humanity’s profound impact on the planet and the resilience of cities.

Over the past decade, the museum has deepened its engagement with environmental challenges and crisis narratives through special programs such as the special exhibition Unprecedented Flood and the 11th European Film Festival (themed Stories for Challenging Times). This exhibition builds on this commitment, presenting four decades of Burtynsky’s practice that vividly documents industrial landscapes, resource extraction, and the intricate systems that sustain—and strain—modern life.

This exhibition has been organized by Seoul Museum of History in association with Saatchi Gallery and the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.

“Nadav Kander: The Edge of Things” is the first major survey of Kander’s contemplative, ethereal, and iconic work spanning four decades. Curated by David Campany, the exhibition begins its international tour at FOAM Amsterdam in September 2026.

In the last four years, “Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History” was hosted by the following five major institutions, each offering a new frame for Demand’s investigation into the intersections of history, images, and built forms:

– UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China — July 8 – September 4, 2022

– Jeu de Paume, Paris, France — February 14 – May 28, 2023

– The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel — August 9, 2023 – March 9, 2024

– The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA — June 30 – September 15, 2024

– Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan — January 18 – May 11, 2025

Following this very successful tour, the exhibition could be available for a concluding venue.

“The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds”, curated by William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud, recently closed at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota. Featuring 70 works by 50 photographers, the exhibition reveals how avian imagery transcends genres: from dedicated wildlife specialists to conceptualists and fashion visionaries. Together, these perspectives illustrates the enduring role of birds in contemporary visual culture.

We are pleased to report a very successful run of Civilization: The Way We Live Now at the Kunsthalle München, with a final tally of 110,000 visitors. As with each venue, the show evolved in Munich with the addition of 25 new works by 17 photographers. The next stop is the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, where the exhibition will open in March 2026. Since 2018, Civilization has been shown in South Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Britain, Taiwan, and Germany. Having produced the exhibition from Switzerland, we are especially proud to bring it “home” for its 10th venue! Stay tuned!

We are proud to present Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation, the first major survey of contemporary American photographer Anastasia Samoylova, opening tomorrow at Saatchi Gallery, London. Curated by Taous Dahmani, this exhibition includes works from five of Samoylova’s most significant series: Floridas, FloodZone, Landscape Sublime, Image Cities, and Breakfasts. Last month, the artist opened an exhibition at the Met, which pairs her work with images of Florida by Walker Evans. A recent New York Times article about the Met show mentions her London exhibition! Read the article here: New York Times. We are thrilled to contribute to the impressive momentum around Samoylova’s work with our exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. Do not miss it!

The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and Saatchi Gallery are proud to present ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA: ADAPTATION, the first major survey of contemporary American photographer Anastasia Samoylova. Curated by Taous Dahmani, this exhibition will present works from five of Samoylova’s most significant series: ‘Landscape Sublime’, ‘Image Cities’, ‘FloodZone’, ‘Floridas’, and ‘Breakfasts’. The exhibition features compelling video work previously unseen in the UK.

In ADAPTATION, Samoylova directs her frank and curious gaze at evidence of the environment adapting to human intervention and, correspondingly, at our social and political resistance to respond to a rapidly changing planet. Her subjects – often pastel-hued, doused in refracting light and darkened by impenetrable shadow – speak to this push and pull. Viewers are lured to take a closer look; subtly challenged to consider the ways in which we are encroaching on the environment and alerted to the danger of denial.

Do you want to know more about Samoylova’s work? The Observer has just released an interview of the artist! Click here to read it!

Only one week left to visit Urban Chronicles in Seoul! The exhibition includes many of the greats: William Eggleston, Saul Leiter, Vivian Maier, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, along with two talented artists of a younger generation, Daniel Arnold and Anastasia Samoylova. Discover nearly 70 prints, which offer an immersive journey through American color photography, revealing the myriad stories that animate the streets immortalised by renowned artists. Urban Chronicles: American Color Photography will close its doors on July 28, 2024. If you are in Seoul, do not miss it!

Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History is opening this Sunday, June 30, at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

At first, the images Thomas Demand creates seem to depict the real world. A closer look, however, reveals that they are actually photographs of temporary sculptural re-creations. The artist often selects his source imagery from the news media, and he re-creates those images as life-size paper models. Then he photographs them and prints them at a monumental scale. Afterward, he destroys his models, leaving behind only their ghostly photographic doubles.

The internationally touring exhibition Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History is a landmark retrospective of the artist’s work, and the MFAH is the only venue in the U.S.

“Civilization: The Way We Live Now” is on view at the Jut Art Museum, Taipei since March and will be closing its doors on June 30! Only one week left to discover this exhibition that offers an unprecedented look at humankind’s rapidly mutating collective life across the globe through the eyes of many of the world’s finest photographers. If you are in Taipei, don’t miss it! 

“Every summer, in the heart of the Umbrian countryside, a diverse group of professionals meet to discuss “the state of the art” of photography. Twelve international guests (never the same) are invited to take part in the visionary Todi Circle project, created in 2012 by William A. Ewing and Mario Santoro-Woith. During an immersive 5-day experience, the participants punctuate their time between roundtable discussions, conversations and informal sharing moments. Faced with the ever-changing language of photography […]” Want to read more? Access the full article in Italian in Giornale dell’Arte or see the English translation by clicking here

From June 7 to September 29, 2024 in Vichy, France, Nadav Kander presents “The Edge of Things”, an immersive exhibition of his work, combining installations, films and photographs, some of which have never been seen before. A master picture maker and a tireless experimenter, Kander searches for the unexpected resonance in people and places, those moments when something profound is revealed to the eye and the camera.

The photographer, who has rarely looked back, is also currently working on a major exhibition with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and with curator David Campany, sifting through four decades’ of constant image making. Cutting across genres and projects, the exhibition will draw out the hidden threads that connect all his work: the fragility of human existence, the passing of time, the grain of the everyday and the hope of something transcendent.

To watch the video about the Vichy exhibition: click here

During the first week of June, the 2024 edition of the Todi Circle brought together thirteen highly-experienced photography world experts! Held once a year in Todi (Umbria, Italy), the Circle is a mix of curators, publishers, collectors, dealers, museum directors, educators, critics, historians, sponsors, auctioneers, directors of festivals, fairs and institutions – and of course, photographers. Co-organized by the FEP, this unique event is a highly unusual meeting of minds, held to reflect upon the state of photography. The 11th edition was extensively enriching and presage the best for the future(s) of photography!

For more information, visit the Todi Circle website: https://todicircle.org/

“Beyond Fashion” is now on view at Saatchi Gallery, London! The exhibition showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world. The pictures demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines to reflect on the reality of our lives, to explore our aspirations and to push at the boundaries of creativity.

Including works by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Viviane Sassen, Paolo Roversi, Miles Aldridge, and Ellen von Unwerth – as well as an exciting new generation of fashion photographers – “Beyond Fashion” celebrates the vision and creativity of these artists and image-makers, and documents how fashion photography has become a new and exciting visual language.

The exhibition is on view until September 8. Do not miss it!

We are thrilled to announce that Beyond Fashion will be on view at Saatchi Gallery, London from May 31 to September 8, 2024.

The exhibition showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world. The works demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines to reflect on the reality of our lives, to explore our aspirations and to push at the boundaries of creativity.

Including works by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Viviane Sassen, Paolo Roversi, Miles Aldridge, and Ellen von Unwerth – as well as an exciting new generation of fashion photographers – Beyond Fashion celebrates the vision and creativity of these artists and image-makers, and documents how fashion photography has become a new and exciting visual language.

This exhibition is curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography.

The Jut Art Museum, Taipei will host two sections of “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” at its satellite venue “Uncanny” from May 18 to June 30, 2024.

For the first time, the museum extends its exhibition to the space “Uncanny” at NOKE, with eight themes fully unfolding in the two exhibition venues. While the main venue features six themes, the satellite venue accommodates “ESCAPE” and “ALONE TOGETHER”, two themes that explore the collective state of mind of humankind in the global village.

After touring in major museums across Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy and the UK, “Civilization” will be on view in Taiwan until June 30. The exhibition features the work of contemporary photographers tracking the visual threads of humankind’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe.

“Flora Imaginaria” will be closing this Sunday, April 28 at the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL. 

Flowers have been a source of inspiration for photographers since the medium’s inception. Today, flower photography remains in full bloom as contemporary photographers continue the storied tradition of depicting floral motifs in novel ways. Flora Imaginaria features images shot over the last 30 years and is an ode to this historically important photographic subject. It explores the aesthetic and decorative qualities of flowers and their rich cultural history as symbols and motifs through many genres of photography, including still lifes, botanical studies, portraits, studies of the body, street photography, and surrealist collages.

Featured artists include Pedro Almodóvar, Valérie Belin, Daniel Gordon, Abelardo Morell, Vik Muniz, Viviane Sassen, and Martin Schoeller, along with a selection of emerging artists.

Curated by William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud.

We are thrilled to announce the opening of our most recent exhibition, entitled Urban Chronicles: American Color Photography, which includes many of the greats: William Eggleston, Saul Leiter, Vivian Maier, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, along with two talented artists of a younger generation, Daniel Arnold and Anastasia Samoylova. The exhibition includes nearly 70 prints, which offer an immersive journey through American color photography, revealing the myriad stories that animate the streets immortalised by renowned artists. Urban Chronicles is opening today at Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul and will be on view until July 28, 2024. Have a look at the trailer video here! Click to see the video.

Another milestone for “Civilization: The Way We Live Now”! We are delighted to announce that our exhibition is opening this Saturday, March 16 at the Jut Art Museum in Taipei. After touring in major museums across Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy and the UK, it will be on view in Taiwan until June 30. The exhibition features the work of contemporary photographers tracking the visual threads of humankind’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe. This is the first all-photograph exhibition at the Jut Art Museum since its inauguration. Do not miss it!

The AP Awards, an annual highlight in the photography calendar for over 40 years, are held in higher regard within the global camera industry than any other UK award. As a weekly magazine, Amateur Photographer not only tests cameras and accessories, but also keeps watch on photo book releases and exhibitions. This year, having seen some outstanding photo books and unforgettable exhibitions, AP gives the Award for “Exhibition of the Year” to our exhibition Civilization: The Way We Live Now. Read more on AP website.

We are happy to announce the opening of the exhibition The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology at the National Taiwan Normal University Art Museum in Taipei. After having been in Spain last year, the exhibition will be visible from the 9th of March to the 7th of June 2024.

We are delighted to announce that James Balog: Photographs from the Anthropocene will open this Saturday, September 16 at the Museum of Photographic Arts / San Diego Museum of Art, in California. The exhibition presents photographs that describe both the ancient cyclical patterns of the earth’s life forms and the impact of human activity on those forms and cycles. For four decades, Balog has studied ancient cultural assumptions about the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. Through innovative imagery, his projects interpret significant aspects of what has changed, what has survived, and what changes are projected for the future. His photographs reveal nature’s dazzling beauty as well as its capacity for destruction.

Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History is now on view at the Israel Museum of Jerusalem. The exhibition presents a career-wide survey of his work, the artist having spent almost three decades exploring the intersections of history, images, and architectural forms. In his large-scale photographic objects, history presents itself as banal, gnawingly disturbing facsimiles of places and episodes that we cannot quite identify. Demand has also conceived the design for the exhibition, as an integral part of his approach to artistic production. With his architectural use of wallpapers and temporary structures, he creates an immersive environment for the viewer in which image and world collide.

Civilization: The Way We Live Now is on view at Saatchi Gallery, London since June and will be closing soon! Only two weeks left to discover the complexity of contemporary civilization through photography, ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from our collective failings to our greatest collective achievements. Featuring over 300 works by 150 internationally renowned photographers, the exhibition can be seen until September 17. Don’t miss it!

After four months, our show The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology ended last week at the Fundación Barrié, Spain.

William Ewing and Barbara Hitchcock curated an exhibition that serves as a comprehensive overview of captivating, innovative, and triumphant Polaroid photographs created primarily during the latter half of the previous century, while also including contemporary examples. In addition to the artwork, the exhibition incorporates an array of diverse technological artifacts that provide an equally enlightening perspective on the tools and techniques instrumental in enabling this artistic and cultural revolution.

Last week, the 2023 edition of the Todi Circle brought together twelve highly-experienced photography world experts! Held once a year in Todi (Umbria, Italy), the Circle is a different mix of curators, publishers, collectors, dealers, museum directors, educators, critics, historians, sponsors, auctioneers, directors of festivals and prize-giving institutions – and of course, photographers. Co-organized by the FEP, this unique event is a highly unusual meeting of minds, held to reflect upon the present state and future possibilities of the medium of photography. The 10th edition was extensively enriching and presage the best for the 10 years to come!

After three months, our show Beyond Fashion at the IPFO in Switzerland closed successfully last week.

Curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, this exhibition unites the creations of renowned photographers of our time like Miles Aldridge, Nick Knight and Ellen von Unwerth with a fresh generation that has reexamined the possibilities of fashion photography.

Having toured in major museums across Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, France and Italy, Civilization is now on view at Saatchi Gallery in London! The exhibition offers an unprecedented look at humankind’s rapidly mutating collective life across the globe through the eyes of many of the world’s finest photographers. Civilization: The Way We Live Now showcases more than 350 prints and includes a new selection of works curated especially for this London edition at Saatchi Gallery.

Last week, Le Monde dedicated a full page to our exhibition Thomas Demand: The Stutter of History, currently on view at Jeu de Paume, Paris. The article by journalist Claire Guillot pays great tribute to the uniqueness of the German artist’s photographic work, insisting on the “spectacular scenography” of the exhibition, which brings together large prints and impressive wallpapers. The article (in French) can be accessed here.

We are pleased to announce that our exhibition “Civilization” opened this weekend at Musei San Domenico, Forlì, Italy. Featuring more than 130 artists from all around the world and nearly 300 photographs, this major project was curated by William Ewing and Holly Roussell. After Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand and France, Italy is the sixth country to host the exhibition. CIVILIZATION: VIVERE, SOPRAVVIVERE, BUON VIVERE can be seen until January 8, 2023.

After a year-long break due to COVID, our exhibition “Beyond Fashion” is back on tour this summer! It successfully opened one month ago at ALT.1, Hyundai Seoul, Korea, on June 17. With an innovative and interactive scenography, the exhibition has already welcomed thousands of visitors and is visible until September 25.

Curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, the exhibition brings together the works of today’s most acclaimed fashion photographers as well as the newest generation who have looked anew at the potential of fashion photography and created an imagery that goes far beyond fashion.

Our exhibition “William Wegman: Being Human” successfully made its return home after ending its journey with a last stop in Korea at the Seoul Arts Center from September to December 2021. The exhibition was presented for the first time at Les Rencontres d’Arles in France in 2018 before travelling to five more venues in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and Netherlands. Featuring 100 photographs of his Weimaraner muses, most of them exhibited for the first time, the retrospective explored various themes such as fashion, design, history, art genres and avant-garde movements.

Our exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass successfully opened at Kaunas Photography Gallery in Lithuania on November 27. It will remain on view until January 9, 2022 before continuing its route north to Salo, Finland.

On this occasion, curator William A. Ewing was invited to give a video tour of the exhibition in which he discusses the exceptional quality and uniqueness of the American photographer’s work.

Click here to watch the full video tour.

More information about the show in Kaunas here.

From March to June this year, our exhibition Beyond Fashion was shown at Xie Zilong Photography Museum in Changsha, China. This latest venue was a major success, greeting more than 600,000 visitors, who had the chance to admire the work of the most acclaimed fashion photographers today, such as Nick Knight, Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindbergh, Miles Aldridge and Ellen von Unwerth, among others.

The major publication dedicated to James Balog is selected as one of the best photographic books of the year by The Times (London). The Human Element: A Time Capsule from the Anthropocene, published by Rizzoli, presents four decades of Balog’s research and photography. The illustrated oversized 400 page catalogue comprises a major text by curator Anne Tucker.

“The Year’s Best Photo Books. Whether it’s power stations pumping out smoke or a blazing forest, the environmental photographer James Balog offers a harrowing look into the impact humans have on our planet.  With its hurricane-crumpled homes, tsunami-swallowed freighters and even playful doodles of tyre tracks on salt flats, this book can easily make a reader feel small. Yet it also inspires with its reverence and wonder, from the slow ache of ancient woodland and its gnarled sculptures, to the smoke-blackened faces of 
firefights up close.” —THE TIMES (LONDON)

We are thrilled to announce that Civilization – The Way We Live Now currently at the Mucem, Marseille is extended until August, 15. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening was delayed, but the exhibition could finally open to the public on May, 19. Civilization showcases more than 200 original prints by Massimo Vitali, Pieter Hugo, Lauren Greenfield, Wang Qingsong, Raphaël Dallaporta, Valérie Belin, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer… Together, they draw a plural portrait of our time.

The exhibition has already greeted more than 20’000 visitors in Marseille (despite the fact that, during the first three weeks, the Mucem was limited to 50% attendance). If you can possibly imagine a trip to the south of France this summer, don’t miss the opportunity of seeing it!

The opening event of Civilization – The Way We Live Now at the Mucem, Marseille could only take place online in March as French museums were still closed due to Covid restrictions. But we are now delighted to announce that the exhibition is finally open to the public since the 19th of May! Bringing together young talents as well as renowned artists, the exhibition showcases more than 200 original prints by one hundred and ten photographers from five continents: Massimo Vitali, Pieter Hugo, Lauren Greenfield, Wang Qingsong, Raphaël Dallaporta, Valérie Belin, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer… and many more! Plan your visit to the Mucem here.

The exhibition finally opened in June at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki after being suspended due to the Covid lockdown. We are pleased to report a very positive response on the part of the public.

Following is a link to an interesting review on Civilization by John Hurrell, sent along from New Zealand:

http://eyecontactsite.com/2020/06/enthralling-global-photography

“Over the last 100 years, fashion photography forged an image of alluring beauty which, through time, encouraged a celebration of stereotypical ideals of beauty. These may be far from realistic but are always desirable. The work of younger fashion photographers included in this exhibition reveals how the myth is being challenged, pointing the way to a different future vision.” – Nathalie Herschdorfer, Curator

https://www.shine.cn/feature/art-culture/2006301162/

TimeOut features our Beyond Fashion exhibition at Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP). We appreciate TimOut.com for recognizing our exhibition as ambitious: “it wants to engage fashion photography in the discussion of art – art with unique visual language rather than images created for ‘hard sell’.”

Read the article.

The exhibition was launched this month in Shanghai and will remain on view until July 25, 2020.

Swiss friends in the South, Ticino and neighbouring Italy : meet William Wegman’s canine characters at MASI Lugano now through Jan. 6th. With “Being Human”—a retrospective featuring thirty years of the contemporary artist’s large-scale Polaroid and print production—Wegman’s Weimaraners are poised to conquer Europe after stops in Australia and New Zealand. “Being Human” made its sensational début at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2018 and will continue on to the Hague, NL in 2020.

A recent review following the opening of FEP’s “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” at Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria notes: “A hallmark of a memorable exhibition is that it seduces the viewer through its sheer beauty, while at the same time making us question the reality that we inhabit.” Read more here at The Conversation’s website.

Over five days this past June, 15 participants gathered in Umbria, Italy for this year’s Todi Circle, an intense if informal brainstorming meeting. A diverse group of experts in various fields—curators, dealers, collectors, historians, critics, academics and others—and of course photographers—reflected on a wide range of topics concerning the future of photography, while taking stock of the state of the art.

For more information about the annual event, click here.

We appreciate artnet.com for recognizing the importance of our exhibition, Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, which has just opened at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, in Fort Worth, Texas.

This is the first stop on its international tour to Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin, Singapore, Montreal, etc. The Amon Carter exhibition lasts until September 3, 2017.

For the full ArtNet list of 19 shows visit this link.

CNN features our Coming into Fashion exhibition at UCCA in Beijing on their website. Take a look!

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/05/arts/conde-nast-fashion-photography/index.html

In addition to this article, we are also receiving a great deal of attention from the international press, with articles in The Sun and the Daily Mail.

Coming into Fashion opened in Beijing on January 20 at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) with the support of Vogue China. The opening events included a fascinating panel discussion with Angelica Cheung, editor-in-chief Vogue China, FEP director Todd Brandow, and curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, moderated by UCCA director Philip Tinari.

After being seen by nearly 65,000 visitors in Taipei, Coming into Fashion is heading to Beijing to be presented at Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in association with Vogue China. It will open to the public on January 20th, 2017, with private viewings on January 18th and 19th.

For more information: http://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/coming-into-fashion-a-century-of-photography-at-conde-nast-2/

On the heels of a successful Vik Muniz exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum—where final attendance was 200,335—Sept. 30th saw the exhibition début at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.

Coming into Fashion continues the Asian segment of its international tour with a venue in the Taiwanese capital. The exhibition was launched this month in Taipei together with the 20th anniversary Vogue Taiwan gala, at the Huashan Creative Park, and will remain on view until November 27, 2016.

Joshua Chuang, curator of Lee Friedlander Books & Photographs 1969-2015 has recently been named the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Associate Director for Art, Prints and Photographs, and The Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography by the New York Public Library. The former chief curator of the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography (CCP) will join the NYPL team in August, 2016.

For the press release, click the following link: https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/july-14-2016/new-york-public-library-names-joshua-chuang-miriam-ira-d-wallach

For more information about Lee Friedlander Books & Photographs 1969-2015 click here:https://www.fep-photo.org/exhibition/leefriedlanderbooks-and-images/

Once more, a small group of specialists in the field of photography met in a secluded part of Umbria, Italy, to discuss burning issues related to the theme, “The Futures of Photography”. All agreed, it was a great success!

For more information, click https://www.fep-photo.org/more/the-todi-circle/

“While it’s about selling beauty, selling fashion, it’s also about selling dreams;” curator Nathalie Herschdorfer discusses the implications of fashion photography as well as aspects of the creative process behind the travelling exhibition, on view in Japan until May 22nd during KYOTOGRAPHIE.

Read the review in TIME LightBox here: Explore a Century of Fashion Photography at Condé Nast.

Buddhist temples, gardens and other historically significant sites serve as a backdrop for the fourth edition of Kyotographie, which features Coming into Fashion at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Annex. Also included among the exhibitions is Finnish photographer and frequent FEP collaborator Arno Rafael Minkkinen, via YKSI: Mouth of the River, Snake in the Water, Bones of the Earth, at the Ryosokuin (Kenninji Temple).

Article in Le Monde in French (subscribers only) here: A Kyoto, la photo s’invite dans les sanctuaires.

Published on occasion of the Vik Muniz exhibition currently touring North America, the accompanying catalog was also the occasion for a recent artist dialogue and book signing at the New York Public Library. The conversation between Vik Muniz and curator Arthur Ollman can be streamed or downloaded at the following link:

Vik Muniz at the New York Public Library.

The fourth edition of KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival presents Coming Into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Annex. The exhibition, which traces the influence of fashion photography on visual culture through the Condé Nast archive, is one of 15 exhibitions viewed through the lens of connectivity, birth, life and death explored by the festival’s theme, The Circle of Life.

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Arnold Newman: Masterclass is now on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida. The exhibition includes over 150 vintage black and white photographs which showcase Newman’s talent. It presents his most well-known portraits, in addition to early street photography, architectural studies, and still lifes, as well as sheets with zoom and crop marks, which have never been shown publicly.

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For a review of Masterclass in the Washington Post, click here: ‘I can’t photograph “the soul,” but I can show and tell you something fundamental’: A look at Arnold Newman’s master class.

The opening of Coming Into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast on March 18th, 2016 at Chanel’s Nexus Hall attracted over 200 Tokyoites, including celebrities and the fashion crowd.

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In a recent article on our exhibition “Edward S. Curtis: 100 Masterworks,” currently on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Los Angeles Times lauded the beautiful merging of art and ethnography in the American photographer’s work.

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Vik Muniz is on view at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. This retrospective exhibition includes over one hundred photographs which showcase the Brazilian artist’s diverse and innovative talents. Installation photos coming soon…

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Our “Edward S. Curtis: 100 Masterworks” book among the Best Photography Books of 2015 in the Daily Beast.

The Coming into Fashion show opens today at the MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey. After having been shown at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, the exhibition has been installed in a beautiful new space.

The Todi Circle convened again for the fourth year running at the Todi Castle Estate in Umbria. Each year the Circle brings together twelve experts in the field of photography for spontaneous conversations on our medium.

Our guests this year included Denise Bethel, David Campany, Joshua Chuang, Philip Gefter, Carlos Gollonet,
Katy Grannan, 
Mishka Henner, Marloes Krijnen, Richard Misrach, Priska Pasquer,
Andrew Sanigar, Leo Xu, and Francesco Zanot.

We were joined for our final event by Tobia Bezzola, director of the Folkwang Museum, Essen, the noted collector Thomas Walther from Zurich and curator Francesca Fabiani from MAXXI in Rome. As always, our brainstorming sessions on the “futures” of photography were extremely dynamic and fruitful.

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CNN wrote a great article on our exhibition “Edward Steichen: In High Fashion”, currently on view at The Photographer’s Gallery in London.

Read the article on CNN by clicking here.

Arnold Newman: Masterclass is on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The exhibition includes 200 vintage black and white photographs which showcase Newman’s talent. It presents his most famous portraits, in addition to early street photography, architectural studies, and still lifes, as well as sheets with zoom and crop marks, which have never been shown publicly.

For more information, click here.

Lorna Simpson: A Retrospective opens on September 20 at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover. The exhibition presents more than 30 years of the artist’s work across the mediums of photography, film, video, and drawing.

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Five other exhibitions are opening this fall:

Christ Faust: Revisiting Twain’s Mississippi opened on August 15 at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona

Stuart Klipper : The World in a Few States opened on September 11 at Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan

Arnold Newman: Masterclass opens on October 23 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

In High Fashion: Edward Steichen, The Condé Nast Years 1923-1937 opens on October 31 at The Photographer’s Gallery, London

Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast opens on November 20 at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

The ‘Coming into Fashion’ exhibition (“Zeitlos schön” in German) has opened in Zurich on July 10. The show is held in a beautiful environment on lake Zurich. The Museum Bellerive is part of the Museum für Gestaltung, Switzerland’s leading design and visual communication museum.

The Lorna Simpson show is held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art until June 22. The exhibition presents more than 30 years of the artist’s work across the mediums of photography, film, video, and drawing.

The ‘Coming into Fashion’ exhibition opened in Paris on March 1st to great success after three evenings of private viewings to special guests. Vogue Paris is a partner of the exhibition presented at Palais Galliera. Curator Nathalie Herschdorfer talks about the show on French TV and radio:

Replay Le Grand Soir 3 and France Inter

And in the newspaper Libération.

More than 33,000 visitors so far at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The Steichen show is held until March 2, 2014.

Following a critically acclaimed opening in Paris at the Jeu de Paume in May 2013, the Lorna Simpson exhibition has merited Simpson’s selection as a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014. And on October 27, 2013, Arno Rafael Minkkinen received the prestigious Lucie Award for lifetime achievement in fine art photography.

During two whirlwind weeks in October, which took us to Australia and Germany, we launched Edward Steichen: In High Fashion at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and our Lorna Simpson retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. We were delighted with the first-rate installations at both institutions, as well as the enthusiastic public response.

42’000 visitors came to discover the exhibition !

Coming into Fashion opens on June 14 at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh.

Lorna Simpson has opened on May 27 at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Arnold Newman: Masterclass opens on June 26 at the San Diego Museum of Art.

Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937 opens on June 27 at FOAM, Amsterdam.

Optic Nerve: the Continuing Saga of Arno Rafael Minkkinen opens on July 1 at Les Rencontres d’Arles.

Our book on Edward Steichen is published in June by the venerable Japanese publishing house, Iwanami Shoten, to celebrate their 100th anniversary.

In February 2013, we have opened two new shows in the US :

the Arnold Newman retrospective at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas

Harry Ransom Center

the Edward Steichen work made for Vogue and Vanity Fair at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Reynolda House

From December 6 through 9, a selection of prints from COMING INTO FASHION will be exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach, the most prestigious art show in the Americas.

Our Arnold Newman retrospective has opened on October 13 in the Fotomuseum Den Haag, that belongs to the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Arnold Newman Masterclass in the Fotomuseum Den Haag

Today opens the Edward Steichen show at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati. An opportunity to discover the glamourous images made in the 1920s-1930s when Steichen was Chief Photographer at Vogue and Vanity Fair.

4500 visitors attended the opening at the C/O Berlin on August 17th.

The Coming into Fashion show opens at C/O Berlin on August 17th. The exhibition looks at 100 years of fashion photography and provides a unique opportunity to see the work of 75 photographers represented in the Condé Nast Archive in New York, Paris, London and Milan.

William A. Ewing will give two public “lessons” at the C/O Berlin on Saturday March 24 and on Sunday March 25 at 4 pm.

More than 2’000 visitors attended the opening at C/O Berlin on March 2nd.