PHOTOFAIRS

PHOTOFAIRS are the contemporary art fairs for photography. Next fair: PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai | Shanghai Exhibition Centre | 8 – 11 May 2025

PHOTOFAIRS is a brand of high-end art fairs with a particular focus on photo-based and digital works. PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai was established in 2014 and has gone on to become Asia Pacific’s leading photography fair. PHOTOFAIRS New York took place in 2023 presenting a state-of-the-art view of visual culture. Creo initiates and organizes events and programming across three key strands: photography, fil

m and contemporary art. Established in 2007 as World Photography Organisation, Creo has since grown in scope, furthering its mission of developing meaningful opportunities for creatives and expanding the reach of its cultural activities. Today, its flagship projects include the Sony World Photography Awards, Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, PHOTOFAIRS and Photo London. Working in partnership with Angus Montgomery Arts, Creo helps deliver the group’s ventures, comprising some of the world’s leading art fairs. Taking its name from the Latin for ‘I create’, it is in this spirit that Creo sets out to empower and give agency to creative voices.

06/04/2025

: Celebrated American artist and photographer, Saul Leiter on photography as memorial to the forgotten.

'Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World' is open at Foam in Amsterdam for only two more weeks, till 20 April, 2025.

Image Credit: Harlem, 1960 © Saul Leiter / Saul Leiter Foundation. © Saul Leiter / Saul Leiter foundation.

16/03/2025

Did you know: Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) was one of the 20th century’s most internationally recognised and important female photographers.

Her architectural photographs and portraits from her years at the Bauhaus in Dessau, which have become icons of photographic history, still shape how that institution is perceived today.

If in Zurich this Spring, don't miss a major exhibition of her works at Fotostiftung Schweiz, running till 9 June 2025. Here, her photographic oeuvre is presented together with numerous documents, some of them newly discovered, which shed light on Moholy’s role in the avant-garde during the interwar period, as well as her youth in Prague, her editorial work in Germany, and life in Zurich where she spent the last thirty years of her life.

Image Credit: Lucia Moholy, Edith Tschichold, Bauhaus Dessau, 1926 © ProLitteris, Zürich

09/03/2025

: A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at C/O Berlin, open till May 7.

Why visit? View work by twenty-three African and African diaspora artists from different generations and geographical contexts. Inspired by Africa’s rich cultures and its current sociopolitical landscape, the exhibition refers to the philosophy of Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe, who calls for us to imagine “a world in common” by “thinking the world from Africa.” Over one hundred works challenge the western-oriented conception of the world, exploring alternative historical narratives that are deeply rooted in the diverse experiences, philosophies, and knowledge systems of the African continent.

Find your new favourite photographer.

Image: Dawit L. Petros, Untitled (Prologue III), Nouakchott, Mauritania, 2016 © Dawit L. Petros. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary

02/03/2025

Get to know: One of China's most important contemporary artists working with photography, film and installation, Yang Fudong 📷

'What if we expressed our true and fake emotions at the same time, in order to reach what we ultimately desire? Mixing both yin and yang is like painting truth and lies. I wondered how to achieve such imagery and how to show this thin line between the real and unreal through film techniques: set design, characters, costumes, and music. Is seeing really believing?' - Yang Fudong

Born in Beijing and living in Shanghai, Yang’s visual language has always been enveloped in a dream-like mystery. His characters, often silent and disembodied, usually move according to choreographed gestures and transport the viewer into an aesthetically perfect environment. His work deliberately suspends and confuses time.

The works of Yang Fudong mark a breakthrough in contemporary visual production in China. His first film, 'An Estranged Paradise', which premiered at Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, showcased a new narrative and visual sensibility steeped in a contemporary aesthetic informed by multiple registers of heritage; his monumental cycle, 'Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest', was completed over the ensuing five years, poetically rendering the anomie of his generation as it came of age in the early years of the new millennium.

🏛 If in Beijing anytime this year and till 22 February 2026, don't miss Yang Fudong's most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date at UCCA Beijing, co-curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and UCCA Curator Chelsea Qianxi Liu.

Image: Yang Fudong, The Summer Palace, c.1976. Courtesy the artist
Quote from interview with BOMB Magazine, 2012

23/02/2025

A tour to the UK of the 1980s through its most daring photographers!

'The 80s: Photographing Britain' at Tate Britain explores the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent 1980s. At the time, photography was used as a tool for social change, political activism, and artistic and photographic experiments.

If in London, go see these powerful images that gave voice and visibility to underrepresented groups in society. On view till 5 May.

Image Credits:
Paul Graham, Union Jack Flag in Tree, County Tyrone, 1985, printed 1993-4. © Paul Graham; Courtesy Pace and Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York
Martin Parr (cropped), The Last Report 23 From 'The Resort', 1983-85. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
Paul Trevor (cropped), Outside police station, Bethnal Green Road, London E2, 17 July 1978, 1978, printed 2024. © Paul Trevor
Anna Fox (cropped), Work Stations, Independent Video Production COmpany, 1988, The Hyman Collection, Courtesy of the Centre for British Photography. © Anna Fox

16/02/2025

: Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades at M+, Hong Kong.

For the first time ever, photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) will be paired in an exhibition. Both artists are renowned for their visual and conceptual strategies of masquerade, transforming their appearances to portray multiple identities that offer incisive commentary on contemporary culture and history.

This is an unmissable show for anyone interested in how contemporary women artists use photography to explore identity, gender and the gaze.

The show is on view till 5 May 2025 in Hong Kong.

Image Credits:

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #92, 1981 (Cropped), Chromogenic colour print. Copyright Cindy Sherman. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Yasumasa Morimura, One Hundred M's Self portraits #26, Photographer in 1993-2000, Gelatin silver print. M+, Hong Kong. Copyright Yasumasa Morimura. Courtesy of the artists and Luhring Augustine, New York, and Yoshiko Isshiki Office, Tokyo.

09/02/2025

This is not a painting.

French artist Jean-François Rauzier is a pioneer of the digital photography and creator of the technique known as “hyperphotography".

At the end of the last century, when the advent of Photoshop fueled the rapid rise of digital photography, Rauizer found a way to realize his artistic vision: He used software technology to stitch together landscapes from different regions and angles to create hyper-panoramas with rich details.

An exhibition of his series “Givernisme,” is now on view at the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shekou, Nanshan District, China until 23 February. The show celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Impressionism, and Rauzier works made at Monet’s former residence in Giverny, France.

Image Credit: Jean-François Rauzier, Giverny Abstract 8, 2022, C-Print mounted on aluminium, 37 x 47 in. Courtesy of the artist and Modern Fine Art.

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