Please join us in celebrating the recent release of Janelle Lynch‘s first monograph, Los Jardines de México (Radius Books), with author José Antonio Aldrete-Haas.

The photographs in Los Jardines de México, made between 2002-2007, explore themes related to the life cycle and representations thereof in the urban and rural landscape. The book is comprised of four series––three from Mexico City and one from Chiapas. Each series investigates a specific facet of existence: loss, death, regeneration and life. Lynch lived in Mexico City from 2002-2005, where she became familiar with the culture and rich traditions that inform this work.

The event is sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and Radius Books.

Thursday, July 21st
7:00-9:00 pm
Aperture Foundation
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York

(212) 505-5555

This free and open-to-the-public event is sponsored

© Alon Sicherman, Columbia University

Photo Camp: The Culture of Now
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, June 28th
6:00 – 8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Tuesday, June 28th – Friday, July 15th
Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 W 28th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY

Join Aperture in celebrating the student work made during Photo Camp, a unique educational experience presented by Sony and Aperture. Students representing seventeen different collegiate institutions and photo programs attended hands-on, intensive weekend workshops in Los Angeles (April 1–3) and New York City (April 8–10) with the goal of fostering community and new learning opportunities.

The exhibition is printed by Gotham Imaging, with ink and paper provided courtesy of Epson. Additional support was provided by D.A.P. | Art Book Press.

© Joel Sternfeld, A Railroad Artifact, 30th St, May 2000
Section 2 of New York City’s High Line is now open and there’s an entrance on West 28th Street, just around the corner from Aperture Gallery and Bookstore on 27th St. Wednesday, June 8th was the first full day that the new section was open to the public with summer hours from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm.

At West 18th Street check out Joel Sternfeld’s A Railroad Artifact, 30th St, May 2000 the first work in Sternfeld’s project Landscape with Path, which documented the High Line before it was converted. This image, which celebrates the transformation of the High Line into an urban walkway, can be seen on a large 25-by-75 foot billboard. Sternfeld has invited two other artists, Robert Adams and Darren Almond, to pick up where he left off and create new work . Adams and Almond’s work will be exhibited on the same billboard in August and October respectively.

Another Joel Sternfeld project, Oxbow Archive, that meditates on seasonality in the age of climate change, was featured in Aperture magazine 192.

Join Aperture to celebrate the highly anticipated release of Illuminance, the latest volume of Rinko Kawauchi‘s work and the first to be published outside of Japan. Kawauchi’s work has frequently been lauded for its nuanced palette and offhand compositional mastery, as well as her wonder-inspiring, deliberate attention to tiny gestures and the incidental details of her everyday environment. In Illuminance, Kawauchi continues her exploration of the extraordinary in the mundane, drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly inadvertent, fractal-like organization of the natural world into formal patterns. Hear Kawauchi talk about this impressive compilation of previously unpublished images with Lesley A. Martin, Aperture’s Book Publisher, followed by a book signing on Wednesday, May 18. An exhibition of Kawauchi’s latest work will be on view at New York’s Gallery at Hermès May 20–July 16, 2011.

Rinko Kawauchi (born in Shiga, Japan, 1972) studied graphic design and photography at Seian Junior College of Art and Design. Among her awards and accolades are the 1997 Grand Prix Prize at the Guardian Garden’s 9th Hitotsubo Exhibition, the 27th Ihei Kimura Photography Award in 2002, and the 2009 International Center of Photography Infinity Award in Art. She has had solo exhibitions at Fondation Cartier, Paris; Photographers’ Gallery, London; Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan; Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden; and Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, among other international venues. Kawauchi lives and works in Tokyo.

Artist Talk:
Wednesday, May 18, 6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Exhibition on view:
May 20–July 16, 2011

The Gallery at Hermès
New York, New York

Sign pup here to be notified when the book is available for sale.

Jason Lazarus’s photo archive Too Hard to Keep, is a repository for photographs both too painful to keep and too meaningful to destroy. This on-going and expanding project will be displayed in two parts: an installation of photographs from the archive and a “drop box.” Anyone can add to the archive by depositing pictures in this box.

Do you have any photos ‘too hard to keep?’ come by Aperture Foundation and contribute to Jason Lazarus’ archive.

Submissions may include photos of friends, family, pets, places/objects too hard to view  again, etc.

 The reason you can’t live with the  photo or photo album I do not need to know… Lazarus is creating a repository for these images so that they may exist without being destroyed. Please dictate whether the images you submit to the archive are images not to be shown again, or images that may be exhibited in the future with other submissions to  the archive.

Here is a story from a recent submission:

I overheard a girl at a party talking resentfully about her ex-boyfriend, and feeling excited and opportunistic, I told her about my project. After a few weeks of emails, she invited me over to pick up some photos. We sat together as she sorted through a remainder of a large pile of pictures of her and her ex-boyfriend. Incidentally, her new boyfriend sat with us over this ritual. More than ever during this project, I felt a part of a narrative photographically as well as personally. The 140 some odd photos she submitted are a fantastic contribution to the archive–we have familiar faces dotting different landscapes, seasons, hairstyles, etc, but the same eyes, the same smiles, the same commitment to image themselves, together, in moments grand and banal. Their time together, four years total, reveals the way photography bookmarked moments, and begged of them a consistent engagement in building an archive together. Her contribution is a particularly incisive example of a submission that is a trauma, built over a significant amount of time and experience, that is less about inexplicable narratives then a familiar and traceable pattern of togetherness, intimacy, and visual rhythms…-Jason Lazarus

To hear more about this project visit: npr, art21, and nhpr!

Too Hard to Keep the installation is now on view as part of the group exhibition at The Queens Museum of Art, Not the Way You Remembered. On view through August 14, 2011.

Jason Lazarus graduated from Columbia College (Chicago) in 2002. His photography has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center, and Andrew Rafacz (formerly Bucket Rider) Gallery, Chicago. The Too Hard to Keep archive was recently profiled on National Public Radio. He lives and works in Chicago and is represented by Andrew Rafacz

For project inquiries, email toohardtokeep@gmail.com

Photo Camp LA: Friday March 31st – Sunday April 3rd

Michael Jordan Smith and Student Group

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Photo Camp NYC: Friday April 8th – Sunday April 10th

Brian Smith and Student Group

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Thank you to the 72 students that participated in Photo Camp, presented by Aperture and Sony!

Earlier this month, select students from various universities around New York City and Los Angeles were invited to attend hands-on photography workshops hosted by Aperture Gallery and D.A.P. | Art Book Press, respectively. Held over two consecutive weekends, each workshop consisted of a day of shooting with a Sony Artisans of Imagery as well as a day of editing, including a one-on-one review session with Aperture’s editorial staff.

During the first day of Photo Camp, students met in small groups, each led by a Sony Artisan of Imagery, to review portfolios and learn about the Artisan’s process and approach to photo assignments. The students then went out and shot around LA and NY in an attempt to capture what the theme “The Culture of NOW” meant to them and express that through their pictures. Sony also generously allowed students to borrow and use some of their newest equipment as they went out to shoot.

The work created during this 24-hour period was a challenge but also a good lesson, according to the Sony Artisans. As professionals within their field, they felt it was a valuable experience to have a time constraint and learn how to work with the current environment as well as the available light.

On the second day of Photo Camp, the students worked with their fellow participants and group leaders to start the editing process, culling through the images they had taken to choose 20 to show Aperture’s staff during their one-on-one review session. Each student then selected their three strongest images. From these, one image from each student will be included in an exhibition at the Aperture Gallery & Bookstore, June 28th–July 9th. Paper and ink for the exhibition is being provided by Epson and Gotham Imaging is doing the printing.

A special thanks to Kayla Lindquist, the Director of the Artisans of Imagery program, and Michelle Dunn Marsh, who were instrumental in developing Photo Camp, and to all the Artisans who enthusiastically shared their experience and knowledge with the students: Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier. Andy Katz, Brian Smith, and Matthew Jordan Smith; plus Sylvia Plachy, an “Aperture Artisan” who graciously and generously taught at Photo Camp in New York City.

See a slideshow of the student work produced during Photo Camp here.

LA images courtesy of Paula Kupfer, NY images courtesy of Isabelle McTwigan

Aperture Foundation is proud to present Fieldwork photographs by Sanna Kannisto, exploring the dialectics of nature and culture in both artistic and scientific contexts. Since 1997, Kannisto has spent several months per year living alongside biologists in the rainforests of Latin America. Adopting elements of her companions’ scientific methods, she developed her own form of visual research, extending her depictions of flora and fauna beyond the confines of the natural sciences. A new book of the same title by Aperture accompanies the exhibition.

A portfolio of images titled Sanna Kannisto: Act of Flying is now also available.

Breaking away from the conventions of nature photography, which typically presents specimens in isolation, devoid of context, Kannisto’s work addresses the acts of staging and image-making. Her photographs, with their biologically correct titles, show not only the breathtaking beauty of her subjects, but also the tools used to achieve the would-be image at center—the black drapes, the difficult “neutral” lighting rig, the seamless white background. Signs of a scientifically standardized process—graph paper, rulers, and test field markings—are also included, appearing strangely out of place amid the lush green foliage of the rainforest.

The core practice of the natural sciences is to collect in order to inspect closely in the service of public knowledge. Collecting implies taming and containment, traits shared to some extent by photography. With her gentle humor, Kannisto recognizes and utilizes the constraints of science and art alike, investigating the concept of truth in photography to challenge how we view and “know” the natural world.

An artist talk and book signing will take place on Monday, April 25, 6:30 pm.

Fieldwork was made possible, in part, with generous support from the Finnish National Council for Photographic Art. Additional support for the exhibition was provided by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange) and the Consulate General of Finland.

Thursday, April 21, 2011
6:00–8:00 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street
4th Floor
New York, New York

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Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone for coming out Thursday, March 24 for the opening reception of the exhibition presented in collaboration with sepiaEYE, Jungjin Lee: Wind

Tomorrow,  a book signing and conversation between the Jungjin Lee and Vicki Goldberg will take place at 2 pm at Aperture Gallery, coinciding with the ten-day annual festival Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

Wind, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Korean photographer Jungjin Lee features twenty-six stunning panoramic landscapes. A limited-edition artist book, as well as the artist’s first trade book, co-published by Aperture and Sepia, accompany the exhibition. Beautiful in their composition and physical execution, Lee’s images present metaphors for an interior state of being and the forces that shape it. Lee’s landscapes are imbued with an elemental vastness, at once powerful and serene.

As in her earlier work, Lee’s printing technique utilizes a liquid photosensitive emulsion brushed on handmade Korean mulberry paper. The texture of the paper and the gestural marks of the brushstroke create a unique, painterly effect that further emphasizes the fusion of image and photographic intent. In the accompanying book’s text, photography critic Vicki Goldberg writes:

“In these photographs, subject is subservient to content. The subject may be a giant fog that eats a mountain and nibbles away the hills, or a cloud that has invaded a forest and advances steadily, softly, like a determined angel. The content is Jungjin Lee’s response to what she saw, shorthand notes from her spirit.”

Exhibition on view:

Thursday, March 24-Thursday, April 14, 2011

Click here to purchase Wind, the book of Jungjin Lee’s exhibition.

Click here for more information about the book signing and conversation between the artist and Vicki Goldberg

Nicole Robson and Daniel Kaufmann, artists from reGeneration2, are focusing their work on re-creating domestic scenes. Using different approaches from digital to physical reconstructions, they both reveal the impact of consumer society and the fatalism of modern people today.

In this clip, Australian photographer Nicole Robson explains the process of her work from building a domestic environment from scratch, to selecting her subjects, and playing with the outside light. Robson speaks about how she tries to convey an image of the modern family and domestic environment in a theatrical, superficial way, evoking also a feeling of nostalgia.

In this clip below, photographer Daniel Kaufmann guides us through his work of digital constructions from photographs of real homes. By combining ordinary environments as well as commercial catalogs from retail stores, Kaufmann reveals how advertising photography influences our lifestyles.

reGeneration2: tomorrow’s photographers today exhibition is still on view for another week at Aperture Gallery and stay tuned for more artists’ interviews on the blog!

Click here to purchase the accompanying publication of reGeneration2: tomorrow Photographer’s Today

Click here to view limited-edition prints by artists from reGeneration2

In this interview, photographer Tehila Cohen explains how she involves her family in her work to reveal the identity of an Israeli family through spontaneous actions from the subjects and their environment.

reGeneration2: tomorrow’s photographers today exhibition and accompanying publication, is presented by Aperture Foundation from January 20 through March 17, 2011, in collaboration with the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and with the support of Pro Helvetia and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

Following the worldwide critical acclaim of the book and exhibition reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow in 2005, a breakthrough publication for artists such as Pieter Hugo or Nathalie Czech, Aperture Foundation and Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, have collaborated on a new edition. This second volume and exhibition–the broadest survey of its kind–features the works of eighty up-and-coming photographers selected from 120 of the world’s top photography schools.

Click here to view and purchase the reGeneration2: tomorrow’s photographers today book