This summer, the world descends on London for the Olympic Games.  A photo project commissioned by the Photographer’s Gallery, however, shows us that the world is already there.  “The World in London” is a collection of 204 portraits of 204 Londoners, each of whom hail from one of the 204 countries competing in this year’s Games. Since each portrait was carried out by a different photographer, the style of the work is as diverse as its subjects: formal studio portraits, Skype screengrabs, and casual snapshots, by established artists and emerging talents, all make their way into the collection.  The resulting work is a portrait of both human and artistic diversity, showcasing one of the world’s most international cities through the lenses of some of its most creative photographers.  See photographs by Martin Parr, Stephen Shore, Rinko Kawauchi, Penelope Umbrico and 200 others at The World in London.

The Latin American Photobook, edited by Horacio Fernández and published by Aperture, has been awarded the historical book award at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival. The volume, a blend of bibliography, facsimile, and encyclopedia, offers a critical study of the most important photography books to come out of Latin America, from the 1920s to today. Along with Aperture’s The Dutch Photobook: A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards and Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s, The Latin American Photobook is part of a growing body of scholarship on the photobook and its place in photographic history.

Jonathan Torgovnik won the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery prize for Intended Consequences—his portraits of women and their children who were born of rape in the Rwandan genocide—which was published by Aperture in 2009. Watch an excerpt of a panel discussion with Torgovnik, and read an interview with the photographer on FLYP. Intended Consequences and limited-edition prints of Torgovnik’s work are available for up to 35% off as part of Aperture’s summer sale, until midnight EST, August 10, 2012.

Check out The Guardian for more coverage of the Rencontres d’Arles festival prizes.

Take Care of Yourself (Proof-reader), 2007 © Sophie Calle

Exhibition Opening:
Thursday, April 9, 6–8 pm
Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street
New York, New York
(212) 255-1105

Exhibition on view:
Take Care of Yourself
Thursday, April 9–Saturday, May 23, 2009

FREE

French artist Sophie Calle is often inspired by her own emotional and psychological experiences in life, and her work addresses topics of how to deal with private issues, examining the conditions and possibilities of human emotions and creating ideas about love and heartache, gender and intimacy, labor and identity.

This body of work, Take Care of Yourself, is an examination of the different ways in which women respond to a breakup letter. The exhibition includes photographic portraits and multimedia video work and textual analysis by 107 women from different professional backgrounds, such as anthropology, criminology, philosophy, psychiatry, theater, opera, and beyond. They were asked to read the letter, re-read and address the matter in their own personal way by performing, transforming, and reacting on the emotions they feel in the process.

Take Care of Yourself was first presented at the French Pavillion in the 2007 Venice Biennale. It will also travel to São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

Aperture 191, summer 2008 , featured Take Care of Yourself. Calle’s work also appeared in issue 142, winter 1996.