Aperture’s 2011 Benefit and Auction catalog is now online and open for bidding! This year’s catalog features many talented artists, from emerging to established photographers. You can bid online through our website, and at the event on Monday, October 17th. The proceeds from our 2011 Benefit, Auction, and SNAP! Party—our most important fundraising event of the year—are essential for Aperture’s publications, exhibitions, and public programs, which provide unmatched exposure for artists and scholars working in photography.

In this clip, auction-featured photographer Sasha Rudensky explains how her work is related to her personal history. She describes her practice as being in between documentary and staged photography in a “loose way.” Rudensky also speaks about the polished, aesthetic style that emerges from the reGeneration2 artists, and her experience being a part of the group.

Rudensky’s image Red Square is part of our SNAP! Benefit Party Emerging Artists Auction. She writes, of the image:

Red Square was taken from a friend’s window in January of 2010. Initially I wanted to climb out on the roof deck in order to shoot from outside but due to heavy snowfall, the door has been barricaded. As it often happens, limitation became a source of strength, so when I set up to have the view framed by the window I realized it clarified the ideas behind the work. The iconic glitter of the red square presented as a projection, rather than a real space, sets up for the underlying theme of the project, an interweaving between illusion and fantasy as well as every day reality in post-Soviet Russia.

Stay tuned for weekly blog posts giving insight into select items from our Benefit’s Live, Silent, and Emerging Artists Auctions!

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In this clip, Finnish photographer Kalle Kataila explains the importance of contemplating the world today, facing the changes that man has made on the landscape. Kataila portrays his subjects alone in a wild or urban landscape, emphasizing the power of the environment, and the littleness of the human.

ReGeneration2: tomorrow’s photographers today exhibition and accompanying publication, was 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.

Click here to purchase the accompanying publication regeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today

In this video, photographer Catherine Rüttimann explains how she related the 2008 United States presidential election revealing the behind-the-scenes media frenzy. She also speaks about her influences and what the reGeneration2 project has brought to her career.

reGeneration2: tomorrow’s photographers today exhibition and accompanying publication was recently presented at Aperture Gallery and is currently on view in France at Galerie Azzedine Alaïa in Paris, and opening soon in Mexico opening at the Centro de los Artes on May 19.

In this edited clip, the curators and authors of reGeneration2: tomorrow’s photographers today, William A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, explain the anonymous selection process of this international survey through photography schools all over the world. By reviewing over 700 portfolios, the curators were interested to reveal “what photography schools are doing today” and not necessarily new trends. They also touch on specific directions within this survey they were surprised to encounter and the “complimentary unit” between the exhibition and the book.

This edited excerpt is from a panel discussion on reGeneration2 that took place on January 19, 2011 at Aperture Gallery, coinciding with the exhibition on view. In addition to the curators, the panel included Sam Stourdzé, Director of Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne and artists Ted Partin (USA), Benjamin Beker (UK) and Jennifer Osborne (Canada) from both reGeneration projects.

Stay tuned as we will soon feature on the blog a series of individual interviews with artists from reGeneration2!

reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today exhibition and accompanying publication, is presented by Aperture Foundation, 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.

Click here to purchase the reGeneration2′s exhibition book

Photo by Markus Klingenhäger

Annual showcase Fotoweek DC celebrates the medium of photography with a week-long series of programming in the city of Washington D.C. Events include innovative and collaborative exhibitions with a focus on bridging local and international communities through images. This year Aperture is pleased to announce its participation in Fotoweek DC’s Night Gallery, a slideshow exhibit projected on the facades of pre-eminent buildings of the Nation’s capitol and its annual Fotobooks exhibition.

Night Gallery will feature a selection from Aperture and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne’s project reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographer’s Today, which highlights the works of eighty up and coming photographers, and can be seen on the exterior of several locations. Plan a night stroll and take advantage of this unique exhibition!

reGeneration2: Tomorrows Photographer’s Today
Fotoweek DC Night Gallery Schedule and Locations

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART
500 17th St NW
Washington DC 20006
11/5 6-11pm
outside (a selection)
inside full version
11/7 5-10pm
outside

DUPONT CIRCLE
Washington DC 20036
11/6 6-10pm

ROAD PROJECTIONS
11/8 THEARC Washington DC SE 6.30- 8pm
11/9 SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND 6- 8pm

HOUSE OF SWEDEN
2900 K Street NW
Washington Dc 20007
11/13 8-11pm

Click here to view the Aperture book reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today

Also on view:

FotoBooks Exhibition

Satellite Central
3333 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20007

Hours:
Mon-Fri 11am-7pm; Sat-Sun 10am-8pm

FotoweekDC 2010, November 6-13

photo by Shen Su

This week is the Flash Forward Festival in Toronto, a five-day biennial event presented by the Magenta Foundation which showcases works by up and coming emerging artists. This year Aperture is pleased to present the group exhibition reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today and its accompanying recently released catalog at the festival. Culled from top university and art school programs around the world by curators from the Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, reGeneration 2 turns the spotlight on young photographers of promise from thirty-one countries. The works featured in reGeneration 2 presents the diverse ways technology and a changing world are affecting the practice of photography while collectively exemplifying that the medium is alive and well and that new talent are well on their way to leaving their mark.

reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today
Exhibition on view: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 – Sunday, October 10, 2010

Flash Forward Festival 2010
Toronto’s Liberty Village
171 East Liberty Street Market, Unit 102
Toronto, Canada

Inspired by the many artists from the original reGeneration project who went on the develop international careers, Aperture is now offering limited-edition prints by several of the 2010 volume’s participating artists. The proceeds from the sale of these prints will help support these emerging artists and give collectors an opportunity to acquire their work early in their careers.

View all limited-edition photographs from reGeneration 2 artists

Click here to buy the book ReGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today

Untitled Explosion #CFX18 by Geoffrey H. Short

Following the success of the first reGeneration project in 2005, which surveyed fifty emerging photographers from around the world, reGeneration2 brings together eighty up-and-coming artists from thirty countries working in the medium of photography. Selected by curators from The Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland from hundreds of entries submitted by the world’s top Photography schools, the compiled works look to the future of the medium as well as showcase artists whom will be redefining it.

Aperture published the US edition of reGeneration and will be releasing reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today in the fall of 2010. An exhibition of images from reGeneration2 recently opened at The Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne this weekend and will remain on view through September.

reGeneration2
June 16th – September 26th, 2010

The Musée de l’Elysée
18, avenue de l’Elysée
1014 Lausanne – Switzerland
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