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The World Revisited
Is documentary photography dead? Recent years have seen a proliferation of work that intentionally subverts the genre â images that blur fact and fiction or are staged.
But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, a group exhibition curated by Paul Graham (b. 1965) at the International Center of Photography in New York, shows another form of reportage is still possible, one that does not set out to tell a story or push a particular message, but â in so much as it can â quietly captures the world as it is.
Graham emerged as a pioneer of colour in the 1980s, who created work straddling the worlds of fine art and documentary. He describes the featured artists Vanessa Winship, Curran Hatleberg, Richard Choi, RaMell Ross, Gregory Halpern, Piergiorgio Casotti and Emanuele Brutti, Kristine Potter and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa as âpost-documentaryâ â conscious of asserting their authorship. These artists acknowledge the aestheti
To Survive on This Shore spotlights transgender and gender nonconforming older adults through portraiture and interviews
Currently showing at Minneapolis Institute of Art until 25 April, Jess T Dugan’s intimate project is built on trust and collaboration.
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For over five years, photographer Jess T Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre have traveled across the United States to document a group who are rarely represented in the mainstream; older trans people. From coast to coast, the project, titled
To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults, shines a light on the people who have often been left out of the conversation when it comes to queer identity. The extensive project, also published in a recent book of the same title, features photographs and interviews with the subjects. In turn, the title explores issues of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic class and geographic location.