Abbas Kowsari #Photographe
Concours Results Prix Pictet 2009 Livre Une histoire iranienne contemporaine contée par la photographie Livre Prix Pictet 2009 Earth Exposition The Wapping project Bankside in Mayfair, Abbas Kowsari Exposition The first Prix Pictet in Italy will be at FORMA, Milan Exposition Prix Pictet 2010 Earth Exhibition Exposition Kofi Annan to announce the Prix Pictet 2009 Winner Exposition Kofi Annan annoncera le lauréat du Prix Pictet 2009 le 22 octobre Exposition 2ème Biennale des images du monde Exposition Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Finalists' Exhibition Modifier l'image
Prix Pictet Honorary President Kofi Annan will present the award to the winner of the Prix Pictet 2009 at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris on 22 October. This is the second year running that the former Secretary-General of the United Nations has agreed to bestow the prize. Speaking at the 2008 award ceremony Kofi Annan said “Each artist has addressed the environmental and social challenges we face in their own personal way. The result is a series of powerful images, which seek to confront us with the scale of the threat we face, and to inspire governments, business, - and all of us as individuals -to step up to the challenge and support change for a sustainable world..”...
Ce livre est porté par Anahita Ghabaian - docteure en histoire contemporaine - et Newsha Tavakolian – photographe iranienne, Téhéranaise, membre de l'agence Magnum. Elles cherchent ainsi à mettre en lumière l'Iran depuis la révolution de 1979. Pour brosser tous les aspects de la société iranienne, le livre regroupe huit chapitres : Le bouleversement, La guerre du front au salon, Ce que nous devons être, Qui sommes-nous ?, La torpeur, Mettre en scène la réalité, Crise environnementale et Le cinéma poète.
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Il s'ouvre sur un entretien avec Anahita Ghabaian et Newsha Tavakolian, leur volonté de redonner à l'Iran une dimension plus large...
Now in its second year, the Prix Pictet, awarded by the Swiss Private Bank Pictet & Cie, aims to use photography to educate audiences worldwide about issues related to climate change. This is the first photographic award on the topic of sustainability, harnessing art’s unique compelling power for the benefit of our precious planet. The theme for this year is Earth, encompassing the planet, the ground beneath our feet, and the ways in which mankind negatively affects the landscape, whether through broken abandoned cities, strip mining, waste dumps or other forms of exploitation. It also refers to the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes. The shortlist of the nominees (Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nad...
For Abbas Kowsari (Tehran, 1970) photography is an enduring source of power and a way of talking to the world. He has worked for over ten years at Iranian leading newspapers, most of them now banned from publishing. He currently works as the senior photo editor for Shargh newspaper in Tehran. Internationally he has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, Paris Match and Der Spiegel amongst others.
The Wapping Project Bankside has selected a body of work representing several series over the period 2006-2014. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to move to a place beyond cliché ( Women”s Police Academy, 2006, pictured above for example); a moment to forget the stereotypical images of Iran and enter Kowsari’s political, witty world.
The range of Kowsari’s photography reflects th...
The Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia, is Milan’s only permanent space dedicated exclusively to photography. The gallery will be showing a selection from the portfolios shortlisted for the 2009 prize, on the theme of Earth, together with a selection of works produced by Ed Kashi for the Earth Commission. The Prix Pictet ‘Earth’ exhibition has so far visited the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai, the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, the Moscow House of Photography, and Caprice Horn Gallery in Berlin. Earlier this summer the Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne staged a special showcase exhibition featuring the work of four laureates of the Prix Pictet - Benoit Aquin, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi and Munem Wasif. Later in th...
The Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance. This year the theme is ‘Earth’. The exhibition includes work by the twelve international photographers shortlisted for the 2009 prize:
Food riots. Loss of forest cover. Desertification. The ecosystems we depend on appear to face resource demands already beyond their capacity. As governments try urgently to stimulate growth, a central question remains - can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050? The submissions speak of the harmful and often irreversible effects of exploiting the earth&rs...
On 22 October at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, will announce the winner of this year’s award. Planning for the exhibition of work by the Prix Pictet Shortlist 2009 is complete and it is clear that that the Jury face a considerable challenge when they sit down to consider this group of images that range from the painterly to the documentary and all points in between – often within a single submission. The power of the shortlisted images was summed up by Stephen Barber when he introduced them at the Rencontres d’Arles. “We are all of us, all too familiar with the great issues of sustainability – climate change, environmental degradation, deforestation – yet how many of us have experienced personally the devastating consequences de...
Kofi Annan, Président honoraire du Prix Pictet, annoncera le lauréat de l'édition 2009 le jeudi 22 Octobre au Passage de Retz. L'exposition des photographes nominés pour le Prix Pictet 2009 est prête et il apparaît clairement que les jurés ont relevé un défi de taille lorsqu'ils ont dû sélectionner ces images allant du pictural ou documentaire, souvent au sein d'un même dossier. La force des images choisies est bien résumée par Stephen Barber lorsqu'il les présenta en juillet dernier aux Rencontres d’Arles. “Nous sommes tous familiers des graves problèmes liés au développement durable - le changement climatique, la dégradation de l'environnement, la déforestation - mais malgr...
Créée en 2007 par le musée du quai Branly, et consacrée à la photographie non occidentale, PHOTOQUAI, la biennale des images du monde, se déroule du 22/09/09 au 22/11/09 sur le quai Branly, en face du musée, et en partenariat avec des institutions culturelles. Saluée dès sa première édition pour sa qualité, son originalité, son ambition et sa pertinence, PHOTOQUAI poursuit en 2009 sa mission fondamentale : mettre en valeur et faire connaître des artistes dont l’œuvre reste inédite ou peu connue en Europe, et susciter des échanges, des croisements de regards sur le monde. La direction artistique de la deuxième biennale PHOTOQUAI est confiée à Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, galeriste ...
The Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) is a global search to identify the most talented emerging Iranian artists and provide an international platform for their career. Selected from over 120 nominees and exhibiting at the Royal College of Art, are the six finalists:
Farhad Ahrarnia
Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar
Vahid Chamani
Sahand Hesamiyan
Abbas Kowsari
Newsha Tavakolian
The winner will be selected by a jury whose members include leading figures from the Iranian and International art scenes: Kamran Diba, YZ Kami, Shirin Neshat, Julia Peyton-Jones, Parviz Tanavoli and chaired by Sheena Wagstaff.
Following an auction of the finalists’ works by Jussi Pylkkänen, President of Christie’s Europe and Middle East, the winner will be announced on Saturday 17th October 2009 during a cocktai...