PRIVATE 56
School
Good news, it infuses this issue with a sense of joy, and with an aspect of carefree childhood seized in flight. There is a feeling of solemnity, but a tender solemnity. An innocence that confronts the world, its difficulties and the trials of study, but it is amusing, happy, and touching.
PRIVATE 55
Rurality Now
When they came to tell us that farming without farmers could exist we smiled. But now we have uninhabited expanses of land, mechanization, greenhouse plants untouched by human hand. When they came to tell us there could be farming without farmers and even without sustenance we laughed out loud. But now we have wasteland destined as burnt biomass to produce the energy needed to sustain not man’s primary needs but his greed for technology.
PRIVATE 54
LOST
The photographers of this issue of PRIVATE untitled “Lost” use conceptual, surreal and anthropological photography to narrate inner landscapes of human beings. Borrowed traces You are only dust amidst dust. You are only just visible even if you gesticulate, even if you make a commotion, even if you speak loud and clearly: you act in a silent film. Or rather: one hears → read more ...
PRIVATE 53
HOPE
Since we are living, to a large part, in a socially constructed world – think of the legal system or of bureaucracy, for instance –, social reports can be pretty much about anything and everything that explores conditions and trends in a community. Unsuprisingly, the photographers in this volume had very much their personal reasons for documenting what they deemed → read more ...
Matt Eich (Carry Me Ohio)
Once known for its bounty of coal, salt, clay and timber, Southeastern Ohio was stripped of its resources by the mining corporations that thrived from the 1820s to the 1960s. When they had mined → read more…
PRIVATE 53, p. 28-33
LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
Natasha Lythgoe
Opening is the first exhibition in France of Natasha Lythgoe. A young British artist, Natasha Lythgoe’s practice encompasses an interest in combining media: still and moving image, text and sound. At heart, it is the notion of perception, far removed from representation, which runs through her visual installations, including this exhibition specially designed for the Centre Iris. It is the term → read more ...
Bill Owens – Suburbia 1972/2012
Area Lina, a new space for contemporary art and photography, opens with a show of one of the great masters of photography: Bill Owen Spring 1972, Bay Area, California: a young photographer is starting out on what was to become one of the photographic projects of greatest influence on the 20th-century collective imagination. 30th May 2012, Isola Neighbourhood, Milan: 40 years after → read more ...
Ron Haviv Workshop at Maine Media June 2012
Photographing the world around us often involves a myriad of professional and personal challenges that teach us to be better photographers. Whether working in one’s own neighborhoods or overseas, Haviv helps participants better their imagery by combining portfolio reviews, assignments, editing sessions, and dialogue. This workshop embraces a multi-faceted approach to photojournalism, from developing a personal sensitivity and visual style to working → read more ...
Chinese everyday people. Moments of life between China and South Tyrol
Photography exhibition and video projection with works by the Brixner author Giovanni Melillo Kostner, the French collector Thomas Sauvin and the Chinese artist Lei Lei. Project and exhibition curated by Martha Jiménez Rosano. Open City Museum will exhibit works of the Brixner author Giovanni Melillo Kostner, a selection of images and a video animation, created in collaboration with the Chinese artist → read more ...