THE BEST
IN WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY COMES TO PHOTO SHANGHAI
Photo Shanghai announces over 40 international galleries attending Asia’s first global photography fair from 5-7 September 2014 www.photoshanghai.org
The World Photography Organisation and Montgomery announced earlier this year the inaugural edition of Photo Shanghai - the first international art fair dedicated to photography in China.
The Fair will run from 5-7 September
at the landmark Shanghai Exhibition Centre, and aims to establish the most
professional and international platform for fine art photography in the
Asia-Pacific region.
The Fair is Shanghai’s foremost international art fair taking place this year - and is of particular relevance with the current growing interest in photography and the art fair boom taking place in China. Some of the world’s most renowned galleries will be exhibiting their photographers’ work, contributing to what will be both a glamorous and significant event. Examples of photographers whose work will be exhibited at the Fair include: Araki, Nick Brandt, René Burri, Edward Burtynsky, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Patrick Demarchelier, Yang Fudong, André Kertész, Peter Lindbergh, Vivian Maier, Steve McCurry, Daido Moriyama, Martin Parr, Robert Polidori, Sebastião Salgado, Josef Sudek and Edward Weston. Fair Director Alexander Montague-Sparey, (previously Head of Photographs at Christie’s London), who has worked with some of the biggest collectors, dealers and artists in the field and created many notable new auction markets for contemporary photographs, comments: “We are delighted to welcome photographers Roger Ballen, Birdhead and Martin Parr to the city of Shanghai on the occasion of the Fair. Our talks, education, exhibitions and VIP programme will provide our audience with everything they need to explore, from the more emerging - to most established collectable fine art photography available on the market today.
"I would like
to take this opportunity to thank the galleries who are participating, for
their dedication to the field of photography and for allowing us to showcase
the medium at the highest level. It has been an honour working with them to
produce this curated and elegant Fair. It is with much excitement that we
unveil the first edition of Photo Shanghai to an international audience of
collectors, experts and enthusiasts on September 5th 2014”.
The curated talks and events programme will run alongside the fair for its duration. These talks will be led by world renowned experts in their field and will include curators, experts, collectors, dealers and international photographers. Highlights include:
The Wall Street Journal’s photography director Jennifer
Pastore, in conversation with Alexander Montague-Sparey
Ruben Lundgren and Martin Parr - the show's
curators - introduce the project to a Chinese audience for the first time
New York’s International Centre of Photography’s
curator, explores the theme of Chinese Contemporary Photography. In
conversation with artist and Three Shadows Founder & Director, RongRong
In conversation with
celebrated South African photographer Roger Ballen
The comprehensive Photo
Shanghai VIP programme also includes a Private Collectors Summit and Forum at
which 30 leading photography collectors and experts from around the world,
will explore the current opportunities of the international photography market,
ensuring Shanghai welcomes and hosts some of the most influential photography
collectors in the world.
Photo Shanghai is delighted to host the first Beijing Photo Biennale’s exhibition: “Contemporary Photography in China, 2009 – 2014”, curated by Wang Huangsheng, its artistic director, Director of CAFA and the foremost curator of photography in China. Huangsheng, comments: “Photo Shanghai, as an event of the highest calibre, will definitely bring enormous changes to the development of photography art in China in many aspects, including academic research, professionalization, standardization, market development as well as public awareness”. Yet another welcome addition to the Fair will be Li Ningchun, Director of N-Minutes Festival, who has created especially for the inaugural fair, a cutting edge programme, establishing the connection between video art and photography, with a focus on Asia Pacific and Western artists. Leading partner -Maserati – have also created the Neptune Photography Contest, to support up and coming photography artists with the winning images displayed at the Fair. Other leading partners include: Sony, The Wall Street Journal - the principal international media partner of Photo Shanghai - with Modern Media acting as the Chinese media partner. A full list of partners can be viewed at www.photoshanghai.org. The confirmed list of attending galleries is as follows:
As Jeffrey Boloten,
Co-Founder & Managing Director of ArtInsight Ltd comments: “With the
intense infrastructure developments continuing apace; a major governmental
cultural industry focus and museum building drive, Christie's and Sotheby’s
as new entrants to the auction market, and the Basel Art Fair now a
formidable presence in Hong Kong, the Chinese art market is absolutely
heading in a positive direction for the future.”
Sandy Angus, co-founder of ART HK (now Art Basel Hong Kong) and Chairman of Montgomery and the World Photography Organisation comments: “The vast Asian art market has seen considerable growth over the past decade and in that time photography has been an ever-increasing part within the contemporary art space. China has the advantage of a treasure trove of ancient photographs as well as an appreciation of the medium of photography and its place in the art world. Photo Shanghai has the opportunity to draw on this interest amongst both Chinese and Asia-Pacific collectors.” Photo Shanghai is supported and advised by a board of international industry professionals including: Wang Huangsheng, Director, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing; Christopher Phillips, Curator, ICP, New York; Francis Hodgson, Financial Times Photo Critic and co-founder of the Prix Pictet, London; Lise Li, Founder and Owner, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai; Jeffrey Boloten, Co-Founder & Managing Director of ArtInsight Ltd, UK; Bill Hunt, Photography Consultant & Collector, New York; Zelda Cheatle, Portfolio Manager & Curator, London; RongRong, Photographer, Founder & Director, ThreeShadows +3 Gallery, Beijing; Wang Zhonglei, President, Huayi Brothers Media Corporation, Shanghai; Lisa Botos, Curator and Art Consultant. Photo Shanghai takes place at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from 5-7 September with a Press and VIP Preview on 4 September. Further details can be found at www.photoshanghai.org·
Highlights from the Gallery Collections (Gallery/Photographer/Artwork)
Behind the Gare Saint Lazare
Photographer:Henri Cartier-Bresson Gallery: Peter Fetterman, Santa Monica
The Afghan Girl, Pakistan
Photographer:Steve McCurry Gallery:Peter Fetterman, Santa Monica
New York City
Photographer: Elliott Erwittt Gallery: Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles The Wild Ones Photographer:Peter Lindbergh, Gallery:Camera Work, Berlin The Darkened Cities Photographer:Thierry Cohen Gallery: Courtesy Danziger Gallery, New York Flower series Photographer:Martin Parr Photo Agency:Magnum Photos Point de vue de Gras Photographer: Daido Moriyama Gallery:Amanasalto, Tokyo Untitled Photographer:Teun Hocks, France Gallery: TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam |
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