Sunil Gupta's Work Reproduced in Whitechapel/MIT Anthology

January 8, 2015

In 2006, London’s famous Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books titled “Documents of Contemporary Art.” Radhika Singh’s interview with Sunil Gupta (Exposure magazine, 2008) is featured in the Sexuality issue.

Creative Studio, Whitechapel Gallery
Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Gallery and MIT press)
London

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Raghubir Singh at the Freer | Sackler

November 22, 2014 – May 31, 2015

Featuring more than 100 works created over the past five centuries, The Traveler’s Eye: Scenes of Asia provides glimpses of travels across the Asian continent, from trade voyages to tourist trips. The exhibition moves through a provocative series of themes, ranging from Edo-period views of Japan’s famed Tōkaidō Road to Raghubir Singh’s photographic essay on the ubiquitous Ambassador car in India. All of the works shed light on particular cultural histories of travel throughout Asia.

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The Traveler’s Eye: Scenes of Asia
Freer | Sackler
Washington D.C.

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Nandita Raman in A Different Order at Vienna Art Week

November 17-23, 2014

A Different Order is a two person exhibition and gallery talk that traces two different constructs of utopia as seen in India– the Western modernist city of Chandigarh built in the 1950s under Le Corbusier, and the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad which takes place every 12 years and can involve up to 40 million pilgrims. This sculptural, filmic, and photographic exhibition by Nandita Raman and Kay Walkowiak explores the concepts of failed utopia and the yearning for one.

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A Different Order
Vienna Art Week

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Sunil Gupta’s Sun City in New York

October 14, 2014 – January 4, 2015

Sunil Gupta’s Sun City series will be featured in the exhibition, The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History. Curated by Jonathan David Katz, the exhibition delves into representation of same-sex relationships from Antiquity, the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries, to contemporary periods.

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The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer HistoryLeslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art New York City

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Atelier Boba's Paris Photo Open Door Event with Osamu James Nakagawa

November 14, 2014, 7-10 pm

In conjunction with the start of Paris Photo and to celebrate Nakagawa’s book, Gama Caves, Atelier Boba has created a set of piezography prints for the artist’s limited edition portfolio, Darkness. Signed copies of Gama Caves will be also be available at Bookshop M (Stand: EE10, Paris Photo). Nakagawa’s work will also be on exhibit at Photo Off via Gallery Tanto Tempo.

An Evening with Osamu James Nakagawa
Atelier Boba
Paris

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Beatrice Pediconi in La Gioia, Brussels, and Ephemeral Pigments

October 7, 2014 – January 7, 2015

Beatrice Pediconi’s work will be included in La Gioia at Maison Particulière Art Center. The exhibition focuses on work from Italy through the eyes of three important collectors. At New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, the Display Cases in the Great Hall will feature Pediconi’s polaroids. Ephemeral Pigments features works from a few of her series exploring pigment, oil, and movement over a liquid tableau.

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October 14 – December 21, 2014
La Gioia Maison Particulière Art Center

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October 7, 2014 – January 7, 2015
Ephemeral Pigments
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
New York

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Pamela Singh in the Ackland Art Museum

September 19, 2014 – January 4, 2015

Pamela Singh’s “Tantric Self Portrait in Jaipur #1” 2000-2001 was selected from nearly 500 works that the museum had acquired in the past ten years to be on view in this 150 work exhibition, PhotoVision: Selections from a Decade of Collecting.

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PhotoVision: Selections from a Decade of Collecting
Ackland Art Museum at Chapel Hill

Pamela Singh, Tantric Self-Portrait in Jaipur #1, 2000-2001

Pamela Singh, Tantric Self-Portrait in Jaipur #1, 2000-2001

Congratulations to Osamu James Nakagawa, the 2014 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year

September 10, 2014

The city of Sagamihara (Kanagawa Prefecture) launched a photo festival in 2001 to celebrate photography as a witness of the past as well as a modern artistic means of expression. Each year, it awards honors to acclaimed photographers in Japan and Asia. It has become one of the most prestigious photo awards in Japan alongside the Ken Domon Award and the Higashikawa Photo Award. Past winners of the Sagamihara prize include: Hiroo Kikai, Seiichi Furuya, Shisei Kuwahara and Lieko Shiga.

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Majority Minority on PRI.org & NBC News

July 30 & September 14, 2014

Public Radio International and NBC News have recently written about Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s current project, To Majority Minority.

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September 14, 2014
How one photographer captures changing immigrant families by Monica Campbell
PRI.org

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July 30, 2014
Multi-Generational Photos of America’s Future Majority Minority by Monica Luhar
nbcnews.com

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Sunil Gupta Interview in Source Magazine

Summer 2014

Sunil Gupta was featured with an interview and portfolio in the Summer 2014 issue of Source Magazine..

‘A good way to learn who the photographer is, is to hear directly from them about their lives and work. Anthony Luvera has interviewed Sunil Gupta in the latest issue of Source about growing up in India, how his interest in photography and politics first meshed together, his formal photography education, autobiographical self-portraiture and being gay in queer circles.‘

Summer 2014
Sunil Gupta by Anthony Luvera
Source Magazine

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Derry Moore: Vintage + Color Reviews

June 27 & 30, 2014

Derry Moore’s exhibition at sepiaEYE has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal and the online magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie.

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Photography exhibitions of Leonard Freed, Derry Moore and ‘About a Woman:’ Visions of Women and Intimate Looks at India and Italy by William Meyers
Wall Street Journal

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New York : Derry Moore India, Vintage + Color by Sybile Girault
L’Oeil de la Photographie

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New Book by Angelika Sher

2014

Edited by Esa Epstein and soon to be out from Kehrer Publishing, Angelika Sher: Series 2005 – 2012 surveys Sher’s work during this time period, structured around four series: Upstairs, Growing Down, 13, and Twilight Sleep.

Accompanied by an essay by Elisabeth Biondi, the book shows the progression of Sher’s work and continued exploration of the themes of life, family, death, displacement, and temporality.

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Osamu James Nakagawa: Gama Caves reviews

April 18 & 24, 2014

Gama Caves by Osamu James Nakagawa, sepiaEYE’s inaugural exhibition was reviewed in the art blog Arte Fuse, and Slate magazine’s photography blog, Behold.

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“Gama Caves” Photos by Osamu James Nakagawa at sepiaEYE by Daniel Gauss
arte fuse

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Japan’s Mysterious and Beautiful Caves by Jordan G. Teicher
Slate: Behold, The Photo Blog

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