Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV} has been invited to the Belfast Photo Festival to give a talk about “Spectacle and Photography” on June 9th 2013. Now we uploaded the accompanying slides of our talk to Slideshare in case you’re interested to know what we were talking about. Thanks again to Peggy Sue Amison and Michael Weir for their kind invitation.

“Belfast Photography Festival asked a group of Photographic Curators, Editors, Authors and Artists to share thoughts, ideas and images by artists who they feel explore ideas of Spectacle in photography both currently and in the past.

Curated by Peggy Sue Amison (Freelance Curator and Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre) this series of morning presentaions gives these Professsionals the opportunity to talk about exactly whats on their mind in regards to Specatcle and Photography.”

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Curated by Actual Colors May Vary + AM Projects
Crescent Arts Centre / 2-4 University Road, Belfast
Saturday June 8th, 11:00pm

Artists / Curators Julia Schiller & Oliver Schneider, Founding Editors of Photography Magazine Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV} along with Esther Vonplon & Gert Jochems, two members of the International Photographic Collective AM Projects present a projection programme focusing on the theme of Spectacle in Photography, as artists who also work as curators within their practice.

Total Programme time: approximately 1 hour
Free Admission, No booking required.

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♪   Music tracklist:
Noyce – Lucy, Sunday Records
Darius Vaikas – You Will Never Be Alone, Project: Mooncircle
Daisuke Tanabe – Floooofieeee, Project: Mooncircle
Evil Zed – Down, Emerald & Doreen Records
Monto – Homage, Melted Music
Kelpe – Answered, DRUT Records
Bunalim – Başak Saçlım, Guerssen/Pharaway Sounds

Thanks to all photographers, musicians and labels – and of course to everyone who came by for the screening! We had a lovely time and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. ; )

Our special thanks to the fabulous Peggy Sue Amison, Freelance Curator and Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, for initiating this event/collaboration, and of course to Festival Director Michael Weir and the entire festival team! You rock!

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Featured artists in ACMV’s projection “Spectacle in Photography”

Selected by ACMV:

• Maxwell Anderson → Absolute Present
• Alex Cretey Systermans → Selected Work
• Amaury da Cunha → Après tout (See the Book here)
  
• Tom Griggs → Selected Work
  
• Barry W Hughes → Selected Work
• David Nugent → Rhubarb
• Max Pinckers → The Fourth Wall (See the Book here)
  
• Louis Porter → Unknown Land (See the Book here)
• Alisa Resnik → Selected Work
• Alex Rose → The Myth of Everlasting Flowers
• Gilles Roudière → What are these mountains thinking about?
• Enrico Smerilli → Selected Work
• Toru Ukai (鵜養 透) → Machinery Invisible
• Wouter van de Voorde → Selected Work
• Zhang Xiao → They

+ Selected submissions from our open call for entries:

• Mandy Barker → SOUP
• Ana Galán → Viv(r)e la Vie!
• Claire Laude → When Water Comes Together With Other Water
• Krystel Marois → Untitled
• Cindy Morrissey → Volunteer
• Mandy O’Neill → Tradition Keepers and Delight Makers
• Pádraig Spillane → Selected Work
• Sara Stojković → An Afternoon
• Loïc Thisse → Cinéma Vérité
• Tomasz Wiech → Welcome In The Paradise

+ 12 images from students studying either at La Universidad de Antioquia or La Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes in Medellín, Colombia,
where Tom Griggs (Photographer / Educator / Founder of fototazo) teaches photography:

• Angélica María Restrepo
• Bryan Castaño
• Edwin Ochoa

• Eric Robledo Araujo
• Esteban Zapata

• Filipe Farias

• Juan Camilo Sánchez
• Juliana Sanchez Montoya
• María Isabel Madrid
• Natalia Lopera

• Stefany Cruz

• Tatiana Cogollo

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We would like to thank everyone again who submitted work to our open call for ‘Spectacle’!
There were so many outstanding submissions, regrettably by far more than we can possibly include in the projection (unless we wanted it to run for 3 hours). However, we would like to feature some of the submitted work on ACMV in the coming weeks!

We’d be happy if you joined us that evening, in case you happen to be in Belfast!
See you there,
xx Julia / Oliver

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Related links

→ Belfast Photo Festival 2013 | Screenings
→ Join/Bookmark the event on Facebook

→ Belfast Photo Festival 2013 | Full Festival Programme on issuu (PDF)
→ Belfast Photo Festival on Facebook
→ AM Projects
→ Crescent Arts Centre Belfast

Dear ACMV friends,

you can now subscribe to our Newsletter if you’d like to receive occasional news about new photography features on ACMV / international exhibition highlights / photography competitions / etc. etc.! The ACMV Newsletter will probably be sent out once a month…
xx Julia/Oliver (ACMV Editors)

Curated by Matthew Leifheit
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 30, 6-8pm
Exhibition: May 30 – June 29, 2013
CCNY | The Camera Club of New York
Gallery hours: Monday – Saturday 12 – 6 pm

Featuring:
Thomas Albdorf / Raphael Cohen / Sara Cwynar / Bobby Doherty / Trey Wright

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Curated by Matthew Leifheit as part of CCNY’s Guest Curators Program, this exhibition presents five visually indulgent approaches to the contemporary photographic still life. Embracing humor with dazzling color and brilliant light, these emerging artists test boundaries between the studio and the natural word, blending broad strokes between the two. These still lives present the artists’ desires objectified and reconfigured to be universally relatable. In them, disparate banal objects are combined with abandon in order to create visual pleasure. Here is What You Want.

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Matthew Leifheit (1988, Chicago) is a curator, publisher and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Having studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Spéos, Paris, he writes on photography for various publications including Time Magazine’s Lightbox, the blog Art Fag City, and the Camera Club of New York’s Guest Blog. He is currently a Contributing Editor to the blog Feature Shoot.

Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, an independent publication that functions as a platform for emerging artists. MATTE is sold at Printed Matter and collected by the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York.

→ CCNY | The Camera Club of New York
→ Join the Event on Facebook

IADT Photography Graduate Exhibition 2013
Opening: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, 6:30pm
Exhibition: May 23rd – 26th, 2013
Moxie Studios, Dublin, Ireland

→ www.facebook.com/actualcolorsmayvary

Vernissage: 16th May 2013, 17.00 – 20.00
Exhibition period: 17th May – 20th June, 2013
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 11.00 – 18.00, Saturday – Sunday 12.00 – 16.00

In his exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake Johan Thurfjell presents a suite of new works using a variety of media in which he translates observations from the natural world in his direct environment into lyrical mise-en-scenes.

Thurfjell often uses his own personal experiences as an aesthetic tool in his precisely crafted works. The source for the exhibition originates in his new home and studio in the Swedish countryside and the works describe simple observations from his surroundings.

By painting with varnish on paper, which allows light from a bulb to illuminate the painted area from behind, Thurfjell reproduces the phenomenon of sunlight projected through a window onto the wall of his atelier. In two free-standing works he recalls his surrounding countryside landscape in three-dimensional paintings on layers of glass. In sculptural works, elements from the landscape and the home are brought into the gallery space – branches and twigs appear encased in ice, and an appropriated window is mottled with rain drops in suspended animation.

At the end of the exhibition period there will be a book release for a new monograph on Johan Thurfjell’s work.

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Johan Thurfjell was born in 1970 in Solna. He is newly relocated to Tullgarn, outside Stockholm.
Solo exhibitions include Uppsala Konstmuseum (2011), Eskilstuna Konstmuseum (2010), Jim’s Room, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (2007), Färgfabriken in Stockholm (2004) and Index in Stockholm (2001). His group exhibitions include Museum of the ocean, Kaliningrad (2013), Dreams of Power, Poznan Castle, Poland (2012), Magasin 3 (2010), MMoMA Moscow (2009), the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork (2007), Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm (2007), 21c Museum in Louisville (2006), Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2006), Signal Malmö (2005), Momentum, Moss, Norway (2004), Norrköpings Konstmuseum (2003) and Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg. In June 2008 he was honoured with an award from the Marianne and Sigvard Bernadottes Artist Fund. In Sweden his work is found in the collections of Moderna Museet, Malmö Konstmuseum, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Magasin 3, among others.

→ Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
→ Johan Thurfjell

Belfast’s 2nd Photo Festival aims to be picture perfect

This event, which has been two years in the planning, aims to attract thousands of visitors to exhibitions and events being held in 30 different galleries, museums and public spaces across the city centre.

An exciting programme of exhibitions under the thematic ‘Spectacle’ will present a variety of styles and approaches to the medium with internationally renowned photographers such as Roger Ballen, Mirko Martins and Cedric Delcaux to name but a few.

Alongside will be 10 days of workshops, film screenings, portfolio reviews, tours and live events, which offer participation and enjoyment of the photographic medium and Northern Ireland’s rich photographic heritage.

Supported by Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Arts Council, Belfast City Council and Iris Colour – Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland’s premier visual arts Festival, is back for 2013 with some of the hottest national and international photographic talent from Belfast to the far corners of the globe from 6th – 30th June 2013.

Highlights include ‘On-Set’ (Ulster Museum), which presents behind the scenes photography taken during the filming of major features shot in Northern Ireland, including HBO’s highly successful series Game of Thrones. Or if you visit The Naughton Gallery (Queens University) you’ll witness the Star Wars Universe merge seamlessly into the world’s most modern cities within Cedric Delsaux’s series ‘Dark Lens.’

Encouraging enjoyment of the photographic medium, the Festival caters for the enthusiast to the professional, with workshops throughout the city. Including those lead by the prestigious international photographic co-operative, Magnum Photo and a masterclass by renowned photographer Roger Ballen.

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ACMV is happy to be part of Belfast Photo Festival 2013 in form of a presentation and projection under the theme ‘Spectacle’, on Saturday June 8th. Further details for both events can be found in the Festival Programme on Page 16 + 23, as well as here:
→ Belfast Photo Festival & ACMV #2 | Programme Launch

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The 2013 Programme: ‘Spectacle’ with the full list of exhibitions and events
can be viewed/downloaded here.

→ www.belfastphotofestival.com
→ Belfast Photo Festival on Facebook

Image © Cedric Delsaux, ‘Jungo Fet Paris’

The 2013 Programme: Spectacle” for the Belfast Photo Festival is now online!
The full list of exhibitions and events can be viewed/downloaded as PDF on issuu.

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ACMV is excited and looking forward to participating in two events on Saturday, June 8th 2013 during the opening weekend of the Belfast Photo Festival:

• Presentation/Talk “On My Mind – Spectacle and Photography”
  Black Box Belfast / 18 – 22 Hill Street, Belfast
  Saturday 8 June / 11am-12noon / Admission free
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• Projection “Artist as Curator – Spectacle in Photography”
  Crescent Arts Centre / 2-4 University Road, Belfast
  Saturday 8 June / 11:30pm / Admission free

Further details for both events can be found in the Festival programme on Page 16 + 23.
We’d be happy if you joined us for one or the other event in case you happen to be in Belfast!

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→ www.belfastphotofestival.com
→ Belfast Photo Festival on Facebook

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Related ACMV articles
→ Spectacle | Call for Entries
→ Belfast Photo Festival & ACMV