Transatlantic Festival Opening with Christian Cravo - President of IMCN - Adriana Cravo and Elaine Hazin - Via Press Comunicação.
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English artist, naturalized brazilian, Maureen Bisilliat remembers “Pele Preta”, her first essay, made 50 years ago.
Mediators: Christian Cravo, Adriana Cravo and Marcelo Reis
Maureen Bisilliat, photographer and documentarian, was awarded scholarships from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico/CNPQ [the National Technology Development Council] (1981-87), the Amparo à Pesquisa/FAPESP foundation (1984-87), and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1970). She was born in England in 1931, and settled in Brazil in 1952. She began working in photography in 1962, and was a photojournalist for ten years for the magazines Realidade and 4Rodas. Her travels resulted in a photographic project tracing the "photographic equivalences" between the worlds of Euclides da Cunha, João Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado, Jorge de Lima, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Mário de Andrade and Adelia Prado, and this was later published as a book. In 2003, the Instituto Moreira Salles acquired her photographic collection, and in 2009, the book FOTOGRAFIAS/Maureen Bisilliat [PHOTOGRAPHS/ Maureen Bisilliat] was published to accompany her exhibition. The institute's interest in her work rekindled the author’s interest in her own work, particularly that which up until then had been languishing in the archives. She was awarded the Porto Seguro Photography Award, the order of Ipiranga, the Order of Cultural Merit, and the Order of Defence in 2010, all of which demonstrate the positive repercussions of this rediscovery. This was then followed by 9 years working with the editor Felipe Lafé in a quasi-archaeological quest for around 20TB of material recorded in a variety of media. The organisation and success of this work and documentaries are now part of the Maureen Bisilliat video archive at the Instituto Moreira Salles.
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Sérgio Burgi presents an outlook of photography collections maintenance in the contemporary cultural scenery
Mediators: Christian Cravo, Adriana Cravo and Marcelo Reis
Sergio Burgi has a degree in Social Sciences from USP and a master's degree in Photographic Conservation from Rochester Institute of Technology (USA). He is a member of the Photographic Preservation Group of the Conservation Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Since 1999, he coordinates the photography area of the Moreira Salles Institute, the main institution dedicated to the storage and preservation of photographic collections in Brazil.
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In a rescue of the work of the German-Brazilian photographer Alberto Henschel, “Tipos” resignifies records of people of African descent and / or origin - dating from the 1860’s. Through digital photo painting and image manipulation, he recovers the past and gives these individuals the right to subjectivity.
Mediators: Christian Cravo, Adriana Cravo and Marcelo Reis
He has self-published three books of photography: Hecho en Mexico, Taciturnidade, and Omipipa. At the end of 2019, his book Tipos [Types] was published by the French publisher Edition Bressard. In 2020 he gave a workshop entitled "Pandemia: Maneiras de fotografar dentro de casa" [Pandemic: Ways to take photographs at home], for the QXAS Festival de Fotografia do Sertão Central [Sertão Central Photography Festival]. His series "Máscara” [Mask] was selected for the 6th Pequeno Encontro de Fotografia de Olinda/PE [ the Olinda, Pernambuco Photography Meeting]. "Máscara” was also selected for " mago" [Core], the third session in the series of videos from the project POR DENTRO DE UM TEMPO SUSPENSO [WITHIN SUSPENDED TIME], an initiative by Foto em Pauto, Foto Rio, the Solar Foto festival, and DOC Galeria. "Máscara" was also part of the Auckland Festival of Photography in New Zealand with a video showing a selection of over 200 images by 200 international photographers, curated by FORMAT.
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Chat about the curator's cut in the show currently in exhibition at IMS
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Adriana Cravo
Luiz Camillo Osorio (Rio de Janeiro, 1963) - Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department at PUC-Rio, researcher at CNPQ and curator at the PIPA Institute. Between 2009 and 2015 he was Curator of the Museum of Modern Art of the Rio de Janeiro. In 2015 he was curator of the Brazilian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2016 he curated the exhibition “Calder and Brazilian Art” at Itaú Cultural and in 2017 curated the 35th Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM-SP. Author of the following books: Flavio de Carvalho, Cosac&Naify, SP, 2000; Abraham Palatnik, Cosac&Naify, SP, 2004; Razões da Crítica, Zahar, RJ, 2005, Angelo Venosa, Cosac & Naify, SP, 2008; Olhar à Margem, SESI-SP and Cosac & Naify, SP, 2016. He was an art critic for the newspaper O Globo between 1997 and 2008 and for the curatorial council of MAM-SP between 2006 and 2008. He published essays and reviews in periodicals, magazines and catalogs and made independent curatorships in Brazil and abroad.
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Eder Chiodetto presents the work of the photographers Carolina Krieger, Natasha Ganme and Sheila Oliveira
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Marcelo Reis
Eder Chiodetto (1965, São Paulo) has a master's degree in Communication from ECA / USP, journalist, editor, professor and independent curator, having held more than 120 exhibitions in Brazil and abroad at institutions such as Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Shisheido Gallery, Tokyo; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Caixa Cultural (SP, BSB, RJ), Paço Imperial (RJ), Palácio das Artes (BH), among many others. He worked for thirteen years at Folha de S.Paulo as a photo reporter, editor and photo critic. He is currently curator of the MAM-SP Photography Collectors Club, publisher of the photo editor Fotô Editorial, director of the Ateliê Fotô study center and mentor of the Arte na Fotografia program, on the Arte1 television channel. He is the author of the books “O Lugar do Escritor” (Cosac Naify, 2002), “Geração 00: A Nova Fotografia Brasileira” (Edições Sesc, 2011), “Curatorship in Photography: from research to exhibition” (Ateliê Fotô / Funarte, 2013 ) and "Being a Director: A trip through 30 Brazilian public schools" (Fotô Editorial, 2017), among others. In recent years he has edited books by several Brazilian photographers such as Thomaz Farkas, German Lorca, Cristiano Mascaro, Araquém Alcântara, Luiz Braga, Rosângela Rennó and Eustáquio Neves, among others.
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Alex Webb comments on his wanders through meridional countries and presents the series "Ex Mundus Novus" (in English - with consecutive translation to Portuguese)
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Ângela Berlinde
Alex Webb was born in São Francisco, the USA, in 1952. He became interested in photography while a graduate student. In 1972, he attended the Apeiron Photography Workshop (In Millerton, New York) where he met Bruce Davidson and Charles Harbutt (photographers who were at the time working for the Magnum agency). He studied History and Literature at Harvard University while also studying photography at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (a part of the same university). He started working as a photojournalist in 1974, and just two years later, he also joined the Magnum agency. Webb is one of the most extraordinary street photographers of our times. His photography is distinctive for its strong use of colour, play of light and shadow, and for the complexity of his images that walk the line between order and chaos: as if the addition of just one more element - any element - might break the elegance and intelligibility of his photography.
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Thiago Borba presents the project “Black is Beautiful”, which brings prominence to black beauty and reveals the potency of brazilian colorism.
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Marcelo Reis
Thiago Borba was born in the city of Salvador, Bahia. He studied for a bachelor's degree in Marketing at the Faculdades Integradas da Bahia (2001-2005), and then began working with photography in 2006. When he moved to Spain, he worked as an assistant to photographers including Alfonso Zubiaga and Silvia Paredes. A year later, when he returned to Brazil, he settled in São Paulo, where he took photographs for many of the country's major magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and HQ. After 10 years living in the capital, looking back over his work up until that time, the artist decided to go back to his home city and start the Black is Beautiful project #BLVCKSBTFLL. In 2017, together with Caroline Lima, he took part in the photographic exhibition Jeito do Corpo [The way of the Body], which contained 16 photographs that constructed a narrative around the way Bahians move their bodies. Borba then showed eight photographs from the series Corpo Presente [Present Body] in São Paulo’s Espaço Paulista de Arte. In 2018, he contributed seven photographs from his Black is Beautiful series to the exhibition ‘Territori Paralelli’', which brought together fourteen Brazilian artists to represent Brazilian art and design in Milan, Italy. At the end of 2019, he gave his first solo exhibition at the Sunny Art Centre in London, entitled "Hidden Paradise", with thirty-six photographs from the series #blvcksbtfll.
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Mediators: Christian Cravo and Adriana Cravo
Fábio Gatti is a visual artist and teacher. Offers courses on creative processes in photography and photography theory / history at Ativa Atelier Livre (@ativa_atelier), in Salvador. Since 2014 he has been a collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at EBA-UFBA and was a substitute professor at the Faculty of Communication at UFBA (2019-2020). He holds a PhD in Arts from Unicamp and a Master in Visual Arts from EBA-UFBA. He did two specializations, one in Photography and the other in History and Theories of Art, both by UEL. He held a post-doctorate, with a CAPES-PNPd scholarship, at EBA-UFBA, discussing the relationships between the creative processes in photography and the Theory of Formativity by Luigi Pareyson, from which he organized, together with Rosa Gabriella de Castro Gonçalves, the book “The artistic operation: philosophy, design, photography and creative processes”, published in 2017 by Edufba. In 2018, he published, by the same publisher, the bilingual book “Future out of time: poetics, photography and uncertainties”, available for free download through the Ufba repository. Develops research with an emphasis on photographic practice and photography theory and historiography and its relations with the field of contemporary visual arts.
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Richard Mosse presents the complexity of conflicts in Democratic Republic of Congo through the series "Infra" (in English - with consecutive translation to Portuguese)
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Ângela Berlinde
Richard Mosse (b. 1980) lives and works in New York and Ireland. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Barbican Art Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Recent group exhibitions include Kunstmuseum Basel; ICA Boston; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Denver Art Museum; Salaam Kivu International Film Festival, Goma; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. He is a recipient of the Prix Pictet, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shifting Foundation Grant, the Yale Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Frankfurt Biennial B3 Award, a grant from the VIA Art Production Fund, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. Mosse represented Ireland at the 55th Venice Art Biennale. Mosse has published six books. His latest monograph, The Castle, published by MACK, was selected as one of the New York Times Magazine top ten Photobooks of 2018. Mosse earned an MFA in Photography from Yale University, a PG Dip in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London, an MRes in Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, and a First-Class BA Honours degree in English Literature from King’s College London. The Castle, lançada pela MACK, foi apontada pela New York Times Magazine como um dos dez melhores fotolivros de 2018. Mosse tem mestrado em Fotografia pela Universidade de Yale, especialização em Belas Artes pela Goldsmiths, Londres, mestrado pelo Consórcio de Londres, e um bacharelado com distinção em Literatura Inglesa pelo King’s College de Londres.
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Hirosuke Kitamura presents the provocative and enigmatic universe of the “Hidra” seriesHidra”
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Marcelo Reis
Hirosuke Kitamura was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Raised in Bangkok, Thailand, he was fluent in the Thai language, which he no longer remembers. He trained six days a week in a boxing gym in order to become a professional boxer, but had to give up his dream as his left eye was injured during a fight. In 1990, after graduating in Literature from the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, he came to Salvador through an exchange program and worked in a bank as an intern. He taught Japanese at a university just because he could speak Japanese. In 1995, Kitamura took a crash course in photography and began photographing with a Nikon FM2. In Bahia, he is known as Oske or China.
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Betina Samaia presents the series“Amazon - the end of green”
Mediators: Christian Cravo and Marcelo Reis
Betina Samaia, 1964, photographer from São Paulo, graduated in Psychology at PUC-SP. In her work, she seeks to record images of the unconscious, moving freely between past and present, reality and imagination. With the series Choreography of Chaos, Forests of the Imaginary, Noturns, Amazon, “India-Memories of what I have never seen”, Africa, among others, participated in several individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil, France and the United States. Over the last decade, her essays have been presented in spaces such as Espace des Arts Sans Frontières (Paris), La Quatriéme Image (Paris), Magic Brésil (Paris), Carroussel do Louvre (Paris), Le Magazyn (California), Historical Museum Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), Image and Sound Museum (São Paulo), Art 57 Gallery (São Paulo), Athena Gallery (Rio de Janeiro), Paraty em Foco-International Photography Festival (Rio de Janeiro) and Galeria Valu Oria (São Paulo). Betina is also the author of the books Noite em noite night in (2017), Azul (2015), by Editora Madalena and Amazonia - O Fim do Verde (2021), Edition Bessard.
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