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Although photography initially emerged as a technological invention, it quickly evolved into an expressive artistic practice. Pictorialist photographs from the nineteenth century were crafted to resemble paintings, while proponents of straight photography in the early twentieth century aimed for a purely photographic approach to conveying meaning. Street photographers dedicated the medium to capturing fleeting moments, and in the latter part of the twentieth century, many photographers embraced staging and directing to employ photography as a means of artistic visual communication. Straight photography derives expressive meaning from the observed scene, while directorial, or staged photography involves creating a scene based on a preconceived notion. Art photography today encompasses various genres and creative practices, ranging from portraiture, landscape, and still life to staged, abstract, and conceptual photography. More recently, AI-generated photo-based images have also asserted their presence in the art photography scene. In this exhibition, contemporary photographers demonstrate their understanding of photography as an expressive fine art practice in the twenty-first century.

 

This PH21 Gallery exhibition is presented in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in collaboration with Valid World Hall Gallery, a renowned centre for the visual arts.

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Curator's choice

• Raheleh Mohammad: Collapsing Toward Memory

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Honourable mentions

• Diana Nicholette Jeon: The Fish #1 from the series 'Hiding from the Truth' (AI-Mediated Post-Photographic Composited Image from 2 Text and Image Generated AI images; composited and altered in post.)

• Laura Malaterra: The Toys, N°4

• Buku Sarkar: Untitled from the series 'Containment Diaries'

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Exhibiting photographers

Patrícia Abreu (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Bo Bergström (Stockholm, Sweden), Stu Bloom (Fairfield, CT, USA), Lindsay Brice (New York, NY, USA), Ole Brodersen (Lyngør, Norway), Robert Brook (Shrewsbury, UK), Jenny Chernansky (Chicago, IL, USA), David A. Cohen (Highland Park, IL, USA), Michael Corthell (Millis, MA, USA), Beki Cowey (Guisborough, UK), Ágota Csiszér (Budapest, Hungary), Dorie Dahlberg (Long Branch, NJ, USA), Maks Dannecker (Berlin, Germany), Erik Deerly (Lafeyette, LA, USA), Paul Delpani (Ascona, Switzerland), Mark A. Dierker (Dubuque, IA, USA), Edit Ebers-Ujvári (Budapest, Hungary), Laurie Toby Edison (San Francisco, CA, USA), Mercedes Fernández (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Sari Fried-Fiori (Katy, TX, USA), László Gálos (Salgótarján, Hungary), Liam V. Gildea (Marblehead, MA, USA), Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith (Grand Forks, ND, USA), Paul Gravett (Vancouver, BC, Canada), Maureen J Haldeman (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Jere Hiltunen (Barcelona, Spain), Leena Holmström (Oulu, Finland), Diana Nicholette Jeon (Honolulu, HI, USA), Gary Justis (Bloomington, IL, USA), John Kosmer (Fly Creek, NY, USA), Mary C Legg (Prague, Czech Republic), Vita Foldi Levar (Palatine, IL, USA), Laura Malaterra (Genoa, Italy), Dan McCormack (Accord, NY, USA), Richard S. McWherter (Derry, PA, USA), Janet Milhomme (Los Angeles, CA, USA), J.J. Miller (Tuscaloosa, AL, USA), Raheleh Mohammad (Cleveland, OH, USA), Allen Morris (Spearfish, SD, USA), Robert Morrissey (Portland, OR, USA), Sarah Nesbitt (Detroit, M, USA), Fern L. Nesson (Cambridge, MA, USA), Joseph O’Neill (New York, NY, USA), Nancy Oliveri  (New York, NY, USA), Valentina Paparozzi (Viterbo, Italy), Cyrille Parry (Saint-Germain-en-laye, France), Susanna Patras (Reno, NV, USA), Jiaxian Peng (Gaayein) (London, UK), John Potter (Sherrill, IA, USA), Camilo Ramirez (Boston, MA, USA), Maira Ray (Paris, France), Russ Rowland (New York, NY, USA), Karen Safer (Playa del Rey, CA, USA), Buku Sarkar (New York, NY, USA), George Shelley (Oxford, UK), Paula Siwek (Chapel Hill, NC, USA), Joshua Tann (Long Beach, CA, USA), Ken To (Hong Kong), Tamás Varga (Budapest, Hungary), Anastasia Volkova (Toronto, Canada), Vildan We (Cologne, Germany), Nina Weinberg Doran (Mount Kisco, NY, USA), Yalan Wen (New York, NY, USA), Ingrid-Nathalie Wizun (Montreuil, France), Georg Worecki (Daleiden, Germany), Root Yarden (Upper Galilee, Israel)

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