FOTOGRAFISKA

Jumat, 20 Januari 2012

 A quick report on one of the best museums dedicated to photography that I have been to in a long time.  Fotografiska is located in the heart Stockholm where I was just a few days ago. It is a beautiful large building with 2,500 square meters of exhibition space along with an academy bistro, café, bar, conference rooms, shop and event spaces.  All this is housed in a former industrial Art Nouveau style building dating from 1906.

The architecture aside, they had four exhibitions on at the moment.  An absorbing show of work by Anton Corbijn who I have been familiar with but his recent work is really at a higher level than what I had seen in the past.  This Dutch photographer goes way beyond the cliché in his stunning portraiture of ‘celebrities’, artists, musicians, politicians and others.  It’s practically worth a trip just to see his work alone.

Other major shows are by Aitor Ortiz.  Beautiful, insightful minimalist black and white photographs of architectural based objects and studies of Light within semi and enclosed spaces. Margaret M. de Lange, a Norwegian, shows us a slew of depressingly interesting photographs of the disheartened, disenfranchised in spirit and edge of society human folk.  A lot of her work depicts violence in various forms against woman.  Not an easy exhibition to view but a definitely worthwhile group of images. The last of the exhibitions is by Ron Haviv, an American photojournalist who has covered both the initial Haitian earthquake in 2010 and it’s people two years later.  He works in the finest traditional photojournalistic vein.  His work is insightful and pungent with an eye for detail that speaks of large issues and deep feelings.

Do yourself a favour and visit this excellent demonstration of what an exceptional museum of photography this is.

PS. I am not Swedish nor do I own any shares in this establishment.
  

Brian Rybolt

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