An interactive photographic exhibition that brings into visual dialogue the grassroots responses to environment and climate change issues in Bangladesh, China and Australia. Urban environmentalists in each country were invited to submit photo-stories on these themes, which show their shared struggles and inspiration behind taking local action. The images’ juxtaposition across the three countries’ various cultural, economic and environmental differences show the complexity inherit in ‘doing our bit for the planet’.
Photo workshops at the exhibition venue will provide opportunities for viewers to contribute to the dialogue through adding their own photo-stories.
German photographer Christian Vieler is back with more hilarious photos of dogs trying to catch treats (see previous Bored Panda post here). The photographer captures the precise moment right before a dog gets – or misses- a treat thrown in the air, and the expressions of pooches, ranging from exuberance to confusion, are nothing short of epic.
“Every shoot I am looking for that specific moment when the dog is looking as cute or funny as they can be,” – Vieler told Bored Panda. “That cannot be seen without the power of freezing motion – dog’s faces with magnificent lineaments, telling us stories of panic, desire and joy.”
Vieler, who is also a journalist, has been taking pictures of dogs since 2012, the year he purchased a new camera. “I shoot a snapshot with every dog-guest in my studio. Some are pretty good, some not and a few are really gorgeous.”
Having screened both at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festivals, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s (Inside Deep Throat, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) compelling and candid documentary examines the career of one of America’s greatest and most controversial photographers. Seen through the prism of the culture wars between America’s Christian right and the National Endowment of the Arts, what emerges is a balanced and powerful document on the power of artistic expression and the devastating legacy of HIV/AIDS.
“I was tumbling through Tumblr, one of my favourite places on the internet to discover history’s lesser-known muses and there, on page thirty-something of my browsing, I stopped at a photograph of an androgynous woman taken by Marianne Breslauer, a name unfamiliar to me. As I began googling her work, my screen was soon taken over by black and white images revealing her captivation with the elegant 1930s tomboy style, which was finding its niche right around the time Marianne had decided to pick up a camera.
Marianne’s career as a photographer was a very short one and she left behind only a small photographic body of work, created in between 1928 and 1938. She was born in Berlin in 1909 and travelled to Paris at the dawn of the 1930s where she briefly became a pupil of Man Ray. When she returned to Germany, her photographs were published in several leading magazines, but she would soon have to confront the anti-Semitic practices that were coming into play in her home country. Her employers wanted to continue publishing her avant-garde photos, but under a pseudonym to hide her Jewish background.”
