Aperture Photo No-Nos Online Variety Show

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In case you missed the Livestream. I was happy to join other fantastic photographers to give a ‘performance’ for the book launch of Photo No-Nos

Around a year ago, mushroom master Jason Fulford (@mushroom_collector) asked me if I wanted to contribute to a book about taboos in photography he is editing, I said yes immediately without any hesitation.

Now, the book published by @aperturefnd is here!

The book launch is a variety show with performances by many of the contributors. I am happy to be showing part of my new work online. It will be streaming on YouTube on 24 June 7pm ET (US time)

What is a photo no-no you ask?
Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, something even arbitrary. At turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos (Aperture, 2021) features ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals. Not a strict guide, but a series of meditations on “bad” pictures, Photo No-Nos is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharpen their visual communication skills.

KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 & Backlight Festival 2020

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While my work is still exhibiting at Backlight Festival 2020 in Tampere, Finland, I am happy to report that my book Para-images is shortlisted for the Kassel dummy award 2020. A big thank you to the talented @joosung.kang for designing the book.

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395 books from 44 countries 💥 Thank you to all KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 participants + congratulations to these 47 artists on our SHORTLIST:

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Andrea Alessandrini (IT) – Piccola Russia

Alex Avgud (RU/NL) – Exercises in Freedom

Marta Bogdańska (PL) – Shifters

Arthur Bondar / Oksana Yushko (RU) – Daisy Rivers

Christelle Boul. (CH) – Through Glass

Maryna Brodovska (UA) – My dear Vira

Anna-Tia Buss (CH) – Pomegranates grow in winter

Victoria Chaushyan (NL) – Only 1 room left!

Don Claude (US) – Shedding Light

Marina Cordes / Signe Heldt (DE) – ebenda

Nadezhda Ermakova (RU) – An ordinary story

Jana Evers (DE) – La ZAD

Yoshikatsu Fujii (JP) – Hiroshima Graph - Everlasting Flow

Pedro Guimaraes (PT) – Rato Tesoura Pistola

Claudia Hans (MX) – Wolf Hans

Yara Jimmink (NL) – When Summer Became Winter

Jérémie Jung (FR) – Pāri Mūriem

Kohei Kawatani (JP) – Tofu-Knife

Josef Kovac (SE) – Searching for Sergei

Youqine Lefèvre (BE) – The Land of Promises

Veronica Losantos (DE) – Archaia

Andrei Marin (RO) – Quarantine

Kazuhiko Matsumura (JP) – Elusive Rainbow

Lisa Mazenauer (CH) – Mitholz

Paulina Mohr (DE) – Hier ist die Oberfläche

Paulina Mohr / Ingrid Timmerarens (DE) – Der ganzen Familie

Daria Nazarova (RU) – The Spider‘s House

Marella Oppenheim (GB) – Under Dark Roots/Colonia Dignidad

Takuji Otsuka (JP) – My precious one

Michelle Piergoelam (NL) – The untangled tales

Malte Radtki (DE) – Specimens

Caio Reisewitz (BR) – Novo Progresso

Btihal Remli (MA/DE) – the djinni diaries

Kourtney Roy (FR) – The Other End of the Rainbow

Etsuko Sato (JP) – PLACES AS POINTS

Ardelle Schneider (DE) – Butterflies and Caterpillars

Suzanne Schols (NL) – Polite Fictions

Agnieszka Sejud (PL) – HOAX

Yvonne Shaw (NZ) – Auxiliary Movement

Anastasia Shpilko (RU) – You Just Missed Her

Alina Simmelbauer (DE) – Garcías Tochter

Moe Suzuki (JP) – 底翳 SOKOHI

Krzysztof Światły (PL) – Paradise Rivers Are Drying Up on Earth

Kyoko Takemura (DE) – Odd Recipes

Malte Uchtmann (DE) – Ankommen

Vinita Vilcane Krilova (LV) – A Quest for Freedom Vol.2

Sheung Yiu (FI) – Para-images: Cultural Ideas & Technical Apparatuses Beyond

White Paper Manifesto at Pori Biennale 2020

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Our fourth biennale, Not to Sing Like a City Bird Sings, is here!

Reposaari is a very special place for me, and this has been a very special project, in so many different and surprising ways! Thank you for being part of it:

Artists: 55-98 (Verna Kovanen & Krista Seppälä), Athanasía M. Aarniosuo, Helen Aleksandrova, Maria Andreou, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Jernej Čuček Gerbec, Zahrah Ehsan, Pia Euro, Farbod Fakharzadeh, Saara Ha Hannus, Henna Karoliina, Vappu Jalonen, Anna Jensen, Eliisa Suvanto & Anni Venäläinen, Parsa Kamehkhosh, Marta Khrshanovskaya, Sara Kärpänen, Harri Laakso, Paola JV, Ilai Elias Ilukka, Lauri Linna, Saara Mahbouba, Martina Adela, Mahnai Motazedi, Catfish Dan, Niko Tii Nurmi Sipiläinen, Tommi O'Likainen, Ragnar Rael, Taina Rajanti & Kitchen Philosophy, Miissa Rantanen, Niilo Rinne, Anne Anne Katriina Roininen, Hanne Salonen, Shubhangi Singh, Matti Tainio, Marloes van Son, Kenneth Yiu

And Kiia Beilinson, graphic design and Ville Niemi, web development. And, curator partner in crime Eliisa

link: https://porinkulttuurisaato.org/poribiennale2020/

A short review of my Exhibition on a Swedish art blog Nytid

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Sheung Yiu: The Twinkling of an Eye.Hippolyte, Georgsgatan 8-10, Helsingfors. Till 26.1 2020.

Dripp, dropp. Att förstå och beskriva något så vardagligt som fallande vattendroppar var en utmaning för vetenskapen innan fotografiet utvecklat verkligt korta exponeringstider. Fysikern Arthur Worthington använde – för att uttrycka det enkelt – den subjektiva efterbild som uppstår när en blixt avfyras samtidigt med att en droppe faller. Baserat på detta tecknade han dropparna.

Det är en paradox idag att vetenskapens krav på exakthet möttes med en metod helt baserat på en visuell tolkning av något så svårverifierat som en tillfällig retning av retina.

Sheung Yius utställning The Twinkling of an Eye mediterar över vatten och ljus med utgångspunkt i detta. Här finns en annan typ av poetiskt närmande än i Emma Rönnholms på många sätt liknande utgångspunkter. Här är själva fenomenet och materialiteten underordnade. Med vatten, fotografier, plast och glas konstrueras små tablåer som både har drag av vetenskapens nära observation och en poetisk – och fortfarande precis – strävan att skapa nya kluster av betydelser.

Link: https://www.nytid.fi/2020/01/konstkollen-konceptuellt-tankens-och-bildens-oformodade-moten/

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KONE working grant to continue my research

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Thank you very much for all the congratulatory wishes from friends and families. I am very happy to announce that I am awarded a working grant from KONE foundation @koneensaatio to pick up on my thesis research on Para-images and continue to focus on CGI images and how they continually shape our ontologies and subjectivities.

I want to sincerely thank Bassam El Baroni, my thesis supervisor and Maija Tammi, who gave me invaluable advice during the process.

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