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It's all about Freedom: Pride Photo Award and Exhibition
September 20th, 2016Once again, the annual Pride Photo Award winners have been announced to the public, and the exhibition is now open in a most unexpected venue: a church. The Oude Kerk (Old Church) in Amsterdam...
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Unseen Photo Fair and Festival
September 19th, 2016Unseen is an annual international photography fair and festival taking place in Amsterdam that highlights the most recent developments in the world of contemporary photography. The festival will...
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Pattern Recognition: An Interview with Coralie Vogelaar
coralie vogelaarSeptember 14th, 2016interviewWhy is it that we, collectively as a society, find one image more appealing than another? How do we arrive at those preferences and what is the impact of them? Dutch artist Coralie Vogelaar (1981) begins to examine these questions by looking at the patterns that emerge from massive amounts of...
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The Creation of a Self-Image: An Interview with Ina Jang
ina jangSeptember 12th, 2016interviewIna Jang delves into the idea of beauty with her series There Is No There There. The project started after Jang encountered some manipulated images posted online, from girls who were heavily influenced by the ‘Ulzzang’ culture in Korea. Ulzzang is a Korean portmanteau that combines the words...
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Biennial Festival Images Vevey
September 7th, 2016Biennial Festival Images Vevey opens once again in late summer, offering a pleasant excuse to greet the autumn among the Alps. The surprising nature of this festival involves the whole town of Vevey, on Lake Geneva, turning it into an open air gallery, where photographs are exhibited outdoors on...
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BredaPhoto Festival 2016: See YOU in Breda
September 6th, 2016Breda might not be the best-known city of The Netherlands, but here’s one great reason for paying a visit between summer and autumn: the BredaPhoto International Photo Festival. BredaPhoto opens its 7th edition on September 15, welcoming visitors for seven weeks of events, featuring indoor and...
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What Looking Looks Like: An Interview with Stephen Shore
stephen shoreAugust 31st, 2016interviewFew photographers have been as influential on the evolution of the art of photography as American photographer Stephen Shore (1947). In the ‘70s, when black and white was still considered the medium of ‘serious’ work, he was one of the frontier artists to use colour photography, and he...
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Cerebral Inquisitiveness, Or Why Italia O Italia Is(n't) Street Photography
federico clavarinoAugust 27th, 2016Federico Clavarino's book 'Italia O Italia' (Akina, 2015) documents “metaphysical cities [that] hide the enigma of a timeless place between sunburst dead-ends and shadowy arcades.” Or that is at least how the publisher has attempted to put it in words. Federico Clavarino (Italy, 1984) is thus...
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GUP'S INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER: MARTIJN KORT
August 23rd, 2016From today until September 1 Martijn Kort is taking over GUP's Instagram. Martijn is an award-winning architecture and cityscape photographer from the Netherlands, who as a child wanted to become an architect but ended up working as a pilot. However, the love for architecture and design remained...
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BredaPhoto 2016
August 22nd, 2016BredaPhoto is a biannual international photo festival, which is organized since 2003 in the city centre of Breda, The Netherlands. BredaPhoto is, as always, based on a social theme, and this year’s theme is YOU, celebrating the flexible and resourceful individual. More than fifty photographers,...
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CRIS TOALA OLIVARES AND SONY’S PLAYMEMORIES CAMERA APPS
cris toala olivaresAugust 17th, 2016interviewIn collaboration with Sony, we asked Amsterdam-based photographer Cris Toala Olivares to discover his adopted hometown by photographing it with the Sony α7R II camera and brand new PlayMemories Sky HDR Camera App, from Sony’s online PlayMemories store. Besides the stunning photos of Amsterdam we...
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Introduction to GUP #50 - Hidden Gems
akkara naktamnaAugust 17th, 2016It’s arrived, le déluge.With the amount of images flurrying around us at any given time – from posters on buildings, to pictures in our pocket devices – we’ve begun to take them for granted. Photography has become so ubiquitous, so essential, so mundane, that it’s almost invisible. So, how are we...
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True color experiences with Sanja Marusic
sanja marusicAugust 15th, 2016In the search for talented photographers EIZO and GUP received over 100 submissions from photographers interested to win a EIZO CG2420 screen. GUP editors and EIZO experts appointed Sanja Marusic as a winner. With striking cross-overs between fashion and art photography, original concepts as...
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GUP's Instagram takeover: Matt Henry
matt henryAugust 11th, 2016Starting today until August 20, Brighton-based photographer Matt Henry (b.1978, North Wales) is taking over GUP'S Instagram. Henry has a BA in Politics and a MA in Photography, and in both his studies he researched extensively the politics and the culture of America during the 60s and 70s. In his...
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Close Enough
alessandro pensoAugust 10th, 2016columnIn the early 2000s, when the photographer duo Broomberg & Chanarin were allowed into a psychiatric hospital in Cuba to take pictures, they noted that the patient they were going to photograph was “up to his eyebrows in medication”. The doctors said it was okay to photograph him, but Broomberg...
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Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs
robert mapplethorpeAugust 4th, 2016columnAmerican photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was famous for his photos of flowers, celebrities and, controversially, for his sexualised male nudes and images of sadomasochism. Mapplethorpe treated this wide variety of topics all in his trademark style: against neutral backgrounds with...
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The Cultural Experience of Disability: an Interview with Peter Mansell
August 2nd, 2016In his series Paralysis Un-seen, British photographer Peter Mansell (b. 1958) extends an invitation to observe and understand disability as a cultural experience. Mansell has been for years an activist for disabled people's rights, and photography became a means to spread a political message but...
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GUP's Instagram Takeover: Romina Ressia
romina ressiaJuly 31st, 2016From today until August 9, Romina Ressia is taking over GUP's Instagram. Born near Buenos Aires in 1981, Ressia studied Photography, Art Direction and Scenography, but it was not until she graduated in Economics that she started building her career as an artist. Her focus in modern issues is...
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Sassa by Zohra Opoku
zohra opokuJuly 20th, 2016newsFor a new exhibition in Ghana, Zohra Opoku (b. 1976) shows her works on the intersection between installation art and photography. Central to the work of Opoku, a German-Ghanaian photographer, is the use of textiles, used in costumes, shown drying on clotheslines, and out of their original...
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GUP's Instagram Takeover: Berkin&Mika
July 20th, 2016From today until July 29 the duo Berkin&Mika are taking over GUP's Instagram, posting from London. The work of Bakhtiyar Berkin and Mika Barny poses a question about whether consumer demand does indeed represent modern society. They take objects made solely for consumption, and convert them...
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