Photo London announces Valérie Belin as Master of Photography 2024 and other highlights
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Photo London announces Valérie Belin as Master of Photography 2024 and other highlights
Sim Chi Yin, Shifting Sands #25, 2017. © Sim Chi Yin. Courtesy of Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.



LONDON.- Photo London today announces its ninth edition with French photographer Valérie Belin named Photo London Master of Photography 2024, alongside two further major exhibitions as part of its Public Programme, and an exciting line-up of exhibitors.

A celebration of the medium in all its forms, Photo London presents the best of the past, present and future of photography. Highlights of the 2024 edition include:

● Valérie Belin, Photo London Master of Photography 2024, presents the exhibition ‘Silent Stories’;

● Robert Hershkowitz curates ‘The Magic Art of French Calotype. Paper Negative Photography 1846 – 1860’;

● Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation celebrates the 25th anniversary of its collection with the exhibition ‘See/Change — Art Collection Deutsche Börse @25’ curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann and Renée Mussai;

● Belmond is curating a photographic space that evolves their ‘Belmond Legends’ series, where Belmond’s iconic destinations are captured through the lens of internationally acclaimed artists;

● Kamiar Maleki, Photo London Fair Director, curates the Main Section of the fair for the first time;

● Charlotte Jansen curates the Discovery Section for emerging photographers and galleries;

● Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer of the Year returns for its fifth cycle with last year’s winner Léa Habourdin and fellow shortlisted artists on display;

● Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award returns for its second year, platforming outstanding works by students enrolled in photography degrees at UK universities;

● Thames & Hudson leads the 2024 Talks Programme, with contributions from
Nikon and FT Weekend;

● An enhanced VIP Programme collaborating with art and photography collections across London.

PHOTO LONDON 2024 EXHIBITIONS

Leading the 2024 Public Programme, is a solo exhibition by Valérie Belin, the ninth recipient of the Photo London Master of Photography Award which is presented each year to a living artist who has made an exceptional contribution to photography.

One of France’s most popular and acclaimed photographers, Valérie Belin (b. 1964) investigates the tension between the superficial appearance of things and their true nature, between reality and artificiality. Often using the human body as a vessel for abstraction and projected meaning, she has photographed live models and mannequins, masks and card sharks, dancers and bodybuilders, questioning the construction and fetishization of mainstream beauty ideals and enduring gender constructs.

On receiving the accolade, Belin stated: “I am deeply honoured to have been chosen to showcase my work as the 2024 Master of Photography. For me, this award represents the recognition of 30 years' work and will be an opportunity to show the Photo London audience the vitality of contemporary photography by women.”

Fair Founders Michael Benson and Fariba Farshad comment: “The work of the acclaimed French photographer Valérie Belin is intriguingly positioned at the intersection of art and photography. Over the course of her career her image making has attracted significant international recognition. She is represented in many important private and public collections around the world. In 2015 she became the first woman to win the Prix Pictet. Her winning series ‘Still Life’ typifies her approach featuring arrangements of cheap consumer items in elaborate compositions that echo classical vanitas and memento mori paintings. At this point in our own development Valérie’s brilliant playful mix of art and photography makes her the ideal Master of Photography.”

‘Silent Stories’ presents three decades of Belin’s works, reflecting an iconography that is deliberately silent through images that — in the words of their creator — ”are neither narrative nor documentary and tell no particular stories, but are designed to be seen as the mirror of fictions without words.”

The Fair extends its celebration of French photography with ‘The Magic Art of French Calotype. Paper Negative Photography 1846–1860’, curated by Robert Hershkowitz. Its title references Francis Wey’s pronouncement in 1851 that “Photography has attained a magic feeling that neither painting nor drawing could have reached.”

Hershkowitz explains the appeal of these early images: “When the pursuit and acquisition of fine photographs became the common passion of a very mixed group of art savvy individuals and American and Canadian museums in the late 1970s, early French paper negative photography was considered the most desirable, the images the most intriguing intellectually, the prints the most delectable. This exhibition introduces this body of photographic work to a British audience; it is almost non-existent in British institutions with perhaps a few dozen examples buried among hundreds of thousands of British ones, and these never exhibited.”

A third exhibition will be presented by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation marking the 25th anniversary of its collection — one of the most renowned international collections of contemporary photography, which comprises more than 2,300 works by 160 artists from 35 countries.

Curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, and Renée Mussai, London-based independent curator and scholar, and member of the Foundation's Advisory Board, ‘See/Change — Art Collection Deutsche Börse @25’ showcases current artistic positions and recent acquisitions centred around the theme of human condition.

Critically reflecting on poignant matters ranging from subjectivity and freedom, environmental and climate change to community activism, migration, transformation and selfhood through an international lens, works by artists such as Daniel Jack Lyons, Mohamed Bourouissa, Vanessa Winship, Sim Chi Yin, Marvel Harris and Sabiha Cimen will spotlight the diversity of the continuously growing collection, with a focus on portraiture(s) of people and places.

“We are very excited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse in 2024. In this special year, the exhibition at Photo London is a particular highlight of our programme and we are delighted to present a curated selection of our collection of contemporary photography to an international audience.” — Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation










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