Representing over 500 artists from the five continents, the 107 galleries and publishers who have come together at the Carousel du Louvre offer the 40,000 or so visitors expected at Paris Photo this year a comprehensive overview of photography from the end of the 19th Century to the present day. On show is a wide variety of styles, practices and techniques – from documentary photography to fashion, art, photojournalism…

Early Photography(1839 – 1914)
Scientific Photography
Bernard Quaritch, London
For its first participation in Paris Photo Bernard Quaritch is bringing a selection of 19th Century scientific photographs: images taken through a microscope of plants and work on astronomy. The images have been selected for their quality and their capacity to transcend their primary scientific purpose of recording and measuring to become objects of beauty or curiosity to the modern eye. Alongside studies by Aubry (1811-1877) and Braun and Scowen, Quaritch is showing several prints from Loewy & Puisieux’s photographic Atlas of the Moon (1896-1910).There is also a handsome portrait by Julia Margaret Cameron of scientist and astronomer
J.F.W. Herschel, who discovered the properties of sodium hyposulphite. He was close to the artist and introduced her to science.

Fifty British Calotypes
Robert Hershkowitz, Sussex
The project put together for Paris Photo pays tribute to the recent exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay entitled “L’Image Révélée,” focussing on the calotype.This early photographic process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1840 rivalled the daguerreotype.The gallery’s “50 British Calotypes” are examples of the work of the British practitioners of this technique who took it abroad during the period between 1845 and 1855 and brought back many images from their travels. Among these are exotic and atmospheric images of Rangoon by Lineus Tripe, photographs of Spanish monuments by Clifford, street scenes from Genoa by Edward Blackhouse, orientalist images by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson as well as images of Russia by Roger Fenton.

Anonymous Photography
Lumière des Roses, Montreuil

As the only gallery in France specializing in this field, this year, Lumière des Roses is presenting anonymous photographs from the 19th and 20th Centuries. The selection of images from 1890 to 1940, drawn from family albums or archives, includes pictures of forgotten people, snapshots from daily life at the time and more intimate compositions. In line with this year’s Japanese theme, the gallery is also presenting several rare portraits from the Meiji era,as well as anonymous images of Tokyo in the 1930s (see section on Japan Country of Honour). Specialized in vintage photography, Hans P. Kraus (New York) is presenting a rare selection of works by Europe’s pioneers: Julia Margaret Cameron, Giacomo Caneva, Roger Fenton, Firmin Eugène Le Dien, Gustave Le Gray,William Henry Fox Talbot, Joseph,Viscount of Vigier…

Vintage and Modern Photography (1917 – 1980)
1917 to 1930
Surrealist Photography
Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris
The gallery is showing a selection of historic images from the 1930s and 40s by Man Ray, Brassai, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Philippe Jusforgues, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, Raoul Ubac…

Modern Hungarian Photography

Hôtel du Nord, 1938, Photographs by Alexander Trauner
Vintage Gallery, Budapest
Under the theme “Modern Hungarian Photography from 1919 to 1939,” Budapest’s Vintage Gallery has brought a selection of work by the best Hungarian photographers of this key period: Marta Aczel, Angelo, Karoly Escher, Ivan Hevesy, Kata Kalman, André Kertész, Imre Kinszki, Klara Langer, Zoltan Seidner, Istvan Szendra and Erno Vadas. The gallery is also showing a selection of prints byAlexander Trauner (1906-1993) from the still photographs he took during the filming of Marcel Carné’s “Hôtel du Nord” in 1938.Alexander Trauner arrived in Paris in 1929. He initially wanted to be a painter, but most of his career was as a movie set designer.He worked with some of the greatest film-makers of his time, including Marcel Carné, Pierre Prévert,Orson Welles, Billy Wilder…

Kicken Gallery, Berlin
The gallery is showing highlights of European Avantgarde from the 1920s and 1930s, notablyUmbo’s montage “The raging reporter, 1926”used to promote Walter Ruttmann’s film “Berlin:symphony of a great City, 1927”. Umbo (Otto Umbehr, 1920-1980) was stylistically on the most significant photographers of 1920’s Europe.

1940 to 1950
Colour Photographs by Erwin Blumenfeld
Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris
At Paris Photo, the gallery is dedicating a large part of its space to the work of Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969), showing a selection of restored colour prints from the early post-war era. Born in Berlin, Erwin Blumenfeld moved to the Netherlands and later France, where his talent as an avant-garde artist was soon recognised. He published his photographs in the leading magazines of the day. Fleeing Nazi persecution in 1941, he went to New York where he became one of the most important fashion photographers of his generation. Although the photographs on show were taken in America, the miseen- scène and style are directly influenced by European photography of the 1920s and 30s, in particular by the Dadaist and surrealist movements. Playing with artificial light, framing, the set and accessories, Edwin Blumenfeld created images of timeless beauty and eternal femininity.

The Chicago School
Stephen Daiter, Chicago

For its first time at Paris Photo, the gallery is concentrating on Chicago-based photographers over the past seven decades. From the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes, Arthur Siegel on through to Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Kenneth Josephson, Barbara Crane and Ray Metzker (1950s-1960s).

American photographers
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
The gallery is featuring three generations of American photographers: Helen Levitt (b.1913) is recognized as one of the greatest living photographers, a true poet in the realm of street photography. Charles Harbutt (b.1935) and Ray K. Metzker (b.1931) are contemporaries with very different visions.While both utilize the common man and his environs, Harbutt seeks out the quirky or odd situation and renders it in an emotional way, and Metzker, on the other hand, seems to find the most beautiful, simple, elegant abstractions in the commonplace. The portraits and interiors of Bruce Wrighton (1950-1988) are almost heartbreaking in their straightforward depiction of persons and places of upstate.

New York in the 1980’s.

1960 to 1970
Karl Hugo Schmöltz, Advertising
Photography/Vintage of the 1960s
Kudelk Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne
The gallery is showing a selection of colour advertising photographs made at the Schmölz & Huth studio. Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917-1986) had made his name as a photographer of architecture. In 1956, he married Walde Huth who had won acclaim as a “New Look” fashion photographer. Commissioned by the automobile industry as well as furniture and design companies, the Cologne-based studio employed up to 20 people. The composition, colour codes and the way in which the cult objects of the day – in particular the motorcar – were put together in very pure uncluttered images set a trend towards a mode of visual expression that has greatly evolved and endured to this day.

The new German school of landscape
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
Specialized in the New Topographers, a movement that redefined the approach to landscape photography in America in the 1970s, the gallery revisits the new German school of landscape which emerged in the 1970s in Essen and Düsseldorf. Its objectivist aesthetic and impersonal style influenced several generations of photographers. The gallery is offering a selection of works made between 1970 and 2000 that reflect the little-known dialogue on the subject of the landscape between the Essen and Düsseldorf schools, and its contemporary redefinition. On offer are works by Heinrich Riebesehl, Bern and Hilla Becher,Wilhelm Schuermann, Joachim Brohm, Tata Ronkholz, Thomas Struth, Simone Nieweg, Bernhard Fuchs and Frank Breuer.

Contemporary Photography
Personal exhibitions:
Gerardo Custance/Stéphane Couturierat Polaris, Paris
For Paris Photo, Polaris Gallery has brought together the work of two photographers, one Spanish, Gerardo Custance (b. 1976), the other French, Stéphane Couturier, who have a very different approach to landscape. In “Castilian Fields,” a series made in 2007/2008, Gerardo Custance composes his images with extreme precision, highlighting the plastic qualities of the landscapes in his native land. He transforms what could be seen as a “snapshot” of the countryside into rigorously classic compositions infused with light. Also on show are works from Stéphane Couturier’s latest series shot in Chandigarth, the Indian city built by Le Corbusier, commissioned by Nehru in the 1950s. The city was supposed to stand as a symbol of modern India, but Chandigarth came to embody all the contradictions of this kind of urban utopia. In this series, Stéphane Couturier engages the subjectivity of the viewer in a new way. The documentary elements that are emblematic of his work are present here in profusion, making it possible for the images to be seen in a multitude of ways.The documentary elements that make up the image remain intact yet the authenticity of the factual aspect is profoundly put into question. In the process, Couturier has created a new form of photographic fiction that is simultaneously utopian and factual.

“The two Guillaumes,” Guillaume Leingre and Guillaume Lemarchal at Michèle Chomette, Paris
The gallery has decided to focus on the work of two young French artists, which it represents exclusively, since 2004 in the case of the former and 2006 for the latter. Guillaume Leingre, (b. 1971), sees photography as a space where he can experiment and analyse. He adopts a specific protocol for each of his series. He is currently artist in residence at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, and presents here two yet unseen compositions each made up of 36 photographs of letter boxes as well as another made up of 36 postcards. This conceptual work was based on the following protocol: Fuji seen from Kanagawa,” better known as “The Wave”, from the album of 36 prints of Mount Fuji by Hokusai (1760-1849.) Find 216 different letter boxes in Kyoto, or Japan as a whole.The letter boxes are red. Write in red on the back of the postcard the time, date, place and a description of the visual and auditory environment in that location. Send the postcard to my Paris address. Photograph each letter box head-on from 4m away, and thus obtain 216 urban images of Japan. Back home, place the postcards side by side in order to obtain an “ocean.” Facing that, place the 216 photographs of letter boxes, printed in 15 x 15 cm format.” Guillaume Lemarchal (b.1974),winner of the 2008 HSBC photography prize, works on landscape on the basis of individual and collective memory, traces of childhood, private letters and secret ambiguity.His series “Paysages exfiltres, 2004-2008,” on show at Paris Photo, are images of deserted public parks, abandoned military installations and derelict buildings, preferably shot in winter alongEurope’s outer borders (Northern Germany, Estonia, Ukraine…). Says the artist: “Concrete, ice, snow, light, silence and suppressed cries are revealed and then disappear into a space inhabited by the ghosts of history.”

Suntag Noh chez Art Agents Gallery, Hambourg
For its first time at Paris Photo, the gallery has chosen to bring several series made between 2000 and 2007 by Suntag Noh (b. 1971) a young South Korean artist who attracted attention at the last Documenta. Central to the work of this artist is the recent history of the two Koreas and tension within South Korean society, as suggested by the titles of the series on show: State of Emergency, 2000-2007 (scenes of confrontations between protesters and the security forces); Patriotic Road, 2003-2004 (on the border road between North and South Korea);Forgetting Machine,2006-2007 (portraits of victims of the Gwangju repression in 1980) and Black Hook Down, 2006 (images of American helicopters as they hover in the sky above Seoul.) These series are derived from journalistic photographs he took. The choice of image, the details he has picked to blow up and the cropping bring out the violence and tension in a society wracked by the antagonism between the two systems.

Martin Parr, “PARR-O-RAMA”, at Janet Borden, New York
For the 20th anniversary of her gallery, Janet Borden brings to Paris Photo a mini-retrospective of celebrated British photographer Martin Parr with vintage black and white prints from the 1970s and more recent work, some of it yet unseen.

Dayanita Singh at Nature Morte, New Delhi
For its first participation in Paris Photo, the gallery has put together a personal exhibition of the work of Indian photographer Dayanita Singh (b. 1961) who lives and works in New Delhi. On show is work from her series “I Am as I Am” (1999) and “Myself Mona Ahmed” (2000) as well as two large format portrait from her on-going series “Ladies of Calcutta.” Her work in black and white takes a subjective,documentary approach to the contradictions of modern India and the themes of presence versus absence, dream versus reality and tradition versus progress. Steidl published two books in 2008 featuring her recent series “Go Away Closer” (2007) and “Sent a Letter” (2008).

Alec Soth at Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis

Following on from the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in April 2008,Weinstein Gallery is showing recent large-format work by Alec Soth from the series “The Last Days of W,” images of the United States under the Bush administration.

Specific Thematic Projects:
Celebration of 100 Exactitudes by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek

Cockie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam

In the context of France’s presidency of the European Union, a “European Cultural Season,” has been organised in 2008 with joint projects between France and the 26 member states combining photography and choreography in bid to address the question of European identity. The France/Netherlands artistic partnership brings together two Dutch photographers – Ari Versluis
and Ellie Uyttenbroek with French scenographer Olivier Boisson of Nawak & Ventilo set design group. Over a period of six weeks travellers at the Gare du Nord in Paris and Rotterdam Central Station will have the opportunity to have their photograph taken. The result will be six series of photographs aimed at revealing the common identity of European citizens. These series will be numbered 95 to 100, reaching the symbolic one hundredth series which will be shown at Paris Photo. This is the continuation of the work started in 1994 of Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, the duo known as “Exactitudes”, a contraction of the words “exact” and “attitude.” With an objectivist aesthetic, the subjects are photographed in the street against a neutral backdrop. The portraits are then grouped together according to similarities in the style of dress and attitude of the subjects. In this way the artists explore the relationship between appearance and identity and the individual and the group.

The Body

Philippe Chaume Gallery, Paris
For its first time at Paris Photo, Philippe Chaume Gallery wishes to show “the diversity in the acceptance of the notion of the body and how it is represented in work that is figurative or abstract.” To this end, the gallery is showing work by the following artists: Frédéric Delangle, Brian Finke, Paul Armand Gette, Frédéric Lebain, Floriane de Lassée, Sabine Delcour, René & Radka and Ambroise Tézenas. Among the different representations of the body, with the series “Coit,” Frédéric Delangle offers a sensual vision of the bodies of two lovers with evanescent and vaporous outlines. In his series “Souvenirs of SII,” Paul Armand Gette cultivates a “hands-on” relationship with the model, sending the senses into a spin. In his work on air hostesses, Brian Finke investigates the uniform and the image certain types of clothing projects on others.
Contemporary female photographers from Europe.

Eric Franck Fine Art, London
The gallery is showing the work of five European female artists: Britain’s Julia Fullerton-Batten (b.1970), Germany’s Beate Gütschow (b. 1970), Holland’s Cuny Janssen (b. 1975), German-born Canadian Karen Knorr (b. 1954) and Poland’s Zofia Zulik (b. 1947.)

In Between

Forma Galleria (Milan)

In its presentation “In Between,” the gallery brings together five young photographers: Paolo Ventura (b. 1968), Daniele Dainelli (b. 1967), Lorenzo Cicconi Massi (b. 1966), Simona Ghizzoni (b. 1978) and Andrew Zuckerman whose works,inspired by childhood memories and places,hover in a space somewhere between dream and reality. “In Between” is the world of fun fairs in the winter, poetically rendered by Paolo Ventura in his 2007 “Winter Stories” series and in the silhouettes of swimmers by Lorenzo Cicconi Massi. It is also the enchanted world of Simona Ghizzoni who photographs herself dancing in the forest, or Daniele Dainelli’s mysterious images of Tokyo taken during a solar eclipse.

Intimate Diary, Nan Goldin and Boris Mikhailov
Guido Costa Projects, Turin
The Turin gallery has orchestrated an encounter between two personal chronicles, the first by American photographer Nan Goldin with her “Elements” series taken in Italy in 2000 and the second by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov with his “Private” series of archive images of his family taken in Crimea in 2002.

City Life
Magnum Gallery, Paris
Inaugurated in 2007, Magnum Gallery’s mission is twofold: to promote the young generation of talented photographers who join the agency and at the same time, show off the unique photographic heritage that is embodied in the work of the agency’s great photographers. For Paris Photo 2008, the gallery explores the theme of urban life and the city through the work of 60 photographers and images in the 20 Estates represented by Magnum Photos. As a tribute to Japan, this year’s country of honour at Paris Photo, a large section is dedicated to Tokyo and the post-war reconstruction of the Japanese capital as seen by Werner Bischof (1951), René Burri (1960s), Dennis Stock (1970s).The modern megalopolis of today is seen through the eyes of Chris Steele Perkins with his series “Tokyo Love Hello” and those of Gueorgui Pinkhassov with “Tokyo,1996.” Miguel Rio Branco presents an unseen series on Japan while Bruce Gilden shows urban portraits from 1999. The city as a theme runs through the work shown in the other section with a series of unseen vintage prints by René Burri, “New York Power Shortage 1965,” “Office Workers, 1968-1970” by Eric Hartman and “The Nature of Paris, 2006” by Bruce Davidson. With more than half of the world’s population now concentrated in urban areas, the city as a theme continues as the rest of the work on show looks at other great towns in recent series such as Patrick Zachmann’s “Faux Semblants, Shanghai,” “The cities of Raymond Depardon,”“Poland” by Mark Power and a series on Cape Town by Mikhael Subotsky entitled “African Queen.” Just outside Magnum’s stand there will be a presentation of prints from Lise Sarfati’s new Fashion Magazine taken in Texas in the summer of 2008, as well as recent work by Larry Towell, “The World from my Front Porch,” his sensitive family album. Finally, a limited edition portfolio of Martin Parr’s work on 12 British cities done in 2008 will be available, with a signing by the author.

Wind
Sepia International, New York
Sepia International is a private art centre and gallery dedicated to promoting the work of Asian, and particularly Indian photographers.For its first time at Paris Photo, it has put together an exhibition entitled “Wind.” In both Japanese and Hebrew, the word for wind carries a wealth of metaphorical and spiritual connotations. It can mean the breath of the spirit or the presence of the divine. This theme is illustrated by selected works from Raghubir Singh, Atul Bhalla, Sunil Gupta, Jungjin Lee, Osamu James Nakagawa,Yukio Oyama and Stuart Rome. Theater and Life
Michael Stevenson, Cape Town The South African gallery is presenting work with movies as the theme under the title “Theatre and Life.” It brings a recent series called “Nollywood” by Pieter Hugo who shot to fame with his series “The Hyena Men,” and work by Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil with his series “Cinema.” “Nollywood” refers to Nigeria which has become the capital of African film, producing between 500 and 1,000 movies a year. Most of these focus on themes common to African daily life such as family tragedies, stories about corruption, witchcraft, prostitution or love stories thatgo wrong. Attracted by the incredible activity of the filmstudios, Pieter Hugo asked 40 actors to re-create some of the out-standing scenes that have marked Nollywood film production. Pieter Hugo offers the viewer multiple ways in which the images in his series of photographic tableaux can be read, giving new meaning to the term documentary fiction. For his “Cinema” series,Youssef Nabil asked his artist and singer friends – Natacha Atlas, Yousra, Fifi Abdou, Ghada Amer, Shirin Neshat, Mona Hatoum,Tracey Emin, Zaha Hadid – to strike a pose with reference to the mythical scenes that remain emblematic of the Egyptiancinema in the 1950s. Each portrait is then hand coloured, transforming the image into a cinematographic scene redolent of the glamour of the golden age of the Egyptian film industry.

The young Australian scene
Stills Gallery, Sydney
For its first participation in Paris Photo, the gallery is bringing three young rising stars of the Australian scene whose work has never before been shown in France: Petrina Hicks (b. 1972,) Trent Parke (b. 1971) and Martin Smith (b. 1971). Each of these young artists takes a distinct approach to photography.Trent Park came from photojournalism and is a member of Magnum. Petrina Hicks was trained in the world of advertising while Martin Smith’s background is in contemporary art. Trent Parke is showing a few prints from his new series about his suburban family during the Christmas holidays. Not without a touch of humour, he reveals the emotional fault lines, power play and communication blocks within the family.The portraits by Petrina Hicks in her series “The Descendents” are entirely computer generated.They feature young, strange, immaculate blonde girls who seem unreal in their absolute perfection. In this way the artist questions what is human and non- human, what is truth and what is a lie. Martin Smith revisits collage with large prints that combine old family photographs, images he has found and other he has taken himself. He superimposes pieces of cut-out text, commenting with selfderision or naivety on memories of a painful past.

The Helsinki School – 4th Generation
Taik Gallery, Helsinki
Following on from the “Rose Boreal” exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris last April, the gallery presents a selection of work by photography and video artists from the fourth generation of the so-called Helsinki school:Anni Leppäla (b. 1981), shows a personal chronicle of memories in a series of small format prints. Susanna Majuri (b. 1978) brings her surreal landscapes dominated by the symbolic element of water. Tiina Itkonen shows her contemplative images of ice fields suffused with blue reflections. Meanwhile, Joonas Ahlava (b. 1975) presents abstract compositions in which he tests the limits of the infinite with endless repetitions of simple shapes.

Portraiture/The City/The individual in the City
Xippas Gallery, Paris/Athens.
The gallery is presenting three artists whose work is consonant with the chosen theme:Valérie Jouve,Vera Lutter and Chuck Close. Valérie Jouve uses an entire wall for a photographic installation inspired by her recent film “Place des Fetes,” shot in Paris. It is a kind of musical composition in which images are grouped together, speeded up and taken apart – an illustration of the loneliness of the individual in the city.As an echo to this work, the images by Vera Lutter, made using the camera obscura, show industrial buildings and architecture in negative that are completely devoid of human presence. A portrait of Agnes Martin by Chuck Close will take centre place on the gallery’s stand.For the American hyper-realist artist (b. 1940), the black and white photographs of his models,produced in large format are a “roadmap of human experience.”

Group Shows:
798 Photo Gallery, Beijing :

Featured artists :Yao Lu (b.1967), Lu Xiao Chuan (b.1968),Yang Yan Kang (b.1954) Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid : Featured artists : Chema Alvargonzales, Per Barclay, Gabriele Basilico, Botto & Bruno, Miguel Rio Branco, Jota Castro, Alfredo Jaar, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Concha Prada, Juan Carlos Robles.

Atlas Gallery, London:
The gallery focuses on the work of three pioneers of photography: Ernst Haas, Josef Hoflehner (b.1955) and Floris Neusüss (b.1937), each of whom, in their own way have pushed the boundaries of the medium through the different styles and individual processes of their work. Ernst Hass has been hailed as one of the true unsung innovators of colour photography, often overlooked in favour of Eggleston. Austrian artist, Josef Hoflehner, has travelled to remote and inhospitable parts of the globe: his silver gelatine prints revisit the great tradition of the 20th century landscape photography. Floris Neussüs is widely viewed as one of the masters of the photogram process. His work prefigures the later experiments of Susan Derges,Adam Fuss and Garry Fabian Miller.

Baudoin Lebon, Paris :
The gallery is showcasing the work of two Japanese photographers,Keiji Uematsu and Mineko Osariko (see section on Japan, country of honour). Alongside this will be recent work by Joel Peter Witkin (b. 1939), a master of American subjective photography, who depicts models in settings derived from the history of art. The gallery is also showing recent work by French photographer Dany Leriche (b. 1951).Working on the nude, Leriche refers to the philosopher Michel Onfray’s “Pour une Erotique Solaire” in his search for a new female archetype and revisits mythology in classical painting. Finally on the occasion of the Henri Foucault exhibition at the Hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris in November 2008, the gallery is showing recent work by this French artist (b. 1953) who continues his original exploration of form, light and the body, in particular with his “SKE” series and his photograms of rhinestone-encrusted skeletons.

Bonni Benrubi, New York
Featured artists: Simon Norfolk, Abelardo Morell, Jehad Nga, Matthew Pillsbury, Massimo Vitali.

Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome/ Florence

The gallery is showing a selection of work by Mitch Epstein, Steven Klein and Massimo Vitali. For the first time, it is also bringing recent work by Jackie Nicherson from her recent series “Faith” (2005-2007.) With this series the Irish artist depicts Catholic nuns in their convents with reference to the Jansenist paintings reflecting their faith and life.
La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid

A first-time participant, the Spanish gallery is showing work by several contemporary artists working with the photographic medium: Marina Abramovic, Richard Billingham (Zoo Series), Chen Chieh-Jen (The Route project, 2007), Paul Graham (A shimmer of possibility Series), Kimsooja, Anika Larsson (3L33T video) and Rosangelo Renno (A Ultima Foto Series).

Kudlek Van Der Grinten, Cologne
Featured artists: Adam Jeppesen (Danish, b.1978), Izima Kaoru (Japanese, b.1954), Pierre Faure (French, b.1965), Reto Camesisch (Swiss, b.1958).

Le Réverbère, Lyon
The gallery is showing work by five contemporary photographers: Delphine Balley with her latest series “11 Henrietta Street”, a series of images in small format she made during her 2006/7 residency in Dublin, presented here as a 6m long frieze. Rip Hopkins comes with a selection of recent portraits from his series “Les Muses d’Orsay, 2006.” Beatrix Von Conta will unveil her latest colour series “Images de Vanoise – Paysages à l’heure du jour,” from a commission for a three-year project to photograph Vanoise national park. A book and major exhibition of this work are scheduled for 2009. Denis Roche will reveal unseen images taken from 40 of the pictures due to be published in a book of dialogues with Gilles Mora entitled “La Photographie est interminable,” (Photography is never-ending.) Jean-Claude Palisse will show a previously unseen piecein black and white from his latest series “Haute Tension.”

Keumsan Gallery, Seoul :
Featured artists : Seung-Woo Back, Han Debbie, Joon Kim, Doo-Hyeon Kwon, Il-Woo Lee.

Robert Mann, New York

Landscape in the post-industrial age is the theme linking the work of young American photographer Mary Mattingly (b. 1978) with that of her elders of the New Topography movement, the gallery’s speciality: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Henry Wessel, Robbert Flick and Jeff Brouws. Environmental artist Mary Mattingly imagines high-tech wearable homes for eco-nomads, portable floating dwellings for survival on our devastated plant. She builds, sews and sculpts the prototypes herself and then photographs them in virgin landscapes. Among the New Topographers are artists from different generations: Robbert Flick (b. 1939) and Jeff Brouws (b. 1955).

Max Estrella, Madrid
Featured artists:Aitor Ortiz, Dionisio Gonzales, Daniel Canogar, Roland Fischer
Martin Asbaek Projects, Copenhagen. The gallery is showing the latest series by the Danish duo Trine Sondergaard and Nicola Howalt entitled “Tree Zone.” With almost their almost-abstract images of forest landscapes, this new work follows on from the “How to Hunt,”“Dying Birds,” and “Hunting Ground” series. Also on show is recent work by Ebbe Stub Wittrup from the series “Presumed Reality.” Working with a collection of slides from a mountain expedition in Norway in the 1950s, the Danish artist super-imposes images, creating hybrid landscapes that lie half way between photography and painting.

Moises Peres de Albeniz, Pamplona,
Featured artists : Dennis Adams (b. 1948), Ana Laura Alaez, Pello Irazu (b.1963), Ibon Aranberri (b. 1969), Txomin Badiola (b. en 1957) et Muntadas (b. 1942).

M Bochum, Bochum
The gallery is presenting an eclectic selection of work by seven contemporary photographers: American artist Luncinda Delvin (b. 1947) brings work from her colour “Subterranea” series with images of underground caves that have been turned into tourist attractions – a metaphor for the alienation of nature by man. Germany’s Thomas Florschuetz (b. 1957) shows a new series entitled “Valkyrie.”Also on show is the work of German artist Evelyne Hofer (1922) with a series of photographs of artists’ interiors:Jackson Pollock’s studio and Balthus’ apartment at the Villa Medicis. Finland’s Aino Kannisto (b.1973) shows a series of fictitious self-portraits in cinematographic settings where she plays the role of imaginary women in the grips of inner conflict. Canadian artist Laura Letinsky (b. 1962) comes with a new series of still life images under the title “To Say it Isn’t So” from 2006-7. Also on show are black and white photographs by Dirk Reinartz of Germany (1944-2004) of Richard Serra sculptures. Reinartz worked for 20 years as theAmerican sculptor’s official photographer who said: “Photography is an extension of the eye. Dirk Reinartz has become my eye.” Finally the gallery is also showing work by Japanese
artist Kanji Wakae (b. 1944) – see Japan Country of Honour section.

Yancey Richardson, New-York
Featured artists : Laura Letinsky, Hellen Van Meene.

Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam

Featured artists: Kyungoo Chun ( Thousands Series) and Paul Kooiker.

Vu’La galerie, Paris :
Featured artists: Jeffrey Silverthorne, Denis Darzacq, JH Engstrom, Lars Tunbjork