Isabelle Armand’s New Photographic Book Documents the Lives of Two Wrongfully Convicted Men in Mississippi

In 2012 French photographer Isabelle Armand came across an article of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, two men wrongfully convicted in separate murder trials and sentenced to years in prison before DNA finally proved their innocence. For the next 5 years following their release, she documented Brooks and Brewer, their families, and their small, rural Mississippi hometown. The product of ... Read More

Henry Leutwyler Exhibition at Foley Gallery

Document, Henry Leutwyler’s recent show at Foley Gallery in the Lower East Side, is a twelve-year project featuring still-life portraits of iconic American History artifacts. These intimate photographs allow audience members to examine possessions of popular musicians, athletes, politicians, and Hollywood stars as a way to offer insight into their personal lives. The objects which include: Audrey Hepburn’s typewriter, Muhammad ... Read More

Richard Mosse Opening at Jack Shainman Gallery

Opening reception: Thursday, February 2, 6-8pm Jack Shainman Gallery presents "Heat Maps,” a new body of photographic work by Richard Mosse. Laumont collaborated with the artist on printing, mounting, and framing for this show on view at the Chelsea gallery. In this project, Mosse documents the refugee crisis unraveling in Europe, the Middle East and North Ameria. He uses an extreme ... Read More

Carrie Mae Weems Wins MacArthur Genius Grant

Congratulations to Carrie Mae Weems, one of the recipients of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships! Carrie Mae Weems is an accomplished photographer, filmmaker, and activist living and working in Syracuse, NY. As she told the New York Times recently, Ms. Weems expects to put her fellowship toward a “fictional autobiography.” This year Ms. Weems turns 60, and it is interesting to … Read More

3 Season-Opening Gallery Shows

Three top Chelsea galleries have debuted major exhibitions over the past week. Laumont is proud to be associated with these artists and their important season-opening shows. New work by English artist Susan Derges will be on display through October 26th at the Danziger Gallery. According to the press release, Derges “melds internal experience with the external landscape, the viewer is … Read More

Pieter Hugo’s “Kin” Opens at Yossi Milo

After almost a decade since its conception, Pieter Hugo‘s new exhibition, Kin, opens this evening. This series of photographs “confronts complex issues of colonization, racial diversity and economic disparity in Hugo’s homeland of South Africa,” according to the Yossi Milo Gallery: Kin is the artist’s personal exploration of South Africa through landscapes, portraits and still life photography. Hugo depicts locations … Read More

Sante D’Orazio : “Other Graces” at Christie’s in New York

On view from March 29th through April 19th in Christie’s Private Sales Gallery at Rockefeller Center, is a collection of photographs by Sante D’Orazio.  Other Graces is a photographic survey spanning the last three decades of the artist’s photographic career. Christie’s will exhibit D’Orazio’s infamous fashion photographs alongside two of his lesser-known series.  Priests, which has yet to be shown … Read More