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

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

Milagros de la Torre featured in SVA i3 Lecture Series

Conceptual photographer Milagros de la Torre is speaking at the School of Visual Arts as part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Free and open to the public on Tuesday, October 22, at 7PM. One of the preeminent contemporary photographers working today, de la Torre’s haunting images hang in the permanent collections of some of the biggest museums … 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

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

Laumont’s own master printer Shamus Clisset unveils his techno/absurd digital creations in two upcoming shows.

Should you happen to find yourself in Brooklyn this weekend for Bushwick Open Studios, be sure to stop by Storefront Ten Eyck.  Located at 324 Ten Eyck Street, a solo exhibition of 6 large format digital compositions by Shamus Clisset will be on display this weekend. “Shamus Clisset’s images are completely digital fabrications. His works are composed not in two-dimensional … Read More