In photography's formative years, women who had been sidelined from other established art forms emerged as trailblazers in the field. They made a living through photography, traveled the globe with their cameras, presented their work in international exhibitions, and essentially represented an early version of "the new woman." During this turbulent period, marked by political, social, and technological upheavals, talented women photographers documented both the awe-inspiring and the terrifying events of their era.

Yet, the golden age of women in photography was short-lived. Following World War II, this field, too, became male-dominated, leading to the obscurity of many pioneering women's names. 20&20 – A Lens of Her Own revisits that era and those women to rectify a historical injustice, finally acknowledging their significant contributions and celebrating a vital yet underappreciated moment in the history of photography.

In addition to experiencing remarkable artworks, the exhibition allows visitors to connect with the creators: women whose lives were disrupted by a global upheaval, leaving behind everything familiar. Many actively participated in the fight. For instance, during World War II, Julia Pirotte combined her camera work with armed resistance; Maria Austria utilized her skills to create forged documents for partisans; and Claude Cahun, along with her partner, circulated sharp-witted anti-Nazi propaganda.

Their challenges persisted even after the war ended. For example, Edith Tudor-Hart established a Soviet espionage network and advocated for workers in Britain; Lou Landauer relocated to Israel and campaigned for the establishment of a photography department at the new Bezalel; and Eva Besnyö utilized her skills to support the feminist movement.

To provide a contemporary perspective on the narrative of photography's pioneers, the curators chose to create a dialogue between twenty groundbreaking Jewish women photographers from the interwar period and twenty contemporary Jewish women photographers, including Israelis, who are currently active worldwide. This artistic discourse deepens our understanding of both contemporary work and its roots in the past century. It revitalizes black-and-white photographs and directs our attention to the connections and contexts that span the Leica era to the "Like" era.

Visitors to the exhibition can anticipate an emotional experience with exceptional works by forty women photographers whose artistic collaboration has persisted for over a hundred years.

The pioneering photographers whose works feature in the exhibition are Maria Austria, Aenne Biermann, Dorothy Bohm, Éva Besnyö, Claude Cahun, Gerti Deutsch, Trude Fleischmann, Gisèle Freund, Laelia Goehr, Liselotte Grschebina, Lotte Jacobi, Lore Krüger, Lou Landauer, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Yva (Elsa Ernestine Neuländer-Simon), Madame d'Ora, Julia Pirotte, Grete Stern, Ellen Auerbach and Grete Stern (Ringel + Pit), and Edith Tudor-Hart.

The contemporary photographers are Hannah Altman, Elinor Carucci, Michal Chelbin, Eileen Cowin, Deborah Feingold, Jill Greenberg, Gail Albert Halaban, Naomi Harris, Vardi Kahana, Loli Kantor, Gillian Laub, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, Meryl Meisler, Hally Pancer, Rachel Papo, Noa Sadka, Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, Amy Touchette, Catrine Val, and Rona Yefman.

Award-winning photographer and filmmaker, Gillian Laub, will lead two meaningful programs during her visit. First, she will engage high school students in a dynamic session exploring memory, identity and the power of visual storytelling, encouraging them to think critically about how images shape personal and collective narratives. She will also lead a special LIVE2TELL photoshoot, working with local Holocaust survivors to capture formal portraits and record personal stories.

Featuring more than 200 works, Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum unfolds across the Museum’s third floor in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of its unparalleled holdings. The installation design supports the display of art and objects of vastly varying scale and materiality, from delicate archaeological artifacts and Jewish ceremonial works to large-scale contemporary painting and sculpture. The Museum’s renewed and newly opened fourth floor features the Pruzan Family Center for Learning, where art and objects from the collection are displayed in gallery settings, adjacent to facilities for educational programming and hands-on artmaking. These two floors are joined visually by a renovated double-height gallery crowned by a dramatic, monumentally scaled installation of more than 130 Hanukkah lamps from around the world, and from antiquity to the present day, underscoring the central meaning of light as a symbol of enlightenment and hope across cultures.

The Jewish Museum’s renovated collection galleries trace the rich history of migration, assimilation, and endurance that is the trademark of Jewish culture across the global diaspora through a new and expansive installation. Punctuated by a series of rotating focus exhibitions, Identity, Culture, and Community provides a thematic structure to reflect the diversity of Jewish experience through artworks and decorative objects, ranging from Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi ritual objects that are steeped in tradition, to large-scale painting and sculpture by boundary-pushing modern and contemporary artists, among them Mel Bochner, Nicole Eisenman, Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Michal Rovner, Miriam Schapiro, and many others.

Organized in a loose chronology, this thematic installation begins with a display underscoring the historic importance of Torah and Jewish ritual as unifying symbols for Jewish communities. As visitors navigate the galleries, they experience works that reflect the migration of the Jewish people through the changing political, social, and cultural landscape of the global diaspora from antiquity through the 20th and 21st centuries. Subsequent chapters explore such themes as how art can serve as a repository of memory and an expression of identity in the face of forced migration and persecution; the visual vocabularies that emerged in post-World War II art and design; the role of women in Jewish culture and the impact of feminism on artistic output; and how Jewish identity and experience are being interpreted in contemporary art.

The Museum’s third floor also features a rotation of focused gallery installations that complement the central collection display, including an exhibition exploring themes of Jewish life in Colonial America, presented in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; and an installation dedicated to the work of curator, author, and director Pearl Bowser (1931–2023), who played a major role in advancing cutting-edge movies through the series The Black Film, in 1970, highlighting the Jewish Museum’s long history in introducing new ideas and artists to New York audiences. Future installations in these galleries will rotate regularly to explore specific stories of people, objects, and places that amplify the Jewish cultural narrative and that connect to the moment.

The Jewish Museum’s transformed fourth floor features the Pruzan Family Center for Learning, a 7,000-square-foot space dedicated to learning and engagement that significantly enhance the Museum’s ability to serve its diverse audiences. The renovated floor, which had been largely closed to the public, incorporates both light-filled exhibition galleries, open to all, displaying over 200 works of fine art, ceremonial objects, artifacts, and decorative art from the Museum’s collection, as well as facilities for education and artmaking to serve the nearly 40,000 students and adults who enjoy education programs in the Museum each year.

A central feature of the Pruzan Family Center for Learning is a floor-to-ceiling display of more than 130 Hanukkah lamps that overlooks the Museum’s renewed double-height gallery and the collection galleries below, creating a visual and symbolic link between the galleries devoted to telling stories and those engaged with teaching and learning. Drawn from the Museum’s world-renowned holdings of more than 1,000 lamps from diverse cultures, periods, and places, the installation powerfully represents the diasporic nature of the Jewish experience and represents the largest display of Hanukkah lamps the Jewish Museum has ever presented.

Other key installations include a gallery devoted to portrait and landscape painting, which invites visitors to consider how artists represent people and places to express concepts of identity, migration, acculturation, and assimilation. An objects gallery featuring ancient artifacts, ceremonial objects, and modern sculptural works completes the narrative arc of the Museum’s holdings by documenting the timeline of Jewish cultural creative-making from thousands of years ago to today.

Hands-on activities in the Center include a one-of-a-kind simulated archaeological dig for children, designed by Koko Architecture + Design, a touch wall exploring materials transformed by artists to create works of art, and two new art studios offering artmaking opportunities for participants of all ages. Finally, the floor features a new salon space, designed to support educational and social programming of all kinds and featuring a rotation of newly commissioned site-specific works, beginning with a mural by Brooklyn-based artist Talia Levitt.

In the Press

“After reconfiguring and rethinking two floors of its Fifth Avenue mansion, the museum reopens to the public … The new “Identity, Culture, and Community” installation gives a sense of the museum’s breadth … present(ing) the narrative of Jewish culture in a nonlinear way, moving from before the destruction of the First Temple to the present, combining materials, periods and categories.”
—The New York Times

As the number of Holocaust survivors able to share their stories firsthand continues to decline, preserving their testimonies has never been more vital. Artists across a range of disciplines are finding powerful and creative ways to ensure these voices are not lost to history. As part of the PaleyImpact ongoing series, Media’s Role in Combating Antisemitism, this compelling panel will bring together members of the artistic community, Holocaust survivors, and experts to examine how art can serve as a critical tool in educating future generations about the Holocaust and the enduring dangers of hatred and intolerance. The discussion will highlight a variety of artistic approaches, including Gillian Laub’s live2tell, David Kassan’s Facing Survival, and Bryce Thompson’s Borrowed Spotlight, which are all projects dedicated to capturing survivor testimonies and humanizing history through intimate visual storytelling.

This event is made possible by generous support from The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.

Part of Paley's ongoing series, Media's Role in Combating Antisemitism.

Join us for a conversation between renowned photographer Gillian Laub and BAXTER ST's president Michi Jigarjian on October 15, 6-8pm at 154 Ludlow Street, New York.

This event is made possible by the generous support of Friends of BAXTER ST, a community of art enthusiasts dedicated to engaging with BAXTER ST and its talented artists. It is just one of many exciting experiences planned for the upcoming year. If you would like to learn more about Friends of BAXTER ST, please visit our website.

BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of New York, founded originally as The Camera Club of New York in 1884, is one of New York’s oldest arts organizations, providing lens-based artists with both working facilities and platforms for discussions as they develop their practice.

Borrowed Spotlight is a powerful portrait series and exhibition created to combat rising antisemitism and preserve Holocaust history. Captured by renowned photographer Bryce Thompson, the project pairs Holocaust survivors with today’s most recognizable figures – including Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner, Billy Porter, David Schwimmer, and many more – using their public platforms to amplify the survivors' stories. Debuting at Detour Gallery in New York City ahead of Yom HaShoah, the exhibition will feature large-scale portraits and survivor testimonies aimed at educating the public and inspiring reflection. The project, which will also be commemorated in a coffee table book, seeks to preserve the memory of the Holocaust, while educating and inspiring action against hate.

On April 24th, join Bryce Thompson, Gillian Laub, Ruth Franklin, and Menachem Kaiser at Detour Gallery in NYC for a panel discussion and Q&A session.

Live 2 Tell is a project that was born out of the shocking public displays of antisemitism worldwide following the tragedy of October 7th. Gillian Laub, critically acclaimed photographer and director, realized the need to document the testimony of the last living Holocaust survivors while we still have the chance. She assembled a world-class team of collaborators and Live 2 Tell was born.

The Jewish experience through human history is the story of persecution and an enormous will to survive. Yet, awareness of this history is at risk, especially amongst younger generations. In a recent study, 20% of 18-29 year olds believe the Holocaust is a myth. Contemporary antisemitism and the atrocities faced by Jewish people past and present need to be magnified, more urgently than ever.

Live 2 Tell centered its second activation around Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On January 27th, 2025, images of the Survivors were honored and projected onto New World Symphony and other buildings in Miami, FL, leading the viewer back to a dedicated instagram feed where the portraits and stories are shared.

Learn more on the Live 2 Tell Website

Read the New York Times article about Live 2 Tell

Watch the CBS Sunday Morning Segment

Organized in collaboration with art historian and curator David E. Little, this three-program series examines the history and impact of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on fashion photography. Exploring leading photographers, from Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon to Guy Bourdin and Annie Leibovitz, participants will learn how innovations across photography, media, and the editorial process have changed how we view fashion, history, and culture today. Join us for one or all three programs.

October 23, November 13, 2024; and January 15, 2025, 6:00 – 7:00 PM

Per Program: $30 / $25 Members

Safdie & Wynn is pleased to announce THE SELVES. This exhibition spotlights Jewish artists from wide-ranging backgrounds, offering an intergenerational exploration of art within the Jewish diaspora. Historically as well as at present, Jewish artists have faced ostracization, marginalization, and stereotyping within an art world that often overlooks their lived experiences and individual identities. This exhibition seeks to celebrate Jewish joy, resilience, and community building as central to their artistic expression. Featuring works by Joel Mesler, Zoë Buckman, Sam Jablon, Kenny Schachter, Gillian Laub, Zoya Cherkassky, Lauren Seiden, Deborah Brown, Marc Dennis, Archie Rand, among others, this exhibition considers how artists’ Jewish identities, whether they be public or private, religious or secular, inward or outward, have informed their art-making. It amplifies the polyphonic voices of Jewish diasporic artists, challenging reductive narratives about what Jewishness can and cannot be, and showcasing the richness of Jewish cultural diversity. In an age where Jewish personhood is increasingly politicized and subject to external scrutiny, this exhibition poses the question, “What does it mean to be a Jewish artist today?” There can be no single answer, because neither Jews nor Jewish artists are a monolith, but showcased works nonetheless pursue this line of inquiry, inviting you to witness Jewish artistic expression at its most unapologetic and self-defined.

Take an epic journey through the American South from 1845 to today. In A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, presented at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, encounter the everyday lives and ordinary places captured in evocative photos that contemplate the region’s central role in shaping American history and identity and its critical impact on the development of photography. This is the first major exhibition in more than 25 years to explore the full history of photography in and about the South.

A Long Arc explores the American South’s distinct, evolving, and contradictory character through an examination of photography and how photographers working in the region have reckoned with the South’s fraught history and posed urgent questions about American identity. Organized chronologically, the exhibition traces the South’s shifting identity in more than two hundred photographs made over more than 175 years.    

The exhibition’s individual sections delve into the themes of photography before, during, and after the Civil War; documentary photography of the 1930s and ’40s; images of a post–World War II South in economic, racial, and psychic dissonance with the nation; photography as catalyst for change during the civil rights movement; reflective narrative photography of the late 20th century; and contemporary photography examining social, environmental, and economic issues.      

A Long Arc presents a richly layered archive that captures the region’s beauty and complexity. Offering a full visual accounting of the South’s role in shaping American history, identity and culture, the exhibition includes photographs by Alexander Gardner, George Barnard, P.H. Polk, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Gillian Laub, Marion Post Wolcott, Robert Frank, Clarence John Laughlin, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon, Doris Derby, Ernest Withers, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Baldwin Lee, Sally Mann, Carrie Mae Weems, Susan Worsham, Carolyn Drake, Sheila Pree-Bright, RaMell Ross, and others.  

The exhibition is co-curated by Sarah Kennel, PhD, VMFA’s Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center, with Gregory J. Harris, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.  

A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. 

Guest Faculty Lecture: Gillian Laub & Shelia Pepe

Schermer Meeting Hall

Sunday and Tuesday evenings, June through September, the Ranch features a 60-minute presentation by distinguished faculty members and Visiting Artists. These insightful talks dive into inspiration, the creative process and more.

Guest Faculty Lectures are free on-campus events and open to the public. All workshop participants will be pre-registered for this event.

Can’t make it in person? Register and receive a link to livestream this lecture.

In-depth storytelling is more important now than ever. This workshop offers intermediate and advanced photographers a structured and supportive learning environment for acquiring the knowledge, techniques, and artistic background needed for creating impactful visual narrative projects. Socially and culturally conscious storytellers document the human experience, aiming to inform or challenge our perceptions by creatively sharing their perspectives. Through lectures, assignments, critique sessions, and class discussions, students examine ethical, social, and visual aspects of the genre, learn methodologies practiced by leaders and artists in the field, and develop their own personal long-term documentary projects.

Learn more here

Join 14th Street Y and LABA NYC for a night of hope and storytelling.

We have been witness to amazing resilience, community, strength, and hope this year. To mark the 76th Yom Ha’atzmaut, we will spend 76 minutes in hopeful transformation through the stories and imagery of artists and community leaders, including: Gillian Laub will share about how she found incredible hope in her project Live 2 Tell, Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid, street artists and the creators of the global poster  campaign for the missing hostages,  John William Codling, artist. Created an artistic commentary on the posters created by Nitzan and Dede, Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavie, founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul, Rachel Khafif, Cofounder of RBK Art Advisory and an Art Professional, Neta Weiner and Stav Marin – performance artists, including spoken word, music and dance.

Join the World’s most powerful women for International Women’s Day.

Transformative Storytelling

Photographer & Filmmaker Gillian Laub talks to Maggie McGrath about the power of imagery in storytelling.

Gillian Laub, Photographer & Filmmaker

Maggie McGrath, Editor, ForbesWomen

Learn more here

Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

Live 2 Tell is a project that was born out of the shocking public displays of antisemitism worldwide following the tragedy of October 7th. Gillian Laub, critically acclaimed photographer and director, realized the need to document the testimony of the last living Holocaust survivors while we still have the chance. She assembled a world-class team of collaborators and Live 2 Tell was born.

The Jewish experience through human history is the story of persecution and an enormous will to survive. Yet, awareness of this history is at risk, especially amongst younger generations. In a recent study, 20% of 18-29 year olds believe the Holocaust is a myth. Contemporary antisemitism and the atrocities faced by Jewish people past and present need to be magnified, more urgently than ever.

Live 2 Tell centered its first major effort around Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On January 27th, 2024, images of the Survivors were honored and projected onto public landmarks, leading the viewer back to a dedicated instagram feed where the portraits and stories are shared.

Learn more on the Live 2 Tell Website

Read the New York Times article about Live 2 Tell

Join us for a conversation with American photographer Gillian Laub and University of Rochester professor Jeffrey Mccune as they discuss the exhibition Gillian Laub: Southern Rites, regional research conducted by the Frederick Douglass Institute, and more.

Southern Rites is a specific story about twenty-first century young people in the American South, yet it poses a universal question about human experience: can a new generation liberate itself from a harrowing and traumatic past to create a different future? Gillian Laub is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. Laub spent over a decade working in Georgia exploring issues of lingering racism in the American South, culminating in the Southern Rites exhibition, documentary, and photo book. Jeffrey Mccune is the Frederick Douglass Professor and Chair of Faculty Programs and Departmental Initiatives at the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies.

The Eddie Adams Workshop is a merit-based, four-day photojournalism seminar in upstate New York held every Columbus Day weekend. One hundred students culled from numerous applicants are invited to participate. The Workshop is tuition-free and the students are chosen based on the merit of their pictures. They are divided into ten teams of ten, each led by a preeminent photographer, editor and producer who assign and edit pictures over the weekend. In addition to shooting, students watch presentations from industry leaders and have portfolio reviews with top editors in the field. On the final evening, the teams present their work to the Workshop community. Exceptional efforts are recognized with awards that include assignments, grants and equipment. The Workshop program is designed to hone skills quickly and provide networking opportunities for 100 promising photographers.

Gillian will be giving the keynote address for the 2023 workshop.

American photographer Gillian Laub (b. New York, 1975) has spent the last two decades investigating political conflicts, exploring family relationships, and challenging assumptions about cultural identity. In Southern Rites, Laub engages her skills as a photographer, filmmaker, and visual activist to examine the realities of racism and raise questions that are simultaneously painful and essential to understanding the American consciousness.

In 2002, Laub was sent on a magazine assignment to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to document the lives of teenagers in the American South. The town, nestled among fields of Vidalia onions, symbolized the archetype of pastoral, small town American life. The Montgomery County residents Laub encountered were warm, polite, protective of their neighbors, and proud of their history. Yet Laub learned that the joyful adolescent rites of passage celebrated in this rural countryside—high school homecomings and proms—were still racially segregated.

Laub continued to photograph Montgomery County over the following decade, returning even in the face of growing—and eventually violent—resistance from community members and local law enforcement. She documented a town held hostage by the racial tensions and inequities that scar much of the nation's history. In 2009, a few months after Barack Obama’s first inauguration, Laub’s photographs of segregated proms were published in the New York Times Magazine. The story brought national attention to the town and the following year the proms were finally integrated. The power of her photographic images served as the catalyst and, for a moment, progress seemed inevitable.

Then, in early 2011, tragedy struck the town. Justin Patterson, a twenty-two-year-old unarmed Black man—whose segregated high school homecoming Laub had photographed—was shot and killed by a sixty-two-year-old white man. Laub’s project, which began as an exploration of segregated high school rituals, evolved into an urgent mandate to confront the painful realities of discrimination and structural racism. Laub continued to document the town over the following decade, during which the country re-elected its first Black president and the ubiquity of camera phones gave rise to citizen journalism exposing racially motivated violence. As the Black Lives Matter Movement and national protests proliferated, Laub uncovered a complex story about adolescence, race, the legacy of slavery, and the deeply rooted practice of segregation in the American South.

Southern Rites is a specific story about twenty-first century young people in the American South, yet it poses a universal question about human experience: can a new generation liberate itself from a harrowing and traumatic past to create a different future?          

Southern Rites is curated by Maya Benton and organized by the International Center of Photography.

Generously supported by the Rubens Family Foundation 

With additional support from ESL Federal Credit Union and Leading Edge Advising & Development, LLC. 

This workshop is for women artists and photographers who want to work on or continue a photography-based project that relates in any way to their particular experience as women. The work can be interpreted in an open and broad way to include any genre and approach, from portraiture to landscape, documentary or conceptual. The project to be developed during the class can refer to any aspect or perspective of a woman’s life and experience such as relationships, motherhood, professional life, our bodies, the changes we endure over our lifetime from puberty through old age as well as representation in the media. Themes can include the way we see ourselves, partners, children, and the world around us, all stemming from each particular life story.

During the sessions we will see the work in context to personal background, as well as the art and photography world. We will touch on issues such as feminism, gender equality, identity, and our current cultural and political environment. The workshop will be an open, inclusive and safe space for all participants to share their voices.

The work can embrace or challenge the traditional definitions of femininity. It can be defiant, rebellious, accepting, supporting, or all the above with the goal of portraying the complexities and layered realities of us, women.

A variety of technical approaches can be employed such as film, digital, appropriated images, collage, smartphone, etc.

Elinor will also present and discuss artists/photographers’ work such as Tierney Gearon, Andrea Modica, Lissa Rivera, Rona Yefman, La Toya Ruby Frazier, Nan Goldin, Cass Bird, Cheryle St. Onge, and Rinko Kawauchi.

During the workshop, we will welcome Special Guest Gillian Laub who will present her work followed by a Q&A.

Each participant will choose the project they want to work on, and can be changed during the workshop, if needed.

This workshop will be taught online using Zoom.

Tuesday | October 25 | 2pm

Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA

Gillian Laub is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. Laub has spent the past two decades investigating political conflicts, exploring complex family and community relationships, and challenging assumptions about cultural identity. Laub’s first monograph, Testimony (Aperture), began as a response to the second intifada in the Middle East. Laub spent over a decade exploring issues of racism in the American South. This work became Laub’s first feature length, directed and produced, documentary film, Southern Rites that premiered on HBO. Her monograph, Southern Rites (Damiani) and traveling exhibition are used as a teaching tool in schools and institutions across the country. Gillian’s newest monograph Family Matters (Aperture), spanning over twenty years of photographs, explores how society’s biggest questions are revealed in our most intimate relationships; zeroing in on the artist family as an example of the way Donald Trump’s knack for sowing discord and division had impacted communities, individuals, and households across the country. An exhibition of Family Matters opened at the International Center of Photography in conjunction with the publication. Family Matters has been reviewed by The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, amongst others.  

https://www.massartphotography.org/gillian-laub

Atlanta Contemporary is honored to present Southern Rites by Gillian Laub, alongside new exhibitions in our Project Spaces.

Come back on Saturday, September 24 at 12pm for a Curator and Artist Tour.

A credit bar will be available to those 21+.

Parking is free in the lot at Bankhead & Means Street. You can access the lot via Bankhead Avenue and proceed past the parking attendant booth.

Please click here to RSVP.

Members are invited to meet the artists and curators of the shows at Coffee and Bagels on Friday, September 23, 2022 from 11am-12. Look out for an email with details and to RSVP.

Source: https://atlantacontemporary.org/events/fall-opening-2022

CatchLight hosts two immersive days of conversation, inspiration and community with some of the leading voices in visual storytelling. In our recordings from the Summit you can take a deeper dive into the work of CatchLight Global and Local Fellows. Hear from artists, founders, technologists and innovative creatives working at the nexus of art, media, journalism, technology and social impact. 

Family Matters: Healing the Divide, Individually & Collectively

For the last two decades, American artist Gillian Laub has used the camera to investigate how society’s most complex questions reveal themselves in our most intimate relationships. Across political and social divides, can visual language help us find common ground? Laub speaks about her focus on family, community, and human rights, and what she has learned throughout projects such as Testimony (2007), which explores the lives of terror survivors in the Middle East; Southern Rites (2015), a decade-long project about racism in the American South; and her career-spanning work privately documenting the emotional, psychological and political landscape of her own family as a microcosm of a deeply conflicted nation. In her recent monograph Family Matters, published by Aperture, Laub documents her experience finding her parents and herself on opposing sides of a sharp political divide—threatening to fracture the family. It forces everyone to ask what, in the end, really binds us together?

Cultural Partner: Aperture

Please note, face coverings are required to attend this lecture.

Meet Gillian Laub in person! The Asheville Art Museum is hosting photographer and filmmaker Gillian Laub during Connect Beyond Festival 2022 in conjunction with Laub’s exhibition, Southern Rites, on view through July 4. Tickets to Laub’s lecture may be purchased individually or as an add-on to festival tickets (included with VIP tickets). All Laub and VIP tickets include general admission to the Museum and exhibition once during the weekend of the festival (Friday, April 22 through Sunday, April 24 from 11am to 6pm each day).

This event is sponsored by Tracey Morgan.

ABOUT CONNECT BEYOND FESTIVAL 2022

Following a record-setting 2019 event, Connect Beyond Festival returns to downtown Asheville, North Carolina, on April 22 and 23, 2022 for a two-day weekend of engaging performances, panels, film screenings, and workshops. The lineup features an extensive array of programming showcasing how the intersection of music, art, film, and storytelling can inspire positive change.

Join me at JCC - Taub Campys Tenafly, NJ

Hear the voices of three strong women with unique ideas to share. Audacious and tenacious, these women will engage, enlighten, and entertain.

In this 7-week Lecture Series, Sasha Wolf will be in conversation with some of contemporary photography’s leading artists as they share about their artistic journey. Topics we will cover include: project development, their creative process, significant milestones in their careers, the role of exhibitions and photobooks, among others.

Each session will include an opportunity for the artist to present their work, followed by an engaging and intimate discussion with Sasha. The rest of the time will be guided by participant questions leading each conversation in new directions and creating an exploratory dialogue.

Participants in this series of conversations will gain insights on contemporary photography and will have access to these artists in a unique context. The talks will not be recorded, and the dialogue is unlikely to be reconstructed in other forums.

The current schedule of sessions is as follows:

Phillip Toledano - October 28

Bryan Schutmaat - November 4

Yvonne Venegas - November 11

Susan Meiselas - November 18

Manjari Sharma - December 2

Gillian Laub - December 9

Jess T. Dugan - December 16

Sasha Wolf brings a variety of expert approaches to photography, from management of the Sasha Wolf Projects, to artist representation, to book editor and consultant, to a range of print and film projects. She is the author of PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, published by Aperture in 2019, and hosts an accompanying podcast where she discusses the most contemporary topics in the field with a wide range of artists.

Source: https://www.laluzworkshops.com/gillian-laub

Grand Palais Éphémère; Av. Pierre Loti, 75007 Paris, France

Please find Booth SE10 on Saturday November 13 at Paris Photo to purchase a signed copy of Gillian Laub’s Family Matters!

More information about exhibitors and events can be found here: https://www.parisphoto.com/en-gb/fair/about.html

Source: https://www.parisphoto.com/en-gb/fair/about.html

Aperture invites you to join photographer and filmmaker Gillian Laub in conversation with actress and comedian Ilana Glazer, co-creator of Broad City, to celebrate Gillian’s new book, Family Matters.

All guests must provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination and appropriate ID matching the name on your documentation.

Reserve your ticket for in-person seating ($5, limited available) or Live Online Viewing (Free with suggested donation.)

Held in partnership with Reboot, join ICP for a conversation between Gillian Laub and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik, therapist of the Showtime critically acclaimed series Couples Therapy. They will examine the vulnerability, vitriol, pain, humor and love that Laub explores and shares in her ICP exhibition Family Matters on view through January 10, 2022 and in her deeply personal monograph Family Matters (Aperture, October 2021.) Held in gallery at ICP’s Lower East Side center against the backdrop of Laub’s exhibition, Laub and Dr. Guralnik will explore the edges of love and tolerance, family, privilege, wealth and mortality.

Source: https://www.icp.org/events/gillian-laub-and-dr-orna-guralnik-on-family-matters

International Center of Photography New York, NY

Aperture Benefactor Circle Members and above are invited to a walkthrough with artist Gillian Laub of her exhibition Family Matters at the International Center of Photography.  Event will be followed by a luncheon.

Aperture is pleased to present Laub’s new monograph, Family Matters, and limited-edition print Grandma grabbing Grandpa’s tush, 2000.

Eligible members will receive email invitations directly.  Not an Aperture Member? Please join us at the Benefactor level or above to attend this event.  See here or email nschwartz@aperture.org for details.

University of Maryland Baltimore Counry Baltimore, MD

University of Baltimore Maryland’s Center for Art Design and Visual Culture presents Southern Rites traveling exhibition, on view from October 15 through December 12.

An artist talk will be held on Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm in UMBC’s virtual online gallery. Visit cadvc.umbc.edu for free timed gallery entry tickets and to sign up for the virtual tour event!