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Rafał Milach
Rafał Milach (born 1978) is a Polish visual artist and photographer. His work is about the transformation taking place in the former Eastern Bloc, for which he undertakes long-term projects. He is an associate member of Magnum Photos and lectures in photography at the Institute of Creative Photography (ITF), Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic. Milach's books include ''7 Rooms'' (2011), ''In the Car with R'' (2012), ''Black Sea of Concrete'' (2013), ''The Winners'' (2014) and ''The First March of Gentlemen'' (2017). He is a co-founder of the Sputnik Photos collective. In 2008, he won a World Press Photo award. In 2011, ''7 Rooms'' won the Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book Award. In 2017, his exhibition ''Refusal'' was a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2023, he was awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Award Life and work Milach was born in 1978 in Gliwice, Poland. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2003 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War (1947–1991). These states followed the ideology of Marxism–Leninism, in opposition to the Capitalism, capitalist Western Bloc. The Eastern Bloc was often called the Second World, whereas the term "First World" referred to the Western Bloc and "Third World" referred to the Non-Aligned Movement, non-aligned countries that were mainly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America but notably also included former Tito–Stalin split, pre-1948 Soviet ally SFR Yugoslavia, which was located in Europe. In Western Europe, the term Eastern Bloc generally referred to the USSR and Central and Eastern European countries in the Comecon (East Germany, Polish People's Republic, Poland, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the List of European countries by area, 13th-largest and the List of European countries by population, 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, seven regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje is a female name. It is a Low German and Dutch diminutive form of Anna. Once a very common name in the northern part of the Netherlands, its popularity has steadily declined since 1900. at the database of given names in the Netherlands. People * Antje "Nina" Baanders-Kessler (1915–2002), Dutch sculptor and medalist * (born 1947), German politician, member of the Christian Democratic Union * |
Michael Dear
Michael James Dear is an urban geographer and educator. He has written several books, including ''Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide'', which was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. He teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley. Life and work Dear was born in Treorchy, Wales. In 1988, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He worked at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He currently teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States (he has been at Berkeley since 2009). He is a fellow of the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences of Stanford University in Stanford, California. He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Publications *''The Postmod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rencontres D'Arles
The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette. The Rencontres d’Arles has an international reputation for showing material that has never been seen by the public before. In 2015, the festival welcomed 93,000 visitors; in 2016, the 100,000 visitor mark was reached. Specially designed exhibitions, often organised in collaboration with French and foreign museums and institutions, take place in various historic sites. Some venues, such as 12th-century chapels or 19th-century industrial buildings, are open to the public throughout the festival. The Rencontres d’Arles has launched the careers of numerous photographers, confirming its significance as a springboard for photography and contemporary creativity. In recent years the Rencontres d’Arles has invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvert 22 Foundation
Calvert 22 Foundation was a non-profit UK registered charity created in 2009 by Russian-born, London-based economist Nonna Materkova. Calvert 22 Foundation focused on the contemporary culture and creativity of the 29 countries of the New East (eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans and Central Asia) through education, events, exhibitions, research, and online content in ''The Calvert Journal''. Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it ceased operations until further notice. Mission Calvert 22 Foundation's mission was to build opportunities for emerging creative talent in the New East by supporting and showcasing the contemporary culture and creative economy of the region and deepening knowledge through in-depth research and analysis. Activities The foundation's first initiative was Calvert 22 Gallery in London (since 2016 called Calvert 22 Space). The not-for-profit hosted events, talks, screenings and exhibitions on history, photography, film, music, architecture, literatur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kehrer Verlag
Kehrer Verlag is an art book publisher based in Heidelberg, Germany, specializing in photography, fine art, and sound art. Its books are produced in cooperation with Kehrer Design, the affiliated office for design and image processing. History The publishing house was founded by Klaus Kehrer in Heidelberg in 1995. Since 2005, its headquarters was a loft in the Heinsteinwerk in Heidelberg, a former ceramic factory built in 1912. It has since moved. From 2010 to 2013, Kehrer Verlag operated a showroom in Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, where book presentations and artist talks were organized regularly. In 2014, Kehrer Galerie opened at Potsdamerstr. 100 in Berlin. The works of German and international photographers were presented here in temporary exhibitions. Since May 2019, the gallery premises—now spearheaded by Erik Spiekermann and under the name analog—have become a showroom for special books, where new publications and backlist titles from the program of Kehrer Verlag are pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time". She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the award. Background Born in the west Ukrainian town of Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk since 1962) to a Belarusian father and a Ukrainian mother, Svetlana Alexievich grew up in Belarus. After graduating from high school she worked as a reporter in several local newspapers. In 1972 she graduated from Belarusian State University and became a correspondent for the literary magazine ''Nyoman'' in Minsk (1976). In a 2015 interview, she mentioned early influences: "I explored the world through people like Hanna Krall and Ryszard Kapuściński." During her career in journalism, Alexievich specialized in crafting narratives based on witness testimonies. In the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books By Rafał Milach
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive Of Public Protests
The Archive of Public Protests ( pl, Archiwum Protestów Publicznych; A-P-P or APP) is a collective of photographers and writers and their work documenting post-2015 protests in Poland, established in 2019. A website and an Instagram account host its images and it also publishes ''Strike Newspaper''. Members of the collective include co-founder Rafał Milach as well as Adam Lach and Chris Niedenthal. The collective has been nominated for the Spojrzenia award as well as the Paszport Polityki, and has had an exhibition of its work at Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin. Details The Archive of Public Protests was established in 2019 by Rafał Milach and five other photographers, in response to Law and Justice taking power and making drastic changes to policy and legislation, resulting in many protests and protest movements. A website and an Instagram account host the images, which include photographs of the protests against Polish judiciary reforms, the August 2020 LGBT protests in Poland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law And Justice (Poland)
Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct successor of the Centre Agreement after it split from the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). It managed to win the 2005 parliamentary and presidential elections, after which Lech became the president of Poland. It headed a parliamentary coalition with the League of Polish Families and Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland between 2005 and the 2007 election. It placed second and they remained in the parliamentary opposition until 2015. It regained the presidency in the 2015 election, and later won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election. They retained the positions following the 2019 and 2020 election. During its foundation, it sought to position itself as a centrist Christian democratic party, although shortly after, it ado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens Of Poland
The Citizens of Poland ( pl, Obywatele RP, verbatim ''Citizens of the Republic of Poland'', ''ORP'') is an informal civic movement in Poland engaged in pro-democracy actions and anti-fascist movement, opposed to the actions of the government led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party. Citizens of Poland practice non-violent civil disobedience. ''Citizens of Poland'' organize protests against monthly gatherings led by Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the Law and Justice party, ostensibly to commemorate the victims of the Smoleńsk airplane catastrophe, protesting against the claim it was a political assassination promoted during these meetings. During one of their demonstrations a Solidarity-era hero Władysław Frasyniuk was accused of assaulting a policeman and later detained. ORP were actively engaged in protests against unconstitutional justice reforms in July 2017. They block extreme right-wing rallies and demand delegalization of organizations promoting rasism and xenopho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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