IMA 2022 Spring/Summer Vol.37

The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment

IMA 2022 Spring/Summer Vol.37

It has been a while since we were first told that environmental issues need immediate attention. The urgency equally affects both the developed and developing countries; in any time, humanity may be given a red card to leave the ground, so-called Earth. Many photographers have begun to react, trying to change this situation. They know that what many words can’t convey, one image may eloquently speak. Not limiting themselves to documentary photography, they have taken on numerous approaches to raise their voices through compelling photographic expression. Art cannot stop global warming nor take away the trash in the ocean, but we want you to sense its ability to shift people’s conscious and to push them into action, through the photographs we present you here.

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Contents

Photo Experiences in Real/Virtual Worlds  

The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment
Terri Weifenbach
Cristina De Middel & Bruno Morais
Hashem Shakeri
Mandy Barker
Maria Gruzdeva
Mark Dorf
Katrin Koenning
Gentaro Ishizuka

INTERVIEW_1  Cristina De Middel & Bruno Morais
A Critical Projection of the Excess in Today’s Society
Text by IMA

INTERVIEW_2  Mandy Barker
Protecting the Ocean: Photography as a Warning Sign
Text by Marc Feustel

ESSAY_1
Our Earth, Our Selves
Text by Joanna Cresswell

ESSAY_2
The Hues of Water – Photographic Expression in the Anthropocene
Text by Seiha Kurosawa

Exploring the Future of Ecological Photography
Meridel Rubenstein/Yann Gross, Arguiñe Escandón/Charlie Engman/Hannah Fletcher

The Sustainability Prix Pictet Aims For
Interview with Isabelle Von Ribbentrop
Text by Miho Odaka
Benoit Aquin/Nadav Kander/Mitch Epstein/Luc Delahaye/Michael Schmidt/Valérie Belin/Richard Mosse/Joana Choumali/Sally Mann

Things We Lost in a Shipwreck
Text by Kong Yen Lin
Chow and Lin/Robert Zhao Renhui/Song Nian Ang/Miti Ruangkritya/Angki Purbandono/Wawi Navarroza/Shwe Wutt Hmon

Unseen California
Text by Lesley A. Martin
Karolina Karlic/Mercedes Dorame/Tarrah Krajnak/Dionne Lee/Aspen Mays

Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku
Photography and Painting-from Cézanne
Text by Mitsuhiro Wakayama

Gerhard Richter
“The photograph is the most perfect picture.”
Tomohiro Masuda Interview
Text by IMA

Satoshi Fujiwara Post-Painting

KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022
10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women
Photographers Supported by KERING’S WOMEN IN MOTION
Harumi Shimizu/Ai Iwane/Momo Okabe/Mayumi Hosokura/Ariko Inaoka/Yukari Chikura/Noriko Hayashi/Mayumi Suzuki/Hideka Tonomura/Takami Yoshida

IMA next “OPEN CALL” GRAND PRIX
Tsubasa Yomiya

Selected Articles

  • The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment

    The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment

    What do photographers feel about the global ecological mission we face today, and what do they depict it? In this feature, we will showcase 8 bodies of work each by Terri Weifenbach, Cristina De Middel & Bruno Morais, Mandy Barker, Maria Gruzdeva, and Gentaro Ishizuka.

  • Exploring the Future of Ecological Photography

    Exploring the Future of Ecological Photography

    In this modern society that aims for a sustainable world, what can photography do? Presented here are 4 projects from Iran, Peru, Ghana, and the United Kingdom led by photographers rooted in local communities, confronting environmental issues.

  • Photography and Painting: From Cézanne Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku On Artizon Museum Jam Session

    Photography and Painting: From Cézanne Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku On Artizon Museum Jam Session

    The exhibition “Photography and Painting: From Cézanne Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku” at the Artizon Museum (Kyobashi, Tokyo) is one that ambitiously sheds light on the relationship between photography and painting. This is a conversation between Shibata and Suzuki who have both cultivated their interest and knowledge of paintings for a long time, which discusses the approaches to their practice and their thoughts on paintings and photography based on this show encompassing Cezanne’s early works to the newest pieces.

  • Gerhard Richter  What is photography? What is painting?

    Gerhard Richter What is photography? What is painting?

    What can a painting do? —— With this question in mind all along, Gerhard Richter turned 90 this year. How has one of the most prominent painters of our time lived his career, going back and forth between photography and painting? With the first major solo-exhibition in Japan in 16 years, Tomohiro Masuda (Researcher in Chief of The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo) unravels Richter’s achievements anew.

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