JUST ANNOUNCED: ANCIENT MARKS IN CHINA

Chris Rainier’s exhibition Ancient Marks will be featured in China during the Summer Olympics 2008. Details to be announced.

Rainier is also working on two new books: Sacred, 2009, publisher Assouline and Ancient Asia, 2010, publisher Palace Press.

Just announced: Dorothy Kerper Monnelly in Italy

Dorothy Kerper Monnelly’s photographs will be featured this month in the exhibition SHE SHOTS at Raccolte Frugone, Villa Grimaldi Fassio in Genoa, Italy from March 6-30, 2008 — celebrating International Women’s Day. Images of ten American women photographers are being exhibited in five locations including the Nevi Museum and also on an outdoor screen in the city center.

“[These photographers], like Dorothy Monnelly, continue to look with an elegiac gusto at the grand North American landscape...” In this statement for the show, curator Marita Holdaway refers to the women photographers chosen, and the common thread of their personal connection to their subject.

NEW ARTIST – THOMAS KELLY

photokunst is pleased to welcome artist Thomas Kelly to its ranks! Kelly has lived in Katmandu for over 25 years and offers frank and intimate portraits of Southeast Asia. He has researched and photographed 5 books based in South Asia including Tibet: Reflections on the Wheel of Life and The Hidden Himalayas and works avidly as a filmmaker and photo-activist, documenting the struggles of marginalized people and disappearing cultural traditions all over the world. View his work and learn more about the artist here.

THE GREAT MARSH EXHIBITION Comes to Seattle!

Dorothy Kerper Monnelly’s exhibition The Great Marsh will be featured at Benham Gallery in Seattle, WA, May 28th - July 12th, 2008, with an artist reception on June 5th from 6-8PM. This show features the most popular images from Monnelly’s acclaimed book, released last April, which is heading back to the presses for its second printing this fall.

AFRICAN CEREMONIES VOLUME 3 – SCHEDULED RELEASE 2010

Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher continue their journey into the most remote corners of Africa to record hitherto undocumented tribal ceremonies — birth rites, weddings, coming of age ceremonies, funerals, religious observances and more. Allowed unprecedented access to tribal customs relating to male and female rituals, these two women published the definitive two volume reference African Ceremonies on the subject in 1999, and have been continuing their work ever since. Rizzoli is scheduled to add the third and final volume to this extraordinary collection in 2010.

BERMAN ARCHIVE VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS — NOW AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY!

Photographs from the archive of Iosef Berman, the most important press photographer active in inter-war Romania, are now available for sale individually. Visit his gallery to see the photographs and contact photokunst today for prices and availability.