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Jim Goldberg wins Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Jim Goldberg has been awarded the prize for his series Open See, which documents the experiences of refugee, immigrant and trafficked populations travelling from war-torn, socially and economically devastated countries such as Iraq, Bangladesh, China, the Balkans and The Congo...
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Paul Graham: Photographs 1981–2006

Whitechapel Gallery, in collaboration with Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, presents an extensive overview of Paul Graham's work, established over 25 years of detailed attention to what can and cannot be seen on the surface of everyday life. Anecdotal, gentle...
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Alec Soth: Somewhere to Disappear

Large-format photographer Alec Soth travels across America to document people who have retreated from society and the places they hide. Some subjects live in abandoned mountain cabins, others in caves and others still in the desolation of the desert. Soth...
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Printout! magazine evening

Why print when you can blog? Stack magazines and magCulture present a panel discussion on the print vs. blog debate, featuring Tim Hayward from Fire & Knives, Rob Orchard from Delayed Gratification and John L. Walters from Eye. The evening...
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David Maisel in conversation with Julian Cox

David Maisel's exhibition "History's Shadow" continues to 4 June at the Haines Gallery in San Fransisco, where the artist will be in conversation with Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums and Chief Curator at the...
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Chloé Poizat: Odradeks

"My principal interest is in the bizarre, in metamorphosis and modification," says Chloé Poizat. Her latest exhibition of drawings and paintings is on display at Galerie Martine Gossieaux in Paris from 6 May. Galerie Martine Gossieaux 56, rue de l'Université...
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John Gray with James Lovelock

Two of the world's foremost modern thinkers: climate-scientist and futurologist James Lovelock and political philosopher and author John Gray embark on a discussion inspired by the philosophical implications of long time. Live video and an audio recording of the talk...
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David Spero: Churches

Taken in London between 2002 and 2006, these photographs document buildings that feature none of the usual monumental architecture of the traditional church with its overt symbolism of status and power. Temporary, semi-permanent and often unconsecrated, the churches are where...
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A Different Window: Reading European Fiction

Drawbridge regular Gonçalo M. Tavares (Portugal) joins Merece Ibarz (Catalunya) and Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) in conversation with Bosnian novelist Aleksander Hemon, editor of the new anthology Best European Fiction 2011, published by Dalkey Archive Press. Southbank Centre Thursday 21 April,...
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François-Marie Banier: Beckett and Balthazar

Literaturhaus Stuttgart presents François-Marie Banier's photographs of Samuel Beckett resulting from an encounter that took place over thirty years ago in Tangiers. Following Beckett's movement amongst the crowds of Morocco, when the two finally met Banier forgot all about his...
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John Stezaker at Whitechapel Gallery

The first major exhibition of John Stezaker's subversive collages, which present found images in new contexts, continues at Whitechapel Gallery to 18 March. Events include: Big Ideas: John Stezaker lecture Thursday 17 February, 7pm John Stezaker in conversation with Dawn...
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John Gray: Immortality

John Gray will be in conversation with Adam Phillips to discuss themes in his new book The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. The Tabernacle Talbot Road, London W11 Monday 21 February, 7pm An Intelligence Squared...
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