NEWSROOMNEWS© Constanza Portnoy© Paul Hart

News from the black & white world. Edited by Mark Bentley. markbe@thegmcgroup.com© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

PRIZE WINNER

A series of black & white pictures byConstanza Portnoy has won her thePhotographer of the Year prize at theTokyo International Foto Awards.
The collection of pictures, entitledLife Force: What Love Can Save, show
a disabled man from Argentina called
Jorge, along with his wife Vero anddaughter Ángeles. More pictures fromthe series can be seen on the app
edition of this magazine.

HIGH CONTRAST
Pictures by Vivian Maier will be
among the attractions at theEuropean Month of Photography
Berlin. More than 100 venues
will host exhibitions as part ofGermany’s largest photo festival,
which runs from 28 September
to 31 October.
Exhibitions and debates will beon offer as part of the Bayeux
Calvados-Normandy Award for
war correspondents. The eventin France also features a book
fair and education events andis a chance for international
journalists to discuss their work.
It runs from 8 to 14 October.

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The National Portrait Gallery inLondon has been awarded£5 million towards the creationof a new wing. More than 500
square metres will be madeaccessible to the public,including extended space for thegallery’s permanent collection
and special exhibitions.
Nelli Palomäki, Mark Seliger andDenis Dailleux have work on showat the Portrait(s) Photography
Festival in Vichy, France, from15 June to 9 September© Luke Willis Thompson

The winner of the Deutsche
Börse Photography Foundation
Prize is New Zealand artist
Luke Willis Thompson.
The £30,000 prize wasawarded for Autoportrait, afilmic portrait of Diamond
Reynolds, whose partner was
killed in a police shootingin the US. The installation isdisplayed at the MMK Museum
für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt,
Germany, until 9 September.

NATIONAL TREASURE

CLASSICS ON SHOW
Pictures by some of the greatsof photography will be on display
at the new Photography Centre
at the V&A in London.
Three 19th century picture
galleries have now been
dedicated to photography andwill show work by Julia Margaret
Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz,
Edward Steichen, Anna Atkins,
Eadweard Muybridge, Eugène
Atget, William Henry Fox
Talbot, Man Ray, Walker Evansand Cindy Sherman.
The centre more thandoubles the space given overto photography at the museum.
The first phase opens on
12 October with a display of thehistory of photography from the19th century to the present.
The entrance to the centre
will be through an installationof more than 150 cameras. Aninteractive camera handlingstation will give visitors an

insight into how photographers
see the world, and a dark tent
area – inspired by the travellingdarkrooms of 19th century
photographers – will show
films about early photographic
practices such as daguerreotype,calotype and wet collodion.
German photographer
Thomas Ruff will show new work
inspired by Linnaeus Tripe’s

Seascape (1856-59)
by Gustave Le Gray.

negatives of India and Burma inthe 1850s. Recent acquisitionsof work by Linda McCartney,Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cornelia
Parker and Mark Cohen will
also be displayed.
The second phase of thePhotography Centre opens in
2022 and will provide a teaching
and research space, libraryand darkroom.

V&A Photography Centre – render of gallery 99.

A significant collection of Scottish
photography has been acquired by theNational Library of Scotland and theNational Galleries of Scotland.
The archive of more than 14,000
pictures dates from the 1840s to 1940sand includes a view of Loch Katrine by
William Henry Fox Talbot and portraitsof Scottish regiments from the Crimean
war by Roger Fenton. Other highlights
include work by David Octavius Hilland Robert Adamson, James Ross andJohn Thomson, Thomas Annan and hisson James Craig Annan.
The collection was created by
Murray MacKinnon, who ran a chainof film-processing stores in the 1980s.
Subjects range from pictures of life inthe main towns and cities to studies ofthe farming and fishing communities.
A major exhibition will be held at
the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
next year.

© David Kohn Architects

Glasgow University, 1898, byJames Craig Annan.

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ON FOR SUMMER

Caulton’s Cottage by Paul Hart.

Black & white photographer Paul Hart has a picture on display at this year’s Royal Academy summer
exhibition. His picture, Caulton’s Cottage, is a toned silver gelatin print. The 250th RA Summer
Exhibition runs from 12 June to 19 August at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

BEST BOOKS

Dayanita Singh was among threephotographers shortlisted for
the Kraszna-Krausz Best
Photography Book.
Singh, featured in B+W 200, wasshortlisted for her book Museum
Bhavan, a collection of nine small
books created to be like miniature
museums. The overall winner wasChrystel Lebas for her book Field
Studies, based on the work ofbotanist Sir Edward James.
Renowned photographer Josef
Koudelka was awarded the KrasznaKrausz Foundation Fellowship inPhotography. Koudelka’s work
includes his pictures taken during
the suppression of the Prague
Spring in 1968 and books such as
Gypsies and Exiles.

© Dayanita Singh

Little Ladies 31 by Dayanita Singh, from Museum Bhavan.

NEWS EXTRACongratulations to Argentinian photographer
Constanza Portnoy, who has won the Tokyo
International Foto Awards for her series of black& white pictures of a disabled man and his family.
All images © Constanza Portnoy

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