Thursday, September 8, 6-8 pm: Lynsey Addario | The Masters Series Awards Ceremony at SVA Chelsea

This fall, School of Visual Arts (SVA) will honor Lynsey Addario, acclaimed war photographer, MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize recipient, with the 32nd annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition. Curated by Maya Benton and Perri Hofmann, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective of her fearless, two-decade journey documenting humanitarian issues around the globe.  Above: Fires burn along the Trans-Amazonian Highway in Brazil’s Amazonas state, in September 2021

Lynsey Addario’s work has taken her all over the world in her career that began in 1996, including the frontlines of conflict in Afghanistan, capturing the harsh realities of American troops and Afghan civilians. She has documented major conflicts in Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Somalia, Syria, South Sudan, and most recently, Ukraine. Addario has brought a strong focus to women’s issues in her work, including gender-based violence and rape as a weapon of war. Below: Noor Nisa, 18 (right), in labor and stranded with her mother in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, November 2009

Addario is the author of Of Love and War (2018, Penguin Press), her first solo collection of photography, and the New York Times best-selling memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War (2015, Penguin Press), which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world.

Through October 29 at SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, FL15, New York, NY Info

Save the Date:  Lynsey Addario in Conversation with Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography at The New York Magazine, Friday, September 9, 6:30 pm, at the SVA Theatre. 209 East 23^rd Street, New York, NY Info

More about the Masters Series here

Saturday, September 10, 6-8 pm: Meghann Riepenhoff: Ice at Yossi Milo

For her latest series Ice, Riepenhoff ventured deep into wintry climates to extract photographic records of water in its frozen states. Using the early photographic process of cyanotype, Riepenhoff creates images that not only depict, but are themselves the physical traces of ice in its varied forms. Travelling to various bodies of water across the United States, Riepenhoff immerses large sheets of cyanotype paper directly into the elements, allowing snow, ice, and freezing waters to coat the paper’s surface. The elements are then removed, both by way of the artist’s intervention and the natural propensity of ice to melt: a collaboration between artist and the immoveable will of nature. Riepenhoff then exposes the paper to sunlight, allowing the effects of time and chemistry to unearth the intricate microstructures and cosmic vastness of ice normally hidden from the human eye. 

Coinciding with the exhibition, a monograph by the same name will be published by Radius Books in conjunction with Yossi Milo Gallery, featuring an essay by Rebecca Solnit 

Through October 22 at Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY Info

Continuing through December 17: Michael Grecco | Days of Punk at Southeast Museum of Photography

On August 30, the Museum hosted an opening reception for “Days of Punk”, including an artist lecture by Michael Grecco in the Madorsky Theater.  

The more than 100 photographs featured date back to the late ‘70s through the early ‘90s, when Grecco documented the nightclub and concert scenes in New York and Boston as punk roared into the U.S.  He was working as an Associated Press photographer, and lensman for legendary rock station WBCN-FM, and was a self-described “club kid”who had a unique opportunity to embed himself into this revolutionary scene as both a chronicler and a participant. Grecco captured for posterity a riotously outspoken time in pop culture history, with all its raw energy and outrageous antics.

Among the punk artists seen through Grecco’s lens are Adam Ant, Billy Idol, Buzzcocks, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Elvis Costello, Joan Jett, Aimee Mann, the Ramones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Specials, Talking Heads, Wendy O. Williams, and many more. Visitors to the exhibition will also experience soundscapes specially created for “Days of Punk” in collaboration with Roger Miller and Peter Prescott of the cult band Mission of Burma. The video component was put together in collaboration with Jeremy Troy, and includes archival footage that Grecco himself shot during the punk era. Additionally, posters, magazines and other memorabilia from back in the day – all from Grecco’s personal collection – will be displayed. Copies of his book Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978–1991 will be available at the museum’s gift shop

 Southeast Museum of Photograph at Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL Info

September through March 2021: Martine Gutierrez | Supremacy at Horatio Street Billboard

Supremacy, a photo-performance in the artist’s signature chameleonic style, presents a newly created scene in which Gutierrez poses as a model surrounded by Barbie-like dolls. The work continues the artist’s investigation of how media propagates archetypes of women, beauty, and authenticity. A photograph reproduced as a 17-by-29-foot vinyl print, Supremacy will go on view in September, weather permitting, on the southwest corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets, located directly across from the Whitney and the High Line. The work is the next in a series of public art installations organized by the Museum in partnership with TF Cornerstone and High Line Art.

Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY Info

September 16: Indecencia at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Over two dozen diasporic artists of Latin American descent wield props, cameras, and “indecency” as tools for collective self-determination at one of the city’s first institutions dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists. Rooted in decolonial theology, the show’s focus on performance invites an exploration of queerness, religion, and Latinx identity in all its confines and possibilities. Above: Nadia Granados, Colombianización

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY Info

September 30: Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum at ICP

The title for this exhibition of 150 works by 12 women photographers is inspired by Magnum co-founder Robert Capa’s quote “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”. Close Enough presents more than 150 works, including Sabiha Çimen’s explorations of the experiences of young Islamic women in Turkey; Alessandra Sanguinetti’s long-term collaboration with the rural Argentinean cousins Guille and Belinda, as they evolve from childhood into adulthood; Bieke Depoorter’s multiyear, multiform project Agata, about a young club performer in Paris; and Susan Meiselas’ work with women who sought refuge from domestic violence in the Midlands, UK. Photographers in the exhibition include Olivia Arthur, Myriam Boulos, Sabiha Çimen, Bieke Depoorter, Cristina de Middel, Carolyn Drake, Nanna Heitmann, Susan Meiselas, Hannah Price, Lua Ribeira, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Newsha Tavakolian; curated by Charlotte Cotton. Above: Sabiha Cimen, A plane flies low over students riding a train at a funfair over the weekend, from Hafiz. August 29, 2018

International Center of Photography, 79 Essex Street, New York, NY Info