Melancholia - A FotoNotsrum exhibition - Carrer de la Diputacio 48 08015 Barcelona, Spain

Melancholia, a FotoNostrum exhibition, will open on 18 June 2021 until 18 September 2021..

It intends to explore the dichotomy of melancholia and utopia, shedding light on the grey zone that lies between optimism and disenchantment.

Bringing together artists from all horizons, the aim is to question the individual’s position in society, connecting the harsh world of reality to a romantic vision of hope and beauty.

With the romantics’ idea of finding beauty in the disregarded and the unconventional, the exhibition takes us on a journey through the unconscious, grief, and the search of one’s inner self in all its nuances.

Lonsdale Gallery's FIRST EVER online exhibition! Check out Salonsdale: Rebel Lens - the gallery's Feature Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival @contactphoto. . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Discover over 200 experimental photographs by 48 talented artists and become entranced by the rich and engaging photographic practices taking place across the globe today. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This exhibition surveys the present socio-cultural landscape, and encourages a dialogue regarding the future of experimental photography in contemporary art.. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Artist Spotlight 🔍: Shelagh Howard's "In Camera" series is inspired by the use of the phrase as a legal term, meaning "in private." By working with long and the nude figure, Howard explores the construction of the self, involving gendered beauty, body image issues, vulnerability, isolation and acceptance.⠀
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Howard’s use of long exposures create a painterly effect and explore similarities and differences, human inter-connection, experiences and moments, while maintaining cognizant perspective of past memories and experiences. ⠀
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"My recent work with the male figure aims to explore a rarely seen perspective, moving away from traditional masculinization, eroticism or toxicity, and towards a deeper position of empathy, vulnerability and understanding. ⠀
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I hope that my images lead the viewer to look beyond what is culturally prescribed, and to instead see the universal truths that we all carry within us, wrapped in our flesh but never truly concealed by it."⠀

This 14th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award has been juried by Elizabeth Avedon, Rebecca Robertson and Analy Werbin. A total of 805 photographers from 67 countries have submitted 6,240 photographs for consideration of the pre-selection team of the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, and the final selection of the jurors.