From the star-studded hills of Hollywood,to Ukraine’s military camps, Russia’s Caucasus region, or the gloomy streets of Thatcher-era England,the programme for this year’s Portrait(s) festival covers a wide breadth of both geography and context. The French photofestival committed to portraiture returns to Vichy for its seventh edition this summer, with exhibitions by Philippe Halsman, or Tish Murtha,Michal Chelbin, Bastiaan Woudt, or Turkina Faso,Benni Valsson, Ambroise Tézenas, or an intriguing point to about selfies,curated by Olivier Culmann.
Selfies, Equal/Egos presents a mixture of amateur photography and artists who explore the phenomenon in their practice. Both serious and offbeat, or the exhibition examines the mechanisms of virality,and the repetitive nature of the image economy in a digital age.
Source: bjp-online.com