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Previous: Perspective

In collaboration with Fotografiska and Stockholm Public Library, 300 children were given cameras and asked to photograph the subject of their choice. The project aims to encourage children to use photography as a means of storytelling, and to expose them to alternative modes of communication.
April 18 - May 13, 2012 

Previous: Stolen Children. Soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army.

In the late 1980s a rebel movement arose in northern Uganda, which aimed to overthrow the country's government. The army is notorious for its forced recruitment of child soldiers. Stolen Children: Soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army, featuring the work of award-winning photographer Marcus Bleasdale, documents the unspeakable trauma experienced by these children.
March 9 - May 6, 2012 

Previous: Inwards and Onwards

Renowned photographer Anton Corbijn has consistently created inventive and unexpected expressions in portraiture while maintaining a feeling of intimacy, hence the title of his most recent exhibition, Inwards and Onwards. Since 2002 he has been working independently, portraying fine artists and other creative freethinking individuals.
January 14 - April 15, 2012

Previous: AITOR ORTIZ 1995-2010

The Spanish photographer Aitor Ortiz has photographed several monumental structures. However, Ortiz’ works cannot be categorized as exclusively architectural or documentary. Like many other photographers of the digital age, he is pioneering visual languages that push the photographic image further away from the document to subjective expressions of time and place.
December 16, 2011 - March 11, 2012

Previous: Surrounded By No One

Sometimes we feel alone, even when we are surrounded by other people. It is perhaps during these moments that we try hardest to conceal our feelings. Taking photographs is about challenging yourself, about daring to remain in a room to capture what happens when everyone else has left. Margaret M. de Lange is a photographer who stays behind. She judges no one, and embraces the experience.
December 8, 2011 - March 4, 2012

Previous: Haiti in Pictures: Two Years After the Earthquake

On January 12, 2010, just before 5 p.m., Haiti was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake which killed over 220,000 people and reduced much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, to rubble. It was the worst quake in the region in more than 200 years; countless were left without a home and a family. Fotografiska marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous earthquake with the exhibition Haiti in Pictures: Two Years After the Earthquake.
January 12 - February 16, 2012.

Previous: On This Earth, A Shadow Falls

Nick Brandt’s photograph of an elephant drinking captures, in all its detail, the quiet reserve of this creature, its weathered skin and ivory tusks dusty and worn. Each individual wrinkle, each contour, its gentle gaze, is imbedded into the paper, the result of patience and tripping the shutter at just the right moment. Through his craft Brandt grants us an intimate glance into the private world of these gentle beasts.
October 7, 2011 - January 9, 2012

Previous: Untitled

Untitled depicts a series of men engaged in a fistfight. For Johan Wik, fistfights and fights in general existed only in the realm of Hollywood films and Tv action dramas. Moreover the graphic violence carried out by the overtly masculine men portrayed in these media outlets fascinated Wik. They represented a caricature of masculinity that was not present in his everyday life.
November 14 - December 11, 2011

Previous: Urban Lyrics

Helen Levitt is one of the 20th century’s foremost photographers and a pioneer of the “street photography” movement. Fotografiska is proud to present an extensive photographic retrospective of Helen Levitt‘s oeuvre. 
23 september - 11 december, 2011 

Previous: Lowlands

This is where I grew up. When I was a child I longed to move away. To something that was bigger, to something more. The village was limiting and the world beyond was an adventure waiting to happen. I have returned here now. With my camera as an excuse - to search for memories. To understand the longing I felt while growing up.
September 2 - December 4, 2011

Previous: ROLLS Tohoku March 31st – April 3rd

When the earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, I was working with an art exhibition entitled "Rolls of the Week”. At the time of the earthquake, I felt so helpless. I found myself in a country in chaos unable to help out. I realized that this was not the time to feel helpless. I took my disposable camera and went to the area of devastation.
July 8 - November 22, 2011 

Previous: The Seal

Joanna Rytel’s artistry addresses the complexity of power, taboos, pornography, and gender without attempting to deliver a politically correct answer. In her latest work entitled The Seal Rytel tackles a subject that is seldom discussed; namely, the fear, sometimes harbored by a pregnant women, of harming her growing fetus.
October 10 - November 13, 2011

Previous: Blackdrop Island

Blackdrop Island is a video piece that depicts fragments of city nightlife in Tokyo. We encounter sequences where an intense flashlight illuminates seemingly random people and objects such as a crowd, a beetle upon a house facade, a stack of plates, and wrapped trees. The darkness hangs like a curtain behind the objects thereby accentuating the details of these everyday scenes, which might otherwise go unnoticed.
September 2 - October 9, 2011 

Previous: Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe is undoubtedly one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. This extensive retrospective presents Mapplethorpe’s work to a new generation of viewers with approximately 200 stunning prints, many which have never been exhibited in Sweden before.
June 17 - October 3, 2011

Previous: Northern Women in CHANEL

Fashion photography has perhaps captured the times like no other genre. In the suite Northern Women in CHANEL, photographer Peter Farago and stylist Ingela Klemetz-Farago have realized their dream of photographing classic creations by CHANEL. The result is an interesting meeting between timeless clothes and melancholy in a barren Scandinavian landscape.
July 1 - September 18, 2011

Previous: The Invisible Man

Fotografiska is proud to present the first exhibition of Chinese artist Liu Bolin in Scandinavia. Liu is renown for his series of images entitled Hiding in the City. What makes these images unique is that Liu literally paints himself into each scene. His body resembles “camouflage”, thereby making Liu both present and absent in each photograph. These cleverly orchestrated images have earned him the name, the invisible man. However, the story of how these images came about is less than lighthearted.
July 2 - September 18, 2011 

Previous: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"I began photographing with a view to try to save Cizzi. I thought that my hard work would have a strengthening effect and that I would be able to help Cizzi and everyone else who is suffering. They would recover automatically. That’s how the story of Cizzi began. A depiction not just of her but of friendship. Our friendship."
May 31 - August 21, 2011 

Previous: I Want To Live Close To You

Jacob Felländer has traveled around the world with 33 analogue cameras. A trip made in 12 days with stops in Stockholm, New York, L.A., Hong Kong, Bombay, Dubai, Paris and back to Stockholm. A photographic experiment with the intent of capturing the whole world on one negative. The whole world in one image.
May 6 - August 28, 2011

Previous: Circle of Memory

Eleanor Coppola took part in a remembrance ceremony at a passage tomb in Ireland which affected her profoundly. In this multi-media installation, Circle of Memory, she and five other artists reinterpreted a passage tomb. Instead of building the structure of stones as the original is, it is made of straw bales. 
June 18 - August 21, 2011

Previous: Burtynsky/OIL

Acclaimed Canadian photographer and lecturer Edward Burtynsky has dedicated his career to capturing the effect of our activity on the planet. Via his monumental, richly detailed large format prints of industrial landscapes, mines, and urban spaces, he depicts the result of human interaction upon the world.
April 22 - June 26, 2011.

Previous: Albert Watson

The Scottish photographer Albert Watson has always been a prolific image-maker and has, during his career, photographed over 200 covers for magazines such as Vogue and Rolling Stone Magazine. Photo District News recently counted him among the 20 most important photographers of all time. At Fotografiska, Albert Watson will be presented with a retrospective of his iconic portraits, landscapes, and bold fashion images.
March 25 - June 12, 2011.

Previous: Starved For Attention

Starved For Attention is a touring photo and video exhibition produced by the renowned photo agency VII, commissioned by Doctors Without Borders. The exhibition focuses on malnutrition and highlights the fact that it is not only the lack of food that is the reason that 195 million children are malnourished but also the lack of the right kind of food.
May 4 - 29, 2011 

Previous: Intended Consequences

In 1994, over 800 000 Tutsis (and moderate Hutus) in Rwanda were murdered at the hands of Hutu militia groups. This incomprehensible genocide is a sore in the history of humanity and the wounds are far deeper than the number of dead. Photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik gives a voice to the victims who, after having endured unfathomable torture, gave birth and raised a daughter or son conceived by rape.
March 8 - May 1, 2011.

Previous: 12345

Sarah Moon is a living legend. She is one of France’s most renowned contemporary photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Over the past 35 years, Moon has created a pictorial universe comprised of a constellation of figures, animals, structures, and environments. Moon’s images reside in the mysterious space between wake and dreams, art and fashion.
January 14 - April 17, 2011.

Previous: Lady Warhol

Fotografiska will be the first to exhibit Lady Warhol by Christopher Makos. Eight wigs, two days work, sixteen contact sheets, and fifty photographs comprise this unique series of portraits that depict Andy Warhol’s transformation to his alter ego Lady Warhol. Makos’ series at Fotografiska marks the first time the photographs have been shown together as a solo exhibition.
December 9, 2010 - March 20, 2011.

Previous: Exploding Plastic Inevitable

It was in April 1966 that the first complete manifestation of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable or EPI took place at the venue Dom in New York City. With Ronald Nameth's four-projection installation, including music by the Velvet Underground and Nico, EPI will be recreated at Fotografiska.
December 9, 2010 - March 20, 2011.

Previous: Guatemala. Eternal Spring - Eternal Tyranny

In 1980, 26-year-old photojournalist Jean-Marie Simon visited Guatemala, for the first time, in order to complete a short reportage. She stayed for eight years. When Simon finally left, she had, via thousands of photographs, documented the most violent period in the country’s 30-year civil war. Simon’s images capture the cruel reality of war in one of the most compelling chapters of Guatemala’s modern history.
February 10 - March 6, 2011.

Previous: Creeping in Circles

Creeping in Circles constitutes a series of images that could be described as performative pieces. It is as much a part of a larger response to the digital revolution as it is a poetic gesture.
January 14 - March 3, 2011.

Previous: The Pier

Piren

Piren tells the story of a well-known and talked about street art project. In a cavity under a pier outside of Malmö, Nils Petter Löfstedt and Erik Vestman worked for six month to change a hostile environment into a lounge. This is the story of a streetarthappening that took place between January and May 2009.
December 9, 2010 - January 9, 2011.

Previous: One Step Big Shot

One Step Big Shot investigates portraiture in the work of Gus Van Sant, one of cinema’s most influential directors. Van Sant is known for his poetic vision and for his ability to bring about authentic and unforgettable performances from his actors. The portraits, selected from hundreds taken for casting those films, exemplify Van Sant’s considerable talents, and also provoke a discussion about representation.
November 9 - December 5, 2010.

Previous: How to Civilize a Waterfall

In the video installation How to Civilize a Waterfall, the human authoritative language faces the nature as an indifferent and independent force. Inspired by the dramatic expressiveness of hard metal music Hanna Ljungh confronts nature. The work shows a furious woman trying to persuade a waterfall to follow her orders.
November 9 - December 7, 2010.

Previous: Wunder-baum

Lars Tunbjörk’s video installation entitled Wunder-baum is comprised of a series of photographs of flowers and constructed nature scenes, taken over a period of years at garden fairs in Stockholm. Tunbjörk is interested in exploring how flowers are utilized within the commercial environment, and how nature is reconstructed and presented.
September 24 - November 8, 2010.

Previous: Fashion!

Fashion and photography has co-existed for nearly a hundred years. A collective revolution that is perhaps stronger than any other medium that reflects the spirit of an age and each generation’s dreams and desires.
September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011.

Previous: Stockholm

© Pieter ten Hoopen

Stockholm, a story about dreams, fears, and a longing to be seen. It is an intimate meeting with a series of people in various rooms throughout the city. The exhibition comprises a selection of images that will also be featured in a photography book by the same name.
September 10 - November 28, 2010.

Previous: The Artificial Mirror

Known for her surrealistic imagery, New York based artist Sandy Skoglund (b. 1946) is a pioneer within fine art photography. She has exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
September 10 - November 6, 2010.

Previous: From Back Home

The immediacy of a photograph, paired with Petersen’s chance encounters with his subjects, brings to mind the transience of our existence, and the understanding that home is subjective and indefinable, yet it is home that is at the core of our being. For Petersen the photographs taken in Värmland are much more than documentation, collectively they compose his self-portrait.
June 10 - September 5, 2010.

Previous: The Birthday Party

Painterly portraits with dramatic elements and unique colour compositions are characterstic of Vee Speers' work. In The Birthday Party, we encounter her theatrical portraits of costumed children on their way to an imaginary celebration. Exhibited for the first time in Sweden, Speer's photographs are as whimsical as they are threatening.
May 21 - September 5, 2010.

Previous: Bodies

Joel-Peter Witkin, Night in a Small Town, 2007

Joel-Peter Witkin leaves no one unmoved with his controversial photographs. Since the 1970s, Witkin has sought to reveal the beauty within the horrid, and confront whatever darkness may exist inside us and around us. Bodies is a journey through Witkin’s mystifying and captivating artistry, from his earliest works until present day.
May 21 - August 22, 2010.

Previous: A Child is Born

Lennart Nilsson’s acclaimed series A Child is Born takes us on an amazing journey to the origin of our creation. Images of the human egg, sperm, and the developing foetus are revealed in Nilsson’s breathtaking large-format photographs, many of which have never been exhibited before.
May 21 - September 5, 2010.

Previous: A Photographer's Life 1990–2005

Brad Pitt, Las Vegas, 1994

May 21 2010 marks the first solo exhibition in Sweden of one of the most celebrated photographers of our time. With over 190 photographs, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990–2005 shows iconic images of famous public figures together with personal photographs of Leibovitz’s family and close friends. The exhibition is extended to September 19, 2010.