Para-images is now part of the unique collection at the Photobook Museum in Cologne
More than happy & proud to announce that our KASSEL DUMMY BOOK COLLECTION from the recent years of Dummy Award Shortlist is now part of the unique collection of @the_photobookmuseum in Cologne // thank you to all artists for these precious pieces of work and to our friends from The PhotoBookMuseum to take care of them // there‘d be no better place for this photobook treasure // stay tuned!
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Welcome to #thepbm Collection : Tower of the Kassel PhotoBook-DummyAward . Thank you so much @fotobookfestivalkassel for the donation of hundreds shortlisted dummys! Finding a new permanent home - after a long time worldwide travel at many locations - at #thephotobookmuseum .
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#longlivethephotobook #vivaehrenfeld
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Ground Truth is OUT
What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Ground Truth observes the evolution of visual technology in conversation with our perception and surroundings. The more technology develops, the more abstract seeing becomes.
Equipped with the phenomenal power of computation, photography and hyperspectral imaging, a group of scientists set out to approach the boundaries of satellite imaging in the forests of Finland. Using meticulous on-site measurements of physical structures and spectral properties of trees, ‘ground truth’ data are experimental results to verify the performance of predicting models. Their quest is to develop an improved interpretation model of satellite data for remote sensing research, which allows us to distinguish various features of the surface beyond what is shown optically in satellite imagery.
In Ground Truth Sheung Yiu (HK/FI) interweaves archival imagery, documentary photography, experimental data and artistic work, to acquaint the reader with the mathematical models that provide us the tools to ‘resurrect’ trees from a two-dimensional image. Ground Truth highlights the complexity of seeing in the age of algorithms. What do we see when we are not around? What can we see when there is nothing there?
Get a copy here: https://www.eriskayconnection.com/home/114-ground-truth.html
Wars Aren't Spectacular Anymore at The Book Month organized by PUBLICS
The Riso print poem is designed by Else Lagerspetz, text edited by Vidha Saumya and poem and concept by Sheung Yiu
The whole collection from the temporary bookshelf project is here
The Temporary Bookshelf is a non-profit art bookshop specialized in self-publishing & independent publishers - from Finland and abroad. All proceeds go directly to the author by MobilePay and PayPal. The Bookshelf is usually hosted at @kosminenkollektiivi art space, it also organises book-related events in Helsinki and present a curated selection of their books within satellite events.
The @the.temporary.bookshelf selection at PUBLICS:
-A Love Song To A Stranger, Ott Kagovere / @ottkagovere
-An Eating, Coda Press / @codapress
-Avocado Ibuprofen, Perfectly Acceptable / @avocado_ibuprofen
-Bible Hounds, Knock Knock books / @knockknockbooks
-Bum Edition 3 / @bumeditions
-Dreaming of Laho Paratiisi, Tuo Tuo / @tuotuoarts
-Finestra Aperta, Anna Liisa Krage / @annaliisakrage
-Female Fame, Erika Hock, Lugemik / @lugemik @lugemik_bookshop
-I laugh while crying. And I barely cry. What’s wrong with me?, TEXST press
-Kontur 8, Bokklub
-Kontur 9 / @tidskriftenkontur
-La Frontera, Gloria Azaldua, Tutkijaliitto / @tutkijaliitto
-Penjet Notebook, Lugemik / @lugemik @lugemik_bookshop
-(freshly published!)Perfoming A Lifetime, Quince editiones / @quinceediciones
-Saaria, hyrriä, keltaisia alueita, Toni , Elisa Elg / @toni.elg
-The Density of my bone in my brow, TEXST press /
-The Devil is in the Details, Juulia Jokinen / @juuliajk
-The Joy Inside Of Me Makes Me Feel So Real, Helen Korpak / @hkorpak
-The Secrets of the Shelves, Knock Knock Books / @knockknockbooks
-The Tower, Jessie Bullivant / @a1jessiebullivant
-Wars aren’t spectacular anymore, Sheung Yiu / @sheungyiuphoto
-42-43, Gustaf Sandström / @sandstromgustaf
A pop-up screening of Sarajevo Roses and Clouds of June
Samra Šabanović and I, as the duo I was there but you didn't see me*, are having a pop-up screening of our video work on mass protest photography at the Third Space starting from next Monday. The late opening will be on next Thursday the 7th Oct from 5-8pm, hope to see some old and new faces there.
“Sarajevo Roses and Clouds of June” (2020) is a 22-minute video essay on images and their relation to peace. Reflecting on personal experience and photographic practices in general, the video essay contemplates the role of photography in the recent waves of mass protests and social activism. The title is a reference to the memorials of the Bosnian War and the months-long protest in Hong Kong that began in June 2019. The video essay, made during the pandemic in 2020, is composed entirely of video footage found on popular free stock websites. In five chapters, the essay delves into the ever-complex politics of visibility and invisibility, offering a critical examination of how photography may or may not contribute to peace in the age of mass surveillance enabled by hyper-connectivity and the omnipresence of cameras.
“Sarajevo Roses and Clouds of June” (2020) is the third chapter of I was there but you didn’t see me*
instagram: @iwastherebut, @sheungyiuphoto, @samraezn
More about the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/233983632028551/
Ground Truth is OUT
My first monograph published by The Eriskay Connection is finally out. I am very excited to introduce the first publication of the Ground Truth Trilogy to the world. The book contains part of my work from the project Ground Truth I, or How To Resurrect A Tree, a story about remote sensing, about peeking underneath the pixel of satellite images to find a tree. The book is designed by Emery Norton. You can get the book here on Eriskay online shop.
SOFT images is back from Foto Tallinn. The 9pm news and a review from mustekala
FotoTallinn 2021
Coming in hot to Tallinn with Sofia Okkonen and Maija Annikki Savolainen as the collective SOFTimages. See you from 2.9.2021-5.9.2021 in Kai Art Center
First International Festival of Manuports 2021 at Kohta
Contributed one of my works to the first International Festival of Manuports 2021 at Kohta, a privately initiated kunsthalle in Helsinki.
Noorderlicht Internationaal Fotofestival 2021
Many thanks to the production team @noorderlichtphotography to let me work with different materials and finish this laborious installation. You can see the work at Akerk, Groningen till November. Thank you guest curator Paulien Dresscher for selecting the work and @studio.ratata Studio RATATA for creating the beautiful poster using my work.
Aperture Photo No-Nos Online Variety Show
In case you missed the Livestream. I was happy to join other fantastic photographers to give a ‘performance’ for the book launch of Photo No-Nos
Around a year ago, mushroom master Jason Fulford (@mushroom_collector) asked me if I wanted to contribute to a book about taboos in photography he is editing, I said yes immediately without any hesitation.
Now, the book published by @aperturefnd is here!
The book launch is a variety show with performances by many of the contributors. I am happy to be showing part of my new work online. It will be streaming on YouTube on 24 June 7pm ET (US time)
What is a photo no-no you ask?
Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, something even arbitrary. At turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos (Aperture, 2021) features ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world’s most talented photographers and photography professionals. Not a strict guide, but a series of meditations on “bad” pictures, Photo No-Nos is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharpen their visual communication skills.
Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021: The Makeable Mind
My Dummy Travelling with KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020
Backlight Festival 2020: Related Realities
KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 & Backlight Festival 2020
While my work is still exhibiting at Backlight Festival 2020 in Tampere, Finland, I am happy to report that my book Para-images is shortlisted for the Kassel dummy award 2020. A big thank you to the talented @joosung.kang for designing the book.
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395 books from 44 countries 💥 Thank you to all KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020 participants + congratulations to these 47 artists on our SHORTLIST:
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Andrea Alessandrini (IT) – Piccola Russia
Alex Avgud (RU/NL) – Exercises in Freedom
Marta Bogdańska (PL) – Shifters
Arthur Bondar / Oksana Yushko (RU) – Daisy Rivers
Christelle Boul. (CH) – Through Glass
Maryna Brodovska (UA) – My dear Vira
Anna-Tia Buss (CH) – Pomegranates grow in winter
Victoria Chaushyan (NL) – Only 1 room left!
Don Claude (US) – Shedding Light
Marina Cordes / Signe Heldt (DE) – ebenda
Nadezhda Ermakova (RU) – An ordinary story
Jana Evers (DE) – La ZAD
Yoshikatsu Fujii (JP) – Hiroshima Graph - Everlasting Flow
Pedro Guimaraes (PT) – Rato Tesoura Pistola
Claudia Hans (MX) – Wolf Hans
Yara Jimmink (NL) – When Summer Became Winter
Jérémie Jung (FR) – Pāri Mūriem
Kohei Kawatani (JP) – Tofu-Knife
Josef Kovac (SE) – Searching for Sergei
Youqine Lefèvre (BE) – The Land of Promises
Veronica Losantos (DE) – Archaia
Andrei Marin (RO) – Quarantine
Kazuhiko Matsumura (JP) – Elusive Rainbow
Lisa Mazenauer (CH) – Mitholz
Paulina Mohr (DE) – Hier ist die Oberfläche
Paulina Mohr / Ingrid Timmerarens (DE) – Der ganzen Familie
Daria Nazarova (RU) – The Spider‘s House
Marella Oppenheim (GB) – Under Dark Roots/Colonia Dignidad
Takuji Otsuka (JP) – My precious one
Michelle Piergoelam (NL) – The untangled tales
Malte Radtki (DE) – Specimens
Caio Reisewitz (BR) – Novo Progresso
Btihal Remli (MA/DE) – the djinni diaries
Kourtney Roy (FR) – The Other End of the Rainbow
Etsuko Sato (JP) – PLACES AS POINTS
Ardelle Schneider (DE) – Butterflies and Caterpillars
Suzanne Schols (NL) – Polite Fictions
Agnieszka Sejud (PL) – HOAX
Yvonne Shaw (NZ) – Auxiliary Movement
Anastasia Shpilko (RU) – You Just Missed Her
Alina Simmelbauer (DE) – Garcías Tochter
Moe Suzuki (JP) – 底翳 SOKOHI
Krzysztof Światły (PL) – Paradise Rivers Are Drying Up on Earth
Kyoko Takemura (DE) – Odd Recipes
Malte Uchtmann (DE) – Ankommen
Vinita Vilcane Krilova (LV) – A Quest for Freedom Vol.2
Sheung Yiu (FI) – Para-images: Cultural Ideas & Technical Apparatuses Beyond
White Paper Manifesto at Pori Biennale 2020
Our fourth biennale, Not to Sing Like a City Bird Sings, is here!
Reposaari is a very special place for me, and this has been a very special project, in so many different and surprising ways! Thank you for being part of it:
Artists: 55-98 (Verna Kovanen & Krista Seppälä), Athanasía M. Aarniosuo, Helen Aleksandrova, Maria Andreou, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Jernej Čuček Gerbec, Zahrah Ehsan, Pia Euro, Farbod Fakharzadeh, Saara Ha Hannus, Henna Karoliina, Vappu Jalonen, Anna Jensen, Eliisa Suvanto & Anni Venäläinen, Parsa Kamehkhosh, Marta Khrshanovskaya, Sara Kärpänen, Harri Laakso, Paola JV, Ilai Elias Ilukka, Lauri Linna, Saara Mahbouba, Martina Adela, Mahnai Motazedi, Catfish Dan, Niko Tii Nurmi Sipiläinen, Tommi O'Likainen, Ragnar Rael, Taina Rajanti & Kitchen Philosophy, Miissa Rantanen, Niilo Rinne, Anne Anne Katriina Roininen, Hanne Salonen, Shubhangi Singh, Matti Tainio, Marloes van Son, Kenneth Yiu
And Kiia Beilinson, graphic design and Ville Niemi, web development. And, curator partner in crime Eliisa
Join me at Shelter Festival 2020 for a co-writing session of White Paper Manifesto
Join me for a casual talk as I host the co-writing session of White Paper Manifesto on Sunday at 12pm (Helsinki time) for Suoja/ Shelter Festival-Laboratory VOL.3. More details and instructions at http://suojashelter.tilda.ws/sheung_yiu
Invite link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5156608992?pwd=YUdwQXV5ekhYU3I0bkJRc3N3Vi9NQT09
Meeting ID 515 660 8992
Meeting Password 487413
Upcoming show at Backlight Festival 2020
A short review of my Exhibition on a Swedish art blog Nytid
Sheung Yiu: The Twinkling of an Eye.Hippolyte, Georgsgatan 8-10, Helsingfors. Till 26.1 2020.
Dripp, dropp. Att förstå och beskriva något så vardagligt som fallande vattendroppar var en utmaning för vetenskapen innan fotografiet utvecklat verkligt korta exponeringstider. Fysikern Arthur Worthington använde – för att uttrycka det enkelt – den subjektiva efterbild som uppstår när en blixt avfyras samtidigt med att en droppe faller. Baserat på detta tecknade han dropparna.
Det är en paradox idag att vetenskapens krav på exakthet möttes med en metod helt baserat på en visuell tolkning av något så svårverifierat som en tillfällig retning av retina.
Sheung Yius utställning The Twinkling of an Eye mediterar över vatten och ljus med utgångspunkt i detta. Här finns en annan typ av poetiskt närmande än i Emma Rönnholms på många sätt liknande utgångspunkter. Här är själva fenomenet och materialiteten underordnade. Med vatten, fotografier, plast och glas konstrueras små tablåer som både har drag av vetenskapens nära observation och en poetisk – och fortfarande precis – strävan att skapa nya kluster av betydelser.
Link: https://www.nytid.fi/2020/01/konstkollen-konceptuellt-tankens-och-bildens-oformodade-moten/
