HAUTE PHOTOGRAPHIE 2019
International photography fair, Haute Photographie, is back in 2019 with its refreshing take on the fair format.
Initiated by Roy Kahmann, director of Kahmann Gallery, publisher of GUP Magazine, and a long-term advocate of photography in the Netherlands, Haute was officially launched as part of Art Rotterdam Week in February 2017. The fair takes a carefully curated exhibition as its starting point, which provides a fascinating look at photography as a fine art medium. Accompanied by a focus exhibition on young Dutch photography talent, a talks programme in association with Nederlands Fotomuseum, a book market, and more, Haute will return to be a must-visit during the Rotterdam Art Week 2019, one of the key events in contemporary art in the Netherlands.
Among this years featured photographers we have picked three stand-outs from the list that will see 51 photographers from 13 galleries international galleries.
Cars were an indispensable aspect of twentieth century culture, both for their utility and aesthetics. From 1974 to 1976, Langdon Clay photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New York City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey at night. Shot in Kodachrome with a Leica and deftly lit with then new sodium vapor lights, the pictures feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments, and occasionally the ghostly presence of people.
Yoshinori Mizutani is a young, prolific and innovative photographer using his extensive pallet of photographic techniques to present specific interpretations and perspectives on everyday phenomena. In his series Rain (2015), Mizutani shot a number of pedestrian crossings in Tokyo from an elevated vantage point as the citizens and traffic pass below.
The monochromatic rhythm of the wet tarmac and road paint is interrupted by people dressed in brightly coloured clothes or passing traffic. The images are vibrant snapshots of life on a grey day that are carefully composed to preserve each individual’s anonymity. “Even the most mundane details such as wet ground and rain drops can reveal a whole new world to us if we observe them from a slightly different angle,” says Yoshinori. “Rain is one of my continuing attempts to present a new perspective and interpretation towards our often overlooked daily phenomena.”
Filled with vivid light and colour, masculine symbols, sex and escapism, the work of Joost Termeer (also top) is based on the way we read, consume and use images. Taking inspiration from mass tourism and consumption, advertisements and hyperreality, he combines images form travels to Southern-European countries with studio images and collages made afterwards – all of them are reconstructions of memories and close-ups of moments that captivated him during his travels. Though the origin of the images is mostly untraceable, he wants to shake up a feeling of recognition. He wants the viewer to re-experience, to look again and hopefully look at the world in a different way. Termeer graduated from HKU, Utrecht in 2018.
