Press for Barry Salzman
Unseen Amsterdam
UnseenAmsterdam.com | Aug 22, 2024
THK Gallery from Cape Town will feature the evocative work of Barry Salzman at Unseen: a photographer who explores the intersection of photography and the ethics of seeing.
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Exibart
Exibart.es | Mar 27, 2024
How We See The World is a profound and transformative exhibition that demonstrates the visual power of art in challenging us to confront the complexities of trauma and memory, especially in relation to genocide.
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Palm Beach Daily News
PalmBeachDailyNews.com | Feb 21, 2024
At first glance the photographs in "Barry Salzman — How We See the World" seem like a celebration of nature. But the exhibition, which opens Feb. 24 at Holden Luntz Gallery, is more than that.
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Art Talk Magazine
ArtTalkMagazine.com | Feb 14, 2024
Barry Salzman is a Zimbabwean-born lens-based artist. His work addresses the universal themes of trauma, recovery and healing. He does so through the prism of twentieth-century genocide, specifically the recurrence of genocide and our collective responsibility as public witness to the indelible marks left by human-inflicted traumas on humanity.
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ChaiFM
ChaiFM.com | May 19, 2023
For her podcast on May 19, 2023, during the 100-day commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, Charisse Zeifert speaks to Barry Salzman about his photography as a tool for keeping the memory of the genocide alive.
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Photographic Waves
Photographic-Waves.com | November 21, 2022
Once in the middle of this installation, you understood only by emotions what is going on here. At the bottom of these images : a text in the first person written in the past tense, embodying people who did not appear in these same images. Each of these garments came from a mass grave discovered in Rwanda in 2018.
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AD Magazine
AdMagazine.fr | November 10, 2022
An unmissable event for photography enthusiasts, Paris Photo brings together galleries from all over the world at the Grand Palais Éphémère. Here is our selection of the most striking shots to discover until Sunday.
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Télérama
Telerama.fr | November 10, 2022
While in the country in 2018 working on landscape photos, Barry Salzman heard of the discovery of a mass grave. To pay tribute to the victims, he imagined photographic the clothes they wore the day of their assassination . . . With this haunting caption - "That day, I wore..." - which transforms these still lives into portraits of the deceased.
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L’OBS
NouveLobs.com | November 10, 2022
In 2018, photographer Barry Salzman, who works on memory and trauma, learns of the discovery of a mass grave in the village of Kabul, in Rwanda, twenty-four years after the genocide of the Tutsis which claimed nearly a million dead. Present in the country, he decides to go there.
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Photo News
PhotoNews.com | November 2022
At this year's Unseen in Amsterdam it was evident that current burning questions about world events are playing a greater role. Galleries presented works on the consequences of climate change, on industrial food production, on identity and on refugees.
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Blind Magazine
Blind-Magazine.com | 2022
Deepest Darkest gallery presents "How We See The World" and "The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim", two series by photographer Barry Salzman, at Paris Photo.
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Lens Culture
LensCulture.com | 2022
An autumnal meeting point for photo-lovers from around the world, Amsterdam's Unseen returns to the city for its tenth anniversary edition, featuring work from Barry Salzman.
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The Eye of Photography
EyeofPhotography.com | 2022
At this Unseen, we will be showing a selection of Salzman's most recent work from the project shot in Bosnia earlier this year, along with a selection of previously unexhibited works.
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Wanted, Business Day
WantedOnline.co.za | April 7, 2022
[Barry Salzman] describes his latest exhibition, The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim, as “a series of posthumous portraits of [Rwandan] genocide victims, as imagined through their recovered personal possessions”. We spoke to him at the recent Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF), where the work was first shown.
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The Eye of Photography
LoeilDeLaPhotographie.com | February 23, 2022
Deepest Darkest Art, a Cape Town-based gallery, just presented a solo exhibition of work by lens-based artist Barry Salzman at Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF). The exhibition is of the Africa works drawn from Salzman’s ongoing project, “How We See The World”. Salzman’s text about the work follows:
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ARTDOC
ArtDoc.photo | February 18, 2022
His pictures are artistic testimonies of the past; of the cruel past that earth should not cover. The blurry and distorted landscapes and the sharp and detailed records of victims' clothes unearthed 30 years after the Rwanda genocide must keep the spectator alert about the barbarous violence.
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Sunday Times
TimesLive.co.za | February 13, 2022
Salzman presents two related bodies of work — "How We See The World: The Africa Works" and "The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim" — which address human extermination in tens of thousands in Rwanda and Namibia.
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South African Jewish Report
SAJR.co.za | February 10, 2022
Salzman's images capture the arc of atrocities across space and time in the 20th century. The result is startling, unsettling, and provoking, forcing the viewer to look at the role they can play in making "never again" a reality.
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FotoNostrum Magazine
FotoNostrum.com | September 1, 2020
Barry Salzman is an award-winning contemporary artist who currently works in photography, video and mixed media. His projects have been shown across the globe and his work widely published. He is the recipient of the 2018 International Photographer of the Year award in the Deeper Perspective category from the International Photography Awards (IPA), for his project The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim, that endeavors to humanize victims of the Rwandan genocide.
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The Eye of Photography
LoeilDeLaPhotographie.com | Edition of April 28th, 2020
The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim is a series of psthumous portraits of victims of the genocide in Rwanda, as imagined through their recovered personal posessions, photographed at Kabuga Village, Rwanda in May and November 2018.
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Good Things Guy
GoodThingsGuy.com | March 12th, 2020
Exhibition cancelled due to COVID-19
Founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Tali Nates, said, “Barry’s emotional photographs of the belongings of men, women and children killed during the genocide just because they were Tutsi, honours these unknown victims, not as statistics, but as people that had an identity, a name and a life.”
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SABC News
SABC News | December 14, 2019
Barry Salzman is an award-winning photographer and his exhibition is currently showcasing at the Deepest Dark Gallery in Cape Town. Barry Salzman who lives between New York and Cape Town and his photographic series, which was shot during a road trip across Southern USA, offers a critique of the American Dream while exploring notions of identity and place. This morning he joins us from our Sea Point studio for more about his exhibition.
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The Eye of Photography
LoeilDeLaPhotographie.com | December 2, 2019
As an uneasily naturalised American, Barry Salzman responds to the US with something of an outsider’s regard. In his photographic series ‘The Other Side of Christmas’, he has turned his lens on the southern states of the US – which have some of the lowest household median incomes in the country – and the result is a Zen-like meditation on neglect and attrition.
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Something We Africans Got
SomethingWeAfricansGot.com | Issue #9
Each of these posthumous portraits forces us to imagine the life story of one dead person out of the one million victims of the Rwandan genocide. They humanize people who would otherwise be forever dehumanized. We can never comprehend one million dead people. We can, however, readily imagine the life of that little boy, carrying his doggy backpack or the other people represented in this series of portraits.
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Skyways
SkywaysMagazine.co.za | November 2019
Behind the dream
Photographer Barry Salzman is showcasing a body of work entitled The Other Side of Christmas, offering a new perspective on the USA, at Deepest Darkest Gallery in Cape Town.
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Independent Media Online
iol.co.za | November 28th, 2019
Award winning photographer shows the grass is not always greener on the other side.
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Afternoon Express on SABC3
Afternoon Express | November 7, 2019
Barry Salzman is an award-winning photographer, whose work has focused very much on lost worlds or places. He joins us in the loft to discuss his latest project, ‘The Other Side of Christmas’.
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Fine Music Radio - People Of Note
Fine Music Radio 101.3 FM | November 3, 2019
People of Note with Rodney Trudgeon, Fine Music Radio 101.3fm
From host, Rodney Trudgeon: “There are a number of fascinating people who pass through Cape Town and I’ve always felt there to be a need for a program that allows an in-depth discussion with these personalities. Whether their fields are music, literature, theatre, dance, opera or even politics and economics, we’ll invite them into the studio to talk about their lives, inspirations and role models, among other things."
To listen to the interview with Barry Salzman click here...
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PR Newswire
PRNewswire.com | October 28, 2019
Award-winning genocide artist turns lens on the ‘American Dream’ in exhibition of The Other Side of Christmas
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Art Africa
ArtAfricaMagazine.org | October 24th, 2019
The Other Side of Christmas: Barry Salzman’s photographic documentary series shot over the 2014 festive period is a look at the untold heart of the American Dream. ART AFRICA spoke to award-winning photographer Barry Salzman about his previously unexhibited road trip documentary series, which saw him set out across the Southern states of the United States of America to build a substantial body of work that explores numerous themes and in some ways examines what it is to be ‘American’.
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Design Indaba
DesignIndaba.com | October 24th, 2019
Award-winning photographer Barry Salzman says his interest in photography grew out of the idea of using the camera as a device to explore, grapple with and make sense of complex societal issues.
He has covered everything from the years leading up to the end of apartheid in South Africa to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
We talked to him about his latest series where he journeyed to the American south to give us an outsider’s critique of the American dream.
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All About Photo.com
All-About-Photo.com | October 8th, 2019
Barry Salzman is an award-winning contemporary artist who currently works in photography, video and mixed media and whose projects have been shown widely around the world. His photographic work in particular, began with a fascination for the practice as a teenager, during a time when it served as a way for him to grapple with the racial segregation in Apartheid South Africa.
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Art Times
ArtTimes.co.za | September 1st, 2019
Award-winning photographer Barry Salzman reveals The Other Side of Christmas at Deepest Darkest gallery this festive season.
Barry Salzman is an award-winning contemporary artist who currently works in photography, video and mixed media and whose projects have been shown widely around the world. His photographic work in particular, began with a fascination for the practice as a teenager, during a time when it served as a way for him to grapple with the racial segregation in Apartheid South Africa.
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Creative Feel
CreativeFeel.co.za | 2019
As an uneasily naturalised American, Barry Salzman responds to the US with something of an outsider’s regard. In his photographic series The Other Side of Christmas, he has turned his lens on the southern states of the US – which have some of the lowest household median incomes in the country – and the result is a Zen-like meditation on neglect and attrition.