What's On: Mahtab Hussain, Cecil Beaton & Felicity Hammond

View this email in your browser BJP's guide to the best photography events and opportunities around the world OPPORTUNITIES Publishing and photo books – From editing and design to marketing and distribution Magnum Photos, London | Sat 29 & Sun 30 July 2017 Learn from the best publishers and photobook producers about the publishing market: covering how to pitch to publishers, methods of production, design, editing, and budgets. Apply here BJP Breakthrough Awards 2017 Deadline for entries: Monday 08 May 2017 BJP's Breakthrough Awards are back and we're looking for the world's best photography students and recent graduates. We'll be selecting four outstanding photographers to have their work presented in a group exhibition in east London, be published on BJP's print magazine, and on our online and digital platforms, and receive expert advice on launching a successful career in photography. More info: bjpbreakthrough.com ON SOON You Get Me? ABP Autograph, London | Fri 5 May -  Sat 1 July 2017  Mahtab Hussain's photographs explore the critical question of identity among young working-class British Asian men. You Get Me? addresses the contested political terrain of race and representation, respect and cultural difference. Cecil Beaton Beetles + Huxley, London | Wed 26 April – Sat 27 May 2017  Cecil Beaton's photographs have been held in an American private collection for over 60 years and this month they will finally be brought back to London, where this unique group will go on display for the first time. Originally purchased in the early 1950s, the works form a complete survey of Beaton's early photography ranging from portraits of the 'Bright Young People' in the 1920s, innovative fashion pictures for Vogue, portraits from Hollywood in the 1930s, to his lesser-known wartime documentary photographs commissioned by the British Ministry of Information.  ON NOW To Soften The Massing Window Space, London | Running until Sun 30 April 2017 Felicity Hammond presents a site specific installation, To Soften The Massing,  which considers the future architectural qualities of the site, the surfaces that are at play on the façade of the building, the failure of the protest, and the hierarchies within art, education, and city planning. Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 The Photographers' Gallery, London | Running until Sun 11 June 2017 The artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 are Sophie Calle, Dana Lixenberg, Awoiska van der Molen, and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. The winner will be announced at a special award ceremony during the exhibition. Originally established by the Gallery in 1996 as the UK's first dedicated photography award, it continues to identify, debate and celebrate innovative and original photographic practice from across the world. Muslim in New York The Museum of the City of New York, New York | Running until Sun 30 July 2017 Muslim in New York features 34 images by four photographers who have documented Muslim New Yorkers from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Together these photographs paint a group portrait of New Yorkers who have greatly enriched the life of the city.  CLOSING SOON Richard Mosse - Incoming The Curve, Barbican, London | Running until Sun 23 April 2017 A major new installation showing the intimacies of migrants through the lens of a military weapon working against its intended purpose to create an artwork capturing the refugee crisis unfolding in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Libya, in Syria, the Sahara, the Persian Gulf, and other locations.  It has already been hailed as one of the must-see photography events of the year.  Making Faces: Images of Exploitation and Empowerment in Cinema MoMA, New York | Running until Sun 30 April 2017 Making Faces is a study of screen characters and the performers who embodied them. Focusing on popular American films from the 1910s to the 1970s—from the era of silent movies to that of blaxploitation—this exhibition traces the attempts of commercial film studios to depict difference onscreen. Drawn from MoMA's extensive collection of film stills, Making Faces presents images that Hollywood studios used to sell their vision—how they thought people should look, dress, and behave—to audiences. SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Subscribe to BJP now and if you're not happy within the first 60 days - get your money back! Promo code: MAY17EE bjpsubs.com LATEST ISSUE: FEMALE GAZE New perspectives from the selfie generation. Charlotte Jansen considers how a new generation of female photographers make women their subject. Zuza Krajewska goes inside a detention centre for young male offenders in Poland. Endia Beal addresses themes of race, gender and corporate culture. 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