Note: This contest is now closed.
Contemporary landscape photography from around the world is surveyed in the Denver Art Museum’s summer exhibition New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. The exhibition reflects on the environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values of our time through “observed” and “constructed” landscape imagery.
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today on view at the Denver Art Museum from June 24, 2018 through September 16, 2018 presents over 100 works by 40 artists from around the world. The exhibition explores the expanding boundaries of landscape photography by featuring the work of contemporary artists who are reconsidering how to make a photograph and who use the traditional subject to reflect on our relationship with the landscape as well as our impact on it.
In celebration of New Territory: Landscape Photography Today on view at the Denver Art Museum June 24, 2018 through September 16, 2018, the next two lectures in the Anderman Photography Lecture Series will be given by artists participating in the exhibition: Adam Jeppesen and Sharon Harper.
Adam Jeppesen: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 7-8:30 pm
Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013, is on view at the Denver Art Museum through November 12, 2017. The exhibition is included with general admission.
Watch the video above to hear more from Fazal Sheikh, and see several artworks featured in the exhibition.
On August 10, the Denver Art Museum invited the media to see a preview of our newest exhibition, Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989–2013. After an introduction from Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the DAM, Eric Paddock, the DAM’s curator of photography, and photographer Fazal Sheikh led a tour throughout the exhibition.
Photos & Testimonials
Over the past 20 years, Vancouver, BC, photographer Danny Singer has explored the American and Canadian prairie from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to the plains of Texas, photographing the kinds of towns most travelers overlook in their rush to get from one place to the next.
Kenneth Josephson: Encounters with the Universe opened earlier this month at the Denver Art Museum. Eric Paddock, curator of photography, sorted through hundreds of Josephson’s photographs and selected 62 photographs dating from 1959 to 2003 to show in the exhibition.
As you may have seen on Instagram, the Denver Art Museum held a Curator’s Choice: #DispatchPortrait contest in conjunction with the opening of the photography exhibition Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch (on view through November 29). We received numerous stunning and moving contest entries and after some deliberation photography curatorial assistant Micah Messenheimer landed on a winner...congratulations @wildbluebug, more formally known as Jodi Jahrling!
The Denver Art Museum recently opened the photography exhibition Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Photographed over the course of a 2013 road trip, Colorado Dispatch presents the core of Soth’s work from the Centennial State, including photographs of ordinary citizens, familiar landscapes and puzzling details of local culture that offer an unromanticized, yet affectionate, view of the land and its people.
Minnesota photographer Alec Soth’s pictures bring to light the quirkiness and humanity of people he encounters and the places where they live. From 2012–2014, Soth embarked on a series of state-by-state road trips to make a portrait of present-day America. His journey through each state that he visited was printed in a “dispatch” format that calls to mind a small town newspaper or travel guide.