Michel Ackerman, White
19 May – 19 June 2004
WHITE, the exhibition of the renowned American photographer Michael Ackerman, was the first show carried out at KBB. It was organized within the framework of the “Primavera Fotográfica ” (Barcelona Photographic Spring Festival).
600 visitors were able to get to know the work of this incredible photographer as well as the new cultural space that opened in May 2004 in Barcelona.
About the artist
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His family moves to New York in 1974. Lives and works in Warsaw. Since 97 Ackerman has been going around the world capturing strong moments. His photographic training has been self-taught, acquiring knowledge from his many trips to different continents and alternating his artistic work with documentary photographs for European and American magazines and newspapers.
Since his first exhibition, in 1999, Michael Ackerman has made his mark by bringing a new, radical and unique approach. His work on Varanasi, entitled “End Time City,” breaks away from all sorts of exoticism or any anecdotal attempt at description, to question time and death with a freedom granted by a distance from the panoramic – whose usage he renewed – to squares or rectangles.
In black and white, with permanent risk that led him to explore impossible lighting, he allowed the grainy images to create enigmatic and pregnant visions. Michael Ackerman seeks – and finds – in the world he traverses, reflections of his personal malaise, doubts and anguish. He received the Nadar Award for his book “End Time City” in 1999, and the Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography in 1998.
In 2009, he won the SCAM Roger Pic Award for his series “Departure, Poland”. “Half Life” has been published in 2010 by Robert Delpire. In 2014, he collaborated with Vincent Courtois, cellist, and Christian Caujolle, behind the project, in a show called “L’intuition” which proposes a dialogue between photography and music creation. This show was presented, in particular, as part of the festival Banlieues Bleues and for the Rencontres d’Arles 2014.
