Karen Knorr nominated for the first prize dedicated to commissioned photography

Karen Knorr is honoured to be counted amongst the three nominated photographers by Stéphane Magnan (Director, Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris) for the Ooshot Award, the first prize dedicated to commissioned photography. The Ooshot Award  was created by the visual content platform Ooshot. The Ooshot Award wishes to reward authors and artists whose visions are successfully used by brands, companies and institutions.

The Ooshot Award will reward a photographic commissioned work done by a professional photographer on behalf of a client. It concerns all the sectors where images are called upon to serve a communication objective: corporate, institutional, community, industry…, whatever its field of application: fashion, advertising, beauty, still life, culinary, reportage/documentary, portrait, etc. The prize only excludes press photography.

The fifth international research workshop in a series funded
by the Leverhulme Trust to be held 28–29 October in Lagos, Nigeria

Azu Nwagbogu and Charlotte Langhorst at LagosPhoto, Professor Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva, from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA, UK), have organised the fifth research workshop for the Fast Forward 2 International Networks project, which will be held at LagosPhoto Festival. This next workshop, at this rapidly growing international photography festival, includes established and early career professionals from the fields of photography, curation, and writing to discuss new perspectives on women in photography in West Africa and the wider African continent as well as representation of women in new photographic practices.

Invited guests and presenters will discuss issues and ideas and share information valuable for future projects with the aim of advocating for women photographers to be better recognised and discussed in the world of photography.

RPS Women in Photography Inaugural Lecture: Karen Knorr

14:00-17:00, Wednesday 3 October
London College for Communication

Followed by the panel discussion:

Expanded Documentary and Storytelling in Contemporary Photographic Practice

Featuring Poulomi Basu, Natasha Caruana, Anna Fox,
Charan Singh and Val Williams, chaired by Max Houghton

Free and open to all – book via Eventbrite

Organised by the School of Fine Art and Photography, UCA and Photo London

This event is aimed at photographers seeking guidance and feedback on their portfolio and practice. The event will be limited to 60 participants and places will be offered on a strictly first come first served basis.

Each portfolio review will last fifteen minutes and you will be seen by an internationally renowned team: a practitioner and a curator or publisher.

The artists Anna Fox, Professor of Photography, Ori Gersht, Professor of Photography, Karen Knorr, Professor of Photography and Steffi Klenz, Reader in Photography, will be paired with Tim Clark, Editor in Chief of 1000 Words Photography Magazine, Federica Chiocchetti, Director at the Photocaptionist, Karen McQuaid, Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and Mimi Mollica Founder Photo Meet.

Jaipur Photo 2018

Jawahar Kala Kendra
Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Free Entry

Friday, 23 February
17:05 – 18:00

Another Way of Telling: Cultural Migrations

Karen Knorr will be presenting the trajectory of her photographic work and its engagements with class, myth and story across continents and islands arriving to her more recent work in India and Japan.
Knorr was recently invited in by head priest Tagen Kobayashi to photograph the Obai- in Daitoku- ji temple complex.

JaipurPhoto international open-air photography festival
23 February – 4 March 2018.

The School of Fine Art and Photography Research Centre presents:
The public professional inaugural lecture programme 2017-18

Karen Knorr – Cultural Migrations

Wednesday December 13th
5:30-6:30pm
Followed by drinks

Lecture Theatre WO2

University for the Creative Arts
Falkner Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 7DS

Friday, December 8th from 6-9PM
Saturday, December 9th from 12-6PM

Victor House
282 Richmond Road
London E8 3QS

Karen Knorr and Oliver Richon will be opening their studio along with other artists at [SPACE] Studios

Artists at Victor House will be opening their studio doors during the 2nd weekend of December. Don’t miss this great opportunity to see the diverse work of leading contemporary artists in London.

Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon will be showing their work at Studio 16.

FREE and all welcome

Wednesday 20th September 2017

Old Sessions House
22 Clerkenwell Green
Clerkenwell
London EC1R 0NA

Photographers Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon will discuss their joint project photographing punks in London clubs in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. Karen will then present the full Belgravia series discussing her staged collaborations with family and friends. The books ‘Gentlemen‘, ‘Punks‘ and ‘Belgravia‘ will be available to purchase for signing.  This is a free but ticketed event.  Tickets will be available on the Burberry website.

Talk  6:30-7:30 pm
Book Signing 7:30-8:00 pm

For more information, please visit the Burberry website.

Yuki Miyake of White Conduit Projects and I will be travelling to Japan this November 2017 to meet artisans and friends in Tokyo, Kyoto and Okayama.

Although I often use the news to announce exhibitions I think it is important to highlight that research drives all my projects. I am now developing new work and learning how to work in different ways with Japanese friends, artists and artisans.

In conjunction with White Conduit Projects, I have been awarded a Daiwa Foundation Grant and the Great Britain Sasakawa Grant in order to research Japanese traditional lacquer, screen and furniture craft creating new presentations of two Japanese bodies of work, Monogatari and Karyukai for a temple display in April / May 2018.  Tagen Kobayashi, an artist monk has invited me to make new work for a solo exhibition at Oba-in Temple in Kyoto (one of the sub temples of Daitoku-ji).  The surprise news is that the Nishieda Foundation has awarded us another grant to cover production of work by Japanese artist Shiho Kito and me to be displayed at their premises in Kyoto in Spring 2018.​