MOMENTUM

Photo Basel

Basel Switzerland 17th-22nd June - AAPO HUHTA, SAMI PARKKINEN, VINCENT FOURNIER

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Momentum ( founded 2017) is a Miami based photo gallery dedicated to contemporary photography with a focus on international emerging and mid career photographers from around the globe.

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APETURE MAGAZINE
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Add to lauch fall 2025 . Featuring work from Sami Parkkinen and his Autopilot series

Moisture has accumulated on the metal surface. And this dew, which has already formed into

droplets, has set the sooty dirt on the surface in motion. The Mercedez-Benz star has disappeared,

but despite that, the tire that once carried the star can be recognized as empty. There is something in

the straightforward dynamics of the picture that conveys the essence of perception, as well as some

gentle or even sensitive humor.

Using photographic art and a collection of essays, Auto Pilot approaches the all too familiar metal

and plastic objects populating the streets - i.e. passenger cars - through form, time and cultural

meanings. The end result of the art project is an art exhibition(s) and a book that brings together the

content of the essay and the photographic art as complementary entities.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that cars move a relatively large part of what is, on the one

hand, a necessary part of the functioning of our society, and on the other hand, carry with them a

very significant web of cultural meanings. During the last century and a half – perhaps driven by the

fossil hybrid, as suggested by Antti Salminen and Tere Vadén – a social model began to spread from

the northern hemisphere to the world in which the role of cars became increasingly central. This model

spread, and continues to spread over an ever wider surface of our biosphere. If one takes seriously

the range of material and cultural conditions required by cars, it is reasonable to suggest that the car

will be a key player in the web of meanings and materials that produces the modernist mobility of

our current society. Sociologists Mimi Sheller and John Urry summarize this social model as "automobility".

With the term, they describe a society that is fundamentally dependent on the mobility

produced by passenger cars.

The collection of four essays, together with Parkkinen's photographic art, unravels this web of meanings.

In four essays, I approach cars through the following main themes: 1. car and phenomenological

experience, 2. car as an object that has taken over the biosphere and as a system that covers it,

3. the history of the car's form and the history of car design, 4. the relationship of cars to temporality

and questions about time.

The aim of the texts is both to discuss Parkkinen’s photographic art and to deepen the understanding

of the dynamics by which a world dependent on cars is produced again and again. If the current

situation, in which the life-sustaining conditions on Earth are decreasing suddenly as a result of human

activity, is taken seriously, it is obvious that this dependence should be gotten rid of as quickly

and smoothly as possible. However, the current understanding of cars is mainly limited to statistical

information and the observation of consequences that can be reduced to numbers. The cultural,

non-calculable properties produced by cars have gone unnoticed.

Images: Sami Parkkinen Text: Frans Autio
Exhibitions
Photo Basel 2025
Basel, Switzerland June 17th-22nd 17 - 22 June 2025

Momentum is proud to exhibit at the 10th anniversary of Photo Basel June 17th-21st 2025. Featuring the work of Aapo Huhta, Sami Parkinnen & Vincent Fournier,

Momentum is pleased to present the works of Finnish photographer Aapo Huhta from two distinct series.

Omatandangole (2016–2018) is an introspective visual journey through the Namibian desert, a place Huhta sought as far from the familiar as possible. The series, published as a photobook by Kehrer Verlag in 2019, captures fleeting moments that hover between reality and mirage—images that feel true for a second, yet entirely detached from everyday experience. It is a stark meditation on solitude, the rawness of nature, and the photographer's own internal landscape.

Alongside this earlier work, Momentum will show new pieces from Unstable (2024). In these works, Huhta revisits earlier desert photographs, layering them with traces of memory and material imperfection. Wild horses reappear as ghosts—blurred, spectral, and timeless. The photograph itself becomes an unstable surface: shifting, dissolving, and constantly reforming.’

Sami Parkkinen

In his photographs, Sami Parkkinen wants to reflect on whether it’s possible for us to break away from the concepts and images provided by traditional knowledge-theoretical metaphysics to examine the world and ourselves. How can we create new concepts and images that would help us to understand the inalienability, beauty and diversity of the relationship between humankind and the environment? Because you don’t need to look for the beauty of the world beyond its existence. Beauty is present and it exists here. In his works, Sami Parkkinen also wants to examine and explore spirituality, and spirituality in relation to us and our environment. Can a person be spiritual without the imagery and conceptual framework of traditional religions? In Sami Parkkinen’s imagery, spirituality emerges as various forms of a presence and wonder at the phenomena of the world around us. Spirituality is seen, as it were, as part of the curious nature of humankind without the assumption of greater forces behind the phenomena.

Vincent Fournier

For over two decades, Vincent Fournier has explored futuristic imaginaries through works held in major collections such the MET, Centre Pompidou, and JP Morgan. Momentum presents two interwoven series—Flora Incognita and Space Project, blending science and fiction, past and future, Earth and space. The centerpiece, Flora Incognita, is a speculative herbarium of alien flora created with 3D modeling and animation, inspired by collaborations with scientists from CNRS, NASA, and MNHN. It questions the adaptability of life amid ecological upheaval. Fournier’s work reimagines botanical heritage on other worlds, offering a poetic reflection on our place in the cosmos.

Inspired by the uniqueness of recently discovered exoplanets, this herbarium extrapolates new

forms of plant life capable of adapting to extreme phenomena: supersonic winds, gravitational

collapse, vapor oceans, gaseous tidal waves, metallic rain, hot ice, and endless days and nights. This dialogue between the terrestrial and the extraterrestrial resonates particularly today with the metamorphoses of the living world and its increasingly sophisticated representations. The use of photogrammetry—a technique that models plants by assembling hundreds of photographs— allows for the extrapolation of growth architectures while preserving the plants’ precise forms, colors, and textures with exceptional detail.
Exhibitions
NY TIMES ARTICLE
Momentum booth at the Photography show by AIPAD 23 - 27 April 2025

ny times APR 20TH 2025

Mometum artist Vincent Founrnier's work at The Photography Show featured in the NY Times.

Imagine setting out for a springtime stroll. Not here on Earth but on some distant planet — call it Novathis-458b — orbiting a distant star. Even light-years from home, you recognize some familiar pleasures: The sun (albeit a different sun) is shining. The roses are in bloom. A breeze is blowing.

But these are no ordinary roses, and it is no everyday breeze. The wind clocks in at more than 15,000 miles per hour, and the flowers, Rosa aetherialis, have evolved to harness it. Their strong pink petals curl around a spiral interior that holds the plant’s reproductive organs. The spiral shape directs the supersonic wind through the center of the flower to flush out its pollen and carry it across the planet.

If roses had evolved in a place like Novathis-458b — an imaginary place, but one that bears certain similarities to real exoplanets — this is what they might look like, Vincent Fournier, a French artist and photographer, posits in his otherworldly project, Flora Incognita, which will be on display this week at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers show in New York.

Polaris-9b is part of a compact planetary system where gravitational interactions with a nearby star and a massive moon cause significant tidal effects. This atmospheric variability leads to changes in surface gravity on the planet, as well as intermittent and sometimes violent winds. In response to the variations in gravity and wind, Nerina vortix has a helical and flexible shape, allowing it to bend and straighten.

In this series of images, which are digital manipulations of real photographs, Mr. Fournier depicts how our flowers and plants might look had they evolved in the kinds of extreme conditions that exist in alien worlds.

The project, he explained, “reimagines our relationship with the living world by projecting an extraterrestrial version of our botanical heritage onto planets beyond our solar system.”

Scientists have not discovered definitive evidence of life beyond our own planet, but they have identified numerous exoplanets that might be capable of sustaining it. (Researchers recently announced that they had detected potential signs of life on a planet that orbits a star 120 light-years away.)

To make each image, Mr. Fournier began by taking photographs of real plants from multiple angles and then stitched those photos together into composite, three-dimensional images.

He reviewed the scientific literature and consulted with scientists, including Jean-Sébastien Steyer at the French National Center for Scientific Research, to learn more about the conditions that might exist on exoplanets and how plants might evolve to cope with them.Then, he worked with digital designers, who used 3-D animation software to manipulate each image, imagining potential adaptations to some of these alien conditions.The results are simultaneously strange and familiar: an extra-fuzzy fern that is insulated from extreme temperatures and water loss. A subtly shimmering cactus that pulls heavy metals from the soil. A bristled orchid that captures minerals suspended in the air.

The images are not meant to be rigorous scientific predictions. “It’s really an artistic work,” Mr. Fournier said. “But it’s a collaboration with scientists, and it’s fed by science.”There are considerations that the images do not take into account. For instance, most potentially habitable exoplanets identified so far orbit stars that are much cooler and redder than our own.Our sun kicks out a lot of energy, far more than most of the stars around which we’ve found Earthlike planets,” said Christopher Duffy, a theoretical biophysicist who recently moved into astrobiology at Queen Mary University of London.

That could make photosynthesis difficult, he said, and favor the evolution of algae over land-based plants, which tend to require a lot of energy.

Extraterrestrial plants might also come in radically different colors. “They’ll definitely be adapted to whatever light spectrum is there,” said Nancy Kiang, a biometeorologist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In some places, she said, they might even be black, “to make use of the visible light as much as possible.”

On Earth, flowers have also evolved alongside pollinators, which would not be a given on distant worlds.

Still, these scientists, who do spend their days making rigorous predictions about alien plant life, said that they were taken by the images and that there was a real role for imagination in this work.“Human creativity has allowed us to reach for the stars and find those exciting new worlds on our cosmic horizon, and imagination helps us envision what they could look like,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell U

Mr. Fournier hopes that the images spark a sense of wonder and an appreciation for how living organisms can adapt, even to environments that seem the most inhospitable.

“The cool thing about thinking about other planets is that it makes us question: What are our assumptions about life here, and what are things we shouldn’t take for granted?” Dr. Kiang said.

Art, too, can make us look at things differently, she said. And Mr. Fournier’s photos had made her want to do just that. “I think they’re beautiful,” Dr. Kiang said. “They make me want to go look at plants around my neighborhood and figure out, why are they that way?”

Vincent Fournier’s images will be on view at The Photography Show presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, April 23 through 27, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

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AIPAD The Photography Show 2025
THE ARMORY NYC APRIL 24TH-27TH 2025
Artists
NEW ARTIST
Persia Campbell
Momentum is excited to exhibit the work of Mexican artist Persia Campbell. .

Persia Campbell is a photographer and director from Ciudad Juárez who has built her career along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Her work focuses on portraying women from northern Mexico, using staged photography to reimagine the intimate aesthetics of the border region.

Her work has been showcased internationally in cities including Paris, London, New York, Milan, Barcelona, and Mexico City. Her first series, Itinerario de una mujer en la frontera (Itinerary of a Woman on the Border), earned first place in the self-portrait category at the Barcelona Biennial of Photography and the International Photography Awards. It was also a finalist in the Lens Culture Art Photography Awards 2021. The series was featured in Paris at the Just Women section of the Joseph Le Palais gallery near the Pompidou Center. Additionally, she participated in the Declaraciones Cuerpo exhibition at the Centro de la Imagen, supported by the Chilean Ministry of Culture and the Mexican government, and presented it at Zona Maco 2024.

Her second series, Reminiscencias de la Frontera (Reminiscences of the Border), won the prestigious Female in Focus award by the British Journal of Photography. The series was exhibited in London, featured in The Guardian, and included in the FONCA group exhibition Creación en Movimiento at the Museo de San Ildefonso. The series' central image, 2006, received significant acclaim, winning the Colors contest by Life Frame judged by Damarice Amao, curator of photography at the Pompidou Center. They described it as “a cleverly constructed commentary on the modern world beneath its brilliantly executed surface.” The photograph was also displayed in New York by the British Journal of Photography and won second place in a competition organized by TIME magazine and the ASMP.

In 2023, Persia debuted her first solo exhibition, Ficheras, at Almanaque Gallery in Mexico City. This series was later selected by Vogue International for the 2025 Vogue Photography Festival in Milan. Vogue also recognized her as one of the 100 most talented photographic artists in the Latin American scene.

Persia’s work has been featured in renowned publications such as Nylon Magazine, Vice, Vogue, Cuartoscuro, The Guardian, and TIME.
PARIS PHOTO

Exhibitions
Paris Photo 2024
Aapo Huhta - Solo exhibition 6 - 10 November 2024

Momentum is pleased to announce that it will exhibit a solo show of the work of Aapo Huhta and his latest series Gravity.

In his new austerely black and white work, Aapo Huhta fills his photographs with a darkness so impenetrable that it dissolves the horizon. This nocturnal void is inhabited by human figures that seem to be shrouded in milky mist or exist behind a veil of cosmic radiation. They are simultaneously both painfully corporeal and infinitely distant, almost like visual echoes from another dimension. These bodies give us no information on the space they inhabit, because their existence does not adhere to the familiar laws of physics.

Three-dimensionality is at peril when Huhta partly dismantles the figurative tradition of the photograph. Through the use of analog processes and methods, he creates works that warp space and time in a way that borders on the grotesque. There is a sense of great urgency in the way in which the artist distorts the contours of the human body: these beings are above all to be described as mortals.

The series Gravity sees Huhta progress along the path of existential discovery. His artistic work has always been concerned with man's relation to surrounding space, and has over the years gradually moved away from its documentary origins towards an increasing level of abstraction. The human figure is a constant subject in Huhta's photography, usually in a highly anonymized form. When reduced to merely a shadowy silhouette, as was the case in the artist's previous series Omatandangole, the individual body becomes a symbol for humanity and can take on a multitude of meanings. Gravity sees Huhta abruptly invert the colour scheme, moving away from the blistering sunshine of his earlier work. As day turns to night, the presence of death makes itself known.

Gravity seems to take place just outside of the imaginary event horizon of a fantastic black hole, in a limbo where both matter and concepts are altered to the point of collapse. The disintegration of the body is exposed in all its terrifying beauty as Huhta rejects the norms of depicting the human individual. But embedded within the endless night of Gravity's outer space are clues of what lies beyond the final loss of power: the end is an enduring arid landscape. This, then, is what peace looks like.
Artists
NEW ARTIST
Sami Parkkinen

Sami Parkkinen (b. 1974) is a Finnish photographer. He employs photography and sculpture to investigate the human consciousness and the need to rebuild society. Since 2009, he has exhibited at a number of museums and galleries, including The National Museum of Finland (2021), Finnish Museum of Photography (2010), the National Portrait Gallery, London (2015), and Circulation(s) – Festival de la Jeune Photographie Européenne, Paris (2016). His works are also held by notable public and private collections.

www.samiparkkinen.com

FATHER & SON

Photographer Sami Parkkinen took interest in how his child experiences the surrounding world and ended up exploring it through play. Over the years, observing the child’s world developed into a collaborative art project between father and son.

The Father & Son series – started by Parkkinen in 2012 – investigates children’s development of consciousness and the father and son relationship.

Parkkinen photographs shared experiences and life from his child’s viewpoint. Bit by bit, the young mind grasps the world and grows into the person he holds the potential to be. And sharing the child’s experiences creates a portal to one’s own lost childhood memories.

“Children are real Zen-masters and mindfulness gurus. Freedom and creativity, their world is a world of possibilities. I seek as an artist to bring forward a playful and alternative perspective of the world, where the human understands the interdependence between himself and the rest of nature.”

The Father & Son book was released together with his solo exhibition Father & Son at The National Museum of Finland, 2021.
New Artist Lucas Lenci
Lucas Lenci

Exhibitions
NEW MOMENTUM ARTIST
Lucas Lenci 9 May - 29 June 2025
Lucas Lenci( Brazil ) With a degree in photography and industrial design, Lucas started his professional career as a photographer after working as an executive producer of commercial, editorial, and cultural projects.
He lived in New York for a period during which he worked as an art director. Upon his return to São Paulo, he opened his own studio e started to work directly with agencies and clients. Lucas´s own works are now part of important private and institutional collections. He participated in and passed the first selection process organized by the Photography Academy of São Paulo. Lucas has already published three internationally-recognized photobooks. The first, which is called Desaudio, was exhibited at the Tokyo PhotoBook Show in 2015 and the second, called Movimento Estático (Static Movement), was chosen to participate in the Saint Petersburg PhotoBook Show, as well as to compete in the German Design Awards in 2018. In the same year Lucas was a Hasselblad Master Finalist.

Utopia series:

The concepts of speed and distance have been distorted by my generation. Inebriated by the internet, we have passionately embraced the dematerialization of practically everything: products, services, information, even photography. Now a photograph travels instantly, transformed into data and pixels, and crossing distances we could not have imagined in the past.

Exploring this premise and taking a deep dive into an affective geography, these are my reflections on the emotions that the places and spaces we live in awaken within us. The photographs presented on these pages depict locations that are intangible while they are simultaneously anchored in precise georeferencing coordinates, in an attempt to capture both physical and virtual distances. In this sense, they are images that seek to go beyond representations of real or fictional cities. I am especially interested in symbolic spaces, which highlight the importance of personal experiences, memories, history, and the mechanisms that reveal emotional ties between individuals and their environment.

Hopefully this series will not just witness this era of dematerialization, but also serve as a catalyst for new journeys.
New Artist
Yvonne Venegas

Artists
New Momentum Artist
Yvonne Venegas
Momentum is excited to wellcome Yvonne Venegas ( Mexico) to the Gallery.

Yvonne graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York and received her MFA at University of California San Diego in 2009. She has shown her work individually and in group shows throughout the Mexico, US, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, Poland and Russia, including the individual shows at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Casa de America in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, University Museum of contemporary Art (MUAC) Mexico City, Diaz Contemporary Gallery in Toronto and Baxter, New York.

In 2010 she received the Magnum ex- pression Award, given by Magnum Photos, as well as the National Creators Grant by the Mexican Cultural and Arts Fund (FONCA) in two terms, and in 2016 she received the Guggenheim Fellowship for her pro- ject San Pedro Garza Garcia.

In 2020 she received the Jumex Grant and the Cuervo Acquisition prize to continue her project El lapiz de la Naturaleza, a series of portraits dedicated to the study of pose. She received the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Grant for her current project Mar de Cortes, which is a subjective documentary photographic project to be produced between 2021/23.

Her work is part of collections in the US, Mexico and France, including the permanent collection of the SF Moma, The Musuem of Photographic Arts San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary art San Die- go, Haudenschild Collection, Fundación Televisa, Centro de la Imagen Mexico, Moises Cosio, Alumnos 47, Jason Reitman, and Anna Gamazo de Abello among others. She has published four monographs Maria Elvia de Hank (2010), Inedito (2012), Gestus (2015) and San Pedro Garza Garcia (2019), all by RM Editorial, Barcelona. Yvonne lives and works in Mexico City
Metropolitan Museum NYC
Vincent Fournier-Chamber of Deputies [annex IX] #2, Brasília
Vincent Fournier Chamber of Deputies [annex IX] #2, Brasília on display at the Metropolitian Museum.

This intimate photograph by French artist Vincent Fournier portrays the interior of the Annex of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, one of many iconic buildings in a city almost entirely designed by the country’s great architect Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012). Despite being taken almost fifty years after the building’s completion, the image is ambiguous in its age. It is this careful control of light that enables the viewer to recognize the many different textures that correspond to the different materiality. The light, the choreographic location of the body, and the shooting point produce a perfectly balanced image that enacts a hyperreality closer to a stage set-up. The artist offers a human dimension as a foil to the urban-scale modernist event of Niemeyer’s Brasilia; a little and lonely human presence in an architecture so grand.

Part of the series “Brasilia” is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (text available on the MET website) and the LVMH collection in Paris. ”

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ZONA MACO FOTO 2024
ART FAIR Mexico City

ZONA MACO FOTO 2024
ART FAIR Mexico City

Momentum is excited to annouce that it will exhIbit at Zona Maco Foto 2024. Feb 7th-11th 2024 at Centro Citibanamex Av. del Conscripto 311, Lomas de Sotelo, Mexico City. The exhbition will feature work from Finnish artist Aapo Huhta and Holly Lynton USA. The fair is conceived as an encounter with the photographic medium, exploring the possibilities offered by new tools and significant historical landmarks in the field. ZⓈONAMACO FOTO serves as a platform where the documentary genre, collective artistic creation, interdisciplinary collaborations, and discursive exercises converge, reflecting the evolving narratives of human thought and the surrounding reality.
Artists
Guardian Newspaper feature
Evening at Fjarland- Ole Marius Joergensen for PHOTOFAIRS NYC
Guardian Newspaper on line featuring " Evening at Fjarland" Ole Marius Joergensen for Phtofairs Art Fair NYC September 7th-10th.
Born in Wakkanai, Hokkaido in 1955. Driven by the question of what happiness means to us humans, Ohashi began visiting the Himalayas, Tibet, Pakistan and China’s Western Regions in 1984, and documented landscapes of local ethnic minorities over a period of twenty years. In 2008, Ohashi began photographing vending machines throughout Japan as a metaphor for the modern human condition.

NEW ARTIST
EIJI OHASHI - JAPAN
Figure # 61

From the series Gravity, 2022

Archival Pigment Print

135 x 180 cm

Framed with museum glass.

Edition of 5 + 2 AP

NEW ARTIST
Aapo Huhta
Aapo Huhta (born in 1985) is a photographic artist living in Helsinki. Huhta combines elements of documentary practice and experimental darkroom techniques with subjective observations of everyday life. This approach results in a collection of enigmatic and often fragmented narratives, which have been praised for their ability to transform the mundane into the captivating. Exploring different forms of photographic narratives, methods, and possibilities plays a significant role in his work. The exploration has culminated in three photobooks, Block (Kehrer Verlag, 2015), Omatandangole (Kehrer Verlag, 2019) and Gravity (Kult Books, 2023).

In 2014, Magnum Photos selected Huhta as one of the Top 30 Under 30 photographers. He received the award of the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year, by Fotografiska Stockholm, in 2015 and was chosen for the Joop Swart Masterclass in 2016. He was named Young Artist of the Year 2020 in Finland. Huhta is currently funded by a three-year Finnish state artist grant.

Besides his own artistic practice, Huhta also teaches photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and Lahti Institute of Arts and Design since 2015.

Huhta’s work has been exhibited in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Poland, Israel, Italy, and Hungary. His works are held in public and private collections in Norway, Sweden, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, and Fin- land.

Publications:

Block (Kehrer Verlag, 2015) Omatandangole (Kehrer Verlag, 2019 Gravity (Kult Books, 2023)
AIPAD: The photography show 2023
center 415 NYC

Ole Marius Jørgensen - All that was left was a yellow duck

The Photography Show (AIPAD) - March 31 – April 2, 2023

Brightly colored plastic inflatables punctuate the otherwise serene vistas in Ole Jørgensen’s wryly titled All that was left was a yellow duck. The Norwegian photographer’s playful series pays homage to the 19th-century Düsseldorf school painter Hans Gude (1825–1903), updated for modern times.

Jørgensen makes skilled use of the romantic landscape idiom, transforming his native rural surroundings into striking painterly compositions filled with subtle atmospheric effects. Likewise, the recurrence of solitary figures–hikers and swimmers absorbed in their activities or gazing off into the sublime distance–reveals a keen depth of understanding of the visual tradition that the series engages. Against these pristine natural expanses, small details such as a beach towel or an orange Gore-Tex jacket serve to pull the scenes forward in the present day.

The partially deflated yellow duck from which the series draws its title, along with several other animal inspired pool floats, inject a mix of humor and melancholic surrealism, as if the people in Jørgensen’s scenes are vacationers at the end of the world. In these items, we see nature supplanted and transformed into artificial and disposable commodities. While these props may be viewed as a critique on our contemporary culture, by working within the landscape genre, Jørgensen cleverly points to a potential culprit in the visual tradition that bears as much responsibility as any for turning nature into an image.

Holly Lynton - Bare Handed

The Photography Show (AIPAD) - March 31 – April 2, 2023

Momentum is pleased to present selections from Holly Lynton’s Bare Handed, a nuanced portrait of rural life in 21st-century America. The meditative portraits and landscapes, which also appear in a new monograph published this year under L'Artiere Edizioni, depict people who work directly with the land and its resources, highlighting traditional practices that have largely been replaced by modern mechanization.

To create this remarkable and varied body of work, Lynton has returned to photograph many of her subjects–including the likes of Massachusetts shade tobacco farmers, South Carolina shrimpers, Montana beaverslide haystackers, New Mexico beekeepers, and Oklahoma catfish noodlers–on an annual basis since 2007. The result is a rare portrayal of rural life that moves beyond mythology and stereotypes to reveal a dynamic cultural landscape steeped in tradition but unburdened by nostalgia.

With this series, Lynton takes on the complex legacy of American rural photography established by Dorothea Lange and the other WPA photographers in the 1930s, critically engaging with the pervasive religious tropes, such as the Madonna and Child imagery found in those images. Rather than presenting us with stories of hardship and passing folkways, however, Lynton recasts her collaborators as deeply committed to a particular way of being in the world. Many of the portraits explore an almost spiritual way of being that emerges from the practices of working directly with animals and the land to sustain oneself.

Alma Haser - Within 15 Minutes

The Photography Show (AIPAD) - March 31 – April 2, 2023

Named after the average time separating the birth of identical twins, Alma Haser’s Within 15 Minutes explores the intersection of biology and identity through photography. The artist starts by making individual portraits of identical twins, which she turns into 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles. She then merges the puzzle pieces, interweaving them until each contains half of the other in an alternating grid pattern. Since the sitters are not made to assume the exact same pose, slight misregistrations in the eyes, mouth, and torsos result in a pair of slightly diffuse, abstract portraits. The playful process results in creative composites that feel formally linked yet emanate a unique aura.

Conceptually, Haser’s twin puzzles recall other attempts to explore biological affinity through photography, reaching back to the composite portrait technique Francis Galton devised in the 1880s, through Nancy Burson’s computer-generated facial morphs dating to the start of this millennium, up through the current proliferation of generative AI technologies. Where each of those methods seek to represent visual affinities, however, Haser’s technique, despite starting from identical twins, ultimately trends in the opposite direction to emphasize difference and the specificity of the photographic image.
NEW ARTIST
Osamu Yokonami
Osamu Yanomami (born 1967) Japan

Through rhythmic repetition and seriality, Osamu Yokonami explores identity and cultural homogeneity. His twin series, 1000 Children (2010-2013) and Assembly (on-going since 2010) explore conceptions of selfhood and the range of human emotions, suggesting a reflexive (and essential) congruence between individual expression and communal belonging. A related series, Assembly Snow (2015), is an extension of the original where the forces of nature and culture blur into abstraction. More recently, Osamu has undertaken a new project, after 1000 Children (2017-2018), locating girls from the initial series for side-by-side comparisons of them alongside their younger selves. Osamu Yokonami has had recent solo exhibitions in Japan and the United States, and participated in the Daegu Photo Biennial. His personal and commercial work is widely known in Japan, appearing regularly in numerous publications.

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PHILLIPS AUCTION
LONDON
Phillips Auction London will feature the work of Ole Marius Jorgensen. Work featured will be the " Dalen" from No superhero.

‘Why not have an astronaut be my explorer?’

—Ole Marius Joergensen

For Norwegian artist Ole Marius Joergensen (b.1976), the image-making process begins with a narrative. The inspiration for his captivating series, Space Travels, was the spectacular landscape of his homeland and he chose an astronaut as his explorer. ‘Soon, it became obvious that the space suit was a symbol for discovering Norway,’ he notes, ‘for venturing into the unknown and for charting new creative territory.’ In Dalen, the first image from the series and offered here, the lone astronaut in the centre, the magnificent Lake Bandak with its reflections and the moody sky together create this stunning and surreal image. Drawing on his background in film, the artist has produced a meticulously staged, cinematic photograph that transports us to a dreamlike place. Based in Asker, Norway, Joergensen has exhibited worldwide and his monograph No. Superhero was published in 2019.
Phillips Auction
London
Phillips Auction London will feature the work of Ole Marius Jorgensen. Work featured will be the " The Brave one 2017 from No superhero.

Phillips Auction London and ULTIMATE provides artists, their representation and Phillips a forum for creative collaborations. Our multifaceted curation ranges from rare, museum quality works and one-off creations made exclusively for ULTIMATE to fresh works by artists debuting at auction. As this exciting programme evolves, so do our criteria for entry. If it is the first, the last, special, unique or the only chance to own it, then it just might be the ultimate...

While each work is distinctive, the one thing they all have in common is that they are not available anywhere else. From masterworks such as Helmut Newton's Panoramic Nude with Gun, 1989, realising £729,000 against an estimate of £250,000-350,000, and POLAROIDS from the Piero Bisazza Collection, a single-owner collection of unique Polaroid prints with a sell-through rate of 100%, to successful collaborations with Vogue and Calvin Klein to champion fashion photography, ULTIMATE offers something special for every collector.

Our aim is to achieve the best possible results for our consignors along with raising the profiles of our featured artists and developing their auction records on a long-term basis. ULTIMATE will continue to bring a considered and curated offering of exclusive works to the market.
PARIS PHOTO 2021
OLE MARIUS JOERGENSEN, Vincent Fournier & Chou Ching hui

Paris Photo is the largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November in the heart of Paris. Since 1997, the fair’s mission is to promote and nurture photographic creation and the galleries, publishers and artists at its source.

Momentum will exhbit online at Paris Photo viewing rooms.

This years room will feature the work of Ole Marius Joergensen (Norway) Vincent Fournier (France) & Chou Ching hui (Taiwan)

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Exhibitions
SPACE PROJECT
Miami Florida 19 December 2019 - 16 January 2020
Fournier is a world-renowned fine art photographer based in Paris, France. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum New York, LVMH Foundation Paris, Centre Pompidou Paris, and the Mori Art Museum Tokyo.

Produced over a period of a decade from 2007-2017, Fournier documents the past and future of space exploration, from the memories of the Apollo program that followed the first steps of man on the moon, to the future NASA SLS rocket destined for Mars. The photos are a deliberate mix of historical and documentarian vision of space adventure with scenes staged by cinema, and Fournier’s childhood memories as well as a journey into our future.
Artists
NEW ARTIST
Ching-hui Chou
Momentum is proud to partner with New Artist Ching-hui Chou (born in 1965) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating from Shih Hsin School of Journalism (now Shih Hsin University), Ching-hui Chou joined the fast-paced media industry as a photojournalist in 1988. During this time, the industry had just begun to thrive with newfound freedom of speech as a result of the lifting of multi-decade-long martial law in Taiwan. It was also at this time that Ching-hui Chou started to pursue his passion for photojournalism and embarked on several self-funded projects. Ching-hui Chou’s work since the 1990s often features in-depth depiction of specific groups of people or communities in modern society, and he believes that the storytelling aspect of fine art photography is a more effective way of presenting and annotating familiar stories in our surroundings. In all projects, Ching-hui Chou always ensures that his subjects have enough trust in him and that constant interaction is maintained. He also conducts research and investigation in advance for him to acquire sufficient understanding of topics before he presses the shutter. While inspired by social issues and events, Ching-hui Chou applies an artistic approach that seeks to interpret true stories through neartheatrical representations.

Ching-Hui explains that photography provides means for validating one’s self and existence.
KOSMIC MEMORIES
NEW SERIES BY VINCENT FOURNIER
Kosmic memories" reveals extraordinary architectures, veritable totems of civilization of the future erected as so many signs of a possible elsewhere. It is not by chance that this science fiction universe was born between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1980s, especially in the satellite and non-aligned countries of the former Russia. First of all, the obsession with the cosmos is an old tropism of the Russian imagination (Tsiolkovsky, Sputnik, Gagarin...) and with the rapprochement of the West, artistic creation frees itself from political dogmas. If all these buildings have different functions, commemorative, political, institutional, their forms testify to the same breath: the invention of a future imbued with science fiction. We can see flying saucers, space stations and a multitude of geometrical shapes from another planet. Built mostly in concrete and at the tops of stellar landscapes, a telluric power from elsewhere emerges from these monumental architectures. Their location, while often a place of memory, also coincides with dawn or dusk, with a lateral light that reinforces their strangeness. Brutalist, futuristic, utopian, mystical, esoteric beauty... between Tintin's 'Temple of the Sun' and the monolith from '2001, Space Odyssey', these sentinels embody the dream of a future that is always to come.
ARTWORK OF THE MONTH SEPTEMBER
Vincent Fournier NASA LEH Space Shuttle Pressure helmet (Launch-Entry), used by Charlie Bolden, Johnson Space Center, Houston, [NASA], U.S.A., 2017.
ARTWORK OF THE MONTH OCTOBER
BEYOND A WINDING ROAD
ARTWORK OF THE MONTH JULY
TV TOWER, BRASÍLIA, 2012 VINCENT FOURNIER
Momentum is excited to annouce that Nick Meek's "Three Boarders" has been shortlisted by The Royal Academy of Arts for there summer prize.

Nick Meek at the Royal Academy of Art
Summer Exhibition
My Crazy Aunt 2019: Archival pigment print 49" x 35" Edition 1 of 3 +2AP

Artists
Artwork of the month
June: My Crazy Aunt: Ole Marius Joergensen
My Crazy Aunt 2019: Archival pigment print 49" x 35" Edition 1 of 3 +2AP
Out into the cold world
Ole Marius Joergensen Jan 16th- Feb 13th 2020
Momentum in conjuction with the Color House presents " Out into the Cold World" an exhibtion by Ole Marius Joergensen.Ole Marius is an artist with a background in film and is best known for his meticulously staged cinematic photographs.With the use of theatrical light and vivid color juxtapositions, Ole Marius’ work emphasizes the mystery and duality of rural life in the modern world.

Ole Marius’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Asia, and Europe. His work can be found in private collections in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Oslo, New York, Madrid and Berlin. He is currently working on a book to be published in 2020.
NEW ARTIST
Jacob Gils (Denmark)
Initiated by a wish to break away from controlled predefined photography I employed a distinct technique by transferring Polaroids onto Watercolor paper and a conscious dividing of the photo into multiple fields. The new take on photography let to the unique expression seen in Limit To Your Love series. I have most recently developed this series into a further exploration, using old-fashioned glass plate techniques

Movement is a series which combines a strong aesthetical point of view with meticulous attention to technical detail. As the title indicates, the series is concerned with giving shape to temporal and spatial aspects inherent in all visual experience.

Transfer series are polaroids transferred onto watercolour paper. Through this technique a particularly atmospheric and dreamy mood arises. Upon closer inspection, however, the eye begins to decode that in these works there are real places depicted, all with their special characteristics.
Paris Photo NYC presented by AIPAD
Momentum -POSTPONED -NEW DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Momentum is excited to exhbit at the inaugural Paris Photo NYC 2020.

Paris Photo, the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is happy to announce the launch of Paris Photo New York April 2-5, 2020.

Presented with the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), the new fair will create a transatlantic hub between the two historic centers for photography – Paris and New York thus forming a collective voice and international reference for the photographic medium.

The new fair will capitalize on the strength of the American photography market by expanding and diversifying the fair’s representation of international and cutting-edge galleries and invigorating the community of curators and art professionals throughout the Americas and beyond.
Alone Together- Aristotle Roufanis
Opening Feb 27th

“The bigger the city, the lonelier we feel. It is important for people to understand that although lonely, they are not alone. Individuality does not equal to alienation.”

Momentum in conjuction with the Color House, presents Alone Together by Greek Artist Aristotle Roufanis. Opening Feb 27th.

Since 2016 Roufanis has been creating super-high-definition images of urban landscapes that are an intimate look into the lives of city-dwellers and their loneliness.

The starting point for this project was the artist’s own experience as an expat in London a few years ago. His initial observations of people tending to feel isolated in big cities led to further research into the phenomenon of urban loneliness in modern societies. This revealed that the issue is so widespread that it is often described as an epidemic. In the US alone, rates of loneliness have doubled in the last 50 years; according to a survey, nearly half of Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone or left out.London, Paris, Hong Kong, Miami, Athens: for Aristotle Roufanis, urban habitats and the loneliness of city dwellers are surprisingly the same wherever you go. By isolating only a few illuminated windows in each photo, the artist seeks to raise awareness about the epidemic of loneliness in big cities and at the same time take a positive stance about it. In his own words: “The bigger the city, the lonelier we feel. It is important for people to understand that although lonely, they are not alone. Individuality does not equal to alienation.”
Exhibitions
PULSE ART FAIR MIAMI BEACH DEC 5TH-8TH 2019
MOMENTUM BOOTH #512 5 - 8 December 2019
Momentum at Pulse art fair (#booth 502) Miami beach Dec 5th-8th 2019. Featuring the work of Vincent Fournier and Ole Marius Joergensen.

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Nick Meek at the Royal Academy of Art

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Out into the cold world

NEW ARTIST

Paris Photo NYC presented by AIPAD

Alone Together- Aristotle Roufanis

PULSE ART FAIR MIAMI BEACH DEC 5TH-8TH 2019