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Taking in the Art 🎨
Captured by @michaelflomen

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A special thank you to RAND Luxury for welcoming Art Hampton into the Hamptons Concours 2026 experience.

We are honored to bring the world of art, creativity, and culture together alongside some of the most beautiful automotive craftsmanship in the Hamptons.

Thank you for recognizing the power of collaboration and giving artists a platform to be part of this incredible event.

Here’s to celebrating innovation, design, and the creative spirit of the Hamptons. 🖤✨

#ArtHampton #HamptonsConcours2026 #RANDLuxury #Hamptons #LuxuryArt AutomotiveArt ArtAndDesign

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✨ Aux Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles 2026, une nouvelle voix de la scène québécoise récompensée

Mallory Lowe Mpoka @lowemallory expose son travail aux @rencontresarles, récompensée par le public dans le cadre du Prix Découverte Fondation @louisroederer_ et lauréate du Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro-Arles @madamefigarofr

Présentée par le centre montréalais @occurrence_ son exposition « Cosmologie des héritières » propose une œuvre où l’image devient un espace vivant de mémoire et de transmission. Entre photographie, textile et performance, ses œuvres tissent récits personnels, archives familiales et histoires collectives pour interroger les identités façonnées par les héritages, la migration et les silences de l’histoire.

À travers ce travail pluriel, Mallory Lowe Mpoka explore la manière dont l’image peut activer la mémoire plutôt que simplement la représenter, faisant dialoguer corps, gestes et matières pour donner forme à des histoires en constante reconfiguration.

Sélectionnée parmi plus de 300 candidatures internationales, elle fait partie des sept artistes invités par la commissaire Nadine Hounkpatin à présenter leur projet dans cette section dédiée à l’émergence, qui met en lumière des pratiques engagées et contemporaines de la photographie.

La Délégation générale du Québec à Paris est fière de soutenir ce projet.
🗓️ Jusqu’au 4 octobre 2026

🌿 En parallèle des Rencontres, la galerie @belle.beau.arles accueille le travail de Michael Flomen @michaelflomen – Force Majeure
Entre nature et expérimentation, l’artiste montréalais compose des photogrammes géants à partir d’éléments vivants (eau, vent, lumière) pour révéler la puissance poétique du monde naturel.
📍 Arles, 3 rue du Séminaire
🗓️ Jusqu’au 14 août 2026

👉 Cette présence québécoise à Arles témoigne du dynamisme de la création québécoise et de sa capacité à rayonner à l’international, au croisement des cultures, des récits et des formes artistiques.

#culturemondeqc @lecalq

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FORCE MAJEURE PHOTOGRAMMES MICHAEL FLOMEN

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In Between Lights explores how alternative photographic practices translate time through light, material, and transformation. The exhibition features the work of Ursula Handleigh, Julia Rose Sutherland and Michael Flomen and is curated by PhD candidate Yijing Li. It runs from July 9–23, 2026 at artLAB Gallery, with an opening reception on July 9 from 5:00–7:00 PM. @ursulahandleigh @julia.rose.sutherland @michaelflomen @yijing.li__

Curator Yijing Li has written about the exhibition for SATELLiTE: In Orbit. We’ll be sharing excerpts of her text here and images by the artists. Read the full text on our website (link in bio).
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In the work of Julia Rose Sutherland, family photographs migrate onto hand-peeled birch bark, a material that bears its own histories, markings, scars, and vulnerabilities. The bark resembles skin—not only visually, but conceptually. Like skin, it records encounters. It carries traces of growth, weather, touch, and time. Marked by its relationship to the land, the birch bark becomes more than a surface for receiving images; it becomes a living body that remembers.

Photographic images arrive not upon a neutral support but upon a material already shaped by experience. Family histories move from paper to bark, from one generation to another, from one body to another. The work is further held together by hand-sewn beadwork that traces its edges, while deer hide on the reverse introduces another living material into the photograph’s structure. In this translation, memory is not preserved unchanged. It settles into surfaces that continue to age, mark, and transform. Like skin carrying scars and traces of lived experience, the birch bark carries memory forward without holding it still.

Image: Julia Rose Sutherland, Ala’toq “carry with you.” Photo transfer on birch bark, deer hide and beads. 2026. Light carries family photographs onto hand-peeled birch bark, deer hide, and beadwork, where memory is continually rearticulated rather than preserved unchanged.

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In Between Lights explores how alternative photographic practices translate time through light, material, and transformation. The exhibition features the work of Ursula Handleigh, Julia Rose Sutherland and Michael Flomen and is curated by PhD candidate Yijing Li. It runs from July 9–23, 2026 at artLAB Gallery, with an opening reception on July 9 from 5:00–7:00 PM. @ursulahandleigh @julia.rose.sutherland @michaelflomen @yijing.li__

Curator Yijing Li has written about the exhibition for SATELLiTE: In Orbit. We’ll be sharing excerpts of her text here and images by the artists. Read the full text on our website (link in bio).
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Ursula Handleigh’s practice invites us to inhabit its rhythms through life cycle.

When I visited Ursula Handleigh’s studio, I found myself thinking less about photography and more about the rhythms of everyday life. Her works emerge slowly through sunlight, plant-based photographic processes, and repetitive gestures of labour. Contact prints of banana leaves are exposed in natural sunlight, developed through a solution made from banana leaves, cut into photographic strips, and woven together through the Indigenous Matrilineal Filippine craft of Banig, passed down through her maternal lineage. Photography does not end when the image appears. It continues through the hands. Fragmented images slowly become a cohesive whole. The rhythm of weaving unfolds between conversations, caregiving, meals, household work, and changing weather. Over, under, pull, tighten, repeat. Each gesture accumulates. Each movement carries memory forward.

Image: Ursula Handleigh, Banig in making, 2023-Present, Woven Silver Gelatin Prints, Through sunlight, plant-based photographic processes, and hand weaving, Banig translates time into an image that continues to unfold through labour, memory, and transformation.

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In Between Lights explores how alternative photographic practices translate time through light, material, and transformation. The exhibition features the work of Ursula Handleigh, Julia Rose Sutherland and Michael Flomen and is curated by PhD candidate Yijing Li. It runs from July 9–23, 2026 at artLAB Gallery, with an opening reception on July 9 from 5:00–7:00 PM. @ursulahandleigh @julia.rose.sutherland @michaelflomen @yijing.li__

Curator Yijing Li has written about the exhibition for SATELLiTE: In Orbit. We’ll be sharing excerpts of her text with images by the artists. Read the full essay on our website (link in bio).

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For much of photography’s history, light has been understood as a tool—a means of recording, preserving, and fixing the world before it disappears. Through light, photographs promise to archive what would otherwise be lost, transforming fleeting moments into evidence and memories into objects that can be revisited.

Yet light has always existed before photography. Long before the invention of cameras, light was already moving across landscapes, touching water, stone, leaves, skin, and bodies. [...]

In Michael Flomen’s studio, we spoke about fireflies. They are only one constellation within his larger body of work, yet they became the point from which our conversation unfolded.

His photograms are not photograms of fireflies. They are photograms made with fireflies. The insects are not subjects positioned before a camera; their bioluminescent movements generate the image itself. Light traces its own path across photogram. Looking at these images, I was reminded of László Moholy-Nagy’s belief that photography could reveal dimensions of reality inaccessible to ordinary perception. Yet Flomen’s work seems to push this proposition further. What remains on the photogram is not a frozen instant but the accumulation of movements through darkness. Time leaves a trace.

Image: Michael Flomen, Untitled III, 2025, Archival Pigment Print. Fireflies become collaborators in image-making, allowing light to trace the passage of time across photogram.

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Canadian artist @michaelflomen works with a very special darkroom, made up of just two elements: nature and night. In this documentary film shot with an infrared camera, we follow him on his nocturnal expeditions where, equipped with light-sensitive paper, he sets off in search of the natural elements that will serve as both material and equipment: a few blades of grass, fireflies, river water or snow... They give birth on paper to an abstract work full of poetry which, for Michael Flomen, is as much a reflection on the photographic medium as on the place of Man within the natural world.

• MICHAEL FLOMEN UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS (2008)
Directed by André Cornellier | Canada | 27’

Discover it now on The Darkroom Rumour

🔗 Link in bio

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Galerie Lucida is on location in Kingston, NY for @UpstateArtWeekend! Experience #StayFrosty at @ArtportKingston where 50 artists transform their cars into art installations, exhibitions, and participatory events.
Galerie Lucida will present work by:
@michaelflomen @robertflyntfoto @geraldslota and others. In addition, @michaelparismazzeo will be making portraits at his pop-up #tintype studio!
#photography #artcar

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ART HAMPTON PRESENTS: MICHAEL FLOMEN @michaelflomen
We are proud to present a solo pop-up exhibition featuring internationally acclaimed Canadian artist Michael Flomen.
Known for his groundbreaking camera-less photographic process, Flomen collaborates directly with nature—using water, firefly light, wind, and organic elements to create striking black-and-white works that blur the line between photography and abstraction. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
📅 Exhibition Dates: July 5 – August 5, 2026
🕑 Gallery Hours: Every Friday & Saturday | 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 Borders Gallery @bordersny
62 Newtown Lane #103
East Hampton, NY
🥂 Closing Reception
Monday, August 3, 2026
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Experience a powerful exploration of light, nature, and photographic innovation in the heart of East Hampton.
RSVP Recommended
#ArtHampton #MichaelFlomen #EastHamptonArt #HamptonsArt

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Art Hamptons Artist Spotlight: Michael Flomen @michaelflomen

Art Hamptons is proud to present the extraordinary work of Michael Flomen, a pioneering force in contemporary photography. Born in Montreal in 1952, Flomen has spent more than five decades redefining the boundaries of the medium. From his early street photography to his ground-breaking camera-less works, his artistic journey is a testament to innovation, experimentation, and a profound connection with the natural world.

Working directly with elemental forces—water, firefly light, wind, and the unseen energies of the landscape—Flomen creates mesmerizing photograms that blur the line between photography, painting, and pure natural phenomenon. His work captures nature not simply as subject, but as collaborator.

Flomen's pieces are held in some of the world's most prestigious collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada.

We are honoured to feature Michael Flomen in this season's Art Hamptons Artist Spotlight, celebrating an artist whose work continues to reveal the magic, mystery, and raw beauty of the natural world.

#ArtHamptons #MichaelFlomen Portrait of artist Michael Flomen featured in Art Hamptons Artist Spotlight. The post highlights his decades-long photographic practice, from early street photography to his experimental camera-less works created in collaboration with natural elements like water, wind, and firefly light. The design presents a refined contemporary art aesthetic with emphasis on nature, texture, and abstract imagery evoking light and organic movement ryan zwick art hampton

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