Podcast appearances and mentions of ren hang

Felix Hoffmann is an image and cultural scholar and the inaugural Artistic Director of the Center for Photography and Lens-Based Media FOTO ARSENAL WIEN and the Director of FOTO WIEN. From 2005 to 2022, he served as the Chief Curator of the exhibition space C/O Berlin, where he was responsible for exhibitions, programs, and strategy. He curated numerous international exhibitions, including Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh (2011), Gordon Parks (2014), Ren Hang and Elfie Semotan (2018), and William Eggleston (2023), as well as thematic exhibitions like Eerily Familiar: Images of Terror (2011), The Last Image: Photography and Death (2018), and Send me an Image: From Postcards to Social Media (2020).  - Follow Felix on Instagram here --> https://www.instagram.com/felix_hoffmann__/   FOTO ARSENAL WIEN is Austria's new center for photography and lens-based media. Since 2023 it has been responsible for the FOTO WIEN festival, and starting in 2025 it will be responsible for the Festival Vienna Digital Cultures with the Kunsthalle Wien. Initiated as a media literacy center by the city of Vienna in fall 2022, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN explores all facets of photography. As a hub for photography and lens-based media in Austria, the institution brings together historical and international topics at the interface between analog and digital worlds as well as between static and moving pictures. FOTO ARSENAL WIEN presents the full spectrum of the medium of photography in up to twelve exhibitions held annually in a one-thousand-square-meter exhibition space—a combination of young talents, still-to-be-discovered photographers, and internationally known artists. - https://www.fotoarsenalwien.at/en/ - https://www.instagram.com/foto_arsenal_wien/   FOTO WIEN is a member of the European Month of Photography (EMOP), a European collaborative project that currently includes photography festivals in Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, and Luxemburg. Once an insider event for Vienna's lively photography scene, FOTO WIEN has become Austria's largest festival of photographic images in over twenty years of collective commitment. It offers programs for a broad audience that is interested in art and contemporary events as well as a professional audience. FOTO ARSENAL WIEN has been the organizer since 2023. - https://www.fotowien.at/en/ - https://www.instagram.com/foto_wien/   Michael Dooney https://beacons.ai/michaeldooney This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 7. March 2025 between Perth (AU) and Vienna (A).

Editor of erotic fine art books for Taschen, Dian Hanson has shepherded works from legends like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ren Hang along with numerous adult photo books of high repute. She brings a few books from her esoteric collection of adult oddities and attempted encylopedias. Dian and Joshua discuss everything from Gen Z to sexual dysfunctions of the 1800's. TW: Adult Content and possible graphic disturbing imagery Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey! Today you get to read my words and hear them. This will either be great for you or totally unbearable, depending on how you feel about the Aussie accent. I love writing but I also love talking so I thought this could be a cool way to share the newsletter sometimes. Let me know in the comments what you thought and how this format works for you guys? * Flash Sale on portfolio, project and social media reviews can be booked here * A podcast episode I did a while back with Mike Gutterman of Neg Pos podcast all about music and photography that might be of interest to you if you are a music lover * Ren Hang for anyone who doesn't know his work. Amazing! * Alison Roman for anyone who is interested in her * My Pinterest account which is a place I upload frequently and is great for sharing and storing images This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lucylumen.substack.com

We talk about Ren Hang and his striking images, using a point and shoot to create great art, his unique way of arranging groups of people within the frame, nudity and censorship, creating a signature style, his dislike of digital photography and more! 

Dian Hanson, former editor of Juggs and Leg Show magazines called in to talk all about fetishes. Are you born with a fetish? Or, is it bred out of trauma or some other experience? Do fetishes only exist because they are taboo? Tune in to hear all the details including how and why she left Leg Show magazine ad wound up at her current gig at TASCHEN books, how her an her sister dressed up her brother when he was little, how her mother reacted to him dressing up as a child, how the way she treated him differed than the way she treated them and how that effected him, how many of the crossdressers who wrote in to Leg Show magazine with a similar story, how she found out he crossdressed after his suicide, how what happened to him helped her accept her husband's crossdressing, how predispositions can be effected by what happens In childhood and how it It doesn't have to be trauma that shapes fetishes, how her husband and boyfriend would act out their fetish, how resisting a fetish can sometimes only make it stronger, how males in nature other species might have fetishes too, why women don't have fetishes and how nature plays into that, how nature effects women when they have kids as well, her recommendation on when and how to bring up your fetish to your partner, why finding something in your fetish that pleasures your partner is key and how's to find that something, why porn and masturbation should be looked at as an acceptable and healthy form of release and a whole lot more. Dian Hanson produced a variety of men's magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Juggs, Outlaw Biker, and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN's Sexy Book Editor. Her titles include the “body part” series, The Art of Pin-up, Masterpieces of Fantasy Art, and Ren Hang. To see her incredible collection of books at TASCHEN click here: https://www.taschen.com/en/collection/dian-hanson  **To get extra EXCLUSIVE fetish episodes + see anonymous pics of most of my other female guests + get early access to all episodes + hear anonymous confessions, join my Patreon. It's only $5 a month and you can cancel at any time. You can sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/StrictlyAnonymousPodcast Want to be on the show? Email strictlyanonymouspodcast@gmail.com or go to http://www.strictlyanonymouspodcast.com and click on "Be on the Show." Have something quick you want to confesss? OR Call the hotline at 347-420-3579. Your voice will be changed, so you remain anonymous Want a private convo with me that won't be aired on the show? All calls are private, confidential and anonymous. Click here: https://calendly.com/strictlyanonymouspodcast/45min Sponsors: Get 90% off RexMD and only pay $2 per dosage with our exclusive link -> https://rexmd.com/STRICTLY OMGYes.com special discount here https://OMGYes./STRICTLYANON Follow me! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/strictanonymous/ Twitter https://twitter.com/strictanonymous?lang=en Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/StrictlyAnonymouspodcast Everything else https://linktr.ee/Strictlyanonymouspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

C'est grâce à Camille Brechignac que j'avais invité à réaliser un épisode de IEL PRÉSENTE que j'ai découvert le travail de Ingrid Berthon Moine. Ingrid c'est une artiste française basée à Londres qui travaille sur la question du regard que l'on porte sur nos corps en fonction de nos genres respectifs. En fait, je dirai même que le corps est son matériau de prédilection et que les médiums qu'elle emploie ; que ce soit la peinture, l'installation ou la photographie lui servent à expérimenter ce dernier et à questionner les normes et leurs impacts sur nos comportements ! Et ce n'est pas pour rien qu'on parle de corps aujourd'hui car j'ai l'immense plaisir de vous annoncer que du 21 octobre prochain au 18 décembre 2021 se tiendra à la galerie Paris Beijing - Romain Degoul la toute première exposition dont j'ai assuré le commissariat. L'exposition s'appelle FAIRE CORPS, elle rassemble une dizaine d'artistes qui tentent d'aller au-delà des attributs normés du genre et de déconstruire notre regard. L'autre bonne nouvelle c'est que les plus assidu.es d'entre vous connaissent déjà un bon nombre de ces artistes puisque toutes et tous ont été reçu dans PRÉSENT.E ! Vous aurez donc la possibilité de découvrir enfin en vrai, les oeuvres de Sabrina Belouaar, Kubra Khademi, Marion Mounic, Pauline Rousseau, Elea Jeanne Schmitter, Hugo Servanin, Abel Techer, Ren Hang et Sarah Trouche. Parmi elleux, mon invitée d'aujourd'hui qui présente ses neufs sculptures thingy dont on va notamment parler aujourd'hui... Enfin, on reprend les bonnes habitudes : Merci à David Walters pour le générique !

Gem Fletcher chats to Coco Capitán, known for her genre-defying work that straddles fashion and fine art. Coco is known for her hybrid practice that is constantly evolving. She has crafted an incredible career across fashion and art in which she uses photography, painting, writing, design to animate her ideas which are often rooted in personal experiences. She is a committed exhibition and bookmaker and has shown her work around the world. Her practice is one that is truly intuitive and lives free from the boundaries of genre and expectations. In this episode, we discuss how writing and language is the foundation of her practice, her approach to making commercial and fine artwork, her love of creating spaces to display her work and the genesis of her latest work Naïvy. Coco Capitán was born in Seville (Spain) in 1992. Based in London, she completed her MA Master of Fine Arts with honours in the field of photography at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. Her art practice straddles the fine art and commercial art worlds and includes photography, painting, and prose. She has produced editorial and commercial collaborations with Gucci, Paco Rabanne, Maison Margiela and her work has appeared in magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Dazed, M Le Monde, Document Journal, and Vogue. She has been a guest speaker for Cambridge University Photographic Society (2016), a member of the Jury for Hyères Fashion & Photography Festival (2016), and was awarded the Photographers Gallery FF+WE Prize (2015).Most recently Capitán was the subject of a solo museum show entitled Is It Tomorrow Yet? at the Daelim Museum in Seoul, South Korea 2018 and participated in a group exhibition alongside Ren Hang at La Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, 2019).Follow Coco on Instagram @cococapitan on Instagram and website. Follow Gem @gemfletcher on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. Thank you for listening to The Messy Truth, we will be back very soon. For all requests, please email hello@gemfletcher.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode's transcript can be found hereNadia Owusu is a woman whose life story spans continents. Losses and uprootings marked her early life, leaving her with questions about her worth, her identity, even her sanity. A woman with an emotional seismometer, always attuned to the possibility of loss, she witnessed civil war, terrorism, and the ravages of colonialism and anti-blackness. She was also abandoned by her birth mother, lost her father to cancer, and fought with her widowed stepmother for the truth of her father's memory.Described by Margo Jefferson as “rigorous and luminous” and by Xiaolu Guo as “intense and intimate” Aftershocks is a beautiful, moving, unflinching memoir of a woman who transcends boundaries and defies categories. GuestYou can find Nadia Owusu on twitter at @NadiaOwusu1 on Instagram @wheresnadia and online at nadiaaowusu.com Her Whiting Award-winning memoir Aftershocks is available now.Works & Authors Mentioned:Go Tell It on the Mountain - James BaldwinRen Hang (Eponymous)How to Build a Human - Emma ByrneFind Us Online- Patreon: www.patreon.com/nonficpod- Bookshop: www.uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod- Twitter: www.twitter.com/nonficpod- Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Hosts: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Producer: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Guest: Nadia Owusu- Social Team: Beatrice Bazell and Felicity Quick- Composer: Mike WyerAbout UsBrought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne, NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our premium podcast, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and about life. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Composer, pianist, and Associate Artistic Director and cofounder of Castle of Our Skins (COOS), Anthony R. Green shares his interest in visual art, in particular the contemporary art of René Magritte, Carrie Mae Weems, Betye Saar, Helina Metaferia, Duro Olowu, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ren Hang, El Anatsui, and Piet Mondriaan. Follow Anthony at www.anthonyrgreen.com; Instagram @piargno84 www.vimeo.com/456644665 Castle of Our Skins: www.castleskins.org; Instagram @castleskins Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/haydnmusicstand and visit our social media pages @haydnmusicstand. Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1iFJSHos3tN6kQid0BRqiN?si=bwOA9EynTJic7zBk0xDp6A --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haydnmusicstand/support

In episode two of Beautiful Noise, we discuss one of the most controversial and most influential photographers of our times, Nobuyoshi Araki. Then, we go on all sorts of tangents including Ren Hang and his imitators, strip clubs, what to do when you feel like quitting, etc., but don't worry, it's all very entertaining. Các bạn đang lắng nghe Beautiful Noise tập hai. Trong tập này, tụi mình sẽ bàn về một số vấn đề xung quanh nhiếp ảnh gia người Nhật, Nobuyoshi Araki. An hơi xúc động mỗi lần nghe tên ông già này, nên bạn ấy sẽ nói rất nhiều (xin mọi người thông cảm). We are Beautiful Noise. Intro Music là từ bạn Sĩ của Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective: https://soundcloud.com/jungbuffalo Our Instagram: Beautiful Noise Collective - https://www.instagram.com/beautifulnoisecollective An Tran - https://www.instagram.com/an.alog/ Duong Nguyen - https://www.instagram.com/noduongplease/ Lien Pham - https://www.instagram.com/lieninwhite/ Tung Dinh - https://www.instagram.com/cokecan_/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Marco invited back his friend and PPN co-founder Scott Bourn to the traditional “end of the year in front of the virtual fireplace” Camera and Inspiration episode. And as this is also the last show of the decade, they look back at the past ten years and how it has influenced the world of photography.   This show is sponsored by COSYSPEED: http://bit.ly/STREETOMATIC    COSYSPEED Lens Pouche Indigogo campaign: http://bit.ly/fundlenspouch    Inspirational photographer of the month: Scott picked Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948 in Tokyo). Scott is particularly impressed with the Diorama photography that Hiroshi Sugimoto creates. It is a great example that there are many different areas in photography away from the very common themes that are worth exploring and that can lead to an excellent portfolio and make a photographer famous in a niche genre, too. Sugimoto has more work that is worth exploring and he has won many international photo awards and exhibited his work around the world. You can find out more about Hiroshi Sugimoto by visiting his website: https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com Here is a video interview where Hiroshi Sugimoto talks about his diorama work: https://youtu.be/q9GiyPbLYPg   What has happened in the past decade of photography? Some of the important photographers that have passed away in the past decade:   Robert Frank 1924-2019 - 94- Swiss / American Photographer. He was working for Life, Vogue and Fortune Magazine. In 1955 he received a Guggenheim grant that allowed him to do a social documentary in the USA for 2 years. Frank took 28.000 images during this time and 83 of these images were curated and published in the book “The Americans” that turned out to be the most important photo documentary of the 1950s in the US.   Peter Lindbergh (1944-2019) - He was a German fashion photographer. His image of five young models in downtown NY made the cover of the British Vogue in 1990. This started a new Zeitgeist in fashion photography after the high-gloss and make-up overkill era of the 1980s. He created a new understanding of female beauty with his black and white raw and alluring film images.   Fred Herzog (1930-2019) - He was a documentary photographer who was born in Germany and migrated to Vancouver Canada in 1953 where he documented the seemingly unspectacular everyday life of the city with his Leica on Kodachrome film.   Terry O’Neill (1938-2019) - He was a British celebrity photographer - He documented celebrities like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John and so on. And he did it mainly in a candid photography style.   Robert Freeman (1936-2019) - He was also a British photographer who is known as the Beatles photographer.   Ara Güler (1928-2018) - Ara was probably the most influential Turkish photographer so far. He was also a Magnum photographer that traveled the world and captured many amazing images with his analog camera on B&W film. But most of his work portraits his home town Istanbul - his portfolio is an amazing visual history of this city. His nickname was the Eye of Istanbul. https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/ara-guler-1928-2018/   Ren Hang (1987-2017) - He is regarded as a controversial Chinese photographer who was known for taking nude portraits of his friends. But he suffered from depression and took his life at age 29. His work is currently exhibited at the ℅ Berlin photo gallery it runs until February 29th, 2020.   Ben Martin (1930-2017) - He was a staff photographer for TIME and LIFE magazine who covered many memorable events like presidential debates between Nixon and Kennedy, JFK’s funeral, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights events.   Pete Turner (1934-2017) - He was one of the first masters of color photography. He started to experiment with colors as a teenager and his work merged the lines between art and commercial photography. He loved breaking the rules and this made him one of the most influential photographers of all time. Some of his stunning color photos can be seen in the book Color of Jazz. His most famous photo shows a giraffe silhouette with a bright red sky and purple ground.   Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) - She was a US photojournalist and Magnum member. She focused most of her work showing people who lived at the fringes of society. Her images display the empathy that she must have felt for her subjects.   Saul Leiter (1923-2013) - He was a US photographer and painter. His street photos of New York are beautifully captured and many resemble the look of a beautiful painting.   There are countless more amazing photographers that we did not cover here - many not as famous as they would have deserved to be but that have created amazing work. And we’ll continue to pick one photographer on each PPN Camera and Inspiration show in the future. But if you want to share other photographers that you feel very strongly about just add that photographers' name with a quick explanation of what you like about his or her work to the show notes below. Inspirational Photo Book Pick of the Month: “Born Free and Equal - The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans ” by Ansel Adams. An overview from the publisher: “On February 19, 1942, U.S. presidential order forcibly removed more than 110,000 persons from their homes to one of ten "war relocation centers" across the country. All were of Japanese ancestry, but two-thirds were American citizens. Ralph Merritt, then director of Manzanar War Relocation Center, asked friend Ansel Adams to photograph the center, set against the remote mountains of California's Sierra Nevada. The resulting effort, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans, written and photographed by Adams, was released in 1944 to the American public as a book and exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Reeling from the impact of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and unable to make the distinction between American citizens of Japanese ancestry and the Japanese enemy of war, Adams' message was essentially lost on the American public.” The book is published by: Spotted Dog Press 128 Pages Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Born-Free-Equal-Japanese-Americans/dp/1893343057 Links to Scott Bourne: Web: https://scottbourne.online  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bourne.scott/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scottbourne  Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottbourne  Podcast: https://picturemethods.com/category/podcasts/    Links to Marco Larousse: Web: www.MarcoLarousse.com  Twitter: @HamburgCam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marco.larousse/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarcoLarousse1  Workshops: https://www.marcolarousse.com/street-photography-workshops/    Links to PPN: Web: www.PhotoPodcasts.com or PPN.fm Twitter: @Photopodcasts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photopodcasts/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/PPNPhotoPodcastNetwork  Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/ppn-apple-podcasts  Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/PPN-GooglePodcast Spotify: http://bit.ly/PPN-fm Please support our show by using our B&H affiliate link (click here) or Amazon Germany link (click here) that will not cost you a penny more than when you are buying at B&H or Amazon without our link.   Check out the Skylum LUMINAR software: Link: http://bit.ly/PPN-Luminar3 (use the discount code “PHOTOPODCASTS” at checkout for extra savings)   And please share this podcast with your friends and subscribe via Apple podcasts, Google Podcasts, or search for “PPN” in your favorite podcast app. We would also love to get your feedback. 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Diesmal wird es in der radioeins-Kunstkritik explizit. Der chinesische Fotograf Ren Hang zeigt in seiner Ausstellung „Love, Ren Hang“ den menschlichen Körper in all seiner Nacktheit und in ungewöhnlichen Positionen.

Jan Broman is one of the founders of a new museum for photography Fotografiska New York, which will open its doors to the public at the Church Mission House in New York on December 14, 2019. Jan Broman tells the inspiring stories of the many moving parts that went into building a new museum with a clear vision and values that, like its Swedish predecessor Fotografiska Stockholm  - with about 170 exhibitions including David LaChapelle, Annie Leibowitz, Albert Watson, Sally Mann, Zanele Muholi, Cooper & Gorfer, Ren Hang, Irwing Penn to name a few - aims to provoke global conversations around important topics through photography. (This interview is from 2018).  

Mortal Engines is a new sci-fi fantasy film co-written and produced by Peter Jackson, based on the first in a series of young adult steampunk novels by Philip Reeve. In a post-apocalyptic future, mobile cities on huge caterpillar tracks roam the landscape, consuming smaller towns for their resources. Starring Hera Hilmar as Hester Shaw, the film is the directorial debut of long-time Jackson collaborator Christian Rivers. Katie Popperwell reviews.In a year when housing has risen up the political agenda, Richard Gregory, artistic director of Quarantine theatre company, and performance artist Grace Surman discuss Tenancy, part of a Manchester-led international project which explores the changing nature of cities by artists taking over a residential home for a year.The work of the Chinese photographer Ren Hang found admirers worldwide and was championed by Ai Weiwei, though the Chinese authorities were less enamoured. Almost two years after his death at the age of 29 and with the first show of his work in the UK premiering at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, Laura Robertson, critical writer-in-residence at the gallery discusses Ren Hang's significance. When Martin Jenkinson was made redundant from the Sheffield steel industry in 1979, it was the start of a four decade-long career as a professional photographer whose first subject was his adopted city. His pictures of the 1984 – 85 miners' strike were widely published in the national press. Years later they would catch the eye of Turner-prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller who worked with Jenkinson on his recreation of The Battle of Orgreave. Art critic Orla Foster reviews the new retrospective of Jenkinson's photographs at Weston Park Museum in Sheffield.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Legendary photojournalist Steve Schapiro talks about his work on the civil rights frontier and encounters with James Baldwin; Karl Kolbitz’s new photo book Ingressi di Milano takes us on a tour through Milan’s stunning modernist hallways; and Dian Hanson pays tribute to Chinese photographer, Ren Hang. Produced by Eliza Apperly and presented by Arsalan Mohammad

This week, we discuss the paralyzing power of depression via a story of a Chinese photographer called Ren Hang, who recently took his own life. Also, a quick roundup of some of our current favorite photo apps. Plus, we tease a couple articles to discuss next week around the creative process of artists like Beck, Tom Waits and Kendrick Lamar as well as the value of immersion via Chrissie Hynde. Laurent Nivalle is our Photographer of the Week.

This week, we discuss the paralyzing power of depression via a story of a Chinese photographer called Ren Hang, who recently took his own life. Also, a quick roundup of some of our current favorite photo apps. Plus, we tease a couple articles to discuss next week around the creative process of artists like Beck, Tom Waits and Kendrick Lamar as well as the value of immersion via Chrissie Hynde. Laurent Nivalle is our Photographer of the Week.

We discuss Ren Hang's death last Friday Hear from the man who challenges the man who stands between Australia and World War III Tear apart the News with John James

In this episode we are joined once again by the awesome Eric! We talk about the process of making a zine, the work of Ren Hang, the Lab Box kickstarter and the new colour film from Lomography. All this and Ade apologises to Ferrania!

This week's Podcast features interviews from LARB's recent event in San Francisco. Co-hosts Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer speak with Rabih Alameddine about his new book The Angel of History, structures of narrative outside the American mainstream, and the state of poetry in light of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize; and then Jade Chang talks about her novel The Wangs vs The World, the changing shape of the American immigrant tale, and her desire to struggle as a stand-up comic. Then Taschen's Dian Hanson returns to recommend the spectacular erotic photography of China's Ren Hang (soon to be published by Taschen); and we re-listen to CP Cavafy's classic poem Waiting for the Barbarians, pending the arrival of Donald Trump.