Women in Magnum: Closeness is Trust
C/O Berlin presents “Close Enough”, an exhibition featuring twelve women photographers from Magnum Photos, whose works explore the complex relationship between image-makers and the protagonists of their photos.
Rather than framing “closeness” solely as physical distance, the exhibition reinterprets photographer Robert Capa’s quote “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” to emphasize trust, complicity, and shared vulnerability.
A plane flying low over students at an amusement park, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 © Sabiha Çimen/Magnum Photos
Looking for tenderness, Beirut, Lebanon, 2018 © Myriam Boulos/Magnum Photos
Everyday After Work, West Philly, 2010 © Hannah Price/Magnum Photos
From Myriam Boulos’s intimate chronicle of social change in Beirut, to Alessandra Sanguinetti’s decades-long portrait of two Argentine girls and Bieke Depoorter’s collaborative method of involving others in the interpretation of her images, the artists reveal photography as a tool for documentation and dialogue.
Man with Muse (Bill), USA, 2021. From the series ‚Men Untitled‘ © Carolyn Drake/Magnum Photos
Al-Minya, Egypt, September 2013 © Bieke Depoorter/Magnum Photos
Somayeh, Teheran, Iran, 2010 © Newsha Tavakolian/ Magnum Photos
The exhibition “Close Enough” is on view at C/O Berlin until January 28.
