The last developer of Kodachrome film located in Parsons, Kansas is to close down and be sold for scrap. The last roll of Kodachrome film was processed 30 December. Film-maker Kodak introduced the film commercially in 1935 and it was highly regarded by photographers world-wide who praised its vivid colours and long-term stability.
Kodak gave the last roll of Kodachrome film to photographer Steve McCurry in 2009. He took pictures of a tribe in India on the verge of extinction and hand-delivered the roll to Dwayne’s Photo of Parsons, the last developer.
Links to other sites: BBC, Boston Globe, Hindustan Times
Title: Exhibit: Kosovo
Location: Nyon, Vaud
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Description: A Swiss photographer’s view of Kosovo.
Start Date: 2010-01-28
End Date: 2010-02-28
Title: Exhibit: Crime scenes
Location: Geneva
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Description: A photographic exhibit of the work created by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, founder of the scientific police unit of the University of Lausanne. His work portrays Swiss crime scenes from 100 years ago in a very different light.
This exhibit is not recommended for youngsters under 14 years old.
Start Date: 2010-02-02
End Date: 2010-02-21
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva-based ICVolunteers, which works with some 10,000 volunteers around the world, is running a second photography contest and exhibition following the success of its first one in 2009. The theme is “Diverse Perspectives on the Environment, Citizenship and Volunteering by using an investigative journalistic approach.”
Amateur photographers are invited to submit photos for the group’s gallery exhibit. They will also be used for an upcoming publication and calendar. The winner of the contest will be offered a Nikon digital camera.
Murs exhibit, Pont de la Machine, Geneva, November 2009 (photo: Serge Macia)
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The “Murs” photo exhibit at the Pont de la Machine in the centre of Geneva has been closed after attacks on the large-format photos, graffiti and slashing, in early January. The open-air exhibit had already been attacked in November shortly after it opened. A guard was posted, but the new attacks make it too costly to keep it open, say organizers.
The exhibit was organized to commemorate the fall, 20 years ago, of the Berlin Wall, and featured some of the world’s best photojournalists’ images of walls that divide, around the world.
Children play in front of Eliécer Baron’s home in Cartagena. The community leader organized neighbours to build a school for displaced children and they are now looking for computers to equip it.
A preview of the Colombian photos in the exhibit is available on UNHCR’s flickr pages
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The annual “Dialogue” meeting at UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), 9-10 December, focuses on the relatively new phenomenon of urban refugees. The high-level meetings were accompanied by the opening of a photo exhibit at the United Nations building in Geneva Wednesday evening. “A struggle for rights”, by Geneva-based photographer Zalmai, shows some of the people, urban refugees, who often live unnoticed by their neighbours in three cities in three countries: Colombia, Malaysia, and South Africa.
The exhibit is open to the public.
The photographs were shot during five months, and show the stark reality, in black and white, of refugees and displaced persons in three cities not immediately associated with massive dislocations of people. Zalmai spent time among the internally displaced in Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, already poor country people who were uprooted by the simmering conflict over the drugs trade in the country.
In South Africa, the photographer depicts the plight of the human flotsam from three or four countries of Africa who have sought refuge in the country in recent years, the most recent being refugees from Zimbabwe fleeing that country’s economic implosion and ongoing violence.
Heidi grows up: Swiss Farm Calendar wins top industry award for glamour
Heidi's friends, all grown up, too - Swiss Farm Calendar, boys
Hirgiswil, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The popular annual Swiss Farm Calendar, which sells out by Christmas, has just taken the top 2009 award in the glamour field given by the industry’s Calendar Marketing Association. The photographer was Claude Stahel and the calendar is published by Magic Fox Media, a corporate and calendar publishing company based in Hirgiswil.
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To view the rest of 2009: Swiss Farm Calendar images, girls, boys
Title: Conference and slide show: Canada land of wolves
Location: Morges, Vaud
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Description: A conference and slide show in French by naturalist photographer Olivier Gilliéron.
Date: 24 Sep 2009
Title: Photograph exhibit: People’s faces
Location: Thonon, France
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Description: Olivier Marchetti’s photographs of French actor and director Valère Novarina will be exhibited in Thonon, France until the end of September.
Start Date: 25 Aug 2009
End Date: 25 Sep 2009
Title: Swiss photography from the 1930s
Location: Prangins, Vaud
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Description: The exhibition showcases a visual confrontation between pictorialists and modernists.
Start Date: 05 Jun 2009
End Date: 25 Oct 2009
Title: Photography Exhibit: Stigmata
Location: Geneva
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Description: An exhibition organised by the Musee de l’Elysee, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum highlighting pictures of people and places dealing with situations of crisis.
Start Date: 09 Mar 2009
End Date: 26 Jul 2009
Title: The origins of photography
Location: Vevey, Vaud
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Description: In Vevey, the first phase of the new permanent exhibition reminds visitors how exciting and innovative early photography was.
Opening reception 25 March. The exhibit will take place until 31 December 2010.
Start Date: 25 Mar 2009
End Date: 27 Apr 2009
Title: Exhibit: Los Angeles
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
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Description: For a lucky few, L.A. is synonymous with sun, beaches, pools and healthy, tanned bodies. For others, L.A. is often only a mass of congested motorways, pollution and all kinds of fears, a city without a heart or soul.
A new temporary exhibit at the l’Elysee tries to capture these angles of the second largest city of the United States.
Start Date: 15 Mar 2009
End Date: 19 Apr 2009
Title: Exhibit: The people of Omo (Ethiopia), neighbouring France
Location: Thonon, France
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Description: Hans Silvester photographer of Geo magazine, and who has been taking pictures since 1977, exhibits a collection of people, nature and the ecosystem in Ethiopia.
Start Date: 14 Dec 2008
End Date: 07 Mar 2009
Title: Fashion photography, a fetish for beauty
Location: Geneva
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Description: Last of the five-lecture series.
Date: 04 Dec 2008
Title: Photography Exhibit: Italians migrating to South America
Location: Vevey, Vaud
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Description: Yvan Dalain collection of photographies of Italian inmigrants going to South America.
Start Date: 11 Sep 2008
End Date: 15 Mar 2009
Title: Fashion photography, hand grenades like cartier clips
Location: Geneva
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Description: Fourth, in the five-lecture series.
Date: 27 Nov 2008
Title: Fashion Photography, the Seductive Appeal
Location: Geneva
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Description: Lighten, brighten, slim and smooth: The four commandments of the fashion photographer. Part of a five-part lecture series.
Shawn Waldron, Archive Director for Condé
Nast Publications
Date: 20 Nov 2008
Title: Photography exhibit: Toreros (bull fighters)
Location: Nyon, Vaud
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Start Date: 12 Nov 2008
End Date: 23 Nov 2008
Title: Photography exhibit
Location: Thonon-les-bains, France
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Description: Two photographers, two exhibits. One ends 6 December the other one in March. Chek it out!
Start Date: 12 Nov 2008
End Date: 01 Mar 2009
Title: art lecture series
Location: Geneva, Musée d’art et d’histoire
Description: A series of Lectures in English on Thursdays beginning October 30: “The Seductive Appeal of Fashion Photography.” The first speaker will be William Ewing, Director of the Musée d’Elysée in Lausanne who will talk about Edward Steichen and the origins of Fashion Photography.
Start Time: 12:30
Date: 30 Oct 2008
