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Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects\n" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 87, "title": "2020", "slug": "2020", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2020", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "183f25ac-adf2-42c9-91a1-6910f381c9e9", "filename_disk": "183f25ac-adf2-42c9-91a1-6910f381c9e9.jpg", "caption": "Stephen Waddell, Room Endgame (detail), 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Monte Clark Gallery." }, "children": [] }, { "id": 88, "title": "2019", "slug": "2019", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2019", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "13f9eac0-9b0c-4936-aca3-dd047a7f3af6", "filename_disk": "13f9eac0-9b0c-4936-aca3-dd047a7f3af6.jpg", "caption": "Carrie Mae Weems, Magenta Colored Girl, from the series \"Colored People,\" 1989 – 90. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY." }, "children": [] }, { "id": 89, "title": "2018", "slug": "2018", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2018", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "5e2ef49e-9bc0-488a-910f-32dcf4308d1c", "filename_disk": "5e2ef49e-9bc0-488a-910f-32dcf4308d1c.jpg", "caption": "Felicity Hammond, Simulated Ruins, (detail), 2018. Courtesy of the artist" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 90, "title": "2017", "slug": "2017", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2017", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "b59a2116-d2fd-4fbd-a9dd-e8b5f480a635", "filename_disk": "b59a2116-d2fd-4fbd-a9dd-e8b5f480a635.jpg", "caption": "Petra Collins, Anna Tear, 2016. 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Toronto, 2013 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 95, "title": "2012", "slug": "2012", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2012", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "e15def14-ce23-4dab-a97d-15afb0a91e98", "filename_disk": "e15def14-ce23-4dab-a97d-15afb0a91e98.jpg", "caption": "Michael Wolf, Tokyo Compression #39, 2009, from the series Tokyo Compression, 2009. Courtesy of the artist\n" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 96, "title": "2011", "slug": "2011", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2011", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "d3fbed1f-7813-4d58-9ece-de35c3b36ec5", "filename_disk": "d3fbed1f-7813-4d58-9ece-de35c3b36ec5.jpg", "caption": "Viviane Sassen, La Lutte, 2011, from the series “Parasomnia.\" Courtesy of Motive Gallery, Amsterdam and Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 97, "title": "2010", "slug": "2010", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2010", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "3489c0f1-4abf-41b1-93bc-3d571bde3d27", "filename_disk": "3489c0f1-4abf-41b1-93bc-3d571bde3d27.jpg", "caption": "Clunie Reid, Take No Photographs, Leave Only Ripples, 2009 (Detail), courtesy of Mot International, © Clunie Reid" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 98, "title": "2009", "slug": "2009", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2009", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "5866e409-9ac5-44ac-ace9-34ce89811ac7", "filename_disk": "5866e409-9ac5-44ac-ace9-34ce89811ac7.jpg", "caption": "Stan Douglas, Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, 2008 (Detail), Courtesy of the Artist & David Zwirner, New York" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 100, "title": "2008", "slug": "2008", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2008", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "eb47ae0d-ab15-4d33-9968-fe6d587eab7d", "filename_disk": "eb47ae0d-ab15-4d33-9968-fe6d587eab7d.jpg", "caption": "Alessandra Sanguinetti, The Necklace, 1999 © Alessandra Sanguinetti, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery" }, "children": [] }, { "id": 101, "title": "2007", "slug": "2007", "permalink": "/festival/archives/2007", "status": "published", "parent": 4, "thumbnail": { "id": "1812dfe5-a467-4195-bacd-0279ae3d1da3", "filename_disk": "1812dfe5-a467-4195-bacd-0279ae3d1da3.jpg", "caption": "Carlos & Jason Sanchez\n, Descent, 2003. 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Core Program Venues

Open Call Venues