Based in Antwerp (Belgium), Gallery FIFTY ONE & FIFTY ONE TOO are specialised in fine art photography & works on paper. Since its founding in 2000, the gallery focuses on 20th and 21st-Century photography (vintage, classic, fashion, African and contemporary).
Read MoreSince 2009, the gallery started a New York office to meet the growing demands of American clients.
Since 2011, the gallery started an ongoing dialogue between photography and works on paper. Regularly exhibitions are organised to emphasise the artistic gaze of photography.
In 2014 a new gallery space opened its doors: FIFTY ONE TOO.
Ocula Report At Art Taipei, Galleries Adapt to Regional Politics By Sam Gaskin, Tapiei In Taipei, the artwork that said most about the contemporary art market's fraught situation in East Asia was not at the 26th Art Taipei (18–21 October 2019), but across town at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, a publicly funded art park established in Taiwan's former Air Force Command Headquarters in 2018. Chin Cheng-Te's Tender Soul –...
Ocula Report Daido Moriyama: The Erotics of Photography By Tianyuan Deng, Tokyo In a documentary video published by Tate Modern to accompany its exhibition William Klein + Daido Moriyama in 2013, Moriyama, one of the most influential avantgarde photographers to emerge out of postwar Japan, roams the urban streets of Shinjuku equipped with a compact digital camera. Dressed in a low-key black jacket, his gait is relaxed but...
Ocula Report Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection By Jane O’Sullivan, Sydney Yang Zhichao’s Chinese Bible is both unyieldingly monumental and humble. In the latest presentation of the work in Sydney, all 3,000 of the diaries he has collected from Beijing’s fleamarkets are placed in neat rows on a large, rectangular plinth. Dated from 1949 to 1999 they record 50 turbulent years in China’s history....
Ocula Conversation Gene Sherman & Suhanya Raffel By Jane O'Sullivan, Sydney When Australian collectors and philanthropists Gene and Brian Sherman moved from South Africa to Australia in 1976, Gene says they instantly recognised a “buzz about Asia” that they weren’t expecting. As an academic teaching French literature, the push towards Asian languages also put her out of a job. “I went...
Related Press Steve McCurry's photos show the complex relationship between humans and animals 8 November 2019, CNN Steve McCurry has achieved legendary status with his documentary photography, and is perhaps best known for his portrait of the Afghan Girl with the piercing green eyes published in 1985.But the influential American photographer, who has built his career around his daring coverage of armed conflict, has a lesser known passion: animals.
Related Press Michael Wolf obituary 2 May 2019, The Guardian After moving on from a successful career in photojournalism in 2003 to pursue his personal work, the photographer Michael Wolf, who has died unexpectedly aged 64, devoted himself to exploring the complex nature of life in some of the world's largest cities. Michael was best known for his series Architecture of Density (2003-14), which focused on...
Related Press Michael Wolf: Roulette with the Real 30 July 2018, Elephant 'I see myself as an anthropologist,' Michael Wolf tells me as he guides me around his show, Informal Arrangements (27 November 2015–9 January 2016), at Flowers Gallery in London's East End. The densely gridded façades of Hong Kong's high-rises dominate one wall but elsewhere the material on display has a more improvised, intimate air. As a...
Related Press 'You always find something different': Sir Elton John on his love of photography 14 March 2017, Christie's ‘A photograph brings me so much joy, they’re beautiful objects,’ says Sir Elton John, discussing a remarkable collection of 25 works by some of the world’s greatest photographers, to be offered at Christie’s in New York on 6 April 2017. Proceeds from the sale of these works will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), an international...
