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Brig. Gen.(P) Patrick W. Burden, PEO EIS, transferred the charter of the Product Manager for Wideband Enterprise Satellite Systems (PL WESS) from Col. Joel D. -Babbitt, left, to Lt. Col. Anthony K. Whitfield at a ceremony June 29 at Fort Belvoir. As the product manager for WESS, assigned to PM DCATS, Whitfield will manage the program’s approximately $170 million annual budget and 50 projects around the world. Babbitt reports for Senior Service College before assuming his next post as the PEO for Special Operations Forces Warrior in late 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Racquel Lockett-Finch, PEO EIS)
US-Georgia relations have embarked on a substantially new stage and have become more diverse. It was noted during the meeting between Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia and Dr. A. Wess Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the US Department of State in D.C.
Parties discussed multiple aspects of US-Georgia relations, including the trade and economic links. Focus was made on the need to even further intensify the cooperation in fields of culture and education.
Assistant Secretary of State reiterated the progress reached by Georgia and personal contribution of Prime Minister Kvirikashvili in the successful implementation of the significant reforms that makes Georgia stand out as a role model in the region in the opinion of Dr. Mitchell.
US party also noted the special role of Georgia in the development of regional cooperation. Assistant Secretary of State believes that Georgia is an important gateway for the development of trade and economic cooperation with countries of Central Asia and their engagement in global trade and economic project initiatives.
During the meeting attention was paid to Georgia's prospects at the upcoming Brussels Summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). According to Wess Mitchell, US supports Georgia's ascension to NATO and during the summit, together with allies, will once again reaffirm Georgia's success on the path of NATO integration.
Parties also discussed the recent developments in the region and current situation in the occupied territories of Georgia.
Giorgi Kvirikashvili expressed his gratitude to Wess Mitchell for his support to Georgia and noted that our country remains to be a reliable strategic partner of US.
Since 2015, the In Focus display has showcased new work by acclaimed photographers, including Alessandra Sanguinetti, Rinko Kawauchi and Pieter Hugo. This year, portraits by Hassan Hajjaj have been selected to be shown alongside the works in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize.
Hajjaj was born in Larache, north-west Morocco, in 1961 where he lived until the age of 12 when his family joined his father in London. Having spent much of his life travelling between Morocco and London, his work playfully explores the cultural, commercial and social phenomena that emerge at the intersection of these British and North African cultures. Even the act of dating his artworks – with both the European Gregorian calendar date and the corresponding year in the Islamic Hijri calendar – expresses Hajjaj’s dual identity, living between distinct cultures.
Hajjaj uses a digital camera with a wide-angle lens to make his portraits and photographs from a low angle, to add presence to his sitters. Preferring to work outdoors in daylight, most of his portraits are taken on the street. He styles the photoshoots himself, selecting colourful patterned backdrops made from market fabrics or inexpensive rugs, and designing outfits for his sitters, which are made by tailors and artisans in Marrakech.
The frames are also a vital element of the finished work, inset with recognisable objects displayed in grids to evoke Moroccan mosaic patterns.
Hajjaj’s work is widely commissioned and published and is held in major international collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as the Brooklyn Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and he has staged large-scale museum exhibitions across America, England and France.
This year’s In Focus display includes four portraits from Hajjaj’s series My Rockstars (1988–), a homage to the people who inspire him. For Hajjaj, the series is about reclaiming the idea of a rock star. ‘I’m trying to break the mould and own the word, and I’m highlighting people that sometimes don’t get seen in the mainstream.’ Having photographed people across the globe for the series, for this In Focus display, Hajjaj spotlights creatives from North Africa. ‘I decided to show my region’, he explains.
Sitters include Heba Amin, an Egyptian diasporic artist and educator whose work explores technology and power dynamics in the Middle East, alongside Karim Chater, also known as Style Beldi, a Moroccan artist and stylist who combines vintage Moroccan fashion with modern styling. In Morocco, beldi means ‘something very traditional’ but his suit is made from contemporary plastic bags. Hajjaj says, ‘I thought that if I got an opportunity to photograph Karim, I would save this outfit for him.’
Imaan Hammam is a Dutch model of Moroccan and Egyptian heritage, who Hajjaj photographed for Vanity Fair magazine. In his styling, Hajjaj elevates everyday materials. ‘Imaan’s djellaba robe is made from blankets that are used in most African countries in the winter,’ he explains, ‘but I’m trying to make them look as good as a Versace outfit, like something a rock star would wear. Rapper and music producer Draganov collaborated with Hajjaj on the visual album, Colors, in 2021. Here, posed atop a motorbike, Draganov is wearing a suit covered in modern fashion branding.
The group portrait, Keshmara, features henna girls from Marrakech. At the centre is Karima, a long-standing collaborator for Hajjaj and the subject of his first film, released in 2015. Karima is pictured alongside her cousin, aunt and friends who all earn a living applying henna. For Hajjaj, ‘they are artists, just using different materials.’ The portrait belongs to the series, Vogue: The Arab Issue: Spring Collection 2048, begun around 2000. The series reimagines fashion shoots around the streets of Marrakech, with Hajjaj casting friends in the place of fashion models, to celebrate Moroccan culture and subvert stereotypes of his home.*
From the exhibition
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023
(November 2023 - February 2024)
Highlighting leading approaches to contemporary photography, the Prize showcases artists – from emerging photographers, to established professionals. This year, 5,020 submissions were received, by 1,785 photographers from 59 different countries...The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 or over. Exhibited annually at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Prize showcases talented professional and amateur photographers from around the world
[*National Portrait Gallery]
Taken in the National Portrait Gallery
¿Acaso la fotografía se puede resumir en marcas, cuerpos, lentes y flashes? puede que también se trate de un enfoque ¿no?, una perspectiva, un encuadre... esto ya va cuadrando más ¿no? ¿Podemos reducirlo todo a un botón; a ese disparo, a ese instante?
Pasa el tiempo y van surgiendo otros valores que a su vez se convierten en esenciales, al menos en mis intenciones, pues sin diálogo, empatía, curiosidad o conexión, de verdad que no le veo sentido a esto de la fotografía.
Un abrazo gigante a David y Maria. Gracias por elegirme; muero de ganas por pasar ese día tan especial junto a vosotros.
Free admission to the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Ends 26 May 2014.
www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/exhibitions/the-taylor-...
Vielleicht weiß jemand, wessen Wappen dieses an der Mauer des Innenhofes zu findende Wappen ist ...
Edit (20.7.2009): Es ist das ab 1495 verwendete Wappen der Württemberger. Ein ausführlicher Artikel von Bernhard Peter zur Entwicklung dieses Wappens findet sich hier und seine Erklärung zu diesem speziellen Wappen auf der Hohenneuffen hier.