The Photographers’ Gallery are exhibiting at Unseen, a new photography art fair in Amsterdam this week, including some prints from my Pierdom series. Unseen takes place from September 19 to 23 in Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek, a former gasworks site dating back to 1885.
I will be exhibiting Let This Be A Sign in the XI Edition: WORK of the International Festival of Rome. The festival is curated by Marco Delogu with Alessandro Dandini de Sylva.
My work will be in the exhibition – Camera Work, alongside that of Roger Ballen, Yto Barrada, Claire Chevrier, Raphaël Dallaporta, Joseph Koudelka, Chris Killip, Fosco Maraini, Nina Poppe, Lars Tunbjörk and Florian van Roekel.
Visit their Facebook page here and festival blog here for more details.
Here’s some general information about the theme:
The 2012 edition of FOTOGRAFIA – Rome International Photography Festival is on its way, with a project that confirms the event’s growing prestige and international scope, promoting contemporary photography in its various forms and languages and valorising up-and-coming talents with increasingly concrete attention to original works.
The theme of the 11th edition will be “work”, a keyword in the history of photography and recent years, reinterpreted with great attention to the differences and changes in the languages of photography and contemporary work. The Festival, in its new MACRO version, has thus chosen a classic theme of 20th-century documentary photography and revives it, with a return to the central role of man, taking up a challenge that involves new languages and new narratives in photography.
What remains of “20th-century” work? Its “vision”, which was often also mythological, full of physical exertion and large masses, has changed and in many cases endures alongside more sophisticated, often solitary, technological kinds of work that are frequently difficult to transform into visions. How do these old visions marry the new ones? What unites them? Perhaps some of the answers to these questions contain a global vision of the world and a vision of photography that we consider the most effective tool for the analysis of contemporary society and its languages.
The annual SiFest photography festival takes place this weekend in Savignano, Italy. I’ll be showing work in the group show ‘Sin_tesis: paesaggio, industria, società’, which also features photographs by Guido Guidi, Martin Parr, Andrew Phelps, Mark Steinmetz, Raimond Wouda and Marco Zanta.
The exhibition is a result of the Savignano Immagini photographic campaign (from 2009 to date). This collective exhibition is a kind of festival inside the festival: photographers like Mark Steinmetz from the USA, Andrew Phelps from Austria, Martin Parr and Simon Roberts from the UK, Raimond Wouda from Holland, Guido Guidi and Mark Zanta from Italy will be there. They have all been invited to measure themselves with the Savignano territory and to study its interactions and transformations between landscape, industry and society. The result is a very close study on the environmental and economic network that also reflects itself on national scale. The Sin_tesis catalogue will be presented in September with a Gerry Badger’s critical text.
The exhibition is curated by Stefania Rössl and Massimo Sordi.
For more information visit the Sifest website here and there’s an exhibition map here.
Don’t miss the next POC meeting in Vevey, Switzerland. This anniversary workshop is being held in parallel with the Images Festival.
All events will take place at Local d’Art Contemporain, 8 Ruelle des Anciens-Fossés, Vevey, Switzerland. POC.
Here is the public program of our Vevey meeting. Hope to see you all there…
Sept 8, 11:30, Welcome BBQ!
Sept 9. 11:30, Come and Share the Brunch with us!
Sept 9, 16:00 -18:00: Sofa discussions: Two photographers share their work and thoughts with each other and with the public. Today: Brian Ulrich with Charles Fréger, Seba Kurtis with Petros Efstathiadis
Sept 10, 10:00 -12:00: Public working sessions: POC members are sharing their personal and collective projects, concerns and challenges. Public welcome.
Sept 10, 16:00-18:00: Sofa discussions: Two photographers share their work and thoughts with each other and with the public. Today: Anita Witek with Charlott Markus, Simon Roberts with Andrew Phelps
Sept 11, 11:00-12:00: Public working sessions: POC members are sharing their personal and collective projects, concerns and challenges. Public welcome.
Sept 21, 19:00: “Pocktails” evening!
The participating POC photographers are:
Patricia Almeida
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
Bert Danckaert
Götz Diergarten
Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
Petros Efstathiadis
Charles Fréger
Marina Gadonneix
Peter Granser
Yann Gross
Matthias Koch
Seba Kurtis
Charlott Markus
Loan Nguyen
Andrew Phelps
Augustin Rebetez
Simon Roberts
Brian Ulrich
Anita Witek
Visit our facebook page with more details here.
Third Floor Gallery warmly invites you to a conversation between Ewen Spencer, Simon Roberts and David Hurn. These three leading documentary photographers have all had exhibitions at Third Floor. “Teenagers” by Ewen Spencer brought us to the streets of East London and its nascent grime scene. “We English” by Simon Roberts is a visual poem of the English at leisure. “Passing Time” by David Hurn brought us 55 years of photography, much of which revolved around Hurn’s return to Wales in the 1970’s.
Ewen Spencer has published extensively, including with The Face and “Open Mic”, which documents the mid-2000s East London grime scene in his very recognizable, personal style. He has also worked on major advertising commissions for the likes of Nike, Puma, T mobile and Sony, as well as the TV series “Skins”.
David Hurn has a rich and varied career and has published and exhibited widely. From documenting the Soviet invasion of Hungary, to creating the advertising photographs for James Bond and Barbarella, Hurn is one of the most renowned members of the Magnum agency. After returning to Wales, Hurn established the documentary photography course in Newport in the 1970’s, and finished his longlasting document of Wales: “Land of my Father”.
A set of prints from We English will on be on show as part of the 19th edition of the .
This year”s festival, called Terra Cognita, transcends photographic genres to sketch a picture of the relation between man and nature, on the basis of the
work of 115 photographers. Terra Cognita is about the experience of nature, in all its manifestations, from tactile, living and breathing nature, to the nature of our thoughts, its dreamed and fantastic incarnations. Although man sometimes seems to be hardly present in the photos, he has unmistakably left his stamp on it. In all this work the landscape reveals the emotions and thoughts that the photographer has projected on it. The diverse and complex ways in which we see and experience landscapes – the nature in our genes and our minds – echo through the breadth of Terra Cognita. From timeless black and white to conceptual or computer generated, the blending of genres is total. Like nature itself, this is an exhibition not just to be seen, but to be experienced.
You can watch a short trailer of the festival exhibition here and view the festival magazine .
The official opening of the main exhibition at Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, The Netherlands is on Saturday, September 1, 2012, 4 pm.
The World in London is an ambitious outdoor photography project for 2012 by The Photographers’ Gallery, showing London’s diversity and photography’s unique role in capturing the human form.
Over the past three years the gallery have commissioned acclaimed and emerging British and international photographers to take portraits of Londoners of all ages and from all walks of life. Each portrait is unique in its composition, setting and style.
Coinciding with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this project brings together 204 portraits of 204 Londoners, each originating from one of the competing nations. Mine depicts the Reverend David Haokip, Vicar of St George’s Parish Church in East Ham, and an exile from Burma (see above).
The World in London celebrates London as a place where individuals from all parts of the world live side by side, each of them contributing to make London the unique city it is.
All photographs will feature on the project’s website here, which includes background stories on each of the participating Londoners. You can listen to David talking about his life here.
You can see a photograph of David and I at the launch in Victoria Park this morning via Getty images here.
The prints will also be on show at Park House, 453 – 497 Oxford Street, London, W1: 27 July – 30 August 2012.
An exhibition of my series, Pierdom, at The Photographers’ Gallery, Print Room,
in London. More details here.
My touring exhibition of We English heads to Wales, opening this weekend at the Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff.
Opening night preview: Friday, 20 July, 7pm.
Prior to that we’ll be heading to Daniel Meadows’ exhibition ‘Early Photographic Works‘ at Ffotogallery.
Third Floor Gallery is an independent charitable gallery run by photographers Joni Karanka, Maciej Dakowicz, Bartosz Nowicki and a group of committed volunteers. Located in a period building a stone’s throw away from Cardiff’s bustling waterfront and the Millennium Centre, Third Floor Gallery shows the most exciting national and international contemporary photography.
Uncommon Ground is the title of Flowers Gallery’s summer show, curated by Chris Littlewood, and is an exploration of environmental interventions in contemporary photography.
“Inspired by the work of Keith Arnatt and Gabriel Orozco, this exhibition aims to obscure the intersection between photographs of observed reality and artistically altered reality. Here, environment is taken in its broadest sense: natural ecosystems, urban and suburban space, domestic interiors, industrial landscapes and even political arenas.
Work by the following artists will be on show- PETER AINSWORTH, EDWARD BURTYNSKY, CHRIS ENGMAN, ANDREA GALVANI, ANDY GOLDSWORTHY, SCARLETT HOOFT GRAAFLAND, NADAV KANDER, JASON LARKIN, ALASTAIR LEVY, JAEHYO LEE, TOM LOVELACE, JOHN MACLEAN, ROBERT POLIDORI, SIMON ROBERTS, AARON SCHUMAN and DAVID SPERO.
More information available to download here.
Image above Higgs Ocean #12, 2010 © Andrea Galvani