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.
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.
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.
My print ‘Leeds City Council, 23rd February 2011’ from Star Chambers nestled between work by David Spero and Andy Goldsworthy in the Uncommon Ground exhibition at Flowers Gallery. On show until 1 September.
I had the great pleasure of attending the opening of Daniel Meadows’ show Early Photographic Works at Ffotogallery last night. It was also his retirement party from Cardiff University where he taught digital storytelling. A photographic form he has very much pioneered over the past decade.
The photograph above shows him discussing one of the characters in his most well known digital stories, that of Florence Alma Snoad (seen stood next to Daniel and below in 1973 when she was photographed for Daniel’s Free Photographic Omnibus project). You can watch Daniel’s film about Florence here.
And here are a couple of photographs from his Ffotogallery exhibition, which is on show until 8 September.
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.
Some features and articles written about Let This Be A Sign exhibition:
An interview with Diane Smyth in the current issue of BJP (June 2012), which you can download here.
A feature in the current issue of Boat Magazine (June 2012), which you can download here.
Interview/slideshow on BBC News online (24 May 2012) here.
Interview/slideshow on The Telegraph’s website (29 May 2012) here.
Featured in the Aperture/In Focus section of Wired magazine (28 May 2012) here.
A shout-out in Time Out, London (29 May 2012) here.
An interview in Northwest Magazine (22 May 2012) here.
Feature in the Ham & High newspaper (10 May 2012), here.
Sue Steward gives 4 Stars in her review of the London Festival of Photography/ Let This Be A Sign exhibition in the Evening Standard (01 June 2012), here.
You can read an article about the festival on ArtLyst by Portia Pettersen (26 May 2012) here and a review by Kerim Aytac (06 June 2012) here.
MC2 Gallery will be showing framed prints from We English and Pierdom at the upcoming Milan Image Art Fair, which runs from 4-6th May.
My print ‘South Downs Way, West Sussex, 2007’ from We English (above) has been chosen as a finalist for the BNL – BNP Paribas Group Award, the winner of which will be announced during the Fair.
