The Trace @ HKD Marine Studios, MargatePhotoFest - installation shots

Kate Elliott - The Siblings, and The Outing
from the series Time stands still when I think of you

Kate Elliott - The Siblings
from the series Time stands still when I think of you

Kate Elliott - The Outing
from the series Time stands still when I think of you

Kate Elliott - The Dance, and The Girl and The Boy (documentation)
from the series Time stands still when I think of you

Kate Elliott - The Girl and The Boy (documentation)
from the series Time stands still when I think of you

Samantha Cawson - The Souvenir Museum

Genevieve Rudd - 64 Althaea Green

David Blackmore - from Disposable series

The view from HKD Marine Studios by day

The view from HKD Marine Studios by sunset

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The Girl and The Boy

At 6am on 12th August two series of images, The Girl and The Boy, were posted onto two disused Hackney notice boards about half a mile apart from one another. They show two narratives, separate from one another yet intertwined. Children at play, absorbed in their own world of dreams and fantasy.

The Girl from the project Time stands still when I think of you

The Girl at Hackney Downs Junction


The Boy from the project Time stands still when I think of you

The Boy on Cecilia Road, Dalston

On the afternoon of 12th August these two narratives came together in the seaside town of Margate, to form The Siblings. Displayed as three diptychs the relationship between the girl and the boy changes, familial connections forming, and the act of child play overlapping.

Installation photos to follow.

Exhibition: The Trace @ MargatePhotoFest

The Boy and The Girl from the project Time stands still when I think of you

The Trace

MargatePhotoFest
13 - 14 August

www.margatephotofest.co.uk

Across eight unique venues, from an old substation to a gallery at the end of Margate pier, an international array of established and emerging artists will exhibit their responses to the theme ‘organic’.

The line-up includes:

Martin Parr: 12 photographs by the celebrated photographer Martin Parr.

Heather Barnett: expanding on the artist’s recent “Physarum Experiments” the interactive installation will get the audience to draw using ‘slime food’. A camera will record as the slime mould, a micro-organism, grows along ‘slime food’ paths with its progress over the weekend being made into a short video for the MPF website.

Ed Thompson: Shortlisted for the recent Magnum Photographic Prize, Thompson will be exhibiting ‘Transition Town’. The work explores how a community-led charity is having significant effects on how the town of Totnes is being run.



A Space Between: Curated by Sepake Angiama and Loren Hansi Momodu the series of images will explore changes in photography in reference to Margate’s own state of transition.

The Trace: This show aims to broaden the definition of what constitutes art photography. The space includes works by David Blackmore, who records the burial of a disposable camera with the aim of one day retrieving it and Kate Elliott who will present a project derived from a family archive that was discovered in a skip in Belsize Park.


Peter Kennard: Following the recent publication of @Earth (Tate Publishing) the artist will exhibit a new installation consisting of books hanging from the ceiling and a large scale projection to explore the value of the political artist within photography.


Wandering Bears: The exhibition will be composed of ‘everyday’ snapshots. Wandering Bears eloquently demonstrate how to mount a photography exhibition using everyday snapshots which were emailed to them through an ‘open submission’ selection process.

Various Points: The photobook is now seen by many as an art form in itself. Various Points will be curating an exhibition of books composed from entries to the Margate Photofest 2 Photobook Competition alongside Various Points publications. 



Broad Vision: The project brings together researchers from various different disciplines: The Photographic Arts, Imaging Science, Illustration, Computer Science, Psychology and Biomedical Sciences, to explore and interpret microscopic worlds.

Future Youth Project (FYP): Work will be shown from the charity’s recent trip to visit orphanages in the Ukraine. The mini-bus they took to the Ukraine will be converted into a gallery in order to display the images.

PLUS

Talks by Lomography expert Kevin Meredith, browsing and purchase stands from Hotshoe and Photoworks magazines and more.

Exhibition and Charity Auction: For Japan

HotShoe Gallery
29-31 Saffron Hill
London EC1N 8SW

Exhibition 2 - 5 August 12pm - 5pm
Auction Friday 5 August 6pm - 8pm

Architecture for Humanity London and Hotshoe Gallery are hosting a charity print auction of photographs to raise funds for the long term reconstruction of the tsunami devastated north east region of Japan. The photographs were submitted through an open call. The brief was to evoke and celebrate Japanese culture. The response was overwhelming with entries from both established and emerging photographers from all over the world, 100 photographs were selected. They will be on show from 2^nd August and will go up for auction on 5^th August at Hotshoe Gallery between 6pm-8pm. All the photographs are Lamda C-type prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper. They all come framed and are 30×40cm . The starting donation is £50.

There will be a chance to bid on the pictures during the course of the exhibition so some may fetch a higher end price. The proceeds will go directly to the Architecture for Humanity project office in Sendai.

Architecture for Humanity, a non profit organisation which offers building and design support in response to humanitarian and emergency needs, is working on the ground in Sendai on a number of projects including an orphanage, an art and music therapy centre, an ‘urban acupuncture’ initiative to help get small businesses back on their feet to kick start economic recovery on a local level, a small scale fishing village reconstruction (rebuilding along the coastline is not included in the Japanese government’s 10 year plan). The operation is being headed by a team of top Japanese architects and overseen by the charity’s founder, Cameron Sinclair. www.architecureforhumanity.org.

Contributing Photographers Include:

Alekh Ajayaghosh, Maxwell Anderson, Rumi Ando, Guy Archard, Jake Baggaley, Jamie Box, Rachel Brown, Jake Burge, Douglas Capron, James Carney, Akos Czigany, Kate Elliott, Meighan Ellis, Niccolò Fano, Lisa Fleming, Ryo Fujimoto, Clare Gallagher, Shinsuke Kiryu, Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, Yuri Gomi, Brian Griffin, Sunil Gupta, Tom Hartford, Fiona Harvey, Kelly Hill, Thom Hudson, Tom Hunter, Barry W Hughes, Marcin Jary, James O Jenkins, Maria Kapajeva, Heidi Kayla, Fujimi Kawase, Dong Yoon Kim, Yuki Kishino, Shiho Kito, Karen Knorr, Bashi Kolibarova, Koichi Kuroda, Marten Lange, John Maclean, William Mackrell, Masayo Matsuda, Nektarios Markogiannis, Peter McDonnell, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Kanji Mizutani, Sara Naim, David Nix, Laura Noel, Jenny Nordquist, Yuji Obata, Eye Ohashi, Ale, Pavlou, Marian Alanso Perez, Peter Puklus, Wendy Pye, Bruno Quinquet, Pedro Ramos, Andras Ridovics, Stephen Roe, Christina Saez, Micah Sarut, Yann Sivault, Candice Shavalia, Evsen Sobek, Rachel Stanley, Go Takayama, Aruha Yamaoka , Keita Yasukawa, Rasmus Vasli, Donald Weber