Kate Elliott

2012-02-04T08:01:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to go up in a crane for a shoot I was doing of a construction site. I didn't realise this would involve actually hanging from the crane, in a very tiny box. Well, I survived it (and with hindsight I can say I even slightly enjoyed it). Above are just a few pictures from when I was up there including one, before I went up, of the aforementioned 'box'...

BJP - The Photographers' Gallery

2012-02-04T07:44:00.000-08:00

I have been photographing the refurbishment of the The Photographers' Gallery for the past 18 months. The re-opening of the Gallery has just been announced as 19 May this year.

Check out BJP's latest article, including one of my images...

Season's Greetings

2011-12-23T05:10:00.000-08:00

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HERE'S TO 2012!

The Girl and The Boy - November update

2011-11-21T05:10:00.000-08:00

The Grass has been cut, the trees are losing their leaves, the bike has lost its saddle, but after just over 3 months, The Girl at Hackney Downs Junction and The Boy on Cecilia Road, Dalston, remain untouched.

For more information about this project please click here

The Photographers' Gallery transformation...

2011-11-17T03:22:00.000-08:00

The Photographers' Gallery Sep 2010 - Nov 2011

I have been documenting the transformation of The Photographers' Gallery on Ramillies Street, London, since Autumn last year when the building work started.

The above images were taken from the roof of one of the buildings opposite. I have also spent a fair bit of time taking photos on site, hi-vis jacket, hard hat and all. Here are just a few of them...

You can see more images of the changing building on The Photographers' Gallery Flickr page or website.

Luna and Curious

2011-11-08T02:06:00.000-08:00

Here are a few photos from a recent shoot I did at Luna and Curious's new shop, at the Sanderson Hotel.

For more information click here.

The Dancing Boat

2011-10-25T10:22:00.001-07:00

I record videos when I want a photo to last a little bit longer.

REDDRESS, London Design Festival

2011-09-25T10:12:00.001-07:00

A few pictures from the opening of REDDRESS at York Hall, Bethnal Green, as part of London Design Festival.

For more info about REDDRESS click here
For Dezeen Magazine review and more photos click here

The City

2011-09-15T08:20:00.000-07:00

A view over Liverpool Street station and the city from a recent rooftop shoot I did. It made my toes curl...

The Trace @ HKD Marine Studios, MargatePhotoFest - installation shots

2011-08-23T12:48:00.000-07:00

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

For further details about the exhibition and festival please click here

The Girl and The Boy

2011-08-13T08:38:00.000-07:00

At 6am on 12th March 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 March 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

2011-08-10T05:35:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-01T08:50:00.000-07:00

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

Edge of Extinction - installation shots

2011-06-21T06:13:00.001-07:00

(left to right) Ryuji Araki, Kate Elliott, Matsuda Masayo

Bea Haut, (background) Tania Dolver

(left to right) Pascal Ancel Bartholdi, Patrycja Basinska, Jessica Mallock

(left to right) Ryuji Araki, Kate Elliott, Matsuda Masayo

(left to right) Lee Milne, Jessica Mallock, Ryuji Araki, Kate Elliott, Matsuda Masayo

(left to right) Tania Dolver, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Jessica Mallock, Lee Milne

(left to right) Ryuji Araki, Kate Elliott, Jessica Mallock, Pascal Ancel Bartholdi

Exhibition continues until 26 June 6pm at Lo & Behold Gallery , 2b Swanfield Street,  London, E2 7DS 

EXHIBITION: Edge of Extinction

2011-06-13T11:58:00.000-07:00

Edge of Extinction 
16.06.11 - 26.06.11 
Lo & Behold Gallery 
2b Swanfield Street
 London E2 7DS  

Opening event: Thursday 16 June 6.00 - 9.00pm

  The exhibition continues until 26 June

Lo & Behold, is pleased to present a new show, Edge of Extinction, curated by Pascal Ancel Bartholdi.

A wide range of techniques - analogue photography, sculpture, film, video, pictorial manipulation and digital photography - in genres as diverse as art, documentary, portraiture, conceptual, and still life, either challenge or enhance ‘the raison d’ être’ (the justified survival) of the black and white image.

How does a black and white perspective change our view of actuality, or beauty? Where does the monochromatic medium fit into our contemporary visual regime? Do we use the Black and White mode of representation to keep a world on the edge of extinction alive? A world we refer to as the past, associated with nostalgia, poetry, beauty and emotion? Can this filter enhance our vision of the world or does it falsify it? From a socio-political view point, can the monochrome foundation of visual comprehension become a metaphor for the unification of cultures and races across the nations?

This show focuses on the relationship between contemporary mechanical and digital practice and a mode of seeing that is still regarded as ambiguous, belonging to the past yet ubiquitous to the present. A paradoxical language in a constant state of transformation.

Exhibiting artists: Pascal Ancel Bartholdi, Ryuji Araki, Patrycja Basinska, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Tania Dolver, Kate Elliott, Bea Haut, Jessica Mallock, Matsuda Masayo, Lee Milne

The Seagull

2011-06-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

Sorting through some of my old photos I came across this one, taken one weekend a few years ago. An early Summer's day trip to the English seaside, it still evokes the same feelings in me...

The Dance in Dalston is no more

2011-05-25T07:05:00.000-07:00

23rd May 2011

The Dance in Dalston has been removed in its entirety.

Volume Magazine - Photographer of the Week

2011-05-18T17:30:00.000-07:00

I have just been contacted by Volume Magazine who saw my work online and consequently selected me as Photographer of the Week. Random but very nice.

Old New Borrowed Blue

2011-05-07T18:09:00.000-07:00

I took these photographs last month at two different care homes across East London, where the charity Magic Me run monthly cocktail nights for the residents.

The focus of these two particular evenings was to introduce the residents to the project Old New Borrowed Blue - a public gallery of wedding photographs through the ages - in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery and Magic Me.

Residents were encouraged to bring along photographs from their wedding days, which they could then talk about with a group of volunteers. We gathered stories and anecdotes, I scanned the photos, and then became the start of the public gallery...

Dancing The Dance

2011-04-18T06:39:00.000-07:00

A film made to document the posting of The Dance onto a disused billboard site in Dalston, on 8th March 2011.

Many thanks to Emma McGarry for filming and editing, and Elisa Noguera and Bara Safarova for their help on the night.

Silent Spaces

2011-04-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

A selection of images from the ongoing series Silent Spaces

The Dance

2011-03-25T10:15:00.000-07:00

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

The Dance was first shown in September 2010, at Gingerline, a pop-up restaurant and art space. Printed and framed (24”x30”), the image was propped up in an alcove of a converted Victorian shop, and was accompanied by a selected 1950s soundtrack. Guests were invited to sit down on a small stool to view the image, whilst listening to the music through headphones.

I was interested in creating an intimate space between the viewer and the people in the image, and I wanted to bring to life the sense of celebration captured in the original photograph. In the viewer's presence and mind the people in the image were able to dance again, for the first time since the photograph was taken, approximately 60 years earlier.

I am interested in the way the context of an image affects its meaning, and how each time it is shown or reproduced the new context alters people’s reading of it.

On 8th March 2011 The Dance was posted onto a disused billboard site in Dalston, London. Situated on the corner of Shacklewell Lane and Seal Street, and measuring 2.5 m x 1.5 m, it can now be seen by people walking and driving past. In terms of time, place, and society, the scene depicted in the image contrasts dramatically with the urban context that surrounds it, allowing the image to multiply itself by creating different references and meanings.

The image will remain on public display indefinitely, until defaced by others, or eroded by the elements.

Before

During

After

The Outing

2011-03-03T13:42:00.000-08:00

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

After scanning the original a5-sized photograph (dated circa 1905), I first showed The Outing at Gingerline, a pop-up restaurant and art space, in September 2010. It was displayed as a 3m x 2m digital projection. Visible through the windows of a Victorian shop front in Crystal Palace, the shadows and movement of the people and traffic outside produced a rippling effect on the glassy surface of the water in the photograph.

Time stands still when I think of you

2011-03-03T13:40:00.000-08:00

This project derives from an archive of over 100 family photos, the earliest of which dates from the turn of the nineteenth century. They had been discarded in a skip in Belsize Park, North London, where they were discovered by Shar Camilleri early last year.

It is a project about time. I am less concerned with the individual story behind each of the images, but more with a generic identity, that can be explored and extended according to the different experiences of everyone who sees them.

Drawing on universal feelings of loss, nostalgia, melancholy and hope, I take these photographs from their original and unknown context in the hope of creating new personal narratives, individual to each image.

While we are all connected by our personal memories, as well as by our ability to dream, we also crave a sense of belonging, and are pre-occupied with a continual and possibly never-ending search for identity in and through the lives of others.

For Today I am a Boy

2011-02-11T06:16:00.000-08:00

A selection of images from the series For Today I am a Boy (2008 - 2009). By asking my subjects to draw on their masculine and androgynous qualities (whether they be physical, emotional or psychological) I aim to break down gender stereotypes and highlight the unique sense of gender identity intrinsic to every one of us. It was during the period of making this work that I started exploring the historical portrayal of femininity and masculinity within portraiture, and the relationship this has to painting and photography. My later series A Modern Bohemian - which can be viewed on my website - grew out of this.

Gypsy Horse Fair Portraits

2011-02-10T07:30:00.001-08:00

Taking a portable studio to a Gypsy Horse Fair I invited people in to have their photograph taken. I'm interested in exploring self-representation and identity within the gypsy and traveller communities, in particular the rigid separation of gender roles amongst the younger generations.

Let me be your Mirror

2011-02-09T09:16:00.000-08:00

An ongoing series of portraits in which I explore the diversity within the trans community.