Don McCullin - The Photographers' Gallery

Here are some pictures taken during a conversation between photojournalist Don McCullin and curator and art historian Colin Ford at The Photographers' Gallery earlier this week. Click here to listen to the talk online.

 

Don McCullin and Colin Ford at The Photographers' Gallery, 2013

In an attempt to procrastinate from starting my tax return, I have been sifting through some of my old photos. I came across this series, taken during the time my sister's first child, and my niece - Anna - was born.

Anna is now eight and a half years old, and she has been joined by a younger brother and sister - Tommy and Isla (making me a very happy aunty three times over!) 

Pictures of pictures

I was recently commissioned to take images of Whitecross Street Market for use in a new UBS office building on Golden Lane.

Once the building was ready and people had started moving in, I was asked back to photograph the different spaces. Below are two images of the canteen area in which a couple of my market photographs are being used. 

Season's Greetings

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 

Here's to a fabulous 2013 full of opportunities and happiness

New Blog - Time stands still when I think of you

After more than two years of working on the public art project Time stands still when I think of you, I have finally collated all of the documentation to date into a new blog page - click here to check it out.

The Arts Club, Winter Exhibition

Here are a few photos I took at the Arts Club, Dover Street, when they asked me back to photograph their latest installation. 

The opening of Media Space has been announced

A couple of weeks ago I was commissioned by the Science Museum in London to take some photos of the new Media Space - a collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum in Bradford - scheduled to open in June 2013.

For further information and to read some of the recent press, click on the articles below.

 The Telegraph, Friday 2 November 2012

The Guardian, Friday 2 November 2012

British Journal of Photography, November 2012

Amateur Photographer, November 2012

Exhibition: A Chain of Wooded Mountains

On Thursday 1 November the KEEM exhibition A Chain of Wooded Mountains opened at Long White Cloud Gallery as part of Photomonth 2012.  The exhibition continues until 12 November.

photo © Stephanie Bosset

Press Release: 

Last October KEEM travelled to the Balkans, taking 3 cameras and shooting 1237 photographs in 10 days. What happens when two people take the same trip, see the same things, and hold the same cameras? When does the memory of physically taking a photograph merge into the memory of the image produced? Through the amalgamation of two individuals' memories, boundaries start to blur, and lines start to cross over. 

 

There are common themes that run throughout the images, bringing elements of the individual practice of each of the KEEM artists to the forefront: the body, people in the landscape, architecture, the presence of two individuals, an intimate relationship.

Both members of KEEM have made a personal edit of 80 images from the original 1237 photographs. Here, they have selected a series of diptychs previously undisclosed to each other. The act of editing has taken on the same importance as the initial act of taking the photographs - opening up the first chance for conversation, comparison and influence.

Long White Cloud Gallery 151 Hackney Road, London, E2 8JL

Exhibition dates: 1 November – 12 November

This is a KEEM project - click here for more information

The Landscape at WW Patio Projects

Installing The Landscape at WW Patio Projects

WWPatio Projects 30 Queensdown Road, E5 8NN

Private View: 2 August 6.00 – 9.00

Exhibition dates: 2 August – 2 September, open 24/7

Open 24/7 - Patio Projects Public Art Programme (Site-specific public art - outdoor space only
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The Landscape is a site-specific photo installation, forming part of the on-going public art project Time stands still when I think of you. The project derives from an archive of over 100 found family photos, the earliest of which dates from the turn of the nineteenth century.

Whilst previous installations from the project have focused on specific events or familial relationships, for Patio Projects #10 the wall of the patio space is transformed into a photographic montage of landscapes. The relationship between the environments depicted in the photographs, and how they intercept with the urban landscape of Hackney Downs, is central to the piece, the proximity of one affecting the reading of the other.

For more details and to see a full documentation of this project to date please click here.

The World in London - installation shots

Installation shots of The World in London at Victoria Park. 

Last year I was commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery to take a portrait for The World in London - a large-scale, public art project which set out to bring together 204 portraits of 204 Londoners, each originating from a different nation that will be competing at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Click here to see my portrait of Tigana Wesa Sari from Indonesia, and to hear her story.

The portraits are exhibited as large-scale posters at the following two sites across London:

Victoria Park, London E3: 27 July - 12 August 2012

Enter by Crown Gate East, walk in a north easterly direction down Central Drive towards the bandstand and monument- the exhibition is on the hoardings around the Live Nation Site.
Park House, 453 - 497 Oxford Street, London, W1: 27 July - 30 August 2012

Opposite Selfridges

There is a dedicated project website, with further information at -  www.theworldinlondon.org.uk