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

Edge of Extinction - installation shots

(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

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

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

23rd May 2011

The Dance in Dalston has been removed in its entirety.

Volume Magazine - Photographer of the Week

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

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

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

A selection of images from the ongoing series Silent Spaces