Five photographers have been shortlisted in this
year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, run by the National Portrait
Gallery. They are Jasper Clarke, David Knight, Dona Schwartz, Jooney Woodward
and Jill Wooster. The exhibition will run at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 November 2011 - 12 February 2012. For more info visit www.npg.co.uk.
Jasper Clarke, Wen 2011
Jooney Woodward, Harriet and Gentleman Jack.
Jill Wooster, Of Lili
]]>David Maisel:
History's Shadow
Hayward Gallery, London 18 May - 29
August 2011
Book launch: In the Shadow Of Things by Léonie Hampton
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 18.30 - 22.30pm @ 22
Micawber Street, London, N1 7TS
About the book: For over a decade, Léonie's mother Bron found
it impossible to empty the packing boxes which had filled her new home since
the collapse of her first marriage. The boxes, along with stuffed plastic bags
and accumulated artefacts from her former life, were a constant, physical reminder
to her family of Bron's long-running battle with OCD and depression. In 2007, a
deal was struck: Léonie would help Bron empty the house on the condition that
she be allowed to document that process. For the book launch event, Léonie and
her mother Bron will transform an abandoned warehouse creating an installation
of objects that they found and sorted during the making of the book. There will
also be a screening of a slideshow of the work, originally made for Foam Museum
Amsterdam.
"Présences"
by Floriane deLassee
now showing at Galerie Philippe Chaume in Paris, 8 April 2011 to 4th June 2011
Visit the artist's website and Vimeo to see more.
HOST Exhibition
7th April - 7 May 2011
Picturing the Penitentiary: A Panel Discussion
13 April 2011, 19:00
Robert Gumpert
Ed Clark
Erwin James
Foto8 Summer Show 2011
Photographic Exhibition, Award and Print Fair open to all photographers
8 July - 12 August 2011
HOST Gallery
Entries now being accepted for the 2011 Summer Show!
Details here and here: ss11_callforentries-2.pdf
With Orr, Timo Klos let the exposure time extend for as long as the moment lasted. The result is paradoxical; the longer he wants to keep a moment, the more information is lost. Too beautiful!
See full series here:
"Dinner, 1 hour" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
"Sexy Sex, 20 minutes" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
"Sleeping, 9 hours" from Timo Klos's Orr Series
Artist's statement: The series was created during what may have been the last 10 days with my girlfriend. I took my photo camera in order to capture our last time together and I exposed every moment as long as it lasted. Her name "Orr" means "Light". |
Continuing with the subject of Gender and Identity - take a look at this series of work by South African photographer Zanele Muholi. Zanele Muholi's work represents the black female body in a frank yet intimate way that challenges the history of the portrayal of black women's bodies in documentary photography. Notable work =
Vinyl record grooves shot under an electron
microscope taken by Chris Supranowitz who is a researcher based at the
Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. Here is a shot of a number of record grooves (the
dark bits are the top of the grooves, i.e. the uncut vinyl):
The grooves magnified 500x - the little bumps are dust on the record:
And here's a single groove even closer still,
magnified 1000 times:
(via Pete Brook)
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