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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

28 May  -  3 October 2010

From Tate Modern website: "Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects. 

Beginning with the idea of the 'unseen photographer', Exposed presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers including Brassaï's erotic Secret Paris of the 1930s images; Weegee's iconic photograph of Marilyn Monroe; and Nick Ut's reportage image of children escaping napalm attacks in the Vietnam War. Sex and celebrity is an important part of the exhibition, presenting photographs of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Paris Hilton on her way to prison and the assassination of JFK. Other renowned photographers represented in the show include Guy Bourdin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Lee Miller, Helmut Newton and Man Ray. 

The UK is now the most surveyed country in the world. We have an obsession with voyeurism, privacy laws, freedom of media, and surveillance - images captured and relayed on camera phones, YouTube or reality TV. Much of Exposed focuses on surveillance, including works by both amateur and press photographers, and images produced using automatic technology such as CCTV. The issues raised are particularly relevant in the current climate, with topical debates raging around the rights and desires of individuals, terrorism and the increasing availability and use of surveillance. Exposed confronts these issues and their implications head-on."

Thomas Demand, Camera 2007

© Thomas Demand

Garry Winogrand's New York (Couple Kissing, Girl Staring at Camera, Tortilla Factory), 1969.

Shizuka Yokomizo's Stranger No 2, 1999

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"Futurising is a one-stop shop of opportunities, advice and information for all future and current creative graduates from all universities across the UK. The first opportunities and recruitment festival specifically tailored to the needs of creative graduates will take place at the Nicholls & Clarke Building, Shoreditch High Street, London on 29th-30th June 2010. Whether you are seeking your first step on the ladder, already in work and want more options, or an employer wanting to connect with the cream of the young creative world, Futurising is the place to be."



Futurising: The full story - read interview with Marice Cumber, Director and Creator of Futurising.

The Free Range graduate art & design show takes place every June and July at the Old Truman Brewery.  The show provides the best platform for graduate art and design students to showcase their work to both public and industry. Free Range is a one stop shop featuring more than 100 university courses from across the UK providing visitors with a unique opportunity to meet the hottest new creative talent all under one roof. Shows rotate weekly over the 8 week season and are curated by disciplines including design, graphics, photography, art and interiors.

For more information and full listings of events and directions to the Old Truman Brewery, visit www.free-range.org.uk.

Wolfgang Tillmans forthcoming exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London will focus on both the figurative and the abstract in Tillmans' work, and embrace a broad range of subjects; from unconventional eloquent portraits, to large-scale, colour-saturated abstractions that capture the beauty of photography's chemical processes. 26^th June - 29 August 2010

Wolfgang Tillmans
Wald (Briol I), 2008

Richard Hamilton, London
 This survey at the Serpentine Gallery, W2, focuses on the octogenarian's stridently politicised side, showcasing works that mix righteous ire, piercing insight and media savvy. Included is the tabloids' favourite, his digitally manipulated image of Tony Blair dressed as a cowboy. Until 25 April 2010 (from the Guardian).

Full length portrait of Tony Blair dressed as a cowboy with his hands on his pistols, Shock and Awe (2007-8).

Format Photography Agency 1983-2003

A display at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Room 38a), celebrating the work of Britain's unique all women photo agency from 21^st January to 11^th July 2010

Thomas Ruff:  Zycles and Cassini

David Zwirner Gallery

11 February through to 13 March, 2010

Press Release.pdf

Karen Grainger's latest exhibition Re: Landscape is  currently on show at the Viewfinder Gallery, Greenwich, London. 

A Positive View 2010 

Exhibition. Somerset House, London 10^th March - 5^th April 2010

Royal Patron:  Prince William

"2010 will see one of the most important and unique photographic exhibtions of international works ever to take place in London.  The third exhibition of this fully curated museum-scale exhibition is to be held at Somerset House, London from 10^th March to 5^th April 2010.  A Positive View will bring together more than 100 rare and signed vintage works across almost a century of photography.  Classic and Contemporary works will cross a variety of genres, from still life, fashion, landscape, portraiture and reportage"

See website for List of Photographers and Artists. More info at Creative Review Blog

Elliott Erwitt, Wyoming Steam Train Press, 1954

Image by Jason Evans

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh @ Whitechapel Gallery, 21 January 2010 - 11 April 2010

Major exhibition Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives 

The Wellcome Collection

26 November 2009-6 April 2010

What influences or determines our sense of who we are? What makes one person distinct from another? How does science inform human identity? This major exhibition explores the tension between the way we view ourselves and how others see us.

Jim Golberg | Open See | The Photographers Gallery | 16 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

Via the Guardian:  Exhibition Review  and Best Shot

NH Harsha:  Nations
Chen Chieh - Jen:  Factory
18 September - 21 November 2009

NH Harsha: Detail shot of Nations installation

 
Chen Chien-Jen:  Film Still from Factory

Iniva presents a grand scale installation by NH Harsha and a haunting film by Chen Chieh-Jen at Rivington Place, London exploring the issues of migrant labour and globalisation.

192 sewing machines in NH Harsha's Nations refer to the United Nations combining serious discussion with visual wit.  Factory by Chen Chieh-Jen is a silent  but emotive film focusing on a garmet factory in Taiwan post the manufacturing  boom in the 1960's.

In addition, current In Research Events at the Iniva include:

A screening by Joy Gregory:  Tuesday 20th October at 6.30 pm
A screening by Ingrid Pollard: Tuesday  3rd  November at 6.30 pm 
Promised Lands.   A performance by Flow Motion:  Thursday 12th November at 6.30 pm

Full details at Iniva

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Taylor Wessing Portrait Award 2009 at the National Portrait Gallery

5^th November 2009 - 14 February 2010

Shortlist here.  Winner to be announced on 3rd November 2009.

Female Boxer No.3 by Inzajeano Latif, 2009 © the artist

Roger Ballen at Hamiltons | October 17, 2009 to November 9, 2009

Elina Brotherus at Wapping Project Bankside | October 17, 2009 to November 14, 2009

'Strange Places', Urban Landscape Photography at Stanley Picker Gallery | October 17, 2009 to November 21, 2009

Shake It: An Instant History to the Polaroid at the Pump House Gallery | October 17, 2009 to December 13, 2009

16 October 2009 - 3 January 2010 at Whitechapel Gallery, London

Moving Walls 16  features the following six bodies of work: 

Stefano De Luigi: "Liberia's Child Soldiers: Recovering Innocence"
Benjamin Lowy: "Iraq | Perspectives"
Eugene Richards: "War Is Personal"
Tomas van Houtryve: "Nepal: A 'People's War' Topples the God King"
Paolo Woods: "Chinafrica"
Zalmaï: "Promises and Lies: The Human Cost of the War on Terror in Afghanistan"

Van Leo - Sherihan actrice égyptienne - Le Caire, Egypte, 1976
Collection Fondation Arabe pour l'Image
© Fondation Arabe pour l'Image

From November 19 to 22, 2009 Paris Photo, one of the world's leading photography fairs, will bring together 101 exhibitors from 23 countries.  

According to their promotional material:  "Paris Photo will present a panoramic overview of worldwide photographic expression, spanning the 19th century to the present day while also unveiling an emerging international scene.

For its 13th edition, Paris Photo turns the spotlight on photographic work from the Arab countries and Iran in what is an unprecedented exploration of the practice in this part of the world. 

Curated by Catherine David who was responsible for Documenta X in Kassel in 1997 as well as numerous exhibitions and publications on Middle Eastern artistic expression, this year's project will be based on three components.

The Central Exhibition will unveil a selection of rare studio photographs from the archives of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut; the Statement section will present a number of emerging talents from the region - from Tehran to Damascus, Beirut to Cairo, Tangiers to Dubai... The Project Room will offer a series of video works, testimony to the growing interest for the dynamics of this medium among the artists of the region."

Now in its sixth year, the BMW Paris Photo Prize, worth 12 000 euro, will offer a glimpse of current trends in international photography while rewarding the work of a promising artist. The theme for 2009 is "When was the last time you experienced something for the first time?"