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SoShowMe

Daniela Bowker — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:11:07 +0000

The wonder that is the intergoogles allows everyone to exhibit their photos, whether it is on a Flickr stream, or on FaceBook, or on something like Shotblox. But it’s a bit different to seeing your photos made big and hanging on a gallery wall. However, for a handful of people who usually post their pictures on Flickr and FaceBook, they had the opportunity to see their work made big and hanging on a gallery wall last night.

London gallery theprintspace ran competitions over the course of a year, offering the opportunity for people to submit up to three photos a month to its FaceBook or Flickr groups. Each month the theme of the photos would change, and so would the professional photographer who selected the winners. The result is an intriguing mix of images.

There’s everything from beguiling landscapes to candid portraits through arresting still lifes. The only link between the images is how they were drawn together—by using social media—which means that there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

I’d recommend heading over to Shoreditch for an hour to have a wander. It’s free!

SoShowMe runs from 3 to 15 September, 09:00 to 19:00, at theprintspace, 74 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DL.

Picture by Astrid Harrisson.

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Blacked Out

Daniela Bowker — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:46:57 +0000

As part of my terribly glamorous lifestyle, which yesterday included writing a story-telling workshop for a theatre company and doing my laundry, I also attended the opening of the Blacked Out exhibition, held in an old railway arch in south London.

The exhibition features the work of eight artists, all of whom explore the interplay of light in a blacked out, urban space. There’s everything from a mirrored tunnel to an installation that uses glow-sticks. But it was of course the photographs that grabbed my attention the most. Okay, no, it was the glow-sticks. I admit it. How could I resist a neon Minnie Mouse hairband?

Convulsion Compulsion, by Sally Butcher

However, I was drawn to Sally Butcher’s beautiful photographic prints that layered delicately lit different aspects of the female body. Their subtlety was almost unnerving, but I found myself captivated by their strange contrast of tension and ethereality. And this contrast was taken up a few notches by the prints being in black and white, and the strange lighting of the venue.

If you’re in or around London, and the London Bridge area in particular, it’s worth an hour of your time. (And not just to play with the glow-sticks.)

Blacked Out runs from 21 to 28 August, 13:00 to 18:30, at Arch 897, Holyrood Street, London, SE1 2EL.

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Phantastical Photography at the Obscura Gallery

Daniela Bowker — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:17:14 +0000

For anyone in, around, or heading to Melbourne over the coming month, you should check out the Phantastical Photography exhibition at the Obscura Gallery in St Kilda.

The exhibition features the imaginative work of three photographers: Vivien Racault, Keren Dobia, and Michael Ross. Racault’s series of pictures, Mysteries, explores the idea of the unknown. Dobia has created a collection of photographs that recreate children’s fairytales in an adult setting, whilst Ross’ ten pictures, 10,000 Miles of Dreaming, is a dreamscape featuring Melbourne, Cambodia, and New York City, some 10,000 miles apart.

Sounds pretty fantastic to me!

Phantastical Photography opens on Sunday 11 July at 16:00, and runs until Thursday 5 August 2010 at the Obscura Gallery, Beller House Suite 11, 285 Carlisle Street, St Kilda, Victoria 3183. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 12 noon to 18:00.

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Katie Cooke: Balancing Act

Daniela Bowker — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:48:31 +0000

For those of you who are fans of Katie Cooke’s pinhole photography you’ll be pleased to know that she has a new exhibition opening in Edinburgh on 3 July 2010. If you’re not familiar with Katie’s work, you should probably check her out.

Balancing Act is a series of seventeen silver prints of long exposure pinhole self portraits. Taken in 2006 and 2007, the pictures document Katie’s gain, loss, and regain of her ability to stand in between two major surgical procedures.

The exhibition runs from 3 to 31 July at the Axolotl Gallery, 35 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6QQ.

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iPhone photography exhibit

Haje Jan Kamps — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:11:50 +0000

The virtual image of the iPhone gets exhibited in the real space on the walls of the Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley, CA.

Since the advent of the coupling of the digital camera with the mobile phone, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of photos taken: A folk art form has unfolded where the depiction of reality and spontaneous events has been assisted not through the sophistication of the camera, but through its ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives.

iPhone images are crude with low resolution, so they must be judged by their basic composition and the manner at which they capture the moment, as well as how well the photographer uses the limitations of the camera to express a vision. With this show we are not looking for seductive images loaded with technique, but images that are alive with the ephemeral spirit of reality.

Join the fun

200 images will be printed and displayed in the gallery for the month of February 2010, and will be sold as individual works of art. A book will be published that will include all of the images along with names and a short bio of each iphonetographer.

We welcome all applicants and encourage amateurs, since there is no such thing as a professional iphontographer, at least not yet, as far as we know. For many of the artist this will be their first introduction to having their work shown in a gallery, and we look forward to the chance to discover new talent!

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Digital Camera POTY exhibition

Haje Jan Kamps — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:19:06 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Digital Camera’s Photographer of the Year competition (or ‘PotY’ among friends), but the problem is that you usually only get to see the winners in the magazine – or the POTY, as it is known among friends.

Anyway, later this month (December 9th through 13th), if you happen to be in London, there’s an opportunity to check out the winners in all their glory!

The competition features creativity from photographers of all levels from amateur to professional, from a variety of categories, including “This is Britain”, “World in Motion”, “Man-made”, “Planet Earth”, “Fashion”, etc.

The exhibit is free, open from 10am – 5pm every day, and can be seen at the Mall Galleries, The Mall (near Trafalgar Sq). Go on, it’ll be fun!

If you can’t make it to the exhibit, check out this article over on Photoradar for a taster, or see the full shortlist.