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David Maisel: Black Maps

  • Viviane Sassen: In and Out of Fashion
     

    Fashion photography meets art in Viviane Sassen’s experimental, often flamboyant photographs brought together as a hardcover book, In and Out of Fashion. Pushing the boundaries of the genre, fashion is at its core but is not the central focus. Instead colour, form and sculptural connections make abstract art works and offer radical perspectives. In 2011, Sassen received the ICP Infinity Award for her applied fashion photography and the photographs in the book cover a wide range of her commercial work, shooting for magazines and brands including Sec, Pop, Dazed & Confused, Miu Miu and Stella McCartney. Ambiguity courses through Sassen’s work so that it’s hard to know where one element in the frame begins and another one ends; bodies sprout and meld while patterned surfaces and geometric shapes swirl through the frame. Primary colours - traffic-light red, cobalt blue, fluorescent yellow [...]

  • Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
     

    Mike Brodie hopped a freight train to Jacksonville when he was seventeen. He had with him a Polaroid camera, and not a lot else. Ten years on and 50,000 miles later, Brodie has taken over 7,000 images (mostly 35mm) of his life riding the trains and sometimes the roads, photographing his fellow travellers as they criss-cross America. A small selection of these images are presented in a fine book published by Twin Palms entitled, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity.  Brodie’s photographs are of itinerant life - guys and girls clambering into box cars, swinging between carriages, foraging for food, ducking the cops and dossing down. [...]

  • A River Blue: David Wright
     
    In 2009 American Photographer David Wright travelled to Northern Uganda and spent two months photographing, “A River Blue”, a community development project for internally-displaced persons. He documented his time volunteering at a school providing vocational training and psychosocial counseling for the most vulnerable youth in the surrounding area. Wright’s series of Photographs combines vast, colourful landscapes with portraits of young people from the school isolated against the backdrop of their environment. Whilst the portraits provide an intimate glimpse into their everyday lives, he remains strangely detached from the subjects. The manner in which each portrait has been shot appears to capture an unguarded moment comfortably residing somewhere between the posed and the natural. There is very much a sense that Wright is an observer, an outsider looking in. At the same time, these off-guard portraits manage to evoke a [...]
  • Animals & Self Portraits: Giacomo Brunelli
     
    Last night saw the opening of London-based, Italian photographer Giacomo Brunelli’s Animals & Self-Portraits at The Tabernacle.  Made in Umbria and Tuscany, over the past 8 years, with a camera handed down to Brunelli by his farther, and creatively self-printed in his makeshift darkroom. Brunelli’s images create a dark wonderland where distorted human forms intermingle with alive and dead woodland animals and nothing is quite what it seems.  Animals & Self Portraits runs until 26th May at The Tabernacle, 34-35 Powis Square  London, Greater London W11with an Artist's talk and Book Signing: Saturday 25th May, 6pm.  [...]
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