The Royal Photographic Society have brought a great show to Bristol, one that charts its histroy as well as showing current members work. The exhibiton is at 68 the Glass Walk located on the top floor of Cabot Circus, although slightly out of the way the space works incredibly well as a gallery. The simple...
An exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Willie Doherty is currently on display at Matt’s Gallery, London. Taken from 1985-1992, the images reflect Doherty’s ongoing concerns: territory, land ownership, and borders, both political and geographical. Doherty was born in 1959 in Derry. Much of his work draws on his own experience of the ‘Troubles’ and the...
As part of the Bristol Festival of Photography, the Cube Cinema will be screening Richard Press’ acclaimed documentary ‘Bill Cunningham New York’. Released in the US in 2011, the documentary has finally made it to UK screens this spring and offers an insightful look at Cunninghams’ life and work. One of the world’s most famous...
Bristol’s Talk Photo have arranged a seris of talks for Bristol Festival of Photography. First is Jim Naughten who will be speaking at the RWA on Wednesday 9th May at 6.30pm. A limited amount of tickets are still available. Jim Naughten is a leading UK portrait photographer with his ‘Re-enactors’ seris winning him numerous awards including...
Zed Nelson’s project shows the two sides of Hackney: a poor area with a high crime rate, yet also one of London trendiest locations, home to violent gangs as well as young professionals. With the Olympics fast approaching a spotlight has been put on the borough, will this summer be a celebration in comparison to...
The Royal West of England Academy currently plays host to Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography. Named for Irving Penn’s famous statement that fashion photography is ‘selling dreams, not clothes’, the exhibition comprises sixty works from the collections of the V&A. Combined with original magazine spreads from the likes of Harpers Bazaar and...
Today the National Portrait Gallery opens the first solo display of photographs by Peter Rand. Celebrating the NPG’s recent acquisition of works by Rand, the display comprises 10 portraits, all taken in the 1960s. Born in 1940, Rand attended the infamous Ealing Art and Photographic College in the late 1950s. He went on to...
David Hockney is quintessentially British and so is the queue to get into his exhibition. Who knows why as a country we are so good at waiting patiently in line, what I do know is that we are world leaders. What is interesting with blockbuster exhibition is generally the longer the reported queue the more...
Best known series on Hong Kong’s highly compressed, often brutal architecture, Architecture of Density, Wolf used the city’s sky-scraping tower blocks to great effect, eliminating the sky and horizon line to flatten each image and turn these façades into seemingly never-ending abstractions. In this new work Tokyo Compression he continues to explore the consequences of...
Jamie Stoker’s Loch Ness immediately impressed us. Stoker blends portraits, landscapes with facts and interviews to investigate what draws so many to the shores of Loch Ness. The Loch seems to offer different things to different people. What is clear from those interviewed is they all feel an attachment to the area and the story...
China is often documented in ways that shows its scale, landscape images revealing a country of vast and rapid expansion. However 61 Days in Beijing is focused firmly on people. Ramon Bujanda gives us a window into daily life within China’s capital. Beijing is shown as a fusion between old traditions and modernisation, its people...
In response to Issue 3′s Street theme we launched a competition to win an Olympus Mju ii, the same camera used by Fantasticted whose work we featured in issue 3. We received a variety of international submissions, a big thank you to all who entered; it is great to see Street Photography in such good...
