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30/5/2012

The London Festival of Photography

Different venues, London

In June 2012, London's most celebrated venues (Museum of London, British Library, British Museum, Tate Modern, the V&A and more...) will play host to a world-class, city-wide celebration of photography as the London Festival of Photography returns for its second year.

Encompassing street, documentary and conceptual photography, the festival includes 18 exhibitions and 30 satellite events including workshops, talks and screenings.

Exhibitions will vary in style and format, presenting a comprehensive mixture of disciplines with work from both established and emerging photographers. Content will be curated around the theme, Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private.

The festival opens to the public on 1 June 2012 (many exhibitions are open during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee bank holiday weekend 2, 3, 4 & 5 June). Press events and private views will take place on 31 May 2012. If you'd like to receive exclusive updates and advance tickets to festival events and invites to private views, please consider becoming a Best Friend or Industry Friend.

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Let This Be a Sign - Simon Roberts

Dates: 25 May to 01 July 2012
Venue: Swiss Cottage Gallery
Address: Swiss Cottage Central Library, 88 Avenue Road, London, NW3 3HA
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Opening Times: Mon–Thur: 10am-8pm, Fri: 10am-5pm, Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 11am-4pm. Closed bank holiday 4-5 June.
Price: FREE
New work from Simon Roberts looking at the economic, political and social effects of the recent UK recession. Alongside the exhibition, a participatory space will be set up where visitors will be invited to share their thoughts and experiences.

Simon Roberts has been photographing the landscape of the UK extensively since 2007, the results of which include the acclaimed publication We English (Chris Boot 2009) and his appointment as the official Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee in 2010. During this time he has witnessed the credit crunch as it unfolded, giant institutions previously presumed to be immovable features of the economic landscape teetering on the brink of collapse, and the country moving into a period of enforced austerity.

While it seems that not a day goes by without more grim economic news, the current recession has been largely invisible. This is in spite of the fact that the eventual effects of such news – a lost job, a vanishing pension, cuts to social services – are intensely personal. Over the past eighteen months Roberts has been looking at modes of representing the physical, political and social effects of economic change. His approach has been multi-disciplinary, using photographs, moving image, and text and collecting physical objects such as protest banners, in an attempt to find ways of interrogating our new predicament and the shifting perception of the country’s economic and political landscape.

As with his previous projects, Roberts will be adding a collaborative, interactive element to this exhibition by encouraging public participation. There will be a pop-up library of economic-related literature available to read, share and discuss as well as a wall for the public to leave messages about how they have been affected by the recent cuts and suggest ideas for change.

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The Queen, The Chairman and I - Kurt Tong

Dates: 31 May to 23 June 2012
Venue: Horse Hospital
Address: The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD
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Opening Times: 12-6pm, 7 days a week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
This new body of work by Kurt Tong combines a collection of historical photographs, new photographs and writings that retrace and bring to life Tong's ancestral roots from more than a century ago to the present day.


The exhibition will take the form of a Chinese tea house and visitors will be encouraged to share their own family stories.

Where are you from originally?
As an immigrant, I get asked this more than I care for. Having spent two thirds of my life in England, I am still often considered an outsider. I was born in the city of Hong Kong in 1977, five years before China wanted it back. Us Honkies have an identity that's very different to the ones of China; after all, I sang God Save our Queen as my national anthem at school. I always knew I was coming to live in England. My father studied here and dislikes the communists; he had always told me that when Hong Kong goes back to China in 1997, we would not be going back. Go back he did. In fact, he never really left. I, on the other hand, got sent here for school and I married and started a family here. Having grown up between three different cultures, one question is always at the back of my mind. How Chinese am I or indeed, who am I?

My father's grandfather was a deckhand who came to Hong Kong from Shanghai after the fall of the Empire in 1911, lured by better job prospects in the relatively stable British colony. My mother's family were big landlords in Southern China—they came to Hong Kong and probably escaped certain death at the hands of Mao's advancing Communist armies. I am tracing back the history of my family in a bid to find out how two of the most influential people in history affected my family.

Granting equal importance to new photographs, found photographs and writing, the work will reconnect me with the Hong Kong of the past through the recollection of my extended family, humanizing the political and social upheaval that brought my family to Hong Kong and eventually to the United Kingdom.

The project is a visual storybook for my daughters. It is my hope that when they are older and begin to question their own heritage, they will find answers to their questions as I did during the research and making of this project.


Exhibition curated by Lauren Heinz, FOTO8

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International Street Photography - Various

Dates: 01 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: 29 - 31 Oxford Street (3Space)
Address: 29 - 31 Oxford Street, London, W1D 2DR
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Opening Times: 10am-6pm, 7 days per week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE ENTRY
This unique exhibition brings together a range of exciting work from both well-established and emerging international street photographers.


Now in its second year, the International Street Photography Award is back with another impressive selection of global talent. Receiving over 2,400 entries and an exceptionally high quality pool of submissions, the 2012 International Street Photography Award was open to photographers all over the world and judged by a team of industry experts. This exhibition reveals the first, second and third prize winners along with thirteen shortlisted finalists. It will take place in a pop-up gallery space on London's famous Oxford Street, the familiar setting of a number of famous street photographs. The winner will be announced at the launch of the exhibition.

View all the finalists' images in our online gallery.

Exhibiting artists:

* Massimiliano Cardelli
* Alejandro Cartagena
* Arnhel de Serra
* Aristide Economopoulos
* Artur Eranosian
* Matthew Goddard-Jones
* Siegfried Hansen
* Ian Hughes
* Colin Hutton
* Tomasz Lazar
* Daniel Mueller Jansen
* Matthew Murray
* Ed Peters
* Jack Simon
* Kay von Aspern
* Dougie Wallace

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The Great British Public - Various

Dates: 01 June to 24 June 2012
Venue: Dog Eared Gallery
Address: 25-28 Field Street, London, WC1 X9DA
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Opening Times: 10am-6pm, 7 days per week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: £6.50
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This exhibition takes place across two venues—be sure to visit both:
St Pancras International and Dog Eared Gallery.

Embracing the spirit of patriotism with the upcoming Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this show will present images from photographers working the length and breadth of the British Isles documenting the daily life, work and rituals of the British in their many incarnations.


A focus on street photography will be complimented by intimate documentary studies and portraits from a range of established practitioners including John Angerson (Ilford Photograper of The Year), Nick Cunard, Peter Dench (World Press Photo Award), Liz Hingley (Canon Female Photojournalist Award Winner), Zed Nelson (World Press Photo Winner), Martin Parr (Magnum), Ben Roberts (Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer Winner), Simon Roberts (Official 2010 UK election artis), Arnhel de Serra, Chris Steele-Perkins (Magnum), Ewen Spencer, Homer Sykes and Giulietta Verdon-Roe.

This multidisciplinary exhibition will celebrate the extremes and quirks of life on our islands; from military funeral parades to centenarians; from pomp and pageantry to cottage industries; from Hackney in London to the most northernmost island of Orkney in Scotland, via New Brighton, the Black Country and beyond... all explored through print and multimedia in a large-scale exhibition across two sites.

It is rare that such a stellar collection of British artists are shown together in celebration of Britishness - this is one of the festival's headline exhibitions and should not be missed. Dog Eared Gallery will be a major festival hub and host the finale of the main festival launch night.

This exhibition is one of only two exhibitions in the entire festival programme which has an entry fee. Tickets cost only £6.50 and can be bought online or at the door (cash only). Please support the festival by buying a ticket.

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Inside Out: London Festival of Photography Prize

Dates: 01 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: Fitzrovia Community Centre
Address: John Astor House, Foley Street, London, W1W 6DN
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Photographers from across the globe were invited to submit either still image photo-essays or multimedia photo-films to reflect the festival's theme for the London Festival of Photography Prize. This exhibition showcases the cream of the crop.

INSIDE OUT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE

This exhibition presents the two winners and twelve finalists of the inaugural London Festival of Photography Prize. The prize was designed to allow photographers from across the globe the opportunity to submit narrative-based, conceptual and documentary work responding to the festival theme to be considered for inclusion in the Festival. The results are an inspiring and diverse mix of projects presented in two categories: still-image photo-series and multimedia photo-films.

The winners of each category will be flown to London and presented with a cheque for £1000 on the opening night.

FINALISTS

STILL IMAGE

* Chiara Ceolin
* Andres Cobacho
* Aaron Hobson
* Ilkin Huseynov
* Puay Yang Sean Lee
* Hector Mediavilla

MULTIMEDIA

* Kim Badawi
* George Benson
* Dionysis Kouris
* Piotr Malecki
* Sofie Olsen
* Bruno Quinquet

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Behind Closed Doors

Dates: 01 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: Fitzrovia Community Centre
Address: John Astor House, Foley Street, London, W1W 6DN
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An exhibition looking at two very different examples of the lengths people go to in pursuit of domestic order. In Domestic Slavery Raphael Dallaporta and Ondine Millot address an often-ignored social wrong that is related to issues of human trafficking: modern slavery. Dallaporta’s cold and stark images of ordinary-looking buildings in and around Paris, shot simply and in the same light, are combined with Ondine Millot’s texts to become chilling portraits of hidden agony.

Across the Atlantic in Brazil, having one or more domestic maids is the norm for middle class families. As the country’s economy booms, larger and more luxurious apartments are springing up and with them a heightened need for maids to keep them clean. However, the women who traditionally take on positions as maids are at the same time becoming increasingly empowered and finding alternative forms of employment. Artist Andre Penteado's project Brazilian Maids presents photographic and video work exploring this “maid problem”, which is currently a hot topic of discussion in Brazil.

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Beneath the Surface - Steve Bloom

Dates: 01 June to 28 June 2012
Venue: Guardian Gallery (Kings Place)
Address: Guardian News & Media, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU
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Opening Times: 10am-6pm, 7 days per week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
An exhibition of Steve Bloom's photographs from the mid 1970’s, capturing a critical moment in the history of apartheid-era South Africa. Some of these images are being shown for the first time, while others have not been seen since they were first exhibited internationally three decades ago.


1976 was a critical year in South African history. The first real cracks in the apartheid system of racial segregation appeared when black school children took to the streets to protest against new laws, which had been introduced to reinforce an inferior education system. The authorities struck back ruthlessly, killing and wounding many defenseless children. It was a time of realisation: the beginning of the end of white complacency and black defeatism.

Bloom's work in Apartheid South Africa, poignant and edgy, reveals the alienation of a country on the cusp of change—placing Bloom among a select few photographers in possession of the combined boldness and sensitivity of vision necessary to effectively capture the mood and charged racial climate of the time.

Internationally acclaimed photographer Steve Bloom took to the streets and the townships, photographing people in this pivotal historical moment. Some of the pictures, edgy and fleeting, capture the tension of the time. Others, such as portraits of down-and-outs, show the utter despair of people under apartheid. In his images, Bloom manages to capture the complex emotional essence of the moment South Africa began to experience unstoppable, real dissent.

In 1977 (in the same week that Steve Biko was murdered by security police in South Africa) Steve Bloom travelled to London where, soon after, the International Defense and Aid Fund for South Africa published and exhibited these photographs internationally. Consequently, he was exiled from South Africa and would not return for another thirteen years. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Steve Biko’s death and likewise Bloom's images, not seen for decades, which provide a timely reminder of this troubled but important period in South Africa’s history.

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Single Saudi Women - Wasma Mansour

Dates: 01 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: Hardy Tree Gallery
Address: 119 Pancras Road, London, NW1 1UN
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Opening Times: 10am-6pm, 7 days per week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
An exhibition exploring the lives and multiple identities of Saudi women living in London.

Single Saudi Women is the culmination of a four-year research project by London-based Saudi photographer Wasma Mansour. Pictorial conventions in global mass media exhibit recurring visual tropes which stereotype and essentialise the portrayal of Saudi women. As a result, such generalisations have suppressed Saudi women’s efforts in reconciling with their identities and asserting their sense of individualism.

Mansour employs a multidirectional photographic approach, which allows her to respond to and capture an unfolding reality and to observe the ways in which the subjects’ experiences are managed and fashioned. Performance and objects become signifiers to these women’s attempts to forge new identities, that to varying degrees align and/or resist an encompassing Saudi identity. The photograph is used as an observational tool and an apparatus to encourage dialogue about the representation of the self as a public and private figure. Furthermore, this reflexive aspect has also highlighted the implication of the artist herself, as both researcher and subject.

Biography

Wasma Mansour was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1980 and is now a London-based photographer in the process of completing a practice-based research degree at the London College of Communication. Her photographic practice focuses on 'human to space' relationships; this research project specifically explores the construction and reflection of the multiple identities of single Saudi women through the medium of their own private spaces and possessions.
wmansour.com

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Tiksi - Evgenia Arbugaeva

Dates: 01 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: Calumet Photographic Gallery
Address: 93-103 Drummond St, London, NW1 2HJ
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Opening Times: Mon–Wed 8:30am-6pm, Thur– Fri 8:30am–7pm, Sat 9am-5:30pm. Closed bank holiday 4-5 June. NB please see below for details of when the space will be closed.
Price: FREE
Featuring work never shown before in the UK, the festival presents a modern-day fairytale from the small Siberian town of Tiksi, told through the lens of the talented Evgenia Arbugaeva.

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Hijacked III - Australia

Dates: 01 June to 20 July 2012
Venue: Photofusion
Address: 17A Electric Lane, London SW9 8LA
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Opening Times: 11am-5pm, 7 days a week. Late opening on Thursday until 7pm. Closed bank holiday 4-5 June.
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A selection of work from Hijacked III, Contemporary Photography from Australia and the United Kingdom.


Hijacked III is a major survey exhibition and publication featuring innovative photographic talents from or within Australia and the United Kingdom. Known for halting the status quo, arresting the scene and exploding a new perspective on the practices of contemporary photography, this third edition of the biennale Hijacked series explores the world through the eyes and works of 35 international photographers pushing the boundaries, experimenting, and recontextualisiing the art-form.

Photofusion is delighted to present a selection of the Australian photographers chosen for the original exhibition (Derby, Quad: 3 Mar to 6 May 2012) exposing many of them to London audiences for the first time. From oblique takes on portraiture to snapshots of society at its best and worst, these far reaching photographic practices question what it means to observe, catch or construct images for the 21st century.

Hijacked III exhibition and book was curated/edited by: Louise Clements, Artistic Director of QUAD and FORMAT International Photography Festival UK, Mark McPherson, founder of Big City Press, Australia, and Leigh Robb, Curator of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia.

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Contemporary London Street Photography

Dates: 01 June to 15 August 2012
Venue: King's Cross Station
Address: King's Cross Station, London, N1 9AP
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Opening Times: 24 hours, 7 days a week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
A modern look at London through street photography.


London is arguably the greatest city on earth, and undeniably one of its most dynamic photographic subjects; as Samuel Johnson said, “There is in London all that life can afford”. No art form captures city life quite like street photography, and this exhibition is a celebration of both the timeless nature and distinctive quirkiness of the Big Smoke through photographs. A large-scale wall display, housed in the newly-refurbished King’s Cross station, will present Londoners at play and at work through carefully chosen images from some of the UK’s top street photographers.

Contributors include:

* Gary Alexander
* Richard Baker
* Damian Chrobak
* George Georgiou
* David Gibson
* Stephen Gill
* Tiffany Jones
* Nils Jorgensen
* David Mason
* Mimi Mollica
* Johanna Neurath
* Zbigniew Osiowy
* Justin Sainsbury
* David Solomons
* Paul Treacy
* Nick Turpin
* Przemek Wajerowicz

The exhibition is situated in the Great Northern Hotel Arcade which is to the left of the new entrance as you walk in from Pancras Road.

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Camera Obscura - Minnie Weisz

Dates: 01 June to 29 June 2012
Venue: Minnie Weisz Studio
Address: 123 Pancras Road, London, NW1 1UN
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Opening Times: Tue–Sun 10am-6pm. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
‘Camera Obscura’ is a show that brings together a body of works by artist and photographer Minnie Weisz.


Spanning the last seven years, these photographs are born out of her interest in the identity of spaces, particularly buildings on the brink of change, such as the Great Northern Hotel, or the Fish & Coal Offices in King's Cross. Weisz investigates the surroundings and social history of these sites, which worm their way into the photographic process. Although persons are sometimes introduced into her pictures, she tends to leave them out, using installations of found objects – a suitcase, shoes, an old pair of roller skates – to author fictional memories of a building's past.

Alongside a more sober, documentary approach, highlighting the materiality of the architecture, Weisz fashions these deserted spaces as a camera obscura. Allowing light in through the pinhole of a darkened room, this technique inverts the outside view, projecting it back onto the walls inside. In this way, as the artist explains, the camera obscura becomes “the key which unlocks a dialogue between exterior and interior worlds.” In architecture and psychology, the term ‘liminal’ has often been used to describe places or moods that exist at the passage between alternate states. It is this kind of ‘between-ness’ or ‘third space’ that Weisz’ photography brings to the fore – both in terms of these buildings’ transitional nature and the creation of landscapes that lie at the threshold between dream and reality.
www.minnieweisz.co.uk
www.minnieweiszstudio.co.uk

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Money in Bamako and London - Various

Dates: 01 June to 01 July 2012
Venue: British Museum (Clore Education Centre Foyer)
Address: Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
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Opening Times: 10am-5.30pm, 7 days a week (Fridays open until 8.30pm). OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
Bamako & London is an ongoing collaborative project by London-based curator Sophie Mew and two photographers from Mali and the UK, Harandane Dicko & Diane Patrice.

The Bamako & London project is a series of photographic collaborations between a UK-based curator and photographers from the UK and Mali in West Africa. The project links London and Bamako through the use of photographs and interview transcriptions depicting contemporary scenes of everyday life in the two capital cities.

In 2011, for example, the exhibition documented parallels between such subjects as taxi drivers’ daily routines, families sharing meals together and friends’ conversations over cups of tea in Bamako and London, respectively. The exhibition was hosted in London in May before travelling to Bamako last September. Participating artists were Diane Patrice in London and Alioune Bâ in Bamako, and the project was curated by Sophie Mew in London.

In 2012, Money in Bamako and London coincides with the opening of the new Citi Money Gallery at the British Museum, and there will be 12 images on display in the Clore Education Centre Foyer from 1 June – 1 July*. The work done in London by Diane Patrice addresses how money circulates, and how it is used, saved and spent in everyday contexts around the city. In light of the recent coup d’état and political upheavals in Mali, the Bamako-based photographer artist Harandane Dicko exposes the effects of sanctions (imposed from 3-8 April 2012), economic insecurity and struggle in daily lives in Bamako today (the images in London and Bamako were taken during March and April 2012). In Dicko’s work, he counterbalances such heavy subject matter with, for example, an image of teenagers playing card games to illustrate the continuity of daily life. Sophie Mew is curating this project at the British Museum with the support provided by Evelyn Owen.

Later in 2012, it is intended that the displays will again travel to Bamako, so as to share the scenes from Bamako and London with citizens of both cities.
www.bamakoandlondon.com

* Please note that the displays are not accessible to the public on 12/13, 19/20 and 25/26 June, and may not be on a small number of additional days. Please contact bamakolondon@gmail.com for further information.

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Sleep Walk, Sleep Talk - Suki Chan

Dates: 01 June to 10 June 2012
Venue: Museum of London (foyer)
Address: 150 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5HN
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Opening Times: 10am-6pm, 7 days a week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
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To complement the Museum of London’s Dickens and London exhibition, artist Suki Chan has installed a series of evocative, emblematic lightbox stills from her video installation Sleep Walk, Sleep Talk in the Museum of London entrance hall.

THE EXHIBITION

Curated by the Museum of London, the installation follows in the footsteps of Dickens’ essay Night Walks in creating a dreamlike portrait of London by night. Presented as a series of large-format photographic light boxes and a neon-light text, Chan’s images include hazy, shimmering panoramas of the nocturnal city, shots of skaters reclaiming the streets after dark and weary commuters on the top-deck of the night bus. A neon text ‘When I go home the day becomes my night’, drawn from an interview Chan made with a security-guard, expresses the world of night-working.

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Burn My Eye Collective

Dates: 01 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: Only Connect Theatre
Address: 32 Cubitt Street, London, WC1X 0LR
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Opening Times: Mon–Fri 10am-2pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Closed bank holiday 4-5 June.
Price: FREE

Everyone walks through life seeing more and more unfamiliar faces. Whether on the streets or online, we see strangers sharing parts of their lives with us, whether willing or unaware, while we struggle to make eye contact with these people with whom we actually communicate in person.

Burn My Eye is no exception to these social and behavioural trends. In 2011 the candid photography collective started sharing their photographic passions and dreams with a group of people from around the world that, at that point, they only knew online. Now they have come together to form a collective, many meeting each other for the first time at this exhibition.

This collection of images is a tribute to those figures who make the daily lives of the Burn My Eye memners more interesting, not on internet forums, but in the real world: the people they see when they leave their houses, but seldom speak to—anonymous actors playing roles they themselves are unaware of, becoming a part of a larger story told through the lens of these photographers’ roaming cameras.

The festival is delighted to host the first group exhibition of this global outfit, which includes members from countries as diverse as Greece, England, Taiwan and the USA. In its exploration of ways in which our public and private selves come into contact in the modern world, Burn My Eye’s collective body of work fits well within the 2012 festival theme. Street photography is very much about turning a mirror on society, and each photographer provides a unique and insightful gilmpse of into life in their respective countries.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

* Andrew Kochanowski
* Alexandros Konstantinakis-Karmis
* Charlie Kirk
* Regina van der Kloet
* Frédéric Le Mauff
* Jack Simon
* Jason Penner
* JB Maher
* Justin Sainsbury
* Justin Vogel
* TC Lin
* Zisis Kardianos

www.burnmyeye.org

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The Great British Public - Various

Dates: 01 June to 01 July 2012
Venue: St Pancras International
Address: St Pancras International, Pancras Road, London, NW1 2QP
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Opening Times: Open 24 hours. 7 days a week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE

This exhibition takes place across two venues—be sure to visit both:
St Pancras International and Dog Eared Gallery.

Embracing the spirit of patriotism with the upcoming Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this show will present images from photographers working the length and breadth of the British Isles documenting the daily life, work and rituals of the British in their many incarnations.


A focus on street photography will be complimented by intimate documentary studies and portraits from a range of established practitioners including John Angerson, Nick Cunard, Peter Dench, Liz Hingley, Zed Nelson, Martin Parr, Ben Roberts, Simon Roberts, Arnhel de Serra, Chris Steele-Perkins, Ewen Spencer, Homer Sykes and Giulietta Verdon-Roe.. plus more to be announced soon.

This multidisciplinary exhibition will celebrate the extremes and quirks of life on our islands; from military funeral parades to centenarians; from pomp and pageantry to cottage industries; from Hackney in London to the most northernmost island of Orkney in Scotland, via New Brighton, the Black Country and beyond. St Pancras International will host large prints from each photographer on the concourse of the station.

It is rare that such a stellar collection of British artists are shown together in celebration of Britishness - this is one of the festival's headline exhibitions and should not be missed.

BIOGRAPHIES

John Angerson was born in Bristol and started his career in the early 1990s, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and the changing geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe. Since then, his practice has continued to explore the different languages of documentary photography, focusing on how specific communities form, shift and develop. His personal projects have garnered critical acclaim and have been exhibited at major art institutions in the UK and overseas. His latest monograph - Love, Power, Sacrifice (Dewi Lewis) documented the Jesus Army over a twenty-year period and peers into a microcosm of fanatical religion.
www.johnangerson.com

Nick Cunard: Notwithstanding his second rate degree from a first rate university, Nick continues to base himself in London making a living selling pictures for money. Moving with the times and a hunger for new challenges has meant however that he increasingly works within a multi-media context; producing photo films and video in addition to stills. This has also provided Nick with an opportunity to bring more of his second rate understanding of Social Anthropology to the fore, as evidenced by a recent series of photo films for the Life and Style section of The Guardian website. Other past personal projects of note have included Head Space - a part collaboration with Will Self which took the form of a series of journey's through a select number of the capital's psychotherapeutic consulting rooms.
www.nickcunard.co.uk

Peter Dench is an English photographer based in London. He achieved a World Press Photo Award and also participated in the coveted World Press Joop Masterclass. His solo exhibitions include LoveUK in Cardiff and England Uncensored at the 2011 Visa pour l'Image festival in France and the Periscopio festival, Spain. In 2010, Dench was placed 2nd in Advertising at the Sony World Photography Awards. Dench has a new book titled UK Uncensored, of which exclusive signed copies will be available to purchase at the exhibition.
www.peterdench.com

Liz Hingley graduated from Brighton University with a degree in Editorial Photography in 2007. She went on to receive a two-year scholarship with FABRICA research and communications department in Italy. She completed an MSc with distinction in Social Anthropology at University College London in 2011. Under Gods: Stories from Soho Road (Dewi Lewis) was published in March 2011. She recently received the Getty Image Grant to continue her work raising awareness for the cycle of child poverty in the developed world. Hingley is currently artist in residence at the Migration Research Unit based in University College London. She regularly works with other educational institutions, lecturing and leading workshops. Hingley is undertaking her own research into the trade of religious goods in Paris and China. She says: "My photography is about social engagement. I am constantly excited by how photographs can arouse curiosity, tell stories in different voices and help us see through different eyes."
www.lizhingley.com

Zed Nelson lives in London. Having gained recognition and major awards as a documentary photographer working in some of the most troubled areas of the world (including First Prize in the World Press Photo Competition), Nelson has increasingly turned his focus on western society, adopting a more conceptual approach to reflect on contemporary social issues. His recently published second book Love Me (Contrasto) was nominated for the 2011 Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, short-listed for the Leica European Publishers Award for Photography, and received First Prize in the 2010 Pictures of the Year International Awards. Nelson’s seminal first book project, Gun Nation, gained worldwide attention and provoked controversy in the United States resulting in demonstrations and death threats against the author. The series was published in twelve countries and received five photography awards including the Visa d’Or, France, and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, USA. Nelson’s work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the ICA and the National Portrait Gallery and features in the permanent collection of the V&A.
www.zednelson.com

Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photobook collector and Professor of Photography at the University of Wales, Newport. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England. He has had almost 50 books published and featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide - including an exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London. In 2007, his retrospective exhibition was selected to be the main show of Month of Photography Asia in Singapore. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in recognition for his ongoing contribution to photography and to MMU's School of Art. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
www.martinparr.com

Ben Roberts is an independent photographer based in London. He has photographed subjects as diverse as youth culture in Scotland, Australian gold mining and Spain's economic crisis. He is currently working on a body of work exploring social and physical geography on the periphery of London. In 2009 Ben was the recipient of the British Journal of Photography's Project Assistance Award for his series The Gathering Clouds – a contemplative look at the effects of the economic crisis on Spain's social and physical landscape. In 2010, he was named as one of PDN's 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, and in 2011 he had his first solo show at the 3rd Floor Gallery in Cardiff. Ben is represented by Picturetank in Paris.
benrobertsphotography.com

Simon Roberts studied a BA Hons Degree in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. His photographs have been exhibited widely with recent solo shows at the National Media Museum, UK, EX3 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, and Centro Brasileiro Britânico, Brazil. Roberts' images are represented in major public and private collections, including the Deutsche Börse Art Collection, George Eastman House and Wilson Centre for Photography. In recognition for his work, Roberts has received several awards including the Vic Odden Award (2007), offered for a notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer and bursaries from the National Media Museum (2008) and the John Kobal Foundation (2008). Most recently he was commissioned as the official Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee (2010) to produce a record of the UK General Election. He has published two monographs, Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007) and We English (Chris Boot, 2009). Roberts’ approach is one of creating wide-ranging surveys of our time, which communicate on important social, economic and political issues. His photographs exhibit a disciplined compositional restraint, a richness of palette and a wealth of narrative incident.
www.simoncroberts.com

Arnhel de Serra was born in 1964 in Brighton and is Anglo Spanish. He studied photography under David Hurn at Gwent College, Newport, South Wales. Initially starting out as a portrait photographer his focus soon changed to a reportage based approach. The essence of his photographic practice is rooted in recording the moment in-camera rather than relying heavily on post production. His clients include the National Trust, Sunday Times, Stern Magazine, the Independent, BP, Saatchi and Saatchi and T-mobile. Arnhel is represented by photo agency Blunt.
www.arnheldeserra.com

Ewen Spencer In the late 90’s Ewen's groundbreaking editorial for The Face & Sleazenation immediately spoke to an audience interested in subcultures, multiculturalism, music, graphic art, photography, fashion and primarily youth culture. In 2001 Ewen embarked upon a project simply called Teenagers documenting British adolescents as they come to terms with socialising, dating and sex. His signature flash style became synonymous with a close aspect to his subjects. What separates him from other social-documentarians is the feeling you get from the pictures that he knows and likes his subjects, that they trust him enough to allow him entry and that he has an understanding of what’s going on without being embedded in the scenes himself. Not surprisingly, in 2002 Martin Parr tipped him as the most promising newcomer of that year. In 2003 London’s burgeoning grime scene allowed him access to make photographs during open mic sessions in and around London. The book Open Mic is one of the best examples of Ewen’s work to date and led to him being awarded a commission by Massive Attack to produce a film around gang culture in Britain for their latest album Heligoland. He is currently working on an extended project concerning the coming together of cultures and movement of people into and around Italy.
www.ewenspencer.com

Chris Steele-Perkins was born in Burma and moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949. He graduated in Psychology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and while studying, worked as a photographer and picture editor for the student newspaper. In 1971 he moved to London and started working as a freelance photographer with assignments that took him abroad, first to Bangladesh in 1973, followed by extensive work for relief organisations and travel assignments. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a group dealing with social problems in British cities. He then joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976 and in 1979, his first book, The Teds, was published. Chris joined Magnum and soon began working more extensively in the developing world. His latest large-scale project was on the situation in Afghanistan and he now focuses on Japan and England. His reportages have received high public acclaim and won him several awards including the Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism, the Oscar Barnack Prize and the Robert Capa Gold Medal.
www.chrissteeleperkins.com

Homer Sykes was a keen photographer as a teenager, with a darkroom both at home and at boarding school. In 1968 he started a three-year course at the London College of Printing. In the summer vacation during his first year, he went to New York, and was impressed by the work of current photographers — Cartier-Bresson, Davidson, Friedlander, Frank and Winogrand — that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art. Sykes has photographed for the Weekend Telegraph, Observer, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Now, Time, and New Society. He worked with various agencies including Viva, and from 1989 to 2005 was with Network Photographers. Books include Hunting with Hounds, and On the Road Again. Sykes has exhibited his work in a number international exhibitions (Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, as well as Tate Britain and his work is held in a number of collections including the British Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sykes has taught in the master's course in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.
www.homersykes.com

Giulietta Verdon-Roe received a BA degree in English Literature at Newcastle University, and then moved to New York to study at the International Center of Photography. Graduating from ICP, she worked as photographer and assistant to the Photo Editor at the Village Voice, America’s largest weekly newspaper. Vernon-Roe also worked as Assistant Black and White Printer to Master Printer Teresa Engle Moreno, working with negatives by such photographers as Robert Capa, Bruce Davidson, Andreas Feininger and Ted Croner. Vernon-Roe is currently based in London, running her photographic production company Fovea Pictures. Her personal work presently focuses on 'as you are' a long-term documentary about the land and people of North Ronaldsay, the furthest northern island in Orkney. Vernon-Roe has received recognition from a number of awards and her work has featured in exhibitions both in the UK and internationally.
www.giuliettaverdon-roe.com

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Firecracker presents: Lives of Others

Dates: 02 June to 30 June 2012
Venue: William Road Gallery
Address: 7-9 William Road, London, NW1 3ER
Disabled Access: This event has wheelchair access
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Opening Times: Mon–Fri 8.30am-6pm, Sat 10am-6pm and closed every Sunday. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June
Price: FREE
Firecracker is pleased to announce its first exhibition, featuring projects which explore the consequences of bringing highly personal work into the public realm.


Firecracker is an online support network, which showcases one documentary photographic project by a European female photographer every month and organises a regular series of related promotional and networking events. This will be the first time Firecracker has featured a physical display of its photographers' work, and the exhibition will explore notions of identity, culture, family and immersive participation.

Firecracker presents: Lives of Others
Five female photographers divulge personal stories in this exhibition, engaging visitors through these public displays of their highly sensitive work.

Exhibiting artists include Celine Marchbank, Natasha Carauna, Briony Campbell and Laura Hynd, each of whom have developed inward-looking, personally reflective projects that have consequently been disseminated in the public sphere. These photographers are not simply observers, but also active participants in their unconventional approaches to self-portraiture, bravely allowing their audiences a glimpse into their private lives and the opportunity to empathise, relate and perhaps even understand.

Each of the five projects examines ideas around identity, culture, family and immersive participation. In ‘The Dad Project’and ‘Tulip’both Briony Campbell and Celine Marchbank use their powerful and moving photography to record the pain and devastation of losing a parent. Léonie Hampton’s ‘In The Shadow of Things’is the product of months spent clearing her mother’s home of the clutter collected over years battling with OCD. Laura Hynd’s self portrait project ‘The Letting Go’ questions Hynd’s perception of herself and experiments with loss of control and inhibition. Natasha Caruana’s ‘The Other Woman’is a visual confession of Caruana’s life with a married man, and the exploration of other ‘other’ women who were experiencing the same.

Firecracker Photographic Grant

The exhibition coincides with the launch of the Firecracker Photographic Grant, which will be awarded in autumn 2012 to support a European female photographer and aid the completion of a documentary photography project. The grant will be judged by a panel of experienced industry professionals, including David Birkitt of Magnum Photos & DMB Media, Jessica Crombie of Save the Children, Shannon Ghannam of Reuters Pictures, Simon Roberts, renowned British photographer, Francesca Sears of Panos Pictures and Diane Smyth of the British Journal of Photography.


Applications for the grant will open 9th July 2012.
See www.fire-cracker.org for further details.

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Student Street Photography Award exhibition

Dates: 15 June to 29 June 2012
Venue: Orange Dot Gallery
Address: 54 Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9RG
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Opening Times: Open 7 days: 10am-6pm, Mon-Fri, 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun
Price: FREE
The second London Street Photography Student Award took place in 2012 and was open to all students currently living and studying in the UK.

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London Photographs 1957-62 - Frederick Wilfred

Dates: 16 June to 08 July 2012
Venue: Museum of London (Entrance Hall)
Address: 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN
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Opening Times: 10am-6pm, 7 days a week. OPEN bank holidays 4 & 5 June.
Price: FREE
This archive, recently acquired by the Museum of London, paints a vibrant portrait of 1950’s post-war London, featuring days at the lido, street sweepers going about their business and iconic images of Battersea Power Station.


Frederick James Wilfred was born in Islington in 1925. He served in a tank regiment in India during the war, and lived in and around Richmond, Twickenham and Teddington until his death in 2010. During the 1950s, Wilfred worked as Chief Photographer for Hawker Siddeley Aviation for whom he shot still images and Cinefilm of the early flying trials of the Hawker P1127 Kestrel (later renamed the Harrier). He also flew in the extra English Electric Lightning aircraft in the RAF Formation Flying Team, to record a pilots eye view of their aerobatic programme - somehow managing to shoot using a 5x4 plate camera as well as Cinefilm and Leica stills while the aircraft was pulling High G manoeuvres.

Later in life, Wilfred owned a camera shop near Hampton Court and then in 1963 opened his own commercial and portrait studio in Hampton Hill, which he kept until his retirement in 1990. In 1985, he dropped the commercial side of his work to focus more on wedding and portraiture projects for which he won numerous awards.

Wilfred’s son Russell, an avid photographer himself, has undertaken the enormous task of ordering and scanning his father’s extensive archive, and so it is thanks to him that these evocative and historic images are now available for everyone to enjoy.
www.frederickwilfred.com

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The Gaddafi Archives - Libya Before the Arab Spring

Dates: 21 June to 29 June 2012
Venue: Slade Research Centre (The Warburg Institute - entrance to the left of the main entrance)
Address: Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB
Disabled Access: This event has wheelchair access
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Opening Times: 10am-10pm, 7 days per week
Price: £7.50 (£5 WITH AN OPEN CITY TICKET)
Buy ticket(s)
The Arab Spring brought about tumultuous change in the region, much of which was broadcast around the world, despite attempts by various regimes to blackout media communications.

THE EXHIBITION

* PLEASE NOTE NEW EXHIBITION DATES: Thur 21 to Fri 29 June - 9 days only*
Through carefully collated photographs, documents, artefacts and videos this exhibition will shed light on the recent history of Libya, starting with the reign of King Idris and spanning the regime of Colonel Gaddafi. The exhibition will highlight photography’s role in recording and documenting an important period in Libya’s history that we can only now begin to truly understand. Pictures and documents from state intelligence buildings and destroyed Gaddafi residences that were found by Human Rights Watch's emergencies director Peter Bouckaert, and recorded and photographed at the sites, will be presented. All original materials were left where they were found after being photographed or have been since been returned to the National Transition Council in Libya.

This archive is unique and rare and contains over 1,000 images across a wide range of topics. King Idris is seen welcoming a young Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 on her second foreign trip as monarch, the early Gaddafi years vividly show a strong relationship between Colonel Gaddafi and his hero President Nasser of Egypt.

Rare images of the period when Libya was effectively closed to the West from the mid-70's until the revolution depict social chaos, the era of the Green Book, torture and military misadventure and Gadaffi's strategic foreign trips to eastern Europe and the Middle East. The exhibition looks behind the "grip and grin" smiles of the political photo-op propaganda to reveal what was really going on.

The Gaddafi section of the exhibition will aim to re-create the feeling of an omnipresent dictator, giving festival visitors and the Libyan ex-pat community a sense of what the Libyan people have undergone over the last 41 years. Videos and essays by Human Rights Watch will contextualise the organisation's work in Libya and highlight some of the issues faced by the Libyan people today.

This exhibition is one of only two exhibitions in the entire festival programme which has an entry fee. Tickets cost only £7.50 and can be bought online or at the door (cash only). Please support the festival by buying a ticket.

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In the Moment: The Sports Photography of Tom Jenkins

Dates: 29 June to 31 August 2012
Venue: Kings Place Gallery
Address: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Disabled Access: This event has wheelchair access
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Opening Times: Mon–Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12am-6pm, Closed Sun and Bank Holidays
Price: FREE
Tom Jenkins is, arguably, the best sports photographer of his generation and has worked at the Guardian since 1990 and in that time has covered virtually every major sporting event and fixture.


“Tom Jenkins does the business every time. He captures the brutal beauty of sport with a brilliant eye.”
AP McCoy

“The stunning photographs in this book tell the story of sport better than words.”
Mark Cavendish

IN THE MOMENT is a collection of some of the most powerful images from the UK’s foremost sports photographer. Tom Jenkins has been photographing international sporting events for over twenty years. His most celebrated pictures show his unerring ability to create indelible, insightful and often iconic images.

Here, for the first time, the best of his work is drawn together in the exhibition and the accompanying book, proving that whether he is portraying football or rugby, tennis or cricket, cycling or sumo, Jenkins has an unmatched talent for seeing the bigger picture and for appreciating both the pain and the passion of sporting endeavour.

Included are the famous images of Stephen Gerard kissing the Champions League Trophy, Kelly Holmes’ famous eye-popping celebration for her Gold Medal, Tiger Woods halting his Ryder Cup match for a family of ducks, Tom Daly upside down in mid-spin on the day he was crowned Britain’s youngest-ever Olympian and Jonny Wilkinson, following England’s World Cup victory. Jenkins’ famous picture of Usain Bolt winning his second gold medal at the 2008 Beijing games has rightly become one of the most indelible images of the early 21st century.

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