Jim Stephens
dal 1/7/2008 al 1/8/2008
Segnalato da
1/7/2008
Jim Stephens
Eleven Fine Art, London
Festival. "This collection represents a travel photographer's dream - capturing the mayhem and madness of spiritual gatherings the world over. To me, my most successful images are those where the actuality of what you are looking at takes a little time to come through." (J.Stephens)
Eleven is delighted to present Festival, its first exhibition with the
renowned travel photographer Jim Stephens. After numerous projects around
the world, Stephens has recently been concentrating on festivals, be they
religious, spiritual or hedonistic. In this exhibition, the images come from
Holi (India), Garoka (Papua New Guinea), Tsechu (Bhutan), Dashain (Nepal),
Intiraymi (Peru) and The Vegetarian Festival (Thailand) as well as some
closer to home - Palio (Italy) and Running of the Bulls (Spain). No matter
how remote or accessible these festivals are, the passion from the
participators is the same everywhere and makes an integral part of Stephens'
pictures.
Stephens says "This collection represents a travel photographer's dream -
capturing the mayhem and madness of spiritual gatherings the world over. To
me, my most successful images are those where the actuality of what you are
looking at takes a little time to come through."
Festival is a work in progress as Stephens continues to travel extensively,
covering festivals in the US, Europe and Asia in the forthcoming year.
During his early career as a photojournalist living and working in East
Africa, Stephens covered the Somali and Sudanese civil wars. Since then, he
has returned to England and continues to photograph abroad as well as in the
UK. Stephens has been widely published, and recently was finalist in the
prestigious Travel Photographer of the Year, 2007 with one of the images
from Festival.
His previous exhibitions include Away from the War at Blains Fine Art,
London and Havana, Cuba at Space Gallery, London.
All of the photographs exhibited are Lambda prints on Fuji Crystal Archival
Paper and mounted on aluminium. The prints measure 30 x 20 in / 76 x 51 cm
and each image is reproduced as an edition of 15.
Private View Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Eleven Fine Art
11 Eccleston Street - London
Gallery Open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11.00 - 6.00; Thursday 11.00 - 7.00; Saturday 11.00 - 4.00
Free admission