09 Oct - 29 Oct - Preview on the 9th October at 17.00-21.00

Chapter 1 - Origins and Approaches

Annabelle Dalby, Lucy Steggals

This collaborative show at The 12 Gallery explores and questions existing modes of collecting & archiving.
These perpetual editing decisions are an intrinsic part of life and are very telling, exposing our desire to modulate our reality to project a preferred version.
Dalby & Steggals are appropriating objects and images from their own collections to create an alterior archive. Using their individual approaches; Dalby sensitively re-presents existing photographs to highlight that which we may have missed; Steggals appropriates and maniplulates imagery to weave alternative fictions. By combining the two they have made a series of works that resonate with compelling narratives.

30 Oct

Postcards from Babylon

Christian de Sousa

"Postcards from Babylon" is a book of photography and writing about cities, subcultures and the state of the world. It is a portrait of the way we are living, and it is a journey in search of freedom, transformation and the remembrance of who we are.

Emerging from leftfield traditions of reportage photography and writing, it weaves together influences from film, graphic novels, poetry, meditation, electronic music and the dancefloor, to create an entirely new kind of photobook.

To officially launch the book, the gallery will be filled by a light installation inviting visitors to 'step inside the book'.

01 Nov - 01 Dec - Preview 1 November 6pm-9pm

Can Ts Pelle

C.A. Halpin

A journey celebrating the overlooked, the left behind and the lonely. Using a camera as a sketchbook the artist takes images of her surroundings, events and objects, made memorable by being noted and seen. It is the idea of drawing and the wry wit on the spur of the moment that is found in these images.

Artists Talk 15 Nov 6.30pm-7.30pm - Blink and You'll Miss it

09 Nov - Friday 9 November 7pm-10pm

Darkroom - talk and workshop

Holly Revell

‘DARKROOM’: artist’s talk followed by individual mini photo-shoots and social. Participants will learn about the artist’s unique style of photo booth and then create their own individual or group images in Holly’s ‘DARKROOM Picture Parlour’. The ticket price includes the talk, a mini photo-shoot, a small print and a digital file of the image(s) made. Guests are invited to pose as dressed up or undressed as they like, receiving the opportunity to become a classical nude or to create surreal tableaux for example. Props and inspiration provided or bring your own!
Cost - £12 per person (discounts for pairs/groups)

06 Oct - 03 Nov

Carole Suety and Matthias Olmeta

Carole Suety, Matthias Olmetta

Carole Suety will be showing her latest work alongside her previous series ‘Globe de mariée’ (2009). Through her work she aims to deconstruct western ideologies and myths in order to reveal how they determine our relation to marriage, family, sexuality or death. While ‘Globe de mariée’ explores relationships through the appropriation of an old French tradition of keeping a bell jar to preserve the memories of married life, her new project examines the construction of the female identity using unsettling still-lifes.

MATTHIAS OLMETTA
An established photographer whose work has recently been shown in New York as part of a group show with agnès b. , ‘Certain French young photographers’ and after Photomonth moves to ‘Paris Photo’. Don’t miss in store at Spitalfileds.

It is there. It is always there; that desire to take a photograph - not a work of art - but a photograph. An object suspended with a future in view; an impassive precursor. The object is always recognizable, biographical, narcissistic and obsessive. Nothing eludes us in this already substantial body of work, because everything is here. After so many years it is part of him: psychiatric patients met in Cuba, transvestite friends, encounters with prostitutes, and finally most importantly - his family. Add to this list the phallus, the importance of which cannot be excluded, as its story integrates with that of his photography.
An object among other objects, an autonomous animal that binds together this little world as an essential hidden presence, dissolving and merging into a monstrous chaos. We are oblivious as to how it is done, but what results is a Photograph. Chemical and handmade, its very existence defies the industrial act and new technology. We catch a glimpse of elements which in the past have been regarded with disdain a love of texture, of the fusion and confusion between sensations and affects. These images subvert the discourse of contemporary critics. As the monochrome nuances of the substance-matter, essential to our perception, is a far cry from a neo-picturalism long gone.
The moment the people and objects are impregnated with this hazardous alloy straight from the 19th century we are confronted with an almost mystical feeling and forced to contemplate them, hieratic, the consequences of some mysterious recovery. The photographs cannot be categorized as aesthetic and ascribe little importance to reality. Constantly manipulated they are soiled and damaged, to ultimately become glorified. Above and beyond the filter of a machine, the photographic act enables a life experience to be assimilated and digested. François Cheval

04 Oct - Awards Presentation and Party. See website for times and tickets

AOP Photographers Awards 2012

A celebration of exceptional work by the industry’s elite. This competition is only open to Full & Provisional Photographer Members of the AOP. It is regarded as THE awards competition for professional photographers and being selected for entry into the book and accompanying exhibition is considered one of the highest accolades available to photographers around the world.

18 Oct - 08 Nov

Amnesty International Media Awards 2011

Robin Hammond; Greg Constantine

Robin Hammond (winner), This Girl; Robin Hammond, The Price of Gold; Greg Constantine, Kenya’s Nubians Then and Now.
Robin Hammond’s ‘This Girl’ gives a new perspective on sexual attacks in the Congo by working with women to tell their stories. The Price of Gold highlights the dangerous and exploitative conditions of Gold mining in Mozambique. Greg Constantine worked to document the unrecognised and excluded Nubian community in Kenya.

18 Oct - 18 October, 7pm

Taking a Stance: Advocacy, Journalism and Human Rights

PANEL DISCUSSION

Is there a shift in photojournalism away from objective documentation towards involved activist participation? Are photojournalists becoming photo advocates- should they be intervening to create change or merely documenting? We are joined by an expert panel including photographer Gideon Mendel, Fiona Rogers from Magnum, Save the Children picture editor Jess Crombie, and others for a discussion to ascertain if we can trust photos with an agenda. The event is chaired by picture editor Colin Jacobson.

06 Oct - 16 Oct

Afghanistan: ten years on.

Guy Smallman

Photojournalist Guy Smallman has made numerous visits to Afghanistan in recent years. Working unembedded he has documented the effects of war and instability on the lives of ordinary Afghan people. His work has appeared in many different publications. He is the only western journalist to have visited the scene of the Granai massacre in Farah province.

30 Sep - 13 Oct

Even though I'm free, I am not

James Mackay

More than 160 former political prisoners from around the world, including inside Burma, were photographed and interviewed for this project, coming together to raise awareness for their colleagues who remain in jail. The work won several awards in 2009 including the ‘Prix de la Photographie”, Paris. Images from the project have been published in international magazines and newspapers including The New York Times and the British Journal of Photography.

01 Nov - 12 Nov

'Unrecognised'

Children of Wadi Al Na’am and photojournalist Silvia Boarini

A series of startling and moving images documenting the harsh reality of life for Israel's Negev Bedouins living in the unrecognized village of Wadi Al Na’am. The exhibition brings together the work of Israeli NGO "Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality" (NCF) which has been running a participatory photography programme for young people in the village led by designer Ilan Molcho, and London based photojournalist Silvia Boarini.

The photographs shed light on daily life in this harsh environment, documenting the unresolved status of the people, and the impact of government policies on their daily lives.

04 Nov - 7.00pm

Can participatory photography change lives?

The panel will discuss the way that participatory photography projects can empower disadvantaged communities, and will look at some of the challenges and tensions involved.
Designer Ilan Molcho has been running photography workshops in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Wadi Al Na'am in Southern Israel for two years. By introducing children to the art of photography, the project nurtures their creative skills and allows them to share their view of their community, family and the daily hardships they face
Jane Martin, is programme manager for Photovoice, a UK based organization which has worked with partners to create 50 participatory photography projects in 23 countries worldwide
Photovoice photographer Ben Thomas has been working with Amnesty International in Paraguay with a community of indigenous people who face expulsion from their ancestral land
Janice McLaren (chair) is head of education & projects at the Photographers’ Gallery

16 Nov - 30 Nov

Amnesty International Media Awards 2010

Robin Hammond Kate Holt Giles Duley

Robin Hammond’s expose of the garment industry in Lesotho is a brilliant example of campaigning photojournalism. His exposure of the environmental and human destruction being caused by the processes of the garment industry caused Gap and Levi to make swift and wide reaching changes to their operations in the country. Kate Holt worked under constant police surveillance to document the struggle of elderly people to survive in Zimbabwe as the economy collapsed around them. Giles Duley documented the work of the Acid Burns Survivors Foundation in Bangladesh, highlighting the brutal reality of this crime to audiences in Dhaka and London.

23 Nov - 7.00pm

Does the Camera Ever Lie?

In 1906, Mark Twain wrote about the role of the ‘incorruptible kodak – the only witness that couldn’t be bribed’ - in exposing human rights atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since that time, photographers have played a crucial role in bringing to light many of the world’s unseen human rights tragedies, but how trustworthy are their images?

This discussion will question to what extent photojournalists are influenced to give a particular perspective on a situation by the organizations that commission them, whether NGOs or media organizations, and how far they allow their own personal views on a situation to dictate the images they produce.

Does the drive to find the iconic image result in the photographer misrepresenting what is doubtless a complex situation? And are the images which come to represent a whole country or moment in history giving a biased perspective to the viewer?

The panel includes:

Colin Jacobson, photo editor for major publications including the Independent Magazine; critic and founder of Reportage Magazine; author of books and articles on photography; professor of photojournalism at Westminster University.
Susan Schulman, freelance photographer specialising in editorial and documentary work; has worked for organisations, such as the World Food Programme and Red Cross; published widely in periodical and broadsheet publications; winner of this year’s Amnesty International Media Award for GQ piece ‘Congo: the horror’.
Sean Smith, staff photographer with the Guardian; was embedded with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan - work in Iraq won him a Royal Television Society award, the British Press Photographers' Association award for multimedia journalism and the British Press Awards digital journalist of the year prize.
Marcus Bleasdale, award winning photojournalist known for his work on human rights and conflict. His images have been published across the world in a wide range of publications - New York Times, Sunday Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine, Le Monde, TIME Magazine, and National Geographic; author of two books "One Hundred Years of Darkness" 2002 and "The Rape of a Nation" 2009.

29 Nov - November 29, 7pm

True Defiance: What next for Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution?

In mid January, Tunisia's protesters forced the country's long time dictator Ben Ali into exile – the first expulsion of an Arab autocrat by a popular uprising in recent history. Photographers, film makers and citizen journalists played a key role in the revolution, using social media to communicate with each other and with the wider world. Dr Lotfi Kaabi will join photographer Ons Abid, film maker Yossera Bouchtia and other prominent figures to discuss Tunisia’s rite of passage to democracy and ask whether elections in Tunisia have delivered what the revolution demanded?

10 Nov - 30 Nov - Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm

True Defiance: Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution in Pictures

Wassim Ghozlani,Sameh Arfaoui, Amine Landoulsi, Hamideddine Bouali,Ons Abid

Five activist photographers – Wassim Ghozlani,
Sameh Arfaoui, Amine Landoulsi, Hamideddine
Bouali and Ons Abid – capture the essence of
Tunisia’s ‘Jasmine Revolution’: 28 historic days
of peaceful civil resistance sparked by Mohamed
Bouazizi’s self-immolation. These photographs
spread worldwide across social media platforms.
Curated by Dr Lotfi Kaabi, they are dedicated to
the people who faced down fear to demand their
human rights and freedoms.

21 Sep - 28 Oct

AOP Photographers Awards 2010 Exhibition

Various photographers

The AOP Photographers Awards are an annual celebration of the exceptional talent that exists within the Association of Photographers Full & Provisional Membership. This year’s exhibition showcases the best personal and commissioned images produced over the last eighteen months. The quality of the images reflects the growing creativity and diversity of the AOP membership.

05 Oct - 15 Oct

The AOP Photographers Awards 2010

The AOP Photographers Awards are an annual celebration of the exceptional talent that exists within the Association of Photographers Full & Provisional Membership. This year’s exhibition showcases the best personal and commissioned images produced over the last eighteen months. The quality of the images reflects the growing creativity and diversity of the AOP membership.

01 Nov - 06 Nov

The BJP International Photography Award

The British Journal of Photography’s International Photography Award is back, from 1 - 6 November. Open to submissions from any photographers, anywhere in the world, it attracts extremely high-quality work. This image, of an exercise yard in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, is taken from a project by Edmund Clarke, which one first prize in the body of work category last year. The single image prize was won by VII mentor Guilio di Sturco. Images from both categories in the 2010 award will be on show.

16 Nov - 25 Nov

The AOP Assistants Awards 2010

The AOP Assistants Awards annually showcases the best images from the next generation of professional photographers. It is accompanied by an exhibition showcasing the Assistants’ winning images.

Visit http://www.the-awards.com

22 Oct - 14 Nov - 7 pm

Overexposed City

Poulomi Basu, Briony Campbell, Marcia Chandra, Antonio Escalante, Kirstine Fryd, Charlie Hatch-Barnwell, Kalen Lee, Marta Moreiras, Freya Najade, Arnau Oriol Sánchez, Marco Pavan, Duncan Robertson, Francesco Stelitano, Valentina Schivardi, Brett Van Ort, Sisi Xiong,

Overexposed City
a 189collective exhibition

A church led by a man in army fatigues, a man obsessed with building a spaceship, a goat on a Haggerston estate… This collection of micro stories explores people, psychology and geography within London, revealing surprising and hidden visual anecdotes.

189collective is a group of emerging documentary photographers with distinct styles and a shared commitment to exploring diversity in their practice.

18 Nov - 01 Dec - 17 November 6-9pm - Private View

Come Meet the Strangers

Iulia Filipovscaia Jasmine Johnson and Marianna Simnett (Private View only)

Come Meet The Strangers Iulia Filipovscaia’s first solo show is the aftermath installation of the ‘O’ Project performance, which took place at Testing Ground: Live at 176, January 2010

Influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s writings, the ‘O’ Project objectified participants through the means of silence. CMTS aims to present the journey of a selected twelve participants, which were exposed to the gaze of the artist and the camera eye.

As part of the show, for the opening night, artists Jasmine Johnson & Marianna Simnett will present new work, a film based on the novel The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

01 Oct - 18 Oct

ON REFLECTION

NICK DYKES

Nick Dykes uses mirrors or bodies of water to create blurred and disturbing reflected portraits, producing atmospheric photographs that hover on the boundary between instinct and reason, reality and abstraction.

19 Oct - 09 Nov - private view 19 October 2010 at 6.30 pm

Katha: in the footsteps of George Orwell in Burma

Julio Etchart

To coincide with the 75th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's famous first novel, Burmese Days, I went to follow the original location in the remote town of Katha, in present day Myanmar. Orwell spent 5 years in the 1920s as a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police Force in Burma, then a province of British India. This experience inspired him to write the book, one of the greatest denunciations of imperialism ever created

02 Nov - 15 Nov

‘Now you eat it, now you don’t’

Camilla Broadbent

Food engages all our senses. It arouses strong emotions. Food can awaken the intense childhood memories of delight and disgust, as revealed in this playful collection of images. The series references the concerns of seventeenth century Dutch still life artists.

15 Nov - 23 Nov

UNCERTAIN TRUTH

Christian Kraatz

Uncertain Truth is a series of street photographs from all over Europe boldly presented as posters on plywood. It tends to show just daily life situations. Moreover there is some kind of mystery in the pictures which is difficult to grasp. A strong presence of something invisible. The way it is presented is an artistic approach reflecting anticipation of destiny. By doing that Christian Kraatz gives an additional layer to the photograph which is underlining it's ability to communicate more than just visual information.

03 Oct - 30 Nov - Opening night 2 October 6 -9pm

'Dress-UP London'

Suke Driver

Fun, colourful and a bit cheeky at times, ‘Dress-up
London’ is a celebration of the art of dressing up -
be it for leisure, fashion, protest, work or sport.

Inspired by events such as Andrew Logan’s ‘Alternative Miss World’, the exhibition highlights some of the eccentric
shenanigans ubiquitous in the capital and
Londoners ‘adventurous sense of style

01 Oct - 01 Nov

Exit/Enter

Hannah Slaney

A series of Urban Entrances.

13 Sep - 13 Jan

EVERYTHING WAS MOVING: Photography from the 60s and 70s

Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Ilturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke, Malick Sidibe, Shomei Tomatsu, Li Zhensheng, Ernest Cole, Raghubir Singh, Larry Burrows.

A major exhibition exploring the changing world of the 60s and 70s through the lenses of 12 renowned international photographers. Each contributor has, in different ways, advanced the aesthetic language of photography, as well as engaging with the world they inhabit in a profound and powerful way. Over 350 works will be on view, many on show in the UK for the first time.
Tickets £10/£7 concs online, £12/£8 concs on door.
Booking: www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery 0845 120 7550.

06 Oct - 01 Dec

Evolving Photography

Evolving Photography is an exhibition of photographic work by the Students and Tutors of Tower Hamlets Lifelong Learning Service. Lead Photographic Tutor Michael Wayne Plant is curating an changing series of exhibitions at the Bethnal Green Centre.

Evolving Photography is an exploration of photographic work created by the Students and Tutors of Tower Hamlets Lifelong Learning Service.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

New Skies (for East London)

Paul Greenleaf

Creating moments of transitory fragile calm in otherwise busy incongruous environments, photographic prints of idyllic blue skies will be exhibited throughout october and november.

Displayed on police noticeboards across East London, Bethnal Green, Bow, Limehouse and Isle of Dogs, the prints are designed to gradually fade when subjected to sunlight and will slowly alter throughout the exhibition.

20 Nov - 23 Nov - Sat 20th Nov 2 - 7pm Sun 21st nov 2 - 9pm Mon 22nd Nov - Opening evening with music - 5 - 9pm, Tues 5pm - 9pm

45 RPM

Catherine Holmes

45 RPM takes a fresh look at music, aiming to capture the art, ambience and atmosphere of performace and document music venues around London. Using long exposure to visually capture an entire song, the exhibition brings together contemporary colour prints, vintage framed, to command the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. Music from Lewis Floyd Henry on the opening evening on Monday 22nd Nov 7pm onwards.

14 Oct - 11 Nov - Opening 14 Oct 6-8 pm

“When I Grow Rich” say the Bells of Shoreditch

Dougie Wallace

Once synonymous with strip clubs, Shoreditch has become one of London’s most popular nightspots, attracting both locals and cultural tourists dipping into the scene for the night. Dougie Wallace has been photographing the area for a decade, capturing a wide gamut that runs from rampant exhibitionism to furtive drug taking. His street photography captures ironic, oblique moments in contemporary urban settings with a focus on youth culture and nightlife. His open and direct approach to documenting sets his work apart, giving it an autobiographical dimension and a candour that draws in the viewer. www.dougiewallace.com

13 Oct - 11am - 1pm Walk

Rebels, Strikers and Anti-Fascists: the Radical East End - Photo Walk led by author David Rosenberg

In the struggle for better lives in the East End, sweatshop workers downed tools, bakers formed workers co-operatives, councillors went to prison, people built barricades to stop fascists and police were pelted with kitchen implements. Join this walk and discover who was agitating and rioting and refusing to accept injustice and inequality, where they protested and what they achieved.
David Rosenberg is the author of Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to fascism in the 1930s published by Five Leaves Publications. A photographer will assist this walk. Tickets £6/£4 concs. Meet at Bishopsgate Institute.

06 Oct - 2.30pm Talk

Radical London in Focus - David Hoffman: Policing Protest

David Hoffman has specialised in social issues photography for more than 30 years. Resolutely independent, much of his work centres on the increasingly visible control the state exerts over our lives and choices. Racial and social conflict, policing, homelessness, drugs, poverty, social exclusion and environmental protection are documented, often through coverage of protest. A board member of the British Photographic Council, a founding member of Editorial Photographers UK, Photo-Forum London and the campaigning group ‘I’m A Photographer Not A Terrorist’ with a critical interest on issues around press freedom and policing as well as copyright and intellectual property.
www.hoffmanphotos.com Tickets £6/£4 concs
Booking www.bishopsgate.org 020 7329 9200 enquiries@bishopsgate.org.uk

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Radical London in Focus

David Hoffman, Ed Thompson, Jenny Matthews

London has a proud history of radicalism, of protesting against injustice, inequality and racism, of rising up in favour of a fairer society and seeking to improve the lives of ordinary people. The East End of London has also undergone radical changes within its landscape from the redevelopment following the Blitz of WW2 to the current regeneration created by the 2012 Olympics. Photographers David Hoffman, Ed Thompson and Jenny Matthews have documented different aspects of ‘Radical London’ from the Poll Tax riots, to ‘Reclaim the Night’ and the Occupy movement. They will give talks about their practice and show images of their work during October and November 2012 at the Bishopsgate Institute and author David Rosenberg will give a guided tour exploring the radical history of the streets of East London.

03 Nov - 2.30pm Talk

Radical London in Focus - Ed Thompson: Occupy London

On 15 October 2011 Ed Thompson went to photograph a group trying to occupy the London Stock Exchange in Central London. On that day something changed when the protestors were surrounded by the police in an attempt to contain them (kettling), they set up tents and built a city. Ed continued to photograph the Occupy London movement for another five months and created an independent self-published book containing photographs and essays from various occupiers to create an intimate and historic account of Occupy London from the inside.
www.edwardthompson.co.uk Tickets £6/£4 concs
Booking www.bishopsgate.org 020 7329 9200 enquiries@bishopsgate.org.uk

29 Sep - 30 Nov - Preview 29 September 6-9pm

Phil Maxwell Forty Years On, A Retrospective

Phil Maxwell

Forty Years On is a taste of Phil Maxwell’s photographic journey from the 70’s to the present.
“As a visual artist photography facilitates my exploration and interpretation of class, culture, human relationships and society... I try to capture and celebrate the reality of life as it is for the majority of people rather than a minority of jaded ‘celebrities’…. ”
Celebrating 40 years of Phil Maxwell’s work and its archiving for public use by the Bishopsgate Institute. The exhibition will take you on a journey from his youth in Liverpool to his life and passion for the East End of London.
Housed in two venues - the Bishopsgate Institute & Rough Trade – you will experience the vibrant East End first hand through Phil Maxwell’s lens where the East End is his backdrop and canvass as you walk between venues.

10 Nov - 2.30pm Talk

Radical London in Focus - Jenny Matthews: From 'Reclaim the Night' to 'Slutwalk' - 30 years of Feminist Activism in London

Jenny Matthews became a photographer in the early 80s seeing this as a means of being an activist, of documenting social issues and becoming part of campaigns to change society for the better. She was part of Camerawork, a photographic collective based in the East End of London, which promoted documentary photography. Her own practice was propelled by becoming part of a women’s photo agency Format. As feminists they felt it important to document women’s lives and their struggles. In recent years this has led Jenny to photograph the effects of war on women in other parts of the globe.
www.jennymphoto.com Tickets £6/£4 concs
Booking www.bishopsgate.org 020 7329 9200 enquiries@bishopsgate.org.uk

25 Oct - 30 Nov

East One

Deborah Aitken, Andrew Grainger, Abdul Hamid, Suleman Khan, Nigel Madhoo, Alison Philcock and Amiri Shongeeth.

‘East One’ explores the lives and environment of people living on the fringe of the City around Petticoat Lane and Spitalfields Market. Their images will be exhibited in the Bishopsgate library as well as online. A group exhibition curated by Phil Maxwell.

13 Oct - 18 Nov

LUCE - The Moonlight Paintings

Antonella Fabiani

LUCE is a series of 12 images created by harnessing the light of the moon and the lights of the city - creating an ethereal and unique glimpse of London at night.
Equipped with only a tripod and using a long exposure setting, the photographer framed the reflections of the moon and city through a tilted attic window in her North London studio. With a series of fluid movements, she captured this series of soft "light paintings" with the night sky serving as the perfect backdrop.
www.antonellafabiani.com

01 Nov - 04 Nov - Book signing 1 November 6pm-9pm

FITZROVIA NOIR Street Art - collaboration and documentation

Garry Hunter, Doralba Picerno, Jaime Rojo and others

A showcase of photography of street art in East London and worldwide with a rare chance to see on display a commissioned piece with Fitzrovia Noir photographer Garry Hunter working collaboratively with graphic designers and painters.

30 Sep - 31 Oct

PYMCA Presents: Streetstyle by Ted Polhemus.

Ted Polhemus, Gavin Watson, Janette Beckman, David Corio, Paul Hartnett, Normski, David Swindells, Plus many more PYMCA photographers

Without the Hipsters, Teddy Boys, Beats, Rockabillies, Rude Boys, Mods, Surfers, Hippies, Punks, B-Boys, Ravers, Harajuku Girls - and all the other streetstyle originals – most of us would be left without anything to wear.

The Streetstyle exhibition and book launch will feature images from the book as well as showcasing a series of talks and discussions with Ted and guests about the past, present and future of Street Style and subcultural fashion.

Images from the new edition of streetstyle by PYMCA photographers

05 Nov - 30 Nov

Andy Willsher

Andy Willsher

Andy's work has captured the music culture of our times and this exhibition celebrates his 20 years in music and photography. www.andywillsher.com

16 Nov - 19 Dec - 10-18

x-ray

claire ashton

I live in Hove but was made in London.
I went to Norfolk and I love Scotland (largely cos my ex who 'doesn't love me' introduced me to its beauty..I suspect I knew it anyway as I always seemed to listen to Scottish singers in my teens) Being dumped for a fatty wasn't ideal (I already see the world backwards!)

I don't particularly like Hove apparently this is unusual.

22 Sep - 23 Oct

BIOLUMINESCENCE - fashion and still life photography

Mila Nesterova

On stage everything is exaggerated and lighting enhances the visual aspect of the performance, adding color and depth. I am fascinated by UV lights and how they transform everything into a dazzling explosion of colour. Everything looks more interesting, shadows and flickers of light give objects and people more depth.

20 Sep - 11 Nov - Private View 20th September 2012 / 6pm

In absentia lucis - In Absence of Light

Paulina Otylie Surys

Sumptuous and often melancholic imagery, and a unique take on fashion photography has truly established Surys as one-to-watch. Artworks from her collection, plus brand new pieces will be on display at her first solo London show, 'In absentia lucis - in Absence of light'.

Sury approaches each shot as an auteur, using analogue camera equipment to capture the shots and then painstakingly developing the photographs before printing them and adding her own creative flair with paint, oil, gelatine and other materials. Her photographs are otherworldly, existing somewhere between fairy-tale and nightmare, referencing religious iconography and ritual.

01 Oct - 01 Nov

Surreal Series ...

Katarina Baliova

Surreal Series... is a selection of images studying female form and its connections with surrounding space and interlinking objects. The images, in black and white capture movements and shapes, which introduce mystery and reveal perspective visions in the mind of the viewer. They are sensual and mysterious, with the play of light and dark highlighting bodies in motion and in repose.

This work is influenced by surrealism, and symbolism in combination with abstract surfaces and connected with the live sculpture of body, giving a peaceful revelation of serenity.

14 Oct - 30 Oct - Preview 14 October 5pm

Someone I (don't) Know

Magali Avezou

How the other dwells in our imagination? With faceless portraits, this project explores how we interpret someone else’s world. Through traces of the subject’s private sphere, it conveys impressions and sensations that build a sensitive portrait and invite the viewer to create his/ her own story about the character.
www.magaliavezou.com

03 Oct - 17 Oct

FUTUREVERSITY PHOTO SHOW

Jason Bomford-Bromfield , Michelle Chong, Saba Hashmi, Adam Hussein, Henrique Josias, Masuda Khatun, Josephine Kibuka, Michael Knott, Hayley Lynch, Sana Mohamed, Asma Ravat, Zara Shaikh, Hetna Shah, Joanna Tang, Fiona Wong.

Images created by students on the Photomonth Futureversity course exploring street photography and portraiture with photographer Heather McDonough.

09 Oct - 31 Oct

Chagossians

Phuc Quach

Chagossians is a portrait study of the Chagos Islanders and their Mauritian-born descendants.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, an entire population of 2,000 people were forcibly removed from Diego Garcia and the surrounding islands by the British government to make way for the US to build one of the largest and most secretive air and naval bases in the world.

The base, built on the island of Diego Garcia, was the launch pad for the B52s and Stealth bombers to attack Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

04 Oct - 30 Oct

A Dying Art & Open Air Photography

Mohiuddin Siddique

Due to digital technology the art of cinema banner painting in Bangladesh is dying. These banners were painted by hand from generation to generation.
The Open Air Photo Studio offered portrait photographs in five minutes. A plate camera was modified with a home-made wooden case with a darkroom inside. This exhibition can also be seen online at www.eyeculture.co.uk

20 Nov - 19 Dec - Preview: 20 November, 6 - 9pm

Forget Nostalgia - A Little Theatre of Self

Clarisse d'Arcimoles

Exploring photography’s ability to trap and record time. By recreating Victorian photographs of anonymous sitters with herself as the subject, d’Arcimoles will use a variety of styles, characters and backdrops to encourage the viewer to follow the historical photographic journey of women and their victories of emancipation.

d'Arcimoles will reconstruct a local photographer’s studio in Britain a century ago, creating a space in the gallery for the viewer to be transported into a full experience of photography’s unique representation of particular past events.

25 Oct - 31 Oct

Coordinate

MAP 6 Collective:- Laurie Griffiths, Mitch Karunaratne, Chloe Lelliott, Heather Shuker, David Sterry, Paul Walsh

Coordinate: A group exhibition by the MAP6 photography collective, exploring the complex relationships between people and place.

Coordinate highlights the importance of place, as socialised inhabited worlds. Ideas of memory, belonging and displacement fill these psychologically loaded spaces to create tensions and new ways of seeing our relationship to the world in which we live.

24 Oct - 04 Nov - Preview 24 October, 6-8.30pm

Snapshots

Angelina Aleksandrovich, Anita Chandra, Mark Conlon, Michael Marten, Mike Curry, Marta Rovatti, Simon Head, Simon Urwin, Susan Kay

The Brick Lane Gallery - THE ANNEXE curates a group of local emerging photographers to celebrate East London's Photomonth. Artists working in all styles and subjects represent the diversity this medium can produce. Images of the Ugly and the Beautiful, the still and the loud, the abstract and real. All the photographers are London or UK based.

02 Oct - 14 Nov - Vary

Brighton Photo Fringe

This year photomonth is linking with the Brighton Photo Fringe, a city-wide biennial festival of over 120 exhibitions and events spreading along the south coast of England as far as Hastings and Chichester. So take the train to Brighton and enjoy a day out exploring the shows and breathing in some fresh sea air. Details of the exhibitions can be found in the Brighton Photo Fringe brochure & map and on the website www.photofringe.org

Brighton Photo Fringe online

Brighton Photo Fringe is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the UK. Open to all and with a strong character, attitude, playfulness and freedom, the festival enables Fringe exhibitors to take risks and self-curate a large number and wide variety of lens-based exhibitions throughout Brighton and the south coast.

Brighton Photo Fringe launches Saturday 6th October 2012 with exhibitions opening across the city during the course of the day.

Enjoy the Fringe. There is something for everybody and everyone is invited.

23 Oct - 18 Nov

Worlds

Michael Rodgers

Applying colour and drawing techniques to photographs of London street scenes, Worlds explores the imagination of the city and the relationship between the artist, the viewer, and the city’s inhabitants.

01 Aug - 31 Dec

Gardel

Craig Stevenson

The work on display at this award winning Latin American restaurant represents the debut solo exhibition for Scottish-born lawyer and photographer, Craig Stevenson.

'Gardel' is a series of images illustrating the influence that legendary tango singer Carlos Gardel has had and continues to have over the architecture and culture in Buenos Aires.

01 Oct - 31 Oct

Of Mist, Windows, Flowers, Roads.

Katja Heber

Katja Heber has produced four sets of three photographs, each dealing with a different subject, but all work together to express thoughts on life and our part in it; 'Of Mist', which portrays London's Regents Canal shrouded in mist; 'Of Windows', images of lit windows at night; 'Of Flowers', pictures of flowers against monotone backdrops; and ' Of Roads', photographs of road markings in their various colours and conjunctions.

29 Sep - 16 Oct

The Hackney Mime School Presents

Richard Kolker, Kristy Gosling, Gillian Vaux, Jochen Klein

In this show the Hackney Mime School artists’ collective attempts to subvert photography’sdecisive moment. Working collaboratively they construct staged imagery that expands this moment from the purely visual to the conceptual, presenting and questioning pivotal moments within a continuing narrative.

07 Oct - 7pm

ASA collective projection evening

full list to be confirmed.

On Thursday the 7th of October around 19:00 join us at Cafe B @ Cable Street Studios, Limehouse, East London for an evening of projections of multimedia works curated by the 3 ASA collective founding members and a guest curator to be announced soon.

http://asacollective.blogspot.com

11 Oct - 04 Nov - Preview - 10 October, 6pm / Talk - 25th October, 7pm

The Fall

Melanie Stidolph

Solo show of photographs and projections by Melanie Stidolph, which extend her recent explorations using motion, light and sound detectors. Naturally occurring and constructed events replace the decisive role of the photographer in triggering images of subjects and objects in tension and suspension.

Stidolph's interest in the idea of 'The Fall' is located in popular photography and art works that engage with the moment before a destructive or fatalistic event, showing the subject on a trajectory that will lead to permanent change, the images are held in the mind's eye as a futile hope in contradiction to the resulting event.

25 Oct - 25 Nov

INVITED

Christopher Gasgoine

INVITED - a series of intimate, narrative studies of ordinary people in extraordinary detail and beauty.

Photography has the unique ability to allow us to see into the lives and circumstances of others. Used with sensitivity it gives us a revealing insight and a shared experience, used with force and immaturity it gives us voyeurism. So if I want to capture openness and vulnerability and the raw edge of someone’s narrative then in return I need to offer listening without judgment, genuine interest and compassion.

I call the process ‘digital camera obscura’ that bears more resemblance to sitting for a

30 Sep - 26 Oct

A Study in Still Life

Jojo Filer-Cooper

For her latest series of works, ‘A Study in Still Life’ Jojo has journeyed back through the ages seeking stylistic inspiration. Having long admired the perfection of the still life images produced by such ‘Old Masters’ as Willelm Kalf and Caravaggio, combined with the many incredible paintings displayed in the Uffizzi. Jojo has now produced four series of works, each with a different style reminiscent of genres from the 16th to the 21st century.

14 Oct - 16 Oct

Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair

Catherine Barrows, Jan Levy, Janie Pengilly, Joanna Burejza, John Armstrong Sinclair, John Maher, Petr Strnad, Pietro Rocchiccioli, Shona Clark

The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair is an established showcase for Artists and Designers to promote and sell their work. The whole event takes place at the Candid Galleries in Islington with each of the four weeks covering specific disciplines. The fair provides a platform for over 200 individual artists across the entire art and design spectrum to show their latest work.
With its dynamic mix of both emerging young artists and those with established reputations, the ICADF is a unique event. The ICADF provides the ideal opportunity to buy opportunity to buy directly from these innovative artists and designers.

07 Oct - 10 Oct

Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair

Claudia Colella, Gabriela Fabrowska-Poposki, Rupert Davies, Simon Goowin, Phil Murphy, Daniella Rizzi

The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair is a unique event specially organized by the Candid Arts Trust for the promotion of up to two hundred artists and designers from the UK and Europe. The event takes place at the Candid Galleries in Islington with each of the four weeks covering specific disciplines. The second week will include photography. The fair provides a platform for over 200 individual artists across the entire art and design spectrum to show their latest work.

Candid Arts Trust is a registered charity and has been organising the ICADF for 7 years.

17 Oct - 07 Nov - Preview 17 October 6pm

Bio-Surrealism

Francesco Caiazza

Fantasy images depicting everyday life.
Surreal settings made by the Earth's elements evoking "bio-surrealism" concerning love, religion, culture, life and death.

06 Oct - 30 Nov

What's the Brief

Andrew Grainger

Andrew Grainger’s first solo exhibition is a selection of personal and emotive images taken in the last five years , a time of reflection after having removed himself of nearly a decade of photographing the fast paced industry of Fashion and Advertising , he has rediscovered his passion for photography by capturing the reality and the spontaneity of his surroundings.
“photography became pleasurable again, not working to anyone else’s brief and it wasn’t measured by success, free to be impulsive and creative without the constraints of an artificial set up..”
Originally from Hartlepool Andrew now lives in Whitechapel.

05 Oct - 14 Dec

Urban Notations [Barbican]

Ruth Hommelsheim

Urban Notations [Barbican], is part of a long-term research on urbanity. It presents an analysis of the city based on experience. The artist makes use of the situationist technique of roaming and immersing herself into the flows of the city and their photographic notation. Using the technique of superimposing, Hommelheim emphasizes the multiplicity of contemporary urbanity.
Urban Notations [Barbican] is a project about and exhibited within the Barbican Estate. The artist is wandering through this large scale estate - a city within the city - notating her impressions using the camera.

02 Oct - 04 Dec - 7.30PM

UCS First Tuesday Talks

Oct 2nd First Tuesday Talk - Ania Dubrowska. Nov 6th First Tuesday Talk - Prof. Del Loewethal – A Life in Pictures: Phototherapy and Post-Existentialism. Dec 4th First Tuesday -Mick Williamson - The Photo-Diaries of Mick Williamson.

Regular talks from the home of Contemporary UK Photography.

01 Oct - 30 Nov - Window display 24/7

Imago Corporis

Yvanne Teo

An exploration of our states of being through a series of snapshots of the body in various unique yet characteristically recognised demeanours exhibited as a window display.

01 Sep - 26 Nov

Mumbai – A Cricketing Temple

Emma Levine

Emma Levine’s photographs, taken in Mumbai in 2010, depict the city’s passion for cricket. This isn’t about the stars of the sport, and there are no photos of Sachin Tendulkar, or other superstar millionaires. It's about the ‘Sachin wannabes’, those who have a passion for cricket and play in backstreet, parks, open spaces and housing colonies, often with basic equipment. Scenes like this are to be found throughout the Indian subcontinent, but attention focused on Mumbai in order to see if the grassroots had been influence by the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League, infused with Bollywood glamour. Thankfully, it hadn’t!

05 Nov - 03 Dec

'Dolled Up'

Jane Skinner

An exhibition of darkroom produced, hand tinted black and white photographs.

The photographer likes to use Sindy dolls and Action Men to recreate images of her personal Ikons and to comment on popular culture,fashion and film in an amusing and idiosyncratic way.

01 Oct - 04 Nov - Opening 4 Oct 5pm-8pm

London In Character

Jean-Francois Rodrigues

An exhibition in 2 parts. " Characters In Monochrome" and "Charlie". "Characters In Monochrome" is a collection of reportage imagery, which artistically documents the talents of numerous creative individuals
living in London, a fashion designer, a textile sculpture artist, an actor from Theatre Royal and a Mime artist.
"Charlie" is a collection of interesting and intriguing portraiture which gives an open an honest depiction of one of East London's last enduring and eccentric characters.

25 Oct - 22 Nov - 28th October

‘Freezing Time Slowly’

Voytek Ketz, Prema Ronningen

‘Freezing Time Slowly’
by Prema Ronningen & Voytek Ketz

A collection of images,
Displaying precious & beautiful places around the world.
Taken in the early morning hours or during late night,
Recording nature as it spans over a period of time,
Creating Unique, Mysterious & Thoughtful images.
Showing us what even our eyes cannot do;
Freezing Time Slowly
*
10% proceeds from the exhibition sale will be donated to
Actionaid UK –End Poverty Together. Registered Charity 274467 www.actionaid.org.uk
www.visionandphotography.com

01 Oct - 31 Oct

Religion – work in progress

Nigel Barklie

This exhibition of photographs explores religion and is an experiment with the B/W printing technique called 'lithprint'.

Nigel Barklie is a photographer with thirty years experience. For the last ten years he has freelanced on the Daily Mail regularly filling the role of Night Picture Editor.

"With this exhibition I am trying to figure out how my life experience fits with the doctrines of the Catholic Church. It is work in progress so the pictures are far from complete. I would love to hear your reaction by email."

Contact nigel.pictureline.co.uk.

11 Nov - 13 Nov

The Space In-Between

Clare Lewis

Clare Lewis’ photographs and film consider the threshold or in-between place of change between two intermediate states. This ‘Liminal’ area is characterised by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy.
Focusing on particular places and moments in time, this exhibition evokes an experience of the Liminal for the viewer and offers a reflection on the flux and flow of life, its beauty and fragility and the possibility of transcendence.

06 Nov - 08 Jan

Spice of Eden

Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury

Indian spices and vegetables are explored as monumental and archaic forms, by Fine Artist & photographer, Cinnamon Heathcote-Drury. Designed as a site-specific installation for the Anglo-Indian fusion restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen, the adjacent Anise bar also hosts two intriguing portraits that celebrate genetic difference without defining specific cultural identity.

The theme of 'Eden' underlies all the works - a hint of danger and plenty of questions left unresolved. The spices and vegetables often resemble fossilized ancient relics, stone or carved wood, and force the viewer to engage with the forceful microscopic intensity presented before them.

07 Oct - 19 Oct

Dead On Holiday

Andrea Dicenzo, Tess Thackara, Konrad Buczek

Dead on Holiday

Through a darkly comedic lens, this photography collaboration explores the seduction and anxiety of tourism. Breaking the mould of the traditional holiday snap shot, the series aims to poke fun at the relationship between photography and tourism, as well as the suggested danger of visiting any foreign place.

Remaining faithful to the constructed artificiality of holiday photos, we have departed from them in all other respects. Our settings are unidentifiable and relatively mundane, the subjects are anonymous and the images are records not of life, but death.

28 Oct - 09 Nov

On a Night Like This.....

Vickie Parker

'On A Night Like This' is a collection of images from Vickie Parker as she spends a year following party Shake It in warehouses in and around East London.

The collection shows the vitality and energy of a place where people regularly come together to share a common bond - their love of the music and in the process have formed friendships, spent time with each other and possibly even had the night of their lives!

13 Nov - Tues 13th Nov 2012 - 6.45 - 9.00pm

Vintage car photography

David Southcott

David Southcott will present an evening of his great vintage car photography. David owns and photographs classic, vintage and veteran cars at events around the country.

Hear about the cars, and how he takes his pictures.

11 Oct - 11 October 6.45pm

David Levine - on portrait photography.

David Levine

"I love photographing people - it's never dull and never without a challenge"
David's work in the fashion, advertising and music industry has enabled him to live and work in many countries over the years. His photographs have been published in magazines world-wide including Vogue, national newspapers and on millions of record sleeves for artist's including Culture Club, ABC and Kyle Minogue.

Photo is Bradley Moore taken by David Levine.

01 Nov - 1 Nov 6.45pm

Peter Marshall on photographing protest on the streets of London.

Peter Marshall

Peter Marshall of My London Diary http://mylondondiary.co.uk/ talks about photographing protest on the streets of London.

Peter has published a number of books and is a photographer, writer and a member of the NUJ.

In Search of Atget: Paris 1984 http://is.gd/oRLosu

Still Occupied: A View of Hull 1977-85 http://is.gd/GwtO3o

Before the Olympics: The Lea Valley 1981 - 2010 http://is.gd/dp02K

16 Oct - 6.45pm-9pm

City of London & Cripplegate Photographic Society - London from the Rooftops

James Burns

Pro photographer, James Burns, has built up a fantastic portfolio of stunning shots of London. James gets access to high vantage points in some of the most prestigous skyscrapers in the City.

He is coming to show us his stunning shots, give us the story on how he got access, and tell us how he made the shots.

This is your chance to see London as you've never seen it before!!! Not to be missed.

20 Oct - 05 Nov

RUST x RUST and FAINTLY ILLUMINATED MEMORIES

Geoff Chaplin; Rust x Rust, Hisao Asano; Faintly Illuminated Memories

Both photographers are based in Hokkaido, Japan.

Geoff Chaplin presents new gum prints on watercolour sheets 22”x30” and also colour photographs in the “Moon Star” series.

Hisao Asano’s evocative pinhole images recall his memory of his family and of Hokkaido and its history.

06 Nov - 14 Nov

Printmaking: new directions

Ryuta Suzuki & Erica Donovan

Ryuta Suzuki’s technique, ‘water colour photo woodcut print’, indicates a unique depiction of woodcut prints and photographs. Erica Donovan’s screen prints and photo works explore everyday situations and the changes that we face through social interaction and the advances of technology.

25 Nov - 09 Dec

Opus 7: two Portfolios

Geoff Chaplin & Yasu Suzuka

Geoff explores different interpretations of the same photographic image using “alternative” printing techniques on whole sheets of watercolour paper. Yasu’s work is world renowned and this display includes examples of his pinhole sunrise images and new work.

16 Oct - 12 Dec

Inspired

Alix Edwards

From blank pieces of paper to creative richness, this exhibition documents the journey of Art In The Community, a group set up to rekindle that creative spark that's there in all of us (but that can so easily get lost) - from inception to exhibition!
There will be a selection of individual artworks on display.
A donation will be made to hosts The Salvation Army for each artwork/photographic print sold to continue the project.

07 Oct - 15 Oct - Friday 7th October 2011 (Monday to Saturday 10am - 4 pm, detailed opening times contact 020 8980 2092) to Saturday 15th October

South West Graduate Photography Prize 2011

The South West Graduate Photography Prize returns to PhotoMonth with FOTONOW bringing a show of six emerging artists (recent graduates) from the South West to reveal distinct areas of practice that informs lving and working in the region.

07 Oct - 09 Oct - Mon to Fri, 10am-4pm

South West Graduate Photography Prize 2011

Emma Walker Fabio Blaser Ibolya Feher Louis Little Luke Archer Rugile Zukaite

South West Graduate Photography Prize returns with six recent graduates from SW higher education institutions selected for a group exhibition and book launch; Emma Walker, Fabio Blaser, Ibolya Feher, Louis Little, Luke Archer and Rugile Zukaite show will open at Create Place in London on 7th October with preview drinks reception at 5pm.

08 Oct - 14 Oct - Opening 9 October, 6-8pm

Truth & Art: 3 Artists, 3 Continents, 1 Truth

Sunara Begum

Truth & Art is a new exhibition exploring the relationship between three global artists/musicians and their work. Combining paint on 16mm film with archive images as well as 35mm photographs the images are evocative and timeless. The exhibition tells the story of the ancient and modern, illustrating its relevance and importance to our present.

Exclusive performance by South American group, the Diana Baroni Trio and Musicialist. 9 Oct 6-8pm

26 Oct - 05 Nov

Late Fragment

Pippa Healy

Which objects will surround you in the final years of life? And what might they say about you ; about who you are, and who you were? What would you choose to take when moving from a house and home into just one room?

‘Late Fragment’ is a series of photographs taken in resident’s rooms in care homes. The project explores what residents keep with them, whether through necessity or comfort.

You can’t take your possessions with you, but some of them you take to the very end of the very end.

13 Oct - 28 Oct

Perspective

Iulia Filipovscaia Andrew Sawyer Roxanne Grant David Jones

Be curious. Change your perspective

On the 13th of October at 6pm, venture to Whitecross Street where Curious Duke Gallery will be launching their second exhibition. Perspectives showcases photography and painting that explores the idea of viewpoints and perception of the human psyche. From desolate landscapes to raw and intimate portraits, you are invited to see the world through the eyes of an artist.

Premiere Art's goal is to revolutionise the traditional gallery experience- enabling gallery goers to interact with rather than merely view the artwork. This private view will host an installation that will blur the boundaries between viewer and subject.

14 Oct - 25 Oct - Monday - Sunday 11am -7pm and by appointment

Young Masters Revisited

Young Masters Revisited is the final show of the Young Masters Tour 2010 which over the last year has toured an excerpt of The Young Masters Art Prize 2009, sponsored by AXA UK internationally.
The exhibition features emerging and newly established artists whose work is inspired by Old Masters. Through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, each artist references an element of the established art historical canon, either through technique, imagery, or subject matter, whilst establishing an undeniably contemporary spin on highly revered paintings.

Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the photography of exile online

Victor Hugo and the Jersey Studio

Dr Jann Matlock, Senior Lecturer, UCL French and School of European Languages, Culture and Society

What is it about exile that inspires photography? This talk explores the earliest known exile photography, created in the studio formed by Victor Hugo’s family and friends in their exile on the Channel Island of Jersey between 1852 and 1855. In these years, the Hugo group turned exile into a photographic project, and in doing so, they transformed the history of photography.

08 Nov - 11 Nov

Deja Vu

Mitch Karunaratne, Laurie Griffiths, Paul Walsh, Heather Shuker, Chloe Lelliot, Kerry Grainger, Kat Williams, David Sterry, Alina Linnas, Kristin Hoell , Vanessa Roy, Holly Oliver.

Déjà-vu

The photograph is an uncanny object, fascinating because of the way it doubles the world, stops time and folds one moment of history into another. In this sense it shares the structure of our experience of ‘déjà-vu’.

But it also promises the special quality of recognition and revelation that is associated with ‘déjà-vu’ – a feeling that, in the suspension of time, something that we desire might be revealed, something that links us to our origin in the world, something that we might recognize as being fundamentally true.
http://www.dejavu2012.co.uk/

12 Oct - 28 Oct

I Love Chatsworth Road

Jørn Tomter

Jørn Tomter is making an ongoing record of the people living in the Chatsworth Road area of Hackney. Stories are continuously published on to the dedicated website ilovechatsworthroad.com. Last year Tomter opened up his first pop-up studio on Chatsworth Road; offering people free portraits and prints to take home. More than 300 people were photographed during the week and a wide selection will be on show at The Dentist. The portraits show a natural wide mix of people and how proud residents are to live there. A joint show will be exhibited at Jims, 59 Chatsworth Road.

13 Oct - 01 Nov - Monday - Friday 7.30am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm

Façades

Carita Laamanen

‘Façades’ is an intimate depiction of urban life in London. The result of a two-and-a-half year project, it portrays London from the perspective of photographer and writer Carita Laamanen.

“This city is a myth. Its streets are lined with images. These are images of fantasies, made of even the simplest of dreams.”

Photographed on black-and-white 35mm film, Laamanen’s work confronts photography itself as much as it does her subject matter. The intrinsic fleetingness of the photographic image is used to incredible effect in this series of works that question and challenge the commonly perceived façades seen to represent the city we know.

04 Oct - 29 Oct - Opening Night: 5 October 7-9pm

Mescolanza

Angus Ferguson, Carmen Hughes, Caroline Lee, Diane Shillito, Charlotte Mann, Ilhelm Oubaiche, Leo Hoang, Lisa Denton, Lynne Roberts, Micha Wells, Matthew Watson, Robert Woodward, Tim Waterfield,

Mesocolanza is a collaborative show created to give unknown
photographers the opportunity to show their work, many for the first time. Anchoring the show is ‘365 Days’ by Charlotte Mann; presented as a slide show, the work acts
as a journal for 2010, showing pictures of her everyday life, one day at a time.

01 Sep - 05 Oct

Helsinki City Thoughts & Personal Works

Emiliano Verrocchio

"Helsinki City Thoughts"
a selection of photos taken when I was living in the Finnish capital. I caught so many interesting aspects of human life while I was living in one of the most beautiful, inspiring and cute cities of Europe.

"English Strip" is a collection of 11 images taken around England, since 2001.

Plus a personal selection of my favourite photos. Prints will be available for sale.

About me:
I am a freelance photographer, I started taking photos since I was 13 and I currently live and work in London.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

The Thames Tamed

Stuart Koenig-Roach

Scenic photography of the Thames from its tidal reaches to the Docklands, Pool of London and Embankment.

03 Nov - 01 Jan

'Cut Out & Keep'

Christian Tagliavini

The work of Christian Tagliavini can be experienced in many ways. Its duality of expressive artistry & meticulously controlled portraits, display a beautifully curated world of sitters posed within the handcrafted clothes made by the artist himself. Set against the backdrop of art history, referencing movements such as the Renaissance & Cubism, he wields his lens after the long complex process of designing, building & making to
create his mise en scène.

05 Oct - 29 Oct

Prix Pictet Commission Prize: 'Ushirikiano' by Photographer Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan

The Prix Pictet Commission, awarded by the Partners Of Pictet & Cie, is an invitation to a photographer selected from the Shortlist to undertake a field trip to a region where the Bank is supporting a sustainability project.

For the third Commission Pictet supported the work of the Tusk Trust, specifically the Nakuprat Conservancy, a new community-led initiative in Northern Kenya.

Shortlisted photographer Chris Jordan, who visited Northern Kenya in July says, “The killing of elephants is what happens when we forget our interdependence with the natural world, and the higher purposes of our life and our own human dignity.”

12 Nov - 21 Nov

HOMELESS GALLERY - off limits

If you are a photographer by day or night, if you are a professional, a student or just a hobbyist and would like to share your view of the world with others through your work this is a show for you. For anyone who would like to participate in the exhibition all you have to do is come to Dilston Grove on Friday November 12 (9-4pm) or Saturday November 13 (9-12pm) with your photographs and hang them yourself.

07 Oct - 03 Dec

Empty Bottles

WassinkLundgren

DMB Space presents Wassinklundgren’s Prix du Livre Award winning project Empty Bottles, previously unseen in the UK. The exhibition will present both traditional photographs and pages removed from the book.

Empty Bottles chart the daily rituals of 24 refuse collectors as they go about their business. Each picture, set against the backdrops of Beijing and Shanghai captures the extraordinary combination of roles played out by the men and women – part scavenger, part collector and part cleaner.

08 Nov - 6.30pm-9.30pm

STEPHEN GILL Coexistence. Book Signing

Stephen Gill

6 different marbled covers available by Stephen Gill. 90 colour photographs. 215x280mm. 152 pages. Doubled gatefold. Hardback. Leather spine, quarter bound binding. Foil blocking on front spine. Painted speckles on book block. ISBN 978-2-919873-10-4. Edition of 1500 copies £30. Enquiries s@stephengill.co.uk www.nobodybooks.com.

06 Nov - 15 Nov - Launch 2pm 6 November

Nevermind at Reading (1991)

"I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male." Kurt Cobain.

A series of images shot just prior to the release of the pioneering Nirvana LP 'Nevermind' at Reading Festival by Charlie Hallinan.

Charlie worked as a pro music photographer during the 1980's and 1990's; two defining decades of music in the UK and Ireland.

17 Oct - 28 Oct

Art of Imperfection

Pascal Ancel Bartholdi, Ryuji Araki and Bernhard Deckert

This show includes three artists who each make use of this medium with a conscious disregard for flatness, reproducibility and static design entering the quantum realm by unifying the instant and the eternal the distant and the local. Photography moving with a body, transmuted into a personal understanding of the Mandala or fathomed as receptacle of visceral and psychic phenomena, with an accolade to the Dada artists, the anonymous visionaries of medieval times and the creative shamans who painted on rocks and bodies more than 15 thousand years ago.

14 Nov - 18 Nov

Forms

Elisa Noguera, Emma Jane Spain, Diane Bielik, Fanny Jannsen, Monica Takvam, Ella Bryant

Ribbon Machine is a collective of artists who predominantly work with the photograph. They share a common interest in experimenting with processes of making, each using their own methods to give physical form to emotions, perceptions and memories.

21 Nov - 25 Nov

Four Londoners

Barry Sutton, Clare Bowen, Jessica Davies, Sarah Groves.

From the constantly changing skies and skylines to the life that moves through its streets; from its buildings grand and shabby to the detritus that drifts and accumulates in its gutters London provides many opportunities for those with a searching eye to make images both arresting and unsettling. This is an exhibition of the work of four contemporary Londoners who use their cameras to take fresh and vibrant glimpses of the city in which they live, work, play: the city that they love.

03 Oct - 07 Oct

Mythed

Chloe Meunier and Carlos S Armendariz

The exhibition presents the work of two artists exploring the prominence of personal stories in the media. Photography and video are used to highlight moral lining of our society that is reaffirmed by this blind reading of life's surface, and all forms of imposed morality are encoded in the flux of static information advertised through a multitude of ideal imagery.

10 Oct - 14 Oct

Rotten

Mark Stringer

On 23rd June 1996 Mark Stringer was commissioned to cover the Filthy Lucre Tour on Johnny Rotten's home turf, the Sex Pistols had reformed. When the moment came the security let him into a pit full of an image hungry, gladiatorial, telephoto lens waving mob. With short fast optics and a vintage analogue style, Mark came away trembling with one great picture.

31 Oct - 04 Nov

Subtexts

Heloise Bergman, Coral Howard and Kate Kotcheff

This selection of three photographers presents a variety of approaches to subtext. Ranging in subject from behavioural patterns and conflict, ambiguity and idealization of the body, to imagined and constructed interiors spaces,

07 Nov - 11 Nov

Suburban Light

Penny Dampier, Sophie Barr ,Naa teki lebar, Talitha robert

This exhibition of new work by four London artists explores the contradictions of the suburban landscape: light and dark; interior and exterior. These images collectively evoke a yearning for a simpler past but they often hint at something darker. This is a child’s world seen through adult eyes. Works include both prints and projections innovatively installed

01 Oct - 01 Nov

Darkroom Magic

Guy Paterson, Sebastian Sussmann, Michael Grieve, Brad Feurholm, Constanza isaza martinez, Rachel Thompson, Miriam Nabarro and many more

Oct 6-7 --- Intro to darkroom weekend course. Oct 20-21 - Lith printing open workshop. We have a gallery space in the studio which is used by darkroom members and photographers to display work and work in progress during photomonth we will be displaying a collection of Silver gelatin and alternative process work submitted by darkroom members and studio users.

08 Dec - 08 Jan - PV and Wet plate Portraits by John and Katie Sat 8th Dec 10-4

Vanitas

John Brewer, Kate Horsley

Vanitas - An exhibition of unique photographic plates using the wet collodion process by John Brewer and Kate Horsley.

Launching the show with a special event. 8th December 10-4 John will be shooting wet plate portraits all day. Only £10 in aid of Core Arts

25 Oct - 28 Oct - Preview 25 Oct 6.30pm-9pm

AOP Open Awards 2012

The AOP Open is run by the Association of Photographers and is the only competition where professionals and amateurs compete on equal terms. There are no categories or themes in this competition so the choice of work submitted is entirely up to the photographer. The competition has been running for 12 years and each year it attracts approximately 1,500 entries from around the world, with a public vote that in 2011 attracted over 5000 voters. Talks & Demo's 26 Oct 10.30am-6pm. To reserve seats email exposure@aophoto.co.uk

14 Oct - 16 Oct

AOP OPEN AWARDS 2011

The AOP Open is run by the Association of Photographers and is the only competition where professionals and amateurs compete on equal terms. There are no categories or themes in this competition so the choice of work submitted is entirely up to the photographer. The competition has been running for 11 years and each year it attracts approximately 1,500 entries from around the world, with a public vote that in 2010 attracted over 4000 voters.

03 Oct - 10 Oct - Preview Thursday 4 October 6.30-9pm.

Peaches & Cream II

Chloe Borkett, Jean-Luc Brouard, Justina Burnett, Dan Carroll, Chiara Ceolin, Eran Gilat, Daniel Grant, Seulki Ki, Andrew Kovalev, PutPut, Michael Schachtner,

The exhibition features shortlisted photographers from the second Peaches and Cream competition. To view the online gallery visit http://www.milim.com/news.php?id=187

The private view will culminate by awarding:
- First Prize of £500 and a 3 year contract with Millennium Images
- Special graduate prize of £100 and a contract with Millennium Images.

Millennium will also be launching Catalogue V featuring over 300 photographers on the night.

For more information visit www.milimgallery.com/peaches or contact Madeleine or Federica on kiri@milimgallery.com.

05 Oct - 18 Oct

Peaches & Cream

Alan Powdrill Brendan Baker & Daniel Evans Judith Lyons Laura Stevens Luke Pajak Lydia Panas Neil Craver Nicholas Wiesnet Richard Tuschman Roberta Murray Zoe Plummer

Millennium Images , Milim Gallery and Crane Kalman Brighton present the inaugural exhibition of a new photographic competition Peaches & Cream.

Peaches & Cream has offered all photographers the chance to win a three-year contract with Millennium Images and the opportunity to see their work published on the front cover of a best-selling novel. Both cash prizes including £500 and the Special Graduate Award £100 will be announced on the night of the private view.

03 Oct - 10 Oct

Peaches and Cream

Millennium Images photography competition, in conjunction with Milim Gallery and Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery.

Five photographers' work will be selected to be exhibited at the Dreamspace gallery during Photomonth. The prize winners to be announced at the Preview.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Photomonth At Drop East

Rebecca Philio Robert Hind Carol Marin-Pache Paulina Czyz

Rebecca Philio looks at how our perceptions to hair can change once leaving the body. Robert Hind looks at how urban areas still have a participation in nature. Carol creates ‘painted’ pictures from water reflections and Paulina takes us on a quirky story through a small Polish village.

12 Oct - 26 Oct - 6 - 9 pm

Wild Places

Robert Pereira Hind

When we think of the wilderness we often imagine it lurking many miles from central London. Well perhaps not, ‘Wild Places’ is my attempt to draw our attention to the natural beauty of the wild, literally overlooked on our city streets.

The writer Stephen Graham makes the point in his book of 1923 ‘The Gentle Art Of Tramping’, that “the wild is ubiquitous”.

Behind this urban facade the wild lurks only a few inches away, between paving stones, behind dumped fridges, along the edge of a curbstones, pushing it's way through the cracks into the light of our lives.

02 Nov - 16 Nov

Studies

Carol Marin-Pache

Carol Marin-Pache new work stems from an extensive study that captures ‘traces’ left and found in her surroundings. These images have a painterly quality, the subject is ambiguous and the scale of the actual object is unspecified. MP is drawing the attention of the viewer to the making, and viewing, of photographic images more than the things they depict. The transformation of the objects offers the observer a wide range of opportunities to add their own imagination to the print.

16 Nov - 01 Dec

Tits Village Adventure

Paulis

Imagine the greatest, cutest and quietest middle of Nowhere, where everybody, not even can, but has to forget all gloom and dark sides of its short live and let be taken high up by dreams…

Went as usual to get a bottle of red, when we stopped by a box filled up with tacky toys…and there it was! Starring at us and pointing with its sharp nipple right at my nose – The Tit – a hero of my photo story. So, from that day Tit stayed in my hand and followed us everywhere we went to, done what we did.

21 Oct - 23 Oct

London Instagram Exhibition

A selection of iphoneography from a London collective of Instagram photographers, covering a range of street, formalist, abstract, experimental and architectural photography. Instagram is a worldwide community of over 5 million photographers who produce and share their iphone photos using a wide range of different apps to produce photos in a variety of effects and styles.

02 Nov - 09 Nov

"It’s a thin line between Heaven and here"

Ian Atkinson, Simona Ciobotariu, Mustafa Batibeniz, Emma Brennan, Victoria Kovalenko, Gemma Wyer, Ceyda Nielsen, Antonio Giorgio, Michele Clement-Delbos, Solmaz Tahvilzadeh, Andrew Kennedy, Mohsen Zarei, Digby Washer, Hannah Richardson, Daniel Imade, ian_Farrant, Michele Cremona, Spencer Rowell.

"It’s a thin line between Heaven and here", offers an intimate yet unsettling exposé of some of London’s brightest emerging photographers.
Falling to that middle ground, the works sit on a knife edge between surreal and distressing, uncomfortable and intriguing. The Sir John Cass School of Art and Design MA photographic show running as part of Photomonth,

"It’s a thin line between Heaven and here" is curated by The Butchers Fridge

10 Nov - 19 Nov - Pvt View. Invite only. Thursday 11th Nov

UncertainStates 2010

Recognisable and new work from the UncertainStates collective. Including Fiona Yaron-Field, David George and Spencer Rowell.

A celebration of a year in print. UncertainStates, a photographic collective with work steeped in nostalgia, memory and obsolescence, commemorates its first major milestone with an exhibition of new works as well as the best of the past year. Curated by The Butchers Fridge

03 Nov - 08 Nov

SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY

Gavin Bambrick, Maeve Berry, Tim Burrough, James Hardie, Inbal Mizrahi, Jayne Taylor, Sam Taylor, David Wilkinson.

...encompasses themes of memory, intimacy and escape. Diverse in style and approach, from the abstract to the cinematic, to stereoscopic, all 8 exhibitors share the common history of being Photography graduates from the University of Westminster. The show represents the first group outing of this recently-formed photographic collective.

06 Oct - 12 Oct - Preview: 6 October 6.30pm

UNCERTAIN STATES 2011

Artist include: Susan Andrews, James Russell-Cant, Kerry Clark, Damian Gillie, David George, William Head, Mich Karunaratne, Roy Mehta, Spencer Rowell, Eti Wade, Mick Williamson, Aviv Yaron, Fiona Yaron-Field,

'Uncertain States' is an artist led project which promotes New British Art Photography. After another successful year in print Uncertain States will present an exhibition of new works produced by their artists/photographers.

02 Oct - 31 Oct

Images on the Line

Heather McDonough & Rod Morris

The Photobooth Project Photographers Heather McDonough and Rod Morris have been working with the London Transport Museum, setting up temporary photobooths in locations along the line and taking portraits of passer-by. A selection of images taken in East London will be exhibited on the platforms of the four new Overground stations at Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton and Shoreditch High Street. You can see the full collection of portraits at the London Transport Museum www.ltmuseum.co.uk
With thanks to TfL, LOROL and the London Transport Museum.

03 Nov - 04 Nov - Preview 1 November 6pm-9pm

Trinity Buoy Wharf Photographic Competition RESURGENCE

Entrants are asked to produce images on the theme of the ‘Resurgence’ of life on the river in this part of East London, focusing on documenting the immediate area of the thriving and diverse community at Trinity Buoy Wharf in any of these categories :Portraiture, Abstract, Reportage, Landscape, Architecture.

Full details online at http://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/photo

05 Nov - 25 Nov - Private View // 4th November - 6.30pm to 8.30pm

States of Recollection

Jason Pietra

States of Recollection is the collaboration of Annette Masterman and Jason Pietra.
The Photographs, still life assemblages with allusions to the work of Joseph Cornell and traditions of Memento Mori in European art.  In their juxtaposition of texture, animate and inanimate, flourish and decay, the images suggest subtle connections that link memory,stages of life and the passage of time.

27 Nov - 18 Dec

FIELD WORKS: Photographs from East Anglia

JUSTIN PARTYKA www.justinpartyka.com

Field Works: Photographs from East Anglia

For almost a decade Justin Partyka has been photographing the agrarian community of rural East Anglia. In this first London solo-exhibition of these photographs, he reveals the strong sense of place this region, and how the land intimately shapes the way of life. Often melancholy in feel, Partyka’s work shows a world that is rooted to the past and its memories. His photographs may suggest that this is a way of life that is passing, but for now they tell the story of the small-time farmers who are reluctant to disappear.

25 Oct - 30 Oct - Preview Thursday 25 Oct 6-9pm

Glimpse

Jenny Bush, Matt Taylor, Pawel Prus, John Maher, Michael J. Wills, Mariana Canet, Mark Adams, Clare Lewis, Pete Webster, Marina Lewis, Rachel I'Anson

Glimpse showcases the work of photographers working and living in London. The exhibition offers diverse approaches to photography and invites the viewer to question perceptions between fiction and reality.

01 Nov - 06 Nov

I'm A Real Doll

Jenny Bush

I was inspired by the use of dolls by artists such as Hans Bellmer, finding his photographs of dolls unsettling but also fascinating. These feelings were subsequently invoked by images of Real Dolls.
My 'Doll' series started as a venture into combing re-photographed appropriated film images of Real Dolls with text to create my own photographic artworks.

25 Oct - 29 Oct

Public/Private

Brigitte Boldy, Nick Braithwaite, Bunshri Chandaria, Anne Clements, Julie Derbyshire, Vikki Ellis, Chris Gravett, Lucia Hrda, Olga Suchanova

Public/Private. Public brings to mind notions of the open, outside and the urban (shared space and ideas, community etc.), while Private typically implies, perhaps, more notions linked to home, of the inside, the personal, the intimate, unshared or undisclosed, the solitary and the domestic. We have considered how the use of photography may help apprehend both the notions of public and private as separate entities as well as entities that only exist because of each other.

18 Oct - 23 Oct - Preview 18 Oct 6pm

Uncertain States 2012

Susan Andrews, Robin Grierson, Mick Williamson, David George, Laura Hynd, Ania Dubrowska, Del Loewethal, Fiona Yaron-Field, Aviv Yaron, Sophie Gerrard, Sukey Parnell, Hazel Pitt, Victoria Kovalenko, James Russell Cant, Julio Etchart, Franciso Gomez de Villaboa, Roy Mehta, Graham Asker and Spencer Rowell, Geoff Titley, Eti Wade, Julie Cockburn, Jane Garefield,

Selected works from the UCS collective, as they celebrate their 3rd year in print.

Artists Talk 23 October 6pm

14 Oct - 30 Oct - Preview 13 October 6.30 pm

So Close but So Far

Mariona Otero Ibáñez

I always observe the same everyday actions within different cultures. This way the atmosphere captured in a picture is just as valuable as the acts taking place. And through the depiction of these universal acts I show the true personal identity of the places.

‘So Close but So Far’ is a collection of photographs mostly taken in Manchester (UK) and Chennai (South India).

My images are of everyday moments in a regular lifestyle; these are common to the human experience, and for this reason they deserve to be shown to a wider audience.

05 Oct - 10 Oct

FUTURE-HOPE + FASHION-ART EXHIBITION LONDON

Paulina Otylie Surys , Sarah Vo , Emilie Lindsten , Morgan O'Donovan , Francesco de Villalboa , Antonio Patrizio , Charles Moriarty , Stephane Penkhoss

Mutimedia - Fashion-Art Exhibition + Visual Sound Art, Installations and Performance
five day pop up show of avant-garde and conceptual nature, various artworks transport in an interactiive way to a surreal enviroment.., simple/or complex ideas of the universe and world we live in present and future evocations are fused together, representing the vision, talent and creativity of a group of up and coming designers & artists based in the city of London, curated by Mariana Abella

designers , performers and photography installation,
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130866000342442 check event link here for more information, hope to see you there! please RSVP only event!!

02 Oct - 13 Nov

Home Sweet Home

Anna Batchelor, Sarah Colson

Home Sweet Home is a guerilla exhibition of portrait photography and cross-stitch samplers that tell the story of a dispersed community. The community are the remaining residents of the Ferrier housing estate in south-east London, which is being gradually demolished. With emphasis on the human experience of regeneration, photographer Anna Batchelor has taken portraits of the remaining residents in the context of the changing estate. Designer Sarah Colson has fused cross-stitch embroidery with quotations from Ferrier residents and imagery from the estates environment. For this exhibition the images are posted onto the boarded up fronts of the Ferrier's empty houses.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Fishing Boats and Fishermen.

Bob Dawson

Artist Bob Dawson exhibits a selection of photographic images, captured in Morocco and Scotland, that express the enduring aesthetic of fishing boats and the men who work them.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Sea-thoughts

Bob Dawson

On show are a selection of photographic and photomontage images and text inspired by, and giving reference to poems, myths and legends of the sea and ocean.

01 Sep - 25 Sep

Father and Son

Richard and Pablo Bartholomew

Indian Photographer Pablo Bartholomew opens his personal archives in a tribute to his late father Richard. Never exhibited during the father's lifetime the pictures are a tender portrait of family and the burgeoning Boheme of the newly independent India of the 1950s. The son's photography stands in a direct contrast to the classic composition of the father and draw in a wider circle of subjects. Friends and lovers, parties and the backstreets of 1970s Delhi and Bombay.

17 Sep - 09 Oct

Native

Mona Kuhn

In these photographs, Kuhn encapsulates the emotions of living in Brazil through her memory of the landscape’s green, yellow and pink palette, as well as her intimate reconnection with its people. By contrasting the vitality of the dense Brazilian countryside with the sparse interior of an abandoned apartment, Kuhn establishes her own fantasy of time and place. Within the portraits, the artist develops a trusting relationship with her subjects, allowing her to portray the complexities of human nature, both tempting and provoking the viewer’s imagination. Kuhn delicately intertwines these disparate aspects, culminating in her most mature work to date.

17 Sep - 09 Oct

Hungry

Julia Curtin Kelly Hill Tom Lovelace Marcia Michael Kate Owens David Plummer Zhao Renhui

Rhubarb Rhubarb & Arts Council England photography bursary winners exhibition.

13 Oct - 13 Nov

Yangtze, The Long River

Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander's series Yangzte, The Long River is simultaneously poem, travel journal and visual odyssey: we are made to witness the journey from the river's mouth to its source at a time of tumultuous social and environmental change. Kander draws us into the charged landscape through his images; photographic odes to the disquieting and arresting metamorphosis of a nation's spatial and temporal ballasts, distilling human-scale intimacy within scenes of monumental transformation.
Kander was chosen as the winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet award in 2009.
A new publication will accompany this exhibition.

15 Oct - 14 Nov

Guantanamo: If the light goes out

Edmund Clark

‘When you are suspended by a rope you can recover, but every time I see a rope
I remember. If the light goes out unexpectedly in a room, I am back in my cell.’

Binyam Mohamed, Prisoner #1458

This is a study of home, of a very particular idea of home at a very particular time in our history.
These are all objects, spaces, documents, instances connected to the lives of men held in detention at Guantanamo Bay.

26 Oct - 24 Nov

BRUSH IT IN

Joshua Citarella, Fleur van Dodewaard, Christiane Feser, Darren Harvey-Regan, Antonio Marguet, Anne de Vries

‘Brush it in’ is an expression for a wide variety of alterations made to digital photographs after their creation. The transition from analogue to digital post-production yielded an incredible expansion of existing techniques. Adobe Photoshop was originally developed to emulate the physical
techniques of the darkroom. It quickly developed its own
specific vocabulary and it is precisely this language that
Brush it in engages with. Curated by Lorenzo Durantini

25 Nov - 01 Jul

Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf

Flowers will present Michael Wolf’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Wolf’s photographic work tackles the complexity of city life through observations of how vernacular architecture and public space are used.This exhibition will be constructed from the following groups of work:

Architecture of Density
Tokyo Compression
Transparent City

14 Oct - 19 Nov - Preview 13 October 6pm

We English

Simon Roberts

"Initially, I was simply thinking about Englishness and how my upbringing had been quintessentially English. How much of this was an intrinsic part of my identity? In what ways was my idea of what constitutes an ‘English life’ or English pastimes (if there are such things) different to those of others’? My own memories of holidays, for example, were infused with very particular landscapes; the lush green-ness around Derwent Water or the flinty grey skies – and pebbles – of Angmering’s beaches. It seemed to me that these landscapes formed an important part of my consciousness of who I am."

01 Nov - 01 Dec

Short stories

Stuart Weston, Oliver Prout, Paulina Otylie Surys, Majella, Paul De Luna

"Short stories" is a group photography exhibition, showcasing works from both established and upcoming artists.

Each photographer will exhibit a collection of prints (up to 6 per story) that form a narrative story. Taking the viewer on a visual journey. Aesthetically the exhibition offers photographers the opportunity to showcase, a range of work that often falls between the boundaries of fashion and art photography, challenging our perception of both.

Often sensual and always engaging

04 Oct - 12 Oct - Opening 4 October 6pm

Third Effect

Yanina Shevchenko, Nicholas Tse, Jelena Hadziosmanovic, Natxa Pomar, Claire Power, Yuri Matsuoka, Eva Sayannou, Orly Zailer, Kyler Zeleny, Parnian Ferdossi, Éanna de Fréine, Juan José Ortiz Arenas, Franklin Lopes, Ruiyan Huang, Roham Shiraz, Sam Bailey, Nelsi Manrique, Sara Faridamin.

f-twentytwo is a collective of 18 international photographic artists from more than ten countries including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Japan, Russia, Singapore and the UK.

‘Third Effect’ will present the visual work of f-twentytwo, showcasing their theoretical and personal engagements with various aspects of the city in its everyday life, spaces, detours and encounters.

‘Third Effect’ aims to bring together multi-disciplinary perspectives in a visual portrayal of the urban, to generate thought-provoking insights and to interest the eye.

11 October 6.30pm - Artists Talk - URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY THAT SPEAKS? This talk will examine the way the medium can be used to investigate and communicate contemporary ideas and views around society today.

17 Oct - 27 Oct

London: a landscape in transition

MIKE SEABORNE

Recent work by Mike Seaborne concerned with the evolving urban landscape of London and the Thames Estuary. For over 30 years Mike was Curator of Photographs at the Museum of London and throughout that time contributed both to the ongoing photographic archive and to numerous exhibitions and publications.

Mike is perhaps best known for his work on London's high streets, housing estates and the changing riverscape. This exhibition will feature new work exploring the landscape of the estuary as it faces globalised development pressures such as a major new container terminal and an international airport hub.

Artist Talk: 24 October 6.30pm Free

17 Oct - 21 Oct

ACHTUNG?! - RESPECT, CONTROL, CHANGE

Each year FotoDoks invites photographers from a guest country. This year it is the UK and photomonth is linking with the festival. FotoDoks examines and challenges the current state of documentary photography. It is an exhibition, a gathering, a symposium, a discussion, a festival, giving both professional and keen amateurs the opportunity to discover new works and old masters and exchange ideas.
www.FotoDoks.de

01 Oct - 10 Dec

WORKSHOPS

YOUNG PEOPLES PHOTO WORKSHOP
Four Corners are running a series of workshops for young people, every Saturday from 1 October until 10 December, 2-5pm.

STUDIO LIGHTING WORKSHOP with Spencer Rowell
22 October 10.30am-5.30pm
An alternative look at the studio portrait.
With hands on experience of tungsten, Kino and flash lighting.
Spencer Rowell will take a non traditional look at the studio and self, portrait.
After an initial introduction to tungsten flash kino in the studio environment a practical hands on approach so bring your film or digital camera.

5x4 PINHOLE CAMERA AND COLOUR PRINT WORKSHOP with Lisa Byrne
29 Oct & 5 Nov 10.30am-5.30pm
a two day practical workshop showing you how to make a 5x4 pinhole camera, shoot on 5x4 colour negatives, make prints and assess results.

CYANOTYPE PRINT WORKSHOP with Tony Cairns
12 Nov 10.30am-5.30pm
This one day workshop will cover the basic processes and materials used in Salt and cyanotype printing processes.

DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY with 5D DSLR with Simon Minett
26 Nov 10.30am-5.30pm
A one day workshop led by award winning Cinematographer, Simon Minett, exploring the latest in digital 35mm technology, paying close attention to the Canon 5D and 7D DSLRs. This practical workshop will explore issues around shooting moving image on a DSLR, and will look at relevant accessories.

PINHOLE PASSPORT BOOTH - OPEN DAY with Chloe Edwards
3 December 10.30am-5.30pm
Pinhole Passport Booth - Open Day. Drop in and have your passport photo taken on a 4 hole pinhole camera and receive your pictures one week later.
NB: Pinhole passport photos not valid for passports.

16 Nov - 15 Dec

Lab Projects

David Birkin, Walter Hugo, Tess Hurrell

Four Corners presents three new works, commissioned through our latest production-led residency programme.
David Birkin's film and photographic work refers to subjectivity, visibility and constructed identity in the context of representations of war.
Walter Hugo produced a series of hand-tinted ferrotypes of ‘street kids’ and Tess Hurrell has created a moving image piece generated from still photographs of Hackney’s waterways.

06 Oct - 6.45pm - 9pm

Photoforum

Quarterly arts forum, where selected artists and photographers present and discuss their work in an informal and supportive environment.

29 Oct - 11 Dec

Salon'10

Four Corners Photo-Imaging Network presents an exhibition of affordable photographic artworks produced by award-winning artists/photographers.

04 Oct - Thursday 4 October 6.30pm

Artists in residence: Photoforum

David Birkin, Walter Hugo, Tess Hurrell

Photoforum is Four Corners arts forum, where selected artists
present and discuss their work in an informal environment.
Octobers event showcases Four Corners artists in residence:
David Birkin, Walter Hugo and Tess Hurrell, who explore their
approaches to their residency projects.

21 Oct - 17 Dec

Closer to Something

Nick Abrahams Isha Bohling Lisa Byrne Tony Cairns Kalev Erikson Walter Hugo Natalia Skobeeva Eva Stenram Geraldine Swayne

An exhibition that celebrates chance and the accidental. The ‘something’ so often missing from contemporary digital practice where mistakes and imperfections can be so easily corrected.

The work ranges from large format pinhole photography, found archival images, antiquarian print processes, sound installations and home processed super 8 film.

22 Oct - 03 Nov - Preview 23 October 6.30pm-9pm

Pulse of a Sequence

Victoria Kovalenko

Using repetition, Victoria creates a continuous fabric of unbroken reality.

Through sequences, the cold abstract is nurtured to a sun-kissed warmth. The surreal fluidity of the photographs further imprints the awareness of time and change on the viewer.

06 Oct - 27 Nov - Opening 6 October ALL WELCOME

London World Class City: Mythical Jerusalem to Olympic Capital

Max Reeves

Max Reeves’ photographs use London as a setting to investigate the intersections and interstitials between life and myth, revealing the complexity of London’s psychological terrain. The actuality of the city morphs into a documentation of personal mythology populated with curious characters, palimpsests, cityscapes, crows, protestors, children Apophenia and aphorisms. Control and authority versus the freedom of the individual and transcendence emerge as themes through layered and often ambiguous images. ‘London is a World Class City’ embraces a poetic critique of the metropolis superseding its geographic locality and political straightjacket.

04 Nov - 30 Nov - 6PM

What They Want, What They Get: The Irish Travellers of Dale Farm

Unmanageable TV

This selection of images follows the lives of a group of Families on Dale Farm, Essex. Dale Farm is currently the largest traveller site in Europe and has for the past eight years been constantly under the threat of eviction by Basildon Council.
I first visited the site in 2002 and since that first day I have felt welcomed into what is a warm and vibrant community - one large family that although existing under the extreme stress that facing eviction brings, loves and supports all its members; whilst trying to maintain as normal a life as possible.

01 Nov - 31 Jan

Lea Valley: Fences | Neighbours

Jane Sarre

A selection from a series of documentary photographs charting change in the Lea Valley from 2008 to 2012. Captured on annual walks around the boundary of the Olympic site these images track the line of the blue fence as it demarcated and closed the site to local usage. Every inch of the boundary route was recorded to create a rich archive of detail.

Many have watched and recorded the building of the Olympic park. This collection looks outwards to the neighbours overlooking the site: it tells an ambivalent story of growth and decline, commerce and community.

04 Oct - 25 Nov

The Effranautica and other Urban Journeys

Max Reeves

A documentation of Lost London River Walks by The Wetherspoons Underground Sykogeosophy Club
WUSC are an anarchistic urban exploration group who have been wandering the overground traces of London's lost waterways. Following opaque trails producing research, documentation and shenanigans.
As we redefine the perimeters of our city the show will also include maps, treasure, documents and poetry.
Fierce Vegetation!

16 Oct - 30 Oct - Preview, 6-9pm 16 October 2012

London Wild

Anita Lawrence

A photographic study of the wildlife in North London. Including a wide variety of subjetcs from organic produce at Farmers Markets to seasonal anomalies such as bees & blossom in January.

04 Oct - 30 Nov - Preview 4 October 6.30 - 8.30pm

Relics

Bill Jackson

Walking down a street Bill Jackson came across a gold podium and took it home. Later he saw a hatter's modelling head. Thinking it would go well with the gold podium he took that home too.

Bill has a fascination for the found object. Keeping each discovered treasure, Bill has formed a museum of curios. Rummaging in his boxes he selected objects he could stick onto the hatter's head; bits of leather, bones, drawing pins, plasters, syringes. Each one chosen to create both a verbal and visual pun, skin head, leather head, pin head, plaster head...made just for the camera.

26 Sep - 06 Oct

Collective View

Tom Leighton

Tom Leighton’s new works reveal the poetic beauty that can result from painstaking digital manipulation. Leighton has travelled through Europe, Asia and North America, building up an impressive body of photographic images that he then combines to make fantastical landscapes. The resulting works test our instincts. The exhibition title, Collective View hints at some of the many themes of Leighton’s work.

08 Oct - 03 Nov

Light Headed

Various

Light Headed is an open themed exhibition for photographers who responded to our call for entries at Gallery320. Here we present the selected photography forming a broad range of work,from landscapes to a recreation of the Last Supper.

12 Nov - 22 Dec

Bethnal Green - People and Places

Sean Pines

Sean opened his studio in Bethnal Green Road in 2003. Here he takes a look at look at the characters and architecture of Bethnal Green, providing us with his unique insight into his surroundings.

13 Oct - 22 Jan

London in Detail

Sean Pines

Sean Pines takes us on a personal journey of his native London. Rich with textural narrative, the work seeks a re-engagement with the urban environment that challenges preconcieved notions of the city of London.

London In Detail builds on Sean Pines personal work featured in PhotoMonth 2007 which celebrated the found object. This year Gallery 320 presents an exhibition that cunningly delves into the minutiae of London, renewing a curiosity of our familiar and beloved city.

01 Oct - 31 Oct - Opening 5 Oct, 6-9 pm

Urban Collages

Catherine Ames

20 framed pieces of Catherine Ames's digital photography collage work

http://www.catherineames.com

01 Oct - 31 Oct

After Dark in London Town

Bob Dawson

Inspired by a Murakami novel, Bob Dawson exhibits images that celebrate the magical, vibrancy of a city at night and others that point to a darker social reality.

01 Nov - 29 Nov

Somewhere Else

David Barette

'Somewhere Else' is an exhibition of photographs by David Barette, reconfiguring the everyday to make it strange, in cities such as Budapest, Lisbon and elsewhere. The photographs were taken between 2007 and 2009 in less ‘iconic’ cities to avoid the obvious and capture the surreal (an abiding interest) in the commonplace. An eclectic range of intuitive shots include a derelict communist factory on the outskirts of Budapest, Lisbon walls and a postcard rack of literally faded Hollywood stars in Bologna.

17 Sep - 21 Oct

BEHIND BARS

Hugh Elphick (UK) Gunnar Knechtel (Spain) Sye Williams (USA)

BEHIND BARS explores life on the “inside” with this photographic group show. Three artists come together to offer a unique glimpse into the coveted world behind prison walls. Knechtel’s images, taken within one of Spain’s most forward-thinking prisons, Madrid VI, allow us a rare glimpse into the living spaces of a baby and parent unit. American photographer, Sye Williams, takes us inside California’s Valley State prison for women. Meanwhile recent graduate, Hugh Elphick, traces the boundaries of London’s Victorian prisons and the spaces they inhabit within our community.
Through these three projects we are afforded a thought provoking discourse on captivity.

15 Oct - 30 Oct

Shifting Landscapes

Srinivas Kuruganti Liz & Max Haarala Hamilton

China and India are the fastest growing economies with the biggest populations in the world. Srinivas Kuruganti and Liz & Max Haarala Hamilton's work deals with the themes of rapidly changing landscapes in these countries.

Srinivas’ work focuses on India's coal industry that has through rampant and unregulated mining converted forests into wasteland and made the land uninhabitable for the local population of Adivasis.

Liz and Max's work looks at how, as well as the economic changes, China is also absorbing cultural influences from the West. It is this mix of new and old that is captured in these photographs.

10 Oct - 29 Oct

Colours of Pakistan

Faseeh Shams

The exhibition highlights the facts about Pakistan which are not shown in the news. Faseeh exposes the rich life and culture of people from different backgrounds in Pakistan.

Each picture depicts an in-depth analysis of the strong rooted hospitable lives which is unknown to the international media and so world ant Large.

07 Nov - 24 Dec

Highland Highs

Sean Pines

Portrait and Fashion Photographer Sean Pines has been exploring the Scottish Highlands for 20 years.

Through his personal photographs we get a real sense of the deep affection that has built up for this spectacular, remote, somtimes savage, but always beautiful landscape.

www.seanpines.co.uk

08 Oct - 13 Oct - Preview 8 October 6-9pm

ADRIFT- The Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society

David Kendall, Gesche Würfel, Nora Alissa, Manuel Vazquez, Haraala Hamilton, Isidro Ramirez, Simon Rowe, Laura Braun, Paul Smith, Lene Hald

GASKET has assembled ten artists whose photography engages directly with the increasing tension that exists between the familiar and the unfamiliar. For some it is our environment that remains constant, forcing us to seek new forms of interaction in a rapidly evolving set of relationships. For others, it is the world itself that is shifting beneath us, and we seek solace in the familiarity of routine and tangible connections.
The exhibited artists come from diverse backgrounds and theoretical positions, but all share the common experience of being Goldsmiths College alumni who studied the Photography and Urban Cultures (PUC) course.

01 Oct - 31 Oct

Travellers Children

Colin O'Brien

I came across the travellers in 1987 whilst I was photographing a deserted warehouse near London Fields. They had parked their caravans, in and around, Martello Street near the railway arches by the station. The travellers were Irish, mostly families with three or four children.
I recorded many images over three weeks and got to know the travellers well. They took me into their confidence trusting me with their children. It was only when I started to print the photographs that I realised what an amazing set of pictures I had taken a quarter of a century ago.

25 Nov - 26 Nov - 25/11/2012 8pm-12am, 26/11/2012 4pm-10pm

Mirror / Art Event

Janina Fleckhaus, Bradley Barnes

Inspired by German romanticism the photographs are an instantaneous mirror of memory, they leave a motionless trace of what has been, a fixed imprint of something that is no longer what it was before, a silent simulacrum of people and places who have disappeared forever from our field of vision. Colours and figures blend together like washes of paint and after closer contemplation photography and painting becomes united.

Photography by
Janina Fleckhaus

Paintings by
Bradley Barnes

and

Live Band
Tula and the Blackgang

25/11/2012
8PM - 12AM

until the

26/11/2012
4PM - 10PM

Free Entry

19 Oct - 19 Nov - Preview 19 October 6pm

Trans

Laura Cuch

The life-changing experience of having an organ transplant has an impact on senses of identity. Some individuals have experienced taste, personality, or behavioral changes after an organ transplant, which they sometimes relate to the traits of their donors. Trans considers these new identities and how they are woven into personal narratives by the recipients. Trans is the third part of a trilogy following Sleepless (about people who sleep very little) and No Ma (about women who know for various reasons that they will never be mothers). In all three projects, the details of each image are arrived at collaboratively.

5 November
NEGOTIATING SUBJECTIVES: Photography, Health and the Body Symposium. Contact laura@lauracuch.com

22 Oct - 27 Oct

Metroland

Anaí Tirado Miranda, Karolina Maria Dudek, Nicholas Wiltshire, Sian Macfarlane, Nathalie Joffre, Ian Rudgewick-Brown, Michael Rodgers, Sonja Trabandt, Simone Padelli

A photographic exhibition of work from MA students at London College of Communication that will explore how it is to live and exist in the current space of London.

The exhibition will address people’s need for more comfort, space, connection with each other and better environmental conditions (or the perception of).

01 Oct - 31 Oct

URBAN ABSTRACTS - SERIES 1

Peter D Kyte

Photography celebrating all that makes up the urban environment. This exhibition focuses on light, reflection, colour and form. www.fotog.info for more information.

29 Nov - 16 Dec

[new] Futures:Understanding China Using Cropped and other 'Taken' Images

Chris Barrett

Introducing the iconic policy of birth planning, which is often referred to as the ‘one-child policy’ by the outside world. [new] Futures presents the formal imagery of the modern Chinese family coupled with ‘taken’ images, found from Weibo - the Chinese version of twitter. The exhibition touches upon an enduring exploration into the intended and unintended by-products and ramifications that the policy has been responsible for. In an ongoing dialogue between the photographer, Chinese nationals and the world-at-large, an interesting visual perspective emerges in regards to the People’s Republic of China, it’s populus and the people amongst the population.

13 Oct - 28 Oct - Preview 18 October

Halsnoy Tales

Brijesh Patel

Lost in the vast fjords of southern Norway, the tiny island of Halsnoy is crisscrossed by slim roads and dirt tracks. My mind was a mix of dream figures of the Norwegian folktales and of the recent images of the shooting tragedy that had taken place on the island of Utoeya .
All of this resonates in my 'Haslnoy Tales'.
Created in September 2011 during an artist residency on the island of Halsnoy, Norway.

01 Oct - 17 Oct - 30 September 7 30pm

Folk Off

Danny Wilder Laura Alvarado William Edward Head

GREEN LENS STUDIOS is a newly opened photographic studio, project space and art gallery. This group show will be focusing on the issues of the environmental sustainability, exploring the subject in the context of modern day storytelling to re-connect with the age old tradition of passing on information through a narrative.

03 Nov - 07 Nov - Thursday 6.30PM

Family

Ian Atkinson Nadine Attzs Annalisa Falcone Abi Hart Kishan Panchal Rebecca Perry Anna Taylor

Ian Atkinson curates his first group exhibition at Ground Floor Left, Hackney. Atkinson has brought together a group of seven photographic artists whose work relates to the family album. Each artist brings their own unique perspective of their personal attachment to the family and through the medium of photography explores their past, present and the connections to the memories contained within their own images and those of the family photo album.

Atkinson’s work has been shortlisted and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and the 2011 Gallery Huit Salon prize, Arle

19 Oct - 23 Oct - Opening & Participatory Event on 20 October from 6.30pm

Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Dean Todd, Giovanna Del Sarto

You are all invited to participate in an once in a lifetime experience:
Portraiture with a twist.
Come and take part in an evening of entrainment and enlightenment from 6.30 pm on Thursday 20th October.

Shooting Fish in a Barrel is a collaborative event featuring the work of photo-artist Dean Todd and documentary photographer Giovanna Del Sarto.
Portraiture is the theme which links these two very different artists.

01 Oct - 31 Oct

Tradewinds

Alix Edwards

Feel the tropical winds that create the lush and stunning tropical carribean climate. Exhibited close to the site of the original Loddiges nursery, Hackney, which was during the 18th Century, the largest hothouse in the world, these vibrant macro images of flowers, spices and fruit which this family collected, celebrate Black History Month and the richness that having the insight to import these plants has brought to contemporary culture - not to mention our kitchens!!
www.artographylondon.com

01 Oct - 30 Oct - Mon, Tues, Thur: 9am - 8pm, Wed: 9am - 6pm, Fri: 10am - 8pm, Sat: 9am - 5pm, Sun: closed

Permanent Exposure

Fabrizio Stefanoni

A stunning collection of urban landscapes and environments. On Saturday 23 October Fabrizio will be running a FREE workshop from 11am to 1pm as part of Family Learning Week. He will open your eyes to the creative aspects of urban and street photography. Bring your own camera and explore the local area. The first ten under- 16s will be given a disposable camera for the day.

01 Nov - 30 Nov

OUTSIDE-IN

Alix Edwards

What does it feel like to present one face in public and another in private? What is it like to feel faceless, dismissed and diminished…or to have no identity at all? OUTSIDE-IN explores identity and isolation in the community and asks which side of the picture you are on.

FREE drop in workshop for parents and children on 27th November 2-4pm exploring the themes of the exhibition

24 Nov - 24 November 7pm-9pm

HACKNEY OBSERVED

Tom Hunter, Stephen Gill & Jenny Matthews

Tom Hunter, Stephen Gill and Jenny Matthews,patrons of photomonth, renowned photographersand residents of Hackney, are amongst the list of invited photographers to show their work on the big screen. Others include Gesche Wuerfel, David George, Laura Braun, Alan Denney, Chris Dorley Brown, Colin O’Brien,
Dean Hollowood, Heather McDonough, Rod Morris, Patrick Dalton, Toby Smith, Lee Milne, Stefano Giorgetti.
All photographs are of Hackney.
Come and enjoy an evening of extraordinary imagery.

05 Oct - 11 Dec

Capture Hackney

With the Olympics on the horizon, Hackney’s landscape is changing. Capture Hackney invited Londoners to submit photographs that caught the spirit of Hackney as the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games approach. A selection of images chosen will now be exhibited and archived at Hackney Museum and Archives for future generations to look back on in wonder.

Capture Hackney is part of wider project, Mapping the Change, which involves a number of projects that encourage Hackney residents to reflect on how they feel about the current changes taking place in the borough.

01 Oct - 01 Dec

Playground

Ali Richards

The ‘Playground’ series explores the pursuits of teenagers and their engagement with the environment; vehicles are stolen, displaced and disfigured by fire. Young people increasingly engage in activities of theft, violence and destruction often fueled by boredom and disenfranchisement. Our social structure has somehow failed them and they seek satisfaction through things that challenge the system, cause damage and ultimately have some kind of effect. The majority of the perpetrators are from deprived areas, which lack facilities to entertain and stimulate young minds.

01 Nov - 28 Nov - Opening Thurs 1 November 6.30pm

For Our Pleasure

Alex Grace, Daniel Kukla, Martin Usborne, Adrien Ehrhardt

A thought provoking group photography and installation experience examining human interaction with the environment and animals, and culminating in a panel discussion during which the audience can ask questions and partake in discourse regarding issues raised throughout the show.

Through the eyes of four very different Photographers, the exhibition looks at the way we, as humans, exploit and interact with animals in the created environment around us.

Exhibition curated by Alex Grace

http://for-our-pleasure.tumblr.com/

Panel Discussion/Screening: Sunday 18 Nov 2pm-4pm

28 Oct - 30 Nov

metropolis

Rob Macdonald

A dynamic show of images shot in cities including Tokyo, Madrid, New York, Budapest and San Francisco. Our ideas of a metropolis are formed through imagination and cinema as much as through experience. This exhibition takes as its subject the cityscape – its centre and its margins, exploring the idea of a city rather than representing specific places. This body of work is also featured in the accompanying book – ‘metropolis’

This is the first exhibition at the new Hackney Picturehouse and forms part of a series of special opening events in November.

www.robmacdonaldphoto.com

22 Oct - 24 Oct - 10am-10pm

This Is Not A Gateway

EMMA BURLAND, HENRIETTA WILLIAMS, IGNACIO ACOSTA, JUAN DELGADO, MARISA GONZALEZ, SACHIYO NISHIMURA, SERGIO CRUZ

A 3-day festival investigating cities including a number of exhibitions, film screenings, artist-led walks, discussions and soap-boxes. A key theme in the festival this year is an investigation of Central Business Districts. There will be over 60 events in Hanbury Hall, with artists from Bucharest, London, Zagreb, Hong Kong, Istanbul.

01 Nov - 26 Nov

Prisoners, Pastimes and Pine

David O' Shaughnessy

The work is about taking objects to another place through recycling and fabrication. The image content evokes emotions enforced by the starkness of the objects against the clinical white surroundings. The narrow depth of field focuses on seemingly random yet insignificant and deliberate areas of the objects. The careful use of focusing as a tool guides the viewer through the shapes and forms within. Fire has many positive and negative effects, whilst it can provide a comfort it can also alter, resulting in catastrophic consequences. The photographs document the process of the re appropriation of the objects

01 Oct - 30 Oct

Hackney's Living Past

What does Hackney mean to you? What about the area inspires you? Is it fashion, shopping, architecture, street names? What pictures do you have that capture the borough of Hackney’s racial identity?

A selection of photographs of Hackney life in the 1970s and 1980s from the collections at Hackney Archives will be on display at Homerton Library and Hackney Archives during Black History Month. Do you have photos you could add to our collections? Your photos will be added to Hackney Archives to become a part of their permanent collection. Contribute to history, bring in your pictures.

Photographs can be donated to the Archives at any time during their opening hours, see www.hackney.gov.uk/archives . Scans can be made so that you can keep your original photos. Please ring the Archives on 0207 241 2886 in advance to arrange this. Photos can also be handed in at Homerton Library for redirection to Hackney Archives.

Homerton Library in collaboration with Hackney Archives

27 Oct - 12 Nov

Historia

Peter Bennett, Michael C Hughes, Elini Maria Frangeskou, Gregory Reuben Levitt, Jon Santa Cruz, Tobias Slater-Hunt, Lindsey Smith, Barbara Taylor, Christopher Torry, Michael Vogt, Lynn Weddle, Lewis Williams, Emily Young, Sophia Zapiti

Photographs record the world - but they also offer a medium for telling stories about it. In this sense all photographs partake of the imaginary. The photographers represented in this show are all bound by a desire to tell extraordinary stories. They may be stories prompted by experiences as diverse as a remembered landscape, a collection of bookmarks, a reading of Dante, or a walk through city streets - but each of these bodies of work began with a photographic encounter and developed into something much more sustained – a proposal about the world – a series of Historia.

16 Oct - 13 Nov

Les Amants

Noemie Goudal

This solo show by French fine art photographer Noemie Goudal examines the role of narrative in the still image. The exhibition will present a number of large scale works which portray photographed set designs containing an array of strange objects and materials.

The works are meticulously set up so as to recount specific tales or events; either from the artist's personal life or from imagined utopias. The viewer will find themselves immersed in a make-believe space, not childishly illustrated, but instead wittily and brilliantly interpreted.

11 Oct - 27 Nov

Other I

Viviane Sassen, WassinkLundgren, and more. Curated by Aaron Schuman.

Faced with legitimate criticism during the latter half of the twentieth century, photography shifted from a medium often used to explore, explain and express the foreign/unfamiliar, to one used to examine, reveal and define oneself. In 1984, Andy Grundberg noted a shift occurring specifically within documentary practice, ‘…towards recording the “I” instead of the “Other”…’. This exhibition features several contemporary practitioners who cleverly redress this balance by turning direct encounters with the ‘Other’ into forms of self-exploration and subtle autobiography, equally emphasizing what's in front of the camera – ‘Other’ – and what's behind it - 'I'.

07 Nov - Wednesday 7 November 2012, from 7pm

Charity Photo Auction for Positive East

Richard Gray, Debs Coady, Jess McDonald, Gary Minhine, Dre Johnson, Jennifer Thomas

This is a one off event in aid of Positive East, east London's HIV charity. Images reflect life, love and positivity in London. A selection of the images have been donated by mobile photographers following an online competition hosted by Instagramers London. Other images have been donated by Paralympians, Olympians and local photographers.

The event will take place at the Hoxton Apprentice, Hoxton Square and all images have been printed by local printers, Point 101.

01 Sep - 31 Dec

Walking London 2

Peter Kyte

The 2nd 'Walking London' exhibition will contain more imagery from Peter's initimate travels around his home town. In addition, Peter will be leading a team of no more than 12 early to mid stage photographers on a number of walks throughout October, going through to Photoshop advice, print and showing some images at the Hoxton Furnace. Join us for a great experience, inc. hanging & curating your very own mini-exhibition!!! For details and joining fees: info@fotog.info and state 'Hoxton'. See www.fotog.info for details

01 Oct - 31 Oct

Walking London - Series 1

Peter Kyte

This exhibition sees London as a place, a historic and modern city and a home.

17 Oct - 19 Oct - Preview 17 October 6.30-9pm.

AOP Assistant Awards 2012

The AOP Assistants Awards showcases the best images from the next generation of professional photographers. Winners from the AOP Assistants Awards regularly go on to win at the AOP Photographers Awards and success in the Assistants Awards often results in making the leap into professional photography.
Talks & Demos 18 Oct 10.30am-6pm. To reserve seats email exposure@aophoto.co.uk

06 Oct

AOP ASSISTANT AWARDS

Exhibition and workshops

The AOP Assistants Awards showcases the best images from the next generation of professional photographers. Winners from the AOP Assistants Awards regularly go on to win at the AOP Photographers Awards and success in the Assistants Awards often results in making the leap into professional photography. The standard of entries was high and it was a difficult task for the judging panel to select the final 80 images that forms the 2011 exhibition.

19 Oct

'dead beautiful'

Annabel C-M

This pop-up exhibition is a collection of images that capture the beauty of life, death, decay, transformation, fragility and continuity. A study of diversity of form and colour in nature.

An up-close reminder of process.

21 Sep - 27 Sep

My Tiananmen.

Francis Li Chen.

A Polyphonic structured exhibition in three parts: a film program “Memories in Cross-generational Dialogue”, a video installation “My Tiananmen”, and a special screening event – “Unique and Like Yours”.
Tiananmen Square Massacre is an underlying theme of the exhibition. On June 4th, Hundreds of thousands of students and citizens on the square were brutally suppressed by military forces. After the bloodshed, those who survived either were arrested, fled overseas, or adapted to the aftermath of terror & silence. The exhibition is about the notion of history which is experienced by individuals and resides in people’s memories.

04 Oct - 28 Oct - Preview 4 October 2012

House of Kings

Carlos Gonzalez, Antonio Mena, Mark Stringer, Alice Myers

This new project by Haggerston photographers shows portraits, characters and scenarios from an imaginary Kingdom (Hackney) in transition back to the streets as giant billboard Kings.