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.

01 Oct - 01 Nov

Exit/Enter

Hannah Slaney

A series of Urban Entrances.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

11 Oct - 26 Nov

Passing By

Anne Clements

Old buildings, whether ramshackle or restored, have a strange power of fascination. They question our own permanence as much as the built environment that surrounds us. Just as we move on and change, so do they. In ‘Passing By’ Anne Clements preserves a precise moment in the life of the buildings she has chosen to photograph, when man and architecture come together for one split second in time, to represent an era.

03 Oct - 25 Nov

The Bullfighters

Travis Hodges

Portraits from Praca De Campo Pequeno, Lisbon. Capturing the people and traditions of Portuguese bullfighting.

"He hollered, 'Touro Touro' and waived a red cape, prompting the bull to charge. His feet firmly planted on the ground, he pivoted away at the last second, the bulls horns barely grazing his heavily sequined tunic."

06 Oct - 03 Nov

Living East

Estefania Araujo

Living East is a series of portraits that explores the connection between the human being and the space they live in. These images look into the relation between people and space; especially the way people adapt to new environments when changing countries, cities or neighbourhoods.
These portraits show people that live around East London. Each person is presenting himself in front of the camera and letting the viewer see places that are part of their everyday life.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Photomonth Live

Love taking photos with your mobile? Want to have them seen by tens of thousands? Photomonth Live is the perfect opportunity!

Simply send us your mobile photos via photomonthlive.com. The best will be displayed in our custom-built, interactive iPhone slideshow in Leon in the heart of Spitalfields Market. Our panel of photography experts will hand-pick their favourites, with prizes to be announced on photomonthlive.com.

Photomonth Live is an Elastik Mobile project. Elastik makes sophisticated apps for discerning people. elastikmobile.com

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Denise Felkin

Denise Felkin

Images from Mutoid Waste Company and Wrekon artists’ installations and individual pieces that feature mutated, mutilated creatures made from found objects, recycled metals/materials, and animal carcasses.
Mutoid Waste Company’s twisted imaginations first captured the publics attention in the early 80’s when they organised illegal raves in Kings Cross . After over a decade spent in Europe, Mutoid Waste Co have made a come back in the UK. Since their return Denise Felkin has documented their work and followed them to Glastonbury Festival, Rocket Festival, Spain, Brighton

04 Nov - 05 Dec - Preview 3 Nov, 7pm

Blink

Natasha Cantwell Jon Bergman Jo Galvin Mikel Krumins Greg Falski Tim Hill Johnny Egdell Rosie Riggir

Light striking the retina burns an image into the viewers mind. Light striking film captures an image. A human can blink and miss it, a camera can blink and capture a delicate moment forever.
It is the artists eye we showcase in Blink, a group exhibition featuring London based photographers and talent from abroad.

15 Oct - 31 Oct

A Visual Ride.

Diego Marando

A visual journey in two wheels. Riding along an autumn Critical Mass in London, the backstreets of Copenhagen and the canals and bridges of Amsterdam, the lenses capture the joy and freedom of Cycling, the artistic view of the bike in an urban context and how pedal power can create an astonishing change in our lives, the change to independence. Close ups also to be found

01 Oct - 30 Nov - Reception 5 Oct 6-8pm

Burlesque Dress

Maria Coletsis

Burlesque Dress is a collection of portraits taken in the backstage dressing room of a burlesque show, only moments before performance. The images capture a glimpse of the intimate moments of transition to become someone else. The trance- like concentration of this process of change is what inspired this series. The dressing room explores how we socialize, transform our personas and reflects upon what we do to escape the daily routine. My work investigates issues surrounding identity and sexuality.

03 Oct - 31 Dec

Brick Lane Strangers

Rachael Ward

Brick Lane Strangers celebrates the diversity and variety of cultures in one of my favourite areas of London. My passion for people comes alive through the style of portraits, often close-up and captures the essence of London’s edgy and artistic crowd.

01 Oct - 31 Dec

Behind the Whip: Dominatrix Portraits

Maria Coletsis

Behind the Whip is a series of photographic portraits and interviews taken on location in the city and dungeon of each participating global Dominatrix. The photo essays provide an intimate look at the women and the dungeons which make up this fast-growing subculture community and reveal an element of our society which is manifest in the lives of these women. Coletsis invites the viewer to experience the rich and varied sexuality of a multi-racial group of strong, adventurous women.

01 Oct - 31 Dec

Girls UnScene

Heather Shuker

Girls UnScene, deliberately taken without the consent of the subjects, reveals the hidden details of, and the exchanges and interactions between, females in night-club toilets, showing them in unguarded moments when behind closed doors.

01 Oct - 15 Nov

La Donna - Light Paintings

Antonella Fabiani

This exhibition is one of the artist's ongoing projects that evolved from a passion to create intrigue from the ordinary. Antonella's creative philosophy is based around her art as something that continuously develops without a definitive beginning or end. The series includes images for sale in a limited editon of 8. www.antonellafabiani.com

12 Oct - 08 Nov

Torn

HEATHER BLOCKEY

Heather Blockey exhibits accidental art, as seen on the streets. Abstracted colours and shapes giving life to that which is being destroyed and renewed. Unknowingly created by the billboard guys.

06 Oct - 02 Nov - Preview 6 October 7pm

Mother Africa

Pierre Vannoni (France)

"Mother Africa" illustrates 15 years of african journeys & memories where the artist Pierre Vannoni experienced magical moments, discovering and sharing the roots and traditions that are characterizing the motherland Africa.
From Mali to Senegal, via Chad and Burkina Faso, Pierre Vannoni leads the visitor through an African journey & history with striking color and black&white instants and portraits.
The exhibition at Open The Gate in Dalston is the opportunity to engage dialogue with local residents, sharing their journeys and stories about our African Roots. Pierre Vannoni will be realizing a photo documentary in complement of the exhibition from 22nd October.

30 Sep - 22 Oct

Black Britannia

John Ferguson

Black Britannia features a selection of striking portraits taken by John Ferguson, Fleet Street's first black photographer in the 1980's, of some of the most well known – and less familiar - inspirational black men and women who have risen to the top of their chosen fields.
The exhibition aims to highlight the achievements of these individuals, by promoting a positive image of black Britons and raise peoples awareness of the contributions made to UK culture, economy and life by black Britons.

03 Nov - 23 Nov - 3 November 7-9pm opening

Santeria : Afro-Cuban religion

Julio Etchart

Santeria is a syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin. Julio Etchart visited Cuba many times to follow established santero priests on their visits to the faithful to capture the charged atmosphere of the sessions, with people falling in trance and being possessed by the spirits of dead relatives and beloved ones.

01 Oct - 03 Dec

Parallels

Adam Parkes, Adrian Capps, Brigitt Angst, Catherine, Craig Stevenson, David Solomons, Giovanni Frisari, Hamish Stewart, Jonathan Goldberg, Mark Denton, Michael McGuinness, Nicholas Cobb, Nigel Jarvis, Philip Genochio, Richard Conolly, Sarah Bailyn, Steve Brockerton, Steve Richmond, Susanna Suovalkama, Susie Harrison, Tiffany Jones, Timothy Belcher, Volker Schirp

The Shoreditch Group of London Independent Photography introduces their second annual exhibition in the Red Lion. Presenting the new group project, "Parallels" , the exhibition follows evolving narrative of two separate series of images, beginning from the same starting point.

For more information on the exhibition and London Independent Photography please visit
http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/

17 Oct - 23 Nov

LIP Shoreditch 3rd Annual Exhibition

Following the success of the previous two years' exhibitions, the Shoreditch Group of London Independent Photography introduces their third annual showcase in the Red Lion. The exhibition once again presents individual prints and series of work from the group's photographers over the last year.

For more information on the exhibition and London Independent Photography please visit http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/

22 Oct - 05 Nov

Misplaced Objects

Katarina Mudronova

My practice explores human feelings, moods, thoughts and struggles in visual way. In my current work that is self-initiated I am dealing with the issues of being in between, feeling misplaced, identity and cross culture.

Project Misplaced Objects is playful metaphoric representation of feelings, when one experiencing to be misplaced. In this work I am concentrating on capturing unusual positioned objects within ordinary household in a subtle style.

18 Oct - 31 Oct - N/A

Shot in Shoreditch

Ben Fisher

Ben Fisher’s debut solo exhibition is a collection of portraits of characters he has come to know and love in London’s most creative quarter. Ben captures the wit, charm and spirit of his East London neighbours in and around his studios and the dark lanes of Charlotte Road. From the local purveyor of printed press to the eccentric creative’s of the London’s Ad agencies, this exhibition will involve and engage those who make Shoreditch what it is today.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Signs and Fragments

Clive Heritage Tilley

In the initial development of wet-process chemical photography, images were more unique in their nature. Early photographic chemistry exhibited enormous variation, making printed outcomes entirely unique and often unrepeatable.

'Signs and Fragments' is a series of van dyke prints by Clive Heritage Tilley.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Salt Harvest: Bonaire

Tom Hawkins

Bonaire is an island in the Netherlands Antilles chain, off the coast of Venezuela. One third of the island is devoted to the harvest of salt, and the huts of the colonial era slaves who worked the salt pans are preserved within the modern salt production facilities.

The silent slave dwellings and the obelisks that warned ships to avoid the area are neatly arranged along the coast, surrounded by the towering mounds of salt. It is a treeless, windswept, and curiously appealing place.

Sometimes the marks of our cultivation are both beautiful and terrifying.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Our Infinite Day-trip

Darren Edwards

'Our Infinite Day-trip', an Arts Council England funded project begun on Sonora Island in Canada, is an ongoing project by artist Darren Edwards examining our collective longing for and exploitation of wilderness. The installation presents images in gold (chrysotype) and sculpture in neon.

15 Sep - 14 Oct

Fishermen

Agnieszka Szellga

A series of photographs taken during a trip to Tamil Nadu in India showing fishermen at work.

27 Sep - 11 Oct

Vacated

Ita Cormack

Claybury,a Victorian Asylum situated on the outskirts of East London admitted its first patients in 1893. It became home to approximately 2000 patients within three years of being opened.

in 1995 shortly before its closure it accomodated about four hundred patients.It is now remamed Repton Park

These photographs,some of which were taken before the arrival of the property developers in 1997,are not only historical records but are also reminders of life in an institution that no longer exists.They go beyond the function of the photograph as document and evoke a sense of the personal lives that at one time inhabited this space

15 Nov - 31 Jan - ends 31st Jan 2012

Inherent

Alix Edwards

Shot in East London these are large format images of small moments that make you smile or capture a glimpse of nature’s inherent beauty

01 Oct - 20 Nov - Opening and Private view is on the 1st of October starts at 7pm.

Tornabarakony

Mariann Fercsik

Tornabarakony is a Hungarian disappearing village in the North of Hungary with one of the smallest population (only 12 inhabitants) in the country.
The exhibition focuses on the intimate connection between the inhabitants and their motherland.

http://www.fercsik.com

01 Oct - 06 Nov

Homelandscape

Elina Moriya with sound installation and a short essay by Miika Osamitsu.

Is your home where your heart is?
Or is it where your breath emanates?
Where is your homeland when you are sleeping?
"Homelandscape" explores the concept of home through forest and trees.
The exhibition consists of images from photographer Elina Moriya and sound installation and a short essay on the subject by Miika Osamitsu. Both artists are Finnish-Japanese.

02 Oct - 16 Oct

Picture Of The Day

Man Cheung

Over three and an half years in the making and one thousand three hundred images later a limited selection of images from the www.pictureoftheday.mancheung.com website will be on display for the first time in print format.

01 Oct - 30 Nov

Eastern Promises

Nick Haeffner

An exhibition of photographs taken in Hackney and surrounding areas. The images explore the ways in which cultures in this rapidly shifting urban landscape blend and clash, creating new hybrid forms of expression which can be both life affirming and melancholy.

09 Oct - 27 Nov

Horizon

Marc Provins www.marcprovins.co.uk

Horizon is a set of photographic portraits that explore the human urge to be by the sea.

20 Oct - 27 Oct - Preview 20 October 6pm onwards

Exquisite Consequence

Emma Turpin, Martin Robinson, Rebecca Sanders, Georgina Mascolo, Jonny Weeks, Alexander Davies, Tessa Williams

What may seem to be a random chain of photographs is in fact the result of Exquisite Consequence. Beginning in one place and ending in another, a journey of rules, ideas and games is embarked upon, opening up the possibility of an endless narrative of images. Order is brought to this barrage through a limited edition zine, posters and a collection of re-engineered imagery. exquisiteconsequences.tumblr.com

15 Nov - 19 Nov

Under The Apple Tree

There is a room in East London where memories wait to be discovered. Moments frozen in time, captured in photographs, letters, journals and radio broadcasts. If you listen carefully, voices are telling their tales of life in war time Britain, stories of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances. Visitors will be transported back to 1940s life, free to rummage through boxes of memories and flick through photo albums, left on tables and put away on shelves. The accompanying audio for the exhibition can be downloaded at www.thecookiefactoryonline.co.uk. On Friday 19th a live performance based on the interviews will take place, visit the website for more details.