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

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.

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.

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.

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

15 Sep - 15 Oct

ID:id

photographer and teacher: Francesca Sanlorenzo artists: students from the Art & Design department of Abbey Manor College over the last three years

This unique exhibition presents a series of photographic portraits of 16 year old young people from Abbey Manor College, a Centre of excellence based in Lewisham that offers vocational qualifications to students outside mainstream education. The photographs are my attempt to capture a glimpse of their personality at this point in their life as they are going through an important transformation into adulthood. The images also become a memory for us all before they leave the College. Alongside the photographic exploration of youth identity, large format self-portraits produced over the years by my former students are also exhibited.

06 Oct - 19 Nov

Strange Bedfellows 1 & 2 - off limits

Alissa Alberne, Chris Bucher, Chan-Hyo Bae, John Ferguson, Darlaine Honey, Lea Golda Holterman, Lydia Goldblatt, Sue Golden, Karen Kapoor, George Kavanagh, David Knight, Ginger Lui, Georgina McNamara, Sukey Parnell, Judah Passow, Russ Quackenbush, Claudio Rasano, Alessandro Saponi, Ilya Van Marle, Sophia Wallace plus others

In 'Strange Bedfellows' 1 & 2 the tapestry of life is exposed in all its fragmented complexities. Here the quotidian mixes with the topical, the enigmatic with the provocative. This conceptual, eclectic mix of international photographers’ images, chosen by an artist, presents unions exploring the contrasts and disparities, the illusions and realities of the Zeitgeist. It forms a striking exhibition, in two parts, that reveals the poignant, the paradoxical and the absurd.

Images have been selected from the fine art, commercial and established photographers’ collections at the London Photographic Association and Gallery 1839.

29 Sep - 12-8pm

AOP PHOTOGRAPHERS AWARDS 2011

Exhibition and Workshops

There are a lot of photography competitions out there for professionals but the AOP Photographers Awards is still regarded as the original and the best - 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.

23 Sep - 19 Nov

JOACHIM FROESE: Archive, and ANDRE PENTEADO: Dad's Suicide

JOACHIM FROESE ANDRE PENTEADO

This exhibition brings together two photographers whose work is concerned with the death of a parent. Taking different approaches to a very sensitive subject, the making of the projects were a type of therapy for the photographers as they dealt with the sense of loss and grief.

30 Sep - 20 Nov

ARA

Sunara Begum

Ara is a new exhibition by the contemporary visual artist and filmmaker Sunara Begum that explores the world of a mythical figure and icon called Ara. The exhibition includes photography, film and installation, which opens a dialogue between the old world and the new.

Ara is a symbolic character who lives between worlds and embodies the journey of displacement from homeland to the diasporic experience. She is an illusive figure who moves through time and space with a shadowy presence of a bygone era. Reflecting on her beginnings through dreams and memories, Ara travels the path that lies beyond tradition.

01 Oct - 26 Nov

Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out/ Letters to Omar

Edmund Clark

Edmund Clark is best known for his powerful, thoughtful and beautiful images exploring the consequences of control and incarceration. "Guantanamo: If the light goes out" illustrates three experiences of home: the naval base at Guantanamo, the complex of camps where the detainees have been held, and the homes where former detainees now find themselves trying to rebuild their lives. "Letters to Omar" is a selection of cards and letters sent to Brighton resident Omar Deghayes during his five years of captivity. Together, these two projects create a sense of the hardship and isolation these innocent men endured.

06 Oct - 8pm

Voyage: A Retrospective

Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim

Filmakers Phil Maxwell and Hazuan Hashim and muscian Lola Perrin present a retrospective of works created over the past five years and performed around the world.

11 Oct - 24 Oct

Thames Barrier to Teddington

Various - documentary project running from end of July-end of September on http://londonist.com in partnership with Shoot Experience. Open to all. Best pictures will be picked for exhibition.

Documenting the river from Thames Barrier to Teddington: The Second Londonist Photography Challenge.

We will create an interactive map of the photos along the banks of the river and capture a diverse composite snapshot of the River Thames in 2010, as seen through Londoners' camera lenses.

Run by Londonist in partnership with Shoot Experience

http://londonist.com

16 Oct - 30 Nov - Monday - Sunday 11am -7pm and by appointment

Young Masters at the Courtauld presented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery

LLuis Barba

Lluís Barba modernizes the Old Masters by displacing the original narrative with contemporary characters simultaneously shocking and delighting the viewer.
The exhibition coincides with the 2010-2011 exhibition Exhibitionism.

20 Oct - 31 Oct

London Independent Photography 22nd Annual Exhibition

Various photographers from London Independent Photography (LIP)

London Independent Photography is a community organisation for amateur and professional photographers with more than 500 members. Our activities are designed to bring together photographers with different interests and levels of expertise who wish to develop their personal approach to photography, improve their skills and gain recognition for their work.

The LIP Annual Exhibition provides a platform for members to exhibit their best work from the previous year.

Our exhibition selectors this year come from the very heart of London's photographic community: Lucinda Chua (Proud Central) and Paul Ellis (Photofusion).

22 Oct - 23 Oct

Room 16: A Place to Stay

Sayed Hasan

Where do you go if you need a place to stay in the city? There is no one around to put you up or you want your own space, would like your own key. For the short time you are in the city you want to come and go as you please.

'Room 16: A Place to Stay' is a temporary installation of photographic work based on Sayed Hasan's experiences of living in a South East London hostel, the New Cross Inn. This intimate exhibition is situated in the very room he occupied.

04 Oct - 31 Dec - Tue-Fri 10am-5pm Sat 10am-4pm

Island to Island - Dominica, Barbados & Britain

Tim Smith

This Redbridge Museum exhibition displays stunning images by respected photographer Tim Smith. The exhibition uses photographs and people’s stories of migration to explore the close relationship between Britain and the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Barbados.

The exhibition comprises photographs of the Dominican
community in East London and Bradford, as well as from the islands of Dominica and Barbados, where Tim Smith spent his childhood. These contemporary photographs are complemented by his father’s rare photographs of everyday life on the islands during the 1960s.

Photographs by Tim Smith, Derek Smith and the Belle Vue Studio.
Stories compiled by Polly Pattullo, Celia Sorhaindo and Tim

06 Oct - 25 Nov

Protectors of Sight

Sophie Gerrard

The Savitri Trust commissioned Sophie to travel to Bihar in North East India to document the amazing story of the fight against curable blindness. Sophie visited Bihar several times over a two year period to create this project.

Protectors of Sight is a powerfully emotive documentation of the work of the Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital and the hope and resilience of the people of rural Bihar whose lives are so drastically affected by cataract blindness.

15 Oct - 15 October 2011 10 am to 5 pm

Chingford Photographic Society Annual Exhibition

Members of the Chingford Photographic Society.

An exhibition of over 150 photographic prints by amateur photographers of all abilities.

18 Oct - 29 Oct

London Independent Photography 23rd Annual Exhibition

Various photographers representing the 600+ members of London Independent Photography (LIP)

The 23rd LIP Annual Exhibition shows a selection of the best work completed by members over the past year. The exhibition is independently selected by 2 professionals representing the wider photographic community.

This years selectors are as follows;

Dewi Lewis established his publishing house in 1994. Internationally known, its authors have included leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, William Klein, Frank Horvat, Paolo Pellegrin, Sergio Larrain and Bruce Gilden.

Bridget Coaker is a picture editor based in London, where she works for the Guardian and Observer newspapers and is also Director of Photography for the online contemporary photography gallery Troika.

31 Oct - 19 Nov

Kelly McCann - DownTown

Kelly McCann

A collaboration exhibition with the Viewfinder Gallery.

Kate’s intention is to document Imizamo highlighting the continuation of day to day living despite the shocking conditions that the residents here contend with. The clothes on the washing line, the children’s toys, the family photographs and the little boy playing with a vuvuzela – a remnant of the World Cup whirlwind that had held so much hope for those in desperate need of development.

To see more of Kelly’s work, please view her personal website - http://www.ekellymccann.com

17 Oct - 22 Oct

Kate's Journal

Astrid Schulz

he project ‘Kate’s Journal’ started in January 2010 when Kate Sims was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite her devastation she asked photographer Astrid Schulz to take some pictures of her, depicting the way she looked before the operation. Astrid suggested continuing the photo sessions during the different phases of treatment until full recovery. The result is a sensitive and compelling series of portraits.

The exhibition ‘Kate’s Journal’ and the incorporated events aim to give other cancer patient (and their next of kin) an insight into the treatment with a supportive note.