a distance between

In the cities, Kelly Hill, 2009

'In the cities ' is a body of work that looks at the private world of children living in a major urban metropolis whose parents have migrated from another European country - for work, for marriage, for study. The images were shot from the outside at dusk - a threshold moment where day merges into night. This liminal period hints at an ambiguous and indeterminate state where identity dissolves.

The children are illuminated in pools of light as the world darkens around them, exploring notions of boundary and the merging/blurring of private and public universes as well as of languages and cultures.

“Dans les villes” est un ensemble d’œuvres photographiques qui observe l’univers privé d'enfants vivant dans une grande métropole urbaine et dont les parents ont immigré d’un autre pays européen pour des motifs professionnels, familiaux ou d'étude. Toutes les photographies ont été prises de l’extérieur, au crépuscule, moment liminaire où le jour et la nuit se confondent et qui évoque un état ambigu et indéterminé où les identités se dissolvent.

Les enfants sont éclairés par une source de lumière tandis qu’autour d'eux l’obscurité se fait peu à peu. Ces images explorent la notion de fusion ou de “confusion” entre les univers public et privé et entre les diverses langues et cultures.

A DISTANCE BETWEEN

MA Photography London and Paris

Pascal Ancel, Diane Bielik, Tania Dolvers, Kate Elliott, Joanne Gane, Rab Harling, Cameron Haynes, Kelly Hill, Maxim Kelly, Gemma Land, Elisa Noguera Lopez, Jeff Metal, Olivia McGilchrist, Anna Positano, Emma Jane Spain

Ivan Mathie, Sophie Scher, Loïc Molon, Annabelle Lourenço, Lucille Caballero, Gabriel Coutagne, Judith Bormand, Pierre Adrien Brazzini, Nicolas Friess, William Gaye, Lauriane Thiriat, Alban Chassagne, Julie Balagué

Pebbledash Gallery, 2 Leswin Place,

Stoke Newington,

London N16 7NJ

Private View Saturday 24.10.09, 7 - 10pm

Gallery Open Sunday 25.10.09 – Friday 6.12.09, 11am – 6pm

Late Opening on Thursday 5.12.09 until 10pm

A DISTANCE BETWEEN aims to create a platform for the photographic image as a valid vehicle to question, communicate and debate the multiple facets of European identity.

www.adistancebetween.org

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