Terry O'Neill Award

It was exciting to be shortlisted for the prestigious Terry O'Neill Award currently on show at the Hotshoe Gallery in Clerkenwell. The final ten included Laura Pannack, Andrew McConnell, Robin Friend and Algae Bory. First prize went to Sebastian Liste who is returning to Brazil to continue his Urban Quilomobo project.

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9 – 15 December 2010

Private View: 8 Dec, 6–9pm

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View full details on the award’s dedicated website: terry o'neill award

MAP2010 Final Show

Terry O'Neill Award

Ulysses 2 @ the printspace

DayFour issue 8 Ulysses II

Published 2010

Cover: Jesse Pollock

On June 16, 1904, the Irish author James Joyce went on his first date with Nora Barnacle, the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life. That day is immortalized in Joyce's novel Ulysses, and it is commemorated every year by Joyce fans and scholars, who gather in Dublin to retrace the steps of the novel's hero, advertising salesman Leopold Bloom. The most basic description of the book is that it records an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary man. Joyce set down impressions, events, thoughts and conversations – trivial, meaningful, transcendental and obscure – and in the process created the modern novel.

On Saturday June 13 2004, a group of photographers around the world took part in DayFour's first Ulysses project. The brief was straightforward: to take one photograph every hour, on the hour, from the time you woke up till the time you fell asleep. It didn't matter where you were or what you were doing. What mattered was that everyone would be 'clicking' at the same moment. Five years later, we did it again, with many of the original participants again taking part and many new D4 contributors joining us. This issue is a record of Saturday June 19 2009: Ulysses Day II.

6pm: Remy as Cyberman at Adam Gray’s studio show on Southgate Road

10am: Terror on the streets while walking to Kipfel In Smithfields for a good Austrian coffee

MA Photography 2010 Final Exhibition

23-29 November


Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday 10am – 4pm

Private View Thursday 25 November 6 – 9pm


The Galleries
London College of Communication
Elephant & Castle
London
SE1 6SB

Opening Flowers East 16th September

Flowers has joined with photography training and development agency Rhubarb-Rhubarb and the Arts Council West Midlands to realise the second year of the ‘Hungry’ Bursary Awards Scheme. The Bursary is open to both established and emergent photographers and is committed to the aim of nurturing creativity, innovation and excellence in the field of photography. Following an online submission process, a selection of work was chosen by a panel of judges comprised of prominent individuals from the art world, management services, imaging, creative and business industries: Harry Hardie of Host Gallery; David Birkitt of DMB Media; Chris Littlewood of Flowers; Mark Foxwell of Genesis Imaging; and Lara Ratnaraja of Business Link. The exhibition brings together work from the seven winning series.

Juila Curtin / Resettlement
Resettlement focuses on the vernacular architecture, in particular the transient, makeshift structures inhabited by forced migrants, which emerged during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Sampling photographs from the Farm Security Administration catalogue – a vast collection of images that document history, as well as forming constitutive parts of the history of photography – I deconstructed and subsequently reconstructed these buildings to form a three-dimensional model of the settlements as they are depicted in the archived images. Through this process I attempt to open up a contemporary space for the interpretation of the photographs.

Kelly Hill / In the cities
My project is a game of chance. I arrive at an unfamiliar home at dusk and discuss the worlds the children would like to create. They select their own props and I withdraw to observe them from the outside. I invite them to participate in a game but they create the images in the poses and gestures they make. I am interested in chance encounters, the merging of fact and fiction and discovery of the magical in the mundane.

Tom Lovelace / Unit 2
Unit 2 is a series of images depicting industrial forms that have been created solely for the camera. These objects are based upon imagined, anonymous and functionally ‘false’ structures that explore the point at which the mundane teeters upon the fantastical. The project is conceptualised around the creation of a new machine typology: ‘function equals form’ is reversed so that ‘form equals function’.

Marcia Michael / The Study of Kin
My work is concerned with how the invention of photography has facilitated and promoted human classification through the recording, representation, collection and display of difference. It explores the ways in which both institutional and private photographic archives – including the family album – generate and perpetuate systems of social control.

Kate Owens / 28 Day Flower Diary
28 Day Flower Diary explores traditionally ‘feminine’ occupations such as floristry, which were once considered suitable activities for taming idle hands and minds. Interspersing bouquets of my own digital making with diary extracts, I attempt to recast both the activity of flower arrangement and the notions of order and control with which it is associated. The images reveal and revel in something unspoken and subversively uncontainable.

David Plummer / Pain Has an Element of Blank
Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
(Emily Dickinson)

In 2003 David Pembroke was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a neurodegenerative brain disease that has no known cause, treatment or cure. David Plummer traces the progression of the disease in a series of portraits of Pembroke, leaving it to his sitter to decide the background colour of each successive photograph as a means of tracing changes to his emotional state.

Zhao Renhui / The Institute of Critical Zoologists
This series of images titled The Blind illustrates a system of disguise used by contemporary nature photographers and zoologists being tested in various environments. The Blind, a form of a camouflage cloak, works on the principle that an object vanishes from sight if light rays that strike it are not reflected as usual, but forced to flow around it as though it were not there.

For further information, please contact Chris Littlewood at Flowers on 020 7920 7777 or email chris@flowersgalleries.com

LCC photographers take lion’s share of rhubarb rhubarb’s‘hungry’ bursary awards 2010

Reports From An Ordinary Satellite

Reports from an Ordinary Satellite showcases 17 projects in progress from the current MA Photography programme at the London College of Communication. It demonstrates the preoccupations and interests inherent in contemporary photography, a fascination with the world we inhabit as well as curiosity about the lives of others.

The exhibition has previously been shown in gallery spaces both in Bielefeld, Germany and London. In this Birmingham based installation, the photographs are exhibited in an industrial space, using the architecture and remaining features of the ex metal fabrication factory to dictate the hanging of the works around the building. This counterpoising of art and industry raises questions about where photography sits in a post-industrial society and demonstrates the diverse uses of a range of photographic practices freed from the mechanics of the industrial machine.

Hungry Bursary 2010 Collision

Foto8 Summershow 26 July – 4 September 2010

I am happy to have been selected for the annual foto8 summer show to be held at HOST Gallery, Honduras Street, London.

Open to the public from 26th July 2010

rhubarb rhubarb 2010 bursary winners

** 2010 Bursary Winners Announced **

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

Many Congratulations!

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Rhubarb-Rhubarb has partnered with Arts Council West Midlands, its own Rhubarb East Gallery, Birmingham; Flowers East Gallery London, and Genesis Imaging to bring image makers the second year of the highly digestible 'Hungry' Bursary Awards Scheme

Barbican - Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

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Barbican - Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

olivia's pictures of the bielefeld exhibition

reports from an ordinary satellite

Work in Progress from MA Photography at the London College of Communication

'So this is my start
It is obviously not perfect
Add take away from it
Do one better'

The show features a diverse range of contemporary photographic practice from photographers on the MA Photography programme at the LCC.

This exhibition demonstrates the preoccupations and interests inherent in contemporary photography. A fascination with the world we inhabit, curiosity about the lives of others, investigations of the possibilities of photography.

Exhibiting photographers;

Diane Bielik
Ella Bryant
Justina Burnett
Alicia Clarke
Jessamy Dipper
Jo Gane
Rab Harling
Cameron Haynes
Kelly Hill
Caroline James
Maxim Kelly
Olivia McGilchrist
Elisabet Noguera Lopez
Emma Jane Spain
Derek Wiafe
Paul Winch Furness

New work will also be made in Bielefeld and subsequently shown in London.

Galerie der Fachhochschule Bielefeld
Fachbereich 1 / Gestaltung
Lampingstraße 3
33615
Bielefeld. Germany
February 8th - 10th 2010
Private View Tuesday 9th 6-8pm

Well Gallery,
London College of Communication,
Elephant and Castle,
London. UK
SE1 6SB
February 17th - 26th 2010
Private View Tuesday 23rd February 6pm-8pm

This exhibition project forms a joint elective between LCC MA Photography and the UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre. Led by Val Williams (PARC) and Wiebke leister (LCC and Bielefeld). Support from Monica Takvam (PARC)