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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)

you can't always get what you want

Please join us for the private view of the DayFour exhibition, "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

When: Thursday, December 10th, 7pm - 10pm

Where: theprintspace 74 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DL

In an ideal world, we could all work for a living three days a week and on the fourth day we'd do our own work, on whatever we love, are drawn to or excited by (of course, the three-day weekend goes without saying). This is the philosophy of DayFour, an annual magazine and website of personal work, mainly (but not exclusively) photographic. The idea for this issue was to explore something we in the affluent West have become very used to over the past few years: the ability to have most of our desires satisfied with comparative ease. In this issue and exhibition, the contributors were asked to think about wishes, desires, lusts, hopes, expectations. The 28 contributors responded in surprisingly varied and personal ways.

The exhibition will run from Friday the 11th of December until Wednesday the 30th of December (excluding bank holidays)

Fiona Hayes

Editor / Art Director

DAYFOUR

http://www.dayfour.info

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

For press enquiries email info@exhibitx.co.uk or telephone Kevin Martin on 0207 2545833

itchy scratchy

YOU ARE INVITED TO . . .

An exhibition initiated by Jason Evans

Preview Friday 2 October 6.30 - 9.30pm

Exhibition continues 3 October – 8 November 2009

Permanent Gallery, 20 Bedford Place, Brighton

Open: Thurs/Fri/Sun 1pm - 6pm, Sat 11am - 6pm

"I think of it as the picture/s that you print up, just to a small working size, to get a look at. The ones that interest and trouble you because there is something that you don't fully understand about them, as if you unconsciously did something. These pictures seem to signpost a new direction in a photographer's practice, they are transitional pieces, and precursors to a new phase or project. I think all the best photographers have the guts to move beyond the pictures they already know they can make, and spend time with the itchy scratchy pictures to work out what comes next."

Charlotte Cotton

Itchy Scratchy is an exhibition of photographs. The title is taken from this quote by Charlotte Cotton, where she describes the pictures which break photographers out of familiar ways of working. The exhibition affirms the role that happy accidents and epiphanies play in creative activity.

Itchy Scratchy was initiated by photographer/writer Jason Evans. All exhibitors have been invited to submit a digital file of an itchy scratchy image in a uniform size, to be reproduced on matt paper using an inkjet printer. The exhibition features a broad range of photographers from the emerging to those of international repute.

Visitors to the exhibition are able to purchase a raffle ticket. At the end of the show a draw will determine who has won which unique print. Proceeds from ticket sales will support the realisation of future exhibitions at Permanent Gallery.

Itchy Scratchy photographs will be viewable at http://www.permanentgallery.com soon. Raffle tickets will be available to purchase from the Gallery (during opening times, Thurs/Fri/Sun 1pm -6pm + Sat 11am - 6pm), and from the gallery website, as of Friday 2nd October. Raffle tickets are £50.

List of contributors :

Nik Adam, Marta Bakst, Jason Bascombe, Kevin Beck, Nicola Belson, David Blackmore, Peter Bobby, Michael Bodiam, Mark Bolland, Matt Burgess, Millie Burton, Polly Braden, Thom Bridge, Thomas Brown, Tommi Cahill, Helen Cammock, Sam Collins, Ben Crawford, Jason Evans, Niccolo Fano, Annabelle Fenning, Andrew Ferguson, Victoria Fornieles, Anna Fox, Carl Gent, Ruth George, Phillipe Gerlach, Simon Gilbert & Nik Adam, Nigel Green, Amy Gwatkin, Fiona Harvey, Peter Haynes, David Hendra, Laura Hensser, Todd Hido, Kelly Hill, Jan von Holleben, Mandy Lee Jandrell, Greg Jones, Maria Kapajeva, Shiho Kito, Paul Knight, Ioannis Koussertari, Matthieu Lavanchy, Patrick Lears, Patrick Lee, Wiebke Leister, Chris Linaker, Gordon MacDonald, John MacLean, Craig Mammano, Mike Massaro, Trent McMinn, Sherman McMinn, Shannon Michael Cane, Alexander Milnes, Tim Mitchell, David Moore, Ashima Narain, Luke Norman, Magali Nougarede, Tod Papageorge, Sam Pearce, Sarah Pickering, Oliver Pin-Fat, Oliver Poddar, Augusta Quirk, Milo Reid, Alex Rich, John Rose-Adams, David Rule, Viviane Sassen, Richard Sawdon Smith, Michael Schmelling, Aaron Schuman, Andy Sewell, Alexandria Da Silva, John Spinks, Sandra Stein, Christopher Stevens, Melanie Stidolph, Clare Strand, Kamei Takashi, Andreas Tauber, Kirsti Taylor Bye, George Thomas, Tviga, Nick Waplington, Harry Watts, Ruth Wiggins

http://www.jasonevans.info

http://www.permanentgallery.com

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Permanent

Gallery & Bookshop

20 Bedford Place

Brighton BN1 2PT

UK

+44 1273 710389

info@permanentgallery.com

http://www.permanentgallery.com

http://www.permanentbookshop.com

Open:

Thurs/Fri/Sun 1pm - 6pm

Sat 11am - 6pm

cape farewell : art and climate change

endangered species, siobhan davies

I went to a lecture at the Barbican last night and was extremely impressed with how Ruth Little, Literary Manager at the Royal Court Theatre, and Cheoreographer, Siobhan Davies, described the experience of visiting the arctic with Cape Farewell and being faced with 'not knowing' how to respond or what to think in a place where experience is so far removed from a more familiar environment. Ruth Little in particular described the importance of a need to shift one's quality of attention to 'seeing' rather than falling back on habit to quantify experience. Little recommended looking at Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk - in which she describes how she experienced the process of having a stroke and realized how the loss of logic enabled her to have a powerful encounter with the sensory realm. It is a very moving talk and a great insight into how the left and right side of the brain respond to experience. Enjoy!