Francis and I chewing the photo-cud last night at Flowers Gallery, flanked by a print of Worthing Pier from Pierdom.
Today Ed Miliband takes to the stage to deliver his Leader’s Speech at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Brighton. This address during the annual conference season is much like an annual performance review when all major party leader’s are scrutinised under the glare of the media microscope.
Here’s one I took earlier; the set-piece Leader’s Speech at Labour’s 2011 Party Conference in Liverpool.
You can read today’s speech, along with an archive of UK Political Party speeches on the Total Politics website here.
New issue of 1000 words magazine is now online:
“To kick off this Autumn edition we meet young, German photographer Sara-Lena Maeirhofer. Speaking here to Natasha Christia, she discusses Dear Clark, a Portrait of a Con Man, a fascinating project that uses photography to explore the possibilities of fiction in its narration of real-life imposter Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who called himself Clark Rockefeller, having developed an identity as a scion of the wealthy family.
Photography critic Gerry Badger reviews Lieko Shiga’s gloomy yet poetic photobook, SPIRAL COAST/album, shot in the Kitakama region of Japan, the area badly hit by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Michael Grieve brings us an essay on the latest photobook by British photographer Vanessa Winship, she dances on Jackson, records of her road trip across the US produced during a time of grieving.
Brad between photography, sculpture and painting.
James McArdle deconstructs the Photoworks publication, Memory of Fire: Images of War and The War of Images, edited by Julian Stallabrass, a timely assessment of the urgent issues relating to imaging war, the changing role of documentary photography and the enforced agenda of media networking that invariably invokes amnesia.
Swedish photographer Martin Bogren is profiled in our sixth and final feature, with a particular focus on Tractor Boys, which documents a strange ritual-mating dance wherein youngsters meet up in rural areas of Sweden to race their ‘tractorcars’, burning tyre marks into the asphalt. An essay accompanies the portfolio here from the legendary Christian Caujolle, republished with the kind permission of Dewi Lewis.
Over in our dedicated Books section, Sean Stoker leafs through Pedro Costa’s Casa de Lava, a scrapbook filled with ephemera following the Portuguese filmmaker’s trip to Cape Verde in 1992; Brad Feuerhelm gets vertigo as he stares down at Eric Stephanian’s devastating but beautiful Lucas, a self-published zine comprising one single photograph of the photographer’s son, taken on the only opportunity he was given to meet him; while Oliver Whitehead considers the more clinical but nonetheless intriguing new book from Clare Strand entitled Skirts.”
Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr
21 September 2013 – 16 March 2014
The first major exhibition at the new Media Space in London will be Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, drawing from the Tony Ray-Jones archive at the National Media Museum. The exhibition is curated by Greg Hobson, curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum, and Martin Parr has been invited to select works from the Tony Ray-Jones archives.
Find out more about the exhibition here: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_your_visit/exhibitions/only_in_england.aspx
About Media Space-
Opening in September 2013, Media Space will showcase the National Photography Collection held by the National Media Museum through a series of major exhibitions. A collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum, Media Space will also invite photographers, artists and the creative industries to respond to the wider collections of the Science Museum Group to explore visual media, technology and science.
Media Space will be based on the second floor of the Science Museum. It is a £4 million capital project and will include a 500 m² gallery for major exhibitions, a Virgin Media Studio for installations, events and creative workshops, and a café/bar. Hannah Redler was announced as Head of Media Space and Science Museum Arts Programme in 2012.
Curators April Watson, Jane Aspinwall, and Andy Adams will talk about the portrait show ‘Making Pictures of People’ and the changing shape of internet photography culture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art next week.
Details here- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151600958537116&set=a.444471732115.246641.669147115&type=1
A Dan Holdsworth print from his Transmission series on display as part of the Alt+1000 Photography Festival in the Swiss village of Rossiniere.
Whilst covering the Bristol Balloon Festival this weekend, the balloon I was flying in (which was made to promote Disney’s film UP) was captured by photographer Graeme Robertson and featured in the Guardian’s Eyewitness double page spread a few days later. I guess Graeme was traveling in the red/white/blue balloon seen in my photograph below.
Road-testing a new shooting platform of my BETSSON kasino toimii Net Entertainmentin alaisuudessa. Bongo at Stonehenge during shoot for BRI Hospital Commission.
I’m working on a commission this weekend at Wilton House for Aston Martin, which is inspired by the paintings of George Stubbs. Watch this space.
Viewing test strips of Pierdom prints prepared by Spectrum Photographic for upcoming Flowers Gallery exhibition.