The studio team of Josef Konczak and Lu-Lu Evans.
Image: View of Oliver Road, West Thurrock in Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Space, 1997 / Courtesy BFI
To Dispel a Great Malady: Robinson in Ruins, the Future of Landscape and the Moving Image
On location to photograph Worthing pier with 4×5 plate camera during the making of my series Pierdom, 18 January 2013.
I’m now represented by Flowers gallery in London.
Nicola’s critically acclaimed series of silkscreen prints, , will make its European debut in a solo exhibition at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery in January, 2013. Telling the story of her experience inside President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, the seven iconic prints will be displayed alongside a selection of her sketches, notes and collected paraphernalia from the campaign trail. Not only providing an insight into the artists creative process, this material also gives a sense of the wider social story that is distilled in these striking images.
In Seven Days… will run from January 18 – April 14 2013.
For more information on Green’s series please click here.
HMV and the death of the British high street: why do we care? by Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, Tuesday 15 January
Austerity and online shopping have bought about one of the few booms of recent years: a growth in nostalgia for defunct stores. But why does it matter to us when shops close their doors for good? Read here.
You can also read an article by Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network entitled “The high street isn’t dead” here.
I spent the afternoon visiting Korean photographer and fellow POC member, , in his London studio, where he”s currently preparing work for his upcoming solo show at Purdy Hicks gallery.
Existing in Costume © Chan-Hyo Bae
You can see a feature on his work on It”s Nice That here.
I spent the day printing at Spectrum, including this photograph of a Lenin statue in Apatity, Russia, from my Polyarnye Nochi series.
Thank you to everyone who submitted a photography-related New Year’s resolution (rather than giving up smoking, again!). It was tough to edit them down but here, in no particular order, are my top ten….
“My photo related resolutions include: Don’t buy more unnecessary kit, a new lens, filter or accessory will not revolutionise my work, use what I have and be more creative with it.” Travis Hodges
“Walk slower and give myself more time to potentially hunt out images I would have normally walked past.” Paul Dowd
“Having spent the last two years doing my MA, this year I specifically want to do something for me. So had thought NY resolutions might be ‘to exhibit my work as much as possible’ and by the end of the year ‘to publish or to perish’. But I also said to myself on NYE that 2013, more than any other year, will be a year when I inspire my students as much as I possibly can.” Paul Bennett-Todd
“My resolution is to blog the entire progress and development from start to finish of a new project I’m working on that commenced on Jan 1st.” Dan Cainey
“To keep on top of my book keeping, make friends with the tax man and unlike my Uni work, complete it on time!” Benny J Johnson
“My photography related new years resolution is to just (I apologise for my language but I need to be stern with myself) fucking do it! I graduated from a photography degree over a year ago and have spent the time between then and now avoiding anything to do with photography, encompassed with some odd photography anxiety that I’ll never be good enough. So I’ve decided to just do it and to apply for everything and anything which will get my back on track and actually making work and writing again.” Sophia Wise
“To be more confident about my work and to show it to people rather than my 3 cats (who whilst being totally proficient with their critical analysis get very easily distracted if they have not been fed).” Emma Georgiou
“It’s as simple as this: To fall back in love with photography.” Grant Scott
“One resolution is to shoot more instinctively, sometimes you can think an over think an idea to the point that you don’t end up not shooting anything, not even a germ of the idea and the camera remains in the bag. The camera needs to get out of the bag and I need to just go with the feeling of lets just see what we get, it might be something, it might be nothing, but it will be worth it because you never know when something interesting is going to happen.” Alison Palmer
“My New Year’s resolution is to not make empty promises to myself.” Joshua Dudley Greer