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We should probably have a thread about photography exhibitions we've seen/plan to go to/tripped over.

It would help publicise the small local ones, broaden the view of artists work we otherwise wouldn't have known about and promote descriptive writing, which may lead into other critique areas on this forum...
 
So I thought I'd start.

On a rainy saturday on Oxford, I popped into the Pitt Rivers museum, Oxford.
They have two exhibitions currently

Camel: A journey through fragile landscapes - by Roger Chapman
http://rogerchapman.co.uk/2014/01/camel-photography-project/

https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/camel_journey

Roger Chapman is, as his website describes, a cinematographer for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel has included films on diverse subjects from the Buddhist Kung Fu Monks of the Shaolin Temple, to war-torn Bosnia, the Great Rift Valley of Africa, drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro, the sacred Ganges river in India and the secretive world of Geisha in Kyoto.

In this project he's produced a series of 65 images describing the relationship between people and their camels, allowing them to thrive in some of the harshest environments in the world. There's images from the Thar desert in India, the Sahara in Sudan, the Mongolian steppes and of course camel racing in the United Arab Emirates.

In each of the countries, the camel has a different status and the photos reflect this, showing an interesting contrast between the cultures. Images from the multi-million-dollar industry of camel racing, where expensive camels, almost show animals, are shown alongside images from the Sahara, where the camel is crucial to survival, with the locals still needing it to travel long distances and care for their livestock. Images from Mongolia shows the result of climate change and over grazing. When a sheep grazes, it tears up the plant’s roots laying waste to the land, whereas a camel will leave the roots intact so the plant can grow again. Thsi is driving an economic migration to the cities as rural people struggle, leaving camels unwanted.

The photos themselves are very well presented in black and white, a variety of sizes but a lot printed large, which have real impact.
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Camel’s milk, Outer Mongolia. By Roger Chapman[ONLINE] Available at: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/resize/uploads/sitephotos/Camel_5-400x400.jpg [Accessed 23 July 2017].

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Camel and boy, Outer Mongolia. By Roger Chapman[ONLINE] Available at: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/resize/uploads/Camel_10-400x400.jpg [Accessed 23 July 2017].
 
Also in the Pitt Rivers Museum, on the top floor of the Gallery.

John Wreford is a freelance editorial photographer that has spent the last ten years living in the Syrian capital Damascus.

https://wreford.photoshelter.com/index
https://johnwreford.wordpress.com/

The exhibition features large-scale portraits of people displaced from war-torn Syria who are now surviving and thriving in Istanbul, Turkey. Each person photographed has written testimonials, in both English and Arabic, about their experiences. It's displayed on the top floor of the gallery, on large glass doors of display cabinets, giving each image a translucent feel. Displayed large, the beautifully shot black and white portraits are displayed high, forcing you to look up to the people whilst they explain their journey that took them to Istanbul and their hopes for the future.

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Photograph by John Wreford[ONLINE] https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J77lglZB...AYYCw/s320/ListingImageForSyriansUnknown1.jpg [Accessed 23 July 2017].
 
Pitt rivers museum is a pretty decent place to go anyway, crammed full of items. You can see the John Wreford exhibition on the top gallery
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This may not be what you had in mind, Byker, but this one is just about to open. Gwahoddiad Agoriad_birdland.jpg

The exhibition opens this week and runs until August 28th. Llanfrothen is about half way between Penrhyndeudraeth and Beddgelert in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park. The venue is the house where Clough Williams-Ellis (the creator of Portmeirion) lived.

Opening hours are 10.30 - 16.00 hrs, Wednesday to Sunday. If anyone manages to make it, I'd be interested to hear any comments.....OK, the groans as well.
 
Nope, I'm up for anything. These are exactly the sort of events that don't attract the publicity of the big artists. Thanks for that
 
Just spotted this:
14 BMW showroom locations around the country, Queen - Princes of the Universe, transforming BMW car showrooms into art galleries for one night only
Organised by rock exhibition specialists Off Beat Lounge, the company’s close relationship with long-term Queen photographer Denis O’Regan, one of the worlds most revered rock music photographers, has resulted in the curation of more than sixty images, with more than half never published before.

Full details and ticket information avaiable here: https://www.offbeatlounge.co.uk/princesoftheuniverse
£9.50 collector ticket, Includes exhibition entry from 7.30pm, welcome drink, commemorative brochure and commemorative collector ticket.

£29.50 VIP ticket,Includes access from 6:30pm for the 'No Filter' Q & A session* with Denis O'Regan, a commemorative collector ticket, private viewing of the exhibition, the face value of your VIP ticket redeemable against print purchases, a commemorative brochure and the opportunity to pre-order and collect prints on the night for personalised signing.

Seems expensive, but for an avid Queen fan...?
 
There is this one in a local gallery that I keep meaning to go to see.


"We are celebrating the work of Essex-based documentary photographer Ed Gold in a major exhibition."

Entitled Ed Gold: Other Worlds, the presentation is made up of 99 photographs taken over a period spanning almost thirty years. These have been selected from Gold’s personal archive, and the various bodies of work chosen represent his ongoing interest in isolated communities (both geographic and social): Patagonia, Country Folk (Essex, Wales & Scotland), Afghanistan Bed Spaces, Positive Futures, and Nowitna, Alaska.

http://www.firstsite.uk/whats-on/ed-gold-worlds-2/

Free entry.
 
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jerry12953 said:
This may not be what you had in mind, Byker, but this one is just about to open. View attachment 106796

The exhibition opens this week and runs until August 28th. Llanfrothen is about half way between Penrhyndeudraeth and Beddgelert in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park. The venue is the house where Clough Williams-Ellis (the creator of Portmeirion) lived.

Opening hours are 10.30 - 16.00 hrs, Wednesday to Sunday. If anyone manages to make it, I'd be interested to hear any comments.....OK, the groans as well.
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Best of luck with the new exhibition :)
 
Ed Sutton said:
On at the Tate Liverpool as part of the Portraying a Nationexhibition.

"ARTIST ROOMS: August Sander which presents photographs from Sander’s best known series People of the Twentieth Century, his attempt to document the German people."

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/portraying-nation-germany-1919-1933

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-review-august-sander-otto-dix-tate-liverpool
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I've seen Sanders work before, strangely enough in Liverpool for Look 13. They were exhibited in the upstairs of the Bluecoat, along with work from Weegee

Sander’s project People of the Twentieth Century, which he began in the early 1920s, was a series of portraits that aimed to document German society. The project grew to a total of around 600 photographs, classified into seven archetypal categories: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, The Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City and The Last People. He photographed his subjects simply and without emotion, with the subjects center frame, facing the camera. The titles of the photographs lack any identification other than their profession and possibly as such their place in the social order. It’s interesting that the women in his earlier work was often referenced as wife of, whilst later images gives them a job reference, showing the changes after the war as more women worked.

Forced to abandon the project during the second world war, and with the Nazi’s destroying some of his work, he continued with the project until his death in 1964. After the war he included groups such as The Persecuted (Jews) and Foreign Workers. Sander’s approach to the work was intended to be purely documentary, “The essence of all photography is the documentary manner“, he said in a radio talk on Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1931 [2]

Should be interesting
 
Time to rejuvenate this thread, as I went to see From Salts to Silver at Salts Mill near Bradford on Sunday. There’s disappointingly little on the website about it but the synopsis reads......

FROM SALT TO SILVER: Ian Beesley + Ian McMillan
The Roof Space, Salts Mill
Open weekends only 11am-4pm until Oct 29.
Black and white images of the mill by celebrated documentary photographer Ian Beesley, taken in the 1980's and this year, accompanied by a new series of poems by Ian McMillan.

......which doesn’t tell you much. The exhibition is a display of some of the photographs Ian Beesley took in the last year or so that Salts Mill was in production in the mid-80’s. It shows life in the Mill, and the people who worked there, from being in full production right through to closure and the scrap men clearing it out. Being a black and white photographer of old mills and industrial stuff, this was right up my street. He printed the images out himself from the 1000+ negatives he made of the place, and present a picture of a way of life that has largely passed into history. There’s also a few images taken of the mill and the people who work there in 2017, which makes for an interesting contrast, although this wasn’t explained as such. It’s free to get in and well worth a visit if you’re in the north.

http://saltsmill.org.uk
 
The Devizes Camera Club has its biennial exhibition in the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes at the moment. A decent set of club-level prints although, as my wife commented, there does seem to be a certain amount of 'My holiday was more expensive than yours'. Note that the normal museum admission charges apply.
 
Snapsh0t said:
The Devizes Camera Club has its biennial exhibition in the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes at the moment. A decent set of club-level prints although, as my wife commented, there does seem to be a certain amount of 'My holiday was more expensive than yours'. Note that the normal museum admission charges apply.
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Popped into this the other day as we had time to kill whilst my dog was at the vets. For anyone interested the details are:
https://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/wh...print-exhibition-at-wiltshire-museum-p1589463

If you say you are visiting the exhibition there is no charge, but the museum is worth a look around as well.

They have a decent website and gallery and a good write up of the exhibition here: http://www.devizescameraclub.co.uk/index.php/club-news.html
 
I went to Visa Pour L'image in Perpignan last week.

Very thought provoking and well worth a visit if you can. Also kudos to the photographers who were clearly risking their lives taking some of the photographs.
 
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We have an art exhibition in Lincoln at the moment until 15 October which includes a number of photographs including two of mine. It is at the Usher gallery on Danes Terrace, Danegate.
 
I went to Hawes today to see the Voices from the Land exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum. http://www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk/voices-from-the-land/

Museum entrance costs £4.50 for a weekly ticket and parking at the museum requires the payment of an arm and half a leg. (Find somewhere else to park is my advice.)

More than just pictures it's part of a year long documentary project involving other media. The photography is the best visual bit IMO. There is a series of portraits shot on film (large or medium format I think) with accompanying texts, and some rather more random colour pictures by carious photographers. It's a nicely presented show, but I found I'd seen most of the pictures and read most of the words at the project's website - https://dalesfarmers.co.uk/

If it was closer I'd pay another visit before my ticket runs out. Worth a look if you're in the area. The museum's not bad if you like that sort of thing.


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