Manchester 75 Years Later
Manchester is the symbol of the urban metamorphosis – a city in continuous change. People, buildings, business – all coming and going. My concept word for Manchester is “ever-changing”.
The City Centre, destroyed in the Christmas Blitz of 1940 and IRA bombing in 1996, is now bigger and brighter than ever.
I propose a journey in time using local postcards and newspaper articles from the 30s.
Cross Street, Manchester
Format 11 International Photography Festival
Derby, UK from [4 Mar 11 - 3 Apr 11]
Format Festival 2011
FORMAT was established in 2004, by Louise Clements and Mike Brown, and is now one of the UK’s leading non-profit international contemporary festivals of photography and related media. The biennale programme celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography. FORMAT is the place to see an incredible range of new work alongside some of the best-known practitioners in the world. FORMAT is focused on developing opportunities for audiences to see, debate, develop and engage in the best of what photography is and can be. The festival is a unique opportunity to see and engage in contemporary photography and to hear what is happening ‘right here, right now’. Read more…
* In Conversation with Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom
* Screening of ‘L’Art et la Maniere’
The National Media Museum, Bradford [Tuesday 22 March 2011, Time: 13.00]
Anders Petersen & JH Engstrom
The photographic work of Anders Petersen and JH Engström deals unflinchingly with experience, memory and the human condition. They established their reputations with two seminal works, Petersen’s Café Lehmitz (1978) and Engstrom’s Trying to Dance (2004). Read more…
I’ve been fascinated by the oscillation between the ugly and the beautiful and I’ve been interested in the superimposition of social inscribed into architecture.
It is a multi-layered cultural phenomenon. These buildings, cold and impersonal in the real space, couldn’t be reduced to ugly mass architecture.
I’m reshaping the real and fictive spaces in order to present these living and working environments as organic structures.
Pulse I
Shadow Catchers: Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss
V&A, London [13 Oct 10 - 20 Feb 11]
The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists – Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss – who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper.
