Walking the Circle Line

You probably all know Rob Gardiner's photography blog (nyclondon.com/blog) and while I don't often link off to other blogs, he has recently set himself a really good project...

"With a basic 4x5 pinhole camera on one shoulder and a cheap tripod on the other I am walking directly above London Underground’s Circle Line."

Worth a look.

Salgado: 'Genesis' The Exhibition

Sebastião Salgado's last great photographic project, 'Genesis' has appeared regularly in The Guardian's Weekend supplement since September 2004. Four years in, he has sought out places that are still as pristine as they were in primeval times, places that provide hope..

...and finally, the images will be exhibited! (In London!)
Nov 10-Jan 26 2008 Hackelbury, 4 Launceston Place, W8 5RL



I saw the 'In Principio' exhibition last month and lets just say that putting his images online or in print doesn't do them justice! He achieves that 'Leica Glow' on everything no matter how low the light or awkward the subject.

Examples of Salgado's 'Genesis' images can be seen here and here and here and here and here!

Whilst this is an aside / whole different route to his 'usual' photography, Salgado insists that this is not so different as we are all animals fighting to survive.

Can't wait!

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Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography

Exhibition will run from 22 May – 31 August 2008 and will feature the likes of Diane Arbus.

"Comprising over two hundred and fifty works by twentieth century photographers from the UK, Europe, Africa, America and China, the exhibition will present a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken in cities around the world. There will be a focus on photography taken in the street and the studio, and these two distinct settings reveal different sides of the urban face: the common traits of the man in the crowd, and the representative façade of the bourgeois subject. Some of the photographers included in the show are Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Cecil Beaton, Hugo Erfurth, Walker Evans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Paul Strand, Weegee and James van der Zee."

I know I will be going!

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Experimental Photography

Curtis Moffat created innovative colour still lifes and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early 20th century, but for me, the best were his dynamic abstract photographs.



I recently went to see an exhibition of a few of his works at the V&A on until January 13th. "Curtis Moffat: Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935"

His 'pictographs' were great, made from negatives created simply by laying objects on a light sensitive material... something I have now tried!

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The Genius of Photography

A 6 part series detailing 'the most influential art form of the present day' due to start on 25th October at 9pm on BBC4.

See the promo clip here.

The first episode follows early attempts to fix images.

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