All Images © Ellie Davies

Ellie Davies, a photographer who we have featured previously as a ‘Pick of the Day’ is currently exhibiting her landscape work at 10GS in London.

Smoke and Mirrors brings together new landscape work by photographer Ellie Davies. Produced over the last three years working in the New Forest, she explores her relationship to the landscape, its role in defining personal identity and the notion that all perceptions of nature are in some way mediated by culture.

The term ‘landscape’ can be seen as a socially constructed description of nature embedded in memory, history, storytelling, folk law and magic, obscuring the reality of the land, veiling it, transforming the natural world into an idealization.

Davies plays the role of a witness and a narrator as she becomes actively involved with the forest space, inscribing on it and weaving into it, building a personal experience and interaction. Introducing nterventions such as pools of light and darkness, pathways of wool and paint, golden trees, and marks drawn into the landscape, she captures a trajectory or a record of an interaction like an ephemeral self-portrait. The materials weave, sew, thread and connect her tangibly to the landscape for a short time, catching and locating herself within it, as she questions the stability of ‘nature’ and landscape’ as concepts.

Exhibition Details:
art@10gs
10 Grosvenor Street
London
W1K 4QB

Exhibition Opening Times:
13th May - 5th September 2011
Monday - Friday 10am - 5.30pm
Weekend viewings by appointment

Ellie Davies

Many of you will know that we haven’t really opened Nova Gallery for submissions before. But we feel it’s now the time to do so, we are inviting photographers to submit a small selection of images for consideration.

We are currently an online only gallery, however we now have a business premises near Tunbridge Wells, Kent and will be running exhibitions from time-to-time. Also, our current Nova Gallery site is undergoing a major re-design and will be launched soon, so watch this space.

With the new website and premises we are looking for some great new photographers to add to our list of ever-growing talented individuals and will launch with some stunning new work.

Nova Gallery currently supports a number of charities by donating an amount of every sale to: Amnesty International, BTCV, PhotoVoice, The Prince’s Trust, Shelter and VSO. You can find out more on the Nova Gallery Charities page.

But it’s not just about charity, the photographers also make money from the sales and more information on how that works can be found at the Nova Gallery FAQs page.

Work should be submitted in a certain way and failure to do so will result in your images not even being looked at.

Remember you must have high resolution versions of any images you submit, whether that be digital files or a negative to produce a high resolution and high quality scan.

Please submit your images via email to: enquiries@novagallery.co.uk

Please make sure the subject title of your email is: Submission - Your Name

Please submit between 1 and 5 images.

Please make the images 1000 pixels on the long edge.

Please make sure your email doesn’t exceed 5MB.

Please include your personal details:
Including your name, date of birth, postal address, telephone number, email and website address.

If we decide to offer some of your works for sale, we will require a number of things.

1. The high resolution file from you.
2. A photographer’s agreement to be signed.
3. Some text about yourself.
4. Some text about the image.
5. An image of you.

That’s pretty much all we need to get you up and running. We hope that you will then do a little promotion of the image yourself, by letting friends and family know that you have the image for sale with us, including a link from your website to the image on our site etc.

In addition to offering your image(s) for sale through Nova Gallery, we are also here to help promote your career as a photographer. So if you have a show or work with another gallery, we can promote that through our blog and social media accounts.

We have calibrated equipment and are able to produce your images as high quality prints, either through our trusted labs or by printing in-house with a number of fine art papers.

We hope to hear from you soon.

While you are waiting for the gallery to get up and running once again, you might like to satisfy your desire for new prints by visiting the Charity Print Auctions for Japan group on Flickr.

The group was first started last year by Nova partner Andy in response to the Haiti Earthquake disaster. Photographer’s submit images for sale as prints and the winning bid for each print is donated to a disaster relief charity. The group’s Haiti appeal eventually raised an amazing £18k.

There are lots of great prints to bid on, and to give you a taster, here are some by participating Nova Photographers.

© Sebastian Schramm

© James Galpin

Plus images from Ben Anderson and Julian James Ward.

Andy has also submitted a photo:

© Andrew Newson

And if you want to contribute by offering a print, then just join the group and submit - your best work would be appreciated!

Apologies for the sparsity of updates.

The development of our sister site, Nova Photography, offering photography training, wedding photography and commercial photography, has taken somewhat longer than expected, however it is now up & running so we are looking to now focus on the gallery updates.

The aim is to complete the gallery work during April, with the intention of offering our next print on May 17th.

In the meantime, we will get back to updating the blog and pointing you in the direction of some fantastic photography.

Once again, apologies for the delay - and watch this space!

All photos © Nadia Sablin

Photographer’s statement: “Photographing in the former Soviet Union is a mystical experience. It feels like I am returning to the place of childhood dreams and fairy tales. This time, I’m the one recording the stories. The disappearing world of the 20th century is still intact in much of the former Soviet bloc and my journeys often feel like travel in time to a seemingly simpler world. Most of my travels have been through Ukraine. The people of this peaceful sprawling country are collectively holding their breath, waiting to join the EU or be overshadowed once more by Russia. There is a certain dark magic that rises from the very soil of this land. It is this magic that I hunt with my camera, in the huts of the gypsies and the shepherds’ lean-tos and in the gestures of people in the streets.”

From the Mountains and to the Sea

Our final selection of the week is ‘A Celebration of Kodachrome’ an exhibition at the AOP Gallery in London. We feature 3 photos from the show.

© Ian Dawson

© Derek Richards

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© Lucy Phillips

Exhibition Details:

AOP Gallery, 81 Leonard Street, EC2
Tube: Old Street (Exit 4)
Monday-Friday 10am to 6pm

Until 10th February 2011.

Yesterday we took some time to visit the London Art Fair, where quite a bit of photography was represented.

One of the photographic highlights was a print by Bart Michiels from his ‘Course of History’ project shown by the Foley gallery.

Verdun 1916, Le Mort Homme, 2001

Monte Cassino 1944, Garigliano II, 2006

Passschendaele 1917, Ravebeek, 2005

The Course of History

Nova photographer Wendy Pye is one of six UK artists featured in ‘Ver’ - the UK-Korea Interchange Exhibition of Contemporary Photography. Images from Wendy’s ‘Luminous Flux’ series will be shown.

The exhibition brings together a selection of works by talented artists from the UK & Korea, “exploring the links, gaps, questions, and sensibilities in the context of the cultural integration.”

The features a range of production techniques from traditional handmade prints to digitally enhanced photographic manipulations combined with printmaking techniques.

The exhibition is at the AM Gallery in Brighton until 23rd January.

Exhibition details:
AM Gallery, 1 Borough Street, Brighton BN1 3BG.
Opening Times: Weekdays 11am-4pm. Sat/Sun 11am-5pm. Monday closed

Please note that there will be a hiatus in our regular fortnightly editions whilst we finish a site redesign and implement a bunch of improvements. We expect to be able to bring you an updated site and make our next print on available on Tuesday March 1st 2011.

The site improvements are primarily aimed at improving navigability and facilitating better purchasing and special offers. We will also be offering a more varied range of material, some special collections and some interesting editions.

In the meantime, all our prints are of course still available. We will also still be regularly updating this blog, which is also where to come for any additional news on the site redesign. Watch this space!

Today we feature ‘Isolated Building Studies’ from Nova Photograper David Schalliol.

From the artist: “The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities.”

More here.

David’s print, ‘Christmas Tree, Alley’ is available from the gallery.