Our selection today is one of the prints up for sale in the FotoFest print auction.

© Gina Glover

More auction details here.

More Gina Glover here.

Our pick today features Richard Mosse, one of the exhibitors in the FotoFest 2010 Biennial exhibition ‘Whatever was Splendid’.

All photos © Richard Mosse

More here.

FotoFest 2010 has just started over the other side of the pond so we thought that this week we would feature work from photographers involved in the event.

FotoFest’s four principle exhibitions are dedicated to contemporary US photography, however the fifth and the one non-thematic exhibition is the eighth edition of the Discoveries of the Meeting Place exhibition, a series that showcases some of the best work discovered at the FotoFest’s previous Biennial portfolio review. Judy Haberl is one of the ten artists featured.

Frozen Bird 1

© Judy Haberl

More here.

Opening tomorrow at Atlas Gallery is Scottish photographer Steve Macleod’s debut exhibition, ‘Blackwater’.

Large format colour prints depict the seasonal landscape around the River Blackwater. By methodically visiting the same sites along the river course, Macleod repetitively shoots the same subjects through the seasons in direct relation to the way he feels, translating his emotional state through the lens.

Steve Macleod - Collapse of Thought, 2008

Steve Macleod - Rolling Dark Vacuum, 2009

Working in a traditional way, he uses a weighty 5×4 Field camera and controls colour temperature and effects wholly within the camera, rather than through Photoshop. He uses early 1950s lenses, which are uncoated and lead to small aberrations, creating a softness in the image with elements of flare. He takes advantage of all the movements in the camera such as back-plate shift and lens tilt to abstract the composition, creating ambiguities of scale. Maintaining a narrow depth of field, elements of the foreground are often as sharp as the background. Large areas of the composition are blurred producing a sense of movement and an experience more akin to human memory and visual experience. In contrast, sections are captured in prosaic detail enticing the viewer into the depths of the image through the surrounding mist.

Macleod has worked as a professional printer since the early 1990s with some of the world’s leading photographers such as David Bailey and Mario Testino, collaborating and consulting beyond what is normally required. He has gained an international reputation in this area and published several books on the subject. Macleod currently works as Creative Director at Metro Imaging, London, whilst pursuing his personal photographic projects.

The exhibition runs from the 12th March to 24th April at The Atlas Gallery.

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All photos © Uta Barth

From here.

Graham Miller’s ‘Suburban Splendour’ was mainly inspired “by the voice of the American short story writer Raymond Carver. Carver’s vision depicts ordinary blue collar people living lives of quiet desparation, people who are feeling their way in the dark with the hope that maybe next week things will get better.”

All photos © Graham Miller

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Today we present a set of street portraits from Gustaf Eriksson:

All photos © Gustaf Eriksson

More here.

Hotels attempt to deliver a particular ‘homely’ ambience for their guests. Yet strangely, by attempting to be everyone’s home, they feel like no one’s. Instead, they create an ambience that is instantly recognisable as ‘hotel’ and which is, oddly, homely.

All photos © Barbara Van Schaik

Barabara Van Schaik has captured this particular quality in her series ‘Hotel Inc.’ More here.

Our selection for Friday is a little bit of fashion from Facehunter:

© Yvan Rodic

Firstly, apologies for the lack of a selection yesterday.

Our pick today is ‘What is England?’, a project from Stuart Pilkington. The project involves 50 photographers, one representing each English county and each submitting a single photograph in response to six different assignments. The first assignment, and the one published this week, is ‘Person’.

Two Nova photographers, Ben Roberts and Sarah Amy Smith are taking part in the project as is Nova partner Andrew Newson.

© Sarah Amy Smith

© Carl Mole

© Tim Morris

© Andrew Newson

© Ben Roberts