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

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

All photos © Michael Danner

We continue our peak at the Hereford Photography Festival by featuring a series from Michael Danner - who is one of the photographers featured in the headline exhibition ‘Twenty’.

More ‘Blue Suburban Skies’.

All photos © Al Vandenberg

This week we switch our focus to the Hereford Photography Festival. Al Vandenberg is one of the photographers selected for ‘Twenty’ - the headline exhibition celebrating 20 years of the festival.

Al Vandenberg

All photos © Jamie Stoker

Another selection from the Brighton Photo Fringe. The series was shot in Stanmer Park, Brighton. For more details and an artist’s statement, take a look at ‘Park Life’.

Stoker is one of the participating photographers in the ‘Transmissions’ exhibition at the old Co-op building, 94-101 London Road BN1 4LB.

© Mohamed Bourouissa

On show in the Old Co-op Department Store as part of the ‘New Ways of Looking’ exhibition, Mohamed Bourouissa’s staged images of Parisian youth feel compelling authentic.

Our first selection this week is a piece from William Wegman that cannot fail to raise a smile:

Lawn Chair, 1988

© William Wegman

Sixty of  Wegman’s photos are currently on show at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre until October 24, alongside ‘Life Work’ - 100 vintage prints by Edward Weston from all phases of his career.

William Wegman.

Our first (and rather belated - apologies) selection this week is an exhibition: England My England from Chris Steele-Perkins.

The Guardian offers a presentation with the photographer talking through his record of English life.

The exhibition runs from 18th June to 30th July at Kings Place Gallery.