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Our selection today is a body of work from Coventry factory worker, Robert Longden.
© Robert Longden/RLPA
The exhibition is covered in the Guardian, which also features a photo gallery.
The exhibition, entitled ‘Inland Voyage: Life on the Coventry and Oxford Canals’ opens at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, on Saturday and runs until 30 August.
There’s also a book ‘A Canal People’.
Bill Brandt, Brassai, Ansel Adams, London 1976
© Paul Joyce
Paul Joyce has been described as ‘the greatest photographer you’ve never heard of’. There’s more about him in this Telegraph article.
A selection of his portraits are currently on display at Proud Chelsea.
Our belated final FotoFest selection is from Brian Ulrich. Ulrich is one of the artists featured in the FotoFest 2010 Biennial exhibition ‘Road to Nowhere’.
All photos © Brian Ulrich
More here.
Apologies for the lack of a POD yesterday. Today we’ll make up for it with two choices - the second later.
Our first pick today is Nicole Belle’s ‘apartment’ series. Belle is one of the photographers featured in FotoFest’s ‘Assembly: Eight Emerging Photographers From Southern California’ exhibition.
All photos © Nicole Belle
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.
Click here for more information.
It’s always fascinating watching photographers at work. Our pick today is ‘David Solomons shoots Up West’ a video from Jonathan Goldberg of photographer David Solomons shooting for his ‘Up West’ project.
View the video here.
© David Solomons
David has an exhibition of ‘Up West’, opening on March 11th at the Third Floor gallery in Cardiff. Click here for details.
From the 17th February to 13th March, at the Lucy Bell gallery in St Leonards on Sea, London based photographer Linda Lieberman will be exhibiting ‘Ocean’ a collection of mainly black and white photographs along with some hand-coloured images presenting a strong message “that ecologically man cannot ignore what feeds him socially, politically, economically and spiritually.”
Ocean - Linda Lieberman
Ocean: The Preview
Linda Lieberman & Lucy Bell
More information here.
The largest ever UK exhibition of the life and work of photographer Don McCullin is opening tomorrow (6th Feb) at the Imperial War Museum North.
The exhibition contains more than 200 photographs, many of which are on public display for the first time.
Don McCullin with Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam, February 1968.
Photograph © Nik Wheeler
The exhibition runs until 13th June and then moves to Bath and then London. Full exhibition details here: Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin.
For more on Don McCullin, ‘John Tusa Interviews Don McCullin’ via AMERICANSUBURB X.
And the Today programme presents an audio slideshow.
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