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.

Our final selection this week is from the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition. Overall the exhibition was quite strong this year and it was good to see some less formal ’street’ photography make the final cut.

Girl On Kingsland Road 2009

© Ashley Jordan Gordon

More here.

Something a little different today. A selection of images from the The 2009 LCC MA Photography Final Show & Catalogue.

Untitled 1 from the series ‘A Modern Bohemian’ by Kate Elliott

Re: Hay Wood [2] by Karen Grainger

Look Left Look Right by Hester Jones

Bathroom by Pablo Baqué de Puig

The exhibition runs from 24th November to 3rd December at The Gallery, London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6SB. The private view is tonight.

Our second exhibition of the day was a joint effort: Selected Photographs 2006-2009 by Jim Green and Akemi’s Place - Paintings and Prints by Natalie Abadzis.

Half of the space is occupied by Natalie’s delicate, intriguing vignettes which are beautifully displayed and contrast with Jim’s robust, graphical and luminous imagery which occupies the rest of the space.

The exhibition is at Nolias Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0BL and only runs until 3PM on the 24th November - so hurry!

10% of all artwork sold goes to Macmillan Cancer Relief.

Andy and I took a trip last week to see a couple of exhibitions.

First up was David Solomons’ ‘Happenstance’ - a retrospective of black and white ‘public’ photography by London-based David Solomons.

There are some forty images in the exhibition. Although most of the images on display were taken in London, there are a number of images from other locations. The quality of the imagery is high with few weak links. The images range from the quirky to the poignant, but all show Solomons’ eye for the decisive moment.

The exhibition is at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG. It runs until 27th November.

There’s also a book.

Andy and I visited Photofair this weekend. Part of Photomonth, the East London Photography Festival, Photofair spreads over Spitalfields market and features an eclectic mix of photographers and galleries selling prints, publishers and photography service providers. Printwise there was something for everyone - from £10 prints from amateur enthusiasts to £10,000+ Burtynsky’s.

We met and talked to a large number of photographers, discovering some great work that hopefully we will be able to make available through the gallery in the not too distant future.

The day was rounded off with a visit to ‘A Place Like Home’ at Foundry and Obama’s People at Flowers Kingsland Road.

Some outtakes and links from the day below.

Miranda Gavin from Hotshoe magazine and Wendy Pye. Hotshoe is available in print bi-monthly for just £23pa, or £25pa for both print and full online access. There’s also Hotblog which Miranda edits.

Carolyn Lefley pictured with some of her work from ‘Belonging’ at the ‘A Place Like Home’ exhibition at Foundry - the show also included work by Ewa Bialek and Mark Denton.

Sam Bedford and Nova photographer Ben Roberts.

John Matthews - Tales of a Flaneur.

Photojournalist Alison Baskerville, alongside her striking portrait of Qamille Stema an Albanian ‘Virgjinesha’ (Sworn Virgin).

The Telegraph is featuring some images from ‘The Londoners Through a Lens’ exhibition at The Getty Images gallery.

The image below is particularly striking:

Apparently it shows a “wire cage which East Poplar borough council in London proposed to fix to the outside of their tenement windows, so that babies could benefit from fresh air and sunshine”.

It seems that attitudes towards child care and health and safety were so very different in 1934!

PhotoVoice, one of the charities that we aim to support, have been working with another another charity, United Response, on UR in the Picture, a project that examines photography as a creative medium through which people can express their feelings about living with mental illness: their hopes, their fears and their achievements.

The work from the project will be exhibited at the Bankside Gallery from the 7th to the 11th of July.

Julian Ward is a photographer taking part in a group exhibition of art in Kings Hill, West Malling. The private view is Thursday 25th June and the show will then be running for 12 weeks. I am personally very interested in his work and so are Nova, we hope we can get him on board and offer one of his images for sale.

He will be showing work from his series ‘If in doubt, throw it out’.

This is one of his images in the show, ‘Meccanno Car’, 48″x36″ print.

Tower View, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4UX

The exhibition features sculpture, photography, painting and prints from artists based in the South East and London.

You can view Julian’s portfolio website here.

And the venue’s website here.