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.

Our selection today is a “private photograph printed from abandoned black and white roll film found inside a Soviet military base”:

Part of ‘after the wall: traces of  the soviet empire’ a project by Eric Lusito.

More here.

Our pick for today is an image from Brad Moore:

Rose Room, Tustin, California 2008

© Brad Moore

More on Brad’s website.

Today’s photo is from Alec Soth’s ‘Sleeping by the Mississippi’.

Bonnie (with a photograph of an angel), Port Gibson Mississippi 2000

© Alec Soth

Alec Soth.

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).

Today’s selection is Todd Hido’s superb ‘Homes at Night’ series.

1951

Loaded with atmosphere and mystery, it’s not the homes themselves that are the stars of the show, rather it’s the unseen inhabitants.

More on Todd’s website.

European Fields - The Landscape of Lower League Football is a collection of images from Hans van der Meer.

Warley, England

Perafita, Portugal

Celerina, Switzlerland

The images are taken from small towns in all corners of Europe. The result is a set of photos that transcend sport and landscape photography.

A book is available, published by Steidl.

Something from Yosigo.

From the ‘Snow’ series.

We’re delighted to be able to annouce that the Gallery is now open for business!

Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far - and in particular once again to Lorissa Shepstone of Being Wicked for her most excellent assistance.

We’re kicking off with three terrific photographs…

From three fine photographers:

Peter Baker, Hin Chua and Mark Wickens.

We have plenty more fine photographs lined up which we are looking forward to sharing with you.

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