http://photonet.org.uk Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:17:35 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://photonet.org.uk//imgs/logo.gif http://photonet.org.uk http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=328 Adrian Ensor's images document some of the twentieth century's greatest architectural achievements including the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, The British Museum Great Court, London and The Imperial War Museum, Salford. Taken during the day and at night, each shot focuses on a small section of architecture that Ensor uses to express the overall impression and atmosphere created by the building. Through his darkroom expertise and use of tone, Ensor's images have a depth and form that make them almost sculptural. "I've always been attracted to shapes and the way that shapes can be used in architectural photography. From taking half a dozen shots of small abstract areas of the structure, I aim to create the basis for an overall image of the building" Adrian Ensor. Ensor is best known as one of Britain's finest black and white printers and is two-times winner of the prestigious Ilford Printer of the Year Award. However, Ensor’s developing reputation as a gifted architectural photographer won him Silver for the Association of Photographers Structures Award in 1997. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:25:43 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=293 Circus is a radical development in Anderson & Low’s studies of the relationship between the body, costume, performance and identity.  The subjects are members of an international circus company that performs at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, photographed in their stage costumes and make-up in two related series, Portraits and Performance, shot in 2006 and 2008. Portraits examines the duality of the performer and the performance.  Performers are dressed in their traditional costume but removed from their conventional performing environment and placed amongst the classic amusement park rides.  Dressed to entertain, the subjects are in a location incongruous to their personae.  This contradiction creates a tension in the image that evokes a sense of dislocation and estrangement in the viewer. Performance depicts the troupe in the more conventional environment of the stage.  The power, strength, beauty and skill of the performers is revealed and lends the composition a harmonious balance, focusing the viewers’ attention on the powerful relationship between the performer and performance. Internationally acclaimed fine art photographers Anderson & Low have been collaborating since 1990.  Their work is in numerous public and private collections and museums including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the National Portrait Gallery (England), the National Portrait Gallery (Australia) and The Worcester Museum, Massachusetts.  Recently their architectural photographs Abstractions have been developed into brand new works for the solo exhibition Chrysalis in Dallas, Texas.  Four monographs have been published: Athletes and Gymnasts (Twin Palms 2002, exhibited world-wide) and Athlete/Warrior (Merrell 2005 exhibited in America and Europe) and Chrysalis (Light & Sie 2007).  A major charity project shot by Anderson & Low for the Elton John Aids Foundation will be launched at the National Portrait Gallery later in the year. Jo Peace Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:51:17 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=481 In 1994 Andrew Cross made the first of ten journeys across the USA documenting the country's freight routes. The project culminated in 2002 with the publication of Some Trains in America, and accompanying exhibitions at the Barbican Centre, London, and the Arles Photography Festival. The photographs are the results of thousands of miles of travelling, following the tracks of the rail network through many different landscapes, depicting its industrial strength, poetic beauty and sheer expanse. Whether seen from close or from afar, American freight trains are part of the fabric of a nation, linking its industries and communities. The familiar presence of the railroad helps define the American landscape. Andrew Cross was born in Britain in 1961 and graduated from Bath Academy of Art. He subsequently established a reputation as a photographer and curator of contemporary art. As well as Some Trains in America he has also published Along Some American Highways, 2003, and An English Journey, 2004. He has exhibited widely internationally, and in 2004 was short-listed for the Beck's Futures Prize at the ICA, London. David Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:24:17 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=318 Whether focusing his attention on urban landscape, or addressing overlooked interiors or locations, it is the trace of human presence that is at the heart of Angus Boulton’s practice. Receiving the prestigious DG Bank Kunstsipendium award in 1998 allowed the artist to spend a year in Berlin. The photographs he took illustrate a different, subtler side to the city, depicting both the perceptions and misconceptions a visitor might have on encountering this seminal city, particularly at a time of immense change. In a parallel project Boulton began to document the abandoned, decaying Soviet military bases throughout the former German Democratic Republic. Boulton's large scale and varied body of work included an experimental move into film, making the short films Cood Bay Forst Zinna (2001) and Stolzenhain (2004), and the photographic series Forty-one Gymnasia. These photographs are on one level historic documents of neglected and forgotten buildings, and on another level explorations of political constructs and deteriorating systems. Boulton was born in York in 1964 and lives and works in London and Berlin. He has exhibited his films and photographs internationally. His work is featured in the collections of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford; the Imperial War Museum, London; Museum of London; the British Council; Channel 4 Television, London; and the DG Bank, Frankfurt. David Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:01:28 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=497 The interaction of human bodies and bodies of water is the first of a number of relationships explored by Anne Leigniel in her River series. She examines the water's surface and the riverbed, considering the nature and the meaning of the space in between. Leigniel reflects on these strange relationships in the disparate photographs that make up the series as a whole. She combines images full of light and otherworldly colour with those that are dark and almost monochromatic, and contrasts photographs rich in realistic detail with those that are abstract and dreamlike. Anne Leigniel studied at the French National School of Art, Cergy Pointoise-Paris, and at the London College of Printing. She has exhibited widely and her work resides in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:29:03 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=455 Beatrix Reinhardt's photographs grew out of an artist's residency in India in 2001. The work she created focused on interior spaces of higher education institutions, showing offices, classrooms, auditoriums, libraries and teacher’s lounges of government and private colleges and universities. ‘To an extent, I see these images as detailed and intimate portraits of the people who occupy these spaces but who are not present in the final image. The juxtaposition between the marks of the founding fathers […] and other signs, which indicate the intensive and alive search for new identity, make these spaces into records of the past and present, and change at the same time.’ Beatrix Reinhardt was born in 1972 in Russia and grew up in East Germany. In 1993, Reinhardt left Germany to study in New York. Since then she has worked, taught and exhibited in Europe and North America and Asia. Dividing her time between Berlin and New York, she is currently director of Olin Galleries and Visiting Assistant Professor at Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia. Her work is in the collections of the New York City public Library; the Old Parliament House, Canberra; and the Finish Church, Helsinki. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:27:32 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=338 From the slums of London and Glasgow to the war zones of the Second World War and Korea, the photographs of Bert Hardy (1913-1995) are amongst the great documents of the twentieth century. Bert Hardy, born in London, worked his way up from a lab assistant to become a photographer. His talent flourished as a staff photographer on Picture Post, joining the illustrated magazine during the Second World War. As well as travelling with the armed forces, his images of the Blitz are amongst the finest and closest to the action taken. After the war he started documenting the social scene, working in poor districts such as the Gorbals in Glasgow and Elephant and Castle in London. These images are today considered classics and testify to the manner in which Hardy saw the world, a place where people learn to make do with what life offers them and human joy can shine through even the most dire poverty. Bert Hardy died in 1995, and is today fondly remembered as both a photographer who was devoted to his craft, and as one of the great recorders of social conditions.   David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:35:03 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=907 Domestic Landscapes is an ongoing archive that includes hundreds of images, the product of more than ten years’ work by Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen.  The project aims to capture the atmosphere and light of homes across Europe while recording the rural traditions that are slowly disappearing due to the impact of modern farming practices. Each of Teunissen’s colour photographs is composed around natural sources of light, just as the buildings themselves were once constructed around the idea of light, having been built before the Second World War, when the supply of domestic electricity was not widespread.  This light lends Teunissen’s photographs a painterly quality and has led some to compare them to the great Dutch Masters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt.   Many of the people photographed by Teunissen have lived traditionally off the land.  It soon became clear to Teunissen that it was not only their homes that were in danger from the onslaught of modernisation but also their entire way of life and sense of  community.  Commenting on his work, he states: ‘The inhabitants of the houses I seek and photograph, still know how something should taste, how it has to be made; they understand the  importance of time and ripening, they know the meaning and value of repetition – daily – yearly... Their houses and ways of life are fading out of our societies, forever, together with their knowledge.  It is my aim to capture this, wherever I can find it, before it disappears completely.’    David Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:30:23 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=379 Bob Willoughby is an internationally recognised photographer who is best known for his inside look into the machinations of movie making. Willoughby, who was born in Los Angeles, began his career shooting for Harper's Bazaar in the early 1950s. He was soon discovered by the film studios - and was the first 'outside' photographer to be brought in to shoot publicity images. These 'behind the scenes' pictures offered the public the fun, the fatigue and the real challenge of movie making. Both an artist and technician, Willoughby's signature style was a marked departure from the traditional contrived portrait shots favoured by the studios. In order to unobtrusively provide these shots, Willoughby invented a radio controlled Nikon camera. This ingenious device attached to the top of the Panavision camera allowed Willoughby to shoot scenes without intrusion. Out of all the many celebrities he photographed, Willoughby seemed to have a special fondness for Audrey Hepburn. As well as capturing her on set, it is his quiet off-camera portraits that offer us the best glimpse of Hepburn's extraordinary presence and beauty. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:35:23 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=346 A fascination with night, darkness and the unseen corners of our world haunts the work of Chrystel Lebas, and her many different approaches try to assess our experience of it and our relationship with it. Lebas uses symbolic elements, such as water, sky and mountains, and a richness of colour to emphasise a dream-like state in a distorted world. In the series Night 2, Lebas examined the intense darkness of starless nights, shooting with a pinhole camera. In Sleep, she created ghostly images of people sleeping. "Is it an image of sleep or death," Lebas asks, "of the process of dreaming or dying?" Lebas has used a panoramic camera to produce colour landscapes all over Europe. Using sweeping camera movements with long exposure times from two to six hours, these images explore photography's intrinsic relationship with time and movement. Lebas was born in France in 1966. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and currently lives and works in London. Lebas has exhibited extensively internationally. Her work is represented in many public, corporate and private collections. L'espace temps / Time in Space, Lebas' first monograph, received the British Book Design and Production Award 2004 and was exhibited at the Rencontres d' Arles Book award 2004. Her second book was the monograph Between Dog and Wolf. Chrystel Lebas was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with The Blue Hour, 28 Sept – 2 Dec 2006. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:40 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=348 During his long association with Pinewood, Columbia and Universal, Cornel Lucas has worked with some of the greatest stars of our time, creating definitive images of Brigitte Bardot, Dirk Bogarde, Trevor Howard, Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, and countless others. After spending the war years at the experimental Airforce School of photography in Farnborough, when peace was declared he turned his camera in an altogether more glamorous direction. Lucas was an instant success. His unsurpassed technical skill with the large format 8x10" plate camera, which allowed for creative possibilities of retouching, together with his prowess in dramatic lighting, produced exceptional results. As Lord Puttnam says, 'Cornel's portraits had a habit of becoming the photographic icons by which we came to know and remember this or that star.' He shared champagne with sex-kitten Bardot, endulged in horseplay with David Niven and persuaded Rachel Welch to keep her clothes on. Lucas' work is represented in many significant permanent collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Portrait Gallery, London; and The National Media Museum, Bradford. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:48:35 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=324 For more than 40 years Doubilet has been exploring the wonders of the marine world. With his creative use of colour and mesmerising compositions, he gives us a rare view into the beauty of this alien world. Doubilet was born in 1946 and from a very young age was fascinated with the water. By thirteen he was taking he first underwater photographs with his Brownie Hawkeye, placing the camera in an anaesthesiologist’s rubber bag to allow him to shoot underwater. He studied film and broadcasting at Boston University, and his first real break came when he received an invitation from the underwater film-maker Stan Waterman to accompany him and the marine biologist Eugenie Clark on a trip to the Red Sea.   Since 1972, when this first work was published in National Geographic Magazine, he has gained over 60 assignments. Taking him to waters including the Great Barrier Reef, Japan’s Suruga Bay and Monterey Bay in California. Doubilet is very aware of the conservation issues regarding the oceans, and amongst other projects has worked with the World Wildlife Fund. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:18:52 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=315 The photographs of Dick Arentz are the product of his travels around America and Europe. Since 1977 he has made dozens of trips, with Italy and the British Isles being his favoured destinations. His work reflects both the keenness of the eye in capturing images and the skill of the hand in producing luminous platinum prints. His American work includes "The American Southwest", a limited edition portfolio of 12" x 20" platinum prints and a project photographing the Mid-South and Appalachia, concentrating on the human effect on the landscape. He is accompanied everywhere by the large-format cameras essential to his craft. Dick Arentz was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1935. He has several publications, including The Grand Tour, 1998; The British Isles, 2001 and a resource book, Platinum and Palladium Printing, 2000. His work is held in many permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the International Center of Photography, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; and the Royal Photographic Society's collection at the National Museum of Photography, film and Television, Bradford. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:40:57 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=878 Dorothy Bohm is known for her carefully observed photographs of London and Paris, forming a personalised and poetic body of work created over the course of the last fifty years. Bohm was born into a Jewish Lithuanian family in East Prussia in 1924 and was sent to Britain in 1939. Her photography career started in 1946 with her own studios in Manchester. Studio portraiture prepared Bohm for the personal work she created during her travels from the 1950s onwards. Living and working in Paris before moving on to New York and San Francisco in 1954, she settled in London in 1956. In the hands of Dorothy Bohm the camera is employed to capture the evocative and transient moments from life. Her subjective approach explores the paradoxes of collective human existence and individual isolation with a keen eye for line, form and graphic resonance. Bohm's photographs have been widely exhibited and published. She has had major retrospectives at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and recently had work included in the Tate Britain exhibition How We Are: Photographing Britain. She has produced many books, including, amongst others, A World Observed (1970, with a foreword by Roland Penrose), Egypt (1989), Venice (1992), Sixties London (1996), and Breaks in Communications (2002). David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:49:03 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=327 The work of Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) revolved around years spent travelling, and the characters he encountered along the way. Born in Amsterdam, he was almost completely self-taught; his seemingly raw work less concerned with traditional technique and composition, and more with the evocation of atmosphere surrounding people and place. Ed van der Elsken lived and worked in Paris between 1950 and 1954. During this time he compiled his first book, Love on the Left Bank. This book, which took the form of a fictional love story told in photographs and short passages of text, was highly successful, managing to capturing the spirit of the French New Wave. Amsterdam remained his home but frequent travelling satisfied his natural curiosity. A fourteen-month trip around the world in 1959 and 1960 resulted in Sweet Life, a book of memorable places and individuals met along the way. A prolific artist, he produced a total of twenty-six books during his career. Ed van der Elsken's work is in numerous collections, including those of the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam; the Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. David Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:40:58 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=350 In series of photographs such as The Diminishing Present and Affected Landscapes, Martins examines a landscape of uncertainty, transition and opposition. In reflecting a society of dislocation and bewilderment he seems to question whether the city as a totality escapes the perception of the individual. Portuguese by birth, Edgar Martins grew up in Macau, China, where he published his first novel, Mäe, deixa-me fazer o pino. In 1996 he moved to the UK, where he completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited extensively throughout Asia and Europe and has received numerous awards for his work. His last book, Black Holes and Other Inconsistencies, was awarded the Thames & Hudson and RCA Society book prize. Martins’ work has featured in various periodicals, including Source, Art Review, Blueprint and Creative Review, and is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Orient Foundation, and the Macau Museum of Modern Art. Edgar Martins was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with The Diminishing Present, 18 July – 23 September 2006. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:33:02 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=904 Edith Maybin's photography investigates the relationship between mother and daughter. Maybin takes her portraits in a ‘home’ environment where the two initiate secret stories that they then replay until the camera captures the mother and daughter separately in the same position. This allows for Maybin to digitally reassemble the images, with the resulting photograph resolving the dichotomy of the relationship. In closing the gap between mother and daughter the work subversively provides room for fantasy, identity reversal, and reveried escape. Maybin’s memories of her mother dressing are the inspiration for this investigation of female rituals and sentimental inheritance. Inspired by Lady Clementina Hawarden’s photographic tableaux of her daughters, Maybin and daughter paradoxically elude the gaze by way of imaginative abstraction into a place, like Vermeer’s women, intangible. Edith Maybin (b. 1969) graduated in 2006 with an MA from the Swansea Institute and went on to win the title of Free Range 06 Photographer of the Year. Maybin has also been selected for the AXA Art Photographic Portrait Commission with the National Museum of Wales. Maybin’s work is part of the collections of The National Museum Wales and The National Portrait Gallery, London. Edith Maybin is currently the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with The Tenby Document, 8 Feb – 6 Apr 2008. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:33:27 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=329 Ernst Fischer's landscapes are characterised by an eerie, brooding calm and the latent sense that something extraordinary is about to happen. Subjects include transitory zones, empty spaces and the trace of human infrastructure, often featuring spontaneous or incidental happenings suggestive of a deeper story beyond the simple composition. "I'm looking for ways in which things interact", he says "and how these relationships can suggest something fictional in a documentary image" Ernst Fischer. Since moving from Switzerland to London in 1993, Fischer has devoted himself to photography. An Association of Photographers exhibition and the British Journal of Photography have tipped him as a rising star and he was selected as the most outstanding new talent in advertising photography at the prestigious Creative Futures 2001 showcase. In 2002 he received a Merit at the 19th Association of Photographers Awards, and his work has appeared in Rank, Colors, and Exit, together with commissions for Dazed & Confused, Time Out, Barclays Bank and Volvo. However his personal projects remain his passion. Ernst Fischer's first book, The Land of Milk and Money, was published in 2006. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:33:50 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=488 Over a forty-year career in music and films Esther Anderson has created a unique series of photographs. Anderson worked with Island Records from the late fifties in Jamaica to the early nineties, promoting Jamaican artists abroad. She personally managed the artists Millie Small, Jimmy Cliff, and Bob Marley and The Wailers. Encouraged by photographer and film-maker Jerry Schatzburg, she incorporated the Rastafarian element into The Wailers' image, which helped to create a world revolution, both in sounds, perception and philosophy. Anderson also built a career as an actress. Starting in the early sixties with roles in television shows such as The Avengers, she later moved on to star in feature films including The Harder They Come and A Warm December, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Esther Anderson was born in St. Mary on the north coast of Jamaica, and currently lives and works in London and Paris. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:42:09 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=845 Eva Stenram is a young emerging photographer, and her latest series of work is Birds in Flight. This work gives the initial impression of a playful examination of the natural flight patterns of wild birds, yet a deeper contemplation of the work reveals serious contemporary concerns. Each photograph has been digitally rearranged in order to subvert the traditional notions of freedom and inspiration associated with images of flying birds. By deliberately creating skyscapes of birds flying in slightly unusual and more menacing patterns by repositioning them to appear to be speeding towards one another on a collision course or arranged in a wrought geometrical formation, Stenram has subjected generic aspirations of freedom to the formal constrictions of a controlling technology; a concern that permeates all of Stenram’s work. In some photographs, subtle macabre overtones are indicated by an overt reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds. A sense of danger and foreboding is evoked with visual references to wartime air raids: such as the black and white grainy aesthetic of early twentieth century images of fighter planes in turbulent skies. This quietly powerful series of paradoxical photographs suggest both impending disaster and natures’ quiet moments of serenity. Jo Peace Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:55:46 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=361 George Rodger (1908 – 1995) came to prominence when his images of the Blitz appeared in the magazine Picture Post. Subsequently hired by Life magazine as a war correspondent and photographer, he covered the Second World War in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Rodger's journey began with General De Gaulle and the Free French forces in West Africa and saw him present at the liberation of Paris and the German surrender at Lüneberg. However it was the horrors he witnessed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that were to define the war for him and shape his future. In 1947 Rodger established the renowned agency Magnum Photos with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David 'Chim' Seymour. Rodger’s work in Africa for Magnum started in 1948 with an epic journey from Cape Town to Cairo, and in the years that followed he made many more trips to the continent. These journeys were an effort to rediscover humanity, and by showing the utmost respect for local people and customs he gained access to tribes relatively untouched by the modern world. In these photographs Rodger created memorable and powerful images of ordinary people with compassion, sincerity and humanity. David Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:08:42 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=313 Gillian Allard began her career as a photojournalist, but in recent years her work has evolved as her approach has become more subjective. "From Out of Space" is a series that emerged from her desire to escape what she sees as the constraints of the human subject and explore the emotional world through an interaction with nature. Taking as her subject the rivers, fields and natural environment of East Anglia and other parts of Great Britain, Allard produces photographs that are often minimalist. Each one is characterised by an interest in form, texture and innovative composition Allard was born in 1966 and studied at the London College of Printing and the Royal College of Art. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. She currently lives and works in Suffolk. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:43:04 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=360 A self-taught photographer, Grace Robertson submitted her first pictures to Picture Post at the age of nineteen, under a male pseudonym. She continued to work as a freelance photographer for the magazine for the following eight years documenting Britain’s post-war life and its struggle to come to terms with a rapidly changing future. Her subjects were very varied but she brought humour, sympathy and a women's perspective to all her work. At Picture Post she joined many of the leading photographers of the era, including Bert Hardy, Kurt Hutton, and her future husband Thurston Hopkins.  After Picture Post closed in 1957 Robertson continued freelancing, working for Life magazines such as Illustrated and Everybody’s. Robertson has also been the subject of many documentaries and had her most recent exhibition at The Leica Gallery, New York (2000). In 1999 she received an OBE for services to photography. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:43:38 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=317 During the years of the Cultural Revolution the personality cult that engulfed Mao came to a height when his Little Red Book of quotations and images of him were distributed in their millions throughout China. Hou Bo's portraits appeared in nearly every office, factory, classroom, shop and home and showed Mao as a charismatic leader, a teacher, a strategist and an internationalist. David Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:44:52 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=371 Much of Iain Stewart’s earlier work was deeply emotive and personal, exploring loss and bereavement. He has since become known for his lushly coloured abstract photographs of land, sea and sky, based around northern mainland Scotland, the Orkney Isles and the Western Isles. Working mostly at dawn and dusk, he employs long exposures to capture not just the light but also the innate stillness of those moments. Creating quietly monumental photographs that contemplate the passage of time. “I am interested in rubbing out a little of what we know... Stare long enough at the horizon and you'll come away with more questions than you started with.” Iain Stewart. Iain Stewart, born in Sheffield in 1967, studied at Edinburgh College of Art and has worked there as a lecturer since 1993. Stewart has exhibited widely, and his work resides in the permanent collections of the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, and The Scottish Executive. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:42:12 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=353 Following Eton’s acquisition of several early works by Ian Macdonald, the photographer was invited to spend the 2006/2007 academic year at the school as artist-in-residence.   The photographs that resulted from a year spent completely immersed in all aspects of life at the school are far from typical views of Eton. Macdonald has produced a body of work that delights in discovering another side to a place that he readily admits to knowing little about before arriving there. Macdonald’s great interest lies with the people of a particular place and at Eton he spent a large amount of time photographing pupils in the “natural habitats” of their private rooms. Whilst these portraits are perhaps unusual for Eton, they are characteristic of Macdonald’s work, honest and carefully considered depictions of people and the manner in which they engage and interact with their surroundings. His photographs of the school itself, whilst allowing for some broader views, largely confine themselves to details: windows and walls, signs and memorials. Each carries with it vestigial elements, the marks of history and human contact through which the relationships between pupils and the school can be read. David Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:02:41 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=906 Jacob Holdt, the son of a Danish minister, arrived in the United States in 1970 with the intention of travelling to South America.  However, fascinated by the demonstrations against the Vietnam War, Holdt decided to hitchhike across the US. This became a five-year road trip where he met people from all social backgrounds.  Holdt lived with gangsters and infiltrated Ku Klux Klan meetings, but also dined with the Rockefellers and Kennedys.  At the same time he witnessed the abject poverty of southern black communities, and the lives of prostitutes, drug addicts, criminals and the unemployed in the inner cities.  Using a cheap camera sent to him by his parents, and raising money to buy film by selling his blood twice a week, Holdt took over 15,000 photographs between 1970 and 1975.  His raw and immediate colour images reveal a sincere and genuine curiosity in the people he met.  Part travelogue, part social critique, his images present a powerful tale of human intimacy, poverty, alienation, violence and protest. Since returning to Denmark in 1975, Holdt (b. 1947, Copenhagen) has used a slideshow and his bestselling book American Pictures (1977) to raise awareness of the extreme social injustice he witnessed. Holdt also works as a volunteer in several Third World countries and as a photographer for humanitarian projects.  In 2007, Holdt’s imagery was radically re-appraised with the publication Jacob Holdt, United States 1970-1975 (Steidl-GwinZegal, Germany, 2007) and a touring exhibition of the same name, for which he was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008. David Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:13:00 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=344 Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) thought of himself primarily as a painter and was only 'discovered' as a photographer in 1963, at the age of 69, when an exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He had created an amazing body of photographs since he had been given his first camera on his seventh birthday, filling scores of albums with his prints and written diaries. Lartigue revelled in capturing the 'joie de vivre' that he saw in his world, photographing everything around him that fitted in with his vision of an idyllic Golden Age. From his first images of his family he went on to make pictures of the women of the Bois de Boulogne and the Auteuil races before photographing the many women that he became close to. Lartigue was also excited by the innovations of his day, photographing every sort of transport but clearly marvelled by the airplane and the automobile. A keen sportsmen, he created amazing images of players in motion that, like all is work, were characterised by a keen eye for composition, a clear passion for his subjects, and an ability to create timeless photographs from the most fleeting of moments. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:44:28 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=356 Jason Oddy’s photography investigates the relationship between man and his material environment, through the architecture of governments and institutions. He is fascinated with spaces that are designed and manufactured with deliberate agendas and ideologies, in order to bring about a desired effect upon the visitor. Oddy's subjects have included United Nations buildings, Mishkor Sanatorium, the former Soviet spa in Ukraine, and Neue Prora, the Third Reich holiday retreat in the Baltics. Oddy has also explored American power, juxtaposing the might and grandeur on display at the Pentagon with the isolation and fragility of Guantanamo Bay. In his latest work he visited Playas near the border with Mexico, a town purchased by the US Department of Homeland Security to be a facsimile small-town where they will train agents in various anti-terrorist exercises. Here Oddy is taking his theme of constructed realities to its logical next step, looking at the current fascination with abstract notions of potential threats and projected disasters. Oddy was born in 1967 and lives and works in London. His work has been published and exhibited extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and the USA. His work is included in many private and corporate collections, including Channel Four, Citibank and Deutsche Bank. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:41:02 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=343 Jens Knigge's architectural studies display a fine balance between artistry, seen in his carefully constructed compositions, and craftsmanship, with the artist printing everything himself on paper hand-coated with platinum and palladium salts. Knigge was born in 1964 in East Germany. After studying engineering Jens moved to Berlin in the early 1990s, where he first became involved with photography. His work has focused on the modern buildings in and around this continually evolving city, seeing in them aspects of the monumental and eternal. In the 1990’s he also began to study the technique of platinum printing with the German master printer Wolfgang Moersch. Jens has had many solo exhibitions, including at the Carl Zeiss Foundation, Jena, the Kunstallianz-Project, Berlin, and the Josef Sudek Atelier, Prague. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic arts and the Kunstallianz, Berlin. David Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:03:28 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=582 Taken between 2001 – 2004, Jessica Backhaus' series Jesus and the Cherries is a study of the domestic traditions and personalities of the small countryside village of Netno, Poland. While the interiors of the village homes seem unaffected by trends in Western European consumerism, with their religious iconography and "original and authentic" decorations, the photographic portraits identify the contrasts and sociological issues of their post-communist world. A series of nostalgic metaphors are examined; of loss, the past and the present. Jessica Backhaus was born in Germany and moved to New York in 1995, where she still lives and works. She has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, and at The Lowry, Manchester. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:41:23 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=339 John Hopkins, known to his friends as Hoppy, arrived in London in 1960 after graduating from Cambridge. He began to work for the Sunday Times, the Observer, Melody Maker, Jazz Journal and Peace News. Hoppy photographed spontaneous, unpretentious portraits of musicians including The Stones, The Beatles and Marianne Faithful, and captured striking images of such jazz legends as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. In stark contrast he also recorded the seediness of Notting Hill in the sixties, with photographs of grubby tattoo parlours, bikers' cafes, prostitutes in their small bed-sits and bizarre local fetishists. By 1965 Hoppy had began to drift into the London psychedelic scene. In addition to music he documented peace marches, poetry readings with a naked Allen Ginsberg, and icons such as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. During the mid ‘60s he helped establish a publishing company, organise two Notting Hill carnivals, promote Pink Floyd, found the underground newspaper International Times, set up the London Free School and start London's first psychedelic club, UFO. By the end of the 1960s he had become a legendary figure in the London underground scene. For Hoppy these times offered "just a great opportunity to take pictures of people I loved for free." David Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:37:39 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=292 The John Hinde Butlin’s Collection forms a glorious moment in the story of British photography. Butlin’s holiday camps first opened in 1936 and were conceived as a holiday centre for the great mass of working-class families, becoming a familiar part of British culture and folklore. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the John Hinde Studio produced a series of postcards to be sold at Butlin’s camps throughout the British Isles; it was the job of three photographers, David Noble, Elmar Ludwig and Edmund Nägele to execute the photographs to Hinde’s rigorous formula and standards.   Each photograph is innovative in its use of colour and elaborately stage-managed, often with large casts of real holidaymakers acting their allocated roles in these narrative tableaux of Butlin’s lounges, ballrooms and bars.  Shot with large format cameras, and lit like a film set, the production of these photographs was an extraordinary undertaking. Now these photographs have been reproduced from the original large format Ektachromes, and prove to be some of the strongest images of their era. Dan Fernandes Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:35:07 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=727 Keizo Kitajima specialises in urban photography; though well respected in his native Japan he has had little exposure in the West. He studied and worked with, as an assistant, Daido Moriyama in the late Seventies. During the 1980s and 1990s Kitajima produced his most memorable bodies of work on Tokyo, New York, Berlin and Okinawa, which brought him recognition in Japan as one of the leading photographers of his generation. In the late 1980s he combined images of large format urban street scenes with an assembly of street photography ranging in locations from Berlin to New York, to produce the highly successful book, AD 1991 published in the same year. The work in this publication is perhaps some of his most memorable imagery. Keizo Kitajima was born in 1954 in Nagano, Japan, and currently lives and works in in Tokyo. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:45:55 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=335 Born in 1964, Kevin Griffin became interested in photography at an early age.  His body of work ‘Wave Studies’ grew from his fascination with the vital link between water and human life. His interest also lies in the physical and emotional changes that humans experience, and see, powerfully reflected in the tides, currents and swells of the ocean. "As we step into the sea and move across this bridge, we come closer to understanding our own true nature" Kevin Griffin. Griffin's images allow us to be captivated by a moment, drawing our attention not only to the shape and form created by the force built up through a continual journey, but also to the intriguing delicate beauty in the detail. "I can describe an approaching wave with a mixture of fear and total reality and yet the images produced are quite abstract. At the back of my mind lies the image of Turner strapped to the mast of a ship during the stormy seas and sketching at the same time. It is this ecstatic feeling of being in the sea during a storm or even a calmer day, a feeling which makes me return time and time again to photograph this ever-changing subject." Griffin. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:46:36 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=354 The life and work of Lee Miller (1907-1977) took many twists and turns, and she is today remembered as one of the icons of her time. Modelling for top fashion photographers in New York in the 1920’s, Miller absorbed their techniques and soon outgrew her role in front of the camera. Arriving in Paris in 1929 she persuaded Man Ray to accept her as his student, soon to become his collaborator, muse and lover. Together they crystallised the language of Surrealist photography, whilst Miller developed her own bold, surreal and hard-edged signature style. When war was declared in 1939, Miller went to London with her most enduring love, the English painter Roland Penrose. There, Miller became a staff photographer for British Vogue, where she popularised the new style of location fashion photography, posing models in streets, railway stations, airports and cars. In 1941 she signed up as a US war correspondent. She produced startling images of the siege of St. Malo and the liberation of Paris, whilst her reportage from the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau shocked the world. Miller returned to England to marry Penrose in 1947. She continued working, producing captivating portraits of the visitors to their home including Picasso, Braque, and Miro. Lee Miller was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales, 6 Nov – 2 Feb 2008. Jo Peace Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:08:05 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=332 Leo Fuchs is a Hollywood veteran who spent twenty years shooting some of the most moving and memorable images of Fifties and Sixties film icons. A career that culminated in a major retrospective at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscar academy) in Los Angeles in 2001. Born in Vienna in1929, Fuchs emigrated to New York with his family in 1939.  He sold his first photograph, one of Eleanor Roosevelt, for $5 when he was barely a teenager, then quit school at 14 to apprentice at Globe Photos in New York. Fuchs went on to become one of the world's leading "special photographers" on movie sets in Europe and North America. The intimate and immediate shots taken during shooting, and while socialising with the stars, were syndicated to magazines the world over.  His photographic essays appeared in such publications as Life, Look, and Paris Match. Film icons Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Sean Connery, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Cary Grant, as well as directors such as Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fred Zinnemann were all captured by Fuchs’ camera. The excellent working relationships Fuchs created can be seen clearly in the intimacy of his photographs. For further information on this and other Represented Photographers please contact our Print Sales team. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:49:34 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=606 Lili Almog's photographic practice centres on depictions of women and their private spaces, and her latest body of work is Sisters, a passionate study of Carmelite nuns. But in contrast to Almog’s previous subjects - women who very much thrive on the material realities of Western culture - the subjects in Sisters have given up public life, motherhood, and self-determination to be completely absorbed in monastic seclusion. Yet in Almog's empathetic and poignant studies she captures the individuality of her subjects, their dignity and their sense of self worth. The economy of style in Almog's photographic composition, a limited colour palette and an emphasis on just a few pictorial components, corresponds aptly with the chaste and austere way of life in the monastery; and achieves an emblematic and iconic quality reverberating with the intensity found in religious iconography Lili Almog was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv and now lives and works in New York. She received a BFA Photography (Hons) from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1991. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:07 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=367 Known for her ability to capture the intimate character of her subjects, Lynn Saville specialises in photographing city settings at both twilight and dawn. Creating images of everyday locations that, at the dark of night or early morning, take on a new and intriguing atmosphere. A strong theatrical sense is a constant current in Saville’s photographs, influenced by the film-maker Alfred Hitchcock and the photographer Brassaï. Encouraging the viewer to look beyond the everyday and to seek out the extraordinary in the ordinary, her ability to capture the portrait of the city through its atmosphere is both timeless and powerful. Lynn Saville was educated at Duke University and the Pratt Institute, USA. She lives in New York City where she is a visiting artist and teacher at the International Center of Photography. Her photographs are in collections including the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Saville has published several books including Acquainted with the Night (1997) and The Language of Life (1995.) David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:46:59 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=312 Manuel Alvarez Bravo is known as one of the great modernists of the twentieth century; creating work in which he transformed the ordinary and seemingly mundane into something extraordinary and monumental. His first professional photographic work was as a freelancer for Mexican Folkways, a magazine dedicated to the cultural history of Mexico, and the vernacular of everyday existence came to shape his photography. In the thirties, Alvarez Bravo worked near Diego de Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco, whose ideas and aesthetic influenced his style. This period saw the distillation of a new form of photography for Alvarez Bravo in which the mundane became not just formally exciting but also formed the basis for fantasy and allegory. Alvarez Bravo continually developed new interests, turning his camera towards the Mexican landscape in the 1940s and working as a stills photographer in film in the 1950s. Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) was born in Mexico City. His work is in the collections of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. David Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:08:47 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=323 Marcus Davies' distinctive images are an oblique interpretation of the figure as part of both cityscape and landscape. He uses both London and Devon for much of this work, but for the last decade Davies has captured scenes throughout Europe. His travels have provided a counterpoint to his local experience, and thus the farmers and cattle at Newton Abbot market in Devon find a parallel with the matadors and bulls in Madrid and Valencia. Similarly the majesty of Sienese Renaissance architecture is contrasted with the Broadgate development in London. In all these works, Davies' concerns remain consistent. Pattern is explored through areas of darkness and light, whilst the use of shadow evokes notions of presence and absence, of positive and negative action. From the bell-tower of Siena, to the Tate Modern in London, his highly abstract and graphic images reveal figures caught in a play of light and shadow, becoming elements in a wider timeless image. Davies' work is held in many private and corporate collections including Citibank and Goldman Sachs. Jo Peace Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:13:02 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=351 The work of Mari Mahr is deeply personal and autobiographical, yet addresses universal human concerns regarding where it is that each of us come from, and where it is that we each belong. Mahr's photographs focus upon found objects, often those that hold personal, historical or symbolic meaning. These elements are brought together in constructed scenes that connect with notions of dream and memory and offer a glimpse into the workings of human thought and perception. Born in Santiago de Chile in 1941, Mahr studied and worked as a press photographer in Hungary, before moving to London in 1971 where she now lives and works. In 1989 she received the Fox Talbot Award. She has exhibited widely and produced a number of books, with the retrospective volume Between Ourselves published in 1998. Her work is in many collections, including the V&A, London; the National Media Museum, Bradford; Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the National Museum of Photography, Hungary; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:50:31 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=605 Between 2000 and 2002 Michal Chelbin produced a compelling series of portraits of circus performers in Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. This work developed into her latest series Strangely Familiar, featuring portraits of small town performers from England, Israel, Russia and Ukraine taken between 2003-2005. Her choice of subject matter pays tribute to Diane Arbus and so too does her use of natural light, black and white printing and the stark lack of embellishment. Yet Chelbin's performers are captured in casual settings outside of their working environment in the clothes worn to perform, which creates an atmosphere that is both public and private. The viewer is invited to examine the difference between young and old, big and small, experience and innocence, odd and ordinary, glamorous and common, the tension of which is heightened by Chelbin's use of a tight, claustrophobic composition and square format. Chelbin was nominated for The Schweppes Photography Prize at The National Portrait Gallery. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:42:50 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=378 Mick Williamson makes small, intimate photographs; with an intuitive feel for light, contrast and texture, he captures the fleeting moments of everyday life, finding beauty in the smallest scenes and details. Williamson’s photographs act as fragments and his work can be seen as an on-going exploration into the transitory and random nature of existence. However his images are not sombre but celebratory, and in the combination of everyday subjects and an unassuming technique, Williamson offers us something of the wide-eyed wonder and fascination of a child’s vision filtered through an adult sensibility. Mick Williamson was born in 1947 and has been involved in photography since 1965. He is the Senior Lecturer in charge of Photography at the London Metropolitan University and has exhibited his work extensively, both nationally and internationally. A book, Some Memorials: The Photo-Diaries of Mick Williamson, was published in 1999. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:55:14 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=358 Inland, Perry’s latest series taken between 2003 and 2007 in West Wales and the West of Ireland, explores the relationship between pure landscape photography and abstract painting. An atmospheric body of work, it depicts a range of expressive textures from damp slabs of stone to prickly surfaces of green gorse, golden grass and moist patches of black heather. By capturing fragments of an imperfect landscape Perry has managed to portray a powerful spirit of place without a traditional narrative, finding a beauty in what others might view as the mundane. Mike Perry’s first major series, Beach, was made along a stretch of the Sussex coast.  These photographs invite the viewer to linger over details and thus help to recuperate the seascape as an image worthy of contemplation in itself, free of expectations of significance or revelation.  Perry’s dedication throughout this series is to the surface detail, and a resolutely objective interest in stones, sand, waves, sky, and light, is apparent.  His concern lies with showing the individual elements of seascapes as objectively as he can, creating a mode of perception unencumbered by expectations of meaning or drama. Perry’s Abereidi photographs represent a shift of emphasis from the rigid horizontal grid structure he adopted in his Beach series.  Whilst he is still interested in the formal details of a scene, his gaze has shifted downwards away from the horizon, concentrating on the forms and material nature of the Irish sea and it’s rocky coastline.  These images are firmly placed in the material nature of the specific place, it’s special ambiguities and subtle tonal gradations.  Perry’s works are intended as formal explorations that reference the techniques of painting rather than offer historical or sentimental readings of a specific place. Mike Perry was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with Inland, 29 June – 8 Sept 2007. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:31:45 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=334 Born in New York in 1922, Milton H. Greene began taking photographs at the age of 14. Before long his keen regard for fashion and the camera found him assisting fashion photographers, and at 23 Greene was being referred to as “colour photography’s wonder boy.” Along with eminent photographers such as Richard Avedon and Cecil Beaton, Milton is credited with helping to bring fashion photography into the realm of fine art. His work of the fifties and sixties appeared in major publications such as Life, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.   Alongside high-fashion photography, his remarkable portraits of artists, musicians, actors and other celebrities have become legendary. Including such people as Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen and Alfred Hitchcock, it is for his unique friendship with and photographs of Marilyn Monroe for which he is most fondly remembered. His talent in capturing the qualities of the real person made each of his pictures an eloquent, unique statement. Greene’s photography won him many national and international honours, medals and awards.  His photographs have been exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the world, as well as represented in many private collections. Dan Fernandes Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:15:41 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=337 Mischa Haller's reportage and portrait photography focuses on details and moments in daily life. At times quirky and humorous, his work also highlights the pathos of human existence and the poignancy of time spent watching or waiting or hoping. Haller’s first book Off Chance was published in 2002. This off-beat collection focuses on the lives of people in the UK and abroad, from a London mini-cab driver in the East End, to shopping at a Cape Town mall, and the grittiness of a motorcyclist convention in Switzerland. Haller's book On Bute was published in 2005. Exploring life at the beginning of the 21st century on the Isle of Bute, it is a unique reflection on the spirit and identity of this community. His Eurostar Sleepers series was short-listed for the St. James Group Photography Prize 2002, and his Swimmers series received a 2003 Award of Excellence by Photography Annual 44. After working in Paris until 1998, Swiss-born Mischa has since been based in London. His editorial work has appeared in the Independent Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, the Times, Time Out, Viewpoint, Creative Review and Die Zeit. He has also produced work for the Home Office, Microsoft and BMW and a special commission for the Courthauld Institute of Art, London. David Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:05:37 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=341 Nicholas Hughes's work examines the space between the world that people inhabit and that which nature still claims as its own, and in this intermediary space seeks to explore the essence of the human spirit and its relationship with nature. However Hughes’ contemplation of the distant horizon is by no means a perpetuation of the Romantic, for he sees the notion of the natural world as forever vast and mysterious quickly evaporating. By focusing on boundaries, plains and surfaces he acknowledges the existence of limits and contemplates the future for both nature and humanity. Hughes's seascapes and snowscapes are calm and quiet, yet retain a deep underlying contemplative presence. His strong yet delicate photographs serve to show the fragility of our relationship with the natural world. Nicholas Hughes studied first in Blackpool and later graduated from the London College of Printing with an MA in photography in 2002. He lives in London and works mainly in Cornwall, Colwyn Bay and on the Lleyn Peninsula. Hughes' work has appeared in various publications, including Creative Forum, The Photographer, the British Journal of Photography and Next Level. Nicholas Hughes was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with In Darkness Visible, 14 Sept – 3 Nov 2007. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:31:03 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=349 Robert Lyons began working in Africa in 1981, taking the first of many photographic trips to Morocco and Egypt. His work began to focus on Egypt in the 1980s, and resulted in the book Egyptian Time, published in 1992. Since 1989 Lyons has visited many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, living in Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Ethiopia. Out of these journeys came a series of photographs and a book titled Another Africa, "in part to counteract the constant portrayal of Africa as place beset by famine, drought and civil war, or as an open-air ethnographic museum for the West." Despite countless visits to the continent, it is the act of looking at Africa with fresh eyes that is at the heart of Lyons' photographs and his body of work can be seen as a journey of discovery. Lyons was born in the USA in 1954. He studied photography at Hampshire College, then at Yale, and subsequently worked as a photography conservator, teacher and lecturer. His work is in collections including the International Center of Photography, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; and the Seattle Art Museum, Washington. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:29:49 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=363 Under the collective banner of Involuntary Sculptures, Seamus A. Ryan brings together closely observed and finely detailed studies of flowers, fruit, vegetables, shells and skulls. With each photograph he seeks to find the essence of his subject and escape from the obsession with appearances that defines most still-life studies. Ryan is concerned with capturing and scrutinising both the perfections and the imperfections of form, and in doing so questions the accepted standards of beauty. Despite the timeless sculptural look to his photographs, Ryan works in a very immediate manner, either with Polaroid film in his own kitchen, or in New York using a 20 x 24” Polaroid camera, of which there are less than ten in existence. He always utilises natural daylight, allowing a more direct examination of the natural forms before him. Seamus A. Ryan was born in Romford, Essex, in 1964 and currently lives and works in London. He has exhibited widely, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His work has appeared in the British Journal of Photography, the Observer Magazine, AG, Black and White, and Image. In 2003 the monograph Involuntary Sculptures was published. David Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:32:05 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=908 An exemplar of the tradition of 'concerned photography', Sebastião Salgado is on the of the most widely-respected of contemporary photojournalists. His in-depth bodies of work document the lives of people the world over, finding beauty, strength and hope even in those in the bleakest of circumstances. Salgado was born in Brazil in 1944 and initially trained and worked as an economist.  He took up photography in 1973, joining the prestigious Magnum Photos in 1979.  He left Magnum in 1994 to form his own agency Amazonas.  His photographs have been seen the world over in the form of books and exhibitions, including Sahel (1986); An Uncertain Grace (1990); Workers (1993); and Migrations (2000). Salgado is currently working on a project entitled Genesis, exploring the last wilderness zones that remain on the planet in order to "record the unblemished faces of nature and humanity: how nature looked without men and women; and how humanity and nature long coexisted in what today we now call ecological balance".  David Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:14:19 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=362 Sheila Rock’s photography covers several diverse subjects. Her personal work includes a series of portraits of horses, capturing the grace and beauty of the animals. Rock’s other major body of work is Sera. A portrait of the Tibetan monastery Sera Jey, re-established in India after the 1959 bombardment of the original 540-year old monastery in Tibet by the Chinese. These photographs show the monastery’s inhabitants and their daily rituals, ceremonies, and labours. In these small tasks Rock demonstrates the beauty and simplicity of their lives, but also speaks of their larger task as they strive to keep their way of life going. Sera: The Way of the Tibetan Monk, was published 2004. Sheila Rock, born in the USA, has lived and worked in London since 1970. Starting in photography in 1979, she achieved her breakthrough in The Face magazine. Her images have appeared in publications such as Elle, Vogue, The Sunday Times and the Telegraph Magazine. Her work is in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:56:18 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=316 Shirley Baker was born in Kersal, North Salford, and moved to Manchester at the age of two. Her photography began in the early sixties with a compulsion to record “the face of a people at a time when their homes were being demolished and they were being uprooted due to a huge 'slum' clearance programme.” Baker captured, with a particular Northern nostalgia, a bygone era of community sprit and street life. Thus the adults of the community wear the expression of good nature but carry the burden of a time of immense change.  However “The children saw things differently,” Shirley Baker wrote, “for to them it was a giant playground with untold treasure hidden amongst the junk and rubble.” Baker studied Pure Photography at Manchester College of Technology and later took other courses at London Regent Street Polytechnic and London College of Printing.  She has worked as an industrial photographer, a freelance writer and photographer on various magazines, books and newspapers, and as a lecturer at Salford College of Art and Manchester Polytechnic. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:47:55 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=322 Chaput’s most recent daring studies of nudes are at once abstract and completely human, their panoramic format and skillful lighting creating a landscape of the female body. By paring the reclining poses of the models down to a sliver of white light in stark contrast to their deep black backdrop, the photographs refocus our attention on the subtleties of the human form. Although the photographs are bold in their contrast and form, they maintain an equal amount of tenderness, delicacy and self-reflection. Chaput has produced many narrative stories on Buddhism and ancient cultures, as well as a suite of modernist views of Manhattan's architecture. Each project is representative of Chaput's interest in abstraction and negative space, and their dynamic compositions exude the energy and awe of these timeless bodies. Born in France and currently based in New York, Chaput was the recipient of a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. His work is in public and private collections and his photographs have appeared in a variety of international publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Figaro, Spin, Mirabella, L'Express and Condé Nast Traveler. David Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:37:19 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=723 For a year, beginning in July 2004, Simon Roberts travelled over 75,000 kilometres across Russia, visiting the forgotten extremities of that country’s vast territory. The resulting project, Motherland, is meant as a humble footnote to the current debate about Russian identity at a time of major geo-political, economic and social change within Russia. Exploring the paradoxical nature of today’s Russia, Roberts uses landscape photographs to provide panoramic overviews of the country, countered by portraits that reveal intimate, personal microcosms. Demonstrating the existence of the sublime, of unexpected beauty and humanity, sometimes in the midst of great hardship, the images are ultimately a celebration of Russia and the Russian people. Simon Roberts (b. 1974) career took off in 1998 when he won both The Sunday Times Magazine Photojournalist of the Year and the NUJ Young Photojournalist Award. He was a participant on the World Press Masterclass in Amsterdam and awarded Best in Show at the 2004 AOP Open. Roberts has worked throughout the world, including projects in Israel, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Ukraine and the United States of America. His first book Motherland, was published in 2007. Simon Roberts was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with Motherland, 9 Feb – 15 Apr 2007. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:28:39 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=903 E-wasteland is a series of portraits and landscapes shot over four months in workshops, IT production and recycling centres throughout India, showing the impact of Western electronic waste on local communities. 20 – 50 million tons of electronic waste is generated annually worldwide and much is shipped, illegally, from Europe, the UK and the USA to India and other developing countries for ‘recycling’. India has become one of the world’s largest dumping grounds for this e-waste that is highly toxic to humans, animals and the environment. Sophie Gerrard was born in Edinburgh in 1978 and now lives and works in London. She graduated from the London College of Communication with an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography in 2006. For her work, she has traveled and worked extensively in India, South East Asia, Australia, Europe and the UK. E-Wasteland has won a number of awards including the Magenta Foundation Flash Award 2007. For further information on this and other Represented Photographers please contact our Print Sales team. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:27:58 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=725 Stephen Gill’s series Hackney Flowers, made between 2004 and 2006, was inspired by Hackney, East London. For this series Gill collected flowers and objects from the area, that were then pressed and dried and re-photographed with his own photographs and other ephemera to build up a multi-layered image. A selection of these finished prints were buried in Hackney Wick, allowing the subsequent decay to imprint upon the images. These works were later dug up and re-photographed to produce the final pieces. This treatment and approach marks a departure for Gill and has helped him to develop a new aesthetic and emotional language. Stephen Gill (b. 1971) lives and works in London. His photographs are in numerous public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His photographs often appear in international magazines including The Guardian Weekend, Le Monde 2, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Tank, The Telegraph Magazine, I-D magazine, The Observer, Blind Spot and Colors. His books include Field Studies (2004), Invisible (2005), Hackney Wick (2005), and Hackney Flowers (2007). Stephen Gill was the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with Hackney Flowers, 07 Dec – 02 Feb 2007. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:26:40 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=374 Stephen Vaughan’s work explores the connections between geology, archaeology, history, and memory. His first series Opened Landscapes, made in Cheshire and Denmark, explores three bog landscapes in which the bodies of Iron Age men and women were found almost perfectly preserved. In these richly detailed studies of the landscape, Vaughan is looking back through the centuries, as part of a photographic excavation that contemplates a contrast between the preserved past and the damaged present. The title for his latest series of photographs, Ultima Thule, is taken both from the Roman name for the mysterious far north, and the Romantic concept of an unattainable northern frontier. Made at a number of sites in Iceland, the photographs in Ultima Thule – of volcanic fissures, empty desolate plateaux, vast glaciers and steaming, sulphurous pools – evoke the surfaces of distant planets, and connect ancient voyages of discovery to contemporary inter-planetary exploration. Vaughan’s photographs are richly detailed, monumental representations of the landscape surface, yet they also transpose this factual evidence into broader, metaphorical themes - the potential for discovery and transformation that lies beneath the surface or beyond the threshold. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:44:04 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=340 As one of the great British photojournalists, Thurston Hopkins photographed people and communities in London and around Britain. Also travelling extensively abroad, imbuing his subjects with his own particular understanding. Born in 1913, Thurston Hopkins studied magazine illustration at the Brighton College of Art and served as a photographer with the Royal Air Force in Italy and the Middle East from 1940-45. Hopkins entered photography by chance, somewhat doubtfully taking up a camera after initially working as a freelance black-and-white illustrator. Despite no formal training, he turned to photojournalism in the late 1940s. Working first as a freelancer and then for Picture Post where he was staff photographer for seven years until the magazine's closure in 1957. In this time Hopkins travelled extensively on assignment in Africa, India, America and the Pacific. Hopkins has exhibited widely and his photographs are in many private and public collections including the Arts Council Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. David Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:57:01 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=368 Valentine Schmidt’s work centres upon London lidos, popular during the Victorian era and early twentieth century but today more often than not left closed and deserted. Her work documents and eulogises these beautiful spaces that once stood for the promotion of the twin ideals of healthy body and healthy mind. “I was drawn to the quality of the floors and the lines of the lidos” Schmidt writes. “My fascination is with the relationship between the floor and the water’s surface and how the dynamic between them is affected by both the natural forces of the changing seasons and by the social forces of changing public policy.” Valentine Schmidt was born in London in 1962. She gained an MA from the London College of Printing in 2002, and currently works in TV production. Her photographs have featured in The Independent Sunday Review, Photoart International, The British Journal of Photography and at the London Photographic Awards. David Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:43:26 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=370 Vee Speers lives and works in Paris, and the red-light district of the rue St. Denis formed the backdrop for her Bordello series. Deriving her inspiration from the decadence of her surroundings, Speers shot in real bordellos, creating images “between genuine emotion and something more staged…a shift between the real and the surreal.” A companion to the Bordello series is Parisians, inspired by the voyeurism of circus shows. Speers produces her Parisians and Bordello photographs as Fresson carbon prints, giving a sumptuous painterly quality. Vee Speers' most recent work is The Birthday Party, a collection of portraits of children inspired by her daughter's birthday party. Having observed children playing at being adults, Speers imagined what characters they would create if they pushed their role-playing to imaginative extremes. In these photographs she has stripped away the idealistic stereotypes of childhood, capturing them happy to experiment with imperfection and embrace the grotesque. Vee Speers was born in Australia and studied at Queensland College of Art. Her work has been widely exhibited and has been seen in publications including The Sunday Times, Harpers + Queen, Arena, Esquire, and Black and White Magazine. A book of the Bordello series was published in 2004. Vee Speers is currently the Featured Photographer in Print Sales with The Birthday Party, 8 Feb – 6 Apr 2008. David Tue, 06 May 2008 17:59:32 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=372 Born in 1912 in Vienna, Wolfgang Suschitzky arrived in London in 1935. In 1937 he joined Strand Films as a documentary cameraman. As a photographer, Suschitzky is known for his depiction of London in the thirties and forties, and his series on Charing Cross Road is a fantastic document of the area at the time. The fascination of these photographs lies not simply with the place but also with the people and their industries of book-selling, shoe-shining and trading of various kinds, many of which have, like the buildings, vanished or have been changed beyond recognition. All of these are shown with the genuine affection that is typical of Suschitzky's work. Suschitzky subjects have also included portraits of children, animals, and literary figures such as Aldous Huxley and HG Wells. He has captured the mood of war, from his images of war torn London to the Anti-Gulf War Demonstration in Trafalgar Square in 1991, and travelled extensively taking photographs in India, the former Yugoslavia, Burma, Nigeria and Thailand. His work resides, amongst others, in the Archives of the City of Amsterdam; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; and the University of Texas, Austin.   David Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:39:06 +0100