http://photonet.org.uk Wed, 16 May 2012 15:03:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://photonet.org.uk//imgs/logo.gif http://photonet.org.uk http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=318 Whether documenting urban landscapes or abandoned interiors, evidence of human presence is at the heart of British artist Angus Boulton’s work. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here You can also visit Angus Boulton's website Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:36:10 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=913 Audrey Corregan was propelled into the photography world when she was announced the winner of Hyeres 2008 photography competition, with her series Obviously. The series is made up of seven portraits of stuffed birds shown from behind, transforming them into sculptural objects of shape and colour. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here   Jo Peace Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:43:02 +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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:06:12 +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. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:04:27 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=346 A fascination with darkness and the unseen haunts the work of London-based French photographer Chrystel Lebas (b. 1966). Using a panoramic camera with long exposure times ranging from two to six hours, Lebas creates sweeping, mesmerising landscapes, which explore photography’s relationship with time and movement. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:04:36 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=922 Performance is at the heart of emerging French photographer Clarisse d’Arcimoles’ (b. 1986) work. Based in London she studied Set Design for Performance at Central Saint Martins followed by a Postgraduate course in photography, her work combines these two interests. The reconnection of the past and present reflects d’Arcimoles’ fascination with photography as a permanent recorder of memories combined with the impossibility of reversing time. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:04:50 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=878 Born in 1924 into a Jewish Lithuanian family in East Prussia Dorothy Bohm has spent her lifetime taking photographs and travelling the World. Bohm's fascination with people is evident in her work. Since 1984 she has worked purely in colour, capturing transient moments she encounters, and fulfilling her desire to record things in order to stop them from disappearing. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here You can also visit Dorothy Bohm's website Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:05:01 +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. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:05:13 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=350 Portuguese by birth, Edgar Martins grew up in Macau, China. After moving to London, he completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. He has exhibited extensively throughout Asia and Europe and received numerous awards. His work is held in collections including the V&A, London, the Orient Foundation, and the Macau Museum of Modern Art, China Shodor Uddin Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:26:45 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=930 Elliott Erwitt (b.1928) has turned his camera towards the humane and humorous since he began photographing in the late 1940’s. Widely considered a ‘master’ of the indecisive moment, Erwitt seeks to capture the irony and absurd of daily life. Over the past 60 years he has created some of the defining images of the 20th Century. Shodor Uddin Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:19:15 +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. 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. In these photographs Rodger created memorable and powerful images of ordinary people with compassion, sincerity and humanity. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:05:28 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=915 Italian photographer Giacomo Brunelli uses animals as inspiration for his work. His frequently unsettling depictions of familiar, often domesticated, animals question how much we truly understand the animal kingdom and its innate wildness. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here You can also visit Giacomo Brunelli’s website Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:04 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=910 A widely respected and established photographer, South African based Guy Tillim has received a number of awards and grants for his photography.  These include the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2005 and the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in 2006.  Avenue Patrice Lumumba is also exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris and the Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, with further works by Tillim shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:19 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=916 The work of Indre Serpytyte is the result of a thoughtful investigation into the political history of the Cold War and its catastrophic consequences. Although only a recent graduate, Serpytyte has won many awards, and is already featured in important international collections. We believe she is one to watch for the future. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here You can also visit Indre Serpytyte's website. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:30 +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 Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:37 +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.  Throughout the course of his life Lartigue created an amazing body of photographs, filling scores of albums with his prints and written diaries. Ever since being given a camera on his seventh birthday Lartigue was engaged in compiling a photographic record of the world around him. He revelled in capturing the 'joie de vivre' of this world, photographing everything around him that conformed to his vision of an idyllic Golden Age. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:45 +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 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. For more information, please visit Jason Oddy's website. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:06:51 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=582 German photographer Jessica Backhaus explores domestic traditions in her work, and the often overlooked details encountered in daily life.  The work becomes a study of nostalgia, looking both to the past and the present. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here You can also visit Jessica Backhaus's website Jo Peace Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:41:01 +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.   For further information please click here Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:07:19 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=929 Julie Blackmon, (b.1966) has exhibited across the US since the release of her ‘Domestic Vacations’ series in 2007; which marked her arrival on the photographic scene. Her work is now collected in some major institutions including The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and The George Eastman House in New York. Shodor Uddin Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:49:01 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=920 Julie Cockburn takes found photographs and through cutting, embroidering and collaging makes them her own, her work becoming a link between the past and the present. Information about the artist is available to download: Click Here www.juliecockburn.com Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:07:31 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=919 Using his Chinese heritage as inspiration, Kurt Tong’s series include the public parks he played in as a child and the tradition of burning paper versions of personal objects for the dead to take with them into the afterlife. Information about the artist is available to download: Click Here www.kurttong.co.uk Shodor Uddin Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:10:43 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=927 American photographer Lee Miller (1907 – 1977) is remembered for taking some of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century and has become an icon. A model in the 1920s for some of the top fashion photographers in New York, Miller assimilated their techniques for her own use. In 1929 she moved to Paris where she convinced the surrealist artist Man Ray to tutor her. She quickly became his muse, collaborator and lover and it was through this partnership that Miller developed her own bold surrealist photographic style. Shodor Uddin Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:54:53 +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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 18 May 2011 11:21:43 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=921 Britain and the British psyche are at the core of London based photographer Luke Stephenson's work. Stephenson photographs what to many epitomises the eccentricity of Britain. Often humorous in their outlook, his series range from prize budgerigars to puppets, to the World Beard and Moustache Championships. Whether animate or inanimate objects, Stephenson creates affectionate portraits of his subjects and documents worlds often hidden from the mainstream. Information about the artist is available to download: Click Here You can also visit Luke Stephenson's website Shodor Uddin Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:54:20 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=312 Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) was born in Mexico and 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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:29:52 +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. 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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:09:54 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=924 Martin Cole’s work since the 1990s has concerned itself with landscape and its representation. From the appropriated photographs of romantic landscapes from TV news footage, through the extended photo text work “Wine Dark Sea” which attempted to map from various perspectives Visual and literary the psychological and cultural terrain of Sicily, to his present work made on the South Downs and Beachy head. In these two related series, Cole evokes the spectre of English Modernism in a pastoral  “natural “ landscape. In particular the painters Nash and Ravillious who both made work at these locations. By means of a dramatic photographic abstraction, he brings the presence of these places rather than our aesthetic control over them to the fore. Jo Peace Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:42:38 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=928 Martina Lindqvist, (b.1981) has visited the small island of Rågskär off the coast of central Finland almost every summer since she was a child. The Island has become the focus of her series, Rågskär Island, which presents a combination of factual recordings and recollections. Each piece is both an interpretation and recreation in miniature of a family holiday snapshot taken on the island. Shodor Uddin Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:49:36 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=923 Embroidery on found Photographs. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:13:21 +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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Or visit Michal Chelbin's website. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:20:36 +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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:12:10 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=926 With images of some of the most inspiring musicians photographed over the last fifty-plus years, The Morrison Hotel Gallery has grown to become the place to purchase fine art music photography. Founded by former record company executive and producer Peter Blachley, former independent record storeowner Rich Horowitz and music photographer Henry Diltz in 2001, the gallery represents over sixty-world renowned photographers. For further information, please visit the Morrison Hotel Gallery’s website. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:03:51 +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. In this intermediary space between the two, the photographer seeks to explore the essence of the human spirit and its relationship with nature. By focusing on boundaries, plains and surfaces he acknowledges the limits humanity have imposed on the natural world and contemplates the future for both. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:23:06 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=912 For the past decade, Rebecca Norris Webb has been exploring the complicated and vulnerable relationships that exist between people and the natural world. Influenced when she wandered into the Coney Island aquarium in 1998, and spotted a white beluga whale soaring high above the heads of visitors, who were reflected in the glass tank. Jo Peace Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:42:52 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=908 An exemplar of the tradition of 'concerned photography', Sebastião Salgado is one 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). Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:26:45 +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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:52:24 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=903 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 and the Jerwood Photography Award 2007. Kate E Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:37:33 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=725 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). Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:28:47 +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. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:29:42 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=370 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 & White Magazine. Shodor Uddin Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:18:12 +0100 http://photonet.org.uk/index.php?ppid=372 Arriving in London in 1935, the Viennese photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky is best known for his depictions of London in the 1930s and 1940s. However a photography career spanning 70 years has seen him capture many subjects, all with the same genuine affection. Further information about the artist is available for download: Click Here You can also visit Wolf Suschitzky's website. Shodor Uddin Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:31:29 +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. Shodor Uddin Wed, 04 May 2011 16:37:48 +0100