Here’s a stop-motion video and some installation views of my images (I’m the right ⅔ of the middle panel) that are part of Fringe Elements in this year’s Brighton Photo Fringe, up now, till the end of the month. As a reminder – you can MEET THE ARTISTS tomorrow, 7th October, from 4:30 to 7:00 down by the seafront:
Seafront Advertising Hoardings (adjacent to the Basketball Court)
What three words location: ///twice.mutual.summer
Lower Promenade, 124A King’s Road, Brighton BN1 2FN
Unfortunately, for circumstances beyond our control, the show won’t be hung till later and we are postponing our Meet the Artists event to Wednesday, 7th October, same time (4:30 – 7:00 pm), same place (Seafront advertising hoardings adjacent to the Basketball Court, Lower Promenade, 124A King’s Road, Brighton BN1 2FN, what three words: ///twice mutual summer). Hope to see you there.
If you’re in the Brighton area, join the artists (including me) on the 5th October from 4:30 – 7:00 pm – BYO event, so come along with drinks and snacks!
Yesterday at the Terrain Gallery in New York’s SoHo, The Honoring Eye exhibit opened. In case you missed it, the show will be running thought the first quarter of next year (2027) and here are a couple of snaps and a few seconds of video of the event that my daughter captured on her phone.
If you’re in the New York area, come see me at the Terrain Gallery this Saturday afternoon.
Although we had timed tickets for a Monday morning, upon entering the Lee Miller exhibition we were met by a scrum just to get close enough to read the introductory text. This continued, annoyingly, throughout the otherwise excellent and well curated exhibition, breaking Miller’s career into 11 phases. As we wanted to see it all, it took 2½ hours, patiently waiting for other viewers to move on before we could stand, briefly, in front of each image.
I’m delighted to be able to announce that the book version of my Modern Romance project, Alone Together, Together Alone, is now available to be ordered in the US as well as from the UK. The US version is slightly different, being an inch taller (10″ x 8″ vs UK’s 10″ x 7″), with an updated introduction and bio, redressing the missing credit for my collaborator and life partner, Margaret Haggerty, without whom the project would not have been possible.
Maybe the British aren’t familiar with Trayvon Martin and how his murder was justified on the basis of Florida’s “stand your ground” law. But to American eyes this is either in very poor taste, or a call for Black retribution. What was Timberland thinking?
If you’re in Southeast England this weekend (6-7th of December), please come see me – I’ll be at the Brighton Art Book Fair at the Evoke / Provoke Collective table with my UCA course-mate, Mingyi Sung.
I’ll be offering copies, hot off the presses, of my new book, Alone Together, Together Alone: a modern romance, as well as some lovely mounted 7×5″ prints, ready to frame – they’d make excellent gifts, if I do say so myself.
No new blog post today – I’m all out of new pictures…
Back soon.
Got back to NYC last night. Even though we’re back, I’ve still got a ton of England blog-post material to work through so you can expect to see more of the south coast over the coming days and weeks.
If you’ll be in London next weekend, please do stop by and see our pop-up exhibition of works-in-progress from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday and Sunday (7th – 8th of June) at the Lambeth County Courts, Cleaver Street, Kennington, London SE11 4DZ.
Another soapbox issue of mine – the Upper West Side Urban Renewal Project – a plan first mooted in the late 1950s to “clear slums” and redevelop the area. Developers were given mighty concessions to bulldoze people’s homes and rebuild, while making few concessions of their own. One of those was the provision of public garden spaces. In my neighborhood this was most often met with an open expanse of cement holding a withered sapling in a concrete box, or something a tad nicer, surrounded by a fence to keep out people from the neighborhood. With the expiration of these requirements after a period of about 20 years, building owners rushed to build retail space on the sites of these barren “gardens” (increased revenue), topping them with private parks open only to the residents of their buildings. So now we must look up to see our crown of thorns.
I’m participating in Brighton Photo Fringe this year. Please stop by if you’re in Brighton from the 4th of October on.
Participating artists:
@evokeprovoke@priya.photo@oliviacooperphotography@reevehartphotography@somewhere_umbhoray@adam_isler_photoart@_kerry.holland@mingyi_sung
There’ll be a curator tour by @mingyi_sung on 5th Oct 1.30pm-2pm . Please drop by to say hi ☺️
See you soon!
#photofringe2024 @
Special thanks for @wrap_space kindly provides the space ❤️
‘Evoke/Provoke’ showcases the work of seven recent MFA Photography graduates from the University for the Creative Arts. From Ambhore’s ‘Death Over Indignity’, an exploration of caste-based discrimination in India to Cooper’s investigation of her mixed-race heritage in ‘Warm Olive’, this exhibition offers a diverse exploration of the human condition.
Holland’s ‘Between Worlds’ delves into the interactions between the real, virtual, and alternate worlds, while Isler’s ‘Insomnia’ focuses on the challenges of aging and loneliness in long-term couples. Hart’s ‘ 92,000,000,000’ expose the disconnect between meat consumption and animal suffering, and Pattni’s ‘May You Not Get Evil Eye’ explores her Indian heritage through recreated cultural rituals. Sung’s ‘Looking for Nirvana’ reveals her personal journey of exploring non-monogamy and confronting childhood trauma.
Through personal narratives and critical methodologies, these emerging artists aim to provoke thought, spark dialogue, and inspire change
If you’re in London this weekend, please come by and see me at this pop-up group show!
Installation view of my work in the UCA Grad Show, ending tomorrow.
If you find yourself in the Farnham (Surrey) area over the next couple of weeks please stop by the University and see the show. Contact me if you’d like to meet and I can give you the 5p tour.
Saw this sitting in the St Dunstan’s in the East garden.
So backed up on pictures to post I’m going to start posting twice a day for a while. Look for my next in about 6 hours…
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke, “The Waking” from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Copyright 1953 by Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (Doubleday, 1961)
If you can make it to Woking (about ½-hour train ride from London) in the next month (from 13th January to 11th of February) please come to the Lightbox to see the University for the Creative Arts’ MFA Photography Year 2 show. I’d be happy to meet you almost anytime during the month to talk about my work.
