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.
A couple of weeks ago we went to see Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. This was a very broad look at American, mostly “street” photography, mostly in New York, with women atypically well represented. Loads of canonical work, ending in this room of striking dye-transfer prints of Bruce Davidson’s subway work. Frequent visitors to this site may remember that Davidson’s East 100th Street was the launching point for my project on East Harlem.
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.
On my final day in Arles I went to see Nicolas Floc’h‘s marvelous exhibit. When I first entered the large space, I was somewhat disappointed. On the left-hand wall were several large, framed prints, each of a single colour. Opposite, on a diagonal partition bisecting the room was a grid of smaller framed prints with different colours in each column and each row showing a top-to-bottom darkening gradient  of the image above it. These were all images taken in different spots and depths of the Mississippi. But, as you turn a corner, to view the other side of the partition and the other 2 walls of the space and a small, windowed alcove, you discover something much more interesting. There are large B&W prints of spots travelled to along the Mississippi and its many tributaries and feeder rivers with a tall stack of colour images showing the colours of light in the water at different depths at that location.
Sophie Calle’s well known project, The Blind, was spoiled by flooding and subsequent mold. At Arles, she gave it all a final resting place, together with some other items of hers that she no longer wanted but wasn’t prepared to throw away. Read all about it here and see more below (click to enlarge).
If you’re in London this weekend, please come by and see me at this pop-up group show!
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.
In the evening of our tours through Richmond and Clapham we were thrilled to attend the private view (opening) of my course-mate Naoto Yoshida’s collaborative show, Un/Masked, at the Aperture (UK) Gallery in Mayfair.
The final stop of our London gallery visit (way back on 6th March) was the Wellcome Collection for The Cult of Beauty exhibition. Additional couple of images below, including the obligatory reflected self-portrait (click them to enlarge).
Our next stop was the Serpentine Gallery for the Barbara Kruger show, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, which I had previously seen at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 (and here, and here). While this exhibit was necessarily much smaller than in Chicago it had also been greatly updated and made more use of video and LEDs (see a few shots below, click them to enlarge).
Our next stop was the Goodman Gallery to see Zineb Sedira’s Let’s go on singing! It captured a sense of the Franco-Algerian music/cultural scene. This included Algerian disk versions of musicians I was listening to when I lived in the mid-East in the early 1970s. See some more images below.
Our school trip to London galleries followed the Photographer’s Gallery with a visit to Gagosian to see the exhibition of Douglas Gordon: All I need is a little bit of everything. See additional images below (and click on them to enlarge).
Every time I visit London’s Photographer’s Gallery I’m tempted to take a picture in the stairwell where you have a a view of the show posters and through a window to a small, street-overlooking alcove where videos about the current exhibition are shown. One show I was there to see, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, included work by Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad with this lovely textured piece of work I took a close-up of:
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.
Our first London stop last Wednesday was at a/political (The Bacon Factory in Stannary Street) to see the new show from one of my current strongest influences, Peter Kennard. The exhibit is based on a book by his son Matt Kennard and Claire Provost, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, which I purchased and read the week before, and I heartily recommend.
Click any of the images below to see them enlarged (if you’re seeing this in email you may need to click through to the web site by clicking on the post title, above).
Last night the members of my MFA Photography course at UCA opened a weekend show of some of our work to date at the local Barn Bistro (see videos below). I focused on the work I’ve been doing on inequality with a new collage of one of the images I showed here earlier and some of my Lego constructions of inequality statistics. Click any image to see them enlarged. (If that doesn’t work in email, click the post title to open in a browser first.)
My MFA class has an exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking running now and I have a couple of images from my Meadowlands series in it. I traveled there last Sunday to see it. If you’re in the UK, please come by and see it, thru February 5th. Click any image above to see them all enlarged.
We saw an exhibition of ceramics and pottery here – I can’t seem to find anything about it online.
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