The first sneak preview of work from We English will be on display at the New York Photo Festival during May.

A selection of four photographs will be exhibited in a group show curated by Jon Levy, publisher of Foto 8, entitled ‘Home For Good’. The exhibition will also feature the work of Lorraine Gruppe, Tim Hetherington, Chris Killip, Venetia Dearden, Seba Kurtis, Louie Palu, and David Gray.

As Levy writes “Home for Good will explore the idea that storytelling begins at home. We will be employing documentary photography in its many forms – the family album, first day cover, film stills, portraits, magazine layouts and even as the basis for fiction – as the most potent method of transmission. The exhibition explores the ways that photographs have been, and continue to be, used to connect people with issues, emotions, and events. The photographers chosen to represent this theme and the formats they have employed embody the wide range of tools and ideas photography uses in its dual purpose of communicating public fact and personal feeling. If it succeeds, the show will allow a space for contemplating some of the issues we face collectively, before you head back, safely, we hope, to wherever you call home.”

And these are the images-

Devil’s Dyke, South Downs, East Sussex, 6th March 2008 © Simon Roberts

Cotswold Water Park, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, 11th May 2008 © Simon Roberts

Tandridge Golf Course, Oxted, Surrey, 2nd April 2008 © Simon Roberts

Holkham National Nature Reserve, Norfolk, 18th February 2008 © Simon Roberts

“The work on show is art by its best definitions, and the photographers have been chosen both for the subjects that they take on and their ability to address their inquiries through strong photography.  The work in Home For Good examines the tensions between being ‘at home’- your homeland, your new home, or in your own skin, and what it means to be far away from home, a migrant, a soldier, when home becomes a distant object.  How is ‘home’ imagined?  War destablizes the idea of home, putting it to contest, making it abstract, putting it at risk. ”

The Festival runs from 13th – 17th May at various venues around New York’s DUMBO district. You can find more information here.

Additional exhibitions are curated by William A.Ewing, Jody Quon and Chris Boot (who is publishing We English).

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