Last June I flagged up a photography project being launched by Stuart Pilkington called What is England?

Since that time, Pilkington has gathered together 50 photographers each of whom will be representing one of the 50 counties in England. Their brief is to represent their own style of photography as well as their nominated county. Some live in the county they represent and some are discovering or rediscovering it for the first time. Photographers taking part include Zed Nelson (Greater London), Chris Floyd (Surrey) and Emily Mott (West Sussex).

Today we’ll be able to see the first results of the project, with the photographers presenting their visual response to theme ‘Person’. Check out the website here.

On 1st May the responses to ‘Group’ will be published, 1st July ‘Work’, 1st September ‘Play’, 1st November ‘Urban’ and lastly 1st January 2011 the word ‘Rural’.

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Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment is a speculative mix of photographs by Magnum photographer Mark Power along with poems by Daniel Cockrill (mentioned on the blog previously here). The pair were at Host Gallery last week to give a performance of the work.

As Max Houghton reports on the Foto 8 website:

You can view/listen to a podcast here.

An exhibition of the work with more live performances by the pair can be seen at the Atlas Gallery, London in June 2010.

Cockrill is part of a poetry collective called ‘Bang Said The Gun’. You can find out more on their website here and Facebook page here.

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