I was in Bradford yesterday helping to install the We English exhibition. It’s early days but the edit is starting to take shape (here are a few snaps from the process).
I hope to see some of you at the opening next Thursday 11th March. There’s also the ‘Breakfast with the Artist’ event at 10.30am on Friday 12th where I’ll be in conversation with curator Greg Hobson and fellow photographer, Robbie Cooper, who is exhibiting photographs from his Immersion series in the Museum’s Gallery 2.
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There is a review of We English in the current issue of Source (Winter 2009/2010) by Jane Fletcher under the title ‘Away from the Shopping Centre’. You can download a pdf here.
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.
Here is the second ‘film teaser’ from the National Media Museum in the run-up to the exhibition of We English (which opens at the Museum on 12th March). The film discusses my reasons for getting public participation in the project and was mostly shot last December on a couple of cold and windy day’s in and around Bradford (hence my bad hat and sometimes pained expression!), whilst I was producing the photograph for the Bradford commission.
There is an online showcase of We English entitled ‘Leisure as a National Mirror’ on today’s New York Times Lens blog, with a short article by Nadia Sussman.
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My exhibition Motherland, Homeland was being installed at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham over the weekend. Here are a few teaser photographs (shot on a mobile phone) by Geoff Litherland, Exhibitions Co-ordinator, who was overseeing the hanging. The exhibition opens this Wednesday (24th February).
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I’ve got an exhibition opening at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham later this month. Motherland, Homeland will feature pieces from both my Motherland series and We English. The private view is on Thursday 4 March 2010, 6.30 pm – 8 pm.
I will also be doing an ‘In conversation’ with Professor Stephen Daniels from the University of Nottingham, Bonington Lecture Theatre, Thursday 4 March, 5 pm – 6.30 pm.
If you would like to attend the private view or talk, please RSVP to: boningtongallery@ntu.ac.uk
Exhibition date: Wednesday 24 February – Friday 19 March 2010
A series of twelve photographs from We English has just received 3rd Prize in the Daily Life Stories section of this year’s World Press Photo Awards. Congratulations also to my former assistant Laura Pannack who won 1st Prize in Portrait Singles.
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Here’s the publisher’s blurb – At the beginning of the 1995 football season, Hans van der Meer set out to take a series of football photographs that avoided the cliched traditions of modern sports photography. In an attempt to record the game in its original form – a field, two goals and 22 players – he sought matches at the bottom end of the amateur leagues, the opposite end of the scale to the Champions’ League. And he avoided the enclosed environment of the stadium and tight telescopic details and hyperbole of action photography. Preferring neutral lighting, framing and camera angles, he chose instead to pull back from the central subject of the pitch, locating the playing field and its unfolding action within a specific landscape and context.Van der Meer has applied his democratic viewpoint across the playing fields of Europe over the past decade, having travelled to every country with a significant history of the game.taken him from small towns in the remote regions of Europe – from Bihariain in Romania to Bjorko in Sweden, from Torp in Norway to Alcsoors in Hungary, from Bartkowo in Poland to Beire in Portugal – and to the fringes of the major conurbations including Greece, Finland, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Slovakia, Denmark, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
By the way, my Bradford commission photograph will be unveiled at the opening of the National Media Museum We English exhibition on 11th March 2010. (nb. it’s not of Sunday league football!).
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