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Capricious at Barry Gross Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL D4...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:23:00 +0000

Capricious at Barry Gross Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL

D4 contributor Adela Holmes is one of the artists taking part in the new exhibition at Barry Gross Gallery (more Adela in d4.7 You Can’t Always Get What You Want). The show opens with a reception on March 2nd and runs until April 2nd.

Barry Gross Gallery, 3335 NE 32 Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308

www.adelaholmes.com

30under30: Spotlight Six at Arsenal Center For The Arts,...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:12:00 +0000

30under30: Spotlight Six at Arsenal Center For The Arts, Watertown, MA

“30under30: Spotlight Six features six of the participating artists from 30under30 – an exhibition designed to display and encourage the dialogue of 30 young artists in the Boston area. These artists were chosen during the jurying process to be given the opportunity to showcase a broader range of their work. Through painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, these six truly represent the diversity of emerging artistic talent in Massachusetts.”

Congratulations to the six artists chosen, especially D4 contributor Kati Mennett (more Kati in D4.9 Modern Love). The exhibition runs January 10 - February 8, and there is an opening reception January 17, 2013, 5:30-7:30 pm.

www.arsenalarts.org

www.katimennett.com

Portrait Salon 2012 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:41:00 +0000

Portrait Salon 2012

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery has been, for several years, the premier award of its kind in the UK. However, recently it is being given a run for its money by the newer, hipper, Portrait Salon.

2012 is the second year of Portrait Salon. It started as “a form of Salon des Refusés - an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show - which has a long tradition as a fringe way of showcasing artists’ work that may otherwise go unseen. Devised by Carole Evans and James O Jenkins, Portrait Salon aims to show the best of the unselected entries from the annual National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize. We figure that, out of the 6000+ rejected entries, there are excellent portraits which deserve to be seen.”

Two of the works selected for Portrait Salon’s inspiring 2012 show are by Alys Tomlinson (see more Alys in d4.5 Winter Notes On Summer Impressions and d4.7 You Can’t Always Get What You Want.) All of this year’s selection can be viewed on Portrait Salon’s site, and in the Portrait Salon Newspaper.

www.portraitsalon.co.uk

www.alystomlinson.co.uk

Photograph © Alys Tomlinson

Adela Holmes is making a small selection of photographs...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:14:56 +0000

Adela Holmes is making a small selection of photographs available for sale on her website, “as original gifts for the season. I made them super affordable and selected the super pretty ones,” says Adela (see more Adela in d4.9, Modern Love). “If you have any suggestions, questions or are interested in any other photos that are not selected just let me know.”

Above is just a small selection, click this link www.adelaholmes.com to be directed to the shop, to see the full collection, and Adela’s website.

Photographs © Adela Holmes

The Fall issue of Eyemazing is out now, and includes a beautiful...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:39:00 +0000

The Fall issue of Eyemazing is out now, and includes a beautiful feature about the photography of Robin Cracknell (see more Robin in d4.9, Modern Love.) The piece is written by Caitlin Smail (see more Caitlin in d4.3, Home Is Where…)

You can order Eyemazing in digital as well as print form, via the magazine’s website, www.eyemazing.com

www.cracknell.blogspot.co.uk

Photographs © Robin Cracknell

Katya Evdokimova: Branded, at Loft Project ETAGI, St...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:16:00 +0100

Katya Evdokimova: Branded, at Loft Project ETAGI, St Petersburg

Until November 7th, exhibition space and contemporary art gallery Loft Project ETAGI is hosting Katya Evdokimova’s latest photography exhibition in Russia. (See more Katya in d4.5 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions and d4.6 The New Constellations.)

“Katya Evdokimova’s photo project is a visual commentary on brand dependence and a consumerist philosophy of living… Ms Evdokimova draws attention to a destructive tendency that is becoming apparent in the process of a voluntary suppression of a personality and replacing it by a brand. It is evident that the photographer plays with two translations of the word ‘brand’: a logo and a body mark.”

www.loftprojectetagi.ru

www.begemotfoto.com

Photograph © Katya Evdokimova

A new European photographic collective Kirk Ellingham is one of...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:28:00 +0100

A new European photographic collective

Kirk Ellingham is one of the founders of Homelands, a new photographic collective (see more Kirk in d4.9, Modern Love.) Homelands describes itself as a group of “emerging story tellers, photographers, visual poets and filmmakers attempting to collaborate and promote emotive long term projects on our homelands; be that born, adoptive or connected… The purpose is to exchange ideas – and contradictions – about Europe and Europeans through exchanging places, and working on a yearly group theme.”

There are currently nine members, originating from Poland, the UK, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Germany. For more information, and to keep up with news about Homelands, visit the website www.homelands.viewbook.com

The group’s first event will be a projection night as part of the photography festival Kaunas Photo 2012 in Lithuania. It takes place this Thursday, September 6th. www.kaunasphoto.info

In Praise of Childhood, GETXOPHOTO 2012 The Galician town of...

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 05:58:00 +0100

In Praise of Childhood, GETXOPHOTO 2012

The Galician town of Getxo, on the Spanish coast near Bilbao, is currently hosting its annual photographic event, GETXOPHOTO. This year’s theme is In Praise of Childhood. Among the photographic exhibitions and activities is a super-sized installation of works from Jan Von Holleben’s Dreams of Flying. (See more of Jan’s Dreams in d4.3 Home is Where…)

www.getxophoto.com

www.janvonholleben.com

Contemporary Visions at Beers.Lambert,...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:12:00 +0100

Contemporary Visions at Beers.Lambert, London

“Contemporary Visions is the first group exhibition at the newly relocated Beers.Lambert Contemporary in its new premises on City Road. The exhibition presents 10 contemporary international artists, (selected from an pool of nearly 1800 applicants worldwide) who each question the destability of the image and of presence. The collective point of departure for each of the artists is precisely how a vision of reality becomes translated through the artistic frame of reference. The selected artists work in all media and within all genres of art - from figurative to abstract and even conceptual, each being selected for an artistic practice that somehow perceives reality as one that has been fragmented, reconstructed, and destabilized.”

Among the artists whose work is on show is Gigi Cifali (see more Gigi in d4.7, You Can’t Always Get What You Want).

The exhibition runs August 16th - September 30th, at Beers.Lambert Contemporary, 1 Baldwin Street, London EC1V 9NU

www.beerslambert.com

www.gigicifali.com

Photograph © Gigi Cifali

A rather special Olympic souvenir. Just over a week ago British...

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:51:38 +0100

A rather special Olympic souvenir.

Just over a week ago British cycling hero Bradley Wiggins rode through Hampton Wick on his way to winning a gold medal in the Men’s Cycling Time Trial at the London Olympics. In the crowds cheering him on was Ben Roberts, who was also taking photographs. (See more Ben in D4.7 You Can’t Always Get What You Want.)

One of the images has been so popular that Ben and Metro Imaging have created a limited edition of 50 prints. They are 10” x 8”, printed on Hahnehmuhle Photo Rag 308gsm paper: £55, with £5 of every sale being donated to the Bradley Wiggins Foundation.

Click the video link for a demo, or get more information here: benrobertsphotography.com

Foto8 Summer Show 2012 “The fifth annual Summershow at...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:14:32 +0100

Foto8 Summer Show 2012

“The fifth annual Summershow at Foto8 features 159 images selected from a total of 3,226 entries from 1,200 photographers around the globe. The title of ‘best in show’, with £2,000 prize money, will be announced on 6 July while visitors to the gallery in east London can vote for their winner during the weeks of the exhibition.”

Congratulations to all the photographers whose work has been selected, including DayFour contributors Jose Navarro (see more Jose in d4.6 The New Constellations) and Jan Von Holleben (Jan contributed most recently in d4.8 Ulysses II).

The exhibition runs July 7th until August 18th at the Foto8 gallery, Honduras Street, London EC1. www.foto8.com

Not Even Something, at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts,...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:36:00 +0100

Not Even Something, at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

Alnis Stakle’s exhibition of bleakly beautiful landscape photography ”Not Even Something” is running until Sunday July 8th as part of the Summer of Photography at BOZAR.

“Cities are divided into areas, and the identity of each area is characterised by some peculiar features. For instance, industrial areas, housing areas, central areas, banking areas, etc. These urban areas are joined by non-places which do not perform any significant functions in the urban environment, but just exist and thus, fill the emptiness between meaningful urban areas. In ‘Not Even Something’ Alnis Stakle explores these areas during desolate winter nights. Transformed by artificial light, these images show interesting similarities with the romanticist tradition in landscape painting. The works in these series do not feature any specific geographic area or a real event; rather, they convey the inextricable links between the imagined and the real in the interpretation of landscapes and landscape photography.”

See more Alnis in d4.5 Winter Notes On Summer Impressions.

www.bozar.be

www.alnisstakle.com

Photograph © Alnis Stakle

Kalisz revisited Kirk Ellingham’s photojournalism...

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:16:00 +0100

Kalisz revisited

Kirk Ellingham’s photojournalism Postcards from Kalisz was one of the highlights of D4.9 Modern Love. A year after completing the project, Kirk went back to Poland with Monika, whose family featured in the original work. The new work is entitled Lost Dreams, White Fever.

He says, “I travelled with Monika just after Christmas 2011 to visit her family again. We went to see her cousin and her new baby and her grandmother and the land her brother had bought outside the city. Snow had fallen and the weight of a new year after Christmas was heavy as lead in the air. We talked of family history, of tragedy and love, of the despair of men and their vodka dreams and the heavy burden of mothers and of daughters. We spoke of lost dreams and walked in a white fever that cold January week in Poland.”

The new images are black-and-white, the new version of Kalisz seems to have faded back in time, or moved further away from the 21st-century. It’s a gorgeous set of pictures, and a thought-provoking visual meditation on the way a family and a community develops.

www.kirkellingham.com

Photograph © Kirk Ellingham

New work on DayFour Links We Like Links We Like is the section...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:16:00 +0100

New work on DayFour Links We Like

Links We Like is the section of the DayFour website which highlights occasional photographers or projects that have caught my attention, usually people who have got in touch through the website.

I’ve just added three new links: Katherine Green’s 1948 Olympians is a fascinating portrait project, one of the more original and interesting ideas generated around this summer’s London games, plus she has an exhibition taking place right now in Tokarska Gallery, London E17.

Hind Land is an unusual landscape photography project currently in progress, a collaboration between photographers Nick Rochowski and Tim Bowditch, which will be presented at the upcoming Arles festival.

Struggle for a Normal Life, by documentary photographer Lorenzo Masi, spotlights the plight of Somali refugees in Rome and Florence. It’s an important piece of reportage with beautiful photographs.

I’ve also restored some older links, some to photographers who’ve since contributed to DayFour and others I’m still working on…

DayFour Links We Like

More from the Renaissance Photography Prize. Michael...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:48:00 +0100

More from the Renaissance Photography Prize. Michael Bodiam’s “Untitled (farm, Bagn)” was one of the 100 images selected for an exhibition at the Mall Galleries as part of the Renaissance competition. Unfortunately the exhibition ran only June 11th –16th, but you can see all the winners plus the exhibition participants on the organisers’ website – and Michael’s image in d4.6 The New Constellations.

www.renaissancephotography.org

www.michaelbodiam.com

Congratulations to Julieta Sans on winning the Calumet Award for...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:27:00 +0100

Congratulations to Julieta Sans on winning the Calumet Award for Best Entry on Film at this year’s Renaissance Photography Prize. (See her winning image as part of Julieta’s story in d4.7 You Can’t Always Get What You Want.)

“The Renaissance Photography Prize 2012, together with the Calumet Prize for Best Film Entry and the winners of each category, were announced at the awards ceremony on 13 June 2012,” the organisation says. “We had over 5,200 entries and this year have already raised more than £50,000 for The Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care.” Judging the competition were Monica Allende, Michael Hoppen, Brigitte Lardinois, Mary McCartney and Brett Rogers.

www.renaissancephotography.org

www.julietasans.com

The DayFour Modern Love exhibition at theprintspace ended last...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:30:03 +0100

The DayFour Modern Love exhibition at theprintspace ended last week, but you can see pictures from the show on our website, here.

Browse the complete issue of Modern Love here.

www.dayfour.info

Handmade frames looking for a home DayFour contributor Julieta...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:04:00 +0100

Handmade frames looking for a home

DayFour contributor Julieta Sans is moving and has to find a home for some beautiful picture frames. She says, “I have 14 lovely handmade frames from an exhibition I had in Barcelona two years ago. They were made by the best framer in Barcelona. They are double glass, with a painted one inch wooden border and the following sizes:
5 frames 64 x 83 cm
3 frames 83 x 83 cm
6 frames 94 x 94 cm
They’re in good shape but need some cleaning and a couple of them have a small chip in one of the corners. I’m of course willing to let them go for a fraction of the 2,500 euros they cost.”

If you are interested please contact Julieta directly on jotasans(at)gmail.com

The Great British Public at London Festival of Photography The...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:28:56 +0100

The Great British Public at London Festival of Photography

The London Festival of Photography 2012 is taking place in 18 venues around London this month. One of the major exhibitions is “The Great British Public” at Dog Eared Gallery, near King’s Cross. It is a group show with “a stellar collection of British artists,” including Martin Parr, Zed Nelson, and Ben Roberts (see more Ben in d4.7 You Can’t Always Get What You Want.) Highly recommended.

Dog Eared Gallery, 25-28 Field Street, London, WC1 X9DA

www.lfph.org

Last chance to see… DayFour Modern Love exhibition at...

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:26:41 +0100

Last chance to see… DayFour Modern Love exhibition at theprintspace

Originally scheduled to run until the end of April, we are delighted that the DayFour Modern Love exhibition is still going strong at theprintspace gallery. However, all good things must come to an end and the show will finally close next week. You’ve got a couple more days to catch it before theprintspace’s next event launches on June 13th.

Interested in purchasing one of the prints? Email fiona@dayfour.info to discuss…