The British Editors go French...

Some of our editors this summer took a trip across the English Channel to our neighbouring capital Paris. We looked at some of the most coolest places to be seen in the French capital. With Paris hosting its fashion week in the next month, we looked into the real back streets and unseen worlds that make this city a place to be seen and fashionable.

Also we will have editors at the coolest fashion parties of the season giving you all the backstage gossip plus what a models life is really like at Paris fashion week!

In the coming weeks leading up to fashion week were going to show some of the places you MUST go while in the city and also to see these hidden gems that makes our French neighbours almost as great as us.

Stay Tuned!!!

The Beauty Of The English Countryside

Being in the Yorkshire Dales and the city of York this weekend I began to again realise how beautiful the English countryside is. Living in London you forget that only a few hours away you can really enjoy the splendors of England. Enjoying rural and pub lunch Sunday food I see that I must get away more often to enjoying the English scenery.

Taking in the city of York I came across the splendid 12th and 16th century architecture from the minster, first medieval bridges to the city walls that once defended this ancient northern city. I found it amazing and refreshing. 

Below are a selection of photos that I feel I needed to share, I hope you like them

From our Editor

For Japan

HotShoe Gallery

The brilliant HotShoe Gallery is hosting a charity auction on Friday 5th August to raise money for Japan.  100 beautiful prints and 78 different photographers were selected from thousands of entries, and having seen the selection being prepared, Theatre of Light can highly recommend going along and making a bid.  The prints are anonymous until purchase, and include work by huge names in contemporary photography such as Tom Hunter and Karen Knorr, as well as numerous fantastic emerging photographers.  

For more information on the auction and other events please visit:

 http://www.hotshoegallery.com/

 From our Photography Editor

V&A set to open permanent ‘Photographs Gallery’

Due to open it’s doors to the public on 25^th October of this year, the V&A’s new ‘Photographs Gallery’ will be a permanent display of the works in the V&A’s large photographic collection. 

The museum’s plan is to “chronicle the history of photography from it’s invention in 1839 up to the 1960s” and will feature all the big names in photographic history – Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Stieglitz. 

The display will apparently be ‘re-curated’ every 18-months, which seems somewhat problematic but nevertheless an interesting concept. 

The new gallery will also have two ‘In Focus’ spaces, each space featuring the work of one photographer who is represented in depth within the V&A collection.  The exhibition begins with a focus on Julia Margaret Cameron and Henri Cartier Bresson.

For further details and other events check out www.vam.ac.uk

From our Photography Editor

Thomas Struth’s first UK retrospective comes to Whitechapel Gallery 6th July

Widely regarded (and rightly so) as one of the most important photographers of the 20^th Century, German photographer Thomas Struth is due to open his first UK retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 6^th July.

 

Spanning early black and white work to more recent colour prints, the exhibition promises a diverse and in-depth survey of the artists work – from quiet photographs of empty streets and colossal panoramas of space shuttle programmes to Struth’s iconic life-size museum prints depicting the gaze of a wondering public towards works of art and architecture. 

The artist’s work often interweaves photographs of crowds and families with sterile and silent images of places devoid of human presence.  At the heart of his practice is a preoccupation with aspects of psychology and culture found masked behind what theorist Joanna Lowry has coined the ‘Theatre of Modernity’. 

Having seen only a small amount of Struth’s work in the gallery context at any given time, I am well aware that this really is the first opportunity to be able to see such a large collection of the artists work in the UK.  Whether you enjoy the weighty presumptions of photorealism that this kind of work can invoke, or you simply appreciate visually arresting photographs, this is an exhibition I guarantee should not be missed. 

Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010 is on from 6 July - 16 September 2011 at the Whitechapel Gallery.

From our Photography Editor

 

 

Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi

Illuminance is the newest of twelve photo books from photographer Rinko
Kawauchi. With a whole new series of previously unpublished photographs, the
artist has once again employed the milky palette and carefree composition so
known of her work to interweave fragments of the fragility of every day life, the
small wonders of a sometimes mundane existence and the fundamental cycles of
the natural world.

I always like to think there is something innately serendipitous about Kawauchi’s
work – light leaks and lens flare turn into achingly beautiful pieces of work time
after time (take her book Aila for instance). It could be then, that with the title
Illuminance, the book is perhaps the best testament yet to Kawauchi’s enduring
and radiant relationship with light and what it can do (or rather, what can be
done with it).

Shot over 15 years, the collection of photographs are glimpses of small moments
and silent illuminations that will resonate with the very essence of our own
memories and evoke in the viewer a feeling of nostalgia – we’ve all been to this
place in our childhoods, in our imaginations and in our dreams.

For anyone who simply appreciates the beauty that photography can distill -
Illuminance is a must buy.

  

From our Photography Editor

 

 

 

 

 All untitled from the series Illuminance