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25 Years of Photoshop Party @ The Photographers’ Gallery, Oct 24

23 October 2015

London’s The Photographers’ Gallery is celebrating Photoshop’s 25th birthday with a party on October 24.

As part of their inaugural TPG Geekender series of events exploring photography in digital culture, the party will include ways to experience the software’s first version, 1.0, a live “cut and paste” studio and a Photoshop Battle. Food and drinks will be served with Photoshop Layer Cake and Cocktails, Adam Brown of Buncefield Records will DJ and Central Saint Martins MA Photography students will present a history and culture of Photoshop.

See the FB event page and The Photographer’s gallery for details.**

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Ways of Something @ TPG, Feb 12

10 February 2015

Eighty-five web-based artists are coming together to remake John Berger‘s iconic Ways of Seeing, one minute at a time, at The Photographers’ Gallery in London on February 12.

Divided into three episodes, the 85-minute screening was originally commissioned by The One Minutes, at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and compiled by artist Lorna Mills. The episodes feature everything from 3D renderings, videos, filmic remixes, and webcam performances that poke at and subvert the tropes of art history.

Among the 85 artists is Marisa Olson, as well as Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jesse Darling, Evan Roth, Ann Hirsch, Daniel Temkin, and Eva Papamargariti. The screenings will be introduced by Julia van Mourik, director of The One Minutes, followed by a Q&A with Mills and Daniel Rourke via Skype.

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Face to Facebook @ The Photographers’ Gallery, Sep 28

26 September 2014

This Sunday, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico join forces to discuss their collaborative project Face to Facebook at London’s The Photographers’ Gallery, September 28 at 4pm.

While artist Paolo Cirio brings his trademark visuals to the project – often drawing on themes of copyright, privacy and militarism – artist, media critic and Neural-founder Alessandro Ludovico draws on his English & Media Ph.D. and recent book, Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894, to discuss “facial recognition, data scraping and privacy on social media platforms”.

The Face to Facebook project – which comes as the third work in a series titled The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy – has its own domain and an entire website dedicated to the theory and methodology behind the works, based out of a Facebook privacy scandal summarized in the video below.

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Andrew Norman Wilson @ TPG, Dec 4

27 November 2013

Artist and ex-Google worker Andrew Norman Wilson will be speaking about his practice as part of The Photographers Gallery‘s digital programme in London, December 4.

Interested in the systems and labour processes underpinning digital culture, Wilson experiments with “corporate, academic and artistic presentation techniques”, while his Workers Leaving the Googleplex explores the exploitations and hierarchies such presentation can often conceal. Those are ideas he went into detail in an interview with aqnb at CTM festival earlier this year.

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DB Photography Prize 2013 announced

15 June 2013

Back in November we got to know this year´s shortlist to the always surprising DB Photography prize. And just early on this week the Photographer´s gallery announced this year´s winners: Broomberg & Chanarin for War Primer 2.

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Plate 23, 2011 (image courtesy of The Photographers Gallery)
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Plate 23, 2011 (image courtesy of The Photographers Gallery)

The London-based duo of artists, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin have both been awarded for their publication War Primer 2 (MACK, 2012), a book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertold Brecht’s remarkable 1955 publication War Primer. Brecht’s photo-essay comprises 85 images, photographic fragments or collected newspaper clippings, that were placed next to a four-line poem, called ‘photo-epigrams’. Broomberg and Chanarin layered Google search results for the poems over Brecht’s originals.

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Plate 26, 2011 (image courtesy of The Photographers Gallery)
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Plate 26, 2011 (image courtesy of The Photographers Gallery)

Some of those essays have been exposed with the other 3 nominees @ The Photographer´s Gallery since last April, and with only 2 more weeks to go until the expo finishes we think this possibly the best way to discover their limited edition book. You can always go for their free app if not in London.

More info on the prize, nominees and winners this way.

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Olia Lialiana & Dragan Espenschied, ‘One Terabyte for Kilobyte Age’ (2013)

15 May 2013

Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have been on a crusade to keep GeoCities in circulation, despite being taken offline by Yahoo! in 2009. Managing to salvage one terabyte of seemingly infinite homepages made since its emergence in 1995, their One Terabyte Of Kilobyte Age exhibits the work of a swathe of unknown average Joes and here’s just a handful with many more to see on their tumblr.

Geocities screencapture5 (photo courtesy of Dragan Espenschied)
Geocities screencapture (photo courtesy of Dragan Espenschied)
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2013 DB Photography Prize shortlist announced

26 November 2012

It’s only been a couple of months since the winner of this year’s DB Photography Prize was announced (John Stezaker) and barely 4 months since we got to review this year’s shortlist exhibition and today we already know the name of the 3 shortlisted candidates for next year’s edition!

© Chris Killip, What Happened Great Britain 1970 - 1990 (image via The Photographers Gallery)
© Chris Killip, What Happened Great Britain 1970 – 1990 (image via The Photographers Gallery)

The 2013 exhibition won’t happen until next April but at least we know that one of the following will be a happy 2013 winner:  Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mishka Henner, Chris Killip and Cristina De Middel.

Adam & Oliver are nominated for their publication War Primer 2 (2012, MACK), a book inspird by the pages of Bertolt Brecht’s publication War Primer (1955). In the original, Brecht matched WWII newspaper clippings with short poems…. in War Primer 2 Broomberg & Chanarin choose to focus on the ‘War on Terror’; sifting through the internet for low resolution screen-grabs and mobile phone images, the artists then combined them to resonate with Brecht’s poems.

© Cristina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2011 (image via The Photographers Gallery)
© Cristina de Middel, The Afronauts, 2011 (image via The Photographers Gallery)

Spanish Cristina (based in London) has been working for newspapers in Spain and with NGOs such as Doctors Without Borders and the Spanish Red Cross for almost eight years. Her works combine strictly documentary assignments with more personal projects playing with reconstructions or archetypes that blur the border between reality and fiction… and she’s been nominated for her self-publication “The Afronauts“.

Then there’s multi-awarded photographer Chris Killip and his works of North East England who is nominated for his last summer exhibition What Happened Great Britain 1970 – 1990 at Parisian Le Bal.

And last but not least we get Mishka Henner who has been described as a trailblazer amongst a new generation of artists redefining the role of photography in the internet age. She is nominated for his exhibition No Man’s Land at Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma which just closed last month.

© Mishka Henner, No Man's Land, 2012 (image via The Photographers Gallery)
© Mishka Henner, No Man’s Land, 2012 (image via The Photographers Gallery)
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FreshFaced+WildEyed 2012

19 August 2012

22 lucky graduates are part of this year’s FreshFaced & WildEyed photographic exhibition, the annual exhibition that showcases the work of recent graduates from across the UK.

Au centre de la Terre II by Nadege Meriau (2012)
Au centre de la Terre II by Nadege Meriau (2012)

The 5th edition brings like every year the 2-week exhibition @ The Photographer’s Gallery spread across the two major exhibition spaces in the fourth and fifth floors… as well as an online image gallery available from the 15th on this address.

 The lucky 22 should rejoice as this year they’re awarded with a new mentorship scheme offering them some professional development and guidance in the twelve months following the exhibition.

EU Parliament, Brussels, Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Room 03H01 - by Paula Gotazar (Common Space Series)
EU Parliament, Brussels, Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Room 03H01 – by Paula Gotazar (Common Space Series)

This year concentrates again a a wide range of photographic approaches… from David Birkin analysis of the production and dissemination of war photography, to Jonny Briggs’ staged scenes seeking to recapture forgotten childhood memories or Emma Critchley’s underwater images. A 2-week exhibition filled with photographic talent to note in your calendar… we’ll remind you when the site goes live, don’t worry.

Strange Birds (2011) - An installation by Gemma Marmalade
Strange Birds (2011) – An installation by Gemma Marmalade
Suspended By Emma Critchley 2011.
Suspended By Emma Critchley 2011.
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