Richard Avedon – Gagosian Gallery, New York
Our recent sojourn to New York had a list of ‘must-dos’ whose completion was always doomed to failure, but one item on the agenda that brooked no compromise was a trip to the west side Gagosian to see Richard Avedon’s ‘Murals & Portraits.’ The Gagosian is all that you expect a seminal contemporary gallery to...
London Festival of Photography Syposium – Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private – Part 2
This is part 2 of our coverage of the London Festival of Photography symposium held on June 9th, if you missed it, check out Part 1. Following the lunchbreak the symposium restarted with another discussion piece, this one hosted by Firecracker (an online platform supporting European female photographers). Fiona Rogers of Firecracker introduced three female...
London Festival of Photography Syposium – Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private – Part 1
On Saturday the 9th of June the London Festival of Photography held its symposium titled Inside Out: Reflections on the Pubic and Private. The symposium presented a broad range of practitioners and topics, all loosely relating to the title and theme of the festival. Held at King’s Place near Kings Cross the full day symposium was well...
Francesca Woodman – Guggenheim March 16 – June 13 2012
The word that seems most often repeated when it comes to the work of Francesca Woodman is ‘gothic’, yet what struck me most in the comprehensive exhibition currently on show at the Guggenheim is the honesty and rawness of the work. I wasn’t overly familiar with Woodman’s images before coming to the exhibition, and perhaps...
