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Four Questions with Gesche Würfel

Four Questions with Gesche Würfel

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Gesche Würfel is a German visual artist who currently lives and works in New York City, NY. She received her BSc.+MSc. in Urban Planning from the University of Dortmund, Germany, and her M.A. in Photography and...
Four Questions with Paul Smith

Four Questions with Paul Smith

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. ‘Paul Smith is Course Leader in Photography at Amersham and Wycombe College in Buckinghamshire. He studied for an MA in Photography at Goldsmiths College (MA in Photography and Urban Cultures), a...
Four Questions with Lene Hald

Four Questions with Lene Hald

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Lene Hald works with visual ethnography and visual communication. Her photographic work explores the meeting between social research and narrative art and adresses issues of fashion, feminism and the phenomenon...
Four Questions with Simon Rowe

Four Questions with Simon Rowe

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Today we ask four questions of Simon Rowe about his work and practice. You can see read more about Simon here.   What can a photo do that other representations can’t?...
Four Questions with David Kendall

Four Questions with David Kendall

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. David Kendall’s practice explores how spatial, economic and design initiatives, as well as participatory practices, combine to encourage social and spatial interconnections or conflict in cities. Kendall utilises visual archives, mapping, events and...
Four Questions with Laura Braun

Four Questions with Laura Braun

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Laura Braun is a German born, London based photographer and maker of photographic books. She completed her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College in 2005. Her work...
Four Questions with Manuel Vazquez

Four Questions with Manuel Vazquez

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Manuel Vazquez’s work up to date has a constant interest in the theatricality of city life and spaces. His work places the spectator as witness of a “spectacle” where images...
Four Questions with Nora Alissa

Four Questions with Nora Alissa

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Nora Alissa graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London, with a distinction in the MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. She is now working on several projects which look at different aspects...
Four Questions with Haarala Hamilton

Four Questions with Haarala Hamilton

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Liz and Max Haarala Hamilton are London based professional photographers. Liz was born and grew up in Finland and Max in Oxford, England. They met at Camberwell college of Arts...
Four Questions with Isidro Ramirez

Four Questions with Isidro Ramirez

In support of our exhibition Adrift, we’re asking our exhibiting artists four questions to help you get to know a bit about them and their work. Isidro Ramirez is a Spanish photographer now based in Singapore. After living, working and studying in the UK for 20 years he moved to Singapore in 2011. His work shows a...
Francesca Woodman - Guggenheim March 16 - June 13 2012

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...
André Kertész: Meudon 1928

André Kertész: Meudon 1928

In the history of photography and in photographic theory, there are a few icons, a few images that are discussed in almost every book on photography that exists. One such image is André Kertész’s Meudon, 1928. Apart from approaching this piece of work – first published in 1945 in New York – from a descriptive...