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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GASKET is proud to announce our first exhibition, Adrift - The
Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society, to be held at the Old Truman Brewery‘s Shop 14
from Monday 8th of October 2012 and running through the 13th October 2012. Adrift will
present ten artists whose photography engages directly with the increasing tension that
exists between the familiar and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Last week we were lucky enough to attend a screening of Anton
Corbijn’s Control presented by clever people from Hungry Eye Magazine and Jim Stephenson’s
miniclick photography talks. For those unfamiliar with the 2007 film, Control follows the
life of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the band Joy Division, from 1973 until 1980, the year
Curtis committed...
Recently, I was browsing rather aimlessly and half-motivated at the
most through the books on display in a London museum. I was not quite sure what I was
looking for until I found it. A small new publication called Crazy Photography by Dianne
Routex. That photography could be “concerned”, “pure” or “art” is nothing new...
