Robert Adams

While we were in Denver we went  to see an exhibition of Robert Adams work, which by chance was on during our stop there.
I only fairly recently got to know/appreciate Adams work.....I guess in the past I'd been fairly dismissive of anything that smelled too much of landscape ...how stupid I have been...
Anyway, a few months before leaving the UK I bought Adam's Summer Nights Walking, it's a beautiful small book.
So I was happy to find this exhibition on. As always it's a pleasure to be near the prints, and as I discover, to be near to where Adams lived and worked...I begin to understand more beyond the images on the page....
Adams, to me, is a bit of a spiritual man, and some of the small sentences he writes feel so pure in their origin...

"often there doesn't seem to be anything there, I feel foolish to have stopped, but small things can become important, a Lark or a Mailbox, or Sunflowers.
and if I wait I may see architecture - the road, the fields, the sky." RA
this one I also liked
"on the Prairies there is sometimes a quiet so absolute that it allows me to begin again, to love the future"
You can see more of Adams work and listen to him speak here , here, and here

installation Denver

all images © to Robert Adams

Installation photographs from Hereford

Just received some installation photos from the Hereford photography festival.

Georgia  "Seeds carried by the Wind"

Georgia  "Seeds carried by the Wind

Shadow of the Bear

Shadow of the Bear

Pier 24 Gallery

Todd Hido invited us to go with his class to Pier 24 Gallery, in San Francisco to see the exhibition "Here". This exhibition presents a selection of works produced by Bay Area photographers as well as a range of images of San Francisco, with an emphasis on the late-twentieth century. HERE. highlights the vibrancy of San Francisco and the surrounding areas through the work of 34 photographers and over 700 images.
The gallery is huge and the exhibition was one of the best photography exhibitions we have seen in a long time. All the work was truly inspiring, beautifully curated and presented. Here is a selection of some of those on show, would have like to have put them all up but takes to much time.

Lewis Baltz

©Leon Borenszstein

 We didn't know the work of Leon Borensztein before this exhibition. Amazing Portraits, looking forward to seeing his new book, Leon Borensztein: American Portraits 1979-1989 published by Nazraeli Press which is due out any day soon.

© Jim Goldberg

© Todd Hido from Homes at Night.

© Richard Misrach

 We've never seen this early work by Richard Misrach. Mostly portraits around Telegraph Ave in Berkeley.  An interview with Aaron Schuman in Seasaw magazine.
We also went to an opening in Berkeley of his exhibition  1991: Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, which he has only just released, 20 years after the event! Interview with some of the images here, well worth a look.

SF Police department.

   © Larry Sultan,  from the Homeland series, a series he had just completed before he passed away.

© Anthony Hernandez

© Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez  article here and a slideshow of one of his books, Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and some Automobiles.

© Henry Wessel

© Henry Wessel

© Henry Wessel

Henry Wessel. Capturing one of Honolulu’s most famous neighbourhoods, Waikiki is the photography book by Henry Wessel.  A video here.

Bill Owens an early influence

Today we took a drive around the San Francisco Bay area, starting in Oakland, heading south and up north to San Francisco. Miles and miles of Suburbia. When we got to San Jose, we went past the San Jose Museum of Art and noticed a poster advertising a Bill Owens exhibition. Seeing the exhibition was an unexpected treat.

©Bill Owens

 

 

 

 

Bill Owens statement about this work and the American dream.

3 articles about Suburbia  and Bill Owens can be found on the excellent American Suburb X, here, here and here

Bill Owens was one of my earliest influences, I used to spend hours at the college library looking at his book, Suburbia. I really felt a strong infinity with his work, it touched my own alienation with being bought up in the London Suburbs, as well as my own relationship to my extended family.
The following 2 images are part of my first real photography project, I was around 21 years old at the time and this was the time I knew I wanted to be a photographer.

©George Georgiou

©George Georgiou

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Sea at Fotoleggendo, Rome

I'm showing the Black Sea in Rome at this years Fotoleggendo festival 
Amongst other exhibitors are Donald Weber's Interrogations,  Alessandro Penso and Michele Palazzo's Migrant Workers.

Alessandro Penso and Michele Palazzo

Donald Weber'

Also take a look at Little Big Press who have a show of some of their publications.

 Donald Weber, George and Myself will be showing our work together again at the Photography festival in Hereford in a couple of weeks, more on that later.

Fault Lines at MoMA, NYC.

 

The New Photography exhibition at MoMA opened on Tuesday evening. As always with openings it's a little overwhelming and hard to take things in. However I did have a great night and it's amazing to see my photographs on the walls of this great institution. 

On the Friday we went back to the gallery and sat and watched people engaging with the work. I was delighted to see the sheer volume of people passing through. It's not often you get a chance to watch people looking at your work, as an experience I was filled with pride. 

New Photography 2011         September 28, 2011–January 16, 2012