ELLEN VON UNWERTH – DO NOT DISTURB

Posted on 2012-07-23

Straight from the camera to the wall, this latest series of photographs has all the sexy motifs of Ellen’s signature style. The Madonna Inn, LA, sets the scene for these highly stylised and richly coloured images of women, who range from the delicate coquette to robust dominatrix. Each of the rooms in this renowned LA hotel features imaginative and fantastical interior design, as individual as the characters that occupy them, lending to the seductive fantasy narrative of a wild weekend away.

Ellen von Unwerth has become one of the world’s most notable fashion photographers. Her provocative and playful images of models, music stars and movie icons have lead to her own iconic status as a photographer with a unique eye. Adored by the fashion industry, Ellen is listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Fashion Icons and has photographed major campaigns for designers such as Guess, Dior, Lacoste, Alberta Ferretti; as well as album covers for Rihanna, Christina Aguilera and Janet Jackson; and fashion spreads for major publications such as Vogue, ID and Vanity Fair.

Opposite – Room 6, 2012

Exhibition runs through till August 31st, 2012

Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD

www.michaelhoppengallery.com

  

SIMON ROBERTS – WE ENGLISH

Posted on 2012-07-23

Over the course of a year Simon Roberts travelled England in a motor home, training his large format 4×5” plate camera on people and places across the country. His richly detailed largescale photographs provide a vivid and elegiac account of modern England. Showing people playing golf in the shadow of a power station, enjoying a picnic at the side of the road or congregating en masse on a sandy beach, the photographs in We English explore issues of
identity, belonging and the relationship between a people and their land.
We English is a very personal work, drawing on Roberts’ childhood memories, his engagement with the tradition of British photographic work from Bill Brandt to Paul Graham, and his journey across the country. It is also a shared vision, informed by the public participation that Roberts encouraged during his journey via his website

Opposite – Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire, 16th June 2008

Exhibition runs through till September 2nd, 2012

Third Floor Gallery
Third Floor
102 Bute Street
CF10 5AD
Cardiff

www.thirdfloorgallery.com

  

THE IMPOSTER

Posted on 2012-07-23

The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas.

Though the family accepts him, suspicion surrounds the person who claims to be Nicholas. How could the Barclay’s blonde, blue-eyed son have returned with darker skin and eyes? How could his personality and even accent have changed so profoundly? Why does the family not seem to notice the glaring differences? And if this person who has arrived in Texas isn’t the Barclay’s missing child . . . who on earth is he? And what really happened to Nicholas?

In theaters August 24th, 2012

imposterfilm.com

  

SAMSARA

Posted on 2012-07-23

This was the first feature-length film in over a decade to be shot entirely on 70mm film.
Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

In theaters August 31st, 2012

barakasamsara.com

  

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN

Posted on 2012-07-23

Rodriguez himself was never aware of his huge success, as well as most other Americans. This film traces two hardcore South African fans as they trace clues around the globe trying to find out what happened to this man. Did he commit a gruesome suicide as rumors say? If so, when and where? Almost nothing was known of this mystery man.

In theaters July 27th, 2012

www.sugarman.org

  

HOT CHIP – LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE

Posted on 2012-07-23

The official video for Hot Chip’s “Look At Where We Are” taken from the album In Our Heads.
Directed by Danny Perez, this video is a collaboration between Hot Chip, Domino Records and The Creators Project which produces and distributes works from artists representing a cross-section of creative disciplines.

hotchip.co.uk