WINNER OF THE #SAATCHISELFIE

Posted on 2017-03-31

Saatchi Gallery and Huawei are delighted to announce that Dawn Woolley from Cambridge has been named the winner of the #SaatchiSelfie competition with her selfie The Subsitute (holiday).

Dawn was announced as winner at Saatchi Gallery on 30th March at the launch of the From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition. The winning image was selected from over 14,000 entries by judges Tracey Emin, Idris Khan, Juergen Teller, Juno Calypso and Saatchi Gallery CEO, Nigel Hurst. The winning image will be exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery alongside a shortlist of the other nine best selfies submitted to the competition from 31st March – 30th May, while a digital wall in the Gallery will show all 14,000 submissions from the competition.

The overall winner receives an all expenses paid trip to join a Leica Photography Ambassador on an international photo shoot assignment and the ten shortlisted artists will each receive the P10, Huawei’s newest smart phone featuring a dual Leica lens.

The ten shortlisted artists are Sarah Carpenter (UK), Finnian Croy (UK), Debora De Haes (Belgium), Ollie Hayward (UK), Felicia Hodoroaba-Simon (Romania), Andy Kassier (Germany), Van O (Russian Federation), Patrick Gonzales (France), and Ola Walkow (Canada)

The #SaatchiSelfie competition was launched on the 23rd January as part of the From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition at Saatchi Gallery.

Opposite – Dawn Woolley – The Substitute (holiday)

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ
King’s Road
London
SW3 4RY

www.saatchigallery.com

  

GHOST IN THE SHELL

Posted on 2017-03-27

In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people’s minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past, find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. Based on the Japanese Manga, “The Ghost in the Shell,” which was written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.

In theatres March 30th, 2017

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FREE FIRE

Posted on 2017-03-27

An arms deal that goes spectacularly and explosively wrong. Justine has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen and a gang led by Vernon and Ord, who are selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are fired during the handover, complete pandemonium ensues, with everyone at the scene suddenly thrust into a heart-stopping game of survival.

In theatres March 31st, 2017

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THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE

Posted on 2017-03-27

It’s just another night at the morgue for a father (Brian Cox) and son (Emile Hirsch) team of coroners, until an unidentified, highly unusual corpse comes in. Discovered buried in the basement of the home of a brutally murdered family, the young Jane Doe—eerily well preserved and with no visible signs of trauma—is shrouded in mystery. As they work into the night to piece together the cause of her death, the two men begin to uncover the disturbing secrets of her life. Soon, a series of terrifying events make it clear: this Jane Doe may not be dead. The latest from Trollhunter director Andre Ovredal.

In theatres March 31st, 2017

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SIRI KAUR – CROW’S FIELD

Posted on 2017-03-27

Crow’s Field is the name Kaur and her childhood friends gave an unclaimed strip of farmland where she grew up in rural New England. Between the forest and the road, this acreage became a magical no-man’s-land where fantasy and reality blurred.

Since it now exists only in memory, Crow’s Field is impossible to document, yet Kaur accesses it by subverting the traditional photographic genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture. Through the process Crow’s Field serves as a metaphor for creating a new type of photograph, one that partially embodies both the real and the surreal. As they subtly dislocate time and space, these ephemeral images de-center classical narrative structures. The results are a group of atmospheric pictures that invite the viewer to participate in finishing each story.

Opposite – Satellite, 2017

Exhibition runs through to April 22nd, 2017

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles
California
CA 90034

www.kopeikingallery.com

  

DIANE ARBUS – IN THE PARK

Posted on 2017-03-27

The exhibition will be the first to focus solely on Arbus’s photographs made in Central Park and Washington Square, theaters of public interaction that provided fertile territory for the creation of many of her most striking and original images. All of the works on view were made within four miles of where they will now be exhibited.

For Arbus, the city’s parks were arenas of rich and unpredictable encounter. The exhibition will interweave rarely seen photographs, such as A very thin man in Central Park, N. Y .C. 1961, and Couple talking on a path, N. Y .C. 1970, alongside well-known images such as Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962, and Young man and his pregnant wife in W ashington Square Park, N. Y .C. 1965. The majority of these works were the result of a single chance meeting between Arbus and her subjects. Several, including Girl in a beret in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1958, Three girls at a Puerto Rican Festival, N.Y.C. 1962, and Susan Sontag and her son on bench, N.Y.C., 1965 are being exhibited here for the first time.

Arbus began photographing in Central Park in 1956, at the very beginning of her work as a serious artist, and returned repeatedly to the city’s parks over her brief, fifteen-year career. Among the last pictures in the exhibition is A young man and his girlfriend with hot dogs in the park, N.Y.C., made in 1971, the year of her death. The exhibition thus surveys the evolution of Arbus’s style (from smaller to larger negatives, from smaller to larger prints), as well as the evolution of her singular approach to the people she photographed.

Opposite – Two friends in the park, N.Y.C. 1965

Exhibition runs from May 2nd through to June 24th, 2017

Lévy Gorvy
909 Madison Avenue
New York
NY 10021

www.levygorvy.com