ONCE UPON A LIE

Posted on 2009-04-27

Meryl Donoghue’s current work is comprised of a collection of large-scale gyclee prints, depicting a series of strikingly lit human/animal hybrids arranged in black space. These images, born from pencil drawings, are digital creations. Transferred from page to screen, constructed from photography and then manipulated. The final images possess a sense of magical reality, underpinned by the suggestion of something more sinister and foreboding.

The new work in ‘Once Upon A lie…’ is inspired by stories that the artist has heard and events in her life that hold sway over her. It is a portrayal of desperate circumstances with unsettling and incalculable outcomes and in part pays homage to past writers, poets and musicians whose work has fuelled her imagination and inspired invention.

Donoghue’s work explores a number of themes such as loneliness, abandonment, loss and punishment.

This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009

Stolen Space Gallery
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL

www.stolenspace.com

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TECH WIPES

Posted on 2009-04-20

Hiroshi Fujiwara wants to make sure you keep your camera lens, sunglasses, iPhone, iPod etc clean in style and has created these Fragment Design Camera Lens Wipes. They come in three colorways and as a photographer and lover of design…I love these..

www.samplekickz.com

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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECT

Posted on 2009-04-20

The Photographic Object will examine photography as an object in its own right and on its own terms. The advent of digital photography and the current saturation of imagery, through print, mobile phones and the internet, has resulted in a renewed interest in the physical and tactile quality of the photograph.

This exhibition will bring together a diversity of approaches to the photograph as ‘object’, such as overlaying, stitching, cutting, piercing, punching or moulding the works. The works in the exhibition will explore the material potential of the photographic form that lies somewhere between two and three dimensions. The Photographic Object will display the work of a range of internationally renowned artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Wolfgang Tillmans who use photography in this manner.

Opposite – Damage (glass) from the series damage (2005+) Catherine Yass.

This exhibition runs until the 14th of June, 2009

The Photographers’ Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW

Opening times:
Mon: Closed
Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun: 11.00 – 18.00
Thurs & Fri: 11.00 – 20.00

www.photonet.org.uk

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LEICA ALL-WHITE

Posted on 2009-04-20

A while ago we brought you the limited Safari Edition of the M8 model, Now its time for the all white drop, just in time for summer. The white edition of this classic beauty will be hitting exclusive retailers in June and is priced at a very modest $9000.00 The credit crunch clearly isn’t affecting the world of Leica.

www.leica.com

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CINDY SHERMAN

Posted on 2009-04-13

Sprüth Magers London is delighted to present Cindy Sherman’s exhibition of new work. The fourteen colour photographs assembled develop Sherman’s longstanding investigation into notions of gender, beauty and self-fashioning, and reveal a particular concern to probe experiences and representations of aging.

Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has developed an extraordinary relationship with her camera, and her audience, capturing herself in a range of guises and personas which are by turn alarming and amusing, distasteful and poignant. A remarkable performer, subtle distortions of her face and body are captured on camera, leaving the artist unrecognizable as she deftly alters her features, and brazenly manipulates her surroundings.

This exhibition runs until the 27th of May, 2009

Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ

www.spruethmagers.net

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CAMERA TRUCK

Posted on 2009-04-13

Camera truck is the worlds largest travelling camera, it takes pictures about 3000 times larger than 35mm negative. The camera truck works in exactly the same way as a pinhole camera. Light enters a sealed chamber through a tiny opening, and falls onto the opposite wall inside. Here it produces an inverted image of the world outside.
The first pinhole photograph was taken by Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster but the pinhole effect was observed by the Chinese philospher Mo Ti in 5 BC and also Aristotle in 4 BC. The cameratruck uses this same principle only amplified thousands of times and with a lens added for sharper detail in the final shots. The cargo box of the truck becomes a sealed chamber, and the aperture is a small hole in one side. As light enters the truck, it falls onto giant sheets of photographic paper pinned to the opposite wall. This is how Camera truck creates giant negatives, almost three metres wide.

www.cameratruck.net

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