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CURRENT EXHIBITION - UPCOMING EXHIBITION - PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
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The Current Exhibition
19 November 2011 - 8 January 2012
Opening night preview: Friday, 18 November, 7pm
At end of the Cold War, most states under communist rule shed their Marxist principles and scrambled to join a new international order. Some did not.
In several nations across the globe, the Communist Party has managed to hold on, mutate and adapt to the 21st century. Whether due to unaddressed class inequality, nostalgia or the steel fist of totalitarianism, these places continue to resist against the tides of history. Over the course of seven years, Tomas van Houtryve secured unprecedented access to North Korea, Cuba, China, Nepal, Vietnam, Laos and Moldova. He reveals a secretive world of spies, revolutionaries, opposition fighters and ordinary factory workers. With color photographs, van Houtryve explores the gulf between the high ideals of communism and its complex present day reality.
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Tomas van Houtryve is a documentary photographer with the VII Photo agency. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including POYi Photographer of the Year, the Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents and the Perpignan Young Photographer Award.
 
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We thank Davies Colour and Otley Brewing Company for supporting this exhibition.
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The Upcoming Exhibition
The first exhibition of 2012 will be by Larry Fink. In this period we will also expand by incorporating a second gallery space to the premises. The second gallery space will open in February 2012 with an exhibition by Vincent Delbrouck.
14 January - 19 February 2012
Opening night preview: Friday, 13 January, 7pm
"something comes over them, some kind of extraordinary force comes over them... moves them, you know, strange feeling, or maybe just a huge kind of epiphany, suddenly, skies open up and you can see eternity" - Roswell Rudd
When photographer Larry Fink started out, the loud, chaotic and spiritual jazz scene was booming in small smoky clubs across the United States. The late night boogie of the black man was adored by the beatniks, who'd write about them for decades. And Fink was no exception.
Somewhere There's Music... brings together Larry Fink's images from the New York jazz scene and New York itself. In the 1960's and 1970's the 'big apple' was a different city. The howls of John Coltrane could still be heard from behind closed doors and the flurries of speeded up bebop melodies were falling on an unsuspecting audience. A new wave of bohemians and junkies was moving to the derelict Lower East Side in pursuit of cheaper rents and freedom. Harlem was the pumping heart of the black community, and its clubs and theatres were drawing crowds from Manhattan and beyond. Fink suggested to subtitle his exhibition "images of New York before the bankers took over". By the 1990's most of the streets and clubs photographed by him had been gentrified, the rents were exorbitant, and the fiery mad jazz scene gone.
Larry Fink was born in 1941 in Long Island, New York. He has been a photographer for over 50 years. He has exhibited among other at the MoMA and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and published more than half a dozen books which include the acclaimed Social Graces. He has been awarded twice both the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Individual Photography Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts.
This exhibition has the kind support of the School of Film, Photography and Digital Media of Newport University, Otley Brewing Company and Fotovisura magazine.
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Previous Exhibitions
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15 October - 13 November 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 14 October 2011, 7pm.
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Sergey Chilikov is a Russian photographer born in Kilemary, Mari Republic, in 1953. He started photographing in 1973, at a time in which the Soviet Union frowned upon the notion of photography being artwork. As a reaction, Chilikov distilled into his photography both his personal obsessions and absurd observations of the country he has been living in.
Chilikov's series of photographs bring us a different vision of Central Russia revealed through his encounters with people. The resulting images are staged in the most unlikely ways, and full of a characteristic dry visual humour. Locals pose in their villages simultaneously revealing and accentuating the austere surroundings. Occupiers of socialist flats pose nude amidst the outdated and garishly decorated interiors. These playful scenes often combine recurring erotic motives and dreamlike colour. Chilikov's Russia is a land unaltered by the drastic collapse of the Soviet Union and populated by characters that cross the line from the traditional to the sensual.
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This exhibition is supported by Otley Brewing Company, and has been produced with help from Gallery Photographer.Ru and the School of Film, Photography and Digital Media of University of Wales, Newport.
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10 September - 9 October 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 9 September 2011, 7pm.
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The involvement of Western armies in distant conflicts has increased significantly since 2001. The
Afghanistan war has now raged for ten years bringing in over a million ground troops from the
coalition countries. What became as a clearly defined warfare scenario has over time become a
large scale military occupation punctuated with episodes of guerilla warfare, ambushes and
targeted assassinations. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom, quickly
toppled Saddam Hussein from power but brought little change. The country's slow and tortuous
recovery led to most coalition troops to leave by 2011. But as of today 50.000 American troops
remain engaged in sporadic combat.
Of Duties consists of three projects that bring the life of soldiers, as seen by soldiers, to the walls of
Third Floor Gallery. In 665 Days, the American soldier and photographer Jay Romano tells us his
experience in Iraq during his tour of duty. The daily life of the camps, the interaction of the foreign
military and the Iraqi citizens, and the constant threat of explosive devices, feature heavily in his
work. In Polaroids, British photographer Tim Bowditch compiles the instant photographs that his
brother Matt Bowditch sends him from Afghanistan. Matt, who is currently deployed in Hellmand,
focuses his camera on to the alien landscape beyond the gates of Camp Bastion, and on the false
impression of familiarity and routine within it. Finally, in the series Closer, Stuart Griffiths finds
those soldiers who have returned from the frontlines and follows their re-integration into civilian
life.
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Thank you to the School of Film, Photography and Digital Media of University of Wales, Newport and Otley Brewing Company for supporting this exhibition.
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30 July - 4 September 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 29 July 2011, 7pm.
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In late 2010 very few would have predicted a revolution in the stable regimes of the Middle East and north Africa. A string of these countries was to be rocked by a series of uprisings that brought the masses to the streets and spawned the condescending term 'twitter revolution' to the front pages of worldwide media. The first signs appeared when protesters took to the streets of Tunisia after the immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in the city of Sidi Bouzid in December. By February, Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain were experiencing protests of a scale unheard of in the last decades. The revolutions spread like wildfire through countries linked by high unemployment, a young population, and oppressive, long-ruling governments. Syria, Libya and Yemen quickly turned bloody as those in power resorted to force in order to quash the discontent. Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia were mostly peaceful.
As of today, the revolutions have overthrown the governments of Egypt and Tunisia. Libya is engulfed in what can only be described as a civil war, pitting the remains of the loyalists of Colonel Gaddafi against a poorly armed militia backed by international powers. Syria, a most inaccessible country, is experiencing the most severe violent backlash from the Government against its own citizens. Yemen is in complete chaos and its ruler has fled. In these revolutions, 255 million people are forging a new, unpredictable future.
Arab Revolutions presents photographs and video footage from the civil demonstrations of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, the clashes of the Syrian cities and the desert warfare of Libya. It features works
by some of the world's most renowned photojournalists working on the front line, and by citizens of the countries who have chosen to divulge their footage online. The exhibited photographers are Lynsey Addario (VII Network), Andrea Bruce (VII Network), Yuri Kozyrev (Noor), Guy Martin (Panos Pictures), Dominic Nahr (Magnum Photos), Ivor Prickett (Panos Pictures) and Laura El-Tantawy.
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Images from the opening party and others on facebook.
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Thank you to the School of Art, Media and Design of the University of Wales, Newport and Otley Brewing Company for supporting this exhibition.
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18 June - 24 July 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 17 June 2011, 7pm.
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When Ben Roberts commenced photographing The Gathering Clouds in 2007, Spain was
experiencing an expansion of its economy and building industry in a scale previously unheard of.
Of a visit to Granada, Roberts notes "the city had exploded beyond the confines of its motorway
ring road, and new housing developments were appearing on the fields and mountainsides". This
building boom was already unsustainable, with millions of planned homes being built for a waning
number of potential buyers, but the economic crisis nailed the collapse of the sector. By 2009
Spain was in the grip of a deep recession, unemployment had shot up to one of the highest levels
in Europe, and abandoned housing developments sprinkled the suburban landscape.
The Gathering Clouds is a personal account of the property boom and bust. Instead of
methodically approaching the subject, Roberts collected his images through exploratory walks
through urban fringes, only partially planned with aid of satellite imagery. The result are less literal
photographs that guide us through the radical changes experienced by the Spanish society and
landscape in the hands of property developers.
Ben Roberts is a British documentary photographer based in the South of England. He is a winner of the Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers 2011 and was selected as one of the 30
New and Emerging Photographers by PDN in 2010. In 2009 The Gathering Clouds won the Nikon/
BJP Project Assistance Award.
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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 390Kb).
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Thank you to the School of Art, Media and Design of the University of Wales, Newport and Otley Brewing Company for supporting this exhibition.
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7 May - 12 June 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 6 May 2011, 7pm.
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John Bulmer travelled the North of England documenting the changing everyday life of working class during the 60's and the 70's. At this time the region was undergoing a vast transformation, from being the industrial heart of Britain built on coal mines and cotton mills to a more diverse society in both culture and economy. In his travels Bulmer captured the distinct beauty and charm of the local people and their industrial settings, breaking with the stereotypical image of the North being a deprived and rundown area. He approached his subjects without preoccupations and illustrated the mysterious North in an innovative way. As opposed to most photography of this period, The North features the extensive use of colour photography bringing us in unique detail a time and place long gone.
John Bulmer was a pioneer of colour photography in the early 60's working for the Sunday Times Magazine from the very first issue till the 70's. He was brought up in Herefordshire and after studies at Cambridge moved to London to work as a photographer for Daily Express, at the time the foremost paper in Britain for photography, and Town Magazine, where he did many groundbreaking stories including; The Black Country, Nelson, The North, as well as numerous overseas stories. The Sunday Times featured The North in their first ever colour supplement and he soon became one of their most prolific contributors of colour reportage. Bulmer's work was several times singled out for awards by the Design and Art Directors Club and he has had pictures shown at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York, the Photographers' Gallery in London, and the National Museum of Photography in Bradford. He left newspapers for documentary making in the mid-70's. He directed many films on travel and untouched tribes, many of them shown on BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel.
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Thank you to Otley Brewing Company and Hereford Photography Festival for supporting this exhibition.
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26 March - 1 May 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 25 March 2011, 7pm.
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After the Mexican Revolution, East L.A. became a popular place for immigrant Mexicans to
settle and make a new beginning in California. Ties with Mexican traditions and values re -
mained strong. The first barrios were formed and grew to become a Mexican-American
community. For its people, who lived in socio-economic isolation, the family and the neighborhood
became vital. The first Mexican-American gangs became the target of the police
and the media. To this day, little seems to have changed. Seen as outsiders, and with the
strong need to belong somewhere, the gang becomes their extended family.
Joseph Rodriguez has been working with youth cultures in America for over two decades.
Driven by his own experiences and struggles, he spent several years in L.A. developing intimate
relationships with several families, giving a voice to his subjects through his photographs,
and challenging media stereotypes. This resulted in his seminal photobook East
Side Stories which is both homage and a witness to families and communities, life and
death, and the fatalism and possibility of transformation found in every segment of American
society.
Joseph returned to L.A. for his recent project, Reentry in Los Angeles, to conduct a series
of portraits and interviews of prison inmates in California state penitentiaries as they prepare
to be released. Through these stories of ex-offenders, one may begin to see the generations
of families, children, parents, and grandparents caught in this web of violence,
gang life, addiction and crime. Mi Vida Loca brings together both these series.
Joseph Rodriguez is an internationally recognized documentary photographer, born and
raised in New York. He is the author of several books, including Spanish Harlem, East
Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A., Respekt, and Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City, among
others. His work has appeared in many publications and he has received numerous grants
and awards. Joseph teaches at New York University, the International Center of
Photography, New York and has also taught at universities in Scandinavia, Europe and
Mexico.
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This exhibition has been produced with the kind support of the School of Art, Media and Design of Newport University and Otley Brewing Company.
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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 170Kb).
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19 February 2011 - 20 March 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 18 February 2011, 7pm.
The Artist Talk: Saturday, 19 February 2011, 5pm.
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The Olympic Winter Games of 2014 will take place in Sochi. This is the largest seaside resort in Russia, and it lies in one of the world's most unstable regions: the Caucasus. As the great event approaches, billions are being pumped into transforming the region. The skyline of the coast, in which decrepit Soviet sanatoria stand next to the most luxurious of hotels of the new Russia, is rapidly being changed. The poorer resorts and refugee flats give way to the stadiums, hotels and modern infrastructure that the event demands. The economic crisis is glossed over as much as possible.
Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra started the ambitious Sochi Project in 2009 with the writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen. Their purpose is documenting the vast change of the Sochi region using photography, film and writing. Hornstra and van Bruggen decided to fund their project independently. Donations, features and book sales allow the creation of a project too vast for the traditional venues for journalism to finance it. To date the Sochi Project has produced a number of finished 'chapters' of the larger work in progress: self published newspapers, books and exhibitions. Views from Sochi reports on the current state of The Sochi Project.
Rob Hornstra (1975) is a Dutch documentary photographer. Since he graduated he has worked predominantly on long-term projects, both at home and on the other side of the world. His work is characterised by a stylised rawness, with a large dose of intrinsic engagement. He has published three books on his own which, despite increasing print runs, sell out ever faster. He has been commissioned by international newspapers and magazines to produce documentary series. He has also taken part in numerous (solo) exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. In addition to his own work as a documentary maker, he is the founder and artistic director of FOTODOK – Space for Documentary Photography.
Rob Hornstra's website
The Sochi Project
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This exhibition has been produced with the kind support of the School of Art, Media and Design of Newport University.
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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 277Kb).
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15 January 2011 - 13 February 2011
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 14 January 2011, 7pm.
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A Collection is the first exhibition of 2011 at Third Floor Gallery. It follows the work of British
documentary photographer and well recognised portraitist Laura Pannack from her earlier projects to her current work in progress. Pannack's portraits are deeply compelling, presenting subjects in ways that just
allow us a glimpse of their inner worlds. Taken together, the different series presented in A
Collection explore the relation between the sitter, the photographer, and us, the viewer.
In the series Glass, Pannack placed a piece of glass between her and the sitters in order to literally
explore the barrier between photographer and subject. The resulting photographs of young men
and women present a state of deep, almost meditative, relaxation. The series Untitled and Young
Love bring us recent photographs of teenagers on the verge of adulthood. In Untitled the
portrayed teenagers are purposefully identified only by their name, leaving the viewer to guess
more about their background. Young Love explores how during a time of already heightened
emotions these adolescents embrace the simplicity and beautiful innocence of a relationship. The
exhibition closes with Pannack's current work in progress about young British naturists. In these
new photographs we are confronted with subjects from varying backgrounds aged 18 -30, who
accostumed to nudity, reveal themselves in a sensitive and confident way. This work signals the
new directions that Pannack's photography is taking.
Laura Pannack is a young photographer based in London. Her work has won and been shortlisted for a number awards since June 2008 (including the first prize in the Portrait Singles category of the World Press Photo awards) and has been extensively exhibited, in The National Portrait Gallery in London and other places.
Some of her clients and publications include The Telegraph Weekend, The Sunday Times, The Guardian Weekend, Save the Children, Dazed & Confused Magazine and BJP.
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This show was produced with kind support from The Newport School of Art, Media and Design, The University of Wales, Newport and Express Imaging, Cardiff.
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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 179Kb).
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19 November 2010 - 9 January 2011
The Opening night preview: Thursday, 18 November 2010, 7pm.
Talk by David Hurn and second opening: Friday, 3rd December 2010, 7pm.
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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 262Kb).
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10 October - 14 November 2010
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Street Photography Now, produced by Third Floor Gallery in
collaboration with the publishers Thames & Hudson, brings the best of
the milestone photobook of the same name from the page to the wall.
In candid moments captured in split seconds, from parks and beaches to
streets and shopping malls, street photographers reveal the humour and
drama of the everyday. Street Photography Now brings the most up to
date review of the current state of the genre in the world: the great
masters, the emerging photographers, the new directions. With
photographs by Martin Parr, Joel Meyerowitz, Trent Parke, Michael
Wolf, Bruce Gilden, Matt Stuart, Nick Turpin and Alex Webb among many others, Street Photography Now promises to display
exciting and revealing images from every corner of the planet.
Participating photographers:
Christophe Agou,
Arif Asci,
Narelle Autio,
Polly Braden,
Bang Byoung-Sang,
Maciej Dakowicz,
Carolyn Drake,
Melanie Einzig,
George Georgiou,
David Gibson,
Bruce Gilden,
Thierry Girard,
Andrew Z. Glickman,
Siegfried Hansen,
Markus Hartel,
Nils Jorgensen,
Richard Kalvar,
Martin Kollar,
Jens Olof Lasthein,
Frederic Lezmi,
Jesse Marlow,
Jeff Mermelstein,
Joel Meyerowitz,
Mimi Mollica,
Trent Parke,
Martin Parr,
Gus Powell,
Mark Alor Powell,
Bruno Quinquet,
Paul Russell,
Otto Snoek,
Matt Stuart,
Ying Tang,
Alexey Titarenko,
Nick Turpin,
Munem Wasif,
Alex Webb,
Amani Willett,
Michael Wolf,
Artem Zhitenev,
Wolfgang Zurborn.
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The Street Photography Now book page on www.ThamesAndHudson.com
Street Photography Now on facebook
This exhibition was produced with the kind support of Thames & Hudson, the School of Art, Media and Design of Newport University and Coffee Mania.
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28 August - 3 October 2010
Opening Night Preview: Friday, 27 August from 7pm
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Thank you to Coffee Mania for supporting the exhibition.
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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 291Kb).
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17 July - 22 August 2010
Opening Night Preview: Friday, 16 July from 7pm
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The Amu and Syr Darya are mentioned in early Islamic writings as two of the four Rivers of Paradise. The flow of
their waters has sustained human life for forty thousand years, providing pastures for herders, irrigation for
farmers, and enabling the development of culture, trade, language and literature. Wars and imperial conquests
followed over the centuries. During the twentieth century, the Soviet government transformed the Amu and the Syr
Darya into a web of irrigation canals that brought large scale cotton production to the region. Such large quantities
of water were diverted that the Aral Sea - once the world's fourth largest inland sea - began to disappear. When
Moscow's rule ended in 1991, five new Central Asian nations appeared, burdened with plunging economies,
artificial borders, and a growing ecological crisis.
Paradise Rivers follows the rivers from their source in the valleys of the Pamir and Tien Shen mountains,
downstream across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan to their dwindling ends,
crossing into the lives of people and layers of history that they intersect along the way. This is a place where the
connection between the earth and human life, and between the past and the present, is at once plainly visible and
complex. Salty sea has become toxic desert, desert is farmland, and people are left to subsist between the cracks of
history.
Carolyn Drake is an American documentary photographer based in Turkey. Her work is regularly published in
international magazines such as National Geographic and Time, and her accolades include a World Press Photo
Award and five Picture of the Year International Awards. In 2008 she was awarded a Lange Taylor Prize, and
currently she is continuing her work in Central Asia on a Guggenheim Fellowship.
This is the second show produced with kind support from The Newport School of Art, Media and Design, The University of Wales, Newport.
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11 June - 11 July 2010
Opening Night Preview: Thursday, 10 June from 7pm
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For the duration of the Football World Cup, Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins will be exhibiting his latest
series For love of the Game at Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff Bay.
Steele-Perkins has observed how football has seduced people of all nationalities since working on a magazine
assignment in Lebanon in 1996. There, after a long civil war, the game was part of the healing process by trying to
unite the hostile Christian and Muslim factions into a single national team. "For years I didn't like football, but as a
photographer I was drawn to the way football became a part of people's lives, their culture: how much it mattered
to them and how much it got played - in refugee camps, in back streets, in muddy fields, in snooker-table stadiums,
in deserts and gardens."
For Love of the Game looks past the celebrity culture of the game focusing instead in the social phenomenon that is
football, a sport that is played regularly by over 240 million people in over 200 countries. For such a global vision,
Steele-Perkins has photographed the grassroots support and amateur football leagues in three very different
countries: Japan, one of the most recent countries to get addicted to the game since qualifying in 1998; England,
that gave birth to the modern rules of the game; and Ghana, where becoming a famous football star drives the
dreams of thousands.
With over 35 years experience behind the camera, Chris Steele-Perkins is one of the most internationally acclaimed
British documentary photographers. He is the author of ten photo books as well as the winner of various awards
including the 1989 Robert Capa Gold Medal, the 2000 World Press Photo Award and the 2008 Terrence Donovan
Award. Steele-Perkins has been a member of the Magnum Agency since 1979 and currently works extensively in
Britain and Japan.
The show has been produced With kind support from The Newport School of Art, Media and Design, The University of Wales, Newport.
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21 May - 6 June 2010
Opening Night Preview: Friday, 21 May from 7pm
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ffotoCardiff provides a contemporary snapshot of the rich photographic pursuits that Wales inspires in locals and visitors alike. Having been born from an open call to promote photography produced in the country, the resulting exhibition encompasses new fresh work from artists that range from the emerging to the established.
Exhibiting photographers:
Jocelyn Allen
Gawain Barnard
Craig Bernard
Rick Davis
Malika Delrieu
Paul Gaffney
Rob Gunn
Radoslaw Komenda
Kate Mercer
Bartosz Nowicki
Gareth Phillips
Chiara Tocci
James Thomson
Rob Watkins
Rajan Zaveri
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10 April - 16 May 2010
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Third Floor Gallery hosts the premiere exhibition of Jocelyn Bain Hogg's latest series of photographs entitled
"Muse". This is the third show to grace the walls of the new photography gallery located at the heart of Cardiff Bay.
"Muse" takes the premise from writer J.G. Ballard's book "The Kindness of Women" where he states that beauty is
the square inch of skin seen on waking up close to the one you love.
The striking close-up photographs of Bain Hogg's friends, family and partners, depict an honest personal insight into
femininity. The work explores beauty and female emotion in an unvarnished and un-retouched manner, challenging
the 21st Century ethos of cosmetic enhancement and air-brushed magazine perfection.
Jocelyn Bain Hogg is an eminent British photographer specialising in documentary projects and commercial and
editorial assignments. He is the author of three photography books: "The Firm", "Idols + Believers" and "Pleasure
Island". His work has been exhibited and published worldwide. He studied Documentary Photography at Newport
Art College and is a member of VII Network, part of the VII Photo Agency.
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12 March - 4 April 2010
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The premiere show of David Solomons' "Up West" work encompasses a portrait of London's West End over the the last ten years, depicting fluctuations in the area's landscape and the people who flock there in droves to eat, shop, find entertainment and engage in nights out on the lash.
The West End encompasses London's most touristic enclaves of Soho, Chinatown and Mayfair. The area with its energy, diversity and endless points of interest brings together tourists, locals, suburban weekenders, businessmen, politicians, media, theatre-goers and the gay community. Superficial class issues rise to the surface in Oxford Street and isolation sets in as people seek pockets of solitude away from the crowded throng. Through Solomons' eyes we see the West End as it exists this very moment, and traces of its recent history through the past decade as the project draws to a conclusion this year.
The title of this instalment, Up West, comes from a working class term commonly heard in the TV soap Eastenders indicating a venture into the West End for entertainment purposes - "We're heading up west tonight".
David Solomons was born in London and started out as a self-taught photographer before studying Documentary Photography at Newport, Wales. Since then he has focused on self-initiated documentary and portrait projects. He has self-published two books of his work: Happenstance: Black and White Photographs 1990-2007 and Underground, both of which have been exhibited.
David Solomons is a member of the street photography collective in-Public.
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13 February - 7 March 2010
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Peter Dench sets out to find what is love in contemporary Britain. The resulting series of not-safe-
for-work photographs, Love UK, is the first show on display at the Third Floor Gallery. Admission to both the event and the exhibition is free.
Peter Dench has, for a long time, studied his fellow Britons through his camera. His endeavours
have been widely published and led him to a World Press Photo Award among others. In Love UK,
he asks: how do the British express love? His photographic quest takes him into a variety of arenas
- from ordinary homes to strip clubs, and from church weddings to small town discos. The resulting
images are often harsh and not always easy to digest, but come to encompass the diversity of
contemporary British loving with great honesty and humour.
Peter Dench is an award winning British photographer. Based in London he works primarily in the advertising, editorial and portraiture fields of photography. A distinctive and often quirky style has guaranteed regular commissions from a range of respected international clients.
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