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CURRENT EXHIBITION - UPCOMING EXHIBITION - PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
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The Currrent Exhibition
"strangelands" by strange.rs
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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The Upcoming Exhibition
Street Photography Now
10 October - 14 November 2010.
Opening Night Preview: Saturday, 9 October from 7pm until late.
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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,
Bang Byoung-Sang,
Polly Braden,
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 Lezni,
Jesse Marlow,
Jeff Mermelstein,
Joel Meyerowitz,
Mimi Mollica,
Trent Parke,
Martin Parr,
Mark Alor Powell,
Bruno Quinquet,
Paul Russell,
Otto Snoek,
Matt Stuart,
Ying Tang,
Alexey Titarenko,
Nick Turpin,
Munem Wasif,
Alex Webb,
Amani Willet,
Michael Wolf,
Artem Zhitenev,
Wolfgang Zurborn.
This exhibition is going to be 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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MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW SHORTLY
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Previous Exhibitions
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"Paradise Rivers" by Carolyn Drake
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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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 366Kb).
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"For Love of the Game" by Chris Steele-Perkins
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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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 226Kb).
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"ffotoCardiff"
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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"Muse" by Jocelyn Bain Hogg
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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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 0.4MB).
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"Up West" by David Solomons
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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Click here to download the exhibition catalogue (pdf, 3.1MB).
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"Love UK" by Peter Dench
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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Click here to download the press release (pdf, 0.38MB).
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