Catherine Hyland

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Represented Worldwide by Wyatt-Clarke + Jones
office@wyattclarkejones.com
+44 (0)20 7580 7570

For private commissions or to request further information:
studio@catherinehyland.co.uk
+44 (0)7809 609 658

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Biography

Catherine Hyland is an artist based in London. She graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design with a First class BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art and completed her Masters at the Royal College of Art. Her photography centres around people and their connection to the land they inhabit. Primarily landscape based, her work is rooted in notions of fabricated memory, grids, enclosures and national identity.

Her large format images depict humanity’s attempts – some more effective than others – to tame its environment. An observation that has led to both artistic and commercial outreach, with residences at venues such as Focal Point gallery in Southend for the RADICAL ESSEX programme and has exhibited work at Month of Photography Los Angeles, Renaissance Photography Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Photographic Society, LES MAGASINS GÉNÉRAUX, Somerset House, Design Museum in London, ICA & MAC in Birmingham. Hyland’s ongoing projects highlight humanity’s attempts to tame and transform nature, both past and present.


Selected clients

  • The New Yorker

  • Patek Philippe

  • Apple

  • Bloomberg

  • TIME

  • WeTransfer

  • Wallpaper*

  • NOWNESS

  • Creative Review

  • National Geographic

  • Vanity Fair

  • Vogue US

  • TATE

  • Mother

  • W Magazine

  • Royal Academy

  • Monocle

  • Phaidon

  • GQ Japan

  • It's Nice That

  • MUSE

  • Cartography

  • British Journal of Photography

  • ICON

  • SUITCASE

  • Wired

  • HAY

  • Focal Point Gallery

  • Die Zeit

  • Culture Trip

  • Vice

  • BBC

  • TANK

  • Fraser Muggeridge Studio

  • The Guardian

  • Fortune

  • The Modern House

  • Studio Small

  • Christie's


Featured

  • Inaugural exhibition - Musée départemental Albert-Kahn

    Autour du Monde, La traversée des images, d’Albert Kahn à Curiosity, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, March 12 to November 13, 2022.

  • Mesnographies

    Les Mesnographies du 11 au 26 septembre 2021, dans le parc des Mesnuls 78490.

  • 'Power Structures' LFA Exhibition Curated by Luke O'Donovan & Francisco Ibanez

    Glasgow

    Many Studios

    5th–6th June 2021

    Part of the Architecture Fringe Programme

    London

    Bermondsey Project Space

    22nd–26th June 2021

    Part of the London Festival of Architecture Programme

    ‘Power Structures’ focuses on the ways in which socioeconomic and political structures shape the built environment. Featuring both emerging and established artists from around the world, whose work draws upon the changing power dynamics within global society, and the challenges faced as humans strike a balance between care for, and control over, the natural environment. Together the works provide an international perspective on some of the defining issues of our time, and the role that architecture can play in forming the power structures of the future.

  • A Thousand Word Photos

    Rest Yourself Here

    Photograph by Catherine Hyland, Story by Grahame Williams

    EVERY PICTURE TELLS A THOUSAND WORDS...

    A Thousand Word Photos invites photographers to share a photo with a writer who in turn is asked to create a short story of a thousand words inspired by the image they receive.

    Selected short stories are then published online, and read to stroke patients at Hospitals across London by actors working with the charity Interact.

    They are also shared for everyone who enjoys photography, short stories and imagination.

    https://www.athousandwordphotos.com/portfolioathousandwordphotos

  • Unpaper Gallery

    UNITED fundraiser (@unpaper.gallery) is spreading art in exchange for donations to help the ones who really need it right now. In Lipa and Moria, thousands of people are starving and freezing, living in abysmal conditions.

    Each print helps for better conditions. All proceeds will be donated and split equally between the two refugee camps.

    All images are printed on fine art paper 20 x 30 cm (7.87 x 11.81 inches), including a white margin.

    Start the year right and help us help them:

    http://united.unpaper.gallery

    UNITED runs until January 24th

  • Chromaluxe X Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship

    The Lucie Foundation is proud to support emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support emerging photographers producing work that is at once gripping, and original.

    ChromaLuxe, a leading brand of print media, is offering a scholarship through the Lucie Foundation in support of Fine Art Photographers.

    This scholarship is open to both emerging and established artists to support a Fine Art project that has already started or a Fine Art project proposal.

    SHORTLIST:

    Danielle Amy: I have stories to tell
    Mauren Brodbeck: Interplay, Enmeshment, and Matter
    Sanwal Deen: Postcard Dreams
    Barbara Diener: The Rocket’s Red Glare
    Jess T. Dugan: Every Breath We Drew
    Catherine Hyland: Earth Changes
    Mohammad Rakibul Hasan: The Last Savings
    Isadora Romero: Extremophiles
    Samuel Trotter: Wish You Weren’t Here
    Alexandra Tsubota: A Brilliant Flash of Light

  • Nottingham International Film Festival 2020

    The Nottingham International Film Festival 2020 is excited to announce the fifth edition of the annual event taking place 13th – 15th November 2020.

    Taking into consideration the current situation with covid-19 the festival will take place entirely online, with all screenings happening virtually through the NOTTIFF website.

    As usual the festival will screen a selection of over thirty films across the weekend in a lineup made up of feature films, documentaries, short films, animation, experimental and music videos. The films selected represent all corners of the globe and the best filmmaking talent from the world of cinema.

    Included in the 2020 line-up is the UK Premieres of three narrative feature films. Israeli film SNOWLAND, about a long time friendship put to the test during wartime, Canada’s THE MARINA, about a unique relationship between a struggling wakeboarder and a local marina employee and German film ZU DEN STERNEN, which tells the story of a famous musician accused by his former friend of betraying him to the Stasi.

    This year’s documentary selection includes the world premiere of the UK’s own A SPACE IN TIME, which focuses on a parents journey to create a magical home for their two sons after they receive a diagnosis of a progressive and fatal muscle wasting disease. Also included in the documentary selection is A VETERANS JOURNEY HOME: LEAVING IT ON THE LAND, about military veterans doing a wilderness Vision Fast ceremony, and MY BLOOD IS RED, a Brazilian music documentary that follows a young indigenous rapper as he tries to make sense of the violence being meted out against his people.

    Along with the feature film selection there will be three short sessions across the weekend, including the festival’s opening screening on the Friday night. Highlights from the selection include THE LAST CHORD, about dreams and unhealthy parenthood, THE DAY YOU LONG FOR, about a man spending the festive season in hospital after a car accident, coming of age story ADOLESCENCE, and the world premiere of THE FRUIT FIX, about a piano player with anxiety preparing for a life changing audition.

    For full line-up details and to see what time screenings are taking place follow the link below.

    www.nottiff.com/nottiff2020-official-selection

  • Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

    First announced in 1990, the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize was created by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies.

    Like Lange and Taylor, and all serious documentarians, the competitive applicants to this prize have a point of view derived from an in-depth understanding of place, history, and the current situation, in concert with a personal relationship to the proposed work. Ultimately, their commitment is to use documentary expression to motivate the thinking and reflection of others. 

    Tarrah Krajnak is the 2020 winner of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize.

    Honorable Mention Awarded to Philippe Calia and Sunil Thakkar for “If the House . . . ”

    Finalists: Michel Bührer for “Babel in New York,” Kris Davidson for “The American Imagination,” J Houston for “A Scale of 1 to 10,” Catherine Hyland for “The Traces Left Behind,” Cheryl Mukherji for “Ghorer Bairer Aalo (The Light Outside Home),” Jordan Putt for “Padrino,” Jason Reblando and Joanne Diaz for “La Ruta: Walter Benjamin’s Last Passage,” and Patrick Wack and Julien Syrac for “Minor Differences”

  • Fashion Film Festival Milano 2020

    Founded and directed by Constanza Cavalli Etro, Fashion Film Festival Milano is an international event. It is not a simple Festival, but rather a platform, a big cultural meeting point, where the Fashion Films from all over the world are presented and shown as testimony of the personality and talent of their authors, both new and established.

    Fashion Film Festival Milano 2020 has proudly reached its 7th edition reaffirming itself as an institution in the international fashion landscape, giving a voice to fashion in the most contemporary language and continues its mission of supporting and promoting young talents from all over the world.

    FFFMilano is held from 6 to 8th of November in Milan. Three days of creative energy, where promising and renowned talents compete and provide the city of Milan with a magical world, full of stimulations and still-untold stories.
    Official selection screenings, previews, conversations and special content showcased at Anteo Palazzo del Cinema, the iconic intellectual location of the Milanese cinema in the heart of Brera district.
    A cultural meeting point that has gathered, during its editions, the most relevant names within the fashion, cinema and art industry such as: Franca Sozzani, Luca Guadagnino, Andrea Lissoni, Rankin, Bruno Aveillan, Olivier Zahm, Tim Blanks, Claudia Llosa, Michelangelo Di Battista, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Sølve Sundsbø, Claudia Donaldson, Jim Nelson, Alessia Glaviano, Manolo Blanhik, Daniela Ciancio, Alina Marazzi, Sara Maino, Koto Bolofo, Paz Vega, Bianca Balti, Max Vadukul, Nicoletta Santoro, Ana Lily Amirpour, Giorgio Armani, Ezra Petronio and many others.

    https://fashionfilmfestivalmilano.com/

  • Leica - Project Z

    Project Z is a venture by Leica to support and collaborate with up and coming UK based photographers as they seek to create innovative bodies of work reflecting the world of today. Equipped with Leica’s diverse range of cameras, Project Z photographers will traverse the globe building projects as they cast the lens on their subjects in fields ranging from youth identity and subcultures to tourism affected landscapes. Each photographer, fuelled by a desire to document the landscape around them will demonstrate their unique eye and showcase their work with Leica throughout the course of the year.

  • Isolation Mastered - J D Malat Gallery

    JD Malat Gallery is excited to announce Isolation Mastered, a unique group exhibition featuring the work of 20 selected artists who demonstrate a creative response to the isolation period during COVID-19. This committee selected their top 20 artists based on whose work presents an innovative dialogue with this isolation period and demonstrates a masterful exploration of their chosen medium.

    The 20 selected artists will be displayed in an exhibition during the first week of July. During this exhibition, JD Malat Gallery will welcome members of the public to decide on their favourite artist through a series of online and in-person votes. The artist with the most votes will receive an exclusive solo show at JD Malat Gallery in 2021.

    This distinguished committee included Simon de Pury (Art Dealer & Auctioneer), Dylan Jones (GQ Editor), Robert Montgomery (Artist), David Bellingham (art historian, art market historian, author and Programme Director of the MA in Art Business, Sotheby’s Institute of Art London), Gavin Rossdale (Musician and Art Collector), Jean-David Malat (Founder, JD Malat Gallery), Victoria Aboucaya (Director, JD Malat Gallery) and special guests, Gavin Turk (British Artist), Katrin Fridriks (Artist).

    1st July - 8th July 2020

    JD Malat Gallery, 30 Davies St, Mayfair, London W1K 4NB.

    https://jdmalat.com/

  • The Earth Issue Freedom Fundraiser

    The Earth Issue’s Freedom Fundraiser is a print sale created to raise funds for bail contributions and to support organisations fighting for social justice. In response to recent events and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police, The Earth Issue and its collaborating artists wish to do our part to support the Black Lives Matter movement. The Earth Issue Freedom Fundraiser features work generously donated by more than 80 artists and photographers around the world. 100% of proceeds after printing and shipping will be donated to the organisations on Bail Funds: George Floyd and the 4Front Project, a UK based youth organisation that empowers young people to fight for justice, peace and freedom.

    All initial US donations will be directed to Black Lives Matter via the Bails Funds platform. However, The Earth Issue will continuously monitor the landscape of organisations needing funds, adjusting to whom we donate every 3 days based on needs and recommendations from frontliners in the civil rights struggle.

    This fundraiser would not be possible without the support of all contributing artists, including Jack Davison, Ronan McKenzie, Harley Weir, Alex Leese, Mark Clennon, Rosie Matheson, Jermaine Francis, Sabrina Santiago, Adama Jalloh, and many more…

    For more information on the frontline groups we intent to support:
    Bail Funds George Floyd 
    4Front Project  

    https://www.theearthissue.com/

  • Rocket Science Charity Fundraiser

    The Rocket Science Charity Fundraiser is now live. New prints will be added each week.
    All proceeds from the print sales will go to a charity of the photographer’s choice.
    All charities center around supporting Black lives and the ongoing fight against racism.
    All works are produced as archival inkjet prints, printed and fulfilled by Light Work Lab (Syracuse, NY) in July 2020.

    I have chosen to donate the proceeds from the print sales to The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, a national educational charity that works with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, aged 13 to 30, to inspire and enable them to succeed in the career of their choice. All prints are 9x11”, $100.

    Prints by Al Thompson, Ali Cherkis, Ana Cuba, Bettina Pittaluga, Brad Ogbonna, Eva O'Leary, Kristine Potter, Laurel Golio, Maggie Shannon, Matthew Leifheit, Molly Matalon, Paul D'Amato, Peyton Fulford, Ricardo Nagaoka, Sam Gregg, Rose Marie Cromwell, Vasantha Yogananthan, Zora J Murff, Alec Lesser, Cian Oba-Smith, Daniel Shea, Gilleam Trapenberg, Michelle Groskopf and many more.

    https://rocketsciencemagazine.com/fundraiser

  • Open Walls Arles - Galerie Huit Arles 2020

    From 1854 Media & British Journal of Photography in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles, OpenWalls Arles is an international photography award designed to elevate the careers of emerging and established photographers by exhibiting their work in the prestigious and historic location of Arles.

    We are thrilled to announce the 63 winners of OpenWalls Arles 2020: 50 winning single images and two winning series from the ‘Growth’ category, alongside ten single images and one winning series from the ‘Daily Life’ category.

    OpenWalls Arles 2020 Exhibition

    Spread across four exhibition rooms, the OpenWalls Arles 2020 exhibition will include 50 winning single images and two winning series from this year’s ‘Growth’ category, alongside ten winning single images and winning one series from the ‘Daily Life’ category. See the exhibition from 26th June to 5th September 2020 at Galerie Huit Arles, a magnificent 17th century style gallery situated in the cultural heart of Arles.

    https://www.openwalls.co/

  • CENTER Excellence in Multimedia Award - Review Santa Fe

    Founded in 1994, the not-for-profit organization CENTER, honors, supports, and provides opportunities for gifted and committed photographers.

    CENTER provides platforms where the creative impulse can be engaged and challenged. Characterized by a community of gifted and committed photographers, CENTER has proven for the last 25 years that it can help photographers grow into their full potential. CENTER programs foster insights and actualizations that ripple and impact all involved.

    The Excellence in Multimedia Award recognizes outstanding photo-media artists and storytellers working in a variety of media processes and subject matter. Supports a project that utilizes photography, video, installation, or other elements that expand on traditional methods of displaying and experiencing photography. Juror Carry Levy, Creative Director, The New York Times.

    2020 AWARD RECIPIENTS

    1st Place: Leonard Suryajaya, Chicago, IL; False Idol
    2nd Place: Catherine Hyland, London; The Traces Left Behind
    3rd Place: Jodi Stuart, Denver, CO; Super Synthetic

    Winners exhibition for the 2020 CENTER Award & Grant recipients, scheduled to take place at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe.

    VISITCENTER.ORG

  • AI - AP American Photography 36 Winners

    American Photography presents the best images by established and emerging photographers selected by an outstanding jury from thousands of entries. The collection, gathered from books, magazines, promotional and personal portfolios, offers an informed view of photography today, with images that resonate through their clearly individual point of view. American Photography is a time capsule in the making and offers a who's who in photography, with images by Luc Delahaye, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Jean Paul Goude, Lauren Greenfield, Brigitte Lacombe, Vincent Laforet, Annie Leibovitz, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Spencer Platt, Martin Schoeller, and Stephanie Sinclair, to name a few. Work by today's masters is interspersed with pictures by students and emerging photographers just beginning to make a name for themselves.

    American Photography, founded in 1985 is the leading juried annual and advocate of contemporary photography in North America and the world. Regarded by creative professionals as the number one source for today's finest image makers, American Photography is the premier showcase for editorial, advertising, fine art and experimental work. With a history of presenting the most cutting-edge images, its pages have honored work by Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and William Wegman and has proudly promoted the early careers of Sally Mann, David LaChapelle, Elinor Carucci and Steven Maisel. The books, designed with defiant irreverence, are themselves objects of beauty and debate and have been recognized by every top design competition, including the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, The Art Directors Club, The British Design & Art Direction, I.D., Communication Arts, How, The One Club and Print Regional Design.

    AI-AP was created as a direct alternative to other leading organizations and companies of the day who it was thought were not recognizing uncoventional, "cutting-edge" work that was being produced by unheralded artists who were pushing the boundries of commercial work.

    Published annually in November, AI-AP books are the first and foremost go-to resourses for art directors, designers, photo editors and art buyers who insist on asigning only the best original, thoughtful and compelling pictures.

    This year’s distinguished jury included: Aeriel Brown, Photo Director, Bloomberg Businessweek;  Laura Geiser, Photo Producer and Editor;  Tara Guertin, Director of Photography, AFAR;  Molly Roberts, Photography Editor, Visual Storyteller and Curator;  Jolie Ruben, Cutlure Photo Editor, The New York Times;  David Sleight, Design Director, ProPublica.

  • The Print Assembly

    Website: www.theprintassembly.com

    Whilst all of our lives have been heavily impacted by the current global health crisis, it’s a sad reality that the most vulnerable are facing the most difficulty during these turbulent times.

    We believe it is important to remember the power of solidarity, so we rallied our creative community and they responded with heartfelt enthusiasm. We are proud to offer an incredible selection of prints that celebrate the diverse range of fantastic talent from across our photographic industry.

    Refuge needs vital funds to help those who are in urgent need of its services during the coronavirus pandemic. We can all help by supporting this initiative.

    We believe Art should be inclusive, so we’ve tried to keep our print sale costs affordable, as we aim to reach a wider audience and raise vital funds for Refuge. We hope you enjoy the fantastic imagery we're so proud to exhibit. Please, show your support and buy a print.

    3rd - 13th May 2020

    Email: info@theprintassembly.com
    Instagram: @the_print_assembly

  • Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 162

    Saturday 15 February to Sunday 22 March 2020
    Gallery open Thursday - Sunday, 10am to 5pm

    VENUE ADDRESS: RPS House, 337-340 Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3AR.

    The RPS International Photography Exhibition returns to Bristol in February to launch its 162nd edition, featuring work from 43 international photographers.

    Selected from a worldwide open call and curated by some of the most influential people in photography today, this edition includes stark landscapes made during periods of extended solitude, alongside images created using pinhole cameras (made from apples) which celebrate community orchards. Spirituality, family, identity, and inclusion are some of the powerful narratives explored this year.

    The selection panel included Shannon Ghannam (Global Education Director at Magnum Photos), Skinder Hundal MBE (CEO/Director of New Art Exchange), Yan Wang Preston (Photographic Artist and lecturer at the University of Huddersfield) and Cian Oba-Smith (Editorial and Commercial Photographer), who were joined by RPS Director of Education Dr Michael Pritchard. They selected an exhibition enthused with storytelling, reflecting the concerns of the modern world.

    A series of photography talks and workshops will be programmed during February and March. The exhibition will tour to London, Yorkshire and Wales throughout 2020 and into 2021.

    The exhibition will tour the following venues:

    RPS House, Bristol: 15 February - 22 March 2020

    Royal Albert Hall, London: 2 April - 27 April 2020

    Beverley Art Gallery, Beverley: 13 June - 12 September 2020

    Oriel Art Gallery, Theatr Clwyd: 28 November 2020 - 16 January 2021

    View the 54 photographers exhibiting in the IPE 162 online

    rps.org/ipe162 #ipe162 #royalphotographicsociety

  • The Royal Photographic Society Environmental Bursary 2019

    The Royal Photographic Society in partnership with The Photographic Angle awards a 1-year bursary to support a photographic project that will promote environmental awareness.  Applications are invited from anyone living or studying in the United Kingdom with a talent for taking photographs and an interest in the environmental concerns that we face today.

    The Environmental bursary will enable Catherine Hyland to travel to the Himalayas in order to make a new photographic series and a short film about the water crisis there and how an ingenious idea to build artificial glaciers at lower altitudes using pipes, gravity and night temperatures could transform an arid landscape into an oasis. 

  • Creative Review Photography Annual winner of Best in Book 2019

    Creative Review’s Photography Annual celebrates the best images of the year, those who make them and those who commission them. Winners of the yearly photography competition are showcased each year in this special issue. Dedicated to the year’s outstanding work across documentary, fashion and commercial photography. Winners are selected by a jury of industry experts and this year six photographers were awarded ‘Best in Book’, our top gong. These were David Ryle, Todd Antony, Tommy Kha, Catherine Hyland, Enda Bowe and Sophie Mayanne: the issue features interviews with each about their winning projects. 

    'The Traces Left Behind' a self-led project funded by LUMIX & Studio 1854 has been awarded 'Best in Book'.

    The very best work submitted to the Annual each year is picked out in the Best in Book section. Six projects received Creative Reviews ultimate accolade this year. 

  • San Francisco Art Institute - AFAR Photo Awards

    Second-annual AFAR Photo Awards, celebrating the creative and inspiring work of emerging global travel photographers. Selected by a panel of industry leaders.

    November 7th - December 5th

    Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco CA 94123

  • Photo Vogue Festival 2019 • A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes

    Converted into an exhibition space, the former industrial complex of Base Milano will host 'A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes', an exhibition featuring the photographers selected through the scouting initiative launched on PhotoVogue, the photographic platform of Vogue.it, which boasts over 180,000 users, and as a result of the assessment of an internationally acclaimed jury consisting of experts from across the world, with different backgrounds and vision so as to provide the most inclusive and multi-faceted perspective.

    The jury panel is formed by: Aaron Philip (Model), Alessandro Michele (Creative Director, Gucci), Alessia Glaviano (Brand Visual Director, Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue), Alfredo De Stéfano (Founder and Director, Luz del Norte Fotografía), Ana Casas Broda (Photographer), Anastasia Taylor-Lind (Photojournalist), Azu Nwagbogu (Founder and Director, LagosPhoto Festival), David Campbell (Director of Programs and Outreach, World Press Photo Foundation), Dia Mehta Bhupal (Artist), Duan Yuting (Founder and Director, Lianzhou Foto Festival, co-founder and co-director, Lianzhou Museum of Photography), Emanuele Farneti (Editor-in-chief, Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue, Casa Vogue, Vogue.it), FAKA - Fela Gucci and Desire Marea (Artists), Ferdinando Verderi (Creative Director, Vogue Italia), Ibrahim Kamara (Fashion Editor), Ihiro Hayami (Founder, T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL), James Estrin (The New York Times), Jenn Nkiru (Artist and Director), Jimmy Moffat (Founder, Red Hook Labs, and founding partner, Art + Commerce), Joana Choumali (Artist), Kimberly Drew (Writer, Curator, and Activist), Laura Roumanos (Executive Producer and Co-Founder, United Photo Industries and Photoville), Lotta Volkova (Fashion Editor), Marcelo Brodsky (Visual Artist), Michael Famighetti (Aperture Magazine), Michael Van Horne (Director, Image Archive at Art + Commerce), Pamela Chen (Creative Director, Instagram), Rahaab Allana (Curator/Publisher, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi), Rania Matar (Artist), Simon Bainbridge (Editor-in-chief, British Journal of Photography), Simon Baker (Director, MEP), Sophie Klafter (Photographer), Tasneem Alsultan (Photographer), Yumi Goto (Independent Curator, Editor, Educator and Publisher).

    The current edition of the Festival, in keeping with last year’s theme “Embracing Diversity”, aims to continue exploring and promoting diversity in all its form by taking a step further, that is by extending the concept to include not only the subjects whose stories are being portrayed but also those behind the camera who tell those stories.

    It’s not just a matter of choosing to direct the camera towards what mainstream culture does not perceive as familiar, and to promote the diversity of the subjects, but also to reflect on the way we choose to represent the ‘glitch’ – the alleged perceived anomaly within the system – so as to avoid perpetrating clichés and reinforcing an ideological vision that is the result of ignorance and lapse of judgment.

    ‘A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes’ has been developed as a new chapter in continuity with its history. After considering the power of the female gaze in the artistic scene in the first edition of the festival, aptly titled ‘The Female Gaze’ (2016), exploring the political implications of fashion photography in ‘Fashion and Politics’ (2017), after reflecting on, discovering and promoting diversity in all its forms in ‘Embracing Diversity’ and examining the concept of masculinity in ‘All That Man Is – Fashion and Masculinity Now’ (2018), the 2019 edition of Photo Vogue Festival seeks to broaden our ability to think, both in linguistic and visual terms, and push our thinking a step beyond the known and the familiar, and a step to the side from ideological and mainstream opinions.

    What is necessary is to develop a language that is up to contemporary society, a society that can no longer afford an identity closure outside of history and whose political and social challenges no longer allow us to indulge in social prejudices, false myths surrounding identity or in nostalgic feeling for a bygone world – one that most likely, given what it resembled, nobody would have liked. It is necessary to develop a language, including a visual one, which is broad enough to represent all the complexities of our contemporary society and the endless wealth of the fantastic diversity of the possible existing gazes on our world. In this regard, the other necessary action is the deconstruction of stereotypes on which we cannot lower the guard as the meaning of images changes as quickly as society, its convictions and conventions while too often clichés are replaced with other clichés. Indeed, when a stereotype is decried and introjected as such by a society – as in the association of Africa and hunger or Africa and tribal culture, for instance – even the most noble intentions, perhaps in an attempt to ‘amend’ the cliché, end up establishing the opposite cliché, which is equally unrealistic and discriminatory. An education in visual imagery is essential and whoever, either by profession or passion, decides to represent the world has the duty and obligation to ask himself/herself a whole series of questions. We have made great progress regarding a more inclusive representation of diversity, one that is capable of considering the uniqueness and complexities of humankind. In this sense, the people of the web have positively embodied an increasingly more extensive inclusivity project that has come to influence brands and traditional media alike. The new way of looking at gender fluidity, at the diverse wealth of body types and appearances and at the endless forms of beauty, of ethnic backgrounds and origins is an achievement that is changing the contemporary aesthetic standards and is beginning to alter people’s cultural and identity codes in terms of openness, dialogue and encounter. This started to occur only when the narrative was being extended to include not only those whose story we are telling, but those who tell those stories and who often share the same life experience. This is the aspect to focus on in order to build a vocabulary that can describe the complex reality in which we live. Just like words, or perhaps even more so than words, images can hurt, cause misunderstandings, consolidate prejudices. Therefore, we hope that the 2019 edition of Photo Vogue Festival will contribute to the enrichment of our visual vocabulary in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of our contemporary society.

    The 30 artists selected for the exhibition are: Caleb Stein, Carlo Rusca, Catherine Hyland, David PD Hyde, David Uzochukwu, Dustin Thierry, Evelyn Bencicova, Fee-Gloria Groenmeyer, Guanyu Xu, Guen Fiore, Hajar Benjida, Julia Gunther, Justin Keene, Karim El Makatafi, Mariya Kozhanova, Miguel Proenca, Miora Rajaonary, Mous Lamrabat, Namsa Leuba, Nanna Heitmann, Osborne Macharia, Peyton Fulford, Prarthna Singh, Rhiannon Adam, Romina Ressia, Roselena Ramistella, Rydel Cerezo, Simon Lehner, Supranav Dash, Vikesh Kapoor.

    14th November - 17th November 2019

    BASE Milano, Via Bergognone, 34, 20144 Milano MI, Italy

  • Rebel Art Auction; Bid for the Truth

    Climate change is real and terrifying.  For the first time, some of the most influential and game-changing graphic designers, artists and innovators have come together to represent the truth around climate change. In partnership with Extinction Rebellion, Accept & Proceed, invite you to support the cause and join us for the Rebel Art Auction; Bid for the Truth. 

    Environmental direct action group Extinction Rebellion is to auction off works by some big names in art in design in order to raise funds for its activism. The auction, which is planned for 13 September, will feature new paintings, prints, sculptures and objects by artist Antony Gormley, illustrator Mr Bingo, fashion designer Christopher Ræburn and photographer Rankin, among many others.

    Each of the artists and designers have created works that “represent the truth around climate change” for the exhibition, a spokesperson for the organisation explains. Other creatives that have donated pieces include Aitor Throup, Build’s Micheal C Place, Ranny Cooper, Tom Hegen, Daniel Pinchbeck, Bethany Williams, Nathan VanHook, Patrick Thomas, Carl Turner, Rob Ryan, Tom Sharp, Jim Sutherland and Ditte Blohm.

    The auction, called Rebel Art Auction; Bid for the Truth, will take place at the London HQ of design studio Accept & Proceed, which has also helped put the project together. 

    An exclusive art auction held on 13th September, 4 Andre Street,Hackney, London, E8 2FN.  Doors open at 7pm for 8pm Auction.

    All proceeds raised at the auction will go to the XR cause.  A cause for everyone.

  • Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2019 - National Portrait Gallery

    The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is the leading international photographic portrait competition, celebrating and promoting the very best in contemporary portrait photography. The Prize has established a reputation for creativity and excellence, with works submitted by a range of photographers, from leading professionals to talented amateurs and the most exciting emerging artists. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world. The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019 exhibition will run at the Gallery from 7 November 2019 to 16 February 2020 before touring to venues around the UK.

    This year’s judging panel was Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Chair(Director, National Portrait Gallery, London); Elaine Constantine, Photographer and Film Director; Shane Gleghorn, Managing Partner, Taylor Wessing; Sara Hemming, Co-Founder & Creative Director NATAAL, Magda Keaney (Senior Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London) and Nicola Shipley, Director GRAIN Projects.

    Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, says: ‘This year’s entries to the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize have shown an outstanding variety of themes and styles on the definition of photographic portraiture. I have been struck by the inspiring and emotive narratives of community and family present in the submissions. Every year the Prize demonstrates the outstanding level at which photographers across the world are working and I very much look forward to welcoming visitors to this annual showcase.’ Shane Gleghorn, Managing Partner, Taylor Wessing, says: “As our partnership with the National Portrait Gallery enters its twelfth year, we are very proud to be associated with the talent of the photographers on display. With diverse styles and subjects from 70 countries around the world, judging this year was as challenging as ever, with all the entrants creating fascinating and thought-provoking images. The commitment of the photographers to excellence and creativity is inspirational and I feel sure that visitors to the exhibition will find it incredibly uplifting."

    7th November 2019 - 16th February 2020
    The National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE

  • Magenta Foundation Flash Forward 2019 - announcing the top 100 winners

    Jennifer Adler, Emine Akbaba, Jose Alvarado, Liza Ambrossio, Bryan Anselm, Sasha Arutyunnova, Alexis Aubin, Tabitha Barnard, Emily Berl, Tanya Bindra, Rachel Boillot, Eliza Bourner, Rose Brock, Akea Brown, Lisa Brunzell, Samuel Budin, Anna-Tia Buss, Tristan Casey, Marco Castelli, Amrita Chandradas, Clea Christakos-Gee, David Coulson, Danielle Da Silva, Chance DeVille, Chris Donovan, Tori Ferenc, Callan Field, Samuel W.J. Fordham, Jillian Freyer, Anthony Gebrehiwot, Marta Giaccone, Xavier Girard-Lachaîne, Leyla Godfrey, Karla Guerrero, Kenneth Guthrie, Elena Helfrecht, Laurence Hervieux-Gosselin, Zackery Hobler, Shuran Huang, Catherine Hyland, Rachel Jessen, Olivia Johnston, Vikesh Kapoor, Alvaro Keding, Tommy Keith, Lukas Kreibig, Anu Kumar, Vaughan Larsen, Jarod Lew, Claude LL, Kim Llerena, Ward Long, Lucy Lu, Costan Macarena, Liam Mackenzie, Patrick Marcoux, Jessica Martinez, Jim McAuley, Connor McCormack, Zora Murff, Jamie Murray, Nadiya Nacorda, Giovana Nunes, Jennifer Osborne, Kate Ovaska, Megan Paetzhold, Sarah Palmer, Laura Pannack, Sarah Pannell, Camillo Pasquarelli, Ripley Pearson, Joe Pettet-Smith, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Miguel Proença, Cody Punter, Bailey Quinlan, Carolina Rapezzi, Benjamin Rasmussen, Laura Beth Reese, Emma Ressel, Adam Rhiannon, Whitten Sabbatini, Katie Sadie, Sylvia Kang Sangsuk, Nicholas Simko, Luca Soldovieri, Mark Sommerfeld, Sunny Strader, Riel Sturchio, Maria Sturm, Amrita Stützle, Lawrence Sumulong, Sage Szabarnicki-Stuart, Arnaud Teicher, Jade Thiraswas, Ana Vallejo, Maryam Wahid, Ryan Walker, Nicholas White, Alexey Yurenev.

  • Prints for Refugees

    MAY 31, 2019,

    In 2015, the world was shaken by the picture of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy whose lifeless body was washed up on a Turkish beach.

    In desperation to help, photographer Mark Sherratt decided to set up Prints for Refugees in order to raise money for organisations supporting refugees. A collaboration between the photographic community and the humanitarian organisation Doctors of the World, where internationally renowned photographers have generously donated selected artwork to the charity.

    By purchasing photography artwork, you can support Doctors of the World to improve access to quality medical care in communities, near and far. An organisation serving more than 1.6 million people every year in over 80 countries in conflict zones, refugee camps and rural communities, providing care,creating infrastructure and advocating for the world’s most vulnerable people.

    To learn more and purchase photographic artworks, visit the Prints for Refugees website.

    printsforrefugees.com
    printsforrefugees@gmail.com
    @printsforrefugees

  • AI - AP American Photography 35 Winners

    American Photography presents the best images by established and emerging photographers selected by an outstanding jury from thousands of entries. The collection, gathered from books, magazines, promotional and personal portfolios, offers an informed view of photography today, with images that resonate through their clearly individual point of view. American Photography is a time capsule in the making and offers a who's who in photography, with images by Luc Delahaye, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Jean Paul Goude, Lauren Greenfield, Brigitte Lacombe, Vincent Laforet, Annie Leibovitz, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Spencer Platt, Martin Schoeller, and Stephanie Sinclair, to name a few. Work by today's masters is interspersed with pictures by students and emerging photographers just beginning to make a name for themselves.

    American Photography, founded in 1985 is the leading juried annual and advocate of contemporary photography in North America and the world. Regarded by creative professionals as the number one source for today's finest image makers, American Photography is the premier showcase for editorial, advertising, fine art and experimental work. With a history of presenting the most cutting-edge images, its pages have honored work by Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and William Wegman and has proudly promoted the early careers of Sally Mann, David LaChapelle, Elinor Carucci and Steven Maisel. The books, designed with defiant irreverence, are themselves objects of beauty and debate and have been recognized by every top design competition, including the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, The Art Directors Club, The British Design & Art Direction, I.D., Communication Arts, How, The One Club and Print Regional Design.

    AI-AP was created as a direct alternative to other leading organizations and companies of the day who it was thought were not recognizing uncoventional, "cutting-edge" work that was being produced by unheralded artists who were pushing the boundries of commercial work.

    Published annually in November, AI-AP books are the first and foremost go-to resourses for art directors, designers, photo editors and art buyers who insist on asigning only the best original, thoughtful and compelling pictures.

  • PHmuseum 2019 Photography Grant Shortlist

    We are delighted to announce the 33 finalists of the PHmuseum 2019 Photographers Grant, and the 12 works pre-selected for the solo exhibition at PhEST 2019. You can see all the projects at phmuseum.com/grant.

    Selected by an independent jury comprising MaryAnne Golon, Thyago Nogueira, Louise Fedotov-Clement, and Max Pinckers, all the finalist works will feature in projections at  Cortona On The Move(Italy), Obscura Festival(Malaysia), and Just Another Photo Festival(India). 

    MAIN PRIZE AND NEW GENERATION PRIZE

    Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Aladin Borioli, Ana Vallejo, Bastien Gomez, Bertrand Cavalier, Carla Kogelman, Catherine Hyland, Chris Hoare, Dani Pujalte, David Vintiner, Fatima Abreu Ferreira, Fernando Montiel Klint, Gloria Oyarzabal, Guilherme Gerais, Hiro Tanaka, Ignacio Iturrioz, Ilvy Njiokiktjien, Ingmar Björn Nolting, Jennifer Greenburg, Kitra Cahana, Laura Pannack, Liza Ambrossio, Máté Bartha, Michal Solarski, Michalis Poulas, Nanna Heitmann, Nikita Teryoshin, Rhiannon Adam & Laura Pannack, Ronghui Chen, Scarlett Coten, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Tara Fallaux, Yangkun Shi.

    SOLO EXHIBITION AT PHEST

    Annick Donkers, Ayline Olukman, Charlotte Mano, Dani Pujalte, Jakob Schnetz, Jens Schwarz, Julien Lombardi, Liza Ambrossio, Miguel Proença, Nanna Heitmann, Richard Pak, Yangkun Shi.

  • Ooshot Award Exhibition

    APRIL 19 TO APRIL 28, 2019,

    LES MAGASINS GÉNÉRAUX, 1 rue de l’Ancien Canal, 93500 Pantin

    2018 WINNERS

     Ambroise Tézenas and Frédéric Delangle for “Sneakers like Jay-Z”

    2018 FINALISTS

    Adrian & Gidi – Post NL and Mattel
    Alma Haser – Save the Children
    Antoine d’Agata – Fujifilm
    Arianna Lago – IIUVO
    Armin Amirian – “A”ar, Tent and Clothes photo series
    Bastiaan Woudt – Marie-Stella-Maris
    Bela Borsodi – Lane Bryant and Symphoniacs (Germany) Art 
    Catherine Hyland – Patek Philippe
    Charlie Engman – Emilio Pucci
    Christopher Anderson – Canon 
    Katrien De Blauwer – Le Théâtre des Champs Élysées
    Jalan and Jibril Durimel – Christopher Simmonds and Grace Wales Bonner 
    Harry Gruyaert – Hermès 
    Kourtney Roy – Pernod Ricard
    Laura Bonnefous – Air Brigitte and Louis Roederer
    Karen Knorr – La Samaritaine 
    Maia Flore – The French Ministry of Tourism and Atout France 
    Massimo Vitali – Vilebrequin and Fontana Milano 1915
    Lorenzo Vitturi – Valextra
    Osamu Yokonami – Kenta Maeno and Mikimoto’s
    Patrick Gries – Van Cleef & Arpels
    Ronan Mckenzie – Base Range x Marieyat 
    Scheltens & Abbenes – Mutina, Arper and Scholten & Baijings
    Studio Furious – The Silk T-shirt
    Tim Parchikov – ChelPipe pipe plan

    https://ooshotaward.com/en/

  • Sony World Photography Awards’ 2019

    Showcasing exceptional series by the best artists working worldwide in photography, the World Photography Organisation reveals the shortlisted photographers for the Professional competition of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. Within the shortlist are seven British photographers who are behind some of the world’s best bodies of work published in 2018. All shortlisted series will be exhibited as part of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London, from April 18 until May 6, 2019. 

    The Professional shortlist comprises stunning series selected across ten diverse categories. The six shortlisted British photographers are recognised in three categories. British photographers have excelled in the Landscape category, with four photographers featuring on the shortlist. Edinburgh-based artist Kieran Dodds has been shortlisted for his series Hierotopia, which explores the tiny patches of protected forests surrounding churches in Ethiopia, where farming has led to huge deforestation. West-Yorkshire based academic and artist Yang Wang Preston has been shortlisted for her series To the South of the Colourful Clouds which depicts an otherworldly “ecology recovery” landscape in Haidong Development Zone, Yunnan Province. In this series, Preston studies the environmental impact of turning a rural area into an international leisure town and its dramatic effect on the landscape. Two London-based photographers have also been shortlisted in the Landscape category; Catherine Hyland has been awarded for her series Lithium Mining, in which she uses a muted colour palette to provide a meditative series of landscapes affected by industry. Marco Kesseler’s series Polytunnel focuses on the environment of contemporary British farming, highlighting the hidden landscapes behind which food is produced.

    This year’s Professional competition judging was chaired by Mike Trow (Editor, Photographer and Consultant, UK).

    2019 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition

  • Wanderlust 2019

    Wanderlust: A Silent Auction Benefit aims to show us how the world is a beautiful, complex and fragile place. This is often most apparent to us through the lens of the traveler. This group show presents travel photographs from emerging and established photographers, each of whom explore the world to discover their own deep and unique sense of place. Proceeds from the auction will go to Earthjustice.  

    Earthjustice is passionately working to preserve the environment and build a healthier future for all through the power of law.

    Participating Artists: Cedric Angeles, Olivia Bee, Anna Beeke, Emily Berl, Julien Capmeil, Amanda Charchian, Bryan Derballa, Beth Garrabrant, Michael George, Brian Guido, Brooke Holm, Jenny Hueston,  Ditte Isager, Kyle Johnson, Lucy Laucht, Anders Overgaard, Dan Martensen, Anne Menke, Damien Maloney, Jessica Pons, Benjamin Rasmusen, Jessica Sample, Emily Shur, Alistair Taylor-Young, Michael Turek, Magdalena Wosinksa, Catherine Hyland.

    Curated and organized by Jessica Sample.

    Space15Twenty, 1520 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, United States.

    Exhibition Preview: April 17

    http://www.monthofphotography.com/events-2018/wanderlust

  • Creative Review Photography Annual winner of Best in Book 2018

    Creative Review’s Photography Annual celebrates the best images of the year, those who make them and those who commission them. Winners of the yearly photography competition are showcased each year in this special issue. Dedicated to the year’s outstanding work across documentary, fashion and commercial photography. Winners are selected by a jury of industry experts and this year six photographers were awarded ‘Best in Book’, our top gong. These were Juno Calypso, Alexander Coggin, Catherine Hyland, Samuel Napper, Caspar Sejersen, and Lydia Whitmore: the issue features interviews with each about their winning projects. 

    'Rise of the Mongolians' a self-led project funded by WeTransfer has been awarded 'Best in Book', commissioned by Lucy Pike for WePresent.

    The very best work submitted to the Annual each year is picked out in the Best in Book section. Six projects received Creative Reviews ultimate accolade this year. 

    'Lithium Mining' a project shot in Chile in the Atacama Desert has been selected for the 'Editorial Category', commissioned by Donna Cohen for Bloomberg Markets.

    From a reportage piece, to a fashion spread, to a book cover, this category celebrates the best in editorial photography within magazines, newspapers and books.

  • Nominated for The Ooshot Award 2018

    The Ooshot Award discovers and distinguishes images designed for creative commissions rewarding authors and artists whose visions are successfully used by brands, companies and institutions.

    The Ooshot Award will reward a photographic commissioned work done by a professional photographer on behalf of a client. It concerns all the sectors where images are called upon to serve a communication objective: corporation, institution, community, industry…, whatever its field of application: fashion, advertising, beauty, still life, culinary, reportage/documentary, portrait, etc. The prize only excludes press photography.

    The Ooshot Award is sponsored by William Klein, internationally renowned painter, photographer and filmmaker, and author of many iconic advertising campaigns (Dim, Citroën, Naf Naf, Ricqlès…).

    An award ceremony and an exhibition in the spring of 2019 will take place at a prestigious place of the world of fashion or art in Paris. A jury composed of personalities from the world of image, business and communication will designate the winner and special mentions. The jury of the Ooshot Award is chaired by Alex Prager, photographer and filmmaker.

  • Prints for Refugees

    Doctors of the World UK is an independent humanitarian movement working with refugees and vulnerable migrants worldwide, providing them with essential medical care while advocating for their right to health. Prints for Refugees is a collaboration between the photographic community and the humanitarian organisation Doctors of the World.  Each of the prints are generously donated by the artists themselves who prints, packs and sends the artwork straight to your home. All money raised through the site are donated to Doctors of the World.

    Bureau Gallery, 7 Hatton Place, London, EC1N 8RU Private View 6-9PM, 6th December 2018.

    printsforrefugees.com

  • Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 161

    • Catherine Hyland (UK) Gold Award and
    • Christopher Bethell (UK) Gold Under 30s Award
    • Exhibition launches at the RPS, Bristol, early 2019
    • 54 photographers selected to exhibit

    The Royal Photographic Society has announced the award winners for the 161st edition of the International Photography Exhibition (IPE 161), the world’s longest running photographic exhibition. The winners are Catherine Hyland (Gold Award), Christopher Bethell (under 30’s Gold Award), Alys Tomlinson (Silver Award) and Oli Kellett (Bronze Award).


    7327 entries were submitted to the open-call from over 60 countries including UK, USA, Australia, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia from which 189 were selected for a shortlist. The final selection was made from prints. 54 photographers were selected to exhibit in the IPE 161 touring exhibition which will open at the RPS’s new building in Bristol early next year, before travelling to Birmingham, London, Dublin and Hull. Selections were made by an esteemed panel comprising of curator and founding editor of online magazine Photomonitor Christiane Monarchi, photographer Jack Latham, documentary photographer Jon Tonks, photographer and professor Karen Knorr FRPS and artist, writer, editor and lecturer in photography Aaron Schuman. The selection panel praised the freshness, variety and consistent high quality of entries and winners whom demonstrate photography executed to the highest standard.
    “Our selection panel were truly impressed with the number of interesting photographs submitted, and I believe we created an engaging exhibition across a wide spectrum of genres.” – Christiane Monarchi

    Panel member Jack Latham comments on the award winners, “Whether it is photographing crossroads in America as the world waits to see what leaders do next, reflecting on the space of spiritual contemplation or how we, as a society, deal with climate change. Each of these photographers have demonstrated that photography is as relevant a tool as any other to reflect on our time in history.” The panel was also pleased to welcome a large quantity of works submitted by female photographers.
    “The winners reflect ongoing trends in contemporary documentary photography, developed by a new generation of photographers who are extending the vocabulary using the medium in a profound and reflective way. The attention to detail and selection of images submitted by the winners made us pause. I was impressed by the crafting and
    care dedicated to the photographic image.” – Karen Knorr FRPS.

    View the 54 photographers exhibiting in the IPE 161online

    rps.org/ipe161 #ipe161 #royalphotographicsociety

    IPE 161 Tour Dates:
    RPS, Bristol, dates TBC
    Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, 30 March to 12 May 2019
    Royal Albert Hall, London, 22 May to 23 June 2019
    Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dublin, 5 July to 4 September 2019
    HIP Fest (Hull International Photo Festival), 4 - 27 October 2019

  • Radical Essex - Focal Point Gallery - Twenty One

    Originally commissioned as part of the Radical ESSEX programme, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographic works by Catherine Hyland at Twenty One.  

    Hyland’s photographs convey the quiet monumentality of Essex’s modernist architecture, now gently embedded into the landscape and consciousness of its residents, visualising the crucial role the county has played in the history of British Modernism and its utopian ideologies.

    Reflecting the view from Twenty One, three large-scale images of Southend's sprawling seafront are on display, the brightly coloured rollercoasters of Adventure Island amusement park, entwined with the town's historic pleasure pier - the longest in the world. The imposition of these frivolous leisure structures wrestle for authority over the vast and indifferent estuary horizon.

    Alongside these works, the breadth of intriguing and innovative architecture from across the county are shown, including one of Richard and Su Roger's earliest buildings in Ulting, Harlow shopping centre, the space age architecture of Redshank in Lee-over-Sands and the brutalist style of the old Southend central library. 

    This exhibition continues until 28 October 2018. More of Hyland's work can be seen in the forthcoming publication Radical ESSEX.

    Twenty One, Unit 21 Pier Approach, Western, Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2EH

    www.focalpoint.org.uk/twentyone/

  • Creative Review Photography Annual winner of Best in Book 2017

    Creative Review’s Photography Annual celebrates the best images of the year, those who make them and those who commission them. Winners of the yearly photography competition are showcased each year in this special issue. Dedicated to the year’s outstanding work across documentary, fashion and commercial photography. Winners are selected by a jury of industry experts and this year six photographers were awarded ‘Best in Book’, our top gong. These were Nick Ballon & Alma Haser, Nadav Kander, Viviane Sassen, Catherine Hyland, Juno Calypso, and Nick Turpin: the issue features interviews with each about their winning projects. 

    'Universal Experience' a self-led project looking at the 'Picturesque, Sublime and Dangerous: Landscapes with Chinese Characteristics' has been awarded 'Best in Book'.

    The very best work submitted to the Annual each year is picked out in the Best in Book section. Six projects received Creative Reviews ultimate accolade this year. 

    'Wait-And-See Pudding with Patience Sauce' a project shot on the Caribbean island of Nevis has been selected for the 'Editorial Category', commissioned by Alicia Hart for British Airways.

    From a reportage piece, to a fashion spread, to a book cover, this category celebrates the best in editorial photography within magazines, newspapers and books.

  • Renaissance Photography Prize 2017

    Renaissance Photography Prize is an international award that showcases outstanding photography from emerging and established photographers while raising funds to support young women with breast cancer. This year the prize celebrates its 10th edition inviting entrants from anywhere in th world. The prize looks to discover talent and celebrate the best in international photography today, giving image makers access to new opportunities and international audience for their work. Photographers have their work seen by a panel of some of the industry's most influential photography critics, as well as being exhibited and published. The winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony on the 11th October.

    Renaissance Photography Prize was founded in 2007 by Fiona Gifford following her diagnosis with breast cancer at the age of 34. Since then it has raised over £250,000 for the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care.

    10th October - 21st October 2017
    Getty Images Gallery, 46 Eastcastle Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1W 8DX
    www.renaissancephotography.org/

  • Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2017 - National Portrait Gallery

    The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is the leading international photographic portrait competition, celebrating and promoting the very best in contemporary portrait photography. The Prize has established a reputation for creativity and excellence, with works submitted by a range of photographers, from leading professionals to talented amateurs and the most exciting emerging artists. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world. The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 exhibition will run at the Gallery from 16 November 2017 to 4 February 2018 before touring to venues around the UK.

    16th November - 4th February 2017
    The National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE

  • Bow Open Show 2017 - Bow Arts Trust

    The 2017 Bow Open Show launches alongside Open Studios in Bow Arts’ Nunnery Gallery, who have announced this year’s curator as renowned British sculptor Alex Chinneck. Chinneck has selected work from Bow Arts’ vast artist network, which numbers over 500 from 13 studio sites and its education programme. Chinneck – who is known for his attention grabbing public art, his life-sized upside pylon is landed permanently by Greenwich’s O2.

    Exhibiting Artists: Liam Aitken, Pia Bramley, Jennifer Campbell, Franco Di Cesare, David Edwards, Yasmin Falahat, Stuart Grist, Connie Harrison, Joe Holbrook, Catherine Hyland, Yuichiro Kikuma, Pierrick Mouton, Marcus Orlandi, Alejandro Ospina, Jaimini Patel, Maxima Smith, Tarragon Smith, Jaime Valtierra, Sarah Woodburn. 

    17th June - 27th August 2017
    The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ
    www.bowarts.org/

  • Residency 2016 to 2017 - RADICAL ESSEX - Focal Point Gallery

    Radical Essex is a project re-examining the county in relation to radicalism in thought, lifestyle, politics and architecture. A programme of events will take place across Essex throughout 2016 and 2017, shedding light on the vibrant, pioneering thinking of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The project will celebrate the crucial role Essex has played in the history of British Modernism and its utopian ideologies under the themes ‘The Modernist County’ and ‘Arcadia for All’.

    Radical Essex is led by Focal Point Gallery in collaboration with Visit Essex and Firstsite. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England it forms part of the country wide Cultural Destinations programme, a partnership with VisitEngland, supporting arts organisations to work with the tourism sector to deliver projects that maximise the impact culture has on local economies.

  • Menotrentuno 2014 - Young European Photography in Sardinia - Memory

    Location/Participants: 
    ARMUNGIA Simone Mizzotti [Italy] Julien Mauve [France] ••• [26 July - 30 September]
    CAGLIARI Salvi Danés [Spain] ••• [18 July - 30 August]
    GONNESA Laura Marchiori [Italy] ••• [30 July - 30 September]
    LULA Andrea Musicò [Italy] Ula Wiznerowicz [Poland] ••• [2 August - 5 October]
    NEONELI Guido Gazzilli [Italy] Andrejs Strokins [Latvia] ••• [3 August - 5 October]
    SASSARI Jesús Madriñán [Spain] ••• [24 July - 29 August]
    TEMPIO PAUSANIA Daria Tuminas [Russia] ••• [1 August - 30 September]
    ULASSAI Catherine Hyland [Great Britain] Philipp Jeske [Denmark] ••• [7 August - 30 September]
    VILLANOVA MONTELEONE Pavel Prokopchik [Russia] ••• [31 July - 30 September]
    VILLASOR GianMarco Porru [Italy] Konrad Lippert [Germany] ••• [27 July - 30 September]
    VILLA VERDE Flavio Scollo [Italy] Rebecka Uhlin [Sweden] ••• [25 July - 30 September]
    ARZACHENA Premio Surrau Photo Win 2014 [20 September]

    18th July - 5th October 2014
    Cultural Association Su Palatu Fotografia
    www.menotrentuno.com/

  • The Woman, The Gaze, The World

    A new exhibition curated by Crystal Bennes, The Woman, The Gaze, The World is loosely themed around a picking apart of the question of whether women see the world differently than men. Here, “seeing” refers most obviously to the individual artist’s interpretation of the world, but also to something which is further mediated through the camera lens.
    A second element which ties these ideas of seeing and representation to the gender question (which is admittedly provocative) is about what interpretation itself actually means – as woman, artist, and/or photographer. Rather than attempting to establish each body of work as one of universal applicability, the exhibition presents each artist as offering a specific and personal take on photography as a medium and practice through various acts of filtering, of staging, of manipulating the "truth".
    Each artist has been paired with a writer, who has been challenged to create a new piece of writing that responds, however indirectly, to the work of that artist and to the themes in question. The intention here is to add a layer of richness to the exhibition, particularly given the considerable crossover in the way photographers and writers approach reality. Both disciplines frequently tend toward a staging of reality in order to highlight its theatricality and the often flawed assumptions we regularly make about how we think we see the world.

    23rd April – 5th May 2013
    The exhibition is open Tuesday - Sunday, 12 - 7pm. 
    Private View Wednesday 24 April from 6-9pm. Please RSVP to hello@crystalbennes.com
    Location: Hanmi Gallery, 30 Maple Street, London W1T 6HA 

  • Pink Does Not Exist

    Pink Does Not Exist re-frames a longstanding debate on the nature of perception and reality through the works of eight artists, each of whom represents a unique strategy in dealing with problems of observation and representation.
    The title of the exhibition is a nod to Newton’s discovery of the additive nature of the spectrum of light: white light is a mixture of all the colours in the spectrum – ROYGBIV – while pink, or magenta, is the only colour which does not actually have its own frequency. As such, one could legitimately claim that pink as a colour does not exist, and yet, because of the human brain’s extraordinary malleability, of course we see pink every day. But does this make pink real?
    Exhibited in a private flat in north London, Pink Does Not Exist considers the relationship between questions of perception and the practice of viewing art. The relationship between reality and perception has long been a complex one, but no more so than today. In light of quantum mechanics – in particular, the notion promulgated by Thomas Young’s famous double-slit experiment that reality is fundamentally altered by observation – the works in the exhibition bring to the fore the problem of the observer in perceiving reality.

    Curated by Crystal Bennes

    19 May - 2 June 2012 
    The exhibition is open every day, 12noon – 6pm, Stoke Newington N16.
    Location: visitors will need to phone or email in advance to arrange a visit and to obtain the address.
    T: 07966586581 or E: hello@flatclondon.co.uk 
    http://www.flatclondon.co.uk/

  • The Way We Live Now - Design Museum

    The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran’s 80th birthday with a major exhibition that explores his unique impact on contemporary life in Britain. Through his own design work, and also through his entrepreneurial flair, Conran has transformed the British way of life. The Way We Live Now explores Conran’s impact and legacy, whilst also showing his design approach and inspirations. The exhibition traces his career from post-war austerity through to the new sensibility of the Festival of Britain in the 1950s, the birth of the Independent Group and the Pop Culture of the 1960s, to the design boom of the 1980s and on to the present day. The exhibition will also demonstrate Conran's influence and legacy on current designers including recent Royal College of Art graduates who have been awarded the Conran Foundation RCA Award. The exhibition is curated by Stafford Cliff and Deyan Sudjic. 

    16th November - 4th March 2012
    Late Opening: Friday 2 December/Friday 20 January, 6 - 10pm.
    Location: 28 Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, London, United Kingdom SE1 2YD
    www.designmuseum.org

    Their Wonderlands

    Their Wonderlands is an international group exhibition, curated by multi-disciplinary collective They Are Here. Contemporary artists have been drawn together to explore the space given to make-believe and folklore in post-industrial 21st century European society. Inspired by the essay In Praise of Shadows (1933) by Japanese writer Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, the exhibition exists in darkness. You will be invited to select a torch on entry to discover works embedded in a cardboard labyrinth, designed by renowned and seminal architect Yona Friedman.

    26th November – 29th January 2012
    Preview Sat 26 Nov: Welcome to Wonderlands, 5 - 8pm includes live music performance by Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts.
    Location: MAC Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
    www.macarts.co.uk

  • Day+Gluckman/Collyer Bristow

    Electric Sheep, an exhibition exploring the way in which our daily lives have become immersed in technology. 'Awake or asleep it surrounds us, enhancing and reducing our lives. Drawn as we are into the promise of a less cluttered life, of a clean and efficient world, many of the facts and realities of science remain a mystery to most of us. From the beginning of the science fiction genre we seem to have revelled in this mystery; demonising, prophesising and fantasising about the future, or yearning for a nostalgia-driven past.' 
    28th September – 30th November 2011
    Location: Collyer Bristow Gallery, 4 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4DF 

  • Sustain Award 2011 - London Design Festival

    Shortlisted for 'Sustain Show and Award' - taking place in the Lower Gulbenkian Gallery.
    22nd September - 30th September 2011.
    Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU.

  • Helen Hamlyn Design Awards

    Nominated for the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards - Rewarding design for the inclusive world.

  • The Bar-Tur Award 2011

    Shortlisted for the 'Bar-Tur Award' - listed in the top 30 for the Environment Category. 

  • Conran Award 2011

    The Conran Foundation Awards 2011, rewarding design that has a positive impact on the way people feel, think and live, as well as on the national and international economic situation.

  • Show RCA 2011

    Royal College of Art Graduate Exhibition Friday 24th June -  Sunday 3rd July, open 11am - 8pm daily (closes at 4pm on 28 June and closed all day 1 July).
    Location: Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU.

  • RCA Work in Progress Show 2010

    Royal college of Art/ Work in Progress Show 2010 CA&D - taking place in the Courtyard Galleries, 26th November to 3rd December. 
    Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU.

  • Aesthetica Creative Works 2010

    Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010. Commendation for Inglenook – Artwork & Photography category.

  • Man Photography Prize 2010

    Man Photography Prize 2010, sponsored by the Man Group plc Charitable Trust - 2nd Prize Winner “Sustaining the Future” Royal college of Art, Courtyard Galleries. 
    5.30pm-8pm Wednesday 3rd – 8th November 2010. 
    Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU.

  • The Art Works Galleries 10th Focused Eye Awards

    The Art Works Galleries 10th Focused Eye Awards An exploration into patriotism, anarchy and modern culture; from the landscapes of our nation, to the sub-cultures of the underground. An exhibition providing a social, political & cultural retrospective and contemporary representation of Britain. 7th May to 31st July 2009 
    Location: The Art Works Galleries, Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne 
    NE1 2NP.

  • New Life Berlin Festival

    The New Life Berlin Festival Official Selection for the URBAN SPACE 08 
    projection series, taking place from May 31-June 15th.
    Location: KIM-Brunnen Strasse 10/Mitte. http://www.wooloo.org/cat/

  • Best In Show - John Jones Project Space

    Best in Show, Curated by Pearce and Ramsey at the John Jones project Space.
    Location: Finsbury Park, London, running from Friday 3rd October for six weeks.
    2009.

  • Siteshow

    Siteshow Curated by Sanja Sakic and John O’Hora. Location: 31Warwick Square, 
    Westminster, London, Friday September 26th 08.

  • Nought to Sixty - ICA

    Photographic work for artists’ collective Freee. A new billboard piece titled Protest Drives History situated in the ICA Bar and off-site location: Hassard Street, London as part of the ongoing season Nought to Sixty, a programme of exhibitions and events that present projects from sixty emerging British- and Irish-based artists over six months from 5 May to 2 November 2008. 
    Further info found at http://www.freee.org.uk/works/protest-drives-history/

  • In Particular

    In Particular an exhibition of staged photography by nine artists further info found at 
    http://www.inparticular.co.uk/
    Location: The Victoria Pub, 10a Strathearn Place , W2 2NH. 9th-22nd May 08.

  • Performance Symposium – Performance Now/ Then and After

    Performance Symposium – Performance Now/ Then and After.
    http://www.performance.wordpress.com/
    Location: The Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Art. London - 18th April 08.

  • VAULT BASEWITHOUT^

    VAULT BASEWITHOUT^ 
    Location: Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street, London 7th-9th February 08.


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