Exhibition: Photo London
"The UK Photography event of the year" The Guardian
"Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Now in its fourth edition, Photo London has established itself as a world-class photography fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community. From the capital’s major museums, to its auction houses, galleries large and small, right into the burgeoning creative communities in the East End and South London, Photo London harnesses the city’s outstanding creative talent and brings together the world’s leading photographers, curators, exhibitors, dealers and the public to celebrate photography, the medium of our time." (texts from the website)
Book Dummy Award
The First edition of the contest stood out for the quality and diversity of the projects, as well as for a great participation, with photographers from over 40 countries in every continent in the world submitting their work
It is my first time going to this such as big event in the world of photography, an opportunity to provide photographers who could share their works, meet people, sell their prints, it reminds me a post from an artist called Sebastian Errazuriz, showing a picture with a lady photographing the words on the wall, saying that, “Buy Art from Living Artists. The Dead Ones Don't Need The Money.”, It does sound right, no matter artists or photographers, they do need people supporting to continue creating their works, standing out significant issue, which I think it’s another purpose of making arts, art is just not creating stuff but leading audience to see what we literally care about.
In this exhibition, including various themes such as special exhibitor (Leica camera), book award, editorial ect., additionally, there are some emerging galleries and artists presenting their innovative artworks, which has turned my view to photography could be exhibited in various forms, it has unlimited possibilities to convey creator’s perspective.
Rinko Kawauchi
(Left & Right) Untitled, from the series of Approaching Whiteness, 2011
40x40 inches, C-Print, From a limited edition of six
Basically, you could see some extraordinary images from well-known photographer, one is my favourite photographers, Rinko Kawauchi, I’ve known her because from her photobook, Illuminance, and the work I saw is a bit different from her previous works as usual if taking cheery trees as her subject, but you could identity that’s her unique style of stillness which the way she looks at, it obviously shows that how cheery trees are important for Japanese.
Lee Friedlander
Jazz & Blues, 1983
Portfolio of 7 dye transfer prints
Camera Work Portfolio
10 Gelatin Silver Prints
Michael Flomen
WarOh, No.2, 2016
Gelatin silver toned print
Other works, like Lee Friedlander, Tim Walker, Daido Moriyama, and others who contributed in photography field. Moreover, there are some brilliant photographers I’d never heard before, for instance, Michael Flomen, Ignacio Llamas, Erik Madigan Heck, using photography as their medium to present their voice. I’ve noticed that photographers who aim to photograph black people is increasing, which I believe at the moment this is a trend which could not be ignored, I am pleased with that some people are aware of the small voice need to show up and truly bringing them in front of viewers.
Misahisa Fukase
Sasuke!! Dear my cat, 1978
Nine vintage silver gelatin prints
However, it is pathetic that I feel the space is a bit narrow so few of images looked squished together, just the shame they wouldn’t not offer more white empty spaces to give each image a proper position, but I think this is how a big photographic event look like, massive and various kind of images waiting us to explore.
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