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Zmala Magazine

Christophe Agou — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:16:36 GMT

The current edition of the annual French Magazine Zmala looks at photographic cooperatives and includes a nice section on in-public with photographs by Christophe Agou, Matt Stuart, Gus Powell, David Gibson, Jeff Ladd and a text by Gilles Mora. The text is in both English and French.

French Magazine Zmala

The cover features a shot from Christophe Agous New York Subway project and book ‘Life Below’.

Photography in 100 Words

Matt Stuart — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:58:29 GMT

In-Public members Joel Meyerowitz, Trent Parke and Matt Stuart are among the 50 photographers profiled in a new book, ‘Photography in 100 Words’, by David Clark.

The book features an interview with each photographer, together with a representative image. Among the other interviewees are Elliott Erwitt, Martin Parr, Nadav Kander, Tom Wood, David Bailey, Michael Kenna, Frans Lanting and Steve McCurry.

The book is published on 29 October 2009 by Argentum, price £20. It’s also being published in the US by Focal Press. Clickhereto order

Happenstance

Nick Turpin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:38:58 GMT

David Solomons Happenstance Exhibition

in-public member David Solomons will be showing his black and white street photography as part of ‘Photomonth’ the East London Photography Festival at Oxford House in Bethnal Green from the 22nd Oct-28th Nov 2009.

Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Matt Stuart — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:44:39 GMT

Joel Meyerowitz

This compelling body of work is the result of a unique commission by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. They asked Joel Meyerowitz to document, interpret, and celebrate one of the city’s greatest legacies: nearly 29,000 acres of parks in the five boroughs.

Through this stunningly rich archive of parks, shorelines, and forests, Meyerowitz’s “Legacy” transports the viewer into the heart of the wilderness throughout New York City, much of which remains unseen and unknown to the millions of city dwellers.

Meyerowitz is the first photographer to document New York City’s parks since the 1930s, when they were photographed as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA program.

Artist talk and book signing: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 6:30 pm Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY Free and open to the public http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=580

Exhibition opening: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:00 – 8:00 pm Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY RSVP required to rsvp@mcny.org http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/future/Legacy.html

Willy Ronis 1910-2009

Nick Turpin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:18:21 GMT

Willy Ronis, one of the great French post-war photographers, died on Saturday 12th September. He was 99.

Ronis made his name photographing everyday life in Paris. Richard Bram remembers him as “A great photographer and a charming gentleman”, and recalls “a delightful conversation with him in London. I went to hear him speak at the Institut Français in Kensington, London, and had met him one other time. I treasure those moments.”

David Gibson met him too, and remembers “his phrase ‘the fear of missing’ about his photography. One of the true greats.”

Ronis took this beautiful image of his wife, Marie-Anne Lansiaux, in 1949.

Nick Turpin on the BBC

Nick Turpin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:29:40 GMT

In-Public founder Nick Turpin is talking about street photography and the impact of new anti-terror legislation on the freedom of photographers to make pictures in public places on the UK’s BBC Radio 4. The program can be heard at 15.45 GMT on the 28th April. Nick has been an outspoken critic of the UK Government’s continued erosion of human rights in the name of security.

Pic Nick Turpin

You can listen to the program online here.

Nick also writes about the important role photography plays over on sevensevennine.com

Nils interviews Anahita Avalos

Nick Turpin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:16:12 GMT

Nils Jorgensen has interviewed photographer Anahita Avalos on the rotating gallery of Too Much Chocolate, bringing well-deserved attention to her stunning images.

Mexico-based Anahita talks about her love of street photography, and how it makes her feel alive at the same time as torturing her.

Image by Anahita Avalos

Too Much Chocolate

Nick Turpin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:53:57 GMT

This week, Nils Jorgensen is interviewed by Kate Kirkwood on the ‘rotating gallery’ over on ‘Too Much Chocolate’.

Each week a photographer is interviewed by the photographer who was featured the week before. Nils talks about taking his first photograph at the age of six, balancing his commercial and personal photographic lives, and the inspiration of Andre Kertesz.

Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

Christophe Agou — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:49:17 GMT

Image Helen Levitt

Yesterday, a great poet of the streets and an inspirational woman in history left us forever.

Helen Levitt was born on August 31, 1913 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Levitt quit school and began her career in photography aged 18, while working in a portrait studio in the Bronx. There she acquired her technical skills, but her inspiration to make images came from art and photography exhibits and from films and theatre.

While other photographers of the 1930s were documenting social injustice around the country and the world, Levitt chose to devote a long career to a place and people just blocks away from her home. She was also well known for her photographs of street life in Mexico City.

Her passion for life was evident in everything she did. She had a natural aesthetic flair and was one of the pioneers of color photography. She knew how to combine intuition and intellect in order to create compelling compositions, and her photographs are simultaneously subtle, honest, rich and mysterious.

Levitt’s pictures have love without being sentimental. She pursued her dreams for nearly 70 years and inspired generations of artists. She will always be known as one of the greatest poets of everyday life. Her legacy and art will live forever.

Nils Seen in Unseen

Nick Turpin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:17:43 GMT

Nils Jorgensen has work published in a new book by The British Press Photographers Association. ‘Unseen’, published on the 18th March, highlights the fact that ‘that huge numbers of brilliant pictures never see the light of day through too tight deadlines, design limitations or the preconceptions of editors’.

‘Unseen’ by The British Press Photographers Association

Image by Nils Jorgensen

Fans of Nils Street Photography can now by prints from A Gallery.

Narelle Autio's The Summer of Us

Matt Stuart — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:31:38 GMT

Narelle Autio

25 March to 2 May 2009 Stills Gallery, NSW, Australia Opening Sat 28 May 3-5pm

Since they were first exhibited at Stills Gallery in 2000, Narelle Autio’s vibrant and award-winning images of Australian coastal life have won her impressive national and international acclaim, as well as capturing the hearts and imaginations of viewers.

One of the beauties of her work is its ability to speak to speak to so many people about their own experience as coastal dwellers. The play of colour and light is magical too, giving the photographs a painterly quality that transcends usual depictions of the beach. Autio’s images give the coastline back the complexity, drama and beauty that are so easily eroded by postcards and clichés.

For her new body of work, The Summer of Us, Autio has returned to the ocean, but this time to the shore, to the natural and man-made remnants of long summer days; to a lone pink thong, the skeletons of sun hats and sand-crusted fish. Using large format film, Autio documents her finds, treating each with the same kind attention to detail. Thoughtlessly discarded by its owner, a bottle Reef Oil for example, is resurrected larger than life. Against a clean white background, the glossy promise of this product almost returns to its former glory, despite the all too familiar truth that applying sun lotion at the beach is a sand-caked and unglamorous affair.

Her collection of images introduces us to a lovely continuum existing between manufactured and natural, between ocean and land. Lost gloves slowly grow to resemble five fingered sea creatures and in turn lost sea creatures become curious objects when washed up on the shore. Autio’s appreciation for the power and the poetic transformations of the ocean is elegantly portrayed in these works.

Jeff Ladd in the Guardian

Matt Stuart — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:42:11 GMT

Jeff Ladd is featured in The Guardian in an article about his Errata Editions book series.

Q & A with Jeff

Matt Stuart — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:41:24 GMT

There’s a great Q&A with Jeff Ladd over on Blake Andrews’ blog.

Otto Snoek's two Books

Matt Stuart — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:36:52 GMT

Otto Snoek has two new books out on the 7 March. The first, “Rotterdam”, is the result of Otto’s collaboration between Witte de With. The second, “Why Not”, accompanies the exhibition of the same title in the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.

Rotterdam Available at Witte de With, and via the following distributors:

D.A.P., New York (USA only), online catalogue: www.artbook.com, e-mail dap@dapinc.com, phone +1 212 627 1999

Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK and Ireland only), online catalogue: Number of copies 1250, language Dutch/English

Why Not Text: Henk Oosterling Graphic Design: Studio Beige Hardcover, 140pp

ISBN 978-90-5973-114-1 [English edition] ISBN 978-90-5973-109-7 [Dutch edition]

€ 32.50 [Netherlands] € 35.00 [Europe] € 37.50 [outside Europe]

In the Netherlands, the event culture has led to far-reaching changes in public areas. They are primarily perceived and used as stages for consumption, with public partying, shopping and celebrating.

Over ten years, Otto Snoek visualizes the ambivalent relationship between the promise and the letdown of our modern way of urban life.

The photographs in “Why Not” focus on contemporary forms of leisure: festivals, soccer games and parties. Looking at these promises of mass culture, Snoek exposes the increasingly commercial character of urban life, as well as people’s uniformity in a crowd.

David Solomons Book

Nick Turpin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:30:03 GMT

David Solomons has produced a rather nice paperback edition of his street work, including 49 color and 16 black and white images.

David has kindly made five copies available to the first five in-public readers who email him through the Contact page.

David Solomons | Photography

Scotland Yard Event

Nick Turpin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:27:34 GMT

The photographers’ rights event at Scotland Yard was well attended and reported. It was good to see press photographers, photojournalists, street photographers and amateurs all turning out to make their voices heard.

Stop and Search

Nick Turpin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:08:38 GMT

As street photographers, in-public are very concerned about any restrictions placed on those wishing to make photographs in a public place.

There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about the legal position – among both photographers and law enforcers.

The UK National Policing Improvement Agency has produced a document entitled, ‘Practice Advice on Stop and Search in Relation to Terrorism’, which includes a section on Photography. This states:

“The Terrorism Act 2000 does not prohibit people from taking photographs or digital images in an area where an authority under section 44 is in place. Officers should not prevent people taking photographs unless they are in an area where photography is prevented by other legislation. If officers reasonably suspect that photographs are being taken as part of hostile terrorist reconnaissance, a search under section 43 of the Terrorism Act 2000 or an arrest should be considered. Film and memory cards may be seized as part of the search, but officers do not have a legal power to delete images or destroy film. Although images may be viewed as part of a search, to preserve evidence when cameras or other devices are seized, officers should not normally attempt to examine them. Cameras and other devices should be left in the state they were found and forwarded to appropriately trained staff for forensic examination. The person being searched should never be asked or allowed to turn the device on or off because of the danger of evidence being lost or damaged.”

The full document is available as a pdf

Photographers Rights Event

Nick Turpin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:39:42 GMT

Monday 16th February 2009 is the enforcement date for Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008. As the British Journal of Photography (BJP) wrote last month:

“The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest – and imprisonment – of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has teamed up with Mark Thomas (writer, broadcaster, comic and political activist), Chris Atkins (BAFTA nominated director and writer of the feature film documentary Taking Liberties), The British Journal of Photography and others for a “media event” outside New Scotland Yard on Monday 16 February 2009.

The plan is simple: turn up with your camera and exercise your democratic right to take a photograph in a public place.

16 February 2009 11:00 – 12:00 New Scotland Yard Broadway London SW1H OBG

These new rules will have a direct impact on the freedom of street photographers as well as news gatherers. If you value your right to take a photograph in a public place without being suspected of having terrorist intentions, we at in-public urge you to attend.

Trent's Christmas Bucket

Matt Stuart — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:12:57 GMT

The Christmas Tree Bucket is humour of the blackest hue. Operatic in its vision and darkly satirical in its style, Trent Parke snaps the family rituals of Christmas with the in-laws and builds a gritty gothic tale of a nightmare lurking in the suburban shadows.

Clickhereto find out more

Marlow F-Blogged

Matt Stuart — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:28:31 GMT

Jesse Marlow

There’s an interesting interview with Australian photographer and In-Public member Jesse Marlow on the Scandinavian blog “F Blog”. Have a read and find out just what makes Jesse tick.