Sophie's round up - what's on in photography

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London Exhibitions

ATLAS GALLERY. 49 Dorset Street, London, W1U 7NF. Tel: 020 7224 4192. Web: www.atlasgallery.com e-mail: info@atlasgallery.com Nearest Tube: Baker Street. Open: Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm. Adm: Free.

Until - 31st August. DOMINIQUE TARLÉ - Photographs Of The Rolling Stones At Villa Nellcôte . A selection of these stunning images captured during Tarlé’s extended stay at Villa Nellcôte in the South of France, rented by Keith Richards during the making of the infamous album ‘Exile’ on Main Street’. Tarlé’s work has been described as one of the most candid and engaging private records of a band living and working together.

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CHRIS BEETLES GALLERY. 8 - 10 Ryder St, London, SW1Y 6QB. Tel: 020 7839 7551. Web www.chrisbeetles.com e-mail: gallery@chrisbeetles.com Nearest Tube: Green Park - Victoria/Jubilee/Piccadilly lines. Adm Free

Until - closing date TBC . EDWIN SMITH. Edwin Smith (1912-1971) was the most significant British photographer of architecture and landscape in the mid twentieth century. For twenty years, his images graced many notable books and helped redefine notions of Britishness for the post-war generation. His achingly beautiful interpretations of characteristic buildings from cathedrals to cottages, and terrains from beach to bog, convey an unparalleled sense of place.

An exclusive collaboration with the British Architectural Library Photographs Collection, RIBA, the 55 images in the exhibition will comprise a comprehensive overview of
his career.

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GETTY IMAGES GALLERY. 46 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DX. Tel: 020 7291 5380. Web:www.gettyimagesgallery.com Open: Mon - Fri 10am - 6.30pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus.

Until 31st July. Signed, Sealed & Delivered. The exhibition includes iconic portraiture and award-winning reportage from established names such as Terry O'Neill and Jurgen Schadeberg, as well as work from the estates of Ernst Haas, Slim Aarons, Terry Fincher and Patrick Lichfield.

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HOOPERS GALLERY. 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1 0AA. Tel: 020 7490 3908. e-mail: gallery@hoopersgallery.co.uk web: www.hoopersgallery.co.uk
Open: Tues - Fri 11am - 4.30pm Thurs 11am - 7pm. Nearest tube Farringdon District & Circle Line. Adm free

Until - 3rd September. RCA PHOTOGRAPHY 2010. Hoopers Gallery Summer Show this year features work by recent graduates of the Photography course, Royal College of Art.

Those taking part will be Lauren Winsor, Agata Madejska, Noemie Goudal, Amit Nachumi, Joshua Bilton, and Stuart Bailes.

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HOST GALLERY. 1 Honduras Street, EC1Y 0TH. Tel: 020 7253 2770. e-mail: info@hostgallery.co.uk
Web: www.hostgallery.co.uk Open: Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 4pm. Adm free.

26th July - 4th September . FOTO8 Summer Show. Foto8 announces the selection of 156 prints and the panel of judges for the third annual Summershow to be held at HOST gallery, open to the public from 26 July 2010. This year’s entries saw a dramatic rise in what has become one of the most inclusive and festive annual photographic events in London.
The Entrants
The selection of prints exhibited in this year’s Summershow demonstrates Foto8’s committment to exhibiting a wide range of photographic styles and genres. Over 2500 individual images were received from photographers representing the six continents. From landscape and portraiture to documentary and fashion and everything in between, the Summershow celebrates the photographic talent of established names and aspiring photographers alike.

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IDEA GENERATION GALLERY. 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB. Tel: 020 7749 6853. Open Mon - Fri 12noon - 6pm, Sat & Sun 12noon - 5pm. Neearest Tube Liverpool Street - Central/ Old Street - Northern. Adm Free.

Until 27th - August. THE DOORS - When You're Strange. To coincide with the theatrical release of When You’re Strange (at selected cinemas from 2nd July), Idea Generation Gallery is taking an intimate look at one of the most controversial and charismatic rock bands in music history. The complete package for any Doors fan, in collaboration with The Morrison Hotel Gallery.

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MICHAEL HOPPEN CONTEMPORARY. 3 Jubilee Place, London SW3 3TD. Tel: 020 7352 3649.
e-mail gallery@michaelhoppen.com Open: Tues - Fri 12noon - 6pm, Sat 10.30 - 4pm.
Nearest Tube South Kensington/Sloane Square Circle & District and Piccadilly Line. Adm Free

Until - 6th March. BORIS SAVELAV, NICOLAY BAKHAREV and JAN LUKAS - Russia!. Boris Savelev was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and moved to Moscow in 1966. He became a full time photographer since 1982and has had numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is one of the best-knownphotographers working in Russia today. Savelev’s work is about light and form-not people, but his images retain a peculiarly Russian sensibility.

Nikolay Bakharev Although intimate, it would be wrong to regard his images as home-spun eroticism. His photographs are of individuals like himself- from the same background and circumstances, living through the same period of political change. At the moment the shutter closes however, he has separated himself from his subject’s portrayals of beauty, love and sex. By removing himself from his surroundings, he exposes his greater comprehension, and detachment.

Jan Lukas is a noted Czech photographer, who was born in Ceske Budejovi on September 13, 1915. He was active from the 1930s-1970s. Afterworking in his homeland and Russia, Lukas photographed Italy, and Pompeii in1963 and then went on to visit New York City in 1964, but most of his New York City images were made in the 1970s after he moved to New York.

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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Tel: 020 7312 2463
Web: www.npg.org.uk Open: Daily 10am - 6pm Thurs & Fri open until 9pm. Nearest Tube Charing Cross, Leicester Square and Embankment.

Until - 8th August. FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY AGENCY - 1983 to 2003. Format has a unique place in British photographic history. It is the only agency that consisted of, and promoted the work of contemporary women photographers. Founded in 1983, the agency encouraged members to develop their creativity and careers. Format's eight founding members were Anita Corbin, Sheila Gray, Pam Isherwood, Jenny Matthews, Maggie Murray, Joanne O'Brien, Raissa Page and Val Wilmer.

The photographers portrayed people and issues both in Britain and abroad, which were under-represented in the mainstream media of the time. Format documented epoch changing events such as the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (1981-2000) and the 1984-5 Miners' Strike; and was itself an important part in movements that brought about social change.

Until - 3rd October. VENETIA DEARDEN - Glastonbury, Another Stage. Venetia Dearden's photographs celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Glastonbury festival, and herfifth consecutive year of shooting in a studio on site. On display will be photographs ranging from Shirley Bassey to Lily Allen, Pete Townshend and Leonard Cohen, to festival goers of all ages. Dearden grew up next to the festival site and has been involved with Glastonbury since a young age.

Until - 24th October. CAMILLE SILVY - Photographer of Modern Life. Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century. This exhibition includes many remarkable images which have not been exhibited since the 1860s.

Over 100 images, including a large number of carte de visites, focus on a ten-year creative burst from 1857-67 working in Algiers, rural France, Paris and London, and illustrate how Silvy pioneered many now familiar branches of the medium including theatre, fashion and street photography.

14th August - 17th April 2011. JASON BELL - An Englishman In New York. Inspired by some of the 120,000 English men and women living in New York City Jason Bell has identified and photographed leading British born figures setting the cultural agenda in New York, including Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, writer Zoë Heller, Nicola Perry, owner of Tea and Sympathy, artist Bill Jacklin, and television pundit and Barney's window dresser Simon Noonan.

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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. Waterhouse Gallery, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD. Tel: 020 7942 5000. Web: www.nhm.ac.uk Open: 7 days 10am - 5.50pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube: South Kensington.

Until - 11th April 2010. Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Inspirational photography from across the world showing wildlife at their most beautiful and most wild. The snag for us is which amazing image to show, in the end we opted for this breathtaking photograph by Danny Green. Starling populations in the UK swell in December and January as birds from the continent head for milder wintering areas. Huge flocks roost in many spots throughout the country, and as Danny has been working on a long-term project to photograph these impressive roosts, he has visited most of them. ‘This gathering,’ says Danny, ‘was by far the most impressive I have ever seen.’ The location was Gretna Green, Scotland. The stage was set: a perfect evening, hundreds upon thousands of starlings. And then the main character appeared, off stage-left – a peregrine falcon, which sent ripples of pulsating panic throughout the entire flock. ‘I used a slow shutter-speed,’ says Danny, ‘so I could accentuate this lovely sweeping movement as the birds exploded over farmland and trees to escape the hunting peregrine.’

Danny Green, Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.

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PHOTO-SPACE. 530 Commercial Road, London, E1 0HY. Tel: 020 7375 0441. Nearest Station Limehouse DLR. Open: Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm. Adm: Free.

Awaiting Details..

PHOTOFUSION. 17a Electric Lane, London, SW9 8LA. Tel: 020 7738 5774. e-mail: info@photofusion.org Web: www.photofusion.org Nearest Tube Brixton.

Until - 27th January. BILL ROWLINSON - A Masters Touch. Bill Rowlinson, doyen of black and white master printers, bequeathed his print collection to Photofusion on his death in 2008. His somewhat eccentric approach (such as staining a print with tea bags and smoking over it!) produced results that were highly sought after by photographers. He began printing for Sarah Moon in the late 1960s, bringing a wide range of tones to the dreamlike quality of her work, establishing his reputation as a master printer. Photographers began entrusting him with their work and advertising agencies looked to him when they wanted something ‘special’.

Image © Julia Margaret Cameron Trust

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PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY. The Photographers' Gallery, 16 - 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW. Tel: 0207 831 1772. e-mail: info@photonet.org.uk Web: www.photonet.org.uk Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus. Open Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm, Thurs 11am - 8pm, Sun 12noon - 6pm. Adm Free

Until - 17th January 2010. JIM GOLDBERG - Open See. Open See documents the experiences of people who travel from war torn, socially and economically devastated countries, to make new lives in Europe. They have left often violent, oppressive, poverty-stricken or AIDS ravaged communities, in search of stability and the promise of a better future. Originating from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, these ‘new Europeans’ have met violence and brutality as well as hope and liberation in their new homes.

Until - 17th January 2010. SARA RAMO -Movable Planes. This exhibition is the first chance to see work by emerging Spanish/ Brazilian artist Sara Ramo in the UK. Using film, installation and photography Ramo (b.1975) explores notions of order and disorder. Strongly informed by performance art, Ramo sometimes appears in her own works, where banal actions become surreal interventions in intimate domestic settings.

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PROUD CAMDEN. The Horse Hospital, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH. Tel: 020 7839 4942. Web: www.proud.co.uk e-mail: info@proud.co.uk Open: Mon - Sun 11.30am - 5.30pm.

Until - 6th December. KINGS OF LEON - 10 Year Reign. Profiling the band from its Tennessean beginnings right up until its present multi award-winning status, Proud Camden will examine this musically gifted family through the photographic work of up-and-coming music photographer Jo McCaughey. Photographer, friends and now neighbour to the Followill clan, McCaughey’s photographs expose both the private and the public face of the Kings of Leon as they embark on the rise to meteoric fame.

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PROUD CENTRAL. 32 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6BP. Tel: 020 7839 4942. e-mail: info@proud.co.uk Web: www.proud.co.uk Open: Mon - Fri 11am - 7pm, Sat 11am - 5.30pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube Charing Cross - Northern, Bakerloo, Central and Main Line Rail.

Until - 15th November. THE WHO. London’s most explosive rock band The Who will be profiled in an exhibition shot by internationally renowned photographer Colin Jones. With a seasoned ability to capture the raw essence of a moment, Jones’ work pays homage to the pioneering troupe with revealing precision.

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PUMP HOUSE GALLERY. Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ. Tel: 020 7350 0523. Web: www.pumphousegallery.org.uk e-mail: pumphouse@wandsworth.co.uk Open: Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and bank holidays 11am - 5pm, Friday & Saturday 11am - 4pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Station Queenstown Road/Battersea Park.

Until - 13th December. SHAKE IT - An Instant History of the Polaroid. With the last batch of Polaroid film expiring in October 2009, 'Shake It' is a timely exhibition that captures the aesthetic, conceptual and practical potential of an iconographic photographic format that is on the verge of extinction. Artists: Nobuyoshi Araki - Rut Blees Luxemburg - Guy Bourdin  Tim Braden - Roe Ethridge - Walker Evans -  Richard HamiltonDavid Hockney - André Kertész - Robert Mapplethorpe Jonathan Monk - Lisa Oppenheim - Lucas Samaras Michael Snow -Juergen Teller - Andy Warhol - Wim Wenders.

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RATHBONE. 42 Windmill Street, London, W1T 2JZ. Tel: 020 7636 6699 Fax: 020 7636 6663
e-mail: info@rathbonegallery.com Web: www.rathbonegallery.com Open: Tues - Fri 11am - 6.30pm, Sat 11am - 5.30pm. Nearest Tube Goodge St (Northern & Victoria).

Rathbone is taking a new direction; we've closed the gallery and from now on we're based online. This gives us more flexibility and with lower overheads we can provide much better value.

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SS ROBIN GALLERY. West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, London E14 4AE. Tel: 020 7538 0652.
e-mail info@ssrobin.org web: www.ssrobin.org Open: Weds - Fri 12noon - 6pm, Sat 12noon - 4pm.

After six years' consultation, research and planning, SS Robin has secured a funding package from Crossrail for structural conservation works. This unique icon of the nation's merchant fleet was successfully moved to drydock in Lowestoft, Suffolk in June 2008, and is set to return to her home berth in 2010 to take her place as an exciting new London landmark.
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STEM & PETAL COMPANY. 132 Northcote Road, SW11 6QZ. London. Tel: 0207 924 3238. Open Mon - Sat 9am - 6pm, Sun 11am - 3pm. Adm Free

Until - 31st January 2010. SOPHIE MARTIN-CASTEX - Bubbles Of The Earth. A spectacular display of autumnal fungi photographs by UKL's Sophie Martin-Castex, this will be the first in a series of exhibitions at Stem & Petal Company's beautiful venue that will explore the diversity and habitat of plants.  Sophie is the editor of UKlandscape and is highly regarded for her micro-landscape images that clearly show the delicate beauty and diversity of mushrooms and fungi in British woodland at this time of year.

THE.GALLERY@OXO. Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London, SE1 9NH. Tel: 020 7021 1600. Web: http://www.coinstreet.org Open: Daily 11am - 6pm.

Awaiting details...

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V&A MUSEUM. Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL. Tel: 020 7942 2000. Web: www.vam.ac.uk Open: 7 days 10am - 5.45pm. Nearest Tube: South Kensington.

Until - 10th January 2010. REG WILSON - Capturing The Moment. Reg Wilson is one of Britain's most prolific performance photographers.  From the 1960s he has recorded four decades of the performing arts in all their richness and variety, capturing the great and the good on stage, backstage and in the studio. This selection from Wilson's archive, chosen by the artist, shows every aspect of the performance process from the studio to the finished product.  It also demonstrates a range of techniques, from the staged photo-call to the snatched backstage shot and includes some of the earliest stage photography and colour productions.

Anthony Sher, Richard III, 1985

V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD. Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA. Tel: 020 8983 5200. Open: 7 days 10am - 5.45pm. Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green. Adm: Free.

Until - 29th November. PAUL TREVOR - Eastender Archive. A selection of photographs drawn from Paul Trevor's Eastender Archive documenting life in the East End during the 1970s, 80s and into the 90s. At the time Trevor's neighbourhood, Brick Lane, was desperately run down. "Much of it was derelict. It felt abandoned," he says. "Yet from this unlikely location I was gifted a vivid story of a community surviving considerable hardship with resilience, humour and hope - none more so than the kids."

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VIEWFINDER GALLERY. Linear House, Peyton Place, London, SE10 8RS. Tel: 020 8858 8351.
e-mail: gallery@viewfinder.org.uk web: www.viewfinder.org.uk Open: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 12noon - 4pm.

29th October - 22nd November. Myths And Fairytales. Three photographers present folklore and the imagined: re-enacting French literature, reinterpreting Greek and Roman myths and performing fairytales. Rupert Jessop illustrates classical myths, isolating characters and elements from these ancient stories and revealing thin slices of their drama. The characters here are trapped in endless conflicts and tragedies which are retold as the mode of the age dictates. His photographs are highly saturated, thick with intrigue and mystery.

Through interactive games, Hester Jones records children enacting and playing out fairytales, dwarfed by high heels and absorbed in croquet and tea parties. By inviting children to participate in games, such as 'Who Stole the Tarts?', the artist actively engages with children in the making of the final image, exploring the often dark and sinister world of fairy tales. The work challenges romantic and idealised portrayals of childhood, where the child is often 'object' as opposed to 'subject' as found in more traditional and historical paintings, photographs and current media representations. Fascinated by fairy tales, and intrigued by children at play, Hester is inspired by the therapeutic possiblitites of the concept of play for both adult and child.  The work explores identity, the loss of childhood innocence, and the child's vulnerability in today's society.

Francesca Tilio’s photographs retell one of the masterpieces of French theatre, “Les Bonnes” by Jean Genet, a play inspired by the case which shocked the France of the thirties. In Genet's play, the sisters Claire and Solange Lemercier perform a role-play every evening when their loved and hated Mistress is away, taking turns to portray Madame and the housemaid. The ritual is always the same and ends with the murder of the Madame. Genet describes the servants as "monsters, like ourselves when we dream of being this or something else". Francesca records the moments of their daily, delirious performance in which the sisters exhibit evil yet erotic femininity. The air is saturated with drama, actresses caught in a suspended moment – the eight shots are a prelude to an ending that we will never see.

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