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Landscape, Plants |
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education: |
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2007-2009 |
M. A. Photography (with merit), London Metropolitan University (part time) |
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exhibitions: |
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06 - 17 Nov |
2010 |
¡®Invisible Cities¡¯ Landscape, The Photo Gallery, Bristol |
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Aug |
2010 |
¡®Invisible Cities¡¯ KAA Group Exhibition, Korean Cultural Centre, London |
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May-Jun |
2010 |
¡®Invisible Cities¡¯, London Festival of Architecture, Canary Wharf, London |
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Feb-Mar |
2010 |
¡®Invisible Cities¡¯, In Absence, The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare |
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2009 |
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¡®Invisible Cities¡¯, part of Uncertain States, Photo-Space Gallery, London |
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¡®Invisible Cities ¡¯, M. A. Photography Final Show, London |
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2008 |
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¡®Unfolding¡¯, Foyer Gallery, London Metropolitan University, London |
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¡®Tube Project¡¯, M. A. Photography Interim Show, London |
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publications and reviews: |
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- All About London ·±´øÀ̾߱â (Seoul: Nexus, 2010): photographs of life in London |
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- L. Emery, ¡®Look beyond the Office¡¯, The Wharf (6 May 2010), 14 (review) |
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- ¡®Photo Essay: Yin and Yang in Korean Dance¡¯, at http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2009/12/12/yin-and-yang-in-korean-dance/ (12 December 2009) |
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- S. Jo, 'Artist's Gardens', Activate 5 (2009), 23-25 |
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- ¡®Korean Language Service¡¯, Hanin Herald, 318 (1 December 2008): 1 |
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- website Unji Chung (flautist), at http://www.unjichung.com/biography.php, http://www.unjichung.com/gallery.php (June 2008) |
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more detail:
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Book published in South Korea ¡®All about London, ·±´øÀ̾߱⡯. |
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GROUP EXHIBITION LANDSCAPE in Bristol 2010 |
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photographers |
Jan Tove, Jo Seong Hee, Simon Roberts, Tamany Baker, Toby Smith |
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Open Venue |
6-17 November 2010 The Photo Gallery in Bristol http://www.thephotogallery.org.uk/ |
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LANDSCAPE 6-17 November 2010
Landscape is an exhibition of contemporary landscape photography, and follows Portrait as the second in a series of four exhibitions at The Photo Gallery which will examine different aspects of contemporary photographic practice.
Landscape photography is one of those branches of photography which is so appealing to the picture buying public that it has become associated with the sort of bland scenes that you might find on the walls of a hotel; pseudo-dramas with dense clouds and misty water. It has become a victim of the rule of thirds and a pictorial orthodoxy for epic large scale scenery featuring superfluous foreground objects in sharp focus shot for little else than as a gratuitous display of its authors technical prowess.
Put all this together with an exotic location, and you have the recipe for what would be and is often mistaken as being representative of landscape photography. Wall fodder.
But landscape photography is about much more than far away or unseen places and an expensive camera. Landscape photography, like all other photography, like all art in fact, must convey a message or communicate an idea if it is to avoid becoming Ikea stock and take on a role in the fickle, jargon riddled world of contemporary fine art.
That isn't to say that pictures can't simply be enjoyed, quite the contrary, but it is up to us to distinguish between simple decoration and art.
Simon Roberts' large format photographs could be described as investigative social landscapes. His 'Motherland' project is an intimate and upbeat account of the places he visited and the people he met during a year long trek across Russia in 2004/05. Simon's work is held in many major public and private collections, including the Deutsche Börse Art Collection. His books Motherland and We English were published by Chris Boot in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and he was recently commissioned as the official election photographer by The House of Commons.
Following a series of trips to Iceland during different seasons, Tamany Baker produced 'Dark Light' a collection of photographs which resulted in a book of the same name. These images 'explore the extremes of season... and the relationship between the physical and the psychological landscape.' The resulting images were exhibited in Reykjavik City Hall in 2007. Tamany lectures at The University of the West of England, and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally.
Jan Töve is a freelance photographer and writer based in Sweden. His series of images R40 show
Old Route 40, slumbering in the shade of the free-way. We are also fortunate to be able to show a print from Jan's upcoming book 'Silent Landscape.' He has had three other books published, and has won many awards, such as Scandinavian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2004.
Christina Z. Anderson's series 'The Altered Landscape' concerns 'the intersection of human and landscape' and plays out a narrative, a tragicomedy of human traces and scars on the natural landscape. Christina uses alternative processes such as gum bichromate and mordançage, to extraordinary effect. She has authored three books, and is Assistant Professor of Photography at Montana State University where she teaches alternative processes.
Influenced by the writing of Marshall Mcluhan and the early photography of Alfred Stieglitz, Jo Seong Hee created her 'Invisible Cities' a series of 'fictional' cityscapes realized by combining individual photographs. The resulting aesthetic utopia works to great effect, and puts one in mind of the imagery in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Jo graduated with an M.A in photography from London Met in 2009 and has since been exhibiting around the UK.
During the making of 'Light After Dark' Toby Smith visited every power station in England at night; a hugely ambitious project with stunning results; he is now taking this further with his 'renewables project' looking at sustainable alternatives. Toby recently exhibited the renewables project at the print space in London, and has since taken this exhibition to Canada. He w on AOP Student Photographer of the Year in 2007.
This exhibition will also feature a video work from London based artist Emma Wieslander. Emma's piece for this exhibition 'Glacier 60000' looks at the process of information loss of a digital file through repetitiously opening and saving. A beautiful landscape is slowly broken down and destroyed until almost all of the information is lost and becomes an 'abstract almost map-like image'. A photograph of a real landscape becomes a digital landscape. Emma has exhibited globally, and will be putting together a solo exhibition at The Photo Gallery in January.
'Landscape' will be showing at The Photo Gallery until Wednesday November 17th, and will open with a preview night on Friday November 5th at 6:30pm. |
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