photography exhibitions in london

i called in last week (or maybe it was the week before) to a few photography exhibitions in london...

if you get the guardian on saturdays a few times this year they have featured the work of sebastiao salgado, photos of bleak untouched places and peoples on earth. they really are quite amazing. well his work is on at hackelbury, a small gallery near gloucester road tube. i loved seeing his work. it is selling at about £6000 a piece so if you bought the guardian magazine you got it cheap!

on a similar theme IPA nature photographer of the year 2007 josef hoflehner , has work on show at the atlas gallery on dorset street (near baker street tube). i loved these even more. they are black and white landscapes that capture a wonderful sense of stillness, again in remote places. (they also have two sensational portraits of mohammed ali in the window as a bonus!)

then lastly i called in to the new white cube west end gallery which is an amazing space in itself. jeff wall who was featured on the genius of photography series on bbc 3 (well worth seeing if it gets a rerun) has 3 huge photos displayed in light boxes and then some black and white shots. the theme he explores is beauty in the mundane which is a theme i love so i was surprised how little i actually liked his work. i didn't dislike it, i just expected to be moved by it in some way and wasn't unlike the other two exhibitions. i liked one of the photos in a chicken shed in canada but the others did very little for me. i was impressed with the technique and loved the light boxes and gallery but that was about it... timeout reviewed the show and loved it and he is pretty well known as a contemporary photographer so you may love it. don't be put off by me.

all these are free - you've got to love london.

i plan at some stage to make our annual trip to see the wildlife photographer of the year which is on at the natural history museum (though sadly that one is not free!)

Comments

[geoff]

thanks for this, jonny. always appreciate your photo related posts. i just had lunch with a local professional photographer and he had sent me with some homework to look up sebastio salgado...nice coincidence to see you mention him here. wish i was in london to see his work.

peace,
geoff

[Marcin Mikolajczuk]

Hello,
my name is Marcin. I am organising a photo exhibition of my work in Blue Room Cafe in Soho. The pictures will be shown to the public in February. The title is THE COLOURS OF NEPAL and the images that I will expose you can see on the website: www.baboostudio.com. What do I need to do to advertise this even on your website? Thanks for your help.

Best Regards,

Marcin Mikolajczuk
tel: 07948421208