04 Oct - Awards Presentation and Party. See website for times and tickets

AOP Photographers Awards 2012

A celebration of exceptional work by the industry’s elite. This competition is only open to Full & Provisional Photographer Members of the AOP. It is regarded as THE awards competition for professional photographers and being selected for entry into the book and accompanying exhibition is considered one of the highest accolades available to photographers around the world.

14 Oct - 30 Oct - Preview 14 October 5pm

Someone I (don't) Know

Magali Avezou

How the other dwells in our imagination? With faceless portraits, this project explores how we interpret someone else’s world. Through traces of the subject’s private sphere, it conveys impressions and sensations that build a sensitive portrait and invite the viewer to create his/ her own story about the character.
www.magaliavezou.com

08 Oct - 14 Oct - Opening 9 October, 6-8pm

Truth & Art: 3 Artists, 3 Continents, 1 Truth

Sunara Begum

Truth & Art is a new exhibition exploring the relationship between three global artists/musicians and their work. Combining paint on 16mm film with archive images as well as 35mm photographs the images are evocative and timeless. The exhibition tells the story of the ancient and modern, illustrating its relevance and importance to our present.

Exclusive performance by South American group, the Diana Baroni Trio and Musicialist. 9 Oct 6-8pm

26 Oct - 05 Nov

Late Fragment

Pippa Healy

Which objects will surround you in the final years of life? And what might they say about you ; about who you are, and who you were? What would you choose to take when moving from a house and home into just one room?

‘Late Fragment’ is a series of photographs taken in resident’s rooms in care homes. The project explores what residents keep with them, whether through necessity or comfort.

You can’t take your possessions with you, but some of them you take to the very end of the very end.

Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the photography of exile online

Victor Hugo and the Jersey Studio

Dr Jann Matlock, Senior Lecturer, UCL French and School of European Languages, Culture and Society

What is it about exile that inspires photography? This talk explores the earliest known exile photography, created in the studio formed by Victor Hugo’s family and friends in their exile on the Channel Island of Jersey between 1852 and 1855. In these years, the Hugo group turned exile into a photographic project, and in doing so, they transformed the history of photography.

02 Oct - 13 Nov

Home Sweet Home

Anna Batchelor, Sarah Colson

Home Sweet Home is a guerilla exhibition of portrait photography and cross-stitch samplers that tell the story of a dispersed community. The community are the remaining residents of the Ferrier housing estate in south-east London, which is being gradually demolished. With emphasis on the human experience of regeneration, photographer Anna Batchelor has taken portraits of the remaining residents in the context of the changing estate. Designer Sarah Colson has fused cross-stitch embroidery with quotations from Ferrier residents and imagery from the estates environment. For this exhibition the images are posted onto the boarded up fronts of the Ferrier's empty houses.

26 Sep - 06 Oct

Collective View

Tom Leighton

Tom Leighton’s new works reveal the poetic beauty that can result from painstaking digital manipulation. Leighton has travelled through Europe, Asia and North America, building up an impressive body of photographic images that he then combines to make fantastical landscapes. The resulting works test our instincts. The exhibition title, Collective View hints at some of the many themes of Leighton’s work.

19 Oct - 19 Nov - Preview 19 October 6pm

Trans

Laura Cuch

The life-changing experience of having an organ transplant has an impact on senses of identity. Some individuals have experienced taste, personality, or behavioral changes after an organ transplant, which they sometimes relate to the traits of their donors. Trans considers these new identities and how they are woven into personal narratives by the recipients. Trans is the third part of a trilogy following Sleepless (about people who sleep very little) and No Ma (about women who know for various reasons that they will never be mothers). In all three projects, the details of each image are arrived at collaboratively.

5 November
NEGOTIATING SUBJECTIVES: Photography, Health and the Body Symposium. Contact laura@lauracuch.com

22 Oct - 27 Oct

Metroland

Anaí Tirado Miranda, Karolina Maria Dudek, Nicholas Wiltshire, Sian Macfarlane, Nathalie Joffre, Ian Rudgewick-Brown, Michael Rodgers, Sonja Trabandt, Simone Padelli

A photographic exhibition of work from MA students at London College of Communication that will explore how it is to live and exist in the current space of London.

The exhibition will address people’s need for more comfort, space, connection with each other and better environmental conditions (or the perception of).

15 Sep - 15 Oct

ID:id

photographer and teacher: Francesca Sanlorenzo artists: students from the Art & Design department of Abbey Manor College over the last three years

This unique exhibition presents a series of photographic portraits of 16 year old young people from Abbey Manor College, a Centre of excellence based in Lewisham that offers vocational qualifications to students outside mainstream education. The photographs are my attempt to capture a glimpse of their personality at this point in their life as they are going through an important transformation into adulthood. The images also become a memory for us all before they leave the College. Alongside the photographic exploration of youth identity, large format self-portraits produced over the years by my former students are also exhibited.

05 Nov - 7pm

PhotoVoice Lecture Series

Tim Flach, Lewis Blackwell

An exclusive PhotoVoice evening - your chance to meet and discover the methodologies of Tim Flach, one of the foremost conceptual fine art photographers of our time. Tim is an international award winning photographer highly regarded for his stylized portraits of animals.
Arguably his most famous work comes from his projects Dogs Gods and Equus, and his work made up an exceptional 14-page feature in the May 2012 issue of Intelligent Life magazine.
Lewis Blackwell, the acclaimed author, publisher and photography expert, will be your guide for the evening as we take a peek into the creative perspectives behind Tim’s images that questions our relationship to animals and nature.

29 Sep - 12-8pm

AOP PHOTOGRAPHERS AWARDS 2011

Exhibition and Workshops

There are a lot of photography competitions out there for professionals but the AOP Photographers Awards is still regarded as the original and the best - a celebration of exceptional work by the industry’s elite. This competition is only open to Full & Provisional Photographer Members of the AOP. It is regarded as THE awards competition for professional photographers and being selected for entry into the book and accompanying exhibition is considered one of the highest accolades available to photographers around the world.

23 Sep - 19 Nov

JOACHIM FROESE: Archive, and ANDRE PENTEADO: Dad's Suicide

JOACHIM FROESE ANDRE PENTEADO

This exhibition brings together two photographers whose work is concerned with the death of a parent. Taking different approaches to a very sensitive subject, the making of the projects were a type of therapy for the photographers as they dealt with the sense of loss and grief.

04 Oct - 31 Dec - Tue-Fri 10am-5pm Sat 10am-4pm

Island to Island - Dominica, Barbados & Britain

Tim Smith

This Redbridge Museum exhibition displays stunning images by respected photographer Tim Smith. The exhibition uses photographs and people’s stories of migration to explore the close relationship between Britain and the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Barbados.

The exhibition comprises photographs of the Dominican
community in East London and Bradford, as well as from the islands of Dominica and Barbados, where Tim Smith spent his childhood. These contemporary photographs are complemented by his father’s rare photographs of everyday life on the islands during the 1960s.

Photographs by Tim Smith, Derek Smith and the Belle Vue Studio.
Stories compiled by Polly Pattullo, Celia Sorhaindo and Tim

06 Oct - 25 Nov

Protectors of Sight

Sophie Gerrard

The Savitri Trust commissioned Sophie to travel to Bihar in North East India to document the amazing story of the fight against curable blindness. Sophie visited Bihar several times over a two year period to create this project.

Protectors of Sight is a powerfully emotive documentation of the work of the Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital and the hope and resilience of the people of rural Bihar whose lives are so drastically affected by cataract blindness.

15 Oct - 15 October 2011 10 am to 5 pm

Chingford Photographic Society Annual Exhibition

Members of the Chingford Photographic Society.

An exhibition of over 150 photographic prints by amateur photographers of all abilities.

16 Oct - 28 Oct

London Independent Photography 24th Annual Exhibition

London Independent Photography’s 24th Annual Exhibition is the highlight of the group’s calendar - a must-see event for anyone interested and involved with photography in London.

The impartial selection process is key to the exhibition’s success, as every member has an equal chance of selection. This year over 130 photographs will be on display and they showcase the diversity and extraordinary breadth of talent within the London Independent Photography membership.

18 Oct - 29 Oct

London Independent Photography 23rd Annual Exhibition

Various photographers representing the 600+ members of London Independent Photography (LIP)

The 23rd LIP Annual Exhibition shows a selection of the best work completed by members over the past year. The exhibition is independently selected by 2 professionals representing the wider photographic community.

This years selectors are as follows;

Dewi Lewis established his publishing house in 1994. Internationally known, its authors have included leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, William Klein, Frank Horvat, Paolo Pellegrin, Sergio Larrain and Bruce Gilden.

Bridget Coaker is a picture editor based in London, where she works for the Guardian and Observer newspapers and is also Director of Photography for the online contemporary photography gallery Troika.

31 Oct - 19 Nov

Kelly McCann - DownTown

Kelly McCann

A collaboration exhibition with the Viewfinder Gallery.

Kate’s intention is to document Imizamo highlighting the continuation of day to day living despite the shocking conditions that the residents here contend with. The clothes on the washing line, the children’s toys, the family photographs and the little boy playing with a vuvuzela – a remnant of the World Cup whirlwind that had held so much hope for those in desperate need of development.

To see more of Kelly’s work, please view her personal website - http://www.ekellymccann.com

17 Oct - 22 Oct

Kate's Journal

Astrid Schulz

he project ‘Kate’s Journal’ started in January 2010 when Kate Sims was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite her devastation she asked photographer Astrid Schulz to take some pictures of her, depicting the way she looked before the operation. Astrid suggested continuing the photo sessions during the different phases of treatment until full recovery. The result is a sensitive and compelling series of portraits.

The exhibition ‘Kate’s Journal’ and the incorporated events aim to give other cancer patient (and their next of kin) an insight into the treatment with a supportive note.