Nina Korhonen Workshop

Just announced is that from April 5th until April 12th Atelier de Visu will be holding a workshop directed by Photographer Nina Korhonen in Marseille.... I am sure this will be a great event more info here....
If you do not know Nina's work it is wll worth looking at, her book Minne, Muisto, Memory is so beautiful.... The picture below is from her book Anna

Vampire

I have just bought of artist David Gray a copy of his book Vampire and really cannot recommend it enough its absolutly stunning, and comes with a print!, anyway here is more about it in his own words.....:
In Cernavodă, Ceausescu’s ghost still stalks the fringes of town.
The bulk of the tenements are crumbling like rotten teeth and the
outsiders, the Gypsies and the Turks have clustered themselves into
makeshift shanty villages clinging to the city’s perimeter like limpets.
The streets and alleys are dark and lifeless, the dracul could easily
inhabit these shadowy recesses.

Vampire provides us with a powerful but understated pictorial
narrative for a defining moment in Romania’s transformation from
despotism to nascent democracy, a time of hope and despair.

The dream that days break portfolio is a new limited edition
photographic book and print series by David A Gray. Published
and produced by seventy six degrees and clear, a new series
will be released every 6 months. Vampire is the first.

The images are presented in a 10” x 8” 28 page singer sewn book.
There is a text introduction from Paul Summers and an illustration by
Marc Gooderham. The book is accompanied by a 10” x 8” print. Both
are individually signed, numbered and in an edition of 100.
I have copies in the Gallery at £25.00 soon to be online here....

Baghdad Calling

Now in the shop , and ahead of his talk tomorrow evening (Feb 26th) We have copies of Geert Van Kesteren's acclaimed Baghdad Calling.. Sale Price £24.00 hopefully we will have signed copies as of Friday...

Aeroplanes #2

This is a Nina Berman Photograph taken from her recent book Homeland published by the great Trolley Books....

Credit Crunch and The Merrion Shopping Centre

This morning we were discussing the lack of good photographic work dealing with the worlds current financial nightmare, and felt a little short changed (Sorry!)... Nothing seemed to spring to mind immediately that summed up in anyway the problem at hand... Every morning I wake up to the radio telling me of more impending financial doom, and yet where are the images?
Of course there is Anthony Suau's first prize World Press Photo (here) but I have not seen anything really that sums up the day to day feeling of whats going on here....
Then I remembered a picture that photographer John Angerson showed me recently, part of his English Journey work, and this is it entitled Merrion Shopping Centre, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 2008. This is it:

So if anyone has any other ideas, or pictures let me know.... I have a feeling this is just a starting piont for an ongoing post.... (On another note in the gallery we have copies of John Angerson's book Love, Power and Sacrifice (Life with the Jesus Army). It's available in the gallery and soon online here...

Richard Wentworth

I have just got a couple of copies of Richard Wentworth's book 'Making Do and Getting By' from his show held at The Photographers Gallery a while ago alongside the work of Eugene Atges (which is also in the book).. Whilst Wentworth (represented by the Lisson Gallery) is primarily known as a sculptor, this book of his photographs is one of my favorite photo books... On sale at £21.00... I have seen a differently designed and sequenced version of this work published but I feel it looses some of the humour of this version and its careful editing...

Fuji Prints

Chris Steele Perkins recently dropped in some prints from his body of work and book Fuji (if you have not seen the book its well worth a look), they are all 20"x 24" archival ink jets, here are a couple of the ones we now have... I also have a few copies of the book Fuji, some of which are signed... Both prints and books are for sale.. H

Book Titles

We are currently working on a book of the photographs (above) of Maurice Broomfield, whose work we had on show at the end of last year.. This Morning we were discussing titles for the book and it reminded me of genius piece that Alec Soth posted on his old blog about good and bad titles for Photo Books, Read it here...
Whilst searching that post , i came across this other post of his, on famous books original titles, which can be read here...