Hanging Aaron

So here we are getting ready for Aaron's show for next week, its looking fantastic... Photographer Aya Sekine dropped in to help too, she is on the left, while master technician (and artist!) Seb Humphrys is on the left.... Its well worth having a look at Aya's website...
The show opens on Wednesday evening, so please do come and join us for a glass of wine.... Although please let us now you are coming by emailing rsvp(at)hostgallery(dot)co(dot)uk..
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Philip McCormack Aandhal

AT one of our recent portfolio sessions I was lucky enough to see Philip McCormack Aandahl's photographs taken in Namibia, its a great body of work and seeing as he was only there for a month its an impressive collection of pictures.... I really look forward to seeing the work he is doing on London, so watch this space....
I shall also be talking to Philip soon regarding having some prints in the gallery, do contact me for more info or just to express an interest in seeing prints of his....
This one is my favorite:

Aeroplanes #3 (Seamus Murphy Prints)

So another one in the series, this time by Seamus Murphy, shot in Afghanistan. From next week I shall have some of Seamus' prints in the gallery, please come and have a look... The set I will have will be 20"x 24" Silver Gelatin prints from an edition of 20...

Another example:

Mars Simulation

Ok the picture may not really hold up next to Vincent Fournier's work below, but I recently heard about this.... :
"23 March 2009
Just over a week from now, a crew of six will embark on a simulated mission to Mars. On 31 March, when they enter a special isolation facility in Moscow, the hatch will close behind them, only to be opened 105 days later. The two European participants will share their experience through a regular diary on the ESA website... " More can be read here...

Vincent Fournier: Space Project

In the recent issue of Ojo de Pez (a great magazine if you do not know it!).. Is the work of Vincent Fournier... I cant tell you how much I like this work, luckily its now a book too, I will hopefully have some copies in the gallery soon.... I really would so much like to see the prints of this work...
Here are some more examples....
If you looks at Vincent's website he has a new project called Underworld that looks equally exciting....

Fieret

Quite some time ago, a friend introduced me to the work of Fieret, which I find fascinating. He often marked the prints with a huge signature or stamp as you can see in some of these, almost making the prints like fetishes... His works are available through the Deborah Bell Gallery in New York City....

Jodorowsky / Schuman

This is a clip from Jodorowsky's El Topo

And this is an Aaron Schuman photograph which we will be showing in April

Kate Peters

Regrettably I didn't make it to the Format photography Festival conference last week, but have heard there was and is a lot of interesting work on show .... Kate Peters is someone whose I have seen before but was reminded of by Lauren (8 Magazine) who was there this year.... Here are some examples, and I am a fan....

Man and Beast

I have just read this on James Deavins blog, amazing stuff..... Here is a link to the post.....I like this picture so much, its almost biblical, but also such a great contradiction... Man happily living with beast.... Or not as the case may be....

Hampstead Heath

Andy Sewell recently showed my a large body of work on our famous Hampstead Heath, more of which can be seen here... Well worth looking at..

Last exit to Brooklyn #1

I recently finished reading Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jnr. And yes, I probably should have read it when I was 15 rather than 30, but despite it being pretty disturbing, it was an amazing read... Anyway I recently stumbled across this photograph by Jeremy Pollard, and although I am aware that the picture is from completely the wrong era, it is the start of a new thread of posts of photographs that remind me or anyone of the book.... So any suggestions welcome.....

Massimo Siragusa

I saw Massimo Siragusa's work when he won a World Press Photo Award earlier this year.... I find these pictures of Sicilian Slums very curious, so I asked Massimo more about the work...:
" So… the images have been shot in Messina, Sicily. In the month of October 2008. I wanted to underline a current Italian reality, particularly difficult, for the desperate economical and social conditions in which some people live.
Moreover this is a reality almost completely unknown, that very few people talk about. Since some time now I have been dealing with difficult situations, Naples for example, told by their dwellings. The houses and their rooms become the main protagonists, and tell a lot about the people that inhabits them, their habits, their struggle and their dignity that helps them face a very difficult existence..."

Once Upon a Time......

I have just confirmed the dates of a show of Aaron Schuman's work: Once Time in The West to open at HOST on the 14th April and running till the 9th May.... More info will follow shortly and all prints are available to from HOST...

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

Home Constellations and a Rainbows End

Here are some examples of Photographer Sam Kemp's body of work entitled Home Constellations. Believe me the prints are well worth seeing in the flesh, I should hopefully have some of Sam's prints in the gallery soon, the ones I have seen are stunning... And...

Whilst looking at Sam Website I saw a project entitled Rainbows End, Rainbows End was a small theme park or rather Fair ground in Bogner Regis, where strangly as a child I used to go.. Now as you can see Rainbows End is no more.....