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Web picture of the Day | Summer is over

posted by Bridget on 02 September 2010

Chris Killip's couple eating fish and chips.

Chris Killip

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Web picture of the Day | Summer is over

posted by Bridget on 01 September 2010

Next in our holiday round up is Chris Steele-Perkins' Blackpool Beach from 1995.

Chris Steele-Perkins

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Troika Newsletter 70

posted by Michael on 31 August 2010

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We are delighted to bring you our September Critic's Choice by Debra Klomp Ching, New York gallery owner, distinguished photography reviewer and co-curator of emerging US photography at the inaugural Flash Forward Festival in Toronto, October 2010.

Debra has chosen Jon Spencer's work and writes, "Jon Spencer's photographs of Band Stands captured my imagination from the outset. The visual depth of the images, constructed from the successive layering of photographs, provide a magical, almost whirligig vision of time and space.

Yet, they are also quiet, poetic studies of an architectural structure, synonymous with the formality of the English garden and of English leisure."

We Recommend: In Case it Rains

Kurt Tong has a solo show at Photofusion with his series' "In Case it Rains in Heaven" and "Memories, Dreams; Interrupted".

Calling on his personal experiences and those of his Chinese family, both series are a refreshing exploration of the current interest in memory as a subject for photography.

On the 21st September Kurt will be in conversation with our own Bridget Coaker at Photofusion discussing his work.

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Debra Klomp Ching | The Klompching Gallery, New York

posted by Michael on 31 August 2010

September's Critic's Choice has been made New York Gallery owner Debra Klomp Ching. As well as being the owner of Klompching Gallery, which can be found in the DUMBO district of Brooklyn, Debra is a regular reviewer at several notable photography review festivals including Houston Fotofest, Review Santa Fe and Rhubarb Rhubarb.

She was recently the guest editor for PQ (published by the Center for Photography in Woodstock) and is the co-curator of emerging US photography at the inaugural Flash Forward Festival (Toronto, October 2010).

Debra has chosen Jon Spencer's Bandstand series.

Battersea Park by photographer Jon SpencerSHE WRITES: "Jon Spencer's photographs of Band Stands captured my imagination from the outset. The visual depth of the images, constructed from the successive layering of photographs, provide a magical, almost whirligig vision of time and space. Yet, they are also quiet, poetic studies of an architectural structure, synonymous with the formality of the English garden and of English leisure.

"I recall countless autumnal 'leaf-kicking' walks, solitary book-reading and people-watching whilst perched on a weather-beaten bench. And yet, I can't help but wonder about the ghostly rendition of an 'other presence' - what, who, when ..."

Myatt's Fields bandstand by photographer Jon SpencerSpencer describes the bandstands as "noble sentinels". They bear silent witness to the changing populations that inhabit the parks. This homage to history, to memory and it's intrinsic connection with photography, is insightfully played out through his use of systematic construction, that situates the solid uniformity of the band stand within the milieu of mutable activity.

He succeeds in teasing out both a collective memory of place, and a more personal memory of experience. With "Nottingham Castle", for example, I recall countless autumnal 'leaf-kicking' walks, solitary book-reading and people-watching whilst perched on a weather-beaten bench. And yet, I can't help but wonder about the ghostly rendition of an 'other presence' - what, who, when ... - the Nottingham Castle bandstand by photographer Jon Spencerheavy weight of an 'other' is intriguing and sets one's imagination darting in all directions, but always returning to the anchor of the band stand.

Jon Spencer has created photographs that are ethereal, at once very specific and yet so universal that the connection with the viewer is multifarious. The bandstands are indeed "silent sentinels", but they also call out ever so majestically."

Debra Klomp Ching

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Web picture of the Day | Summer is over

posted by Bridget on 30 August 2010

It's the bank holiday - to mark the end of summer and our return to work this week we offer you a nostalgic look back at the summer holiday season. Starting with Martin Parr's seminal work New Brighton.

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Web picture of the Day | Autumn Preview

posted by Bridget on 29 August 2010

Our third winner is Katrin Koenning with her Thirteen Twenty Lacuna, a series of pictures catching walkers as they step into the sunlight.

Katrin Koenning

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