TARA DARBY – LITERARY JOURNEY

Darby’s Literary Journey series recounts her travels through towns and cities used as settings in great books of American 20th century literature. Her first journey followed Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and was recounted episodically on the Another magazine website. The second journey features in this show at Transition and takes her to the Deep South to follow the plot and locations of Carson McCullers’ 1940 novel The Night is a Lonely Hunter.The story centres on the experiences of a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he meets in a 1930s mill town and was the first in a string of works by McCullers to give voice to the rejected, forgotten, mistreated and oppressed.

Exhibition runs from May 6th to May 22nd, 2011

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London
E8 4QN

www.transitiongallery.co.uk

JOHN HUMBLE – OTHER PLACES / VENICE BEACH

With Other Places, Humble decided to broaden his scope and “drive around the United States and photograph the American Landscape.” Previously, his work was created with a large view camera, but advancements in digital photography enabled him to make his new photos with a hand-held camera, allowing more freedom and mobility. Humble made a series of extensive trips, staying primarily on smaller country roads. It is, of course, significant that his explorations were made in a car, and that his discoveries have become part of a great tradition in American photographic road trips.Like his observations in Los Angeles, these American pictures are about insights in juxtaposition; aged and vacant storefronts sit beside gaudy drive-thrus, hand-painted religious billboards stand in empty fields, as do newly constructed, box-like churches that look more like concrete-slab industrial parks.

As a counterpoint to Humble’s photographs of Middle America, he will concurrently present a series of photographs of Venice Beach. As the artist describes it, “there is no place in the world like the tawdry three-ring circus of Venice…electric guitar players on rollerblades, marijuana doctors, tarot readers, muscle builders, tattoo shops, drug addicts, entertainers, and people speaking every language under the sun.”

Opposite – Closed, Enoch, Utah, 2010

Exhibition runs through to May 7th, 2011

Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404

www.craigkrullgallery.com

WIM WENDERS – PLACES, STRANGE AND QUIET

Places, strange and quiet, brings together almost 40 images, taken by Wenders from 1983 to 2011, it will feature many photographs not yet exhibited in London.
Wenders has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken in countries around the world from Salvador, Brazil; Palermo, Italy; Onomichi, Japan to Berlin, Germany; Brisbane, Australia, Armenia and the United States. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, the exhibition will present the full range of his work, exploring how he created and honed remarkable images that continue to resonate powerfully

Opposite – Street Corner Butte, Montana, 2003

Exhibition runs through to May 17th, 2011

Haunch of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET

www.haunchofvenison.com