VANLEY BURKE

Posted on 2012-09-24

Widely recognised as one of the UK’s foremost photographers, Vanley Burke’s contribution to photography has been significant. It is a contribution which represents probably the greatest photographic document of the Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain, detailing the experience of Black people in the UK and their community identity.
Vanley Burke has been taking photographs in this area of Birmingham since the 1960s. Each venue on the trail has one or more of Vanley’s photographs on display. All are free to visit, opening times vary and some venues are closed on certain days, please call ahead if you are making a special journey.

Exhibition runs through till November 18th, 2012

Mac birmingham
Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham
B12 9QH

www.macarts.co.uk

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ZOE LEONARD

Posted on 2012-09-24

Engaging many of today’s core questions around photography and image-making, and stepping back from current debates about analogue versus digital (or nostalgia versus progress), Leonard will transform one of the gallery’s spaces into a camera obscura.In this embodied experience of viewing, a constantly changing panorama of 17th Street – with its mix of architecture and urban activity that reflects the immense changes in Chelsea in recent years – will project continuously on the floor, walls, and ceiling. Neither analogue nor digital, the dark box of the camera obscura can be understood as a model for the mind and the unconscious, an apparatus that makes visible the mechanics of sight. What happens inside resembles what transpires in one’s eye: light lands on the retina inverted and reversed, and a series of transformations occurs in the brain allowing us to comprehend the images we receive.

Exhibition runs through till October 27th, 2012

Murray Guy
453 West 17th Street
New York
10011

murrayguy.com

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MITRA TABRIZIAN – ANOTHER COUNTRY

Posted on 2012-09-24

Another Country is a series of 8 large-scale group and individual portraits showing real people: immigrants who have come to Europe from the Middle East, and their children, some of whom were born in the UK. The scenes are shot in everyday settings in London – a school, a café, a cemetery, but the geographic location remains ambiguous. Where is here? “In this context, which challenges the polarity of identifications, the title ‘Another Country’ no longer refers to some other country out there, but to a culture within” says the artist.

Mitra Tabrizian’s work explores a range of issues including post-colonial theory, corporate culture in the West and the recent cultural and political shifts in Iranian society. Blurring the boundary between fact and fiction and combining documentary techniques with those of film, she produces meticulously choreographed photographic scenes of condensed narratives.

Exhibition runs through till November 2nd, 2012

The Wapping Project Bankside
65a Hopton Street
London
SE1 9LR

www.thewappingprojectbankside.com

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