JENNY WICKS – ROOT GINGER

Posted on 2009-02-23

The Idea Generation Gallery is pleased to present selected works from the book Root Ginger: A Study of Red Hair by the photographer Jenny Wicks.
An exhibition, book and film project, Root Ginger is an exploration of a genetic trait that is most common in Scotland and Ireland but is scattered around the world….
“I was originally inspired by two of my brother’s children who have red hair. The book is a tribute to people with hair this colour but it is also an investigation into the genetic lottery that we all play. Most people are aware the ginger hair gene has a recessive characteristic, which is also true for cystic fibrosis, both genes run through my family”.
Jenny Wicks

The exhibition runs until the 8th of March 2009

Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB

www.ideageneration.co.uk

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LOCAL STUDIES

Posted on 2009-02-23

Joël Tettamanti, born in Cameroon in 1977 and grew up in Switzerland, is a traveller between cultures. He takes photographs all over the world, traveling without a guide to unknown places where he gains inspiration for quiet, memorable photographs through chance and unforeseen encounters. He commutes between landscapes in which the presence of man is barely perceptible and cities in which nature has been banned almost entirely. He focuses his analytical and intuitive eye on specific objects with which people have “furnished” their living space: absurd scaffoldings, dense apartment blocks, sprawling settlements and timeless ruins – alien objects, bordering between usefulness and decay, frequently located in a twilit emptiness that reveals their forms and an enigmatic inner relationship. Tettamani’s colour photographs, many of them in large format, portray our urban, globalised world in which inconspicuous details and the quality of light subtly evoke meaning in a suggestive way. “Local Studies” is the first comprehensive presentation of Tettamanti’s work in Switzerland.

The exhibition runs until the 17th of May 2009

Fotostiftung Schweiz
Grünzenstrasse 45
8400 Winterthur
Zürich
Switzerland

www.photonet.org.uk

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DEUTSCHE BORSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2009

Posted on 2009-02-23

Now in its 13th year, this annual prize of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to photography in Europe, through either an exhibition or publication, over the past year. The winner will be announced on 25 March 2009.
The four shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009 are:

Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK) nominated for his publication, A Shimmer of Possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).

Emily Jacir (b.1970, Palestine) nominated for her installation, Material for a Film, presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale (7 June – 21 November 2007).

Tod Papageorge (b.1940, USA) nominated for the exhibition Passing Through Eden – Photographs of Central Park at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (7 March – 12 April 2008).

Taryn Simon (opposite) (b.1975, USA) nominated for her exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (13 September -11 November 2007).

This exhibition runs until the 12th of April 2009

The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW

www.photonet.org.uk

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