This is an enormous exhibition of over 250 photos by famous war photographer Don McCullin. A working class lad who left school at 15 and got interested in cameras during his national service, the show opens with the first photograph he sold (in 1958 a policeman was stabbed by members of a gang in Finsbury […]
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Don McCullin @ Tate Britain
Posted by Simon on February 13, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/don-mccullin-tate-britain/
Don McCullin
This is a beautifully produced book, a huge coffee-table format feast of Don McCullin’s very best photographs, along with a generous helping of many less well-known ones. War photos McCullin is well known as one of the great war photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, having been close up to conflict across […]
Posted by Simon on March 9, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/don-mccullin/
Shaped by War by Don McCullin (2010)
I felt I was in the right place at the right time. I had an almost magnetic emotional sense of direction pulling me to extraordinary places. (p.37) In 2010 the Imperial War Museum held an exhibition of the war-related photos of Don McCullin. This is the large-format, coffee table book of the exhibition. It features […]
Posted by Simon on March 7, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/shaped-by-war-don-mccullin/
Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin (2015)
‘I needed to be at home. I needed the peace of my own country, England. Yet when I go home and sleep in my own bed, I soon become restless. I am not shaped for a house. I grew up in harsh surroundings. I have slept under tables in battles for days on end. There […]
Posted by Simon on March 3, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/unreasonable-behaviour-don-mccullin/
Purdah – The Sacred Cloth by Arpita Shah @ Autograph ABP
‘I wear my headscarf as cultural signifier for who I am and what I believe.’ Arpita Shah was born in Ahmedabad, India in 1983. She is a photographic artist and educator based in Scotland. She spent the earlier part of her life living between India, Ireland and the Middle East before settling in the UK in […]
Posted by Simon on November 6, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/purdah-sacred-cloth-arpita-shah-autograph-abp/
Liberty / Diaspora by Omar Victor Diop @ Autograph ABP
Autograph ABP is a lovely, big, open gallery space not far from Old Street tube station, devoted to exhibitions of photography by people of colour. It has just finished a ravishing exhibition by Senegalise photographer Omar Victor Diop, born 1980 in Dakar. The ground floor exhibition space displays thirty beautiful digital photographs which feature Diop himself […]
Posted by Simon on November 5, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/liberty-diaspora-omar-victor-diop-autograph/
New East Photo Prize 2018 @ Calvert 22
A woman wearing a goldfish bowl on her head, a building like a concrete football, an Orthodox church surrounded by tower blocks, a ruined electricity pylon leaning right over like a science fiction monster galloping into the mist, born-again Christians being immersed in cheap blow-up swimming pools, a snack bar caravan by a deserted lake, […]
Posted by Simon on November 4, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/new-east-photo-prize-2018-calvert-22/
I Am Now You – Mother by Marcia Michael @ Autograph ABP
Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography and film, cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. ABP stands for the Association of Black Photographers. Originally based in Brixton, ABP moved to a new, purpose-built gallery and offices at Rivington Place in Shoreditch in 2007. It is here that the ABP gallery is currently hosting […]
Posted by Simon on June 22, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/i-am-now-you-mother-marcia-michael/
Devotion: A Portrait of Loretta by Franklyn Rodgers @ Autograph ABP
Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography and film, cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. ABP stands for the Association of Black Photographers. Originally based in Brixton, ABP moved to a new, purpose-built gallery and offices at Rivington Place in Shoreditch in 2007. It is here that the ABP gallery is currently hosting […]
Posted by Simon on June 21, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/devotion-portrait-of-loretta-franklyn-rodgers-abp/
