tim walker.

Tim Walker's photography for Italian Vogue last January. Flippin' freaky. Freakin' fantastic!

Tim's got a show coming up next week at the Somerset House - Tim Walker: Story Teller. Do attend...

Much much more of Walker's phantasmic fashion photography on his website here. 

daido moriyama: tights and lips.

Tights and Lips, an exhibition at Michael Hoppen Contemporary in London, will precede a larger showing of the Japanese photographer's work (much of which delves into a less sensual, though no less intriguing side of life).

Artist's website here.

edward burtynsky: OIL.

Scorched earth and soured tires, Edward Burtynsky's OIL series is an exquisitely excruciating glimpse of oil production and the spectacles that flank it. Oil riggers, oil extractors, oil fields, oil spills, the systems we've built to move it, the cars we've built to consume it. We're a society with oil in it's veins.

An exhibit currently at the Photographer's Gallery showcases three sections from the Canadian photographer's series: Extraction and Refinement, Transportation and Motor Culture, and The End of Oil. Burtynsky gave this statement regarding the work on display:

"In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil…”

Oh so eerie, and oh so engaging. Runs till 1st July. 

Burtynsky's website here. 

alex katz at tate st ives.

If the notion of St. Ives invokes a heady vision of the British Colonial tropics, then you would join me in being slightly misguided, but not entirely wrong. St. Ives is a coastal town in northern Cornwall, home to a "clear blue ocean" and "sunlight flickering over the cottages and quays", as its romantic proponents put it. 

It's also home to the fourth (and most remote) leg of the Tate collection. And though it's no hop-skip-and-a-jump from the capital, these bleary eyed, warmth infused canvases from 1950s painter/print-maker Alex Katz might be worth the road trip.

Alex Katz at the Tate St. Ives is on until 23 September.

 

london festival of photography.

Hurrah huzzah! It’s the first of the month and that means oh so many things. We are officially…

48 hours away from well wishing the Queen, or at least downing a G&T on her behalf,

8 hours away from finishing work and getting on with the serious business of a bank holiday weekend,

4 hours away from lunch,

and 0 hours away from the opening of the London Festival of Photography!

Formally known as the London Street Photography Festival, the London Festival of Photography began last year as a showcase of strictly candid “street” snaps. But having since dismantled these constraints (well, only slightly - the emphasis is still on documentary photography) from that ashes of LSPF has risen the even more inclusive LPF! With 18 exhibitions taking place around London for the next month, (plus 30 satellite events like workshops, talks and screenings) LPF looks dead good.

So let’s LeaPForjoy! 

A preview of a few of the exhibitions:

Frederick Wilfred 

Steve Bloom

The Great British Public 

The Gaddafi Archives - Lybia Before the Arab Spring  

Kurt Tong 

Simon Roberts

The London Festival of Photography will be hosted at various venues from 1st June - 31st. Details on their website here.

gered mankowitz.

Gered Mankowitz opened his first studio on Masons Yard in London when he was 17 years old. He took these and hundreds of other portraits of rock and roll nubiles throughout the 1960s. He's still at it.

Check out his wonderful new exhibition, now on at Snap Galleries in Picadilly Arcade (not all that far from his original studio).

Read my full review here!

And enjoy Gered's full back catalogue here.