From the 21st to the 23rd of September 2018, artists from the London Alternative Photography Collective will be exhibiting at the Unseen Photography Fair CO-OP in Amsterdam. The exhibiting artists will be Melanie King, Almudena Romero, Diego Valente, Hannah Fletcher, Simone Mudde, Ramona Guntert, Dafna Talmor and Oliver Raymond-Barker. The theme drawing together works from each artist is a certain strangeness which is encountered in the natural world, with some artists using natural materials to create photographic prints.
To promote the accessibility of alternative and analogue photographic processes, artists Dafna Talmor and Oliver Raymond Barker will create hands-on workshops throughout the duration of the fair. Diego Valente will create a performance especially for Unseen.
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Almudena Romero
Almudena Romero will show a series of chlorophyll prints, which uses this organic printing process and found archive images to reflect on the archive as a medium for identity construction, but also a mean to produce artwork, and on the environmental impact of deregulation of goods and capitals. By altering the photosynthesis process of a plant, Almudena creates image objects that reflect on the increasing restrictions of movement for persons and the reduction of regulatory barriers for goods and capitals. The artist will be presenting pot plants that are originally from Asia, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands and still widely available on a daily basis markets in London.
Diego Valente
Diego Valente will be exhibiting a new series of prints of plants photographed at night, using a unique solarisation process which brings out the metallic properties of the silver. This series of prints will also be accompanied by a unique performance.
Ramona Guntert
Ramona will be presenting works that challenge the medium of photography and its existence as prints. Ramona creates spaces with images, shapes and abstraction, collaging, layering, different materials. These collages will expand through the booth creating a dialogue between the artist and the audience. Taking fragments from nature and connecting them in new ways, building a language that the artist calls her own taxidermy. Ramona gets inspired everyday by graffiti, wall textures and patterns in nature. These organic shapes inform her practice. How things overgrow or disappear and how this shapes the walls of the city and its architecture. She uses different materials, to create a feeling (ideas of becoming, transforming, subject object relation) without revealing what we are looking at.
Hannah Fletcher
Hannah will explore the relationship between the photographic surface and organic matter. The work is a flow between processes and materials, between research and exploration, between the poetic and political. Entwining organic matter into the photographic medium, working with uprooted plants, she will apply photographic and non-photographic chemicals directly to exposed black and white silver gelatin paper. She will then incorporate an uprooted and water starved plant to the print as it develops and dries. The resulting images will contain the marks of absorption or osmosis; the uptake by plant roots. The discarded salts on the paper will crystallise as the water is absorbed by the plant or evaporates. Where the roots have been in contact with the paper, salt crystallisation will map out their structureSimone Mudde
Simone Mudde’s latest work in progress takes colour separation photography as its subject matter. Three monochrome images are exposed using coloured filters and subsequently layered in the darkroom (or via digital editing) to constitute a colour image. Developed in the early 20th century as a means for making colour images, the process was traditionally followed with a meticulous attention to detail. In order for an accurate colour image to be produced, the three separations demanded perfect composition and accurate exposure. Any failure to do so could result in alignment issues as well as glitches of colour. In the case of Mudde, failure is taken as a narrative and basis for the work to be built on. Errors are used to identify the passing of time, the latency of movement, and furthermore to break down the colours that are perceived within the images.
Melanie KingMelanie will exhibit a new 16mm film, which draws attention to an oft forgotten element of our landscape, the Moon - an illuminated lantern which seems to make a journey through through the sky. Caught up in the busy tumult of life, we forget that Earth too is moving, spinning on its axis at 1040 miles per hour.
Dafna Talmor, Constructed Landscapes – Constructed Worlds WorkshopIn this hands-on slide collaging workshop, participants are provided with an archive of 35mm found vintage slides and are invited to appropriate images by making physical interventions. Tampering with the materiality of the surface by collaging, drawing, scratching or layering fragments of the reconfigured transparencies, participants will re-project the slides and photograph them digitally. Using Selphy printers, these digital files can be printed immediately (and manipulated further beyond the workshop). Participants will get to keep their one-off collaged slides, prints as well as digital files of the projected images they produce. In dialogue with historical as well as contemporary processes that engage with the materiality of film - from Pictorialism, Modernism and current photographic practice - the workshop presents the opportunity to combine analogue and digital processes, experiment with different materials and enables participants to produce work in a short space of time that reflects the medium’s malleability and versatility in a playful way. As well as running a workshop, Dafna will be showing work that has not been exhibited previously.
Oliver Raymond-Barker, The Latent Image Workshop
In this alchemical workshop visitors will discover the latent potential of the photographic image. Working with the Chemigram process they will use pre-exposed black & white paper combined with photographic chemicals to create unique prints. Unlike conventional photographic techniques, Chemigrams are made under normal lighting conditions making it an accessible activity. Using a range of simple masking techniques - such as electrical tape and sticky back plastic - will allow participants to explore the dynamic between geometric form and the unpredictable, organic results generated by the Chemigram process. The technique combines elements of painting and printmaking as well as photography, thereby initiating dialogue around the nature of the photographic medium and it’s relationship to other art forms.
Oliver will also be exhibiting chemigrams within the exhibition.
Making It Real at Ugly Duck
Venue: Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner St, London SE1 3PL
Date: Friday 6th October - Sunday 8 October, 2017
The London Alternative Photography Collective presents “Making It Real” an festival showcasing artists who are working at the intersection of analogue and digital technologies. This exhibition explores the combined creative possibilities when analogue technologies and digital technologies are used together.
This exhibition considers the following questions:
– How do analogue processes help us to understand their digital counterparts?
– How can digital processes be made to seem more tangible using analogue technologies?
– How is our understanding of “reality” influenced by the use of analogue and digital techniques?
– How can traditional analogue photography, film and sound making techniques be creatively disrupted to create unique artworks and productions?
– How can digital processes be enhanced by analogue input?
Exhibiting Artists:
Alex Cassetti // Alexandra Gribaudi and Theodore Plytas // Ana Escobar // Anne Erhard // Andrew Graves Johnston // Cameron Williamson// Caroline Jane Harris // Christina Shirlinger // Dafne Salis // Daniel Berrange // David Pereira // Deborah Humm // E Gabriel Edvy // Emma Backlund // Harry Crown // Isabella Streffen // Jacqui Taylor // Jo Gane // Johnny Goddard //Katarzyna Bojko-Szymczewska // Katia Ganfield // Kerimcan Goren // Lewis Bush // Liz Blum // Luca Damiani // Luke Harby // Mal Troon // Mark Tamer // Marta Wlusek // Martha Gray // Myrto Amorgianou // Natalie Keymist // Nettie Edwards // Rachel Allain // Ramona Güntert // Renata Neon // Samuel Partal // Sayako Sugawara // Susu Laroche // Thom Bridge // Thomas Tyler // Victoria Ahrens // Victoria Doyle // Zanny Mellor
Open Door: The Photographers’ Gallery
When: Friday 2 June - Sunday 4 June 2017
Where: Eranda Studio, The Photographers’ Gallery, 16 - 18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
Image Credits: Nilu Izadi
A series of events at The Photographers’ Gallery for a series of events surrounding the idea of “making a photograph”.
Programme:
Ongoing Fri 2 June - Sunday 4 June 2017, LAPC Exhibition
This exhibition is based on the concept of making images. It includes works in which the process of making is self-evident. It opens on the evening of Friday 2 June and is open during gallery hours over the weekend of ¾ June. The exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to look, learn, experience and reflect on photographic process in a very broad sense. Artists include: Ackroyd and Harvey, Edouard Taufenbach, Simone Mudde, Diego Valente, Molly Behagg, Alfonso Borragan, Hannah Fletcher, William Britten, Melanie king, John Whapham and Almudena Romero.
Friday 2nd June 2017, 6.30 - 7.30pm, Artist Talk by Matt Collishaw
Mat Collishaw (b. 1966) is a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths’ College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Mat Collishaw, The New Art Gallery Walsall (2015), In Camera, Library of Birmingham (2015), Black Mirror, Galleria Borghese, Rome (2014), This Is Not An Exit, Blain|Southern, London (2013), Bass Museum of Art, Florida (2013); Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Bari (2013); Mat Collishaw: Afterimage, Arter, Istanbul (2013) and Magic Lantern at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2010).
Friday 2nd June 2017 7.30pm, Alternative Photography Artist Talks
With Molly Behagg, Hannah Fletcher, Melanie King and Almudena Romero.
Saturday 03 June 2017, 10.00am - 12.01pm, Emulsion Lifts and Transparencies with IMPOSSIBLE
The Impossible Team demonstrate the creative possibilities of their magic instant film. They’ll show you how to dissect instant pictures to produce emulsion lifts and transparencies. Emulsion lifts enable you to transfer your instant pictures onto many different surfaces and thereby extend the creative potential of your images to a higher level. You will be able to make one or more emulsion lifts and transparencies during this hands-on workshop. Experts from the Impossible Project will guide you through the whole creative process in depth and will provide you with interesting bits of background and history of their company and products. All materials provided.
Saturday 03 June, 2pm - 5pm, Pinhole Camera Workshop
Workshop participants will be able to construct their own pinhole camera from a container of their choice, we will provide containers if you don’t have one. Participants will also learn how to load their pinhole cameras with photographic paper and calculate the right exposure times. They will leave the workshop with a unique paper negative.
Saturday 03 June 2017, 2pm - 5pm, Cyanotype Printing On Wood with Almudena Romero
Discovered in 1842, the cyanotype process works by contact printing and it is only UV light sensitive. It gets developed and fixed in water and it is totally safe to use with children. The cyanotype process has mainly been used for documenting purposes such as botanical specimens in the nineteenth century and architectural or engineering designs (blueprints). This process is very tolerant to experimentation and it can be applied on cotton, wool, wood, and even non porous surfaces such as glass or acrylics. In this workshop you will be given a 9cm round wood cut to coat, expose, develop and take home your own cyanotype print.
Saturday 03 June 2017, 5pm - 7pm, Show & Tell for Artists to present work
This is London Alternative Photography Collective’s fourth ‘show and tell’, open call event. The session provides an opportunity for practitioners using alternative photography processes to share their work with a community of peers. Artists using alternative processes can both give and receive feedback on current projects, share technical tips and provide advice. It’s a popular event and we expect to receive a large amount of submissions. Each participant will have 3 minutes to present their work. Participants must show physical work/prints. Free to participating photographers, please book ahead Please note: Show & Tell is for first-timers only. If you’ve taken part in a LAPC Show & Tell before, please leave the place for another practitioner. PLACES OPEN WEDNESDAY 3 MAY
Sunday 04 June 2017, 11am - 2pm, Photographic Emulsion Workshop with Diego Valente
Photographic emulsion is probably the most versatile of the alternative photographic processes. You can coat photographic emulsion onto a wide variety of materials including paper, fabric, metal, rubber, wood, plastic, ceramic, glass, stones, shells and many others. In this workshop you will learn how to prepare a variety of different surfaces and objects, and create your own photographic artwork on paper.
Sunday 04 June 2017, 3pm - 6pm, Chemigram Workshop with Melanie King
Invented in the 1950s, chemigrams are cameraless photographic images made by exposing photographic paper to light and a variety of simple household items and darkroom chemistry. This process provides opportunities to experiment and to explore creative and simple photographic processes. Workshop participants will be able to take home several chemigrams made during the workshop.
London Pinhole Festival 2017
Image Credit: Diego Valente
MAIN EXHIBITION
Venue: Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0QN
Private View: Wednesday 26th April 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition Continues: Thurs 27th April - Sunday 30 April 2017.
Private View: Wednesday 26th April 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition Continues: Thurs 27th April - Sunday 30 April
Pinhole Photography Workshop with Ky Lewis, Sunday 30 April 12:00 - 15:00pm (see below for details)
The London Alternative Photography Collective will be hosting London Pinhole Festival 2017 at Four Corners Gallery in Bethnal Green.
ARTISTS // William Bock / Oliver Raymond-Barker / Dariusz Adamek / Florentin Boddendijk / Tomasz Kowalczyk / Michalina Hendrys / Allessandra Rinaudo / Felix Xifel / Bálint Pfliegel / Almudena Romero / Diego Valente / Marko Umicevic / Camilla Mangueria / Olga Suchanova / Daniel Berrange / Katrine Skovsgard / Ewa Nowakowska / Lucy Williams / Stanislaw Chomicki / Nigel Breadman / Pauline Woolley / Elizabeth Ransom / Ben Bradish / Ky Lewis / Michaela Davidova / Tomasz Chowaniec
Pinhole Photography Workshop // Ky Lewis
For World Wide Pinhole Day, come along and learn how to make a pinhole camera from a cyindrical container. You will learn how to use it and process the photographic paper in a darkroom using traditional wet processes. Fun, creative and unusual images will be made and you should leave with the ability and confidence to make youur own pinholes at home.
Information sheet will be supplied, please bring your own notebooks.
Pinhole & The Art of Invention Exhibition
Venue: Monty’s Gallery, Basement @ Barber Streisand, 45 Exmouth Market, London, EC1R 4QL
Private View: Friday 28th April 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Exhibition Continues: 29th April to 20th May 2017, Mon-Fri 11-8, Sat 11-6, Sun 11-5
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Curated by Anthony Carr
Since its discovery, photography has aided scientific breakthroughs and allowed us to see things well beyond our human capabilities. From the microscopic to the distant, the magnetic to the negatively charged, photography has made visible, the invisible. And behind all these breakthroughs is a passion for invention and developments in technology and apparatus.
This pinhole-focussed photography exhibition celebrates this art of invention and the inventiveness of artists by including photographers who build homemade cameras and mechanisms to serve a specific purpose. These innovative apparatuses will take centre stage and be given the limelight their ingeniousness deserves. Pinhole and the Art of Invention is thus an exhibition championing the cameras behind the images.
Participating exhibition collaborators are Daniel Berrange, Anthony Carr, Andrew Chisholm, Nicholas Middleton, Howard Moiser and Emma Simpson.
Experiencing Photography at Brighton Photo Fringe
Venue: Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove, BN3 2LS, 1-30 October 2016
Thursday - Friday 12:00 - 18:30, Sat-Sun 11:00 - 18:30
Closing Party: Sunday 30th Nov, 4-7pm.
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On this occasion the London Alternative Photography Collective is showing a selection of works that invite visitors to experience rather than view photographic pieces.
Artists Anthony Carr, Alice Cazenave, Melanie King, Zanny Mellor and Almudena Romero use a variety of digital and analogue technologies including thermodynamic ink, reflective paint, phosphorescent paper, laser lights, and moldable materials to challenge traditional ways of experiencing photographic works.
Curated by Almudena Romero.
London Pinhole Festival 2016
Doomed Gallery Dalston, 65-67 Ridley Road, Dalston.
Thursday 21st April to Sunday 24th April 2016
The London Alternative Photography Collective will be hosting London Pinhole Festival 2016 at Doomed Gallery Dalston. This exhibition will consist of pinhole photographs, using a variety of different processes.
As part of the exhibition, there will be pinhole photography workshops, simultaneous pinhole exposures, artist talks and a pinhole camera show and tell.
Curated by Melanie King, Director of the London Alternative Photography Collective.
Thursday 21st April 2016 / 6.30PM
Opening Party.
Facebook Event.
Friday 22nd April 2016 7PM
Artist Talk by Nigel Breadman and Sam Vale
Saturday 23rd April 2016
Book now for Ky Lewis’ Pinhole Photography Workshop
Sunday 24th April 2016
Anthony Carr Pinhole Photography Workshop
Simultaneous Pinhole Camera Exposure on Ridley Road, Dalston 1pm.
Exhibiting Artists:
William Arnold
Daniel Berrange
Sheila Bocchine
Nigel Breadman
Chris Byrnes
Anthony Carr
Stella Asia Consonni
Andrew Chisholm
Laura Ellenberger
Michalina Hendrys
Natalie Keymist
Ky Lewis
Sheila McKinney
Nick Middleton
Yaz Norris
Douglas Nicolson
Tina Rowe
Sebnem Ugural
Sam Vale
Magdalene Wanderlust
Chasing Shadow
Sugar Store Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre, The Lake District, UK, 22 Jan - 13 Mar 2016.
The Chasing Shadows collective based in Dublin, invited members of the London Alternative Photography Collective to exhibit with them at The Sugar Store Gallery, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal. The Artists chosen were: Mike Crawford, Ky Lewis, Constanza Isaza Martinez, Andres Pantoja, Jaden Hastings, Sheila McKinney, Melanie King and Almudena Romero
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Photo Pioneer: Photo Primitive Exhibition
Exhibition, The Belfry at St John on Bethnal Green
UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC)
Date:
Opening Party- Thursday 2nd March6pm-8pm
Coinciding with the Moose on the Loose Book Launch
Following on from the highly successful 2014 show Making Time: New Photographic Constructions, and 2015 show Photo Pioneer: Photo Primitive at Penwith Society Gallery. William Arnold, Andy Hughes, Melanie King and Oliver Raymond Barker will be exhibiting new works that utilise a range of analogue and digital processes to generate their individual visions. From William Arnold’s beautiful sequence of cameraless botanical prints to Melanie King’s astronomical cyanotypes that ‘draw from the heavens’ ; from Andy Hughes iconic Plastic Photo-Totem to Oliver Raymond-Barker’s visceral prints exploring the nature of stone - this show is an exciting exploration into landscape and the material potential of photography. Photo Pioneer: Photo Primitive is part of an ongoing concern to develop new audiences and opportunities for the photographic arts within Cornwall. Photo Pioneer: Photo Primitive is a partner of the London Alternative Photography Collective.
Unstable Exhibition, selected through EXPOSURE for FORMAT International Photography Festival 2015.
Organised by Melanie King (Director of London Alternative Photography Collective, Anthony Carr and Claire Reece (Hemera Collective)
Artists:
Anthony Carr, Melanie King, Jo Gane, Ky Lewis, Nettie Edwards
Unstable was an exhibition of heat sensitive and photographic works which are unfixed. Visitors to the exhibition had the opportunity to interact with the exhibited work, so that it changed gradually during the course of the exhibition. Unstable challenges the concept of the photograph as “evidence” or “proof” in a playful and interactive way.
Capturing Light
SILVERPRINT GALLERY
5 May to 15 June 2015
Curated by the London Alternative Photography Collective and Brigitte Lardinois
This exhibition explored the ways in which young and emerging photographers are challenging the digital, and using a wide variety of analogue processes, many of which originated in the 19th century.
Incorporating a selection originally shown during the Reeves Studio project in Lewes, the exhibition was accompanied by the Shadows Symposium at Camberwell College of Art,
This was a Moose on the Loose 2015 event. UAL website.
Artists:
Rob Ball
Nettie Edwards
Melanie King
Constanza Isaza Martinez
Yaz Norris
London Pinhole Festival Exhibition
Doomed Gallery, 65-67 Ridley Road, Dalston.
24-26 April 2015.
Exhibition curated by Melanie King (Director of LAPC) and Ken Flaherty (Director of Doomed Gallery).
ARTISTS:William Lawrence Arnold, Laurie Baggett, ChiLyn Chen, Ashley Coad, Mike Crawford, Steve Jones, Camille Lévêque, Ky Lewis, Sheila McKinney, Nieves Mingueza, Patrick O'Reilly, Raffaella Quaranta, Maxi Taylor, Amy Rockett-Todd, Diego Valente, James Weber, Ralph Whitehead
Capturing Light
LEWES CASTLE MUSEUM
04 Oct - 30 Nov 2014
Curated by the London Alternative Photography Collective and Brigitte Lardinois
This exhibition explored the ways in which young and emerging photographers are challenging the digital, and using a wide variety of analogue processes, many of which originated in the 19th century.
Incorporating a selection originally shown during the Reeves Studio project in Lewes, the exhibition was accompanied by the Shadows Symposium at Camberwell College of Art,
This was a Moose on the Loose 2015 event. UAL website.
Artists:
Rob Ball
Nettie Edwards
Melanie King
Constanza Isaza Martinez
Yaz Norris