Last night was the opening of Top Deck, featuring photography of Will Robson-Scott and James Pearson-Howes. Our friends over at BNTL were there to catch some shots of the opening.
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Weegee: Murder is my business
The International Center of Photography looks set for some exciting exhibitions in 2012. Opening on January 20th, and organized by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, will be Weegee: Murder is my business.
The exhibition draws upon on the extensive Weegee Archive at ICP and includes environmental recreations of Weegee’s apartment and exhibitions.
More here
Top Deck
This Thursday, 12th January, will be the launch of Top Deck which is a collaboration between photographers Will Robson-Scott and James Pearson-Howes. The collaboration is in conjunction with Utile and Mother London.
“Top Deck, is a series of images made over the course of two years on the top decks of east London buses giving a new a perspective on the monotony of the every day commute. The work will result in a newspaper publication and a two-week show at renowned advertising agency, Mother.
Foreword for the publication is written by journalist Justin Quirk, who writes for the Guardian and is the editor of HOUSE magazine. Here is a little excerpt:
In popular myth, Margaret Thatcher reportedly said that any man
still travelling by bus after the age of 30 could consider himself a
failure. The quote is almost certainly apocryphal, but it stuck in
the public consciousness because it sounded like the kind of thing
that an arch-conservative would say; cars were the preserve of the
rich and successful, whereas buses were how the poor, the failed
and the antisocial travelled around the city. If there’s any truth in
that distinction, then it damns an awful lot of people in London.
Justin Quirk 2011
The publication, which is a limited addition off 500 copies, will be on sale here, http://topdeck.
Bert Danckaert
Since the mid-nineties, Bert Danckaert (Antwerp) has been working as a photographer and has showed his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. He has travelled through and photographed many cities across the world, including but not limited to; New York, London, Beijing, Cape Town, Hong Kong and Havana.
Danckaert also writes about photography for several newspapers and magazines (mainly <H>ART) and has worked as freelance curator. He is associate professor of photography at the Academy of Antwerp.
Bert Danckaert is POC (Piece of Cake) member, a European collective of photographers.
In 1999, Danckaert started the series ‘Make Sense!’ which was published as a book in 2006.
From 2007 on he is working on a series entitled ‘Simple Present’. In 2008 his second book ‘Simple Present – Beijing’ was published.
You can see more of his work here
Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmaker. He was an avid traveller, passing through cities such as Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Amsterdam or traveling through Africa and Japan, he preferably took photographs of striking individuals with character and is renowned for his street photography.
Here is his film ‘My Amsterdam’ (1983) which shows him biking through Amsterdam.
