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Nick Turpin on the BBC

Friday 24 April 2009

In-Public founder Nick Turpin is talking about street photography and the impact of new anti-terror legislation on the freedom of photographers to make pictures in public places on the UK’s BBC Radio 4. The program can be heard at 15.45 GMT on the 28th April. Nick has been an outspoken critic of the UK Government’s continued erosion of human rights in the name of security.

Pic Nick Turpin

You can listen to the program online here.

Nick also writes about the important role photography plays over on sevensevennine.com

Nils interviews Anahita Avalos

Monday 13 April 2009

Nils Jorgensen has interviewed photographer Anahita Avalos on the rotating gallery of Too Much Chocolate, bringing well-deserved attention to her stunning images.

Mexico-based Anahita talks about her love of street photography, and how it makes her feel alive at the same time as torturing her.

Image by Anahita Avalos

Too Much Chocolate

Friday 03 April 2009

This week, Nils Jorgensen is interviewed by Kate Kirkwood on the ‘rotating gallery’ over on ‘Too Much Chocolate’.

Each week a photographer is interviewed by the photographer who was featured the week before. Nils talks about taking his first photograph at the age of six, balancing his commercial and personal photographic lives, and the inspiration of Andre Kertesz.

Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

Monday 30 March 2009

Image Helen Levitt

Yesterday, a great poet of the streets and an inspirational woman in history left us forever.

Helen Levitt was born on August 31, 1913 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Levitt quit school and began her career in photography aged 18, while working in a portrait studio in the Bronx. There she acquired her technical skills, but her inspiration to make images came from art and photography exhibits and from films and theatre.

While other photographers of the 1930s were documenting social injustice around the country and the world, Levitt chose to devote a long career to a place and people just blocks away from her home. She was also well known for her photographs of street life in Mexico City.

Her passion for life was evident in everything she did. She had a natural aesthetic flair and was one of the pioneers of color photography. She knew how to combine intuition and intellect in order to create compelling compositions, and her photographs are simultaneously subtle, honest, rich and mysterious.

Levitt’s pictures have love without being sentimental. She pursued her dreams for nearly 70 years and inspired generations of artists. She will always be known as one of the greatest poets of everyday life. Her legacy and art will live forever.

Nils Seen in Unseen

Monday 30 March 2009

Nils Jorgensen has work published in a new book by The British Press Photographers Association. ‘Unseen’, published on the 18th March, highlights the fact that ‘that huge numbers of brilliant pictures never see the light of day through too tight deadlines, design limitations or the preconceptions of editors’.

‘Unseen’ by The British Press Photographers Association

Image by Nils Jorgensen

Fans of Nils Street Photography can now by prints from A Gallery.

Narelle Autio's The Summer of Us

Saturday 21 March 2009

Narelle Autio

25 March to 2 May 2009 Stills Gallery, NSW, Australia
Opening Sat 28 May 3-5pm

Since they were first exhibited at Stills Gallery in 2000, Narelle Autio’s vibrant and award-winning images of Australian coastal life have won her impressive national and international acclaim, as well as capturing the hearts and imaginations of viewers.

One of the beauties of her work is its ability to speak to speak to so many people about their own experience as coastal dwellers. The play of colour and light is magical too, giving the photographs a painterly quality that transcends usual depictions of the beach. Autio’s images give the coastline back the complexity, drama and beauty that are so easily eroded by postcards and clichés.

For her new body of work, The Summer of Us, Autio has returned to the ocean, but this time to the shore, to the natural and man-made remnants of long summer days; to a lone pink thong, the skeletons of sun hats and sand-crusted fish. Using large format film, Autio documents her finds, treating each with the same kind attention to detail. Thoughtlessly discarded by its owner, a bottle Reef Oil for example, is resurrected larger than life. Against a clean white background, the glossy promise of this product almost returns to its former glory, despite the all too familiar truth that applying sun lotion at the beach is a sand-caked and unglamorous affair.

Her collection of images introduces us to a lovely continuum existing between manufactured and natural, between ocean and land. Lost gloves slowly grow to resemble five fingered sea creatures and in turn lost sea creatures become curious objects when washed up on the shore. Autio’s appreciation for the power and the poetic transformations of the ocean is elegantly portrayed in these works.

Jeff Ladd in the Guardian

Monday 16 March 2009

Jeff Ladd is featured in The Guardian in an article about his Errata Editions book series.

Q & A with Jeff

Friday 06 March 2009

There’s a great Q&A with Jeff Ladd over on Blake Andrews’ blog.

Otto Snoek's two Books

Wednesday 25 February 2009

Otto Snoek has two new books out on the 7 March. The first, “Rotterdam”, is the result of Otto’s collaboration between Witte de With. The second, “Why Not”, accompanies the exhibition of the same title in the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam.

Rotterdam
Available at Witte de With, and via the following distributors:

D.A.P., New York (USA only), online catalogue: www.artbook.com, e-mail dap@dapinc.com, phone +1 212 627 1999

Cornerhouse, Manchester (UK and Ireland only), online catalogue:
Number of copies 1250, language Dutch/English

Why Not
Text: Henk Oosterling
Graphic Design: Studio Beige
Hardcover, 140pp

ISBN 978-90-5973-114-1 [English edition]
ISBN 978-90-5973-109-7 [Dutch edition]

€ 32.50 [Netherlands]
€ 35.00 [Europe]
€ 37.50 [outside Europe]

In the Netherlands, the event culture has led to far-reaching changes in public areas. They are primarily perceived and used as stages for consumption, with public partying, shopping and celebrating.

Over ten years, Otto Snoek visualizes the ambivalent relationship between the promise and the letdown of our modern way of urban life.

The photographs in “Why Not” focus on contemporary forms of leisure: festivals, soccer games and parties. Looking at these promises of mass culture, Snoek exposes the increasingly commercial character of urban life, as well as people’s uniformity in a crowd.

David Solomons Book

Monday 23 February 2009

David Solomons has produced a rather nice paperback edition of his street work, including 49 color and 16 black and white images.

David has kindly made five copies available to the first five in-public readers who email him through the Contact page.

David Solomons | Photography

Manifesto

In-Public was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers.

Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities, we are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to show their work because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment. The pictures remind us that, if we let it, over-familiarity can make us blind to what’s really going on in the world around us.

Blake Andrews

I grew up in rural California and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1992, around the same time I became interested in photography.

I took a class and began shooting occasionally, but it wasn’t until I left my day job that it really steamrolled. Now…