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4th May 2010 |
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We are delighted to bring you this month's Critic's Choice, "Manor Garden Allotments" by Jan Stradtmann chosen by Roger Tooth, Head of Photography at The Guardian. Roger's intuitive understanding of the importance of sheds in the british male psyche is wonderfully presented in his response to Jan's work. "There is something about men and sheds. It's a bit like men and the sea. There's a natural affinity there. Men love sheds. They want to build sheds. Anything from a D.I.Y store's cut-price, paper-thin tongue-and-groove offering to a proper allotment lash-up, made from anything and everything. Bits of old skirting board, chicken wire, Edwardian panelled doors - the lot. The allotment confection route was favoured by the builders of the erections that are the subjects of Jan Stradtmann's photographs." |
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Jan StradtmannHut #1 - Manor Garden Allotments "I think these pictures are all at once funny, sad and disturbing. Looking at them made me smile...bringing back those heady, multi-coloured Lego brick days of childhood. Disturbing in the way the sheds are photographed at night. Manor Gardens seems a very lonely place after dark". |
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Jan StradtmannHut #2 - Manor Garden Allotments "I'm glad he took them - just to record their existence is important in this rapidly changing capital city that does not leave much room for the individual. Allotments like parks, let the city and its citizen's breath". |
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Jan StradtmannHut #3 - Manor Garden Allotments Selected earlier this year for the 9th Aenne Biermann Award Exhibition and most recently nominated for the 6th Koerber Foto Award Exhibition, currently on show at the House of Photography in Hamburg Jan is gaining a deserved reputation as an exciting new talent.
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We Recommend: Between Two TruthsOpening this week at the new Smokehouse Gallery in Hackney Wick, is the inaugural exhibition of photography "Between Two Truths" curated by Troika Editions artist Matthew Booth. The show brings together artists who explore the elemental nature of photography and its ability to conjure up the illusion of space. Interested in photographers who do more than use photography as a recording medium and instead highlight something which is not apparent through normal sight, Matthew has included work by Troika Editions artists Emma Critchley and Stuart Bailes. "Between Two Truths" opens on the 7th May with a Private View on Thursday 6th May, 6-9pm at the Smokehouse Gallery, Forman & Son, Hackney Wick, London. |
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Artist NewsJust opened at Trove, part of The Old Science Museum in Birmingham is "Show of Science" featuring Victoria Jenkin's series "Lapis Philosophorum", a beautiful set of black and white photographs of constructed experiments. Featured on Troika Editions with her series "Images from the Institute of Esoteric Research" we will be showcasing Victoria's new series later in the year. Profiled on the cover of the latest issue of Centurion Magazine, Jan Dunning presents the latest work in her series "Precarious Rooms", which we will be showcasing soon. Interviewed by Jonathan Briggs, editor in chief of The Photographer Magazine, Lynne Collins series "The Trespasser" will be featured in the magazine's special Fine Art Edition due out in June 2010. Chosen by an international jury from over 500 entries, Christine Erhard has been selected to take part in FotoSommer Stuttgart 2010 Award Show which opens on the 30th July 2010. Christine will be showing work from her new book "Fotografien", now available from Troika Editions. Iveta Vaivode's work "Terminus Riga" is to be exhibited at the Riga from the 15th may until 6th June 2010 alongside award winning Alexander Gronsky's series Pastoral at the Foto Kvartal Museum. |
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Troika Talk: Picture of the DayThis week we are celebrating May Day in all its various incarnations starting tomorrow with one of the very first May Day parades in Russia in the 1920s |
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