A cross section of the creative presence of photographers in London.
*Anna Schori
Anna Schori has been working as a photographer in London for the last 5 years.
A lot of my work is shot around corners and through glass and through windows…I quite like it to work almost like a surveillance camera, something that’s invisible. - Anna Schori
*Alastair Thain
Born in Germany in 1961 Alastair has been a photographer for 25 years. For the past 15 years he has been perfecting the art of building his own large format cameras in his studio in Shoreditch, East London. Capable of producing prints up to 25 feet high he now has a collection of about ten.
From my perspective when you’re working, above all else you just want to be able to engage with what’s in front of you and you want as little as possible to be interfering with that relationship. - Alastair Thain
*Eva Vermandel
Eva came to London in 1996 to work as a photographer after finishing her degree in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art, Ghent, Belgium. Within a couple of years she became a regular contributor to magazines like The Wire and Observer magazine. She also started working for record companies doing artwork and promotional photographs for a wide variety of artists.
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An impassioned and politically charged story of Ireland’s fight for independence that seeks to reveal the “true underbelly” of Britain’s colonial history. Damien (Murphy) joins his brother Teddy (Delaney) as a guerilla freedom fighter against the deadly British ‘Black & Tan’ units shipped over to halt the bid for liberation. After desperate fighting, both sides finally agree to a treaty, but not everyone agrees with its compromise and civil war erupts, ripping apart friends and families. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Maybe if you tell the truth about the past, you might tell the truth about the present. - Ken Loach
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Director: Ken Loach
Screenwriter: Paul Laverty
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[ array ] is the creative inspiration of artistic director and founder Darren Johnston. Driven by an artistic vision strongly rooted in collaboration, the company aim to explore alternative and innovative approaches to live performance and the visual/sonic arts. Fueled by a strong belief in cross art work [array] seek to explore new possibilities for the evolution of a distinct alternative voice
Darren has been making original work for the last 5 years under his own name and his former company red dragon. He has won a host of awards both here and abroad emphasising a unique talent and and his unique ability to create innovative live performance/installation work. Talking after the recent Warp Moves night at the Brighton Dome which Timeout described as,
Dangerous, compelling, fast and extreme. Utterly splendid.
Darren reveals what inspires him and where he sees contemporary dance heading in the future.
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Black Convoy is a UK based illustration and art collective formed early in 2004 to facilitate collaboration with artists and designers, from every conceivable creative discipline, worldwide; to promote and make publicly accessible UK image-making, illustration, animation and design; and to stage collaborative events, complete with affiliated academic workshops, in numerous global cities.
You can only go upwards if you know how to draw - Mark Taplin
Resplendent in 3D specs, 5 members of Black Convoy talk about why knowing how to draw will get you far in life and their recent 3D film shown during counter:vision at the Hayward Gallery.
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