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A feast for the eyes and your collection!
16 Mar 2009
At The Photographers' Gallery this March there are great opportunities to build your collection and high quality exhibitions to explore - so what are you waiting for!
Photography is more popular than ever before, and there's never been a more exciting time to start collecting. Photographs are modern, accessible and relatively inexpensive - especially with an Own Art loan. Check out Guy Tillim's Avenue Patrice Lumumba series and don't forget to visit this year's Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Guy Tillim - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Until 26 April 2009
Guy Tillim, Avenue Patrice Lumumba © Guy Tillim/courtesy of Michael Stevenson Gallery. Available to purchase with Own Art through Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery, London
Until the 26 April 2009, Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery will be featuring the work of Guy Tillim, Avenue Patrice Lumumba. Tillim is a widely respected and established photographer based in South Africa and has received numerous awards and grants recognising his accomplishments.
Travelling through several countries in Africa including Angola, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Avenue Patrice Lumumba reflects on the civic architecture conceived in the last years of colonialism and the immediate ostcolonial period in Africa. Tillim demonstrates how, through the country's shifts in power, the architecture has been absorbed into the African landscape. Today, these buildings and civic spaces are an integral component of contemporary African culture.
Through his work, Tillim resists viewing the buildings reductively as symbols of domination or as representative of the general decay of African institutions, but rather seeks to acknowledge the complexity of their histories.
All works are for sale and available to purchase through the Own Art scheme. Photographs are printed on cotton rag archival paper and can be viewed on the first floor of the gallery and in the Print Sales Viewing Room (Third Floor).
Guy Tillim, Guy Tillim, Avenue Patrice Lumumba © Guy Tillim/courtesy of Michael Stevenson Gallery. Available to purchase with Own Art through Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery, London
Win a copy of Avenue Patrice Lumumba - the stunning book showcasing the photographs of Guy Tillim!
We have one copy of the book, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, £35 published by Prestel, to give away.
For your chance to win a copy of this exquisite publication, simply email your name and address to ownart@artscouncil.org.uk quoting 'GT' in the subject field by 12pm on 15 April. The lucky winners will be informed and sent a copy of the book in the post.
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009
Until 12 April 2009
The annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize prize of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to the medium of photography, through either an exhibition or publication, in Europe over the previous year.
Taryn Simon, White Tiger (Kenny), Selective Inbreeding, Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge and Foundation, Eureka Springs, Arkansas © 2007 Taryn Simon/ Courtesy Steid/Gagosian
From Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009 at The Photographers' Gallery
The shortlisted artists for this year are Paul Graham, Emily Jacir, Tod Papageorge and Taryn Simon.
Brett Rogers, Chair and Director of The Photographers' Gallery, says, ‘the finalists this year redefine the medium of photography and its possibilities as both a conceptual and creative tool. Each, in their distinct way, attempts to represent the unrepresentable: Taryn Simon in her compelling dissection of the invisible forces that rule our lives; Emily Jacir in her installation which proposes new narratives for approaching recent Palestinian history; Paul Graham whose new series of books encapsulates the poetry of the everyday, and Tod Papageorge who transforms the subject of Central Park, New York, into a Shakespearian paean to urban leisure.'
Deutsche Börse Group is one of the leading exchange organisations and a major sponsor of photographic art. The Group owns an extensive art collection o contemporary photography which, to date, includes more than 700 works by over sixty international artists. Further information on Deutsche Börse Group and its art collection can be found at www.deutsche-boerse.com/art.
The winner of the prize will be announced at a special ceremony on 25 March 2009 at The Photographers' Gallery, London.
Taryn Simon, Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, Cherenkov Radiation Hanford Site, U.S. Department of Energy Southeastern Washington State. ©Taryn Simon/Courtesy Steidl/Gagosian
From Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009 at The Photographers' Gallery
The Photographers' Gallery has recently relocated to 16 - 18 Ramillies Street. This move highlights a key moment in its history, building on the Gallery's heritage as the world's leading organisation for the study and promotion of photography.
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