let's see | Art

 

This collection explores what happens when we move closer in on a city and listen to what it whispers. These photographs represent intimate conversations, an ear to the chest of the urban body.

Photography by:
Mikio Oba
Beatriz Palma
Richardo Toledo
Karl Grupe
Julia Massey Stewart
Janet Durrant
Jen Kavanagh
Nadja Sumichrast
Paul Loades
Marija Pocekutova

Curated by Julia Massey Stewart and Karl Grupe

Designed by Karl Grupe

This Wednesday from 7 – 10 pm. It’s Open House and there will be artists showing anything from painting to glass blowing and of course the exhibit. Prints will be on sale from £10.00 each with 10% being donated to the charity – Unique. Love to see you there.

Directions

 7:00 am. I look out the window and see a fresh layer of frost. Cold. It’s going to be cold.

I have been fascinated with the painterly scenes that nature is producing through night as of late. She has not stopped for a rest. So I felt today I would break with routine and make my way into the woods and out onto the field that overlooks Coleshill.

And in this exercise would move away from the digital camera - and instead use my old Polaroid 190 and some Fuji instant film. I love this. The tactile and sequenced operation of working - the time waiting and knowing when the work was “cooked” properly — measuring the exposure by sensing and seeing and feeling - relying on one’s own internal light meter and not some spot meter in a highly advanced camera. I enjoyed returning to the communication with light and atmosphere that one gets when needing to be sensitive to the art of creating an image when left with most minimal equipment. And with instant film running a pound per sheet — there is this focus to detail — attention to all the elements that make photography - PHOTOGRAPHY — and not just shoting and shooting and shooting in the hopes of photocopying some piece of life that arranges well within the frame and becomes a success because the numbers are there.

return to space

copyright karl grupe 2008      

diary of a burned out car

copyright karl grupe 2008

“starting school” amersham, uk 2008

“brighton love” Brighton, UK 2008

road side, Arizona 2007

Parking Lot, Hoover Dam, Nevada C- Print 2007, 1200mm x 900mm

Neue Deutschland  2007,  C -Print 1200mm x 900mm

C-Print 500mm x 500mm

Materials: Polaroid SX70 film.