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Work / Photography

Remi Chapeaublanc: Gods and Beasts

Words by Charlotte Simmonds, Tuesday 28 February 2012

Remi Chapeaublanc is quite the rugged individualist – the French photographer recently set out solo to traverse Mongolia astride a motorcycle, carting camera equipment along with the usual adventuring fare (food, tent, and toothbrush, I presume). The result is this stunning collection of images which distill an enigmatic environment down to two fundamentals: its people and its animals. By exploring their dialectic visual relationship, Chapeaublanc marries portraiture with documentary to create images that are so beautiful, so sparse, you’ll swear you can still hear the wind whistling through a barren Mongol wilderness.

Work / Photography Photographer Laura Pannack finds inspiration in a Romanian folk tale

London-based photographer Laura Pannack will exhibit a new body of work Youth Without Age, Life Without Death: Chapter 1 at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery next month. The work is inspired by a Romanian folk tale that follows a young prince on a quest for eternal life. The work, which was created over the past four years and shot on expired film, presents the viewer with mysterious landscapes, portraits and still lives that pose questions about life and death. Together they create a sober and absorbing narrative loaded with atmosphere and meaning, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.

Owen Pritchard — 28 September 2016
Work / Photography Four photographers explore life in London's liminal spaces

This Thursday, Now Gallery at Greenwich Peninsula opens Intimate Spaces, an exhibition inspired by photographer George Plemper’s Riverside School series which captured the working-class life in Thamesmead from 1976 — 1979. Originally imagined as a futuristic utopia on sea, Thamesmead was built at the end of the ‘60s by the Greater London Council to provide housing for families moving from increasingly crowded Victorian houses in south east London.

Bryony Stone — 28 September 2016
Work / Photography Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia

Transnistria, AKA the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, is a self-proclaimed republic on a strip of land between the River Dniester and the eastern Moldovan border with Ukraine. “During the collapse of the Soviet Union the narrow strip of land declared independence from Moldova. Since the civil war in 1992 the central government lost control and an unofficial currency, parliament, national anthem and citizenship was formed,” explains Julia. “But the self-proclaimed state is not recognised by anybody, not even by Russia – yet there is a huge Russian impact on political, economical and public life.”

Rebecca Fulleylove — 27 September 2016
Work / Photography Adam Birkan captures the diverse and juxtaposing landscape of Hanoi

Photographer Adam Birkan’s series of Hanoi, Vietnam captures the contrasting moments that occur within the city. “It examines both ends of the social spectrum, individually and as juxtapositions to each other,” says Adam.

Rebecca Fulleylove — 26 September 2016
Work / Photography Photographer Toru Akai uncovers the Invisible Machinery that defines modern life

Photographer Toru Akai says that his main interest lies in “hidden and invisible structures in our modern society.” This idea underpins his series Invisible Machinery which looks at modern life in Tokyo in a series of brooding and atmospheric images. “Invisible Machinery is embodied in the social systems, the law and the architecture. Sometimes it appears in our own behaviour, gestures and figures,” says Toru, “So Invisible Machinery is in the outside and even in the inside of us. It’s invisible but the signs are everywhere among us. And I think a photograph could capture the invisible structure so well.’

Owen Pritchard — 23 September 2016
Work / Photography “Nymphomaniac” photographer Casper Sejersen's explosive images

There’s something unsettling in the work of photographer Casper Sejersen. In one image, a woman stands serenely in a flimsy creamy yellow dress. On the wall next to her is a shattered full length mirror, and her eyes direct us to her feet – placed apart to tread on the mirrored fragments. Another series, titled Wish You Were Here from Man About Town features a ginger quiffed Bowie lookalike, his hair refracted in additional images around him, his eyes rolled to heaven. Among images of near-deathly stillness, there are images of explosive life – a car shattering into shards in a cloud of smoke.

Bryony Stone — 22 September 2016