Next month in London:
Come and see a photo exhibition dealing with the highly important issue of "what become news when it's no more news"? Remarkable work from brilliant photographers and a debate on June 11th in the very interesting area of Southwark.
Details below.
"Yesterday’s News"
PRESS RELEASE
“Yesterday’s News brings together the work of three photographers that focuses on three
sites of past disasters: Chernobyl, Bosnia and Nepal.
It is presented at the newly opened and critically acclaimed Platform Southwark, an exhibition space at the intersection of visual and performative art.
Each artist presents their photography in collaboration with set designers and a sound artist. The space has been reconstructed as an immersive journey, portraying how people live in remains of catastrophes.
Public Event: 11 June | 15:00
Join a panel of professionals for ‘Yesterday’s News / Today’s Context’ with:
. Tony Barber, Europe Editor of the Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for Reuters news agency at the time of Chernobyl and war reporter for The Independent during the Bosnian war.
. Mario Petrucci, PhD physicist and metaphysical poet, winner of the 2002 Arvon/ Daily Telegraph International Poetry Prize for ‘Heavy Water, a Poem for Chernobyl’.
PHOTOGRAPHER 1: KAREN BLOCK
Karen Block specialises in fine art and social documentary. She is a qualified member of the Royal Photographic Society and has been selected for UK Graduates 2015 – Darwin Magazine, June 2015 and is currently represented by the Travers Smith Art Program 2015-16.
Her contribution is based on her visits to Belarus and documents the broken lives and landscapes associated with the fall out of Chernobyl.
She presents thirty photographs, one for each year since the disaster.
Karen was struck by the long term unseen effects and the hidden illnesses related directly to the catastrophe.
Her work becomes a poignant statement of the limitless impact of a nuclear contamination.
PHOTOGRAPHER 2: SOPHIE FAUCHIER
Sophie Fauchier is a fine art photographer specialising in photographic narratives.
MuSA International Art Space has recently selected her photography for their new publication project: ‘Woman’s Essence’.
Initially, she was commissioned to document the work achieved by ‘Miracles Centre for Prosthesis and Care’ a small NGO based in Mostar.
Her new project documents her journey through the devastation of the Bosnian war, which was once headline news.
She has captured the scars left on the earth, remnant of a forgotten war. In dialogue with its survivors she has created photos that serve as artefacts of human suffering.
PHOTOGRAPHER 3: CHRIS GRAVETT
Chris Gravett is a freelance photographer specialising in social documentary.
His previous work includes ‘Gravette, the Heart of Hometown America’ featured in The British Journal of Photography and ‘Aftershock’ which documents the humanitarian support following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. To commemorate the one year anniversary of the Nepalese disaster, it was part of a co-host exhibition with human organisation Kidasha.
Through ‘Yesterday’s News’, Chris reveals the resilience of a society riven by economic and agricultural depression underlying child labour, human trafficking, exploitation and chronic poverty.
INSTALLATION DESIGN: JOJO FAUCHIER & DARCY DAVIES.
Students of Central St Martins specialising in performance design, their main interest lies in creating immersive experiences.
Darcy has previously made work for the Royal Albert Hall and The Hospital Club.
Jojo’s previous work includes collaboration with Rambert Dance Company, Drama Centre London and YouMeBumBumTrain.
SOUND DESIGN: EVAN LOPEZ DE BERGARA
Evan Lopez de Bergara is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound designer and producer, whose main means of expression is electronic music, as a vehicle for deep immersion and transduction of cognitive and
emotional nodes.
His trajectory includes record production, television work and mixed media.
Currently studying an audio production Master's Degree, he is increasingly interested in the power of soundas a cognitive aid and as consciousness catalyst.
yesterday’s news
Platform Southwark
1 Joan Street | London | SE1 8DD
Private View
Tuesday 7 June |18.00 - 21.00
Exhibition Dates
8 - 11 June | 12.30 - 20.00
Karen Block | Chernobyl Sophie Fauchier | Bosnia Chris Gravett | Nepal
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