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FEATURE ARTICLE
The Paper Eaters: Long Live the Photo-Story!

“Re-emerging British artists” The Girls have transformed Selfridges’ Ultralounge into a hyper-coloured editorial haven. In collaboration with The Photographers Gallery, this April The Girls produce three issues of their 80s inspired photo-story magazine in a defiant DIY stand against contemporary digitised publishing.

By Millie Ross – 13.04.2010
  
Irving Penn Portraits

Irving Penn’s career arched across seven decades, only coming to an end when he died last year at age 92. Various avenues of exploration means his name strikes different chords in each of us. You might imagine a tantalisingly grisly still life, (Cigarette 17, 1972), or the elderly road sweeper, (Small Trades, 1950/51), or his wonderful fashion photography and beguiling portraiture. The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition is the UK’s first to be devoted purely to the luminary’s portraiture.

By Imogen Eveson – 02.03.2010
  
Gemma Land: Suburban Ties

Gemma Land’s suburban photographic series, Bourgeois Utopias, have been printed on silk scarves as part of the Creative Archives exhibit at the current London Fashion Week. Take a look at the luxury fashion-art items and check out the Creative Archives Awards Scheme.

By Barnaby Tidman – 23.02.2010
  
jotta curates The Affordable Art Fair

jottaContemporary curate the graduate showcase at this year’s Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, London in March. A huge fair which receives over 27,000 art hungry visitors annually, as you can expect we are very excited. jotta has selected 18 emerging artists, all graduates from the last five years, working on a new kind of landscape.

By Millie Ross – 17.02.2010
  
SNAPSHOT: momentous fragments

Injecting London with a little much-needed sunshine, solo exhibition at photo-space by jotta member Gina Melosi takes residence in a disused shop in the East End with a striking collection of photographs and jewellery objects exploring the notion of memory.

By Gina Melosi – 11.01.2010
  

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