INTERNATIONAL IN LONDON
LA CARAVANA, ARTE ITINERANTE
International Photographers in East London Photomonth 2012
The Vyner Studio presents 10 selected artists with different approaches to photography in a collective exhibition. The explored themes include landscape, portraits and also abstract images by emerging talents living and working in London.​
La Caravana, Arte Itinerante, a creative platform works in partnership with some artists within this exhibition.
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International Photographers in East London Photomonth 2012 Participating Artists
Dilshad Abdulla Mariell AmÊlie David Geewai Ho Francisco Gomez de Villaboa Jesus Jimenez Patricia Karallis Clare Lewis Louise O’Gorman Marta Sanches Costa Nick Scaife
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Dilshad Abdulla iPhoneographer I specialise in street photography and Iove how everyday London can be such a great source of inspiration I walk, I look and I shoot.
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Mariell AmĂŠlie from La Caravana, Arte Itinerante
Mariell AmĂŠlie is a London-based photographer. Grew up on a small island, above the polar circle, in Northern Norway with her parents and a cat.
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David Geewai Ho Synthesis project, 2012 Photography is my passion in life, it allows me to slow myself down, observe the world I live in and look at it with a renewed perspective and appreciation to the things that many of us might take for granted. ‘Synthesis ‘ is inspired by the symbiotic relationship between Man and Nature, in order to survive the dangers nature throws at you ( ranging from diseases, natural disasters, predators and pure inherent evil ) through sheer adversity Man has pushed forward, thrived, flourished and evolved to become stronger, ambitious and adaptible. Becoming a hybrid of sorts, synthesising with the primal forces that aim to harm us, he now overcomes these obstacles and harnesses the world we live in to shape into his own vision.
geewaiho.blogspot.co.uk
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Francisco Gomez de Villaboa Born in Cadiz (Spain) 1984 and based in London since 2009 Commissioned for various photography campaigns and projects such as: -
Barbara Boner’s A/W 2012 Campaign, February 2012 Cover and Editorial of Xauart Magazine, February 2012 Ziad Ghanem’s Haute Couture Campaign, September 2011 Covered shows at London and New York Fashion Week for magazines and PR agencies Cover and Editorial of Cock no7. June 2011.
www.gomezdevillaboa.com
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Jesus Jimenez
Working in photography, video and installation, I have found my inspiration in a personal obsession for the order, the trace and the object. Playful and inventive, my ideas may stem from a desire to mold a particular material or object – from hand dryers or dead leaves to painting – with which I explore my relation with the World. Inspired in nanotechnology, and quantum physics images this particular creative body of work is about painting for the camera the action painting on a particular canvas is digitized, and then edited to create just a photograph. The intention is to appeal to open answers and questions from the audience, not only for the situations in front of the camera, but also for the ideas behind the camera.
www.jesusjimenez.com
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Patricia Karallis On The Cusp Transgender is a term that was first used by Virginia Prince, a leading American transgender activist during the 60s through to the 80s. The term was later used to refer to all transgressions of gender categories including, but not limited to, ‘butch’, ‘fairies’ or ‘queens’, heterosexual cross dressers, as well as transvestites and transsexuals. The term has since become an umbrella term to cover a collective of individuals who don’t conform to traditionally accepted norms of gender identity or behavior. Alongside this, many documentary photographic portraits that deal with transgender issues exploit the genders of their subjects, pointing to an Otherness or eroticising their bodies. My main prerogative in On The Cusp, is in dispelling stereotypes; therefore, photographing the sitters in their own environment (their home or somewhere they feel comfortable) contrasts with the dehumanising approach that dominate images made of transgender people, which often focuses solely on their gender or transstatues, or uses them to further a specific point about social construction and gender. As part of this project, I invited people who identify as transgender to take part in shaping its outcome and to sit as models for the production of the work. By having the photographs taken in the sitters home and in their everyday attire, it strips them of any signifiers attached to common stereotypes – these are everyday people in everyday environments.
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Clare Lewis from La Caravana, Arte Itinerante
Clare Lewis is a visual artist who works in a range of mediums as a sculptor, creating sitespecific installations and as a photographer and video maker. Concerned with transition, particularly the passage from life to death, her current work explores the areas of the threshold and the ‘Liminal’ - a psychological or metaphysical intermediate state characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. “I am interested in external places where transitions take place and also the effect of transition upon our internal psychological spaces during the journey we make as individuals within our life passage.” Through haunting images of urban and rural scenes, she evokes a sense of fleeting personal memories, combining in a wider reflection of a Sublime universal landscape. The transitory nature of her work offers a range of experience: a sense of suspension, anxiety and loss, or converse feelings of discovery and enlightenment in the human traces observed in the spaces we travel through. Focusing on snapshot moments of time, she contrasts the fragile and transitory nature of life experience against an unseen eternal continuum, offering a reflection on the flux and flow of life, its beauty and fragility and the possibility of transcendence
www.clare-lewis.co.uk
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Louise O’Gorman The Ghost of Camila Louise O’Gorman is a London based photographer and this personal portrait project is a series of photographs inspired by the story of Camila O’Gorman. Camila was a wealthy Argentine socialite of Irish, Spanish and French origin. She became a figure of scandal in 19th century Argentina when she was 19 years old. Her crime had been to fall in love and elope with a Jesuit priest. She was 20 years old and eight months pregnant when she was executed by a firing squad on the 18th of August 1848 in Buenos Aires. Her murder was recorded as the most atrocious and unlawful act at the time in Argentina. This series of photographs was shot in the country house once owned by Camila’s brother in Tigre, a town outside Buenos Aires. The project evolved from some research into the shared Irish surname and the meeting with the current owners of the house during 2010 while Louise was living in Argentina. The house at Tigre is known to be the house where Camila’s brother resided after her execution. It is rumoured that Camila’s burial remains may lie somewhere in the grounds of this historical house. During a series of visits to the house and using herself as a subject Louise evokes the ghost of Camila through these haunting images.
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Marta Sanches Costa I was born in Lisbon, Portugal where I did my first photography course at Ar.Co (Centre for Art & Visual Communication). In 2002 I moved to the UK to continue my studies and graduated from Napier University in Edinburgh in 2006 with a BA (Hons) in Photography, Film & Imaging. In 2007, in order to pursue my photographic career I moved to London, where I live and work. I first started assisting photographers and working in studios. Since then I have worked in several areas mainly in product and fashion photography. The art collective Not Dead Yet was founded by myself and two other photographers and now has seven members of different art mediums. Together we have had three exhibitions in London. I also have a joint project with another photographer who is based in Berlin and in late 2010 we had a show about the two cities. In 2011, I was one of the selected artists for the first edition of The Other Art Fair in London.
www.martasanchescosta.com
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Nick Scaife ‘The last photos’ There have been many last photos, but somehow there’s always been one more. One sad day there will be a last photo of us all. Born 1984. Nick graduated from Newcastle University in 2006 with a BA hons in Marketing and Management, and in 2011 with a Foundation Degree in Professional Photography from City of Westminster College. Nick is currently employed as a photographer for internationally renowned fashion store coggles.com
www.nickscaifephotography.com
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Cover design: Verónica García Catalogue design layout: Patricia Puertas @The Vyner Studio, 2012, London