Photo Gallery: Moby Q&A at Apple London talks about Destoyed – The Photobook

A full house listened to Moby, who was back in London for the last night of the iTunes Festival at The Roundhouse yesterday, and a Meet the Photographer Q&A with the artist tonight. Moby and the band have just finished touring 15 countries in two weeks and continue touring until mid August. After the talk, which will be available as a podcast through Apple, the band played a short set. I couldn’t record the Q&A, so I leave you with less words and more of a flavour of the evening.

Oh yes, one of the photos was taken by singer Joy Malcolm’s seven-year-old son, James who I gave the camera too to get his view of things, and I interviewed Moby for a feature in the latest issue of Hotshoe, August/September – out now. All other photos © Miranda Gavin.

Waiting for the Q&A:

The Q&A:

The Set:

© James, Joy Malcolm, London 1 August 2011.

James’s view:

Photo News London: Rotimi Fani-Kayode at Autograph ABP and Jan Ŝvankmajer’s The Ossuary is screened as part of a Gothic Revival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

© Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 'Black Friar', 1989, photo courtesy of Autograph APB

© Jan Ŝvankmajer, The Ossuary, 1970.

Scholar Kobena Mercer is presenting a keynote lecture, Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Themes, Inspirations and Influences, on the work of the late Rotimi Fani-Kayode at Autograph ABP in east London on Friday 3 June at 6:30 pm. This event is free but booking is essential. To book, follow this link.

The Ossuary, (1970, black & white, 10 mins) – a short film by Czech filmmaker and artist Jan Ŝvankmajer – will be showing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London on Saturday 11 June as part of a two-day event Template for Terror: The Revival of the Gothic. Running at the ICA, London from 11 June 2011 – 12 June, the two-day event comprises a series of presentations and discussions looking at “the prevailing influence of the Gothic on contemporary culture”. If you haven’t come across Ŝvankmajer, I urge you to explore his hugely influential works, including his first feature film, Alice (1987) – a brilliant adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. See over for more on these events…

Photo News – London Art Fair 2011, Kodachrome show and On the Ephemeral in Photography open

Rut Blees Luxemburg, ‘O’ (A. Jolie), analogue C-type print, 100×80cm, ed. of 5, 2010, photo courtesy Hotshoe Gallery and the artist

It’s been a busy post-Christmas couple of weeks as I have been on the judging panel for the Association of Photographers (AOP) Student Photographer of the Year competition (running since 1981), catching up with other work and trying to prepare for the various photo-related activities coming up next week here in London.

I’ll be writing more on the judging process once it is over but it has been interesting to see the variety and wildly differing standards of work submitted. Photographs were submitted in four categories as single images and series’. For those interested, the judging panel includes an art buyer, photographers’ agent and two commercial photographers, see link for more information.

ON THE EPHEMERAL IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Ahead of the London Art Fair, which opens on 19 January in London and runs until 23 January, here’s a preview of some of the artists work for sale and featured in the show On the Ephemeral in Photography.

The show is a collaboration between Hotshoe Gallery director Daniel Campbell Blight and Brad Feuerhelm of Ordinary-Light Photography. The exhibition will take place between the project section at the London Art Fair 2011 and Hotshoe Gallery where the show opens on 21 January and runs until 5 March, so there’s plenty of time to see it. Expect an intriguing mix of work from established and lesser known photographers as well as vintage photographs relating to the concept of the ephemeral in photography.

TED Talk online – Rachel Sussman and the world’s oldest continuously living organisms

I’m in the mood for a mini talk, so here’s a recent TED lecture from July. It’s 14 minutes long.

ABOUT
Rachel Sussman “is on a quest to celebrate the resilience of life by identifying and photographing continuous-living organisms that are 2,000 years or older, all around the world.

“Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.”

ABOUT TED
“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

“TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.

“The annual TED conferences, in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Oxford, bring together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).”

Podcasts: Absence and Presence in Thomas Demand and Magali Charrier’s 12 Sketches

12 Sketches © Magali Charrier, 2010, photo courtesy of the artist

I had the pleasure of seeing a couple of wonderful pieces from this year’s Animation graduates at the Royal College of Art. In particular – and one to watch – is the highly talented director and editor Magali Charrier who worked as an editor on photographer Tim Hetherington’s three-screen audio-visual piece, Sleeping Soldiers.

In the podcasr, Charrier talks to me about using the Canon 7D and the influence of Francesca Woodman. Follow this link, 12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still, to download the audio interview -it’s just over 10 minutes long.

If you didn’t get to the Tate Modern’s recent three-day symposium Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the 1960s (10-12 June), don’t worry. You can still get a flavour of the event by tuning into philosopher Nigel Warburton’s podcast, Thomas Demand –  Absence and Presence. There’s also a link on his Art and Allusion website to the Demand image he discusses. The talk is about 20 mins long.