Fringes: Images From The Street
What: A photographic exhibition put together with photographers from all around the world who met over flickr with a common interest in street photography.
When: July 6th-22nd 2011. Opening Time: 11.30am to 8pm (except Sundays 11.30am to 5pm) During the London Street Photography Festival.
Where: Blackline tattoo parlour, 80 Atlantic road, Brixton, SW9 8PX, London
Pornrutai Lohachal
Was born and grew up in Thailand, moved to England for a life changing experience, and she is now based in Brighton. She is a kitchen assistant, freelance photographer and graphic designer. Has been working as a graphic designer in Thailand for three and a half years but now focuses mainly on photography and the possibility of life. She has also produced some fine art photography works that have been exhibited in Brighton galleries and Brighton Photo Fringe Festival.
Photography is her passion, and she uses it as a medium to express herself and communicate, in the hope that her photographs can reflect society and create mental conscience.
Website: www.wix.com/jengga/photography
Mark Davies (madbharat)
Originally from Shropshire, Mark (madbharat) is now a London-based street and social documentary photographer. His interests and experience range from documenting street life and running participatory photography workshops for kids in India, to observing political movements and capturing street fashion styles in London.
Simon Marshall
An obsessive walker in city streets he discovered that photography could show the richness of modern life as nothing else could. He is a fascinated observer of people and the spaces they inhabit, their lives and the beauty of the world.
For 30 years Simon was a designer and maker of furniture to clients in the UK and around the world. His move from the solitude of a workshop to city streets changed his view and opened a new chapter.
Simon is based in Norfolk. If you would like to see more work please look at
www.flickr.com/photos/simonmarshall1/
George Hill
George is a London based designer who became interested in photography whilst studying for a BA in graphics. This preoccupation for all aspects of the medium has continued and living in a city this naturally includes recording the urban landscape.
Ambra Vernuccio
Ambra is a freelance photographer working and living in London.
After completing her BA Photography in Italy and MA in Communication Design at Central St Martins London University, she specialized in documentary photography.
From 2009, she has travelled between Eastern Europe and Africa focusing on documenting street life in these and other countries. She has recently been selected as a winner for the Hoppe Street Portraits competition at the National Portrait Gallery and her work has been exhibited in the gallery.
One of her images from the series “Nairobi: Face to Face”, the Shoemaker, has also been selected for the forthcoming Foto8 - Summershow 2011 and it will be in show at the Host Gallery in July 2011.
Series of photos: Nairobi: Face to Face
Set in Kenya and focused on two neighbourhoods in Nairobi: Kibera and Umoja.
Ambra is interested in the profound cultural and identity changes that occur in our contemporary world. She set out to investigate the roots of social structural issues that Kenya is now facing and how this is influenced by its economic system.
Most of this work focuses on candid shots of individuals related to their environment, showing all those intimate moments that are part of the everyday life and which reveal the bond that exists between a person and their life in the slums.
Website: www.ambravernuccio.com
Julia Cameron
Julia is an East Anglian based freelance photographer.
Formerly a specialist in large-scale stitched textiles both in their creation and teaching/lecturing her work was shown extensively including London’s St Paul’s Cathedral and the Commonwealth Institute.
Julia has an MA in Public Art and Design from Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Photography has been her main passion and creative medium since 2006. She won the Norwich HEART Photography Competition in 2009 and was runner-up in 2010. In 2011 images were selected by judges for MobFormat 11.
Find her work on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/julia_m_cameron/
Wendy Le Ber (Padmayogini)
Wendy is a photographer and artist whose work encompasses the environment and streets of London.
Wendy is inspired and believes in the right to protest on the streets and her photographs in the exhibition are taken from the protests against the Pope’s visit to London in September 2010 and the TUC’s march and rally in March this year.
Steve Franck
Steve is a German born photographer based in London. Steve has been working as a full time freelance photographer since completing an intensive course in photography at London College of Communication in 2007.
Steve has worked for various national media and corporate and commercial clients, including the BBC, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Express, Linklater’s LLP, Betfair and Sky Sports. Steve is a member of the British Press Photographer’s Association (BPPA). He can be contacted via his website www.stevefranck.com or on twitter @stevefranck.
(image: _SFI0111 on Flickr)
Nicola Lawrence
It was while living in Hong Kong at the turn of the millennium that Nicola was first inspired to take to the streets and try to document the life going on around her. From neon lights and bustling crowds, to backstreet markets, serene temples and colourful festivals, these early attempts were to kick start an ongoing passion.
From one metropolis to another, Nicola now explores and shoots the streets of London. The capital is a street photographer’s paradise - a true ‘world in one city’ - and provides a constantly changing backdrop against which its inhabitants go about their everyday lives. Preferring to shoot in areas that are full of human activity, it is the fleeting moments and faces that reveal themselves from out of the crowd that she seeks to capture.
Frankie Sinclair
Living and working in London for over 20 years.
Studied painting at Central St Martins School of Art and followed with a studio award and selection into Becks New Contemporaries 1997.
Exhibited internationally, particularly her cartoon balloon character installations. Had some works in the Saatchi collection.
Recently, founder of three successful ‘offline with online’ social groups via meetup.com: London Escapes for arty walkers (taken over by a walking company), the Cartoon Figure Drawing club and the Cartoon Heart Club.
www.frankiesinclair.com
@frankiezing
Olav Njaastad - It´s all action
For Olav street photography is an approach to photography, hopefully a shot of documentary value. It is an exploration of the context he is in, the emotions, shapes, contrasts, colors he can experience and share from a moment in his life. Profoundly it is all about getting involved, in society, in social relations and personally. Go deeper, find differences and qualities in life. Planning a picture is an abstract prosess. It is about choosing where to go, at what time, which lens and it is a state of mind. When all comes to all it is actually all action.
The best new shot usually just appear, instantly in a context, and then goes away forming something different. Observing theese split seconds are a blessing and they are as good adrenalin drivers as any other activity, says Olav Njaastad.
“See the moment, be present and tell the story”.
Olav Njaastad is an Oslo-based documentarist, employed at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) as a journalist and storyteller.
Joanna Casey
Joanna was born in London and has lived in several countries including Italy, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates.
She has taken photographs all her life, but a focus on documenting the world around her, whether it be political, social or environmental, is a relatively recent obsession which began by joining the Street Photography Now Project on Flickr. Usually taken on walks around wherever she happens to find herself, she takes pleasure in capturing the details that make up everyday life. She is particularly drawn to photographing dogs, cats and birds on the street, as well as abandoned objects and litter.
Currently studying for a BA in Fine Art Photography at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham.
Anne Leroy
Anne is a French amateur photographer who has been living in London for the last 3 years. She started taking pictures when she got her first camera when she was 8 years old, and never stopped since then. Anne started doing “Street Photography” when travelling to Buenos Aires in 2006. She self-published “Portraits of Buenos Aires” that can be previewed here: preview.picaboo.com/WebView/CoverPage.aspx?album=00000000… and can be purchased from Amazon US here: www.amazon.com/Portraits-Buenos-Aires-Anne-Leroy/dp/B004J…
Since 2006, she has done mostly travel photography and more intensive street photography since she joined the Street Photography Now Project in October 2010.
Contact: littlepetitepom@yahoo.fr
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/anneleroy/
Website: www.anneleroy.com
Sophie Maliphant
Sophie is a branding and packaging Graphic Designer based in West London. She graduated in Graphic Design from Norwich University College of the Arts in 2009.
Sophie developed a passion for photography while doing her A-levels in 2005 and it has been a hobby ever since. Street photography has become her focus over the past twelve months. She loves the challenge of capturing everyday moments that would ordinarily go unnoticed, and creating something extraordinary.
Caroline Anderson
Caroline is a London-based freelance arts adminstrator. She has also been making pictures for most of her life, either with a camera or a brush. Capturing the drama of a moment has always been a passion, particularly in the form of street and theatre photography. She has undertaken assignments for a number of small theatre and opera groups, arts festivals and performance art events and her work has appeared as programme covers and poster images for arts festivals in the UK and abroad.
Street performers, Arles, France
