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Paul Alexander Knox
I make photographs. www.paulalexanderknox.com
My book ‘Making the Weight’ is now available as an eBook for only £2.99
Poppy - The dark side of globalisation
Epic documentary project by Robert Knoth & Antoinette de Jong
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On May 25th 1812 an explosion rocked the Felling colliery sending a plume of ash into the sky turning the light of midmorning dark as twilight. 92 men and boys were lost. The bedrock of an entire community was shaken. Those tremors were felt throughout the country and led to the call for a safer way to light the deep. From that call came Davy’s and George Stevenson’s, the ‘Geordie’, safety lamps. Artist Dawn Felicia Knox set out to create a visual memorial to mark the bicentenary of the tragedy.
The pithead now stands an abandoned waste ground given way to fly-tipping and tyre burning, the footprints of the old industry just visible – graffitied buildings, a crumbling chimney and a copse a trees crooked atop an old slag heap. Dawn Felicia Knox began by photographing the remnants. She then collected archival photographs, documentation and ephemera relating to the accident include maps, first-hand accounts and expert analysis. She researched the geology of the mine focusing on the strata formations and the paleobotany specimens collected by William Hutton currently in the stores of the Great North Museum. The fossils, many type specimens, were vital in determining the age of earth and setting the stage for scientific understanding to come. Knox photographed the specimens and relating ephemera which she then projected onto the abandoned pithead to be photographed again.
The Felling exhibition will span time showing images made of the three hundred and twenty million year old fossils brought up from six hundred feet below ground, archival images of the working pit from a hundred years ago projected onto the derelict site as it stands today. The photographs made of the pithead will be projected in the Mining Institute falling across the centre elevator shaft and paper sculptures constructed from materials salvaged from the site as well as book covers and spines recovered from the Mining Institute Library. The images, threaded together with the narrative of the tragedy, will stand as an elegant elegy to the 92 men and boys lost.
(Source: dawnfelicia)
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Paolo Pellegrin. An arrested man is seen in the back of a Rochester police car.
Paolo Pellegrin. A family in the NE neighborhoods of Rochester.
ARAB SPRING: EGYPT & LIBYA by Guy Martin & Ivor Prickett
Saturday 21 April to 9 June 2012
Photographers Ivor Prickett and Guy Martin documented these events from January 2011. On 20th April 2011, in Misrata, Guy Martin was seriously injured in the same incident that saw the deaths of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros.
The exhibition opens tomorrow, 21st April 2012 at Side Gallery, with a special opening event on the 28th April 2012 where Guy Martin & Ivor Prickett will both be present to introduce and discuss their work in Egypt and Libya.
Tim Hetherington - Sleeping Soldiers (2009)
Welcome Home, The Story of Scott Ostrom by Craig F. Walker
After serving four years as a reconnaissance man and deploying twice to Iraq, Brian Scott Ostrom, 27, returned home to the U.S. with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. “The most important part of my life already happened. The most devastating. The chance to come home in a box. Nothing is ever going to compare to what I’ve done, so I’m struggling to be at peace with that,” Scott said. He attributes his PTSD to his second deployment to Iraq, where he served seven months in Fallujah with the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion. “It was the most brutal time of my life,” he said. “I didn’t realize it because I was living it. It was a part of me.” Since his discharge, Scott has struggled with daily life, from finding and keeping employment to maintaining healthy relationships. But most of all, he’s struggled to overcome his brutal and haunting memories of Iraq. Nearly five years later, Scott remains conflicted by the war. Though he is proud of his service and cares greatly for his fellow Marines, he still carries guilt for things he did — and didn’t do — fighting a war he no longer believes in.
© Craig F. Walker
Exhibition at Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
ARAB SPRING: EGYPT & LIBYA by Guy Martin & Ivor Prickett
Saturday 21 April to 9 June 2012
Opening event - 28/04/12
Guy Martin & Ivor Prickett will both be present to introduce and discuss their work in Egypt and Libya.
As usual, this is a free event, all are welcome and complementary snacks & drinks will be provided.
Ivor Prickett and Guy Martin are represented by Panos Pictures.
Captions:
1. A rebel fighter pauses for afternoon prayers in the desert near Ajdabiya. Ivor Prickett, Libya, 2011.
2. Residents of the Zamalek neighbourhood guarding one of the many check points in the area set up to prevent looting. Ivor Prickett, Egypt, 2011.
3. Outnumbered and confronted by hundreds of Mubarak supporters in the streets of Tahrir Square, Anti-Government opposition fight back with rocks and stones to repel the oncoming group. Guy Martin, Egypt, 2011.
4. A family from Ajdabiya flees their home after weeks of fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi in the city. The families who chose to flee had to pass through Gaddafi checkpoints, targeted shelling and small arms fire, rebel checkpoints and then find family or friends in Benghazi to stay with. Guy Martin, Libya, 2011
Exhibition
Marjolaine Ryley - Growing Up In The New Age
21st April - 3rd June 2012 Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.
image © Marjolaine Ryley
Specialist Tad Donoho, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008 Digital C-print © Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Yossi Milo Gallery will present an exhibition of photographs and video by Tim Hetherington (1970-2011). The exhibition will consist of photographs taken in Liberia and Afghanistan, as well as two films by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker. The exhibition will open on Thursday, April 12, and will be on view through Saturday, May 19, with an opening reception on Thursday, April 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. This will be the first major exhibition of Tim Hetherington’s work in the United States.
Taken mostly from the center of political and social conflicts in West Africa and the Middle East, Tim Hetherington’s work focused on the experience of war from the perspective of the individual. Through his photographs, writing and films, Tim Hetherington gave us new ways to look at and think about human suffering. Tim was tragically killed on April 20, 2011, while photographing and filming in Libya.
See Tim Hetherington’s work on LightBox here.
