04 Oct - Awards Presentation and Party. See website for times and tickets

AOP Photographers Awards 2012

A celebration of exceptional work by the industry’s elite. This competition is only open to Full & Provisional Photographer Members of the AOP. It is regarded as THE awards competition for professional photographers and being selected for entry into the book and accompanying exhibition is considered one of the highest accolades available to photographers around the world.

08 Oct - 14 Oct - Opening 9 October, 6-8pm

Truth & Art: 3 Artists, 3 Continents, 1 Truth

Sunara Begum

Truth & Art is a new exhibition exploring the relationship between three global artists/musicians and their work. Combining paint on 16mm film with archive images as well as 35mm photographs the images are evocative and timeless. The exhibition tells the story of the ancient and modern, illustrating its relevance and importance to our present.

Exclusive performance by South American group, the Diana Baroni Trio and Musicialist. 9 Oct 6-8pm

Hugo Elsewhere: The Jersey Studio and the photography of exile online

Victor Hugo and the Jersey Studio

Dr Jann Matlock, Senior Lecturer, UCL French and School of European Languages, Culture and Society

What is it about exile that inspires photography? This talk explores the earliest known exile photography, created in the studio formed by Victor Hugo’s family and friends in their exile on the Channel Island of Jersey between 1852 and 1855. In these years, the Hugo group turned exile into a photographic project, and in doing so, they transformed the history of photography.

26 Sep - 06 Oct

Collective View

Tom Leighton

Tom Leighton’s new works reveal the poetic beauty that can result from painstaking digital manipulation. Leighton has travelled through Europe, Asia and North America, building up an impressive body of photographic images that he then combines to make fantastical landscapes. The resulting works test our instincts. The exhibition title, Collective View hints at some of the many themes of Leighton’s work.

22 Oct - 27 Oct

Metroland

Anaí Tirado Miranda, Karolina Maria Dudek, Nicholas Wiltshire, Sian Macfarlane, Nathalie Joffre, Ian Rudgewick-Brown, Michael Rodgers, Sonja Trabandt, Simone Padelli

A photographic exhibition of work from MA students at London College of Communication that will explore how it is to live and exist in the current space of London.

The exhibition will address people’s need for more comfort, space, connection with each other and better environmental conditions (or the perception of).

05 Nov - 7pm

PhotoVoice Lecture Series

Tim Flach, Lewis Blackwell

An exclusive PhotoVoice evening - your chance to meet and discover the methodologies of Tim Flach, one of the foremost conceptual fine art photographers of our time. Tim is an international award winning photographer highly regarded for his stylized portraits of animals.
Arguably his most famous work comes from his projects Dogs Gods and Equus, and his work made up an exceptional 14-page feature in the May 2012 issue of Intelligent Life magazine.
Lewis Blackwell, the acclaimed author, publisher and photography expert, will be your guide for the evening as we take a peek into the creative perspectives behind Tim’s images that questions our relationship to animals and nature.

16 Oct - 28 Oct

London Independent Photography 24th Annual Exhibition

London Independent Photography’s 24th Annual Exhibition is the highlight of the group’s calendar - a must-see event for anyone interested and involved with photography in London.

The impartial selection process is key to the exhibition’s success, as every member has an equal chance of selection. This year over 130 photographs will be on display and they showcase the diversity and extraordinary breadth of talent within the London Independent Photography membership.