Author: Michael Sajic

Jeeeun Hong – Personal Sanctuary

In the latest of our on-going programme of online exhibitions, we present a selection of the work of South Korean artist Jeeeun Hong. Currently based in UK and Korea, Hong received a BA degree in Media from the University of Ajou in Korea in 2007. In 2016 she received Master of Fine art with distinction at Kingston University. Hong works with photography, painting and installation.

Using her multidisciplinary practice to aid her investigations, Hong’s work aims to create a personal sanctuary; a place where the viewer is invited to discover a personal sanctuary of their own. Hong’s work explores the constant balance and struggle between being herself and her life choices, these dynamics are essential to the growth of her personal sanctuary. In her most recent work, Hong has incorporated the use of fabric as a metaphor for the personal sanctuary.

Hong’s work has featured in several exhibitions including, Arirang at the Korean Cultural Centre in London, Air 2015 at the Muse Gallery, London, Fill The Gap 2016 at the Hidden M Gallery and 뜰 展 at the Idea Factory both in Seoul. Hong will have a major solo show at the JH Gallery in Seoul, South Korea later this year. To see more of Jeeeung Hong, please visit www.cranekalmanbrighton.com/onlineexhibitions

Karine Laval – The Pool & Black Palms

To mark the release of a new publication looking at 10 years of her ‘Poolscape’ images by Steidl this Summer, Crane Kalman Brighton is pleased to present three early images by French photographer Karine Laval from her series The Pool, which are being released in a brand new edition, sized 48”x48”, in a signed and numbered limited edition of 5.

Morgan Silk – Saturn V

Morgan Silk has been creating photographic images since the mid-1980s after graduating from Blackpool & Fylde College. He began his career as a creative re-toucher working alongside photographers for advertising clients, and then began to experiment with his own photography, predominantly colour landscapes, his skills as a re-toucher continuing to be employed to give an unusual and personal touch to the finished work.

Young-Jin Choi – The West Sea of Korea

Young-Jin Choi, was born in 1965 in the southern coastal area of Jeollanam-do province in South Korea. Choi began taking photographs in high school, but his interest in photography took off during early 2004 when the South Korean government began the development of the Saemangeum Seawall project.

Having grown up by the beautiful tidal flats on the southern coast of Korea, nature was an important source of inspiration and artistic creativity for Choi. Prior to the completion of Seawall project in April 2006, many activists and environmentalists fought a long battle with the government to try and stop the Seawall Project expanding the mud fields and turning them into agriculture and industrial land, which has proved to have a devastating effect on the habitat of migratory birds and sea creatures.

Young-Jin Choi spent 3 years documenting this environmental disaster, despite constant government intervention against the project. The final series, ‘West Sea of Korea’, has become one of Choi’s most critically acclaimed and highly-regarded projects. Choi has become increasingly celebrated for documenting nature in raw, uncompromising and powerful images, allowing the natural world to speak for itself. He has had several books published on his work in Korea, including one of ‘West Sea of Korea’ series. In 2009 he was awarded the High Commendation for the Prix Pictet Prize.

To see the full exhibiton, and for sizes and prices, go to the Online Exhibitons section.

David Steen – Heroes & Villains

David Steen (1936-2015) was a character, like many of the subjects he photographed, who was far larger than life. A self-made and self-taught photographer, he began his photography apprenticeship under the tutelage of the great Bert Hardy at the Picture Post aged 15. His breakthrough into portrait photography came in 1954 when he was sent on his first foreign assignment, to photograph film director Otto Preminger in Paris. “I stayed at the George V hotel, dined at Maxim’s, and went to the Crazy Horse nightclub,” he recalled. This, he decided, was the life.

After National Service as an Army photographer in Egypt and the Middle East, he returned to the Picture Post before then moving on to work for the Women’s Sunday Mirror and The Daily Mail before ultimately going freelance. Steen photographed everyone culturally from the 1950s onwards, with subjects as diverse as the homeless, the Royal Family, pop stars, politicians, movie stars, authors, artists and sporting greats.

In the 1960s, when photographers such as David Bailey and Terence Donovan were publishing books on women, Steen was steadily building up a huge library archive of famous men. In 2005 he selected 100 images for a limited edition book called Heroes and Villains, some of which were exhibited at Crane Kalman Brighton later that year. We are very pleased to be offering a selection of David’s work for sale, including a series of wonderful portraits of glamorous women that have never been made available as limited edition prints before.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Hugh Holland – 70’s Skate Photography

In the third of our new on-going programme of online exhibitions, we present a selection of the work of self-taught photographer Hugh Holland, who began experimenting with photography in the late 1960’s but didn’t discover his definitive subject until his move to Los Angeles from his native Oklahoma. He began documenting the burgeoning skate phenomenon in 1975 after becoming instantly captivated through a chance encounter with a group of skateboarding kids whilst driving up Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

To see the full exhibiton, and for sizes and prices, go to the Online Exhibitons section.

Ellie Davies: Half Light

In her latest series of work Half Light (2016), Davies adds a new element – water – a dark, still river, bordered by colourful, textured riverbanks rich with vegetation. The murky water dissects each image creating a false horizon, separating the viewer from the twilight forest beyond and allowing the land to be considered from a distance.

‘Growing up in the New Forest in the south of England, I spent my childhood exploring and playing in the woods with my twin sister. In Half Light, I consider my relationship with these places, my ongoing attempt to reconnect with the wilder landscapes of my youth and to discover if those remembered and imagined places can be found and captured again.’- Ellie Davies, 2016

To see more of Ellies’s work, and for sizes and prices, go to the Photographers section.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Tortora + Travezan

In the second of our new on-going programme of online exhibitions, we present a selection of the work of artist-photographers David Tortora and Jaime Travezan, who have been collaborating together on a regular basis since 2009 under the working name of TORTORA + TRAVEZAN. Their work and style can be described as visually rich, highly stylized and hyper-real and relies on extensive use of digital manipulation.

To see the full exhibiton, and for sizes and prices, go to the Online Exhibitons section.

Karine Laval: Heterotopia

A native of France, Karine Laval has successfully carved out a career in the New York photography world. She produces a highly distinctive and idiosyncratic style of images both for newspaper and magazine assignments as well as for her own personal work. Her artistic practice encompasses photography, video and installation/projection. Here we present examples from her latest major body of work, Heterotopia.

Laval’s images often challenge the familiar perception we have of the world, and can be seen as a bridge between the world we live in and a more surreal and dreamlike dimension. Laval’s distinctive use and deliberate manipulation of color, as well as the introduction of chance in some instances, contribute to further question the relationship between representation and reality, with some of her recent works moving towards abstraction and the dissolution of the image.

She combines analog techniques and digital technologies to explore the transformative power of the camera and to investigate the process of image making and its relationship to surface and materiality. The resulting works – rich in texture and often oscillating between representation and abstraction, blur the boundaries between disciplines and engage a dialog with other mediums such as painting, sculpture and performance.

To see more of Karine’s work, and for sizes and prices, go to the Photographers section.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Bill Bernstein: Disco

In the first of a new programme of online exhibitions, we present a taster selection here of the recently released collection – Disco by Bill Bernstein. This series of amazing photographs takes the viewer on an access-all-areas tour of late-70s New York nightlife. Bernstein witnessed first-hand the last days of the disco scene in New York, he photographed the regulars at Studio 54, Paradise Garage, Mudd Club, Hurrah and GG’s Barnum Room.

To see the full exhibiton, and for sizes and prices, go to the Online Exhibitons section.

Cream 15: A Showcase of Graduate Photography Talent 2015

Following on from the success of previous showcases, Crane Kalman Brighton returns with Cream 2015, an exhibition featuring a new selection of the most interesting and diverse photographic work to emerge from BA photography graduates in 2015. The exhibition includes graduates from the most prestigious universities and colleges the length and breadth of the country from Brighton to Glasgow; London to Newport.

Jo Crowther

Jo Crowther was born in York in 1963, and a childhood of much travelling resulted in her attending 14 different schools. The constant travel heightening her observation skills and awareness of her surroundings, and Crowther began recording her daily life through photography and processing and printing her own photos at age 14.

Elliot Wilcox: Walls 2014

Elliott Wilcox is a London based, British photographer who studied MA Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster. He first exhibited with Crane Kalman as part of the Cream 10 Graduate Showcase in 2009, featuring early work from his celebrated ‘Courts’ series. Wilcox has now completed his second major series ‘Walls’, which was recently exhibited at the Bau-Xi Photo Gallery in Toronto. The new work continues to explore Wilcox’s interest in minimalism and abstraction through its focus on the outwardly simplest and uniform of subject matters.

Franck Bohbot: House of Books 2015

We are pleased to present a beautiful new body of work, House of Books, by French photographer, Franck Bohbot. The series, which has been receiving much critical and press acclaim, is a visual compendium of magnificent libraries, each space selected for its distinct grandeur, reflective of the fantastic, complex beauty contained within their shelves. The series was begun in Paris, continued in Rome and Providence, Rhode Island and will encompass libraries all around the world (with libraries in the UK to be photographed later this year), from the monumental to the intimate, the ancient to the contemporary.

Ellie Davies: Stars 2015

Ellie Davies is a young British fine art photographer who gained an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication in 2008. Much of her work is made in the forests of Southern England, and Davies uses the landscape as a studio space to explore our understanding of landscape as well as being a personal exploration of the woodland and forests where she grew up.

Davies latest body of work, Stars, interposes ancient forest landscapes with images of the Milky Way, Omega Centauri and other embroyonic stars (Source Material Credit: STScI/Hubble & NASA).

Author: Michael Sajic

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