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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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French photographer Franck Bohbot focuses his artistic attention on public spaces and urban landscapes. Rooted in his fascination with cinematographic iconography, his work looks at the relationship between the individual and the architecture around us. His main subjects are public spaces such as swimming pools, basketball courts, libraries and cinemas – but all empty, abandoned or deserted of the people that give life to these places.
The images featured here are from his on-going series, Cinema – photographs of movie theatres built in the US during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.
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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 image both for newspaper and magazine assignments as well as for her own personal work. She has exhibited twice in solo shows at Crane Kalman and has recently featured her fourth solo project at New York’s leading contemporary photography specialist, the Benrubi Gallery.
One of Laval’s on-gong projects, Poolscapes, continues themes from her earlier work, most notably her continuing obsession with water, but rendered in a more ethereal, abstract way. Laval continues to explore the vagaries of perception and tests the limits of the photographic medium by using water as a distorting lens and choosing a stark colour palette – the result of her signature film processing – to generate images which alternate between representation and abstraction, and blur the boundary
between photography and painting.
United States and internationally at such venues as the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the Sorlandet Art Museum in Kristiansand (Norway), the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and at several photo festivals throughout Europe and the US. Laval was a finalist of France’s Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs and she is the recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant. A book looking back on 10 years of her work is to be published later this year by Steidl.
To see more of Karine’s work, go to the Photographers section.
After turning his back on in his Fine Art studies, Samuel Hicks turned to photography. He began assisting a series of photographers in London, mainly in the advertising world, serving a six year apprenticeship, before starting out as a photographer in his own right. Since then, Hicks has forged a successful career in commercial and editorial photography, travelling around the world and working for clients such as O2, Land Rover, Lucozade, The Times, The Independent and Wallpaper Magazine.
In the last few years his personal projects have incorporated working on location in Sweden, Norway, and Ireland where he shot the New York State Circus. His photograph of a Kendo Fighter Smoking was a winner in the Lifestyle & Portraiture category of the Association of Photography Awards. Samuel’s work has featured in Creative Review’s annual photography showcases of the last few years. As well as exhibiting work at the London Photographic Awards, he was also selected for the Foto8 Summer Show in 2009 and had his first solo show at Crane Kalman Brighton in 2009.
This new collection of work was taken in Chile last year whilst on a road trip for car hire firm Avis. Samuel discovered an extraordinary and varied landscape whilst driving 2,400 kilometres, many of them off road, across 7 days. The images have garnered much attention as well as winning the advertising travel/tourism section in the Moscow International Foto Awards, an Honourable Mention in the advertising section of the Black and White Spider Awards, and were selected in the AOP Open and for the Creative Review Photography Annual 2014. To see more of Samuel’s new collection of work, go to the Photographers section.
Judith Lyons is a London based, British photographer. A graduate of Central Saint Martin’s and the London College of Communication, her work often reflects a fascination with the natural world and with cycles of birth, growth, decay, death and rebirth.
Her work has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2012, a selection of images from the Photographic Reproduction series were awarded a Silver medal in the 2012 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Awards in Paris, and as result the work will be featured in the prestigious PX3 Annual to be published later this year.
In her new series, The Fallen, autumn leaves collected in a military cemetery in London on Remembrance Sunday 2012 have been recorded and replicated to produce a series of geometric, mandala like forms. Combining traditional photographic and contemporary digital techniques, the circular and continuous nature of these forms invites the viewer to consider natural cycles of life, death, decay and rebirth.
To see more of Judith’s work, and for sizes and prices, go to the Photographers section.
