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.
Continue readingMorgan 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.
Continue readingYoung-Jin Choi – The West Sea of Korea
David Steen – Heroes & Villains
Hugh Holland – 70’s Skate Photography
Ellie Davies: Half Light
Tortora + Travezan
Karine Laval: Heterotopia
Bill Bernstein: Disco
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.
Continue readingJo 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.
Continue readingElliot 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.
Continue readingFranck 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.
Continue readingEllie 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).
Continue readingFranck Bohbot: Cinema
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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