On to our new dedicated 'art' section and this week I thought I'd highlight a sample of some of the amazing photography exhibitions on at the moment. Since this is my blog, these three are all after my own heart...
Opening tomorrow at the newly renovated and revamped Whitechapel Gallery, a range of images spanning 150 years of the Indian sub-continent. Documenting the social, political and cultural changes that have developed through India, Pakistan and Bangladesh through the eyes of Indian photographers, both professional and amateur.
Where Three Dreams Cross is a beautiful representation of lands and people that are forever evolving, changing, struggling and yet always with an element of beauty and wonder.
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 concessions
FREE on Sundays 11am - 1pm
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Amongst some of the 400 images in Where Three Dreams Cross, you will spy a handful of photos that have probably passed through your consciousness before. That is because they will have been taken by the wonderful Indian photographer Raghu Rai, who is responsible for some of the most iconic images of India and Indians over the last 40 odd years.
In reverence to this, The Aicon Gallery is hosting a retrospective of his work across this whole period.
I am a man who will freely admit his love for India and Raghu Rai's images really do convey the spirit of the country and even his simplest subject matter can hold one transfixed with his eye for truly capturing a moment.
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The final part of this photographical triptych is from one of the great album cover artists. William Eggleston has lent his work for use by such disparate musicians as Primal Scream, The Silver Jews and Joanna Newsom.
His themes often cover forgotten spaces and finding a certain beauty in drabness.
His new exhibition at the Victoria Miro Gallery will leave you in wonder at empty shower stalls and the creepy light inside of a freezer. Perfect hangover fare for us all, I would have thought.
Thursday 21 January 2010
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