Travel Photographer of the Year. From sweeping landscapes and cityscapes to the minutiae of an ant colony and remarkable, close-up detail of lions on the hunt, the award-winning images in the Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition documents the magnificence, beauty and poignancy of this planet and its inhabitants.
Opening times and dates Friday 11 July – Sunday 17 August Sunday to Thursday – 10.00am-5.00pm Friday and Saturday – 10.00am-7.00pm Enchanted evenings - special evening events available Plan your visit A vibrant, striking and thought-provoking selection of images which provide a fascinating glimpse of remote cultures and places, as well as a fresh take on familiar destinations. Shortlisted from entrants from nearly 100 countries, the photographs are captured by hugely talented amateur and professional photographers and will be exhibited at the Society from 11 July to 17 August in a magnificent, free to view display. Enchanted Evenings – a magical way to travel the world Dates and tickets. Sherlock Holmes. This year the Museum of London welcomes an exciting new exhibition, delving into the mind of the world’s most famous fictional detective; Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
Asking searching questions such as who is Sherlock Holmes, and why does he still conjure up such enduring fascination, this major exhibition – London’s first on the detective since 1951 – will explore how Sherlock Holmes has transcended literature onto stage and screen and continues to attract huge audiences to this day. Going beyond film and fiction, visitors to the museum will be transported to the real Victorian London – the backdrop for many of Conan Doyle’s stories. Welcome to the Official Website. Southbank Centre Christmas Tree Maze. Conflict, Time, Photography. 1 of 6 From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this moving exhibition focuses on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world, since the invention of photography.
In an innovative move, the works are ordered according to how long after the event they were created from moments, days and weeks to decades later. Photographs taken seven months after the fire bombing of Dresden are shown alongside those taken seven months after the end of the First Gulf War. Images made in Vietnam 25 years after the fall of Saigon are shown alongside those made in Nakasaki 25 years after the atomic bomb. The result is the chance to make never-before-made connections while viewing the legacy of war as artists and photographers have captured it in retrospect. Different conflicts will also reappear from multiple points in time throughout the exhibition. Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age. Time Out says Posted: Wed Apr 2 2014 ‘The long exposure time required by the first cameras favoured the static attributes of buildings, making them a far more reliable subject than the human figure,’ reads the dry introductory text to this extensive and actually quite moving show of photography from the past 80 years.
The statement is true, up to a point. Barring disaster, buildings don’t tend to move. But the effects of light, weather and most noticeably, human activity, make architecture anything but a static subject. A case in point is Berenice Abbott’s most famous photograph, ‘Night View, New York’ (1932). Like Abbott’s electrified city night-scape, humanity courses through this show.
In stark contrast is Bas Princen’s 2009 shot of Mokattam Ridge, Cairo, known as ‘Garbage City’ for the refuse sacks that festoon every balcony and rooftop, and Guy Tillim’s 2006-7 series focusing on the crumbling remains of government buildings and luxury hotels built in post-colonial Africa. Hayward Gallery. Time Out says Posted: Thu Oct 23 2014 City living might not always be easy but it’s certainly exhilarating.
So how do you respond to London, a city that has it all? With fragmented, amplified, high-tech, illusionistic, psychedelic and sometimes cynical work by 23 artists who share a love of the city, that’s how. Once you enter the gallery you cross a new threshold, into a terrain where reality blurs with fantasy. Elsewhere, you’re invited to navigate Laure Prouvost’s ‘The Artist’. This chaotic snapshot of an artist’s working environment is juxtaposed by Anne Hardy’s creepy interior hidden within a blank wooden container.
Flyposted in a stairwell are Tim Etchells’s posters ‘Vacuum Days’, in which the artist has scrambled news alerts and headlines to create fictional propositions (such as ‘Delirium Tremens Orchestra Play New Songs by Silvio Berlusconi and Dmitry Medvedev’). Freire Barnes What do you think? Join in and have your say.