Three imminent exhibits
(listed in order of starting date)
include members of HFF.
Austin Guest ~ 15-20 April
https://www.londonphotography.org.uk
Meet the Artists: Saturday, April 19, 2025, 3pm to 5pm
In a world where everyone seems to be shouting, have we forgotten how to listen?
Listening actively is about awareness and understanding, an openness to absorbing everything we are exposed to, being mindful of the world we live in, the places we visit and the people we meet. But …how do we make ‘listening’ visible?
27 photographers from London Independent Photography Central Group (cLIP) respond to this question in a variety of styles and genres, creating images that range from the documentary to the figurative and conceptual — making listening visible through performance, landscape, abstraction, and alternative processes.
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Sabes Sugunasabesan ~ 15 April – 1 May
https://harrowarts.com/whats-on/event/kunkumam#details
May is the time when the Sri Lankan Tamil community commemorate the remembrance of civil war losses. Harrow is a key area in which members of this community reside, and remember this time together.
This exhibition will be a space for remembering these losses that ended on the shores of Mullivaaikkalin in Northern Sri Lanka in May 2009. It was estimated that the 30 year war caused 90,000 women to be widowed in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country. With the deaths on the side of the army the numbers of widows would be much higher.
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Avril Harris and Mary Davis ~ 22 April – 4 May Thirteen Photo Group
https://www.instagram.com/thirteenphotogroup/
The group, formed in 2015, are professional and accomplished amateur photographers with many solo and group exhibitions and awards to their credit. As a diverse group of photographers with an eclectic range of interests, each member of THIRTEEN had drawn on their unique perspective to inspire their work.
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Microsculpture: The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss
HTTPS://ANSP.ORG/EXHIBITS/MICROSCULPTURE/
The link above will take you to the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia where Levon Bliss describes how he photographed the insects in the collection at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
There is also a video showing the printing one of his 9 ft. high photographs.
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Pioneering Coventry:
The Post-war Photography of
Richard Sadler
Exhibitions of people, industry and arts
at The Old Grammar School
Hales Street Coventry CV1 1JD
Opening Times: Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 – 4:00
Exhibitions made possible by Coventry Photo Miners
Generously funded by the City of Culture Trust
Photos on this page from The Richard Sadler Archive, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
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Upper Precinct, 1959
Pioneering People: Sadler and the City
8th February – 11th March 2022
In this first exhibition, we present the people of post-war Coventry: the children, teenagers and young adults that inherited a damaged city and set the common ground to transform Coventry into a city of peace and reconciliation.
You’ll see the Umbrella Club, opened by the Goons in 1955 as well as Foleshill Jazz Club from earlier in the decade. We’ll show you dancing in the streets too, as well as how to hang out at the precinct in 1950s Coventry.
We also present some photography of Coventry at the time, the damage and the recovery, including a series on the famous Godiva Cafe and Broadgate – to illustrate Coventry’s belief then that it is a city of the future, a belief we believe applies today.
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Dr Vera Furness, 1953
Pioneering Industry: Sadler and the Courtaulds
15th March – 22nd April 2022
Courtaulds was an internationally-renowned man-made fibre manufacturer, producing products used by the military as well as by civilians. It was so strategically important that, as a condition of the USA joining the Second World War, the Courtaulds Company had to give up its manufacturing base and product rights in America.
Courtaulds had facilities across the UK but Coventry was its beating heart – its research centre that developed the products that made its name.
In this second exhibition, we use Sadler’s 1951-54 photography to showcase the scientists, workers and processes that made the company such a huge success.
In particular, we focus on how Courtaulds in Coventry employed more women than men, and in particular Vera Furness, who led the research team which eventually created another world-changing product – carbon fibre.
Coventry remains an innovative city and elements of the Courtaulds Company, and their specialisations, have been inherited and built upon, and so we also feature a few examples about specialist companies today.
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Sutherland Tapestry awaiting its big reveal, 1963
Pioneering Arts: Sadler and the Cathedral
24th April – 27th May 2022
This third exhibition, held to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the consecration of the cathedral, celebrates the time when the cathedral was new. We present unseen images of the Sutherland tapestry being offloaded and moved to the cathedral, of it being hung before the internal space was complete. We see the Ramsey-Hoskins nativity scene, now partially lost, making its first appearance. We also present previously unseen images of early mystery plays performed in the ruins. As with the City of Culture today, we’re seeing in this exhibition an investment in emerging and new artists whose ways of seeing provide fresh but unfamiliar perspectives.
Trust in art and you will be rewarded for years to come.
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WeeGee the Famous, 1963 ©The Estate of Richard Sadler
Richard Sadler
AIIP FRSA 1927 – 2020
Dr Richard Sadler was the official photographer at Coventry Cathedral, Belgrade Theatre, RSC and Courtaulds for many years.
He also undertook arts projects, exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally, finding fame in particular with his portrait of Arthur Fellig, known as WeeGee, the American crime photographer.
Richard exhibited regularly, both locally, nationally and internationally. His website, http://www.richardsadler.co.uk, has more details on his many accolades and successes.
In 1968 he joined what is now Derby University as a member of the arts faculty and remained there until his retirement in the 1990s.
HFF member, Len Salem, adds: Richard Sadler was indeed a great photographer, teacher, and a very kindly person.
from http://www.richardsadler.co.uk
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This link will take you to the distressing news of the internationally acclaimed photographer, Lu Guang, who has been ‘disappeared’ in China.
London Independent Photography on Facebook
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A remnant of an older Herts Foto Forum website from earlier days in our 21 year history.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/alanslater/hffweb/gallery/page_10001.html
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The New Yorker
This link will take you to an extensive set of articles on Photography. If you are not a subscriber, there is a limit on how many articles you may read in a given length of time. The link takes you to the current set of photos, so look at it again from time to time to see more.
https://www.newyorker.com/tag/photography?reload=true
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