Richard Young Gallery and London College of Fashion are proud to announce Capsule#2; an exhibition of work by forthcoming 2010 graduates from BA (Hons) Fashion Photography.

Richard Young, the UK’s most successful celebrity photographer, has chosen to collaborate with London College of Fashion for the second year in a row to support emerging photography talent from final year BA (Hons) Fashion Photography and offer them a showcase in his centrally located Kensington gallery space.

Richard Young said, “I am thrilled to be working with London College of Fashion for the second year running. It is vital that I continue to support emerging talent in the hope that the next generation can follow in my footsteps and launch their own successful careers.”

Capsule#2 will showcase 56 works by 56 graduateswho are the rising stars of the fashion photography world. Once again, Nikon are generously supporting the award for the graduate who displays the most creative potential. The judging panel tasked with finding a winner this year are: Penny Martin, Professor of Fashion Imagery at LCF and Editor in Chief of The Gentlewoman, Simon Coleman from Nikon and Richard Young. The winner will receive the latest Nikon D700 camera.

The work on display will reflect the huge range of image making to emerge from BA (Hons) Fashion Photography – a course that provides a unique experience unmatched around the world to help students develop their own authentic signature style.

Course Director Edward Barber said, “We’re delighted to be working with Richard again this year. We’re very grateful for his continuing support and for giving our students the opportunity to show in such a prestigious photographic venue that reinforces the importance of our graduates within the creative industries.”

A 64 page full‐colour catalogue supported by printers Chapter Press and design consultants Sampson May has been created to accompany the exhibition and will be available to buy at the Richard Young Gallery throughout the run. Also available to buy will be the prints themselves giving the public a rare opportunity to pick up work by the Mario Testino’s and the Annie Leibovitz’s of the future.

The unique exhibition showcases photographs of jazz icons including Ray Charles, Theolonius Monk, Miles Davis, Bo Diddley, Slim Gaillard and Art Blakey. These arresting images provide an insight into the vibrant world of jazz, capturing its stars in their element, with the passion of their performances clear in every shot.

Since he first attended the Lisbon Jazz Festival in 1971, Tim Motion has built an unrivalled reputation as a jazz photographer after opening a club that brought him into contact with the members of the legendary ‘Newport All-Stars’ who defined the genre.

“The images in this exhibition represent a selection from almost four decades in jazz photography for me, and what a time that has been. The photographs reflect a real labour of love, capturing the great musicians that I have been lucky enough to watch perform, and I am very pleased to have them on display at the Richard Young Gallery. These pictures fuse my passion for jazz music and photography, and through capturing the undeniably great performers portrayed here, strengthens my love of both. Music is, of course, something that cannot be photographed, but with these images I have sought to provide a glimpse of the magic and personality that jazz is so famous for,” said Tim Motion.

An Eye for the Sound will open from 4th May 2010 to 12th June 2010 at The Richard Young Gallery, 4 Holland Street, London, W8 4LT.

Photographs will be available for purchase with prices ranging from £475 -£2500.

For further information please contact:

Susan Young or Michelle Boynton on  020 7937 8911, office@richardyoungonline.com

Having previously exhibited in Paris, France and Loch Shin, Scotland, this is Karim’s first exhibition in London. He specializes in panoramic photography and prefers to work with film. He never manipulates or retouches any of his photographs, choosing to capture the perfect image in situ.

Karim’s travels have taken him to many far-reaching destinations including the Scottish highlands and the American deserts, the frozen Norwegian wilderness, Iceland, Brazil and the coasts of South Africa. This exhibition presents a glimpse into the experience of witnessing first-hand the overwhelming beauty of the natural world.

“I’ve always had an affinity with nature from an early age – I love standing in the middle of the countryside, with nothing to distract me, just the sound of the wind. It’s in that environment that I am able to take photographs that I like.”
- Karim Fayed

TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) is a charity working to fight global poverty through its clothes recycling and environmental activities in the UK. To mark TRAID’s 10th year, Erin O’Connor travelled to India to document how TRAID’s work to divert clothes from landfill is improving the lives of women embroidery home workers in Delhi, and bringing the invisible last link in the global textile supply chain into the mainstream.

Photographs by Rufus Exton

www.traid.org.uk

Some images are available to purchase. Please contact the gallery for further information 0207 937 8911

Wednesday 1 July  - 13 August  2009

A collaboration between the Richard Young Gallery, London College of Fashion and Nikon showcasing new work by 15 graduating students from the BA (Hons) Fashion Photography – the only course of its kind in the world, it provides a unique academic context for students to develop their own signature style.

33 images have been specially selected by photographer Martine Houghton and creative director of sixeightsevensix, Kenneth Mackenzie.

The students in CAPSULE:

Palida Boonyarungsrit
Rachel Coxhead
Andre Doebert
Sarah Haselwood
Zhivka Haskiya
Rachel Hippolyte
Lisanne Holly
Patrick Lindblom
Mira Loew
Iman Mohsen
Katrina More-Molyneux
Danielle Rahme
Jan Schjetne
Emel Turner-Hassan
Fenella Webb

On 1 July the work will be judged by Richard Young, Simon Coleman (Nikon) and Wendy Bevan (LCF alumna) and the winner will be awarded a Nikon D700 camera.

All work is for sale, prices on application.

With thanks to Nikon and Grey Goose for their support of this exhibition.

Fine Art Limited Edition PLatinum Prints by Charles Roff

Charles was born near Inverness, Scotland, and brought up in Rhodesia and Iran. After studying Film and Photography in Nottingham, he exhibited his photographs of portraits, landscapes, and nudes in the UK, France, USA, Germany, and Japan between 1977 and 2002.  In the late seventies he established a very profitable publishing company, Foto-Roff and Crean Bottoms Productions, for the production of high quality posters and postcards, selling his work and that of other carefully chosen photographers across Europe. In 1985 Charles founded Black and White Publications and opened a gallery of the same name in Covent Garden, London. This ran successfully for six years. A documentary was made in 1989 about Charles Roff, his double life as photographer and publisher, in a film called “All That is Left of Innocence.” The documentary was shown on British Independent Television in 1990.

At the beginning of the nineties, Charles returned to freelance photography, taking various commissions, leading immediately to an exhibition of landscapes for the National Trust Cable and Wireless entitled “A Beach Story.” This work coincided with a series of nudes Charles photographed on the beaches of Cornwall.

In 1994 Charles went to Bosnia as a stills cameraman on a BBC commissioned documentary filming the destruction of Mostar. A series he photographed of Mostar was subsequently used by WarChild charity, exhibited at their fund-raising events. These photographs were also shown at MTV Europe television headquarters in London and the Supper Club in Amsterdam. The Mostar series has also been used extensively in the sleeves of music CDs produced to raise funds for the reconstruction of Mostar.

Charles most recent photographic series depicted the progress of Neil Simmons Thatcher commission statue. Charles has produced a Limited Edition of platinum prints illustrating the unique relationship between the artist and the model. Images from this series will be used in an upcoming book of Charles portraits of various artists and their models.

“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” Andy Warhol

Richard Young is one of the UK’s most renowned celebrity photographers. More than thirty five years after his first depiction of Café Society, Arts Co is delighted to be working with Young on the creation of a new exhibition.

The Richard Young Gallery is pleased to present Warholesque?, an exhibition that invites six contemporary artists to intervene and respond to unseen photographs of Andy Warhol at his inaugural London exhibition in 1978 taken by Richard Young.

Andy Warhol’s art is inseparable from photography. His photographs captured the faces of the rich and famous – musicians, actors, artists, fashion models – from the New York disco scene to London’s café society. Warhol was rarely seen without a camera – it acted as a combination of sketchbook and diary. In his obsessive documentation of the world around him he used various means; audiocassette tape videotape, and of course camera (or multiple cameras), often saving the minutiae of everyday life in his infamous time capsules. ‘A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures – it’s a visual diary’.

Through his paintings, films, Interview magazine, and as a promoter of numerous people in his circle, Warhol created a superstar machine for accelerating fame and stardom. Richard Young is similarly attached to his camera with a portfolio of iconic and defining images that document popular culture. Over the last 30 years Young has photographed the canon of contemporary society, without the use of makeup artists, special lighting or trick photography, people from Elizabeth Taylor to Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson to Madonna and of course Andy Warhol himself.

Richard Young’s photos of Warhol in 1978 are fascinating today, in as much as they highlight the implicit tension between truth and fiction, reality and invention that is at the core of the celebrity photo. As Warhol once said when asked about his canny portrait technique “who wants the truth?” In this exhibition, Young’s photographs, and indeed Andy Warhol are re-interpreted by contemporary artists – Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, Jamie Shovlin, Jessica Voorsanger, Kay Harwood, Daniel Pasteiner and a surprise guest.

Location:
Richard Young Gallery
4 Holland Street
London W8 4LT

Dates: 7th May – 6th June 2009
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 10am – 6pm

Notes to the Editors:

London in the 70’s Screening
A ‘London in the 70’s’ screening of BFI archive footage will be shown in connection to the exhibition at the BFI where Richard Young will be in conversation with Nicky Haslam on Monday 11 May, 6.30pm.
Please contact the Arts Co for details on +44 207 7230 285.

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