My new favourite gallery in London, Sprüth und Magers, are having a Stephen Shore exhibition soon.
Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is thought of as one of the great American colour photographers. He started photographing in an early age heavily inspired by Walker Evans’ book, American Photographs and Robert Frank. In the late 60′s he hung out at Andy Warhol’s famous studio, Factory, in a sense working as a house photographer.
He’s two most known pieces of work is “American Surfaces, 1972-73″ and “Uncommen Places” from 1982.
Since 1982 Shore has been director of the photography department at Bard College, US.

STEPHEN SHORE
Jul 26 – Sep 1, 2007

William Eggleston photographed by Stephen Shore. Taken from “American Surfaces.”

In a western capital as London almost everything is becoming branches and franchises. I have in the past written about the dying London institution called ‘caffs‘ but today I felt like writing a bit about the cinemas. For me some of the most amazing and orginal buildings in London have to be those old palace looking ones from the early 1910′s to the late 30′s. A lot of them no longer function as local cinemas but have been bought up by either bingo halls owned by Mecca or music halls as Carling Academy.

However there are still a precious few independent cinemas left as Rio Cinema in Dalston and Phoenix Cinema in Finchley.

So my two flatmates have now moved out of our shared Islington terraced house. They are both bound for Copenhagen and Paris where they will do intership at different designers for 9 months.
Just before they moved I got to photograph both of them in Marie’s designs.

William Eggleston & Jurgen Teller enjoying a BBQ lunch together.

The London College of Fashion has it’s fashion photography degree show from Saturday 23 at the 5 star Great Eastern Hotel.
P.V. & party this Saturday night 6 – 8 pm!

Above picture is from the event.

Anyone interested in the up and coming architects of London go see this years summer show at Slade. There is over 450 students exhibiting drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations.
P.V. this Friday 22/6 from 18 – 22.30

Closes June 30

The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
UCL Main Quadrangle, Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT