This premiere show of work from David Solomons’ series Up West encompasses a portrait of London’s West End over the past decade, depicting fluctuations in the urban landscape and the people who flock there in droves to eat, shop, find entertainment and engage in nights out on the lash.

March 12 – April 4, 2010
Opening Night Preview Thursday March 11th, 7pm
Open Wed-Sun: 1-7pm

Third Floor Gallery
102 Bute Street
Cardiff CF10 5AD

Third Floor Gallery
www.davidsolomons.com

This exhibition provides a personal perspective of Brentford’s industrial and and post-industrial urban landscape and links it to the Musical Museum.

March 13 – May 30, 2010
Private View March 12th, 6-8pm
Admissions charge to the museum (not during private view)

The Musical Museum
399 High Street
Brentford TW8 0DU
www.musicalmuseum.co.uk

Transport: Kew Bridge, Buses 237, 267, 65

A small exhibition of recent photographs. If you are in the area and fancy a pint in a great pub, have a look at the photos, too.

Runs March 8 – May 4, 2010

The Old Dairy Pub
1-3 Crouch Hill
Finsbury Park
London N4 4AP

Finsbury Park Tube, Crouch Hill Overground

Long Exposures and Ghost Houses presents the work of two contemporary photographers, Anthony Carr and Melanie Menard, whose current work investigates location.

Anthony Carr is a London-based artist. His work is often project-led, with photographic series produced as a direct response to a particular location or situation and much of his recent interest has been in capturing images taken during extremely long exposures. Typical exposures can last from anywhere between a few weeks to several months.

Melanie Menard is based in Cambridgeshire. Her ghost house series was shot at several abandoned houses in Kerry and Connemara, Ireland. Traces of the occupants’ lives and aspirations, and of the disillusions and hardships that made them leave their homeland, remained in the form of scattered personal belongings.

Runs March 12 – April 24, 2010
Private view Thursday March 11th, 5-7pm

Norwich Arts Centre
St. Benedict’s Street
Norwich NR2 4PG

An exhibition of photographic artworks by local artist and Erotic Oscars (Photography category) 2010 finalist Holly Revell.

Runs March 25 – April 30, 2010
Private view March 24th, 6-9pm
Open daily 12 noon – 10pm
Free admission

EDVI public house
25 Bromfield Street
Islington
London N1 0PZ

Angel tube

London through the eyes of two photographers and two artists with very different perspectives.

Runs March 23 – May 7, 2010
Private view: Wednesday March 24th, 6-8 pm (please email Anne for personal invite which will be needed to get through security)
Open Mon-Thurs, 8.30am-6pm; Fri 8.30am-5.30pm

City Hall
The Queen’s Walk
London SE1 2AA
London Bridge tube

Viewfinder Photography Gallery presents unusual reworkings of family photographs by John Levett and Anne-Marie Glasheen. Both use their family photographs as a resource in creating new series, and as a tool for understanding and reinterpreting their own family histories. Anne-Marie creates new images by layering old and new photographs while John re-photographs existing photographs, finding new meanings in them through photographing them in different locations and on different surfaces.

Anne-Marie’s series features three generations of her maternal family. Her great-grandfather was a master baker in Lee High Road. Her grandfather was a butcher, also in Lee High Road, before enlisting. She presents reproductions of original family prints combined with digital ones, and pinhole shots of ‘Pettifer’ addresses; poems and texts inspired by stories told and information gleaned.

John Levett is also intrigued by the mysteries of family photographs. For John, the truly interesting feature of the family album is what the family hides— “the abuse, the ignoring, the lies, the violence, the gathering disappointments, the slow death of ambition.” In 1987 John moved out of the house in which his mother had died eight years before. Amongst the clutter that went to the tip was (most of) the family photo collection. He retained a handful of snaps, some taken by his father, some by himself, some by ‘an other’. John’s mother never talked to him of who his father was, or of her life before they met. Reworking the images complemented his revaluation of life with his mother—giving certain moments a fresh immediacy. He describes this process as “failing again, failing better.”

Accompanying workshop, Sunday 25 April, 2-5pm
John Levett is running an accompanying workshop at the Viewfinder, at which Anne-Marie Glasheen will also present her work. Those taking part in the workshop will be invited to bring along their family album—all of it or part of it. They’ll be asked to consider what the album represents to the family, what hasn’t been included, who hasn’t been included, what events are absent, what photographs could have been taken but weren’t. Participants will be looking at re-shooting the image—under light, under glass, in shade and shadow; in a formal context and casually. Participants will consider how we might question the stories that the family snap tries to tell; what we might learn from pairing image and image. This workshop is funded by the Capital Community Foundation and Grassroots Grants. Places are free but booking is essential – email louise@viewfinder.org.uk to reserve a place.

Exhibition runs April 8-25, 2010
Private view April 8th, 7-9pm

Viewfinder Photography Gallery
Linear House, Peyton Place
Greenwich, London SE10 8RS

It is an ambitious project that will not be complete until the end of the next decade – 24 photographers, documenting the first 24 hours of every New Year for 24 years. Now seven years in and 24photography is still going strong, creating a social commentary that will last for generations.

Each individual is tasked with capturing a single moment within their allotted hour, creating a unique collection of images linked only by time. This year the group decided to use the theme of Rebirth as their inspiration, drawing on their experiences and surroundings to create a distinctive set of images.

Runs February 24 – March 19, 2010
Private view 24:02:10
Open 24 days 24 hours

Golden Square, Soho
Piccadilly
London W1F

Public Transport: Piccadilly Circus

The Well Gallery
London College of Communication
Elephant and Castle
London SE1 6SB

Elephant and Castle tube

An exhibition featuring 20 merit-winning photographs selected from almost 5,000 images entered into the Fujifilm Distinctions Awards.

Runs February 26 – April 9, 2010

Bayeux
78 Newman Street
London W1T 3EP

Tottenham Court Road tube

See www.bayeux.co.uk and www.fujifilmdistinctions.co.uk