During the last week of the Walthamstow Dogs in 2008 I took a series of portrait photographs of staff, dog-trainers and people from the crowd.

The portraits were captured with a medium format film camera using a tripod and a long exposure. Working like this slows down the picture-taking process: it takes time to set up the camera, tripod and compose the photograph. My subjects often start concentrating on what Im doing which helps create intense portraits.

I like to think this series of photos also captures the mood of the evening – one of sadness at the stadium’s imminent demise.

Portraits from the Stadium is part of the E17 Art Trail 2010: 10 days; 120 venues; 200 exhibitions and over 1200 artists and contributors.

Runs September 3-12, 2010

Cut To Size
116 Palmerston Road
London E17 6PZ
Transport: Blackhorse Road Tube

LIP Members Rashida Mangera, Chris Moxey and Chris Hirsch have work in this annual exhibition at Lauderdale House. Built in 1582 the space is home to a variety of shows and events in Highgate Hill.

Runs September 1-12, 2010
Private View September 1st, 7.30-9pm

Upper and Long Galleries at Lauderdale House
Highgate Hill
Waterlow Park
London N6 5HG
Transport: Archway (Northern Line), Buses 143,230,271 direct to House

Join us for a fun-packed evening at the gallery with live music, games and prizes, a pop-up photobooth, an auction of photographs donated by Viewfinder’s very own exhibitors and more! We look forward to seeing you there.

The Carnival is coordinated by Nigel Rumsey, and LIP Members with prints in the auction include Quentin Ball, Anita Chandra, Louise Forrester, Caroline Fraser, Anne-Marie Glasheen, Katie Goodwin, Catlin Harrison, Ketty Hill, John Levett, Nigel Rumsey and Mandy Williams.

Friday September 3rd, 7-10pm
Tickets £8 (2 tickets for £15) – available online

Viewfinder Photography Gallery
46 Greenwich Church Street
Greenwich, London SE10 9BL

DLR to Cutty Sark, train to Greenwich

‘First Impressions’ is a solo exhibition of black and white hand prints by Joe Bowes.

These powerful and evocative images convey the full drama of their subjects in a way that only black and white imaging can. They stir up the emotion of a landscape in the viewer without the need for colour, leaving the individual with their own impression and view of each scene produced in this ‘nostalgic’ medium.

Travel around the wild and free northern areas of Britain has enlivened the photographers’ enthusiasm and passion for his art and he has, in recent years, successfully exhibited and sold his work widely. All the images are captured on film using medium format cameras and developed and printed in a traditional darkroom. The use of black and white film and ‘wet’ printing the images on archival fibre based paper give the prints a certain quality and feel that is not easily matched.

Runs August 20 – September 27, 2010

Friends’ Gallery
The Theatre by the Lake
The Lake District
Keswick CA12 5DJ

The Greenwich Satellite Group of London Independent Photography returns again to Viewfinder Photography Gallery this August to showcase its exuberant collection of photographic talent and enthusiasm. Image above by Surinder Singh.

Greenwich hospital supports the Viewfinder with temporary gallery space until mid-September, 2010: “Greenwich Hospital is always keen to support new talent in a variety of creative fields and we are pleased to support the Viewfinder in exhibiting emerging photographers. We wish the exhibitions every success.”

Runs August 12 – September 12, 2010
Private View August 12th, 7-9pm
Open Thur-Fri, 12-5pm; Weekends & bank holidays, 12-4pm

Viewfinder Photography Gallery
46 Greenwich Church Street
London SE10 9BL
www.viewfinder.org.uk/exhibitions/upcoming.html

Public Transport: Greenwich main line, Cutty Sark DLR

An exhibition of colour street photography.

Runs August 1st – September 30, 2010
Open 12-11pm daily

Coach and Horses Public House
Greenwich Market
Greenwich SE10

Rail/Tube: Greenwich Mainline Station & Greenwich DLR

An exhibition of shortlisted entries for the London Photography Award 2010 and the London Art Award 2010.

Runs August 6-10, 2010
Private View Thursday, August 5
Open Fri-Tues: 12-7pm

3 Bedfordbury Gallery
3 Bedfordbury
Covent Garden
London WC2N 4BP

Charing Cross or Leicester Square tube
Tel 020 3268 2184 (Gallery)

Stop Motion is the 7th annual exhibition of work by members of the Queens Park Group of London Independent Photography. The show features around 160 images between 23 photographers, using a wide range of media. The members were challenged to realize the theme ‘Stop Motion’, which has been interpreted in many ways – as well as incisive street photography there are more delicate realisations involving poetic sequences.

The exhibition runs in two halves. The first half, between 15-28 August will show the work of 11 photographers and the second half, between 29 August – 11 September will show the work of a further
12.

Runs August 16 – September 11, 2010
Opening times: 2 to 6 pm daily

The Gallery
Willesden Green Library Centre
95 High Road
London NW10 2SF

Tube: Willesden Green – Buses: 52, 98, 206, 260, 266, 302 & 460

About BAR and the Gallery – Brent Artist’s Resource is an artist-led voluntary organization. BAR is the leading forum for contemporary visual art in Brent and the new Gallery has been built as part of an exciting re-development of Willesden Green Library Centre. www.brentartistsresource.org.uk

The Silent Room Gallery is proud to announce its first exhibition, a photographic installation by the emerging Polish artist-photographer Karolina Maria Dudek. Dudek’s work challenges the orthodoxy of photography as a two-dimensional medium for representation of the instant, and, in artistic tradition, seeks to explore a reality existing in the imagination, behind the here-and-now. By creating installations, the third dimension presented by the gallery space becomes an element in her work, inviting the viewer to their own interpretation of the confluence of her work’s meaning, the space and reality. The subject of her work is the human being or their absence in the world.

Hate is part of an ongoing work, Faces, which explores the face as an identity key, just as a bar-code identifies a consumer product. As an identity code, the face in portrait representation can be digitally manipulated from multiple sources, for example by juxtaposing different people’s portraits, or sampling portraits across the human lifespan. In Hate, Dudek seeks to identify her own loss of innocence, and studies her own face as she contemplates or expresses disgust or hatred of the world.

Runs July 16 – August 15, 2010
Private View Thursday July 15th, 6-8 pm
Open daily 10-6pm

Silent Room Gallery
76 Atlantic Roud
London SW9 8PX
Tube: Brixton

Steve Williams was recently awarded the Associate Distinction by the Royal Photographic Society and has had two prints selected for their 153rd International Print Exhibition. Over 3,000 prints were submitted and 123 were selected.

Runs July 14 – August 31, 2010
Private View July 14th

Allen & Overy
One Bishops Square
London E1 6AD
Tube: Liverpool Street