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Congratulations to LIP member Lidia Kowalewicz who is one of just 60 photographers from over 2500 entrants, selected to exhibit in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011.

A portrait from Lidia’s ongoing series Beauty Pageants will be on show at National Portrait Gallery from 10th November to 12th February, 2012. For her project Lidia photographs children participating in beauty pageants, who she says are expected to fit western ideals and so face extreme pressure to be successful, “receiving a sense of their own self worth through the validation of beauty pageant judges applying adult beauty criteria.”

Lidia was born in late 80′s in Poland and recently achieved first in Photography and Digital Imaging at the University of West London.

We had seven presentations at the August monthly meetup which was a squeeze but resulted in some fine discussion & new insights into the ‘Village’ theme.

We’ve got a flickr site for upload of Project work-in-progress, in response to members and ensuring a greater degree of feedback. Some members of the LVP from Lewisham are beginning to plan a local exhibition and any initiative for other local exhibitions will get as much support as we can give.

Keith Ellis presented for the first time his exploratory work in Deptford.
Anne-Marie Glasheen continues work within the condemned prefabs close to her home in Catford, focussing on the intimacies of the ‘internal’.
Jennifer Roberts was another member showing first-time work, from Surrey Quays, portraying her neigbourhood through its built composition.
Angela Inglis‘s work in Somers Town continues to gather pace, currently working with the proliferation of community groups in that territory.
Lesley Brew is documenting the interaction between the 2012 construction on, and the local population’s use of, Woolwich Common.
Astrid Baerndal continues to document the early days of her Buddhist community in Camberwell, working on portraiture of the fraternity.
Jonathan Goldberg introduced ‘Transition Towns’, involving a movement that aims to inspire and support communities in the transition from oil dependency to relocalised economies responding to climate change.

We’re six months into the Project & we’ve got six months to go. Onward!

LIP member Stefanie Reichelt has had her book Three Wheels a Zen Garden in London shortlisted for the People’s Choice Award of Blurb’s annual Photography Book Now competition. Each year the competition celebrates the most creative, innovative, and finest self-published photography books – and the people behind them.

Up to 200 books per category have been selected for People’s Choice voting, which ends August 30th. Category winners each receive a $1,500 prize. To view all the books shortlisted for the 2011 People’s Choice Award see this link. Stefanie’s book is in the Travel category.

photo: Carole Evans

Congratulations to Carole Evans whose image of Ceridwen from her retro girls project was featured on the front cover of the Independent on Sunday’s The New Review, 14th August.

A print of the photograph is currently on show until 21st September as part of the 50′s, Fashion and Emerging Feminism exhibition at Collyer Bristow Gallery. Viewing is during office hours only, at 4 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4TF.

DEADLINE ALERT!
31st August will be the last day to sign up for LIP’s London Villages Project.

If you have been debating whether or not to participate, the time has come to decide! All LIP Members are invited to register at the LVP website, and be a part of this exciting long-term project!

A series of workshops for members, on ‘editing a body of work’ will run from Autumn 2011 and seek to help members of the LVP in selecting work that will become the final representation of their personal project. More details will follow to members.

At the July monthly meeting Carol Kenna presented an update on her project in Greenwich which displayed a number of themes such as construction in the area and neighbourhood groups. New member Francesca Hamon is looking in Bermondsey and highlighted a problem for many members of the LVP: that of the richness of a neighbourhood & how to make a singular statement from the multiplicity of options. Anita Strasser is continuing her Deptford High Street work but with a new frame of reference, now shooting in colour. Katrin Nodop began again with the working horses at The Old Southern Railway Stables in Bermondsey.

For further details about the project see londonvillagesproject.org.uk or contact organiser John Levett

14 Magazine is devoted to poems of fourteen lines, and Anne-Marie Glasheen will be the featured artist/photographer in the July issue, number 12

Anne-Marie is a photographic artist, poet and literary translator. Her father was Belgian, her mother English. Apart from straight photography, she makes extensive use of digital montaging – combining layers of scanned and/or photographed images to produce original images of altered realities, sometimes incorporating words: English and/or French to reflect her dual heritage. She is increasingly concerned with memory and transience; as well as issues of identity and her relationship with what is beyond as well as behind.

For further details see the 14 Magazine website.