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Biography.
Fiona Freund is a salf-taught photographer based in London and working in the fields of portraiture, fashion, reportage, advertising, promotion and travel. Her work has appeared in leading publications including: Vogue, Elle, GQ, The Independent on Sunday Review, Guardian Weekend, Tatler, Esquire, Time Out, Q, Management Today, The Observer Life magazine, ES Review, The Telegraph magazine, Select, Mix Mag and many more. Her client list includes: Hugo Boss, The Arts Council, Thames and Hudson, EMI, Gina Shoes, Heinemann Publishing to name a few and she has travelled extensively amassing images from around the world.
Motherworks her last personal portrait project celebrating the duality of working mums, was exhibited at the House of Commons to coincide with International Women’s Day 2020. A book of the exhibition is still available to buy. http://www.fionafreund.com/?fluxus_portfolio=motherworks.
Fiona’s latest project Corporate Queer, is another series of uplifting portraiture recognising the contributions made by the LGBT+ community to the business world in London and abroad. Scheduled for September 2021 at Broadgate near Liverpool Street, the exhibition will be in line with Pride London. https://www.wearemoi.net/corporate-queer.
Books:
The New English Dandy, text by Alice Cicolini. Published Thames and Hudson, 2005.
Motherworks, 2021.
E: fiona@fionafreund.com
MOB: +44 (0) 7931 580 639
WEB: www.fionafreund.com
40 portraits celebrating, representing, recognising the LGBTQ+ contribution to London.
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Biography.
Tony started his interest in photography at the age of ten when his aunty gave him a Kodak Twin Brownie 620 camera. His father, a commercial artist used photography to take reference pictures for his drawings and had a darkroom to develop and print Black and White photographs.
“ I used to watch dad printing and developing the photographs of products he would draw and other fun shots of the family, it was magic, I was hooked and started taking pictures myself of friends and aircraft”.
His artistic ability lead him to the Southend School of Art to study Graphic Design but the family went to Adelaide, Australia and for a while Tony continued at the South Australian School of Art before being offered a photographic job with the local newspaper group. “The job offer came by chance, I had been drawing a weekly cartoon for the Newspaper and they invited me in for an interview. I still wanted to be a designer but my father said why not give it a go, you may like it. After intensive assisting I was literally thrown in at the deep end, covering editorial assignments. My first published picture was of a helicopter giving joyrides from the beach; shooting aircraft had paid off.”
After two years of Newspaper photography Tony returned to London and in 1973 started his freelance career and has worked for many leading publishers and advertising agencies and now works on personal projects.
Recently he started Shoreditch Pioneers photographing studio portraits of people in Shoreditch in support of the local shelter for homeless people and during lockdown he self published Peru 1982 a six month journey of Peru.
Tel: 00(44)7836 322800
E: tony@tonyhutchings.co.uk
A signed limited edition book.
Info. www.peru1982.com
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Shoreditch Pioneers by Tony Hutchings.
Curated by Wayne Ford.
Music by Guava.
Biography.
Julio Etchart grew up in Uruguay and later settled in Britain, where he worked in community videography at the Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh and studied Documentary Photography at Newport Art College in Wales.
He has travelled around the world for the international media and has produced multimedia materials and touring exhibitions for many charities and NGOs.
Among various awards, he is a recipient of a World Press Photo First Prize for the environment, which led him to work on a long term project on ecological issues for the European Union. He has four photo-books published and has been designing and running photovoice and participatory image-making courses for refugees and migrant workers for many years.
Julio is a member of the Panos Pictures agency in London.
His latest book Imaging Orwell In Three Continents, Just Press November 2020, is a photographic travelogue exploring Orwell's journey of discovery from his time as an imperial policeman in Burma in the 1920s to his adventures as a fighter against Fascism during the Civil War in Spain in the 30s, and his sojourn in Morocco, which led him to write two seminal books: 'Burmese Days' and 'Homage to Catalonia', as well as his poignant 'Marrakech' essay. Excerpts from his writings and journals accompany the images.
'Like Orwell, he is naturally on the side of the man and woman in the street... As a documentarian, he is fearless. He transcends frontiers, language and class' — Robert McCrum.
E: julio@julioetchart.com
M: +44 (0) 794 4856799
Biography.
Mary Furlong is a graduate of the Limerick School of Art & Design, the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, the Technological University Dublin, and Ulster University, and a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows, won the Solstice Visual Arts Award, and is in the collections of the Irish Queer Archive and Rua Red.
In 2019 Mary returned to full-time education after a twenty-four-year break to undertake the TUD BA project ‘Not the location of my first kiss’ which was featured in a six-page editorial in the Summer 2022 issue of The Irish Arts Review.
Since returning to university Mary’s practice has become highly autobiographical. Drawing from personal experiences, the research and making of the work allows her to process, understand, and communicate those experiences.
Photography forms the main part of Mary’s practice and in recent years has evolved to incorporate text and video. Working close to home she is inspired by what she finds around her, everyday objects, stories, and chance remarks. Mary is interested in the uncanny, memorializing, memory, misremembering, personal histories, local places, and their hidden histories, the commonplace, and the generally overlooked.
If a child, a girl, is delicate, you cut her hair to give her back her strength, to help her thrive, because her hair is taking all her strength.
If the head falls off a holy statue your prayers have been answered. They say if the head falls off never glue it back.
If someone hits you with an elder stick you’ve to break it in three pieces, if not you’ll get a hump in your back.
When a tooth falls out you throw it over your shoulder and depending
on where it lands, to the left or to the right, your new tooth will grow straight or crooked!
Salt is lucky outside the door, it keeps evil away, it’s holy.
A Fairy tree is one tree on top of a hill in the middle of a field with no other trees to be seen around it, that’s a Fairy tree and you’re not to go near it.
Do you know what I often did I often did it myself like ya know you often hear years ago you know the apple the little what ya call it the twig yeah that just goes ABCDEF you know what I mean the initials I often heard that you years ago honest to God yeah and then you say you go round you go round the little cordl thing say ABC and it starts to stop at C well then you go on and you get the apple an you dig in and you go ABCD they say it gives you the initials of the man you’re going to marry. Honest to God that’s the truth yeah.
Biography.
Award-winning UK photographer Mike Goldwater is a founding member of Network Photographers the internationally renowned London agency, Mike’s passion is producing editorial and corporate imagery, and film-making. He is the owner, director of Blue Cube Productions Ltd. His work has appeared world-wide in major magazines, exhibitions, corporate publications and presentations. He has visited over 70 countries on assignments.
Mike’s many commercial clients include several large corporations such as the BBC and Coca Cola, Standard Chartered Bank, Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), Land Rover and Virgin Trains among others.
He has produced films for varied clients from Channel 4 News, the World Wildlife Fund and Morrisons Supermarkets. His work has appeared world-wide in major established publications or presentations for clients such as The Telegraph, FT magazine, Newsweek, Stern, Paris Match, Grande Reportage, Anadarko, Chevron and many more.
Among the awards he has accumulated are the World Press Photo in 1994 and 1999 for General News, and Nature and the Environment. He has been exhibiting in both group and solo shows since 1982.
His exhibition ‘Between Revolution and War’, organized by Fundacion Lattitudes, at the salon Camilo Minero, Cancilleria de la Republica, San Salvador, was last exhibited Sept. 4-Oct 17, 2016 at the National Media Museum, Bradford, UK.
T + 44 (0) 7973 625 872
E mike@mikegoldwater.com
Biography.
Born Dublin, Ireland 1972.
Joby Hickey is a visual artist based in Dublin. He was apprenticed to his father, the painter and etcher Patrick Hickey and lived in Dun Laoghaire for most of his childhood. He studied Fine Art in Dun Laoghaire Art School from 1992 / 94 before leaving to concentrate on film studies and work with David Shaw Smith on a series of documentaries.
Since 2009, Hickey has had a parallel research practice into analogue photographic techniques and has developed a unique set of photographic skills. He builds his own cameras from found materials
and recycled lenses, makes hand made negative plates and uses analogue production techniques.
These processes were honed through trial and experimentation. To date some of the research images have been shown as digital prints in solo shows at Galerie G11, Berlin (2011), Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin (2012) and shortlisted for the first Alliance Francaise Photography Award (2011).
Solo & Group shows
2016 ‘Landscape Rising’ Solomon Gallery. Photography by Karl Burke, Mary Furlong, Kim Haughton and Joby Hickey. Curated by Jennie Ricketts.
Solomon Gallery, Winter Group Show. Nov – December 2016.
2015/16 RHA Gallery, Dublin. Annual Exhibition.
Kings Inn Law Library. ‘Cover to Canvas’ group show. https://www.kingsinns.ie/news/item/2015/04/cover-to-canvas-artist-of-the-day--joby-hickey-photographer-andpainter/
2013 ‘H2’, Joby Hickey and Sean Hillen, Inspirational Arts. Dublin. Opened by John Boorman.
2012 ’20,000 kilometers’ Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
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2011 ‘Heliotropes” G11 Galerie, Friedrichshain, Berlin. http://berlin.g11-art.de/about.htm Alliance Française Dublin. Short listed for the 2nd photography Award Competition. Joby Hickey, Doreen Kennedy, Roseanne Lynch & Jean-Luc Morales www.alliance-francaise.ie
2009 Green Lane Gallery, Paris, France.
2007 ‘Magic Realism’ Bold Art Gallery, Galway, Ireland.
2006 Dalkey Arts, Dublin.
Commissions & Awards
2016 The Pearse Centre, Pearse Street, Dublin. The Ireland Institute. Commission for 1916 Easter Rising commemoration: 24th April 2016. Commissioned to produce large framed photographic works of battle sites from the Rising.
2012 ‘Selling Heaven’ by Brendan McCormack, Poetry book cover.
Published by Burning Apple Press, USA. 2012.
2011 Culture Ireland Award, for ‘Heliotropes” G11 Berlin.
2006 Nokia Short Film Award. https://www.youtu/watch?v=hEDzhujMpeE.
Collections
Joby Hickeys work in the private & public collections of:
J.P Donleavy, Ken Loach, Leonard Cohen, OPW, and private collections in Ireland, Tokyo, Brussels, Los Angeles, New York, London & Berlin.
E: joby@jobyhickey.com.
Biography
Karen Fuchs is a portrait, celebrity, and advertising photographer who has been shooting internationally for the past 12 years. Her sense of style and her personality are reflected in the vibrant imagery she creates, and the ability to connect with her subjects has gained her access to coveted assignments and celebrities.
A passionate and experienced professional, Karen has photographed hundreds of sessions over the years. She is equally comfortable shooting in the studio or on location, and knows how to switch from ‘fly on the wall’ documentary to big budget productions.
Exhibitions of her work have appeared at the ‘Recontres’ Arles/ France, ‘Primavera Fotografica’ Barcelona/ Spain, and also at WKD Gallery London. In addition her work has been included in group shows ‘Aid Tibet’ at Hamilton’s London, ‘Gameface’ at the Smithsonian Institute Washington.
Having lived in Bangladesh, Germany, and England, Karen now resides in New York.
M: +44 917 834 3434
E: info@karenfuchs.com
W: www.karenfuchs.com
LANDSCAPE RISING
Karl Burke, Mary Furlong, Kim Haughton and Joby Hickey.
A major group exhibition of contemporary Irish photography hosted by Solomon Fine Art
from Thursday June 30 to Saturday July 23 to coincide with
PhotoIreland Festival 2016.
Solomon Fine Art, Balfe Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
tel: +353 (0)86 8142380 / e: info@solomonfineart.ie.
Today the output of professional and vernacular lens-based art has never been more vibrant. The last nine years have been a personal voyage of discovery and “Landscape Rising” is a glimpse at the myriad photography that I found exists in contemporary Ireland. Aided by photography festivals such as PhotoIreland in Dublin, now in its seventh year, the range of work emerging here is becoming established on the international stage. However despite the efforts of specialist galleries such as The Gallery of Photography here in Dublin and Belfast Exposed, plus an increasing number of mainstream commercial and public art galleries including photography in their exhibition programmes, it is remarkable that photography within Ireland is still regarded as a niche art form with Irish talent still often achieving more recognition abroad than from their homeland.
Photography in Ireland dates back to 1839, and it seems incredible that this is not always reflected in people’s perception of the work being produced here. As recently as 2011 in his book “Photography and Ireland” the academic Justin Carville wrote: “Outside of Ireland, ideas of Irish photography centre around picturesque tourist views of the emerald green of the Irish landscape and photojournalistic representations of The Troubles.“ This was an effort to dispel the myopic view from abroad and enlighten those still unable to appreciate how much had changed. Previous histories on the subject include “Photography in Ireland; The Nineteenth Century”, by Edward Chandler, and ‘A Century in Focus; Photography and Photographers in the North of Ireland 1839-1939”, by W. A Maguire.
This group exhibition for Solomon Fine Art Gallery brings together four established Irish photographers exploring themes around the 1916 commemoration, landscapes, lifestyle and people, lending weight to the thesis that the photographers here are more than able to produce lens-based art that both re-images its own history, traditions and landscapes, and that can demonstrate awareness of other cultural scenes. The techniques incorporate traditional documentary, still life and portraiture through analogue and digital means in the individual style of each photographer. Whether it is experimental, using 19th century production methods and self-built equipment or digital, the work reaches beyond the picturesque and provides considered views and conceptualisation that skew perceptions of work emerging from Ireland as anything other than transformative.
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Jennie Ricketts © 2016.