FOTO8′s story of the week this week features images from the series Degeneration by the Human Endeavour collective with text by Richard Healey.

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I feel very honored to be included in Maria Short’s new book Context and Narrative, recently published by AVA Books alongside such worthy names as Paul Fusco, Eve Arnold and Mark Power. Read a full review via the link below.

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I will be giving a talk along with fellow Human Endeavour member Richard Chivers about our project Degeneration as part of the Mini Click series of photography talks at the Old Market, Hove on August 4th.

The Mini Click talks are organised by Jim Stephenson, otherwise known as Click Click Jim. Jim states on his blog that ‘this is the third season of talks and follows on from some excellent speakers over the last 8 months. I’ve been very proud to be able to present some extremely talented photographers as part of all this and this season we’ve been able to maintain the level of quality.’

Mini Click

Simon will be exhibiting as part of the ‘Human Endeavour’ collective, showing work from the series ‘Degeneration’

“Established in 2004 in Derby UK, FORMAT is one of the UK’s leading international contemporary festivals of photography and related media.”

“FORMAT11′s theme is ‘Right Here, Right Now: Exposures from the public realm’ and is curated around the theme of street photography, examining the relationship that photographers and filmmakers have to it through a wide variety of approaches. The ‘Collectives Encounter 2011’ exhibition’s curator Yasmina Reggad has decided to explore the concept of ‘The Flâneur’. She invited the collectives working with or about photography and related media to look at this theme through the lens of this mobile observer and aesthete that Walter Benjamin presented as a conceptual and analytical tool to think the modern city.”

“The exhibition will showcase 4 new commissioned artworks by ASA & Wideyed, The Photography Collective, Vea-Collective and Rawiya, as well as Human Endeavour’s ‘Degeneration’ series.”

The exhibition will be held at the Royal Insurance Buildings, 2 The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BA

March 4th – April 3rd, 10:00 – 17:30  daily

Format Festival

Collectives Encounter

“The SIPF is a worldwide biennial gathering of minds commonly pursuing the advancement and appreciation of photography. An arena for critical thought and academic discussion on photography in Southeast Asia, the festival also functions as a platform to nurture and propel photographers onto the international stage.”

“SIPF 2010 prides itself to be the platform for Southeast Asian photographers to showcase their photography works alongside their international counterparts. This year’s festival incorporates a brand new themed category titled, ‘HUMAN: NATURE’ to address universal concerns faced by the world.”

SIPF Open Call Showcase

Out of more than 6,500 works submitted, a stellar crop of 550 images by a total of 48 photographers of 23 different nationalities were short-listed by SIPF curators. Images from Simon’s ‘Cycles’ series will be exhibited as part of the ‘HUMAN: NATURE’ exhibition …..

Esplanade Xchange, 15 Oct – 13 Nov

Curated by Chow Chee Yong

Esplanade Xchange
90 Bras Basah Road,

Singapore 189562

Exit F of Esplanade MRT (Circle Line)

Daily: 8am – 10pm

Singapore International Photography Festival 2010

Degeneration

The State or process of being or becoming degenerate; decline or deterioration.

“The work presented in this project by Human Endeavour is a study of key areas across Britain of 20^th century housing that has slowly fallen into decline and is now due for regeneration. Investigating these outmoded and marginalised spaces the photographers here seek to explore ideas of displacement and a collapse of a sense of community or sense of place. As an examination of urban architecture, the project explores an interest in the values and beliefs that inform the built environment. It poses questions about the future of modern living and the impact that these spaces have, not only on the residents that inhabit them, but also on society as a whole. Many of the photographs show rows of boarded up houses, ‘ruins’ that represent the collapse of social ideologies. Here history is suspended, awaiting the next phase of modern architectural ideals to take shape.”

Having secured Arts Council funding, the Human Endeavour collective are very pleased to be exhibiting work from their collaborative and ongoing Degeneration project. This exhibition is part of the 2010 Brighton Photo Fringe festival that runs in parallel with the Brighton Photo Biannual. This exhibition will showcase 100% previously unseen work from Richard Chivers, Alex Currie, Oliver Perrott and Simon Carruthers.

Photofringe

EyeBuyArt is an online gallery, specialising in limited edition print runs of contemporary photography. EyeBuyArt have selected 2 images from Simon’s Cycles series for inclusion in their gallery.

EyeBuyArt

Simon has been selected as one of the winners of the 2010 Magenta Flash Forward competition hosted by The Magenta Foundation. Photographs from the series Cycles will be included in a beautifully published catalogue available later in the year.

Magenta Foundation

Flash Forward 2010

Crane Kalman Brighton is pleased to present End – an exhibition bringing together a selection of work by five up-and-coming British contemporary landscape photographers all focused on a central theme. End will be exhibited at the Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery from 3rd – 16th May 2010.

In considering the relationship between modern society and the space it occupies, as a collective these images bring together new perspectives of the dialogue that occurs through our evolving relationship within the landscape we inhabit, and how this resonates upon the collective human psyche in wider society. The individual works shown here aim to offer new understandings of our position within a continually changing landscape.

End will run from 3rd – 16th May 2010 at Crane Kalman Brighton, 38 Kensington Gardens, North Laine, Brighton BN1 4AL.  For further information or images, please contact Richard Kalman on 01273 697096 or via email at enquiries@cranekalmanbrighton.com

Crane Kalman Gallery

Human Endeavour

murmurART: an introduction celebrates a new and exciting chapter in murmurART’s history. For the first time the organisation has the use of a permanent exhibition space to compliment its commitment to supporting and promoting the most exciting up-and-coming artists and the highest quality new work.

The exhibition brings together the works by twenty artists who have at some point been supported by murmurART since its inauguration in June 2009. murmurART: An introduction shows off a wealth of diversity, as works in the exhibition cross a broad spectrum of mediums from sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video and print.

murmurART: an introduction marks not only the first exhibition for murmurART in its new exhibition space and office, but also the beginning of a new working relationship with 20 Hoxton Square; both working together to bring an exciting and complimentary programme of exhibitions and events for 2010.

To enquire about any works from this exhibition catalogue, please contact info@murmurart.com

murmurART: an introduction runs between 15^th February – 31^st March 2010 at 20 Hoxton Square, London

murmurART