Sze Tsung Leong, Tiantong Xiyuan Third District (North), Changping District,
Beijing, 2004
Sze Tsung Leong, Jiangsheng Cun, Shanxi Province, 2004
Sze Tsung Leong, Chaotianmen, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 2002
This issue features Sze Tsung Leong’s accomplished series History Images, produced over a period of three years and focussing on many of China’s major cities, a poetic record of the process of the erasure of that country’s physical history. Paul Seawright’s series Invisible Cities shows an urban view of Africa, where chaotic settlements remain a blind spot for the West. Susan Trangmar’s A Question of Distance, a multi-media installation, was produced through an invitation to make work which explores art and conflict in the Middle East.
Paul Seawright, Invisible Cities
In Beyond Black, Jane Brettle re-presents a series of iconic images from the history of photography. Stella Santacatterina discusses the work of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, whose video works are shown at both the Whitechapel and Serpentine galleries in 2007. Martin Parr introduces Keith Arnatt’s Pictures from a Rubbish Tip, a series of colour photographs which influenced photographic practice almost 20 years ago, and now included in a retrospective of his work.
Susan Trangmar, A Question of Distance
Jane Brettle, After Duane Michals, 2006
As the UK’s official war artist in 2006, Steve McQueen created Queen and Country, an intensely moving work which commemorates the British soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. John Slyce discusses how Peter Kennard and Cat Picton Phillipps share an aesthetic of resistance, their recent work also responding to the war in Iraq.
Steve McQueen, Queen and Country, 2006
We feature the work by emerging photographers: Veronika Spierenburg has produced innovative portraits; Liza Dracup, Darren Harvey-Regan and Tania Coates respond to human presence in the landscape; Seung Woo Back, Huw Davies and Kate Pollard represent the pressures and expectations of contemporary society.
Keith Arnatt, Pictures from a Rubbish Tip, 1988
The 2007 Jerwood Photography Awards are launched in May 2007. Now in their fifth year, these annual Awards are supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and organised by Portfolio Magazine. They are open to artists who work with photography and aim to support recent graduates in their transition to professional life. The five Awards each carry £2,500, with a group exhibition and publication in Portfolio. Details are available in this issue and on the Portfolio website.
Gloria Chalmers
Liza Dracup, Sharpe’s Wood, 2006
Contents
Sze Tsung Leong History Images
Nigel Warburton Essay
Paul Seawright Invisible Cities
Christopher Pinney Essay
Susan Trangmar A Question of Distance
Susan Butler Essay
Jane Brettle Beyond Black
Catherine Grant Essay
Liza Dracup Sharpe’s Wood
Keith Arnatt Pictures from a Rubbish Tip, 1988
Martin Parr Essay
Tania Coates Transient Topography
Darren Harvey-Regan Gestures
Allora & Calzadilla Video Works
Stella Santacatterina Essay
Steve McQueen Queen and Country
John Slyce Essay
Allora & Calzadilla, Still from Under Discussion, 2004
Veronika Spierenburg
MA Fine Art Class, 2006
Peter Kennard & Cat Picton Phillipps
John Slyce Essay
Seung Woo Back Real World II
Huw Davies Fear and Hoping
Kate Pollard This Woman's Movement
Peter Kennard & Cat Picton Phillipps,
Presidential Seal (from the series Obscenities), 2006
