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COMING UP...
MAY
9 Workshop: Poetic Photographs, 2-5pm, free - book soon!
14 Museums at Night: Performances & film
Doors open 7.30-9.30pm
15 Museums at Night: Performances & film
Doors open 7.30-9.30pm
16 Museums at Night: Performances & film
Doors open 7.30-9.30pm
30 Alchemists: Unusual Processes and Media
Exhibition closes, 4pm
JUNE
3 A Here and a There
Exhibition opens, 9am
27 A Here and a There
Exhibition closes, 4pm
JULY
1 Not Here Yet
Exhibition opens, 9am
18 Not Here Yet
Exhibition closes, 4pm
22 Miniatures
Exhibition opens, 9am
8 Miniatures
Exhibition closes, 4pm
AUGUST
12 Third Greenwich Annuale
Exhibition opens, 9am
30 Third Greenwich Annuale
Exhibition closes, 4pm
SEPTEMBER
2 Home
Exhibition opens, 9am
19 Home
Exhibition closes, 4pm
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A Here and a There, upcoming exhibition in June
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3-27 June 2010
How we make sense of, and move about in, the city depends on who we are and where we have both come from and ‘arrived’; gender, race, nationality and class inevitably weigh heavily in the equation. Walking through the city allows a particularly unique type of engagement with the urban space and permits one to experience the city at its most personal level. Walking through the city is crucial to creating its space:
Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit has a qualitative character: a style of tactile apprehension and kinesthetic appropriation. Their swarming mass is an unnumerable collection of singularities. Their intertwined paths give their shape to spaces. They weave places together. In that respect, pedestrian movements form one of these “real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city.” They are not localized; it is rather that they spatialize.
(Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, 1988: 97)
Roaming offers “rare, accidental” or illegitimate spatial diversions and informal social relations to manifest themselves within a cityscape (de Certeau, 1988: 99). Where pedestrians choose to go offers a glimpse into others’ lives and serves both to define and to summon into being the spaces of the city. Both the pedestrian and the sound of his/her footsteps are defining and ever present in the city. Utilising the city of Berlin as site for exploration, a here and a there is a photographic exhibition, exploring how twelve photographers affiliated with the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR), Goldsmiths, University of London combine their photographic practices with the activity of ‘walking’ in the city.
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Recent press releases and listings information
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All recent press releases (one per exhibition) can be found here:
Listings information (up to October 2010) can be found here:
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Venue: Viewfinder Photography Gallery, Linear House, Peyton Place, off Royal Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8RS
Opening times: 3 - 27 June 2010, Mon - Fri 9am-5pm; Sat, Sun 12-4pm, Private view 3 June.
Admission: free
Transport: Greenwich (DLR and Rail, 8 mins from London Bridge); Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich (DLR)
Contact details for publication:
gallery@viewfinder.org.uk
020 8858 8351, ext. 2
www.viewfinder.org.uk
The curator and photographers are available for interview.
The Viewfinder Photography Gallery is a registered charity in Greenwich that hosted its first exhibition in 2005.
Awards:
2009 Awards: Finalist in Community, Customer Service and Diversity awards (TGBA) • Finalist in Small Environmental Business of the Year (Archant London Environmental Awards).
2008 Awards: Finalist in Best use of Science or Technology, Sustainable Business of the Year and Diversity in Business (TGBA) • Finalist in Environmental Business of the Year (Archant London Environmental Awards).
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The Viewfinder Photography Gallery is registered as a charity, Registered Charity Number: 1135482, Company Number 6592795. Registered address: Viewfinder Photography Gallery Ltd, Linear House, Peyton Place, off Royal Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8RS.
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