Jackson Fine Art Gallery

I will be exhibiting at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, GA

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, US

Installation images from Athens house of Photography

Installation images from Athens house of Photography exhibition. The exhibition will come down on the 22nd April.
I was really happy with the presentation in this gallery. The tall wall was perfect for the Taksim grid and worked very nicely with the Title text.

Athens house of Photography

Tomorrow my exhibition opens at the Athens House of Photography.

Exhibition and Workshop in Athens

I will be exhibiting Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West at the Athens House of Photography from March 17th until
I will also be taking a 3 day workshop. Details below:

Documentary Practice and Narrative: The Long Term Project
The Athens House of Photography is proud to announce its first workshop by world renowned (British/Cypriot) photographer George Georgiou.

The workshop will be 3 days, from March 18th until March 20th. (Hours: 10:00-18:00)

The cost is 250 euro, which will include lunch and coffee breaks for the 3 days and a signed copy of Georgiou's book (Turkey, Fault Lines: East/West)

Number of Participants: 10

Basic knowledge of english required.

Anyone who is interested can contact Nina Stavropoulou at nina@phototheatron.com or at tel: +30 210 5228696


Documentary Practice and Narrative: The Long Term Project
Workshop with George Georgiou (London, UK)

The workshop “Documentary Practice and Narrative: The Long Term Project” will address the issues of contemporary documentary photographic practice and approaches, taking a deeper look at the long-term project in photography. The aim is to build up an understanding of different forms of narratives and different ways of structuring work according to the final mode of presentation, be it a book, an exhibition, multimedia or magazine feature. We will discuss how ideas and concepts are crucial to the development of the documentary project, how to identify themes, motifs and issues that address and question the societies we live in, on both the local and the global level. Participants will bring completed and in progress projects so we can look and deconstruct the images and the working methodology, including taking a detailed look at the editing process. The teacher’s own and other photographers’ projects, working methods and project evolution will be used as illustrations. Each participant should bring selected project/s from their own work and be prepared to discuss their aims in the context of a group.

Fault Lines in 24 magazine, Italy.

Interview in Hot Shoe

This is an interview I did with Hot Shoe magazine.

Exhibition images at CIAC Foligno, Italy

 CII went to the opening last week of our joint exhibition at the CIAC Museum, in Foligno, Umbria.
I was really impressed with the museum, a contemporary  rust covered cube from the outside and light, bright and spacious inside.
This is the first time someone has put Vanessa's and my Turkey work together. The dynamic between the two was interesting, adding an extra layer of meaning to the individual works.
For this I must thank Daniele Mattioli for inviting us both, Emanuele De Donno for doing a great job with the installation and Piter Foglietta, the organisor of Canti e Discanti.

Change of location

The Fault Lines exhibition on Foligno has change location. It will now be showing at the CIAC Museum alongside Vanessa's "Sweet Nothings". Opening is Thursday at 9pm and runs until the 9th September.
I will also be doing a presentation and book signing in an old Cinema in the town centre on Saturday at 12 noon.

A couple of curators have mentioned putting our work together but this is the first time it has happened.
Really looking forward to seeing how it holds together.

Exhibition in Foligno, Umbria

Next week my Fault Lines /Turkey exhibition will be showing as part of the World music festival "Canti e discanti", in the beautiful Umbria town of Foligno. The festival includes music, film, photography and being Italy, FOOD. The exhibition will be held at the beautiful Corte di Palazzo Trinci, inside the arcaded inner courtyard. Opening 10th July at 11am.
Vanessa Winship will also be showing "Sweet Nothings" in CIac, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea,
 A very interesting contemporary building, completely rusty on the outside and light and spacious on the inside. Opening 8th July 9.30pm

Fault lines exhibition review

A review from  Hotshoe blog

Review of George Georgiou’s exhibition Fault Lines at Side Gallery, Newcastle
June 10, 2010

© Katie Lin, photos from George Georgiou's exhibition Fault Lines at Side Gallery, Newcastle

You have until 17 July to catch George Georgiou’s impressive body of work Fault Lines: Turkey/ East / West now on show in the north of England. For those who are interested, the next issue of HotShoe International, June/July, features an interview I did with Georgiou while he was on the road overseeing the production of his debut book of the same title. In the interview, Georgiou talks about the development of the project and his working process.

In the post below, Newcastle University student Katie Lin reviews the show in words and pictures:
Far from the European country which has inspired his latest collection of photographs, George Georgiou’s Fault Lines: Turkey / East / West has found its way to England’s North-East and set up show at Newcastle’s Side Gallery for eight weeks.
The upper gallery houses a selection of the 42 photos comprising the Fault Lines exhibition. Through this collection of work, Georgiou “seeks to address and question the concept of East and West and the process of modernization, urbanization, and national identity that is happening against a rising tide of nationalism and religion.”

After spending almost five years living in the former imperial empire that was Turkey and observing its search for a modern identity, he chose to document changes occuring within the country by “focusing on the quiet everyday life that most people in Turkey experience.”

With unfaltering style and powerful effect, Georgiou juxtaposes pockets of high colour saturation and that “quiet everyday life” of Turkish people he intended to capture through these photographs: the first connotes life, the latter generates a feeling of emptiness. His candid subjects show little emotion in stills that seem to be extra still, yet the photographs are strangely emotive, leaving you with a feeling for the country’s struggle.

For me, this feeling was encompassed and reflected in one particular photo; at its centre walks a man whose identity is hidden under the shadow of his umbrella as he walks his way through a wet day. Yet behind him, bright yellow words slapped on a dome in the background inject the otherwise gloomy scene with a spot of life, as if to remind us that these faceless people represent real lives in motion.

The main floor of the gallery displays three sets of stunning polyptych-type works (sans hinges) from previous exhibitions, two of which Georgiou has interestingly titled Taksim. Initially, I understood this to be a location in Turkey – which it is, but a conversation with a Turkish friend also revealed that “taksim” is the antiquated word for “division”. Keeping in mind the meaningful place that “division” takes as a theme and defining thread in the exhibition, this perfectly formed double entendre was suitably subtle and a nice touch on the part of the artist.

The set which perhaps had the most aesthetic impact on me was Taksim – the dark version, also known as Turks 2. This photographic polyptych reads like a filmstrip and mimics one in its dimensions. The majority of the subjects appear to gaze in unison, all to the bottom-righthand corner of the frame as they walk, presumably concentrating on the pavement ahead of them. The subjects are spot-lit against a dark background and are brought together from their separate journeys into the same frame in such a way that their movement is sensed, but the stillness of the photographic medium forces the viewer to follow their gaze from one panel to the next. Georgiou’s combination of street perspective, combined with the use of depth-of-field andphotographic quality, makes for an impressive display.

Another favourite was labelled Şanlıurfa(after the location where it was shot) which included six of the original twelve photographs that make up Georgiou’s Turks 3 exhibition. This was slightly disappointing but the photographs were not. Unlike Turks 2, I felt that the people were not the subjects here. While their brightly-coloured clothing quickly attracts the viewer’s attention, it was the life of the space and place that was being documented, rather than the life and actions of the people passing through it. Whether or not this was Georgiou’s intention, it is an interesting concept; an otherwise unassuming space can have a life of its own that people will move through, and one which itself moves through time.

Coming away from George Georgiou’s Fault Lines exhibition, I found that his collection of photographs had evoked a sadness in me, not one of sympathy, but instead, one provoked by the desolation and emptiness that features in so many of his shots. In some cases, this desolation was exaggerated simply by the disproportional space awarded to the sky; in others, it was visible in the faces of passersby who just happened to get caught in the frame.

Thought-provoking and beautiful in content, composition and colour, George Georgiou’s latest exhibition is a fantastic display of the everyday life experience of Turkish people (and, as mentioned, three great works from previous exhibitions are also featured). In a country divided at a pivotal time, this is an aspect that could easily be overlooked, but Georgiou’s fine focus on Turkey brings it into perspective.

Fault Lines: Turkey / East / West will be showcased at Newcastle’s Side Gallery until July 17.

©Review and exhibition photos by Katie Lin.

Review of Fault Lines

Jon Levy of Foto 8 has done an audio review of Fault Lines, you can here it here.
A few snaps from my exhibition and talk at Side and a typical  Geordie.

Side gallery exhibition and presentation

This Saturday (22 May) my Fault Lines exhibition opens at the Side Gallery in Newcastle. On show will be the whole exhibition over 2 floors. I will be making a presentation at 2pm, all are welcome.

Printing Fault Lines

This is the second day of printing Fault Lines at ProStampa in Rome. Great technicians are making the whole process really easy, pages are looking great.