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NEWS: JULY 2010
SUB-SAHARAN JOURNEYS
Ethiopia and Namibia
An exhibition by John Kenny
3 Bedfordbury gallery, Covent Garden, London.
Friday 9th July - Saturday 31st July
Beautifully mounted using Spectrum’s Durospec process.
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In 2006 John Kenny began a series of journeys that would take him through hundreds of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most remote communities and 12 African countries. Capital Culture will be exhibiting his most recent stunning and intimate portraits from Ethiopia and Namibia at 3 Bedfordbury gallery in Covent Garden, London, during July 2010.
The work highlights Africa’s nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists. Over centuries these societies have
adapted perfectly to the scarcity of pasture and water in their regions and have managed to flourish. External pressures in the 21st century such as the spread of urbanization and droughts that have increased in severity and frequency threaten the continued viability of their ways of life. These are stakeholders in the earth’s climate who have literally everything to lose if rainfall uncertainty continues.
John’s style of portraiture is achieved without using flash or studio equipment; he simply uses natural light
reflected from the ground. This illumination, subtle in intensity & effect, reaches gently inside the darkness of a village hut to shape compositions that are both striking and beautifully simple.
The exhibition is the result of hundreds of hours walking, hitching, and journeying with Africans and their
animals. It is a celebration of Africa, of Africans, and a reminder of the vibrant cultures that are now in
danger of disappearing forever.
www.capitalculture.eu
www.john-kenny.com
England...Here Come The Girls
Alison Palmer
Mastered and printed by Spectrum
There was a Golden Age in women’s football back in the 1920’s driven by the outstanding success of the legendary Dick Kerr Ladies. The team were gaining such popularity that some of their matches would pull in crowds of over 50,000 spectators. There was a concern at the time within the England’s Football Association that the women’s game was so popular that it was drawing attention, interest and support away from the men’s game.
In December 1921, the Association voted to ban the women’s game from grounds used by its member clubs. The women carried on playing in parks and on rugby pitches and amazingly the ban was not lifted until 1971. It was a huge blow to the progress of the women’s game, some would say one of the great sporting injustices of our times.
England...Here Come The Girls is a new body of work featuring the current players from England’s elite women’s squad. The photographs reflect the trials and tribulations that the players face to get to the very top of their game and highlights the struggles and stories that make them the world- class athletes that they are today. The project explores the mental and physical stamina and strength that they require to fight for their right to wear that England shirt.
England...Here Come The Girls will exhibit next year as part of the build up to the Women’s World Cup in Germany, July 2011.
Image: Sue Smith, winger for England 87 caps & Leeds Carnegie Ladies - www.alisonpalmer.co.uk
