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An online gallery championing contemporary limited edition photography, featuring video interviews with our artists discussing their work and ideas.
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The New Alchemists photography exhibition: interview with curator Sue Steward
Sue Steward, curator of "THE NEW ALCHEMISTS: contemporary photographers transcending the print" Photo50 exhibition at the 2012 London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington, gives a guide to the exhibition and outlines some of the ideas behind it, such as the role of craft in contemporary photography; moving beyond the print; the role of surface in photography; the photograph as object and whether the recent revival of interest in analogue processes is a reaction to digital. Other people featuCollected in Troika Editions' videos 2 days ago -
Ian Teh talks about his new book on China: Traces
Ian Teh has been photographing China for over ten years, long before the tsunami of photographers arrived to photograph the rapidly changing industrial landscape and the rise of the glittering Olympian power. He began exploring the emerging industrial power in "The Vanishing: Altered Landscapes and Displaced Lives" [1999 -2003] where he recorded the impact the construction of the Three Gorges Dam had upon both the landscape of the Yangtze River and the population who lived alongside its river bank.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Dec 23, 2011 -
Kenji Hirasawa
Kenji Hirasawa is a young Japanese artist for whom the discovery of a thermal imaging camera gave him the opportunity to photograph what he sees as the presence of life, in beautiful heightened colour. Progressing with this technique he not quite ready to turn his camera on death, so instead opted to photograph the "life-less-ness" of waxwork figures in Madame Tussauds.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Oct 30, 2011 -
BillJackson HEAD.wmv
Photographer Bill Jackson talks about his series Head inspired by his chance finds of a podium and a dressmaker's dummy head. In turns wacky and disturbing, Bill's new series retains his trademark humour.Collected in Troika Editions' videos May 19, 2011 -
Ed Swinden talks about finding dramatic photographic moments created by the sun in Manchester.
Photographer Ed Swinden, against the odds, finds dramatic moments created by the sun in Manchester, Britain's rainiest city. The Edward Hopper-like figures caught in these theatrical spotlights represent for him the alienation found at the heart of contemporary city life.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Feb 28, 2011 -
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Louise Clements introduces Zhang Xaio's Coastline series HD
FORMAT International Photography Festival Director Louise Clements describes the motivations behind Zhang Xaio's Chinese coastal road trip series, which presents an intriguing and oddly melancholic alternative to the image of China as a nation of automatons in the form of photographs of the Chinese at leisure.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Feb 11, 2011 -
Richard Rowland on European theme towns in China HD
Photographer Richard Rowland discusses the European style theme towns built for the nouveaux rich he found in China.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Feb 3, 2011 -
Simon Roberts 1000 words HD
Photographer Simon Roberts discusses his image "Sunderland vs. Liverpool, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, 16th August 2008" from his book "We English", which is part of the 1000 Words Collection at Troika Editions.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Jan 28, 2011 -
Kurt Tong and using Google Street View for his series 22 Steps to the Sea HD
Photographer Kurt Tong talks about his series of double photographs of the Texas coastline called "22 Steps to the Sea". Originally a road trip project, it was curtailed by the constant attention of law enforcement agencies.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Jan 28, 2011 -
Renhui Zhao and the Invisibility Cloaks HD
Photographer Renhui Zhao describes his meeting with scientists from the Institute of Critical Zoologists wearing their invisibility cloaks in a forest in deepest China. Part of the Format Photography Festival Collection at Troika Editions.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Jan 27, 2011 -
Photographer Ingrid Newton talks about using chance to find her way through London
Photographer Ingrid Newton used strategies based on chance to direct her and her camera on 6 different journeys through London. She then made a book for each journey from the resulting images in which the relationships between pictures show the humour and unexpected richness to be found in everyday London life.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Nov 13, 2010 -
Victoria Jenkins
Photographer Victoria Jenkins has taken on the role of modern day alchemist and created her own nonsense experiments that follow Karl Gustav Jung's idea that alchemy was in fact an allegory for personal improvement, not a serious attempt to change lead into gold. With her customary humour she has introduced shredded modern self-help books into each setup as representative of the contemporary version of this alchemy.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Oct 21, 2010 -
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Schinster
Photographer Jae Hee Schin, a.k.a. Schinster, explains how he creates his street dramas.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Oct 1, 2010 -
Louise Clements talks about FORMAT Photography Festival
Louise CLEMENTS - is the Artistic Director and Curator at QUAD, a visual arts and media centre in Derby UK. She is also co-founder and Artistic Director/Curator of FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby UK.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Sep 24, 2010 -
Kurt Tong and using Google Street View for his series 22 Steps to the Sea
Photographer Kurt Tong talks about his series of double photographs of the Texas coastline called "22 Steps to the Sea". Originally a road trip project, it was curtailed by the constant attention of law enforcement agencies.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Sep 24, 2010 -
Sachiyo Nishimura discusses photographic abstraction
Photographic artist Sachiyo Nishimura in her series "Trace 2" uses pre-determined operations such as flipping, cropping and rotational transformation to create her abstract graphic variations derived from photographs of ordinary power cables.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Sep 19, 2010 -
Virgílio Ferreira
Photographer Virgílio Ferreira in his series "Daily Pilgrims" created images in some the biggest cities in Asia, such as Bangkok, Shanghai and Hong Kong, in which he gives a sense of the people he saw on the streets. By not focusing on the subjects of his portraits but instead on the backgrounds he begins to show some of the otherness and mystery that he felt as a foreigner.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Sep 3, 2010 -
Nicolas Ferrando discusses the making of his Paper Bag series
Photographer Nicolas Ferrando argues that photography is never a portrayal of reality, but in fact it is always a representation by its author. This is idea is central to all his work and something he makes visually explicit through the device of paper bags on the heads of his protagonists.Collected in Troika Editions' videos Jul 15, 2010
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Troika Editions Sue Steward, curator of "THE NEW ALCHEMISTS: contemporary photographers transcending the print" Photo50 exhibition at the 2012 London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington, gives a guide to the exhibition and outlines some of the ideas behind it, such as the role of craft in contemporary photography; moving beyond the print; the role of surface in photography; the photograph as object and whether the recent revival of interest in analogue processes is a reaction to digital. Other people featu
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