NEW DIRECTIONS: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY

went to a talk @ the MA show- it felt encouraging - a great to get the brainbox re engaging with conceptual stuff - memory and landscape - affect - the relation of the viewer to the work - the role of text giving a conceptual framework - but still a leaky vessel - not to close the work down - photographs as physical things - Blake "the eye sees more than the heart knows" - a divide between photographs which take a literary reading and others that require a visual literacy - a tension between categories and wanting to open them up - our only creative option is to shop - light - - time - - chemistry - post medium condition - political vs aesthetic gestures

NEW DIRECTIONS: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY

A chaired panel conversation will take place during the exhibition. Panellists include Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lucy Soutter, photographer, critic and art historian and Daniel Cambell Blight, writer and curator.