Albumen Gallery Online Exhibitions Archive

When in 2012 Albumen Gallery was set up in London, reaching out to an international community of photography lovers and collectors was a fundamental aspect of the gallery's strategy. Creating an online presence was key. We recognised at the outset that in order to be successful Albumen Gallery would have to present itself through the gallery website with the same degree of welcoming immediacy, content, presentation and client service and collection advise as a brick and mortar gallery welcoming photography lovers through its door.

Introducing collectors to interesting new work by photographers through exhibitions has always been an important activity for a gallery. It was therefore clear to us that in order to achieve its goals Albumen Gallery would have to become known as the go to place for interesting online exhibitions. Our on-going programme of curated online exhibitions enjoy popularity among photographers and photography lovers and collectors alike. Photographers represented by Albumen Gallery benefit from the global reach of their work shown in online exhibitions. To the public the online exhibition programme offers a degree of flexibility that responds to the mobility and rhythm of our times.

Ironically, now in a world struck by Covid19 with significantly reduced mobility the very same aspects characterise the appeal of Albumen Gallery online exhibitions to the new life in lockdown. As you can't go to the exhibition Albumen Gallery brings the exhibition to you. A recent exhibition 'Returning to La Paz' showing vintage work of the Bolivian photographer Javier Molina closed at the end of April after a successful three months run.

Our current online exhibition 'Horizons' by Australian photographer opened on May 11th. Since 2013, William Stewart has regularly returned to exploring the artistic potential of horizons - particularly seascape horizons. We had been planning for some time to bring his series of horizons together in one exhibition. Exhibiting the horizons photos in the current restrictive climate of lockdown lends the them added poignancy. The subtle studies in colour and light - at times reflective and meditative - offer an aesthetic opportunity to transcend the stifling restrictions that govern life in 2020. The link Horizons will take of All About Photo readers straight to the exhibition.

It has become increasingly clear that even beyond the constraints of enforced lockdown social distancing will be the new normal for some time to come. Enjoying art will take place increasingly within the four walls of peoples’ home.

Extraordinary times require out of the box thinking. We have therefore decided to make the entire archive of Albumen Gallery online exhibitions available to anybody who is interested in revisiting the exhibitions or seeing them for the first time.

All you need to do is send an email to info@albumen-gallery.com with the photographers names and exhibition titles and we will send you the links to visit the exhibitions.

Follow exhibition archive for information on all exhibitions.

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From a Family Album, Arriving in the New World (1959)

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

By Virginia Hanusik

Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

2024 | 184 pages

In South Louisiana, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico, water―and the history of controlling it―is omnipresent. Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana glimpses the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during an ongoing climate catastrophe and the fallout of the fossil fuel industry―past, present, and future. The book sustains our physical, mental, and emotional connections to these landscapes through a collection of photographs by Virginia Hanusik. Framing the architecture and infrastructure of South Louisiana with both distance and intimacy, introspection and expansiveness, this work engages new memories, microhistories, anecdotes, and insights from scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners working in the region. Unfolding alongside and in dialogue with Hanusik’s photographs, these reflections soberly and hopefully populate images of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments, opening up multiple pathways that defy singularity and complicate the disaster-oriented imagery often associated with the region and its people. In staging these meditations on water, life, and land loss, this book invites readers to join both Hanusik and the contributors in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

With texts from Richie Blink, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jessica Dandridge, Rebecca Elliott, Michael Esealuka, T. Mayheart Dardar, Billy Fleming, Andy Horowitz, Arthur Johnson, Louis Michot, Nini Nguyen, Kate Orff, Jessi Parfait, Amy Stelly, Jonathan Tate, Aaron Turner, and John Verdin.

Rawsht Twana: Twana’s Box

By Rawsht Twana

Publisher : Fraglich Publishing

2024 | 252 pages

Twana’s Box' can be described in many ways: a journey through a photographer’s rare archive, documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq from 1974–1992; a son’s quest to find his lost father, who was murdered by a military regime; a young man’s way to piece together the fragments of a scattered family in a scattered culture; the becoming of a photographer who, through the stories of others, starts to understand his own identity in times of war. 'Twana’s Box' is not only the photo book that holds a selection of Twana Abdullah’s archive; it is a unique insight into a time and place in a region that has since completely transformed. Rawsht has spent years piecing together his father’s negatives and stories. His archival work inspired him to become a photographer himself, working for Metrography – the first independent Iraqi photo agency – before immigrating to Europe. ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, Kurdish/Arabic/English

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

By Akinbode Akinbiyi

Publisher : Spector Books

2024 | 252 pages

Taken across Europe and Africa, Akinbiyi’s images of everyday city life muse on the sociopolitical labyrinths of urban society

Whether in Bamako, Berlin, London, Lagos or Durban, British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi (born 1946) creates black-and-white street scenes that function as visual metaphors, ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion and colonialism’s effect on urban planning.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

By Grace Wales Bonner

Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2024 | 184 pages

A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer
This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm―Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artist’s book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression.” Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art’s collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner―Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner’s own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

Albumen Gallery Online Exhibitions Archive

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