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)

Michael Joseph: Lost & Found

By Michael Joseph

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 144 pages

Lost & Found documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.

The high of freedom, however, does not come without consequence. The black and white portraits are made in public, on the street, using natural light. Individual stories, as a collection, form a greater narrative. Over ten years in the making, Joseph’s portraits reveal the human condition. They capture courage, tenderness, and determination in his subjects that have been largely ignored and unseen.

An incredible book that we highly recommend! All About Photo

All About Michael Joseph

Nick Brandt: Sink / Rise, The Day May Break: Chapter Three

By Nick Brandt

Publisher : Hatje Cantz

2024 | 120 pages

Through his widely acclaimed work, English photographer Nick Brandt (1964) addresses pressing environmental issues, consistently highlighting mankind’s impact upon the natural world. His work is truly a fusion of artistry and activism, and he is best known for capturing the majestic landscapes of Africa as well as intimate portraits of its wildlife. Sink / Rise is the third chapter of The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying ecological degradation and destruction. This chapter adopts a slightly different approach than its predecessors: taking humans, rather than animals or landscapes, as his subjects. Sink / Rise focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by rising oceans from climate change. The people in these photos, photographed underwater in the ocean off the coast of the Fijian islands, are local representatives of the many people whose homes, land and livelihoods will be lost in the coming decades as the water rises. In Brandt’s images, the Islanders sit down at tables, stand on chairs and embrace―all the while, their pinched expressions reveal the desperation of their asphyxiating condition.

All About Nick Brandt

Lisa McCord: Rotan Switch

By Lisa McCord:

Publisher : Kehrer Verlag

2024 | 204 pages

Rotan Switch is the first monograph by Lisa McCord, documenting life on her grandparents’ cotton farm in the Arkansas Delta community of Rotan. It takes its name from the community’s central landmark—the railroad switch where farmers loaded their cotton bales onto trains headed out of the Delta. Although it hasn’t been used in years, it remains a potent symbol of the complex intersections of industry and agriculture, of race and injustice. Collected over the last forty-four years, these images and stories are a reflection on the people and places that have taught McCord the meaning of the word home. It is also a self-exploration into her inherently complicated role in this community as both the photographer and the granddaughter of the farm owner.
This publication is a long-term project, constructed from McCord's analog photographs, family snapshots and ephemera. Including, monochrome photographs, color polaroids, and recipes.

Christer Strömholm

By Christer Strömholm

Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing

2024 | 296 pages

Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black‐and‐white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him “as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher.”

Albumen Gallery Online Exhibitions Archive

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