A couple of dates for the diary…

Some noteworthy exhibitions to visit and write reports on..

I like visiting photography exhibitions as it is, but now I’m having to think about ones I want to visit and write a 1500 word report on. This is because I am having to do a bridging essay to get in to the UNI i want to go to, to finish off my BA in London. I’ve been looking into what’s going on in London in the next few months, and well, there’s only two exhibs that I’ve found so far that I want to visit…
Somerset house is quickly becoming my favourite place to hunt out exhibitions.

Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
26 April – 12 May 2013

The Sony World Photography Awards are widely recognised as one of the world’s leading photography competitions and the exhibition showcasing the extraordinary award-winning and shortlisted entries, held annually at Somerset House, returns this April. Offering a stunning snapshot of the world in 2012, the show will present international contemporary photography from both professionals and amateurs in the fields of fashion, travel, wildlife, landscape, portraiture and current affairs. T

The exhibition will also include a special display of work by iconic American photographer William Eggleston, who will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at the Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony on 25 April.

Go here for more information.

Blumenfeld Studio: New York, 1941–1960
23 May–1 September 2013
Open daily 10.00-18.00 (Last admission 17.30)
East Wing Galleries, East Wing
Free admission

Berlin-born photographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was one of the most internationally sought-after portrait and fashion photographers in the 1940s and 1950s. America’s leading magazines, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar hired him for his imaginative and highly individual shots. The show focuses on the little-known history of his photography studio at 222 Central Park South in New York. Around 100 colour photographs and originals of Erwin Blumenfeld’s works in fashion magazines provide insights into this key artstic phase in his life.