In a few day, the 3rd annual exhition organised by the Gay Photographers Network will open its doors at the Strand Gallery in London.
This will be the second exhibition I will be taking part in this year (and ever). This time I will only have one image on display but with the work of almost 60 other artists on display, everyone should fine something to look at.
So here are the details:
The Strand Gallery
32 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6BP
26th June to 8th July
Open hours: 11am to 7pm Mon to Sat / 11am to 6pm Sun. Early close on Sun 8th July.
(I will be manning the gallery on the 2 and 6 July - 11 to 3)
Website: www.f20-12.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/gayphotographersnetwork
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/383529118364952
Last night I attended a lecture by local historian Stephen Humphrey who discussed the general history of the Elephant & Castle, focussing more particularly on what he called its heyday (between 1850 and 1940). This is part of a week-long art project ( The Elephant Project ) hosted in an empty unit on the first floor of the infamous shopping centre, aiming to chart some of the changes currently happening to the area. When an historian starts talking about the Elephant and Castle, there is one subject he can not possibly avoid, even if he wanted to. Indeed my unsuspecting announcement on Facebook that I was attending such talk prompted a few people to ask the dreaded question: Where does the name of the area come from, for realz? Panoramic view of the Elephant and Castle around 1960/61. Those of us less badly informed than the rest have long discarded the theory that the name comes from the linguistic deformation of "Infanta de Castille", a name which would have become at...
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