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This exhibition is the first retrospective in France devoted to a photographer who continues, as he approaches the age of 93, to inspire generations of contemporary artists, and whose work is now included in the most prestigious international collections. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book extensively covers not only Barnor's greatest works, but also gives insight into his process, his impact on the wider photographic industry across the decades and discusses the legacy of Barnor's practice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Barnor (born 1929) opened his first photography studio in Accra, Ghana, in 1949. He also worked for the press, capturing in photos the movement that led to his country’s independence in 1957. Living in the United Kingdom from 1959 to 1969, he documented the experience of the diaspora in the “Swinging London” of the sixties. He branched out to colour photography, and returned to Ghana in 1970 to cultivate the use of the technique. 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The publication of the book coincided with the exhibition \u003cem\u003eJames Barnor: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhanaian Modernist\u003c\/em\u003e at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery as part of Bristol Photo Festival, and a major retrospective of Barnor’s work at Serpentine, London both during May 2021.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Barnor (b.1929) was Ghana’s first international press photographer. He came from a family of photographers and established his own studio in Accra, Ever Young in 1950. He worked from this studio at the time of Ghana’s independence whilst also selling his pictures to the \u003cem\u003eDaily Graphic\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDrum\u003c\/em\u003e magazines. He came to Britain in 1959, and whilst working in a factory, he took photography evening classes at the London College of Printmaking and lessons with the Colour Processing Laboratory in Kent. He went on to study at Medway College of Arts, where he gained employment as a technician, eventually returning to Accra in 1969, where he established X23, the city’s first colour photography studio. He returned to London in the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2009 the 80 year-old photographer revealed his archive to two London curators. His archive is a remarkable document of post-war modernity spanning photographs from the time of Ghana’s independence, scenes of multi-cultural London, and later images recording a strong postcolonial identity in Ghana. 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He had not planned the book, rather developing it during his stay. Unlike many of his other works, he started editing and sequencing his images as soon as he returned to Denmark. The time in Bristol coincided with the run-up to the UK referendum on future membership of the European Union. The notion that Britain may leave the EU troubled Clement deeply, and no doubt it influenced his mood and perception as he was taking the photographs. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ambiguities of being left behind, loneliness, feelings of limbo and powerlessness are present in all of Krass Clement’s books and are not place-specific, but nonetheless few show this as powerfully as his images around Bristol’s Cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cut is an artificially constructed waterway which was built in the early 19th Century to help to create a floating harbour. It is about 3 kilometers long and divides Bristol, with the traditionally more affluent part being located on the North side. 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Clement works quickly, moving through spaces as a visitor and an observer, working as unobtrusively as possible. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClement spent several  weeks in Ireland applying his philosophy of process to each of the places he visited, most notably Dublin, book published by RRB Photobooks in 2017, and Belfast, this time two hours to the North, and published now for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClement’s process remained the same for his time in Belfast, he moved through the city turning his lens on the faces and landscapes he found there; the children going to school, the shop fronts and the windows of private homes, the moments of open space between buildings. Yet in Belfast, the mood is different, not by design or by a change in approach but by the nature of the subject. Belfast in 1991 had seen decades of conflict, the ceasefire of 1994 still some years away, which, coupled with the decline of the ship building industry and economic policy of the later 20th Century had left great areas of Belfast in urgent need of regeneration. British soldiers wait in the front yards of private homes, children play in derelict-looking streets, Clement moves through them and documents without making judgement; he is not a journalist looking for an angle or a conflict photographer seeking to expose the truth on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Belfast, Clement revisits his work over 30 years on, gathering 114 unpublished images and carefully placing then in sequence, offered without caption or comment. 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The images in Dublin retain some of the style of Drum, an almost autobiographical account of the three journeys that Clement made into and out of Dublin while staying in Monaghan in March 1991. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“So great to see this work finally get published. At a time when most international photographers were focused on the troubles in Northern Ireland, it’s exciting to know that one of my favourite photographers was shooting here in Dublin on my own doorstep. Fantastic work, as you’d expect from Krass, made even more poignant with the passing of nearly 3 decades.” – Eamonn Doyle \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dublin photobook is the first of Clement’s work to be published by RRB Publishing, and was first time any of his work has been published with an accompanying special edition print. 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Documenting infrastructure spanning a period of seven decades, the photographs in The Nuclear Sublime depict the present state and future of Britain’s nuclear industry— usually hidden from public view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I look at the marvellous images in this book, the word that comes to mind is “vividness”. Collins may attribute this, to some extent, to his use of focus. But focus is merely technical; vividness is psychological. Just as sharpness is technical, while clarity is psychological. His photographs of details feel almost tangible. But it’s his photographs of dense, complex subjects that for me are the most striking. I have the sense that every pipe, every hose, every surface has been attended to and that the whole scene has been integrated with a unity of vision. - Stephen Shore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCollins was granted unprecedented access to Dounreay, Sellafield, Chapelcross, Winfrith, Dungeness, Trawsfynydd, Sizewell A and B, Wylfa and Torness. His large-format photographs show the heart of a live reactor, the storage of nuclear waste, the control rooms and instrumentation, the process of decommissioning old sites, and the insides of fusion “Tokamak” reactors. His photographs depict both the vast scale of the austere chapel-like spaces and intricate details such as rusting control panels with wonky labels, peeling paintwork and miles of wiring. The imagery reveals the contrasts between the monumental size and heights of scientific endeavour with the reality of the sometimes dusty, and worn, outdated equipment and interiors. The images playfully capture the child-like colour palette and pipes alongside abstracted patterns and textures of the intricate infrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A significant proportion of Britain’s retired nuclear power stations are still standing, and because of the issues surrounding their decommissioning (dealing with the radioactive legacy and working in close proximity to it) much of the original infrastructure and equipment remain almost intact. Contrary to industry’s practice of obliterating its history before it can be monumentalised, a significant element of nuclear energy’s archaeology is still standing.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world’s first civil nuclear programme was established in the UK, marked by the opening of Calder Hall, Windscale in 1956. The country currently generates about 15% of its electricity from nuclear sources. It has nine operational nuclear reactors at five locations power stations, and fourteen that are no longer functioning. In July 2023, the government launched Great British Nuclear, with the aim of generating 25% of the UK’s electricity by 2050 through a combination of large nuclear plants and small modular reactors. Most existing capacity is to be retired by the end of the decade.\u003cbr\u003eMichael Collins was born in India in 1961. He has lectured at Harvard, The Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, and is Visiting Professor of Photography, University of Suffolk. His work has been exhibited internationally including at the British Museum, Barbican Art Centre, SK Stiftung, Cologne, Janet Borden Gallery, New York, RIBA Gallery and City Hall, London; Birmingham City Art Gallery; FFoto Gallery, Cardiff and Impressions Gallery, York. He has been commissioned by the Design Council and Network Rail, The Institution of Chemical Engineers, Birmingham City Council and Potteries Museum and Art Gallery amongst others. His work has been published in Frieze, Granta, Apollo, FT Weekend Magazine, The Guardian, RIBA magazine, Blueprint, Evening Standard, Source, Wallpaper*, and Le Monde amongst others. 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The photographs, many seen here for the first time, were taken in venues including Manchester’s Ritz, London’s 100 Club, alongside smaller venues such as a lad called Steve’s kitchen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1990s Constantine had recently moved from Manchester to London for her photography career and had been commissioned to photograph night clubs for The Face magazine. She was asked to make photographs at the 100 Club where they played rare American 60s and 70s soul 45s (northern soul) all through the night. Constantine had been on the northern soul scene herself up until a few years earlier and was curious to see how it had evolved. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘I remember going down those stairs into that dark basement and seeing those shadowy figures moving energetically in sync with each other; it all came back to me in an instant and made me slightly hesitant… It was obvious the scene had gone further underground, the crowd older, little new blood, the records more obscure and the attitude on the dancefloor as fierce as ever. Could I really take pictures in this place? As I suspected it would, the blast from my first flash altered the atmosphere. I braved it to shoot a few more from different angles but things felt worse with each blinding shot. The relief I felt when I heard the familiar opening bars of ‘This Won’t Change’ by Lester Tipton, a fast, raw, jerky yet tender sound. I pushed the camera bag under a chair and got lost dancing in the shadows until morning. The feeling of being some kind of culture vulture left me gradually with each record.’ \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eConstantine soon became a regular again, travelling to venues around the country and photographing at many all-nighters. She made the decision to try and depict the scene using moving image, creating a documentary of the now dwindling scene for posterity. However, when she viewed her photographs she felt at the time that the images lacked something. The packed-out dancefloors she’d melded into aged 16 were far less populated and the extreme aerobics and the unstoppable energy of younger people en-masse had been replaced by a handful of 30 to 40 year-olds. As a result, she decided to depict the movement as a fictional film set in its heyday. This project became Constantine’s celebrated debut feature Northern Soul in 2014 and the original images relegated to her archive. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e‘The images made in the 1990s were forgotten about and it wasn’t until I showed them to Martin Parr recently that I realised they did have atmosphere and that the ritualised aerobic pleasure they depicted, kept alive by a dwindling hardcore, were worthy subject matter in their own right.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e‘‘The images in the exhibition and book really show the unadulterated energy and joy of dancing to northern soul. How they maintain the stamina to go all night is beyond me. Elaine unwittingly produced a valuable document of a uniquely British subculture, where music, dance and style collide. – Martin Parr\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eElaine Constantine was born in Bury, UK in 1965 and first began taking photographs of her friends hanging around the northern soul and scooter scenes across the UK. After working as a photographic technician in Manchester, she moved to London and became a freelance photographer, regularly contributing to The Face and later on for W and Italian Vogue amongst others Constantine was the recipient of a John Kobal Foundation Award in 1998 and the Royal Photographic Society’s Terrence Donovan Achievement Award in 2006. Her work has been exhibited internationally and included in exhibitions at the V\u0026amp;A and Barbican in London and the Museum of Impressionism, Giverny, France amongst others. In 2012 Constantine returned to the North West of England to write and direct Northern Soul. The film was released in October 2014 by Universal and reached the box-office top 10 on its opening weekend. 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Land was given to the labouring poor to allow them to grow food at a time of rapid industrialisation with no welfare state in place. Allotments were transformed during the famous ‘Dig For Victory’ campaign during World War II and since then their popularity has wavered. Over time, the stereotype of an allotment goer came to depict a middle-class pastime for retirees. However, in recent years this image of urban land cultivation has evolved as an increasing number of economically and environmentally-conscious young people, families and ethnic minorities are claiming plots. In the process, they are transforming the fertile growing spaces with their own choice of produce and farming methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith demand outstripping supply, urban dead spaces have been commandeered and\u003cbr\u003erejuvenated and their value realised through the process of growing. 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In the words of Val Williams, Peter is ‘a narrator of how we were, a chaser of a disappearing world’. Nothing lasts forever.’ - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eJane Bhoyroo, Principal Keeper Leeds Art Gallery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe exhibition \u003cem\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/em\u003e will be on display at Leeds Art Gallery from 17 May 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e - 06 October 2024.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Manchester in 1943, Peter Mitchell left school at 16 and trained as a cartographic draughtsman working for the civil service, until aged 24, he went to Hornsey College of Art in London. After a visit to Leeds, he never returned to London and has lived in the same house in Chapeltown for more than 40 years. 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The combination of personal belongings with scarecrows highlights the quirky and eccentric view Peter has shown throughout his work - the humdrum and mundane becomes weird and wonderful, the ordinary becomes extraordinary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"attr attr-value\"\u003eThis is a document of both the literal and the allegorical: blank scarecrow faces in empty landscapes with muted skies connect to a bleak pastoral sensibility, while horded things map out Peter's life chronologically. He says: 'Scarecrows have always been a feature of my childhood...I've purposefully chosen ones that have no face on them because I didn't want people to laugh at them but imagine them as people... I've paired them with the objects that I've got which are my own scruffy little objects - treasured objects I've had since I was little. I chose them because I use them everyday. 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This publication imagines a day in the life that we find lying dormant in Myers archive. This beautiful hardback, clothbound book features as a B-side to ‘The Works’ trilogy, and will be produced at equally high standards with the majority of images previously unpublished.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 1\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Although RRB have already published the landmark trilogy of John Myers we are fortunate that more photographs have recently come to light and are published here for the first time. Even more fortunate is the fact that many of these are Myers terrific portraits. This volume confirms Myers role as one of the key portraitists of post-war Britain.’ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMartin Parr\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\nThis narrative approach to Myers' collection is the first of its kind. The publication weaves together distinct customs of a peaceful middle England and uncanny sights that \u003cem\u003e‘don’t conform to how the world should look\u003c\/em\u003e.’ Frames throughout the book invite us to step into nostalgic environments. Passing through each threshold, we are greeted by folk often characterised by their occupations - butchers, sales assistants, dinner ladies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyers has always maintained that he had no grand plan with his photography, simply shooting what his eyes were drawn to. 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Studio portraits of artists will be displayed alongside photographs capturing music events and venues across the city. Collectively, these photographs demonstrate the diversity and energy of music in and across Bristol during a period of great creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimmons revisited his archive of over one hundred thousand images — approximately 20 thousand focusing on music— to select 30 to represent the city’s recent musical heritage — both mainstream and counter-culture. 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Those same instructions regarding composition and approach were likely given to other uncredited photographers who contributed it an attempt to lend the project a typological uniformity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe tree was common motif for photographers and photographs were widely exhibited, from the earliest exhibitions such as the 1852 Society of Arts exhibition to the later society and club shows held across Britain from the 1880s. The growth of pictorialist photography espoused by Henry Peach Robinson from the end of the 1850s gathered pace from the 1870s, further reinforcing the tree as a subject for photography. Trees were largely unaffected by movement, except with full leaf canopies in wind, were central to a photograph or used as a framing device. Photography’s technical limitations had little effect on the photographer securing a successful photograph. More substantively, the tree spoke to the Victorian sense of the picturesque. Gnarled trunks and branches, changed across the seasons. It was a relationship that was integral to the landscape and spoke to a past that, by the end of the century, was \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003echanging under the modernisation of agriculture.’  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eMichael Pritchard \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eSeveral trade editions of the original project have been published in the past but none with close attention to the faithful reproduction of the photography. This new edition is litho-printed to emphasise the tints and gradients of the original collotypes and introduce the work to contemporary dendrophile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003es.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 150%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 150%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Helvetica;\"\u003eMichael Pritchard completed a PhD in history of photography and then prepared the Kodak Historical Collection at the British Library for public access. He was Chief Executive at the Royal Photographic Society 2011-2018 and director of programmes until 2023. He now consults in photographic history for institutions, photographers and archives. 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