Lee Miller at Victoria and Albert Museum

Entitled 'The Art of Lee Miller' running 15 September 2007 - 6 January 2008 and sponsored by Olympus.

The exhibition is the 'first complete retrospective of her life and work, exploring her transformation from artist's muse to ground-breaking artist.'

www.vam.ac.uk

Proud galleries

Two galleries in central London and one in Camden worth a visit.

At the time of writing this post there are numerous job opportunities at Proud.

www.proud.co.uk

Host Gallery

Host Gallery is an integral part of foto8. They are currently showing Flandrien: Hard Men and Heroes.

http://www.hostgallery.co.uk

' Stephan Vanfleteren’s powerful black and white photographs provide an intimate and emotional portrait of these legendary sportsmen and the sport which dominates the social and cultural life of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The unremarkable landscape breeds this particular type of rider who thrives in the driving rain and the bitter cold and on cobbled streets and treacherous inclines.


Stephan Vanfleteren, represented by the Panos Pictures agency, has been photographing the Flandrien for more than 15 years.'

A truly inspiring exhibition.

Tate Britain - How We Are Now

This is the first major exhibition of photography ever to be held at Tate Britain. It takes a unique look at the journey of British photography, from the pioneers of the early medium to today’s photographers who use new technology to make and display their imagery.

How We Are Now - Photographing Britain

Widely known photographers include: William Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, Madame Yevonde, Susan Lipper, David Bailey and Tom Hunter.

For the first time, Tate Britain is inviting members of the public to contribute to the content of an exhibition. How We Are Now invites you to add your photograph to the exhibition through the community and photo-sharing website Flickr.

The Photographers Gallery

'The Photographers' Gallery's programme of exhibitions, events and off-site projects is one of the UK's most exciting and dynamic and aims to illuminate and develop international and British photography today.'

http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?programme


For the last 25 years Joachim Schmid (b. 1955) has challenged the traditional and prevailing idea of ‘art photography’. Instead, he has championed the importance of photographs that are produced and seen everyday; ranging from passport photos, to high street studio portraits, ID cards and, more recently, the Internet.


This exhibition features the work of three ‘photo’ magazines that use found and discarded photographs and ephemera as their starting point. Drawing from the archives of Found Magazine (USA), Useful Photography (Netherlands) and Ohio (Germany), the installation includes highly-personal Polaroids, fading studio portraits, blurry snaps, internet images, amateur collages, homemade greetings cards and pages torn from other magazines.


This is the fourth in the In Focus series, an ongoing part of the exhibition programme at the Gallery. In Focus links together, using broad themes, the topics of the current exhibitions.