The Passing project is currently being exhibited as part of the Big Little City exhibition at the Old Library, The Hayes in Cardiff. Its a massive and varied show with a lot of amazing work so drop by before the 15th May and check it out…. photos to follow!
Posted 1 year ago
Here’s a few photos from the Passing exhibition which is currently showing at The Dairy in Cardiff. Thanks very much to everyone who has dropped by so far and also for all the positive feedback! For those of you who have yet to see it, the show will remain open until Wednesday evening / Thursday morning so please drop by and have a look.
There is also a really good coffee shop and lots of cool modern and vintage furniture and interior design pieces to check out as well!
Paul and Brendan.
Posted 1 year ago
Brendan Corrigan and I have put together an exhibition of vintage slides which we found at a car boot sale recently. Its been a manic few days as we had the idea for the exhibition last Saturday morning, suggested it to Tim at The Dairy just a couple of hours later and he agreed to have us exhibit less than 2 weeks later! We’ve had some lightboxes custom built and we’ll also hopefully be projecting some images onto the walls as well. We’re excited about it and bricking it at the same time! The images themselves are amazing and we’ll definitely put them on a website at some stage (we just haven’t had 2 seconds to scan them yet).
It opens this Friday at The Dairy in Cardiff and more details can be found about the event here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114867561901061
and more info about the venue here:
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I’ve had a photo from my series The Order of Things selected for the Foto8 Summer Show at Host Gallery in London, which is great news! The show opens with a street party on Friday 23rd July and runs until 4th September. If you fancy coming along to the party the tickets are £10 if you prebook from the Foto8 website and a limited number at £15 on the night. Apparently there will be lots of free booze, food and music so drop in if you are in London for the evening!
More info about the show, party, directions etc. can be found here:
Posted 1 year ago
A few photos from the Ffoto Cardiff exhibition at Third Floor Gallery which was taken down a few days ago… only to be replaced by the work of Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins whose exhibition ‘For the Love of the Game’ opened last night.
Posted 1 year ago
I have a few photos from a project which I made in the storage areas of the National Museum of Wales showing at the moment in the Ffoto Cardiff exhibition at Third Floor Gallery @ 102 Bute Street in Cardiff. Its a group show with about 14 other photographers which has been going on for the past couple of weeks and will remain open from 1pm to 7pm for the rest of the week until Sunday. So if you happen to be in Cardiff Bay then please drop by (if you haven’t already)!
More details and directions here: www.thirdfloorgallery.com
You can see the rest of the project on my website: http://www3.clikpic.com/paulgaffney/gallery_341348.html
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Jacob’s Market Exhibition - Opening Tonight!
I’ll be showing some work from a couple of recent projects at the Second Year Documentary Photography at Jacob’s Market in Cardiff over the next couple of days. The exhibition opens this evening at 6pm and runs until late and will also be open from 10am to 6pm tomorrow (Friday 28th May) and Saturday.
The Please Help Yourself book (from the video post below) will be on display as well as a video piece and book from my new project called Cuts Across the Land. I’ll post some images from this over the next couple of days.
For those of you who fancy a few free drinks and plenty of good photography just follow the following links…
http://docphot2010.tumblr.com/
Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108022422649914313100.000486f3ca6aafd55f2f8&ll=51.475342,-3.171144&spn=0.012723,0.027165&t=h&z=15&iwloc=000486f3ce7eeba83447d
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Twelve students from the second year of Documentary Photography at Newport recently chose to respond to an empty store that they could not change the look of as part of the Newport Empty Shops Project. I decided to make some large prints of a couple of the notes from my Please Help Yourself project and stick them up with duct tape to reference the condition in which I found many of the notes and the viewers were invited to stick up post it notes with their responses to the images.
Posted 1 year ago
Please Help Yourself
People sometimes look for help in strange places. They post their pleas on bins, lamp posts, railings and walls. Placed at just the right height to catch the passerby’s eye, their message is usually simple and straightforward. Their advertising is deemed illegal and is usually torn down by the council within a short space of time – there is no official place for these often scruffy scraps of paper on our increasingly sterile streets. But they are effective. If they were not we would not continue to create them. They are a fast, cheap and effective way to communicate with the community, and for some people it is the only way to be heard.
We usually pass them by unnoticed, but every now and then one grabs our attention – maybe because it strikes a chord, or perhaps because it makes absolutely no sense. These are the notes I find fascinating.
I decided to become a collector of notes, to photograph them, edit them and to see how they could be made to relate to each other and perhaps form a narrative. I wanted to see if they could say something about the society in which I found them. I decided to make a book out of them, with the intention of producing something, which could be printed on newsprint paper and be released back onto the streets with a different context, in a format in which we are more used to looking at advertising, thus giving them a new life.
Concept & Photography - Paul Gaffney
Editing & Design - Paul Gaffney / Eugene Zhuravliov
© Paul Gaffney 2010
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Lets get the ball rolling….
A fresh start. A test.
I’ve decided to put this blog together to show some work-in-progress and share news and ideas that don’t quite fit on my website. Its likely to change quite a bit over the next few weeks as I make changes and additions so please drop by again soon…
