Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm
January's Photo-Forum showcased work from Heathcliff O'Malley and Kelvin Bruce with a brilliant discussion on privacy laws and war photography.
11th February we will be seeing the work of Leah Gordon and and Nick Cobbing.
Leah has covered life in Haiti for many years will show life before the earthquake:
"Each year, Jacmel, a coastal town in Southern Haiti, holds pre-Lenten Mardi Gras Festivities. Troupes of performers act out mythological and political tales in a whorish theatre of the absurd that courses the streets, rarely shackled by traditional parade. Whatever the carnival lacks in glitz and spectacle, it makes up for in home-grown surrealism and mythical metaphor. The characters and costume partially betray their roots in medieval European carnival but the Jacmellien masquerades are also a fusion of clandestine Voodou, ancestral memory, political satire and personal revelation. The lives of the indigenous Taino Indians, the slave's revolt and more recently state corruption, are all played out using drama and costume on Jacmel's streets. Leah Gordon has been documenting this event for 18 years using a Rolleicord and collecting oral histories that explain the history and culture behind the mask."
Nick Cobbing's widely published photographs of Arctic glaciers and sea ice have picked up many awards. He has just completed his fifth Arctic trip, producing the pictures of North Greenland which were shown at Cop 15 last year. Nick will show these recent photographs and talk about the logistics of his work, the collaborative approach he takes with organisations and the challenge of making climate science understandable to the lay public.
We will also be showing, belatedly "A Winter Wonderland - images from a snow covered London". If you have images to contribute to the slideshow please send them to photoforumuk@gmail.com as soon as possible.
As always we'll have a raffle of prints from the photographers to help fund Photo-Forum.
