Wednesday 8 December 2010

Photo Forum Christmas special - Thursday 9th December
Jacobs Pro Lounge 6pm prompt start until 8pm.


At November’s Photo-Forum Chris Steele-Perkins took us through the work in his 2009 book 'England, my England' shot over the last 40 years and Guy Smallman showed several stories from Afghanistan.

On Thursday 9 December were to have presentations from Lee Thompson and Horst A. Friedrichs but Lee has pulled out. We have some alternatives lined up in reserve but if anyone has a short piece they'd like to present now's your chance. Email Alex McNaughton - alex@alexmacnaughton.com.

Horst A. Friedrichs was born in Frankfurt in 1966. He began his career at the age of seventeen, working as a photo-assistant in a photography studio in Frankfurt. He studied at the Munich Academy of Photography and worked freelance for American, British and German publications including The New York Times, The Independent, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Merian and Geo.

His documentary photography has taken him around the world and four of his ongoing projects have been made into books. The first “Troubadours of Allah” was published in 1999 and explored the musical culture of Sufis in Pakistan. In 2006, “Doña Maria and Her Dreams” followed the lives and stories of a desert community in Venezuela. Continuing to focus on communities and music, “Mali – A Magical Journey” was published in 2008 and was the result of an invitation to explore Mali by the celebrated Kora musician Toumani Diabaté. Horst moved to London in 1997 to begin another long-term project on the contemporary British Mod scene. This project resulted in “I’m One – 20th-Century Mods” published in 2009.

http://www.horstfriedrichs.com/news

Horst has shot and directed two short films, “Blood Red Sea”, in 2004 about the slaughter of Japanese dolphins and in 2006 “Dona Maria and her dreams”, a film to accompany that book. In 2008 he received a prestigious Gold Lead award for best documentary photography, for his article in Geo magazine No. 3 entitled, “A hundred years of solitude”.

Horst will present work from two of his books – “Mods” and “Rockers”.

This time we'll raffle even more prints than usual to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there’s any left over. The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to own a print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and you could win some great work for just a few pounds.

Photo-Forum is run by photographers for photographers as a venue for working photographers across the spectrum to bring images, ideas, photo stories and work in progress for supportive debate and criticism. It runs monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Central London.

After the show we’ll go for a Christmas social drink and some food in the Rugby Tavern (not our usual pub), 19 Great James St, WC1N 3ES. All welcome. There’s a map at

http://bit.ly/hQ64Tl

Jacobs Pro Lounge Downstairs at Jacobs 74 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EU

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