Only In England – VirginMedia Media Space – Science Museum, London
We were recently delighted to attend the Private Viewing of the fabulous ‘Only In England’ Photo Exhibition at the Science Museum, London. As Press Partners to VirginMedia and as they are the main sponsors of the event, we were delighted to share our evening with among others, Richard Branson.
Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr is the first major exhibition at the Science Museum’s new Media Space, a £4 million space which includes 500 metre square gallery for major exhibitions, a studio for installations, events and creative workshops, and a cafe and bar.
The exhibition, put together by Greg Hobson curator at the National Media Museum, features Tony Ray-Jones’s striking 1960s images of Britons at play as well as 50 rarely seen early black and white photographs by Martin Parr. The exhibition explores the relationship between these two important photographers who met in 1970 when Parr was inspired by Ray-Jones to produce The Non-Conformists, a series of black and white images shot largely in the Hebden Bridge in the Yorkshire Pennines.
The exhibition is open daily 10am-6pm, last admission 5.15pm.
To book tickets, go here – it is a tremendous gallery and should not be missed!
‘Joanne Carter with Martin Parr’, 2013
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Beauty contestants, Southport, Merseyside, 1967 by Tony Ray-Jones
© National Media Museum
‘Fascinated by the eccentricities of English social customs, Tony Ray-Jones spent the latter half of the 1960s traveling across England, photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life. Humorous yet melancholy, these works had a profound influence on photographer Martin Parr, who has now made a new selection including over 50 previously unseen works from the National Media Museum’s Ray-Jones archive. Shown alongside The Non-Conformists, Parr’s rarely seen work from the 1970s, this selection forms a major new exhibition which demonstrates the close relationships between the work of these two important photographers’.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
