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LOVE ME - ZED NELSON AT IMPRESSIONS GALLERY
Zed Nelson
04th Mar - 29th May 2011
Award-winning photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty.
Over a period of five years Zed Nelson visited eighteen countries across five continents, photographing cosmetic surgeons, beauty queens and bodybuilders alongside everyday teenagers, housewives and businessmen. In this extensive cross-cultural investigation, we see an annual prison beauty contest in a South American penitentiary, Iranians queuing for nose jobs in Tehran and female staff at a Russian nuclear agency competing for the title of‘Miss Atom’.
The project explores a new form of globalisation, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand. Whilst Nelson's subjects appear willing participants in an omnipresent culture of bodily improvement, they might equally be considered hapless victims - at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into an insatiable craving for approval. As the subject’s frailties and pretensions are exposed, so too are we the viewer: our motives for looking, for inspecting, along with uncomfortable reminders of our own vanities and insecurities
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NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Fay Godwin: Land Revisited
15 October 2010 - 27 March 2011
Fay Godwin was one of Britain’s greatest landscape photographers. In 1985 she achieved both popular and critical success with her exhibition and accompanying book, Land – a celebration of the British landscape.
To mark the 25th anniversary of this exceptional project, we are displaying a selection of prints from the original exhibition, drawn from our own Collections.
NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM From Back Home
Gallery One
15 October 2010 - 27 March 2011
In 2001, leading Swedish photographers Anders Petersen and JH Engström began a seven-year collaboration to photograph the Värmland, the central western area of Sweden where both men spent their formative years.
Travelling into the heart of their subject, their potent and captivating photographs became an intense voyage of discovery into both the place and people that shaped them, and their associations with one another.
The body of work culminated in an award winning book and now an exhibition, which will be presented here for the first time in the UK.
15 October 2010 - 27 March 2011
In 2001, leading Swedish photographers Anders Petersen and JH Engström began a seven-year collaboration to photograph the Värmland, the central western area of Sweden where both men spent their formative years.
Travelling into the heart of their subject, their potent and captivating photographs became an intense voyage of discovery into both the place and people that shaped them, and their associations with one another.
The body of work culminated in an award winning book and now an exhibition, which will be presented here for the first time in the UK.
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