The Moscow Canal was built to connect the Moscow River with the Volga River. In the 1930s it helped to deal with the shortage of water in Moscow. Now it delivers more than 60 percent of the drinking and industrial water to the city of Moscow. During the Second World...
Simon Norfolk: Time Taken
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce Simon Norfolk’s third exhibition of photographs with the gallery: Time Taken, a poetic tracing of time on the war-torn landscape of Afghanistan. Between 2013 and 2014 Simon Norfolk visited the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan, an area of the country once famous for...
Life in Britain During the Blitz
A collection of very rare color photographs of life in London and across the UK during the Blitz have been released to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The images are on display as in the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, as part of their Horrible Histories®:...
Patrick Kauffmann: Berlin Underground
25 years has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War. Now the wall is almost completely gone, just like so many other historical monuments from Berlin's dark history. Perhaps one of the best places where you still can sense the history of Berlin,...
PhotoBiography: Michal Chelbin
Based in New York City, Israeli-born, Michal Chelbin has been shown in solo and group shows in the US and abroad in venues such as the Photographer’s Gallery in London , Hendrik Andersen Museum in Rome , the National Portrait Gallery in London , and the Tel Aviv Museum of...
Eduardo Leal: Plastic Trees
The world consumes 1 million every minute, it was consider by Guinness World Book of Records as “the most ubiquitous consumer item in the world”, but the all useful plastic bag as become the main source of pollution worldwide. It can be found everywhere on the planet from seaside, the...
PhotoBiography: Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer was born in 1944 in Eberswalde, Germany. From 1963 to 1964, she worked as a volunteer in the Fotoatelier Schmülz-Huth in Cologne, and from 1964 to 1968 she studied at the Kölner Werkschulen. She began working for newspapers as a portrait photographer in 1968, producing a series on...
Interview with Cityscape photographer Wolfgang Hildebrand
- How did you get into photography? From childhood on I had been into drawing and painting but was always looking for something more precise, faster. The first earned money from my after-school job was than invested into a camera. I did a lot experimenting, learning and playing around with...
Valentino Bellini: Bit rot
Bit rot is a colloquial term used in the computerized information systems environment to indicate the gradually decaying of data stored on storage medias or software over the duration of time. In this case, the concept is transposed from a virtual reality, made of bit and software, to a material...
James Mollison: Playground
For his latest book, Playground, Mollison has photographed children at play in school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood, and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world at a young age through play. For each picture, Mollison sets up his...