Southampton E Book Show 2013

Following on from my post a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of being invited to Southampton's 2013 Photography E Book Show at Southampton's Jon Hansard Gallery.  Prior to my visit to the show, I conducted some research I felt that it would be necessary to conduct some background research into what the Photography E Book show and any unique information surrounding the John Hansard Gallery in particular.  

What the annual Photobook show is, is an Brighton based arts organisation that was only set up two years ago in order to raise the profile of Photographers and artists who had produced their work via self published and hand crafted books and wished to donate them to galleries in order to get their names noticed. Kevin Beck (http://www.kevinbeckphotography.com) and William Sadowski (http://williamsadowski.co.uk) were the two men responsible for this set up. 

Exhibititions held by The Photobook show are held a number of times a year around the UK which also include a number or workshops and guest speakers, I employ you all to check these out! one of the workshops that I was unfortunate enough to miss was a book making workshop held one week after the grand opening of Southampton's E Book Show. Darn work commitments. 

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What made the holding of this special exhibition at Southampton's Jon Hansard Gallery special was purely down to how much dedication was placed into getting the exhibition to be held in Southampton. Over a 10 month period a very kind amount of funding from sponsors were aided towards setting up the exhibition. 

Inside the Photobook show: Photo credit goes to Tom Parker

What is interesting about exhibitions like this is how every detail of the inside of the exhibition have been carefully thought out and structured. All sorts of things from the structure of the lighting, down to how each of the display tables were laid out all throughout the exhibition rooms in great detail. It's this kind of thing that makes exhibitions that make the exhibitions aesthetic that more special. The highlight for me in the presentation was how the names of the artists whose work was being presented, were all credited upon the walls of the gallery. 

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References

http://photobookshow.co.uk/ 
http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk/
http://visualexplorationtomparker.blogspot.co.uk/