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Graduating students from the Royal College of Art MA photography course will display their work at four Fitzrovia galleries this month in place of their usual degree show which had to be cancelled due to Covid-19. Photo: Nadja Ellinger, at Fitzrovia Chapel. The degree show would not only have been an opportunity to bring together …
By A M Hanson Spring Rays, but for how long? Like many I sought the fresh air and solace in The Regent's Park over the weekend as the first sunny days of spring appear and herald new life. With my ever ready camera it was a chance to capture …
A new exhibition takes a contemporary look through the lens of a camera at the people and places in a London district first described by social reformer Charles Booth more than a century ago. John Angerson, an award-winning photographer and artist in residence at the Old Diorama Art Centre in Drummond Street, traced the footsteps …
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A talk on Ottoman cuisine and an exhibition of photographs are on offer this month at the Turkish cultural centre in Maple Street. Priscilla Mary Işın, author of “Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine”, will talk about the culinary culture of the Ottoman Empire as it changed and evolved over many centuries. Accompanying the …
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An exhibition telling the story of a mother and the special relationship with her daughter who was born with Down's Syndrome opens this week at the former Middlesex Hospital Chapel. Looking for Alice is a very personal exhibition and launches a book of intimate family portraits by photographer Sian Davey and published by Fitzrovia-based Trolley Books. …
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A book containing a collection of photographs documenting the treatment of patients on London's first Aids wards will be released with an exhibition in November leading up to World Aids Day. The Ward, which is published by Fitzrovia-based Trolley Books, contains candid photographs of patients, their friends and family, hospital staff, along with texts from …
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Just to the west of the lower end of Tottenham Court Road only a few buildings in Stephen Street and Gresse Street survived the huge redevelopment of the Gort Estate in the mid-1970s. In the foreground on the left hand side of the picture below are the Stephen Buildings, and in the mid-ground on the left is …
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An exhibition of around a 100 images of local people will be held next week, and visitors will be asked to vote for their favourite portraits which will then be transformed into street artworks later in the year. Rome-born photographer Doralba Picerno took the photographs as part of a project by Community Interest Company Fitzrovia Noir …
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Portraits of everyday life in southern Asia by documentary photographer Leo Manning-Jones will be on view at the launch of a new office space in Newman Street this Tuesday (17 February). The public are invited to join the hosts of Newman House, a new co-working space in the heart of Fitzrovia, for a social evening to see the office space, …
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By Angela Lovely From inside the Agnès B shop you can just about hear the rumble of Range Rover engines from the choked Marylebone High Street outside. Inside on the walls and in the windows of this Parisian boutique at the heart of the Howard de Walden Estate are a series of black and white photographs …
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By Angela Lovely Diemar / Noble Photography gallery have announced The Fitzrovia Photography Prize and is calling for entries from photographers who have taken pictures within a mile of their gallery in Wells Street. Deadline for entries is 25 June and the winners will be announced at a special event on Wednesday 20 July 2011. …
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