Jason Larkin's Updates

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:11:34 +0000

Images from the ongoing story ‘Tales From The City of Gold’ will be screened as part of the ‘This Is Not A Gateway’ Festival taking place at Bishopsgate Institute in London this weekend. Alongside a series of intriguing talks and exhibitions the work will be screened during the festival which starts this Saturday the 26th January.

Ithuba Exhibition

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Very excited to announce the first exhibition of my ongoing series ‘Tails From The City of Gold’ will be shown at the new Ithuba Arts Gallery in Johannesburg during November & December. The exhibition is part of the Ithuba grant that I received earlier in the year and will be the first exhibition at the new gallery in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

There will be an artist talk on the 1st December at 12.30pm & I hope to be finishing this body of work in 2013

Brighton Photo Biennial

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Been a great week working with the Photoworks team preparing and installing my exhibition for the Brighton Photo Biennial ‘Agents of Change’ festival. My series Cairo Divided will be shown alongside Corrine Silvia and Omar Fast’s film. The festival runs for a month and has some excellent exhibitions including work by Trevor Paglen & Edmund Clark.

Was also very excited that the festival printed a second run of the free newspaper publication ‘Cairo Divided’ which will be available from the gallery space.

I will also be doing a talk alongside Guardian journalist David Batty and artist Ronnie Close on the 6th October, the opening weekend.

Monocle Double feature

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0100

I have two separate features in this months Monocle magazine, totalling 18 pages of images! The latest edition focusses on the Portuguese influence across the world, with my assignments shot in the capital of Angola, Luanda and Maputo, Mozambiques beautiful capital city. Maputo is probably one of my favourite cities, highly recommend a visit.

You can see the full tearsheets on my website here

Cairo Divided nominated for Deutsche Borse Photography Award

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Was pleased to find out that Cairo Divided has been nominated for the prestigious Deutsche Borse Photography Award 2013. It could possibly be the first newspaper publication to be nominated for this European photography award announced next year at the Photographers Gallery. Fingers crossed.

The series from the publication was also nominated for the Prix Pixtet award earlier in the year.

Flowers gallery instillation shots

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0100

For those that didn’t manage to make it along, below is an instillation shot of the Ascension work that was featured in the summer show at Flowers ‘Uncommon Ground’ exhibition.

'Uncommon Ground' Last week

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Last week of the group show ‘Uncommon Ground’ that features work of mine from the ‘Ascension’ series as well as Edward Burtynsky, Nadav Kander and Simon Roberts.

The show is running at Flowers Gallery in East London. Click here for more info.

Ithuba Arts Grant

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:00:22 +0100

I’m delighted to announce, a little late I might add, that I’ve been selected as one of the artists of the Ithuba Arts Fund for 2012. This years theme was ‘Traversed & Recorded’.

The fund is split between 6 artists living and working in Johannesburg and will result in a large exhibition of our work this October at a new gallery space in Johannesburg. This kind support will help continue my project on Johannesburg’s Tailing’s Dams.

Really look forward to the exhibition and working with the art fund. More info to come shortly.

Brighton Photo Biennial

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Getting very excited and busy with my inclusion into this years Brighton Photo Biennial.

Announced last month at the Photographers Gallery, this years biennial is being curated by the great team at Photoworks and this years theme is Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space.

The work of mine that’s been curated into the festival is ‘Cairo Divided’ and I’m currently busy working out the logistics of the show.

The festival runs from the 6th October - 4th November in various locations across Brighton and includes work by Omar Fast, Corinne Silva, Edmund Clark & more.

Will post more details closer to the time.

Flowers Summer Show

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:28:00 +0100

I’m totally thrilled to be selected for the Flowers Gallery Summer Show. Titled ‘Uncommon Ground’ the exhibition includes work by Edward Burtynsky, Andy Goldsworthy & Nadav Kander. I will be exhibiting a series of images from a new project that hasn’t been been released yet. As soon as the show is up I will post the new work online.

Full details of the exhibition can be found here. Below is a sneak peak of one of the images from the series.

‘Ascension #4’ from ‘The Useless Island’ series

China Art & Design Feature

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100

China Art & Design magazine, apparently one of the most read art publications in China, has just done a feature on me and my work. The issue focuses on UK artists and to be honest I was a little surprised to be chosen as one of them! I haven’t seen the rest of the issue yet, and don’t have much of a clue what the article says, but you can get a sneak peak below and in my tearsheet section on the website.

Colors Feature

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Late in December, soon after arriving in South Africa, I visited some very remote San-koh communities in the North Eastern provence to do a story for Colors magazine and their happiness issue. I was investigating the use of a plant called ‘Kana’ which has been used by both the San people and Koyi-san groups for decades as a natural anti-depressant.

You can see the final tearsheet on my website, but below I have included some rough scans from the contact sheets. I’m yet to do my own scans and as soon I do I will put the story up in my assignments section and let y’all know.

Cardiff Art Book Fair

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:28:29 +0000

The great folk at ‘A Book Show’ took Cairo Divided to the Cardiff Art Book Fair recently. You can read about the event here. They will also soon be featuring the publication in an online shop. But stocks of the publication are running very low. We now only have 300 copies left from the 5000 we printed in November, which is unbelievable!

The publication has had an amazing life since it’s launch with copies being sent all over the world including distribution with in the corridors of the EU in Brussles, over 20 universities and institutions, 25 galleries and book shops, 4 festivals and over 700 individual online orders.

I need to do a huge shout out to Katie Higson who has been so instrumental in the production and distribution of publication. If you need any help with upcoming projects/shoots/research, reach out to her, she’s brilliant.

Online links + Conscientious

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:11:00 +0000

Cairo Divided has been getting a lot of great coverage recently, especially after the successful launch last week at the CIC gallery. You can read articles written on the night and the work here, here and here. Also Joerg Colberg from the brilliant Conscientious blog featured my Past Perfect project last week!

Cairo Divided at A Photo book show

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:12:08 +0000

Was pleased that the Cairo Divided publication was exhibited as part of the A Book Show in Brighton last December. There was some great self published books on show including publications by Simon Norfolk and Misha De Ridder. You can watch a virtual flick through the publication here.

**Update** Just been told that Cairo Divided will be featured in both upcoming Cardiff and London Photo Book shows! Will provide more details of these when they are released.

Cairo Divided launch in Cairo

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:44:44 +0000

Very pleased to announce that the publication Cairo Divided is going to be launched at the Contemporary Image Collective gallery (CIC) in Cairo on the 18th January. The launch will be focussed around a panel discussion on topics raised in the publication as well as the broader implications of these desert developments.

The talk is hosted by Megawra and the kind folk at CIC. On the panel discusion will be Jack Shenker (Guardian correspondent and author of the accompanying essay), Wafaa Nadim, Ahmed Zaazaa, Ursula Lindsey and Mohammed El-Shaheed.

And of course there will be free copies of the publication available. The event kicks off at 7pm.

CNN article on Cairo Divided

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:56:05 +0000

CNN interviewed me in late 2011 on my Cairo Divided publication and the work I produced out in the new satellite cities surrounding Cairo. You can read the full article here.

Cairo Divided Launch

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:03:42 +0000

Very pleased to announce that there will be a launch event for the new publication Cairo Divided at Flowers Gallery.

http://cairodivided.info

Thursday 1st December 6-8pm, Flowers, 82 Kingsland Rd, E2 8DP

Free copies of the publication will be available.

Cairo Divided publication

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:08:37 +0000

For the last couple of months I’ve been busy turning the Cairo Divided story into a 32 page newspaper print publication, and finally it’s been printed and delivered, and I’m really chuffed with the results! The free publication combines 30 of my images from the series, and a 6000 word essay by Jack Shenker. Cairo Divided is also a dual language publication as all text has been translated into arabic.

It’s beautifully art directed and designed by James at Realise Creative, as well as help from Harry Hardie (Panos & Here) and Francesca Sears (Panos) as well as lots of other people along the way.

There is a dedicated website where you can find out more information on the publication and order your free copy anywhere in the world (+p&p) which was designed and built by Mark Dearman.

www.cairodivided.info

Spectrum

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:47:26 +0000

An image from the Mistake of Nature project which I donated to Photo Voice’s photography auction was used in The Sunday Times Spectrum section last weekend.

The charity auction is being held on the 22nd of October and features work from the likes of Simon Norfolk, Stephen Gill and Brian Griffins to name just a few. Should be a fun night for a great charity.

For more info click here