LCC MA Photography 2007 Exhibition information Peter Ainsworth Susana Espana Amed Martin Bardell Debby Besford Manuel Capurso Hee Seung Chung Ania Dabrowska Hannah Dakin Darren T Elliott Caroline Furneaux Vron Harris Sam Holden Jesus Jimenez Jochen Klein Katarzyna Lason Issa Randall Carol Sachs Marianthi Saraslanidou Alan Shepherd Rita Soromenho Nick Stonehouse Susan Truseler Gill Vaux	__Introduction by Dr Craig Smith Phd_ __Welcome to the 2007 London College of Communication Final MA Photography Exhibition. The twenty-three persons included in this show are __image-makers working with various forms of contemporary media production including photography, installation, sound, performance and video. __As a group exhibition, the succinct arrangement of each individual image-maker’s work on view can be considered as always in relation to other __works in the exhibition. These relations between individual contributions, or elements, are enhanced through the temporal and spatial conditions of __their production. This time and space in the group exhibition is the time of experiencing the image in a space designated to conduct a dynamic range __of experience. For relations to occur in a group exhibition, the individual contributions must do more than make passing, casual observations of their __subject.  Indeed, for a coordination of disparate images, persons, languages and experiences to do more, the group exhibition must have the capacity __to arrange, situate and immerse both its users and its producers in the time and space of its exhibition. __It is also important to classify this exhibition as one consisting of work that has been produced by individuals engaged in a distinct system of experience; __that of a British post-graduate degree course conducted by an institution structuring and supporting the integration of theory and practice. For the __image-makers involved in such a program, the time and space of their current exhibition is one more execution in a series of events that has them engaged __in regular presentations and discussions of their research and practice. The conceptual frameworks and formal demands of their production are established, __debated and extended through these presentations and discussions. Each individual’s progression through these discursive engagements can be __mapped through the images they have selected and arranged for the final exhibition. Therefore the works on display in this exhibition are inextricably __tied to a theoretical and practical structure that situates, activates, places, idealizes and orients the contemporary image-maker within multiple fields __of critical theory, media production and global cultures. __Photography, as with other forms of contemporary media production, is quickly moving into both critical and aesthetic concerns with the technologically __mediated experiences of its audience. Multi-sensory, immersive and embodied experiences are all objectives permeating these emerging aesthetic __and critical concerns for the contemporary exhibition hosting photography. Such objectives for experience have tethered the viewer-user to technology __and thrust the passive ‘art’ spectator into the always-already spotlight of participatory culture. These are active, mediated experiences encountered in the __exhibition of contemporary media forms. These are experiences relying upon the space and time of the exhibition for their actualization. These __are experiences in which a viewer is transformed. With such objectives, contemporary photography is promising a future in which the coordination of __disparate persons, images and languages can do more. It is a future for photography that exceeds the mirroring culture; it is a future in which photography __perpetuates dynamic experiences in the production of culture; a future for which the illicit personal experience of global culture is situated through __both the production and consumption of the photographic image. __Location: The Galleries, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB. Click here for a map. __Details: Tuesday November 20th until Tuesday November 27th. Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm. Saturday 10am - 4pm. Closed Sunday. __If you'd like any further information please click here to send us an email. Visit the Sproxton Award Website by clicking here.
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