31st May – 3rd June

This year at the new venue of Old Billingsgate Market, Trolley will be presenting the work of Philip Jones Griffiths, Alixandra Fazzina, Gordon McHarg and Alexander Shields. Photo Alixandra Fazzina – Serere rainstorm #1

Trolley is proud to present the first UK solo show of Philip Jones Griffiths. Opening on Thursday 31st May at Trolley Gallery, London. This show will centre around much unseen work by Griffiths, world-renowned for his work covering the conflict in Viet Nam, here presenting Britain in the 1960s and 70s.

Exhibition continues until 24th June 2007

May 4th – June 30th

In cooperation with Magnum Photos the Goethe-Institute, New York, presents the exhibition M*A*S*H, which is part of the MAGNUM Festival 2007. The festival celebrates the 60th anniversary of Magnum Photos, one of the world’s premiere photo agencies. The MAGNUM Festival ‘07 will take place in New York throughout June and explores the idea of documentary works in the areas of photography, film, and journalism, including panel discussions at the New York Public Library, gallery exhibitions, and screenings of documentaries “by or about” Magnum photographers at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

“If it weren’t for the war, we’d all be having a great time.” Taken from the series M*A*S*H, 1970.

First seen in the early 1970’s at the height of anti-Vietnam feeling in America, the original series M*A*S*H followed a hapless US medical corps stationed out in the preceding Korean war. Here underlay a dark commentary throughout its comedy. As the US Military continue to fight onwards in Iraq, doctors, nurses and medics are working on the front lines to keep their casualties down. Magnum Photographer Thomas Dworzak was with them, embedded with the 44th Medcoms 50th and 1150th Medical Companies in Iraq over several periods in 2005.

Taking the lead from the satirical commentary first provided by the film and subsequent series of M*A*S*H, this book juxtaposes images from the series with Dworzak’s own from his time with the medical companies he was stationed with out in Iraq.

From mess tents to surgical tables, the story of everyday life behind the scenes of these medical corps shows at times a pathos and comradeship alongside the expected blood and suffering. The accompanying stills and subtitled images from M*A*S*H bring Dworzak’s photographs out of the realm of the purely photojournalistic, and instead poignantly provide a black humour for a disenchanted audience of the modern world, and a comment on the concept of photographers today working embedded and alongside the military.

Author/Photographer Details:
Thomas Dworzak was born in1972 in Koetzting and grew up in the small town of Cham in Bavaria. In 2002 he became a Magnum nominee, in 2004 a member. He is based in Paris and New York and contributes to Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New Yorker, US News, Paris Match and The New York Times Magazine.

The book published by Trolley M.A.S.H I.R.A.Q by Thomas Dworzak will be released in June 2007.