Twin Factory magazine at Gentlemen of Bacongo opening
Hoxton Live.com
The second opening was at a ‘project space’ on Redchurch Street made available by the property developer Londonewcastle. On show–to a massive, enthusiastic crowd, many of whom had queued in the cold–were photographs by Daniele Tamagni recording the stunning dandyism of Sapeurs, a little documented sub-culture of the Bakongo, a demography focused in the urban spread of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo. The exhibition has come from Paris and supports Tamagni’s book, Gentlemen of Bacongo, published by Trolley Books. The pictures shock several times through. The first is sheer gorgeousness of the outfits, colour-coded, designer goods, loud, assertive, but always elegant. For all the density and clamour, there are rules ensuring simplicity: formality is absolute, only three colours are allowed. Gentlemen of Bacongo The next shock is the self-realisation that images of such exuberance are never seen in the context of Africans in Africa. Beauty, truth, insight, tenderness, aggression, understanding–there is plenty of emotion in African art, in the musical cultures, to take one example, of Lagos and Soweto. But never exuberance, a wild, careless, in love with the joy of life. And then you see the Africa you expect, the images we associate with placenames like Brazzaville, the deep poverty, the widespread squalor. The contrast between the landscapes of despair and the clothes of happiness is the story of these men–they are all men–whose philosophy is that eating is for the fickle: looking good is life.
Esquire interview with Daniele Tamagni
Gentlemen of Bacongo - opening night 26/11/09, with sapeur Le Bachelor from Paris, owner of Connivences boutique, wearing his suits 'We live in the outfits, with the outfits and for the outfits.'
the exhibition Gentlemen of Bacongo
Suits from Connivences, Paris arrive at Trolley for Gentlemen of Bacongo party....
Boo Saville- Ghost edition at Other Criteria
Gentlemen of Bacongo exhibition on new style mag Twin
Whitehot.com review of Shoplifter at Trolley
Luca Pancrazzi - Stilllife - Milan
Monday 16th November
18.30 - 21.00
ART for The World Europa
Via Piranesi, 10
Milan
Open discussion on the work and new book published by Trolley, panel will include:
Elio Grazioli, contemporary art critic, Milan
Gigi Giannuzzi, publisher of Trolley Books, London
Orazio Fernandez, art critic and curator, Madrid
Mario Cristiani, gallerist, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing/Le Moulin
Flavio De Marco, artista, Berlino/Bologna
Trolley Gallery - group show curated by Rachel Howard
Gentlemen of Bacongo - NY Times blog
Andre 3000 must have taken a page or two out of 'Gentlemen of Bacongo' (Trolley Books), a new book by Daniele Tamagni that celebrates a group of dandies in the most unlikely of style capitals – the heart of the Congo Republic. The culture of La SAPE, La Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes, began when the country was ruled by the French and the local men began to adopt a little European flair. The sapeurs, as they are known, spiff themselves up with colorful tailored suits, fedoras and the occasional cigar – it's more English aristo than Iceberg Slim pimp daddy.
Find out more »The Yellow House - Channel 4
In the run up to the forthcoming group show at Trolley Gallery, curated by Rachel Howard Black Dog / Yellow House , we watched The Yellow House, which follows the story of the house in Arles which van Gogh and Gauguin spent nine weeks living, eating and painting together. The tumultuous outcome being the cutting off of van Gogh's ear...
Find out more »Subject | Matter at Cass Foundation, Goodwood
In November 2009, the Cass Sculpture Foundation will be exhibiting its first-ever indoor exhibition of mid-scale works entitled, SUBJECT | MATTER since it's inception fifteen years ago. Located in the New Foundation Centre's unique exhibition space, designed by Studio Downie Architects, the exhibition, curated by Claire Shea, will be open to the public from Monday, November 16th to Saturday, December 12th, Tuesday, January 5th to Sunday, 28th March 2010.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite will be exhibiting her sculpture 'Down' which featured in her first solo show at Trolley 'Up Down In Out.' in April 2009.
Trolley Books will be present at Artissima in Turin this weekend as part of PA/PER VIEW ART BOOK FAIR, co-hosted by MOUSSE magazine
Dates: Friday 6th Nov 6-9pm, Sat 7th and Sun 8th from 11-9pm.
Venue: Teatro Carignano
Thomas Giddings - Private View of new exhibition - There's No Other Place Like This Place Anywhere Near This Place, So This Must Be The Place - Thursday 12th November
The show brings together photographs as well as moving image that document a 4,000 mile trip across North America through states including Oklahoma and Arizona, down Route 66 and ending in Los Angeles. Intimate records of the journey are presented alongside work that explores the American vernacular, its landscapes and inhabitants, reflecting the simultaneous experience of newness and alienation that is inherent in travel. A publication with foreword by Kevin West, West Coast Editor of W Magazine, will accompany the show.
Laureana Toledo talks to curator Gavin Wade at Chelsea College of Art
Daughters by Margaret m. de Lange - review in Chicago Examiner
by Brigitte Sullivan '....This book is an excellent addition for any collector of photography books focused on expressive family life, and would also serve as great inspiration for shutterbug parents with cameras....'
Find out more »Cass Sculpture Foundation - delivering Juliana Cerqueira Leite's work for forthcoming show
'Subject Matter' will open on 15th November, and will showcase emerging sculptors in their new indoor space at the foundation. Juliana's sculpture 'Down' from her solo show at Trolley this year has been chosen as one of the works for the show.
Find out more »Eugene Richards - talk at Amnesty International, London Thursday 29th November
over 300 people gathered to hear panel discussion on future of photojournalism, panel included Sophie Batterbury from The Independent and Gerry Badger, curator. Eugene Richards is in London working on his forthcoming book with Trolley to be released next year 'War is Personal'.
The Limit - screening at Chelsea College of Art - Thursday 29th October
Laureana Toledo, the artist of new artist publication The Limit will be screening the film of the work at Chelsea College of Art, from 5.15pm. From 6pm the artist will be in conversation with D=Gavin Wade,the director of Eastside Projects, Birmingham.
Location: Lecture Theatre - Chelsea College of Arts and Design
Laureana Toledo introduces her fan documentary on The Limit – a (fictional) "Sheffield band from Mexico". Followed by a conversation with curator Gavin Wade.
'As a response to the commission of doing a piece of art in Sheffield addressed to an imaginary spectator that hates art, I decided to put together a cover band that would only play covers from bands from Sheffield – Pulp, Def Leppard, Human League, ABC, Joe Cocker and the Arctic Monkeys. The line up would be a very simple one: drums, guitar, bass, and a singer who played a little electronic piano. The band is named after a cult club in Sheffield, where most of the original bands had played, and that shut its doors in 1992; its members are musicians from four of the most important groups from the Mexican rock scene – Bengala, Zoé, DiscoRuido and Café Tacvba.
Very few people in England know of these bands. People in Mexico know lots of Sheffield bands (and from Birmingham, and from Manchester, and from Bristol…). Disguised as a 30 minute fan documentary, and accompanied by the publication of an artist book disguised as a magazine, The Limit investigates how information and pop culture are digested, how colonialism is still activating our fantasies and expectations, and how the secondary role of women around rock bands is funnily reversed.'
Stephanie Quayle winner of Zelli Porcelain prize 2009
Palestinian photographers from Gaza at Trolley 24/10/09
Monday 26th October saw a talk at the exhibition chaired by Jon Snow.
Beware the Cost of War - 23 - 29 October, London. Palestinian and Israeli photographers on the frontline.
73 Leonard Street EC2; 11-7PM. Featuring over 12 photojournalists. Curated by Olive Tree Films as part of Inside Out festival in London.
Find out more »Shoplifter part of conference on performance art, MoMA, New York
19th October 2009
Museum of Modern Art, New York is holding a conference on performance art and has asked Hrafnhildur Arnadottir aka Shoplifter to present a performance artist of her choice. Shoplifter will present Leigh Bowery, and will explore his themes of vanity and costume, two themes most relevant to her current practice and use of hair, and also evident at her current solo show at Trolley Gallery.
Mother of All Book Launches - inc. The Limit by Laureana Toledo, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Thursday 22nd October, 6.30pm
Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane,
Digbeth
Birmingham B9 4AR
New Publications Including:
Freee: Futurology, Celine Conorelli: Support Structures, Laureana Toledo: The Limit, Stone Canyon Nocturne, Barbara Holub, The Provincial Forge
Daughters - last chance to see exhibition in Paris
Galerie Philippe Chaume
until 31st October
9 rue de Marseilles 75010 Paris
Boo Saville in group show at James Taylor Gallery
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
James Balmforth
Gareth Cadwallader
David Ferrando Giraut
Lewis Ronald
Boo Saville
Matthew Stone
Superblu
PRIVATE VIEW Friday 16th October 6pm - 10pm
James Taylor Gallery
Collent Street
Hackney
E9 6SQ
OPEN Monday to Friday 12pm - 6pm
(Closed Monday 26th & Tuesday 27th October)
JT Project 09 is: seven distinct temporary exhibitions hosted by James
Taylor Gallery, independently organised by Fieldgate Gallery, Five Years,
James Taylor Gallery, Katie Guggenheim, Supine Studios, The Centre of the
Universe and Transition Gallery. Spread over two floors of a huge building,
the project provides the opportunity to see shows by these peer
organisations simultaneously. JT Project 09 could be: an opportunity for new collaborations, a series of
compromises, a grand experiment.
Centre of the Universe
Fieldgate Gallery
Five Years
James Taylor Gallery
Katie Guggenheim
Supine Studios
Transition Gallery
Booksigning - The Limit by Laureana Toledo - Site Gallery, Sheffield
Book Launch: THE LIMIT by Laureana Toledo
30 Oct 2009
6.30pm
FREE – BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Book places via events@sitegallery.org or call 0114 281 2077
Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield S1 2BS
Late Night East End Opening - Saturday 17th October - until 9pm
Trolley Gallery will be open until 9pm on Saturday 17th October, along with many of the East End galleries and institutions, as the area hosts a special late night opening as part of the Frieze and Zoo Art Fairs.
Trolley are presenting a new solo show in the gallery of Hrafnhildur Arnadottir aka Shoplifter, BURN, and a temporary installation by artist Tim Mitchell n Arnold Circus bandstand behind the gallery
Perpignan - Stanley Greene signs Open Wound in Trolley mobile
Image courtesy Pedro Letria
Shoplifter Private View at Trolley Gallery - 8th October 2009
Shoppy in front of one of hair works, and wearing her human hair cape.
Find out more »Tim Mitchell's installation at Arnold Circus - We Shall Meet on That Beautiful Shore
Hannah from Trolley with the artists Shoplifter and Tim Mitchell, at Tim's installation in the bandstand at Arnold Circus
Henry Hudson in group show 'The Embassy'
Henry Hudson will be in a group show curated by Xerxes Cook and Alex Dellal as part of their exhibition opening during Frieze week. The Embassy tells the story of a deposed diplomat representing a government that has just been overthrown at home. A pastiche of the manner in which embassies promote their country's culture abroad and set across the two floors of 33 Portland Place, works from over 15 artists will speak of themes relevant to the mismanagement of a country - greed, egotism, repression, theocracy, malnutrition, gluttony, tyranny, currency, geography and sex - because the dictator always gets the best lines.
The Embassy will take place from 15-19th October 2009
Location: 33 Portland Place, London, W1B 1QU
Opening hours: 11am -7pm
Tel: 0207-792-2867
www.20hoxtonsquare.com
Nearest tube: Oxford Circus, Regent's Park
Frankfurt Book Fair - Trolley will be in Hall 8, stand F946, next to Phaidon in the middle
14 to 18 October.
artist Tim Mitchell installing on Arnold Circus 04/10/09
'We Shall Meet on That Beautiful Shore' opens Thursday 8th October and will last the duration of the Zoo Art Fair, until 19th October, or as long as it can...
Find out more »Robin Maddock - multimedia interview on 1000wordsmag.com
Paul Smith Goes Congolese For Fashion Week - londonfashionweek.com
Laura K. Jones - Artnet London Dispatch - Henry Hudson and Hogarth
To mark the closing of Henry Hudson's solo show at Trolley, we invited John Carroll from the Sir John Soane Museum to talk about the exhibition in relation to the original Hogarth painting series 'The Rake's Progress' which is housed at the John Soane. Compared to artists like Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hogarth wasn't terribly prolific, and as such the dozen or so paintings at the John Soane, is the largest collection of Hogarth's in the world...
At the closing night of Henry Hudson's 'Knappin' exhibition at Trolley Gallery (directors Gigi Gianuzzi and Hannah Watson are such a pair of cards that they seem to be throwing both opening- and closing-night jollies for all of their shows), John Carroll, a fine William Hogarth specialist from the Sir John Soames Museum, came to tea. Each of Hudson's ten panels are opulently painted in melted plasticine and all are amplified details of the etchings of Hogarth's Rake's or Harlot's Progress, from the 1730s. Hudson has updated the Hogarth works - thankfully only subtly - with wine stains, modern-day cigarettes, canvas tacks and crumbling plaster.
YBA Keith Coventry and Elliot McDonald, curator of the Hiscox Art Fund and the Sudeley Castle shows, were part of the gin-and-raspberry-swilling audience. Carroll posited that Hogarth was 'the first Damien Hirst,' having made multiple copies of his copperplate engravings and sold them from the window of his studio in Leicester Square, thus 'freeing himself from aristocratic approval' and creatively restrictive portrait commissions. Someone's mobile telephone then bleated out the Moonlight Sonata ringtone. 'This has now officially become a BBC2 documentary,'said Coventry, perhaps pining for the dissolution of those former days when he had a studio in the prestigious Albany apartments, site of several late-night portrait painting parties.
London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel gallery - booksigning with Robin Maddock and Iain Sinclair for 'Our Kids Are Going to Hell' - Sunday 27th September 3.30pm
Paul Smith gives collection a Congolese makeover - By GREGORY KATZ (AP)
LONDON – Celebrated designer Paul Smith took London Fashion Week on a side trip to Africa Monday night with a startling show inspired by styles worn by young men in the Congo.
Smith, who made his name in colorful menswear, adapted the way musicians in the Bacongo region wear brightly colored suits with beautiful accessories and turned it into an unusual women's wear collection.
The first model set the scene, looking androgynous in a bright pink suit with red lining and a red bowler hat. Others followed in bright colors, with pink a dominant theme for the first part of the show, which was met with thunderous applause in the ballroom of the elegant Claridge's hotel.
After the show, Smith – beaming with pleasure – said he got the ideas from "The Gentlemen of Bacongo," a book of photos depicting the dress of the dandies there.
"When you look at these guys, they are just magical," he said, "The pocket handkerchiefs, the ties, the cufflinks, the watches, everything. They dress in an amazing, amazing smart way, and their attention to detail is fantastic. They are so passionate about dressing beautifully"
He said the show reflected his desire to mesh various traditions from different parts of the world.
"We used lots of prints, very optimistic colors, African prints. I love mixing all the fashions together," he said.
The women's suits were cut with very narrow shoulders and a long, slim style. Colors were uniformly bright. Many of the dresses mixed several patterns together, and hems were often asymmetrical.
Smith also used hot pants to set off many outfits.
The designer's bold use of color extended to the models' lipstick – many wore a blue-green shade that stood out sharply against their pale makeup. Others wore bright red. Smith, one of Britain's most prominent designers, said he was pleased that London Fashion Week is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the return of some other well known talents who have not shown in London in recent years.
Paul Smith London Fashion Week Show - inspired by Gentlemen of Bacongo
By Tim Blanks on Style.com
When Paul Smith laid eyes on Gentlemen of Bacongo, a vivid new celebration of the fashion-obsessed Congolese dandies called sapeurs, he was too inspired to wait for his next menswear show. He immediately modeled his women's collection for Spring 2010 around Daniele Tamagni's photos. In fact, the book's cover was reproduced for the first look: a scaled-down pink suit, orange striped shirt, and red shoes, topped off by an orange bowler. That vivid sapeur-iste palette juiced up the show, and the menswear theme kept circling around, in a banker-striped shirt extended into a full dress, say, or the tan suit worn over checked waistcoat, collar, and tie.
Talk - London Art Book Fair at Whitechapel gallery
Sunday 27 September, 2.30pm
Photographer Robin Maddock and Managing Editor of Trolley Books Hannah Watson introduce their new publication, Our Kids Are Going to Hell, a photographic document of Maddock's three-year journey accompanying police on the streets of east London. Followed by a signing in the main foyer with writer and Hackney resident Iain Sinclair, author of the introduction to the book. In association with: Trolley Books.
Free, no booking required.
Daughters at Daughters booksigning
Margaret was joined by the two daughters Jannicke and Cathrine at Trolley for their booksigning, both are at Kingston university studying film and photography respectively, following in their mother's footsteps!
British Journal of Photography - Robin Maddock feature on Our Kids
Trolley Gallery - launch and booksigning Daughters and Our Kids
Robin Maddock, Margaret M. de Lange and Gigi outside Trolley Gallery after last night's launch and booksigning, thanks to everyone who came down!
Gentlemen of Bacongo - Waterstones Covent Garden 12/09/09
Now available for pre-order from best bookseller in London - Richard Bucht, Waterstones Covent Garden
CLICK HERE TO LOOK INSIDE THE GENTLEMEN OF BACONGO
TROLLEY BOOKS - LAUNCH AND BOOKSIGNING
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Trolley Gallery
73a Redchurch Street
London
To celebrate the three September releases, there will be a special launch and booksigning on Wednesday 16th September for
Daughters by Margaret M. de Lange
Our Kids Are Going To Hell by Robin Maddock
Margaret will be joined by her two daughters, the subjects of the book, and now in their twenties, and Robin will be joined by Iain Sinclair, who wrote the intro to his book about Hackney and its nocturnal activity
Please join us for the first chance to buy the books at a special one night only discount and have them signed by the authors!
CLICK HERE TO LOOK INSIDE DAUGHTERS
CLICK HERE TO LOOK INSIDE OUR KIDS ARE GOING TO HELL
Meschers - near Saintes
Tom's travels - part 2. Not quite a book but coming soon...
Barcelona La Central bookstore
On his travels, Tom reached Barcelona and spotted Recollections in the window at La Central, other bookstops included Ciclic and Kowasa.
John Hoyland: Blood on the canvas, by a modern master
The Independent
Friday 25 April, 2008
John Hoyland has been called Europe's answer to Mark Rothko. On a visit to his London studio, Esther Walker discovers why the celebrated painter has turned to Robert Fisk of The Independent for inspiration in his latest artworks.
"I borrow anything from anything," says the artist John Hoyland. "I'll borrow from other people's work, nature, flowers - anything." In his latest exhibition, Greetings of Love, Hoyland borrows from a more unlikely source, perhaps: a photograph of blood-spatter on the floor of a hospital in Lebanon, accompanied by a piece, about the 33-day conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel in 2006, by The Independent's Robert Fisk.
"I've always liked Robert Fisk's writing and I admire him. I thought the piece that he had written was rather moving, and I looked at the photograph that went with it and it looked just like one of my paintings." The piece, published in August 2007, was a reflection on the previous year's war in Lebanon and, in part, a review of the book Double Blind by the Italian photographer Paolo Pellegrin.
Pellegrin's picture, taken in Tyre's main hospital, shows a large splash of blood on the black-and-white tiled floor of a hospital; the victim had been badly injured in an Israeli rocket attack on 6 August, 2006.
"I hate wars," reads Fisk's piece. "I was thinking this over as I pawed through Double Blind, from which these photographs are taken. Its terrible, rage-filled, blood-spattered pages are an awful memory to me of last year's war in Lebanon."
The resulting work by Hoyland is a powerful, richly coloured image, with the artist's trademark layers of thick paint, rivers of colour running down the canvas, and his nerve-cell-like central focus. But Hoyland insists that the piece is not deliberately political.
"I don't see Lebanon as a political piece, although the title would indicate that. I was simply struck by the constant threat to people living in the Middle East and the sheer horror of the things that happen. I suppose my sympathies would always be with the victims and the underdog, so I suppose in that way it is political."
Turkey PM aims to end PKK fight
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country must deal with the problem of Kurdish rebels in Turkey's south-east.
Gigi with Boris at Arles 2009
At the party for FNAC
2009-03-14 More Sex Claim US Church
Sex claims against US Church rise
BBC NEWS
SATURDAY 14TH MARCH 2009
The number of new claims of sexual abuse made against US Roman Catholic priests rose by 16% to more than 800 last year, a Church report says.
It says the Church paid $436m (£313m) in 2008 for abuse cases. Most of the money was used to compensate victims.
The study covered almost 200 dioceses and religious orders across the US. It found that more than one in five victims were under the age of 10 when they were abused.
Although the number of claims made against the Church rose in 2008, the total cost dropped by 29% compared to the previous year.
The Associated Press news agency said 2007 was an unusually high year, when the Archdiocese of Los Angeles began paying a $660m settlement to about 500 people.
The annual review tracks progress made in implementing the Charter for the Protection of Children, adopted by US bishops following a scandal in Boston in 2002.
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said the Church was "on the right path" in its quest to better protect "all children in society".
Philip Jones Griffiths Recollections Exhibition at Side Gallery
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS EXHIBITION
'RECOLLECTIONS'
SIDE GALLERY
9 Side
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3JE
Opens Saturday 14th March
Exhibition continues until May 2nd
Philip Jones Griffiths Exhibition at Briarcliffe College
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS EXHIBITION
50 YEARS ON THE FRONTLINES
Briarcliffe College
225 West Main Street
Patchogue NY11772
Opens Saturday 14th March, 1-3pm
Exhibition continues until 4th April 2009
Organised with the help of Patchogue Arts Council, Briarcliffe College, the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation and Trolley Books.
For more info please visit
www.patchoguearts.org/philipjonesgriffith.htm
BBC Mark Thompson in 2005
BBC chief holds peace talks in Jerusalem with Ariel Sharon
THE INDEPENDENT, 2005
By Guy Adams
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
The BBC is often accused of an anti-Israeli bias in its coverage of the Middle East, and recently censured reporter Barbara Plett for saying she "started to cry" when Yasser Arafat left Palestine shortly before his death.
Fascinating, then, to learn that its director general, Mark Thompson, has recently returned from Jerusalem, where he held a face-to-face meeting with the hardine Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Although the diplomatic visit was not publicised on these shores, it has been seized upon in Israel as evidence that Thompson, who took office in 2004, intends to build bridges with the country's political class. Sources at the Beeb also suspect that it heralds a "softening" to the corporation's unofficial editorial line on the Middle East.
"This was the first visit of its kind by any serving director general, so it's clearly a significant development," I'm told.
"Not many people know this, but Mark is actually a deeply religious man. He's a Catholic, but his wife is Jewish, and he has a far greater regard for the Israeli cause than some of his predecessors."
Understandably, an official BBC spokesman was anxious to downplay talk of an exclusively pro-Israeli charm offensive. Apopros this month's previously undocumented trip, he stressed that Thompson had also held talks with the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
Whitehot Magazine Interview with Boo Saville and Hannah Watson
READ INTERVIEW WITH WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, BOO SAVILLE AND HANNAH WATSON FROM TROLLEY GALLERY ON FORTHCOMING SHOW AT TROLLEY ‘BUTTER SUNK’
Gaza protest in London
06/01/09 - LONDON
PROTEST AGAINST WAR CRIMES IN GAZA
"An image from the daily protest in front of the Israeli Embassy from 5 pm to 7pm. Our friends from Naturei Karta worldwide organization of Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews joined to shout with us against the atrocities committed in Gaza, including the bombing of the playground of two UN schools."
Trolley Christmas Party
TROLLEY BOOKPARTY - LONDON
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY 40% OFF ALL BOOKS!
MONDAY 15TH DECEMBER
7.30PM ONWARDS
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
34 REDCHURCH STREET
LONDON. E2 7DJ
Following the success of Trolley's night of slideshows and music of our new and forthcoming books in New York, hosted by David Alan Harvey, Trolley is pleased to announce our Trolley Book Party in London. Please visit us for another night of slideshows, this time with 40% discount on all books for one night only, as well as music and djs.
The Times Christmas Book Recommendations 2008
THE TIMES BEST BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 2008
'Recollections' by Philip Jones Griffiths and 'Homeland' by Nina Berman chosen by Joanna Pitman as two of the best books for Christmas 2008.
Buy HOMELAND by Nina Berman
Buy RECOLLECTIONS by Philip Jones Griffiths
'HIM' by Robert Gordon McHarg III at Mutate exhibition
Mutate Britain
Cordy House
87-95 Curtain Road,
Shoreditch
London
EC2A
Every Fr, Sat and Sun from 21st November 1.30-10pm
www.myspace.com/mutatebritain
Free entry @ Behind the Shutters Gallery, Cordy House
A five week exhibition of multiple media, presented by Urban Style & Hosted by Joe Rush and Wreckage International of the Mutoid Waste Company.
Joe Rush and Wreckage International (of the 63rd Mutoid Waste Squadron) have presented a select crew of front line artists with titanium sections of aircraft fuselage. How will today's new model army represent their vision of these tail talismans?
COUP D'TAT
The results will form the centrepiece of a five-week exhibition. Based in the heart of Hoxton, the massive five floor gallery barracks will house sculpture, installation, street talent and performance art every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 21st November.
The exhibition features the statue 'HIM' by Robert Gordon McHarg III, star of HIM BOOK (Trolley, 2007) dressed once again in one of his 'mutant' disguises...
Recollections Exhibition, Mois de la Photo, Paris
Philip Jones Griffiths
'Recollections' exhibition
Mois de la Photo, Paris
7 novembre – 5 decembre 2008
École National Supérieure d’Architecture, Paris Val-de-Seine
3, quai Panhard et Levassor – 75013 Paris
Ouvert 10h a 19h, sauf le lundi
Entrée libre
There is currently an exhibition in Paris for Mois de la Photo of Philip Jones Griffiths 'Recollections.' The exhibition features over 50 prints of Griffiths's images of Britian in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and are also taken from his new book of the same title 'Recollections' (Trolley, 2008)
Philip Jones Griffiths est considéré comme le chef de file des photographes de la guerre du Viêtnam. Né à Rhuddlan, il poursuit des études de pharmacie à Liverpool avant de travailler à Londres, tout en entreprenant une activité de photographe pour le Manchester Guardian.
En 1961 il devient photographe indépendant à The Observer. Il couvre la guerre d’Algérie en 1962 avant de travailler en Afrique Centrale, puis s’installe en Asie en 1966 aprés sa nomination en tant que membre associé de l’agence Magnum. Il travaille au Viêtnam jusqu’en 1971 et devient membre à part entière de Magnum. Magnum aura du mal à vendre ses images du Viêtnam aux revues américaines car les photo mettent l’accent sur la souffrance du peuple vietnamien, témoignant du parti pris du photographe sur cette guerre. L’argent que Griffiths gagne grace à ses images lui permet de poursuivre son travail au Viêtnam. Il constitue non seulement l’un des documents les plus détaillés qui ait jamais existé sur un conflit, mais aussi le portrait en profondeur d’une culture vietnamienne prise d’assaut.
En 1980 Griffiths s’installe à New-York afin d’assurer la présidence de Magnum. Ses missions photographiques, souvent engagées à sa propre instigation, le conduisent dans plus de 120 pays. Il continue à travailler pour des revues importantes (life, Geo…) sur des sujets tels que le bouddhisme au Cambodge, la sécheresse en Inde, la pauvreté au Texas, la reforestation du Viêtnam et les séquelles de la Guerre du Golfe au Kuweit. Il renouvelle ses visites au Viêtnam afin de mener une réflexion sur les consequences de la guerre, et realise encore deux ouvrages sur le sujet, Agent Orange et Viêtnam at Peace.
L’exposition Recollections présente une époque pleine de souvenirs de son pays natal, car elle réunit de nombreuses photographies inédites réalisées en Grande-Bretagne dans les années 50, 60 et 70. Ces images montrent les affaires socials et politiques du pays, ainsi que des évènements clés qui y sont survenu pendant ces trios décennies de profonds boulversements. Qu’il s’agisse des Beatles à Liverpool, des mineurs de fond du Pays de Galles, des manifestations antinucléaires à Londres ou encore des processions funéraires en Irlande du Nord, ces images sont justes, humaines et porteuses du commentaire pénétrant qui caractérise l’ensemble de son oeuvre. Elles évoquent une transition importante dans la société britannique, captées par le regard d’un maître inégalé de la composition et du récit. Recollections présente une révolution du quotidian vue par l’un des plus grands photographes au minde. Aprés une longue maladie, Philip Jones Griffiths est mort du cancer le 19 mars 2008, chez lui à Londres. Son oeuvre et ses archives sont conservées grâces à la Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation for the Study of War and Conflict, gérée en large partie par ses deux filles.
Commissaire de l’exposition: Gigi Giannuzzi e Laura Serani
Exposition organisée avec le soutien ed la Fondation Philip Jones Griffiths
Et avec le concours de Trolley Books et Magnum Photos
HIM at Mutate
HIM by Robert Gordon McHarg III in
Mutate exhibition
Cordy House
87-95 Curtain Road
Shoreditch, London
EC2A
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 21st November 2008
FREE ENTRY
Free entry @ Behind the Shutters Gallery, Cordy House
A five week exhibition of multiple media, presented by Urban Style & Hosted by Joe Rush and Wreckage International of the Mutoid Waste Company.
Joe Rush and Wreckage International (of the 63rd Mutoid Waste Squadron) have presented a select crew of front line artists with titanium sections of aircraft fuselage. How will today’s new model army represent their vision of these tail talismans?
The results will form the centrepiece of a five-week exhibition. Based in the heart of Hoxton, the massive five floor gallery barracks will house sculpture, installation, street talent and performance art every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 21st November.
Homeland Exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery
NINA BERMAN HOMELAND EXHIBITION
Opening reception and book release
Friday October 24th, 6pm-8pm
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
New York 10012
Exhibition continues until 15th November
Nina Berman delivers a caustic and surreal vision of the United States during the Bush years. A product of seven years work, with images from across America, Berman gives us a peek into the bizarre manifestations of the homeland security state and the ideologies that have reshaped post 9-11 America.
BUY HOMELAND HERE
Alix Fazzina feature on Somalia in IO Donna Magazine
ALIXANDRA FAZZINA FEATURE ON SOMALIA IN IO DONNA MAGAZINE
08/10/08
A feature on Somali refugees escaping Somalia and paying people traffikers a million shillings to cross to Yemen in tiny boats, has just been published in Io Donna magazine, Italy. The book of the full story photographed so far by Fazzina will be published soon by Trolley Books 'A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia.'
She was the recent recipient of the Vic Odden award from the Royal Photographic Society for outstanding contribution to photography by those under the age of 35, as well as being a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith grant and the CARE humanitarian award exhibited at Perpignan photojournalism festival 2008.
Philip Jones Griffiths Liverpool Exhibition
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS
RECOLLECTIONS
National Conservation Centre
Whitechapel, Liverpool
Opens Thursday 16th October 2008
Exhibition continues until 15th March 2009
The National Museums of Liverpool with the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation, Trolley and Magnum Photos are proud to announce a major six month exhibition and much-anticipated new book of Philip Jones Griffiths, 'Recollections.'
Renowned as the foremost photographer of the Viet Nam conflict, 'Recollections' presents work much closer to home, of Britain in the 1950s onwards. From coal miners in Wales, the Beatles in Liverpool to soldiers in Northern Ireland and anti-war protests on the streets of London.
Savignano 08
NICK WAPLINGTON AT SI FEST
Savignano Immagini Festival
Galleria Vicini-Giuseppe Zanotti Design
via del Molino, 6
Savignano del Rubicone
Italy
12-14 September 9-19h
Saturday and Sunday until 5th October 10-13/15-19h
Activist boats reach Gaza Strip
ACTIVIST BOATS REACH GAZA STRIP
23/08/08 Two boats carrying members of a US-based pro-Palestinian group, sailling from Cyprus, have been successful in an attempt to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The boats left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Friday morning. The journey took them about 30 hours.
The Free Gaza protest group said about 40 activists from 14 countries were on board the boats, including the sister-in-law of Cherie Blair, Lauren Booth. The boats are carrying 40 activists, 200 hearing aids and 5,000 balloons.
news.bbc.co.uk/
Read full article here
LE GUN - EXHIBITION AND LAUNCH OF #4
28th August - 3rd September
Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London. E2 7ES
12-6.30PM
In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati,and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb.
The exhibition will run for one week and in that time a number of events such as music nights and short film screenings will be programmed, creating a temporary arts club. Highlights include collaborating with groups such as the the Strangeworks performance collective and screening the ‘Essentials’ programme of seminal short film curated by the Independent Cinema Office.
Trolley Double Opening
TROLLEY DOUBLE PRIVATE VIEW
WEDNESDAY 27TH AUGUST
7-9PM
Isabelle Graeff
Romance is Dead! Long Live Romance!
Trolley Gallery
73a Redchurch Street, London. E2
Le Gun
The Family
Exhibition and launch of Le Gun #4
Rochelle School
Arnold Circus, London. E2
Trolley is pleased to announce a collaboration between Trolley Gallery and collective Le Gun, who will open a week-long exhibition and temporary arts club, at the same time as Trolley will open with the solo show of Berlin artist Isabelle Graeff.
On Wednesday 27th August the two spaces will hold joint openings to celebrate the two exhibitions.
For more information please contact Hannah Watson
44(0)20 77296591
hannah@trolleybooks.com
David Rickard at Goethe Institute London
David Rickard at Goethe Institute London
Exhaust 19-06-08
Until 19th July 2008
50 Princess Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7
Admission free
On the 19-06-08 David Rickard spent a 24-hour period breathing out his exhaled air, via a respiratory mask, into a series of large silver foil balloons. The final arrangement of balloons demonstrated consumed space in the form of a long vapour trail of balloons that rose up the three floors in the stairwell of the Goethe Institute, London. The performance demonstrated our daily consumption of fresh air, and in a quantifiable manner revealed our constant demand for fresh air and our active relationship with the space that surrounds us.
Le Gun
LE GUN
THE FAMILY
EXHIBITION AND LAUNCH OF #4
Thursday 28th August - Wednesday 3rd September
Exhibition 12-6pm
More events to be announced
Rochelle School
Arnold Circus
London, E2.
Week-long exhibition and temporary arts club with film and performance, plus launch of Le Gun #4.
‘Dear patrons, please charge your glasses and drink heartily for tomorrow you may die’
In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati, and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb. Raised on the the streets of parallel metropolis Legundon, an eccentrically Anglo-Saxon place of loose women, gin and cream cakes, and Francis Bacon’s butchers shop, they are an unusual dynasty. LE GUN’s gigantic black and white ink drawings record the families journey from their home cities murky streets and dens of vice, across a wild unchartered ocean to an outlandish Interzone of mind bending intoxicants and bordellos, and the jungle funeral of unloved street urchin Caliper Boy.
The exhibition that will feature the collective’s large scale drawings, forming a physical embodiment of the work found on the pages of LE GUN. These drawings, some up to 10m in length, are collaborative, narrative panoramas that link together to tell a curious tale...
The exhibition will also feature a ‘salon wall’ of works by artists working with LE GUN, and our cardboard-constructed ‘arts club’ installation that will host a bar plus performance and screening area. The exhibition will run for one week and in that time a number of events such as music nights and short film screenings will be programmed, creating a temporary arts club.
www.legun.co.uk
Alixandra Fazzina CARE award
ALIXANDRA FAZZINA FINALIST AT CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage.
There will be an exhibition of the work from her ongoing project 'A Million Shillings Escape frm Somalia' at Visa Pour L'Image festival held at Perpignan this September.
The winner is Stephanie Sinclair with her reportA Cutting Tradition: Inside An Indonesian Female Circumcision Celebration.
The three other finalists are:
Agnes Dherbeys: Wat Prah Bat Nam Phu, Temple of dooms (Thailand)
Suthep Kritsanavarin: Cyclone Nargis…life aftermath (Myanmar)
Ariana Cubillos (Associated Press): Mud cookies to stop hungry (Haiti)
Trolley presentation at Platoon
TROLLEY PRESENTATION AT PLATOON, BERLIN
Wednesday 30th July 2008
7.30-9pm
free entry
PLATOON Cultural Development
Alte Schönhauser Str. 3
10119 Berlin
A special evening presenting the latest Trolley slideshows of new and forthcoming books, featuring
‘A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia’ by Alixandra Fazzina
and ‘Delta Nigeria - the Rape of Paradise’ by George Osodi.
With a book signing and exhibition of photographs from
'Shelter' by Lucky Michaels.
Alix Fazzina and 'Child Soldiers' Exhibition
CHILD SOLDIERS
War Photo Ltd
Antuninska 6,
20000 Dubrovnik
Croatia.
Aug 1st - 31 October 2008
There are an estimated 300,000 children in fighting forces around the world, many of whom have been forcibly recruited or abducted; they have suffered beatings and other forms of torture; and psychological damage resulting from being forced to kill others. Girl soldiers have suffered the additional humiliation of rape and sexual servitude, sometimes over periods of several years.
Three photographers to be published by Trolley this year are involved: Alixandra Fazzina (A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia), Jan Grarup (Darfur - A Silent Genocide) and Franco Pagetti (The House of Wisdom - Five Years in Iraq), all to be published autumn 2008.
Above: Alixandra Fazzina/ Trolley
Mario Tauchi at Void
PSYCHE-GA-DELIC 2008
July 18th to July 31st 2008
Void is showcasing Mario Tauchi's PSYCHE-GA-DELIC 2008, author of MarioMandala Colouring Book (Trolley, 2007), in the form of performance, music and cooking.
Mr. Tauchi has been expressing himself by creating Mandala paintings in various media and also collaborating with musicians, visual artist and other specialists, improvising Mandala paintings live. at void alternative, he will be collaborating with a guitarist, cloudchair (aka Jake/Masatomo Kawase), and a chef specializing in spice, det2, to create a unique Mandala, while exploring the transformation that happens when his inner self meets the outer entity. at the void gallery, also showcasing his new works
Event Schedule :
July 18th (fri)
Panel Discussion "Artists and Self management"
-Roland Kelts - writer and rector at Tokyo University
-Haruka Ito - research associate at Kyoto University of Art and Design: research center for editorial studies, magical, Gallery manager of magical ARTROOM
-Tadasuke Iwanaga - artist
-Mario Tauchi - artist
19:00- Charge: 500 yen
July 19th (Sat)
Guitar and Live Painting: Ambient session #1
Featuring Mario Mandala/cloudchair
Door: 19:00 / Start: 19:30 Charge: 2,000 yen
*Reservation by email required for this event
July 22nd (Tue)
Live Curry Cooking flavored with Mario Mandala
Featuring: Mario Mandala/det2
Door: 19:00 / Start: 19:30 Charge: 2,000 yen
July 25th (Fri)
Guitar and Live Painting: Ambient session #2
Featuring Mario Mandala/cloudchair α
Door 19:00 / Start: 19:30 Charge: 2,000 yen
*Reservation by email required for this event
Refugee Week
iWitness by Tom Stoddart at Refugee Week - Bristol
14th-22nd June 2008
15 images from Tom Stoddart's classic of photojournalism iWITNESS will be on display from June 12th at Bristol Temple Meads train station, enlarged onto banners that occupy the length of the platform on the main concourse.
Measuring 4 x 4m each, these large-scale images set in the station are part of Refugee Week in the town, organised by the Pierian Centre. In total the event will encompass 9 days of art, stories, people & ideas, and all events are free.
Refugee Action's Refugee Awareness Project and Time Together volunteers will be at the station throughout Refugee Week to answer questions and share their experiences.
Le Gun in the Guardian
LE GUN IN LE GUARDIAN!
13/06/08
'Died Happy', an exhibit by Le Gun from the current show at Trolley Gallery 'Don't Stop Me Now - the body beyond death' courted controversy last week when it entered the Guardian Diary section...
by Hugh Muir
Hardly any risks are acceptable these days. We shield ourselves from peril. That's just sensible. But whatever happened to buyer beware? At the Trolley Gallery in the East End of London, artists have come together for the show Don't stop me now - the body beyond death, among them the renowned collective Le Gun. Their installation Died Happy consists of a boxed clay figure in a hole in the floor, and there is no doubt that he indeed died happy. A protrusion rising to floor level is testament to that. All was well until one woman stood on this proof of his happiness. It snapped and she was banned, but she exacted her revenge. "We got a visit from Tower Hamlets health and safety," explains director Gigi Giannuzzi. "Apparently someone had reported our exhibit as a danger to society! No prizes for guessing who." The sculpture endures but it is surrounded by a fence and hazard tape. Itself a comment on modern life, you might think.
DAVID RICKARD AT GOETHE INSTITUTE, LONDON
Exhaust 19-06-08
until 19th July 2008
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7
Admission free
On the 19-06-08 David Rickard spent a 24-hour period breathing out his exhaled air, via a respiratory mask, into a series of large silver foil balloons. The final arrangement of balloons demonstrated consumed space in the form of a long vapour trail of balloons that rose up the three floors in the stairwell of the Goethe Institute, London. The performance demonstrated our daily consumption of fresh air, and in a quantifiable manner revealed our constant demand for fresh air and our active relationship with the space that surrounds us.
Art Car Boot Sale 2008
ART CAR BOOT SALE 2008
Sunday 8th June
The Old Truman Brewery
Peter Blake selling T shirts and Gavin Turk selling tyre treads, it could only be the annual Art Car Boot Sale...
Trolley joined in with 'Spot The Dictator' out of the book 'Official Portraits,' with all the faces from the United Nations current heads of state, there was also colouring in from 'Mariomandala Colouring Book' and Indian firework posters from 'Cock.'
Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy / Chernobyl l'eredita nascosta
Cinema Visionario
via Asquini 33 Udine
9 giugno - fino agosto
9th June - end of August
There is an exhibition in Italy of 'Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy' by Pierpaolo Mittica in Udine, Italy, until the end of August 2007.
BUY CHERNOBYL - THE HIDDEN LEGACY HERE
Photoespana 08
TROLLEY BOOKS SELECTED AT PHOTOESPANA 08
M.A.S.H. I.R.A.Q. by Thomas Dworzak and Double Dactyl by Nick Waplington were chosen by the jury of Photoespana as among the best books of the past year. With over 400 books entered from around the world, an exhibition and display of all winning books will be at the National Library of Madrid until July 27th. The Jury was composed of Hans-Michael Koetzle (writer and curator of photography), Oscar Mariné (graphic designer), Alberto Anaut (President of PhotoEspana), Milagros del Corral (Director of the National Library.)
Philip Jones Griffiths Memorial
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS MEMORIAL
The memorial for Philip took place at Asia House on Thursday 29th June 2008 at Asia House, London.
Among those present were Eve Arnold, Don McCullin, Ian Berry and a host of other friends and colleagues who gathered together to remember the life and work of one of the greatest minds and photographers of our time.
Lucky Michaels Video
Lucky Michaels, author of 'Shelter' featured in online video focussing on the story of a talented poet Aoife Murphy, who is currently one of the kids at the shelter.
Watch video here
Robert Montgomery - Derniers Jours. Paris May 08
May 31st - July 26th 2008
Galerie Nuke
11 Rue St Anastase
Paris
1968 Bookfair
1968 AND ALL THAT
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 10am - 10pm
Conway Hall
Red Lion Square
London WC1
An international conference and bookfair to celebrate the hopes and dreams of May 1968 - forty years after. Trolley Books will be present, along with speakers from France, Germany, Spain, USA, Eastern Europe, Africa and Britain.
"Sous les pavés, la plage."
Alix Fazzina wins Vic Odden award
ALIXANDRA FAZZINA WINS VIC ODDEN FROM ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Alixandra Fazzina from Trolley Photos has been awarded the Vic Odden prize for 2008. The award is offered for a notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 or under, and will be presented at the RPS ceremony on October 2nd 2008.
Alixandra's book 'A Million Shillings' documents the perilous flight of Somalian and east African refugees across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. The story has recently been published in Grazia, The Sunday Times Magazine and The Guardian.
Crosses New York Exhibition
New York Exhibition
READ NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON POPE"S VISIT AND ABUSE VICTIMS _ FEATURING CARMINE GALASSO AND VICTIMS FROM HIS BOOK "CROSSES"
Opens Friday 18th April, 6-9pm
Lott Gallery@drivein24
443 West 18th Street
New York
Exhibition continues until May 19th
This exhibition follows the critically acclaimed book by Carmine Galasso, published by Trolley, of 30 black and white portraits and interviews of adults in the US who were abused by Catholic clergy as children. Recently chosen for the PDN annual as Best Book of 2008. The exhibition coincides with the visit of the Pope to New York, and a candlelit vigil will be held outside the gallery by the victims to mark the occasion.
Crosses - Portraits of Clergy Abuse by
Carmine Galasso
Shelter on New York Times blog
SHELTER ON NY TIMES BLOG
15/04/08
READ LATEST COMMENTS HERE
Simone and Jan to run the Berlin Marathon
BERLIN 25KM MARATHON FOR TROLLEY
Simone Castaldi and Jan Coombs will be running the Berlin 25km Marathon on Sunday 4th May. This will be to raise money for Trolley, for photographers to work on and complete important projects, to then be published in book form. Support the right to inform.
Support Simone and Jan!
To sponsor Simone or Jan please click here
Chernobyl Exhibition in Rome
CHERNOBYL - THE HIDDEN LEGACY
PIERPAOLO MITTICA
s.t. foto libreria galleria
via ombrellari 25
Rome
16-20 April
There is currently an exhibition in Rome of Cherobyl - The Hidden Legacy by Pierpaolo Mittica. On Wednesday 16th April there will be a presenation by Mittica at s.t. of the exhibition and the book, and a discussion with Tiziana Faraoni, photo editor of L'Espresso.
CHERNOBYL - THE HIDDEN LEGACY exhibition in Rome
s.t. foto libreria galleria
via ombrellari 25
Rome
16-20 April 2008
There is currently an exhibition in Rome of Cherobyl - The Hidden Legacy by Pierpaolo Mittica. On Wednesday 16th April there will be a presenation by Mittica at s.t. of the exhibition and the book, and a discussion with Tiziana Faraoni, photo editor of L'Espresso. This exhibition coincides with the 22nd anniversary of Chernobyl.
Mario at Waterstones
MARIO TAUCHI - LIVE MANDALA PERFORMANCE
Tuesday 15th April
Waterstones
9-13 Garrick Street
Covent Garden
London
6pm
Mario Tauchi will perform his wonderful mandal drawings live at Waterstones in Covent Garden, London. Fast becoming a cult hit in his native Tokyo, where he performs with live electro music bands in front of a captive audience, here Mario comes to London and gives us a taste of the magical world of mariomandala.
The drawings are part of the amazing book recently published by Trolley which features 101 free-floating mandala shapes ready to be coloured in, with perforated pages so they can be pulled out and shared, given away or stuck up on your wall.
MarioMandala Colouring Book by Mario Tauchi
2008-04-18 Crosses by Carmine Galasso - New York exhibition
Opens Friday 18th April 2008
Lott Gallery@drivein24
443 West 18th Street
New York
Exhibition continues until May 19th
This exhibition follows the critically acclaimed book by Carmine Galasso, published by Trolley, of 30 black and white portraits and interviews of adults in the US who were abused by Catholic clergy as children. Recently chosen for the PDN annual as Best Book of 2008. The exhibition coincides with the visit of the Pope to New York, and a candlelit vigil will be held outside the gallery by the victims to mark the occasion.
BUY CROSSES HERE
Philip Jones Griffiths - The Soldier of Love Leaves Us
THE SOLDIER OF LOVE LEAVES US
Philip Jones Griffiths 1936 - 2008
"We all have a choice in life. You can cover a hell of a lot wide and shallow or you can cover a small number of things narrow and deep. Both are valid. But those who decide to do narrow and deep produce something that ultimately lasts".
Philip Jones Griffiths
READ BBC NEWS ARTICLE
Carmine Galasso chosen for PDN Annual 2008
CROSSES - PORTRAITS OF CLERGY ABUSE BY CARMINE GALASSO
CHOSEN FOR PDN ANNUAL 2008
Congratulations to Carmine Galasso, his images of 30 adults in the United States who were abused by a member of the Catholic clegy as children, with their stories in their own words, has deservedly been chosen for the prestigious PDN Annual of 2007. The annual selects the best photography books that have been published throughout the year.
Go to Crosses
Stop The War march
JOIN THE WORLD AGAINST WAR THIS SATURDAY
Tens of thousands of people will converge on Parliament on Saturday calling for an end to Bush's wars. Five years on almost everything the anti-war movement predicted about the invasion of Iraq has come true, yet the government continues to ignore the view of the overwhelming majority in this country, who have consistently opposed the war.
Demonstrations will be taking place in more than 50 cities around the world on the anniversary of the invasion (see www.theworldagainstwar.org).
The London demonstration will assemble at Trafalgar Square at 12am. It will surround parliament and end in Parliament Square.
Double Blind wins POYI award
Double Blind - War in Lebanon 2006 winner of BEST USE BOOK at Pictures of the Year International
Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin and words by Scott Anderson, with a contribution by Patti Smith.
Double Blind - War in Lebanon 2006
FOOD FOR YOUR EYES 3
Trolley Books will be presenting at Kinokho studio in Paris, the second of its series of slideshows
Tuesday 18th March
from 8pm
24/32 Rue des Amandiers,
75020, Paris
Nina Berman in Art and War exhibition with Jenny Holzer
War Stories
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery
Massachusetts
February 11- March 12, 2008
Reception: Tuesday, February 12, 5 - 7 p.m.
This exhibition brings together contemporary artists whose work examines the politics, events, and consequences surrounding war. For the current Iraq war, perhaps more than any prior American war, truth and interpretation of facts lie at the center of the conflict. War Stories features photographs by Nina Berman, paintings by Jenny Holzer, and the American premiere of a 10 channel video installation entitled 9 Scripts from a Nation at War by a collective of artists.
War Stories is curated by Lisa Tung, Director of Curatorial Programs and Professional Galleries at MassArt.
Bossaso explosion
BOSSASO, SOMALIA, 20 REFUGEES KILLED IN EXPLOSION IN CAMP
Alixandra Fazzina has been following since 2007 the story of the African refugees, mainly Ethiopian, who will risk everything to cross the Gulf of Aden to Yemen and a new life. Fazzina is one of the few photographers to have documented the refugees, the camps in Bossaso, the smugglers and the embarcation onto the boats for their perilous crossing. The dangers stacked against them, from the elements, the authorities, to the smugglers themselves. This story by Alixandra Fazzina was recently featured in The Sunday Times Magazine.
Nina Berman shows spring 08
Images and a sound installation from Berman's first book 'Purple Hearts - Back From Iraq' are also currently being exhibited at:
Massachusetts College of Art
"War Stories" Group Exhibition
February 11 - March 12, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
With a solo exhibition of images from Purple Hearts at:
Elon University
March 3 - March 20, 2008
Elon, North Carolina
Magnum Stedejlik
MAGNUM PHOTOS 60 YEARS
EXHIBITION AT STEDELIJK MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM
Opens Thursday 7th February, 5pm
Exhibition continues 8/2/08 - 12/5/08
This is the third exhibition about MAGNUM to be held at the Stedelijk. The first, in 1964, stressed the post-war humanist ethics propagated by the founder members and was based on the collection of photographs acquired by the museum since 1958. The second, in 1990, emphasised the vision of the individual photographers. This reflected the growing interest in auteurship at a time when the print media were increasingly losing ground to television. The present exhibition presents these individual views and relates them to current thinking about the visual presentation of history.
Above: Philip Jones Griffiths, Near the old American base south of Quang Tri, a young girl stands guard over her patch of saplings marked off by rows of old artillery shells. She is responsible for their safety, warding off birds and rats. From the book Agent Orange - Collateral Damage in Viet Nam (Trolley, 2003)
Mariomandala event in Hong Kong
MARIOMANDALA COLOURING BOOK
LIVE EVENT IN HONG KONG
Japanese artist Mario Tauchi will talk on mandala colouring before giving one of his dynamic live demonstrations
Saturday 26 Jan 2008
Harbour City Mall
15:00 - 16:00
On Sunday 27 Jan 2008
Times Square, Causeway Bay
13:00 - 16:00
Philip Jones Griffiths - Viet Nam Trilogy Talk
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS
VIET NAM TRILOGY TALK
Thursday 24th January 2008
Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place, London
7.30pm
SOLD OUT
Philip Jones Griffiths will talk at the Frontline club in London on his legendary work covering the conflict in Viet Nam, and his work continuing to photograph the country for over twenty five years after the war had ended.
Agent Orange - Collateral Damage in Viet Nam (Trolley, 2003) depicts the horror of birth deformities in Viet Nam that continue to this day, as an effect of the deadly poison dioxon dropped within 'agent orange' defoliant sprays during the conflict.
Viet Nam at Peace (Trolley, 2005) shows Viet Nam over two decades since the day Americans left the country. With a foreword by John Pilger, who like Griffiths arrived in Viet Nam in 1966, he writes 'Griffiths is the one who showed us Viet Nam as a country, not as a war.'
2006-12-10 MARK BLANCO
The tragic death of Mark Blanco at the beginning of December brutally cut the life of a brilliant man and dear friend. Mark was a vital part of many peoples' lives, who now want to have it made transparent exactly what took him so tragically away. His profound intelligence coupled with humility, creativity and above all humour, touched many. Always appearing with something to give or show or share, from a steak in his pocket to a rare book, magic trick or just to dip in and out of his vast knowledge of so many things, Mark was a unique spirit, whose untimely death has left many deepely saddened.
He will be missed.
Read the story here
Nick Waplington - solo show at The Whitechapel
Double Dactyl
12th December - 20th Jan 08
Nick Waplington will open a solo exhibition at The Whitechapel, London, in December. This exhibition will feature new work including large format, digitally manipulated images, and an installation of his photographs in the surrounding area of the gallery.
Trolley Books are publishing a book 'Double Dactyl' featuring this new work to be released in December and presented on the 12th December opening at The Whitechapel.
2007 Offer
30% discount on most of our titles in stock, including on our new releases of 2007:
Double Blind by Paolo Pellegrin
was £24.95now £17.45
M.A.S.H. I.R.A.Q by Thomas Dworzak
was £19.99 now £14.99
Chernobyl by Pierpaolo Mittica
was £24.95 now £17.45
Mariomandala Colouring Book by Mario Tauchi
was £19.99 now £14.99
Crosses by Carmine Galasso
was £24.95 now £17.45
Serpentine Gallery 24-Hour Interview Marathon: London by Rem Koolhaas
was £9.99 now £6.99
HIM BOOK by Robert Gordon McHarg III
was £14.99 now £10.50
Philip Jones Griffiths Lucie award
PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS HONORED AT 5TH ANNUAL LUCIE AWARDS
Griffiths was recently honored for Achievement in Photojournalism at the Lucie awards, 12th October 2007, New York.
HIM on BBC
HIM by Robert Gordon McHarg III, with Alan Yentob, featured in IMAGINE "How to get on in the Art world"
Tuesday 20 November 22:35 BBC1
PARISPHOTO 07
Parisphoto 07
Le Carrousell du Louvre
Trolley Gallery are presenting this year the work of Philip Jones Griffiths from 'Middle Years' of images of Britain in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, new work from Nick Waplington, Alixandra Fazzina and Warren Neidich.
Crosses Exhibition, Boston
Crosses - Portraits of Clergy Abuse
New Exhibition in Boston
Gallery@Spencer Lofts
1-17th November
60 Dudley St., Chelsea
MA 02150 US
The new release by Carmine Galasso 'Crosses - Portraits of Clergy Abuse' is currently being exhibited in Boston.
World Press Photo 07 Exhibition, Barcelona
WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBITION 07 IN BARCELONA
16 October - 11 November
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB)
The World Press Photo 07 exhibition is currently showing in Barcelona, and includes the winning images by Paolo Pellegrin (Double Blind, Trolley 2007), Nina Berman (Purple Hearts, Trolley 2004, above: 'US Marine returning home to marry' 2007) and Massimo Berruti (Made in Italy, Trolley 2006).
17th October 7.00pm
Auditori del CCCB (Montalegre, 5)
Gigi Giannuzzi from Trolley Books will take part in a debate on Photography Publishing, along with other publishers Phaidon, Steidl, Blume and La Fabrica Editorial.
2007-09-29 HIM FOR SALE AT ZOO ART FAIR
PRESENTING
HIM BOOK
101 portraits of HIM
HIM a life size sculpture of Charles Saatchi by ROBERT GORDON MCHARG III FRSA
"It's the biggest action figure I'll ever own, it's all about the artist collecting the collector, a David and Goliath battle over power and punch lines", says McHarg.
Trolley presents at this year's Zoo Art Fair, held at the Royal Academy in London, HIM and HIM BOOK by Gordon McHarg.
12-15th October
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S
Paolo Pellegrin on AlterNet
Double Blind on Alternet
Nina Berman presents the second in her multimedia series for Alternet, this week on 'Double Blind - War in Lebanon 2006' with award-winning images by Paolo Pellegrin and an interview with journalist and writer Scott Anderson. From the new publication by Trolley, 'Double Blind'
Burma
JOIN THE PETITION FOR BURMA
Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world. For decades the Burmese regime has fought off pressure - imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages, imposing forced labour, creating refugees.
On 18th October, Buddhist monks and nuns, revered in Burma, began marching and chanting prayers. The protests spread as hundreds of thousands of ordinary people and public figures joined in, finding the hope they had lost. Now facing a violent crackdown, please show your solidarity to this movement towards reconciliation and democracy and sign the emergency petition supporting the Burmese people -- it will be delivered to the United Nations Security Council members and international media this week:
SUPPORT THE BURMESE
In the past Burma's military rulers have massacred the demonstrators and crushed democracy. The world must stand with the Burmese people at this time, to show the military rulers that the world will not tolerate repression and violence.
Right now, global leaders are gathering in New York for the annual United Nations summit. In speeches, press interviews, but also in real actions, the world needs to show Burma's military junta that the global community is willing to act in solidarity with the protesters.
Show your solidarity to this movement for peace and democracy by signing the emergency online petition and supporting the Burmese people. It will be delivered to UN Security Council members and the UN press corps.
HIM at Zoo 07
ALSO PRESENTING
HIM BOOK
101 portraits of HIM
HIM a life size sculpture of Charles Saatchi by ROBERT GORDON MCHARG III FRSA
“It’s the biggest action figure I’ll ever own, it’s all about the artist collecting the collector, a David and Goliath battle over power and punch lines,” says McHarg.
Trolley presents at this year's Zoo Art Fair, held at the Royal Academy in London, HIM and HIM BOOK by Gordon McHarg.
12-15th October
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S
Nina Berman on AlterNet
NINA BERMAN ON ALTERNET
Nina Berman, author of 'Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq' (Trolley 2004) announces a new multimedia series she is producing for online news and discussion forum AlterNet.
AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues.
Berman's first production starts today with Andrew Lichtenstein's images from his book, "Never Coming Home," on U.S. war dead from Iraq.
Please look for the series each Thursday.
M.A.S.H. I.R.A.Q. EXHIBITION
M.A.S.H. I.R.A.Q. EXHIBITION
THOMAS DWORZAK
Prix Bayeux-Calvados
Des Correspondants de Guerre
1st - 6th October
Hotel du Doyen
Rue Lambert Leforestier
Open every day 10am - 12.30pm and from 2pm - 6pm
Photographer Thomas Dworzak, was on an assignment for the magazine U.S. News & World Report, accompanying the 44th and 50th U.S. Army Medical Command for this report. An exhibition which has not been seen before in France (it was presented in New York last June), which mixes references to the series M*A*S*H (screen captures and quotations) and photographs by Thomas Dworzak, taken in Iraq between 2003 and 2005.
M*A*S*H: After the success of the controversial Robert Altmann film called M*A*S*H in 1970, American television channel CBS broadcasted 11 seasons of the series of the same name. From 17th September 1972 to 21st February 1983 (and in particular during the peak of the war in Vietnam) American television provided its viewers each week with a poignant and sometimes cutting critique of war, although the slightly rebellious tone of the series was considerably toned down towards the end, a period which coincided with the first years of the Reagan administration.
At first sight, the subject of M*A*S*H is the daily lives of a medical unit in the American army during the Korean War. But the real object of this satire is the Vietnam War. Today, although the Iraq war has given rise to unprecedented levels of chaos, many of the problems raised in M*A*S*H are still very topical, but no television series now looks at them.
Awards (among others)
2001 - World Press Photo (Spot News Story, 1st prize), Amsterdam, Holland
2000 - Bayeux-Calvados Award, France
BUY M.A.S.H I.R.A.Q HERE
Trolley joins digital railroad
TROLLEY JOINS DIGITAL RAILROAD
Trolley is pleased to announce the creation of a new alliance with Digital Railroad, with www.trolleyarchive.com.
Trolley Archive gives us an opportunity to show-case the contents of our books, press and the work of our photographers, and, when the photographer is not represented by an agency, to syndicate them.
Nina Berman New York Times
Nina Berman and Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq featured in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/arts/design/22berm.html
ROBERT FISK/PAOLO PELLEGRIN
ROBERT FISK ON DOUBLE BLIND BY PAOLO PELLEGRIN
8/08/07
The Independent Magazine
To mark the one year anniversary of the end of the conflict in Lebanon, in the months of July and August 2006, Robert Fisk looks back at his own personal view of war over the years, and at the images of Paolo Pellegrin from 'Double Blind,' just released by Trolley and to be exhibited at Trolley Gallery from 23rd August-7th September.
Read full article here
Paolo Pellegrin - Retrospective Exhibition in Rome
Paolo Pellegrin
Broken Landscape
1st June - 9th Spetember
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Piazza Sant'Egidio 1b
There is currently a major retrospective exhibition in Rome of the work of Paolo Pellegrin. Author of Kosovo - The Flight of Reason and most recently Double Blind - Lebanon Conflict 2006, the exhibition encompasses his work from Iraq, Kosovo, the Congo, Darfur, Libya, Colombia, with a special focus on his award-winning work on Lebanon last year for which he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the W. Eugene Smith Fund and won First Prize in the General News Category Singles at World Press Photo.
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Full price €5.50
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Free to Italian citizens and citizens of foreign countries with reciprocal arrangements under 18 and over 65
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Purple Hearts - Exhibition and Book signing
Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq by Nina Berman
Columbia University School of Social Work
Artist presentation and book signing
March 7 -- 6-8pm
New York City
Exhibition through June 29
Aiice Austen Musuem House
Opening March 18 - April 29
Staten Island, New York
Nina Berman Purple Hearts exhibition, NY
Nina Berman
Purple Hearts - Back From Iraq
Exhibition
Jen Bekman
8-30th August
Crosses presentation at national conference of SNAP
Crosses - Portraits of Clergy Abuse
SNAP presentation
The author of forthcoming release 'Crosses - Portraits of Clergy Abuse,' Carmine Galasso, makes a presentation at the national conference for SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). It takes place at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington D.C on 20-22 July.
www.snapnetwork.org
Mr Mkhize's Portrait book prize
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories from the New South Africa at Festival of the Photograph
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Mr Mkhize was chosen to be in the Best Book Exhibition at the Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville. USA.
The Festival of the Photograph, an annual event celebrating photography, launched its first year in Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 7-9, 2007. For the occasion, Charlottesville’s historic downtown was transformed into a photographic space with exhibitions, master classes, interviews, outdoor screenings, and special events. Several thousand photographers, photography curators and photography enthusiasts from around the world attended. The festival is a not-for-profit event and this year featured the work of Sally Mann, Eugene Richards and William Albert Allard, among others.
The festival also included an exhibition of the best photography books published in recent years. The books were displayed in the former Innisfree space located at the Jefferson Theater in the center of Charlottesville. The exhibition was a touch, feel, and read experience - but most of all was a celebration of book-making. Upon conclusion of the festival, the books were housed in a library in Charlottesville and made available for educational purposes.
www.festivalofthephotograph.org
BUY MR MKHIZE’S PORTRAIT HERE
Mr Mkhize's Portrait book prize
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories from the New South Africa at Festival of the Photograph
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
Mr Mkhize was chosen to be in the Best Book Exhibition at the Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville. USA.
The Festival of the Photograph, an annual event celebrating photography, launched its first year in Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 7-9, 2007. For the occasion, Charlottesville’s historic downtown was transformed into a photographic space with exhibitions, master classes, interviews, outdoor screenings, and special events. Several thousand photographers, photography curators and photography enthusiasts from around the world attended. The festival is a not-for-profit event and this year featured the work of Sally Mann, Eugene Richards and William Albert Allard, among others.
The festival also included an exhibition of the best photography books published in recent years. The books were displayed in the former Innisfree space located at the Jefferson Theater in the center of Charlottesville. The exhibition was a touch, feel, and read experience - but most of all was a celebration of book-making. Upon conclusion of the festival, the books were housed in a library in Charlottesville and made available for educational purposes.
www.festivalofthephotograph.org
BUY MR MKHIZE’S PORTRAIT HERE
Art Car Boot Sale 2007
ART CAR BOOT SALE 2007
Sunday 8th July
Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
Trolleys were out in force at Brick Lane on Sunday 8th July for the annual Art Car Boot Sale. This year was the year of colouring in, as young and old came to join in with the MarioMandala Colouring Book, alongside Le Gun's fortune-telling and Gavin Turk's signed car boots.<
MARIOMANDALA COLOURING BOOK
PSYCHE-GA-DELIC/Mario Mandala week
@ Magic room, Tokyo
by Mario Tauchi
July 20th to 27th (closed on 22nd, 23rd)
Live performance - 19:00 to 21:00
Gallery opens at 12:00
Presented by: MAGIC ROOM? / Yumiko Chiba Associates
Entrance: free
feat. Tetsuya Akikawa: poetry reading (screaming?)
Ikutaro Ishida (laptop music/noise)
Haruka Sakota TARO ACIDA (VJ DJ)
Trismegistus <Ayako Sasaki (vo. key.), Ryoichi "Shacho" Saito (g), Futoshi Okamura (dr)
In Takumi (Japanese drum)/DJ Oyakata/DJ Wataru/zaisenu (DJ Drum Electronica)
Det2 (live curry cooking show!)
Paolo Pellegrin - Double Blind NY Exhibition
Paolo Pellegrin
DOUBLE BLIND
Opens 22nd June
CVZ Contemporary
446 Broadway
b/t Grand and Howard
New York
This new exhibition presents Pellegrin's award-winning work of the conflict in Lebanon in 2006, coinciding with the launch of Trolley's forthcoming publication 'Double Blind.' The exhibition will support Save the Children (Lebanon).
2007-06-16 Paolo Pellegrin - Double Blind
Paolo Pellegrin
DOUBLE BLIND
Opens 22nd June
CVZ Contemporary
446 Broadway
b/t Grand and Howard
New York
This new exhibition presents Pellegrin's award-winning work of the conflict in Lebanon in 2006, coinciding with the launch of Trolley's forthcoming publication 'Double Blind.' The exhibition will support Save the Children (Lebanon).
Carrie Levy - MCNY panel discussion
Carrie Levy, author of 51 Months (Trolley), will take part in a panel discussion on the topic 'Long term Photo Essays' at the Museum of New York City on Wednesday 14th June. She will be joining Vincent Cianni as well as Joseph Rodriguez (Spanish Harlem) in a program moderated by Alison Nordstrom, Curator of Photographs at the George Eastman House.
Find out more »PhotoLondon 2007
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
Philip Jones Griffiths - Middle Years
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
M.A.S.H I.R.A.Q. exhibition opens at Goethe Institute, New York
M.A.S.H I.R.A.Q. exhibition opens at Goethe Institute, New York
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.
2007-04-27 PAOLO PELLEGRIN WINS GOLD MEDAL ROBERT CAPA AWARD
Paolo Pellegrin was awarded yesterday the Gold Medal Robert Capa Awards for his work covering the conflcit in lebanon last year. Trolley will be publishing Pellegrin's work in a book to be released this June, 'Double Blind - Lebanon Conflict 2006.'
Photo by Moises Saman
Paolo Pellegrin wins Robert Capa Gold Medal
Paolo Pellegrin wins Robert Capa Gold Medal
Paolo Pellegrin was recently awarded the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his work covering the conflict in Lebanon in 2006. Trolley has recently published Pellegrin's work as a book released this July, 'Double Blind - Lebanon Conflict 2006.' It also features a diary account by Scott Anderson, the journalist who was travelling with Pellegrin while on assignment for The New York Times and Newsweek.
Lawrence Watson - The World is Yours
Thursday 26th April-27th May
From April Trolley will collaborate with Maverik Showrooms on a series of exhibitions across the two spaces on 73a and 68 Redchurch Street, opposite to where Trolley Gallery is situated.
The first solo exhibition in London by Lawrence Watson will present a selected retrospective of photographs, spanning twenty five years of the best in the music industry.
2007-02-08 TROLLEY AUTHORS AT WORLD PRESS PHOTO
Three photographers with Trolley publications were announced as winners in this year's World Press Photo.
Paolo Pellegrin won 1st prize in General News category for his work in Lebanon 2006, which is to be published in a book by Trolley in June of this year.
Nina Berman won 1st prize in the Portraits category for her portrait of an injured marine returning from Iraq to marry. Berman is the author of 'Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq' (Trolley, 2003)
Purple Hearts - signed copies available here
Massimo Berruti won 2nd prize in Contemporary Issues stories. He is one of the five young Italian photographers whose work is the basis of 'Made in Italy' (Trolley,2006), which examines the social divide and fall of the country today.
Made in Italy
2007-03-28 TROLLEY AT LONDON BOOK FAIR 2007
Trolley will be presenting our first two titles to be distributed by Prestel:
Saturday 14th April
MARIOMANDALAPARTY
Trolley Gallery, 6pm
to celebrate the launch of Mario Tauchi's Mario Mandala Colouring Book. Mario Tauchi will also be signing books at the Prestel stand during the fair.
Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy
Wednesday 18th April until 22nd
Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy
Trolley Gallery and Maverik Showrooms
73a and 68 Redchurch Street, London, E2.
Exhibition of prints from the forthcoming title from Trolley, Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy by Pierpaolo Mittica, which exposes the horrific legacy of the Chernobyl disaster still in existence today, in preparation for Chernobyl's 21st anniversary on 26th April.
Chernobyl exhibition @ Trolley Gallery
Previously the exhibition was chosen for the Chernobyl National Museum in Kiev, Ukraine
The 26th April 2006 marks the twentieth anniversary of the explosion at Chernobyl, whose devastation spread around the world and whose legacy has not yet properly been realised. Pierpaolo Mittica spent four years documenting the place and people left behind in the shadow of the reactors, in a forthcoming publication 'Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy.'
www.chernobyl.info.com
Buy Chernoby - The Hidden Legacy
Carl de Keyser exhibition at Robert Koch Gallery
March 1st - April 28th 2007
Carl de Keyser, author of 'Zona' (Trolley 2003) is currently having an exhibition of his photographs, from the Zona and God Inc. series, at Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco. Zona captures surreal images of life as a detainee in the post-Soviet prison camps, the gulags captured in glorious technicolour.
Robert Koch Gallery
Zona by Carl de Keyser
Carl de Keyser exhibition at Robert Koch Gallery
March 1st - April 28th 2007
Carl de Keyser, author of 'Zona' (Trolley 2003) is currently having an exhibition of his photographs, from the Zona and God Inc. series, at Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco. Zona captures surreal images of life as a detainee in the post-Soviet prison camps, the gulags captured in glorious technicolour.
Robert Koch Gallery
Zona by Carl de Keyser
Trolley at London Book Fair 2007
Trolley at London Book Fair 2007
Trolley will be presenting the first two titles to be distributed by Prestel:
Mario Mandala Party
Saturday 14th April
Meet at Trolley Gallery 6pm
To celebrate the launch of Mario Tauchi's Mario Mandala Colouring Book.
Featuring live music from MISO SOUP
Mario Tauchi will also be signing books at the Prestel stand during the fair.
NEW RELEASE Mario Mandala - Colouring Book
Mario Mandala - Colouring Book
Mario Tauchi
Released Europe Mid April 2007
Released US End of April 2007
Mario Tauchi invites you to join a transcendental trip through the deepest parts of the artist’s brain with his incredible Mario-mandalas, 108 free-floating cosmic forms in white space, that the reader brings the final dimension to by colouring them in.
Psychiatrist Carl Jung saw the mandala as “a representation of the unconscious self,” and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional states and disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. For Jung, this identification of the id, and its transience, was a fundamental tool in his understanding of personality.
Dynamically, this volume of Mario-mandalas goes beyond a passive recognition of the intricate mandala designs, leading readers to develop their own interpretation of their personality and contribute towards the entity of the mandala form. Once a mandala has been coloured in it can be detached from the book, as each becomes a unique work of art that has been created in their own design, the final mandala is thus a creation of personal interaction with the artist, and a wider connection with the universal language of colour and shape through the unconscious.
This book can appeal to nearly anyone with an interest in art either as a technique or as a finished work, and to adults and children alike, as the mandalas return generous rewards, regardless of technical ability.
Author Details:
Mario Tauchi is a Japanese artist living and working in Tokyo.
Related Titles:
Doodle Book (Thames and Hudson)
Art Forms in Nature – The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Prestel)
Mario Tauchi is an artist living and working in Tokyo.
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Philip Jones Griffiths - Lecture / Book Signing
Philip Jones Griffiths
Lecture / Book Signing
27 March 2007, 7pm
Royal Geographic Society, London
Speaking at the prestigious Royal Geographic Society, Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths will offer a gripping view of war and peace in South East Asia, from the time of his seminal publication Vietnam Inc. (1971) to today. Philip will also be signing copies of his books Agent Orange (Trolley 2003) and Viet Nam at Peace (Trolley 2005) following the lecture. Guests will also be invited to view an exhibition of images taken by street children in Vietnam and orphans in Cambodia, trained in photojournalism skills by PhotoVoice. All proceeds of the talk will go to Photovoice to help them continue with their work running similar projects around the world.
Limited tickets available: to book visit call 020 7033 3878 or
www.photovoice.org
2007-03-27 PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS - Lecture / Book Signing
Philip Jones Griffiths
Lecture / Book Signing
27 March 2007, 7pm
Royal Geographic Society, London
Speaking at the prestigious Royal Geographic Society, Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths will offer a gripping view of war and peace in South East Asia, from the time of his seminal publication Vietnam Inc. (1971) to today. Philip will also be signing copies of his books Agent Orange (Trolley 2003) and Viet Nam at Peace (Trolley 2005) following the lecture. Guests will also be invited to view an exhibition of images taken by street children in Vietnam and orphans in Cambodia, trained in photojournalism skills by PhotoVoice. All proceeds of the talk will go to Photovoice to help them continue with their work running similar projects around the world.
Limited tickets available: to book visit call 020 7033 3878 or
2007-03-20 WORLDWIDE READING IN MEMORIAM OF ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA
Worldwide Reading in memoriam of Anna Politkovskaya
March 20, 2007
An appeal for a worldwide reading of Anna Politkovskaya's reports on Chechnya. The journalist and critic of Putin was assassinated on October 7, 2006.
For a second time the Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics, based in Berlin, makes an appeal for a worldwide reading on March 20. The aim of these interconnected events is to raise awareness of matters and forms of political communication. Because the lie as instrument of political formations also belongs to the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is imperative that the powers that combat it don't weaken.
In her reportages Anna Politkovskaya described the catastrophe of the Chechen war, which was begun for paltry reasons and has since gone on, conducted far from the public eye. Her texts portray scenes of torture, reconstruct cold blooded murder, condemn the cynicism of bureaucrats, depict the misery and desperation of a civilian population that is being torn between the army and rebels, and offer a nightmarish picture of the climate of state-fueled fear and repression in Russia.
The selection of texts "Machkety: A Concentration Camp with a Commercial Streak" and "Special Operation Zyazikov" (from the book "A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya" by Anna Politkovskaya, translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, © 2003 The University of Chicago) should be used for the one-off reading on March 20, 2007. You can find these texts on www.literaturfestival.com/upload/pdf/Politkovskya_texts_Eng.pdf as a PDF document. For the sole purpose of the worldwide reading, the texts may be used free of charge on March 20, 2007.
This year, on March 20, 2006, the Peter Weiss Foundation initiated its first worldwide reading on the occasion of the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. This event was marked as the first "Anniversary of the Political Lie" on which Eliot Weinberger's text "What I Heard about Iraq" was read out at forty-seven venues worldwide, in Australia, the US, Germany, Greece, Lebanon, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland and India.
We welcome any ideas for "The Second Anniversary of the Political Lie – in memoriam Anna Politkovskaya", to be held on March 20, 2007.
Please contact: info@peter-weiss-stiftung.de
Best wishes,
Ulrich Schreiber
Director
Peter-Weiss-Stiftung für Kunst und Politik e.V.
Linienstraße 156/157
10115 Berlin
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya, the daughter of Soviet UN diplomats, was born in New York in 1958. She studied Journalism at Moscow University and worked for various newspapers such as "Izvestia" and after the fall of Communism for independent papers, among them "Obchtchaya Gazeta". Most recently she was a special correspondent for the small opposition paper "Novaya Gazeta". Politkovskaya had been working for this newspaper since 1999, when Putin became Prime Minister and the so-called second Chechen war began: two closely-tied events which would trigger a disastrous chain of developments, as Politkovskaya demonstrated in her articles and books such as "A Small Corner of Hell" and "Putin's Russia".
The North Caucasus mountain region of Chechnya proclaimed its independence from Russia in 1991, and finally obtained it through the peace treaty set up after the first war (during which the media could still report freely). From the Russian side, the independence of the secessionist Kazakhs was perceived as a defeat, if not as a bitter dishonor. In 1999, when a Chechen commando led by the rivals of the then president Maskhadov fell in Dagestan, in Russian territory, the Russian rule of the North Caucasus seemed imperiled. Shortly afterwards two bloody bomb attacks were carried out in Moscow. The Chechens were immediately accused as the perpetrators, a suspicion which to this day has yet to be confirmed. Putin, then the head of the KGB's succeeding organization the FSB, reacted with an "Anti-Terror Operation": the start of the second Chechen war. As response to Russia's humiliation and with the pledge to bring back former greatness, Putin used the war for his own political advancement. In 2000 he was elected as President of the Russian Federation.
Since then organizations such as Reporters Without Borders have observed a growing dissolution of free and independent media in Russia. Economic networks with ties to the Kremlin exercising tremendous influence, bureaucratic obstructions and a general climate of menace have seen to it that Russia numbers 140 (from 167) on the "RWB ranking list of worldwide positions of freedom of the press". Now as before, no freedom of coverage from Chechnya is possible.
Ever since the attacks on New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 Putin has felt part of an international alliance. He associated himself with Bush's propagandized "War on Terror". That same year the war in Chechnya was declared officially over. "Putin's begun to try to prove on the world stage," claimed Anna Politkovskaya in an interview in The Guardian, "that he's just a part of a fashionable war. And he's been successful. When, after Beslan, he began to state that we were seeing virtually the hand of Bin Laden, it was appalling. What's Bin Laden got to do with it?"
With all her reporting Politkovskaya tried to show how the war was far from over, but rather how acts of violence and human rights violations continued unabated. She focused above all on the civil population which was slowly being torn between the two warring parties, and described self-perpetuating cycles of violence. Her depictions shed light on the perverse mechanisms of war, exposing the terms on which they operate, while condemning the beneficiaries.
She ends her final book with a critique directed towards both deceptive political groups and society: "They always say only 'Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda'. A cursed slogan. It is the easiest thing to say, the answer with which to brush aside every new bloody tragedy. It is also the most primitive, with which one can lull the consciousness of a society, one which dreams of being lulled." (from "Putin's Russia")
Politkovskaya was awarded many foreign prizes for her work. In 2003 she received the first "Lettre Ulysses Award" for best reportage as well as the Hermann Kesten Medal. In 2004 she was given the Olaf Palme Prize, and one year later the Prize for Freedom and Future of the Press. In Russia she was awarded the Prize of the Journalists Union in 2001. In her native country, however, she also faced threats and intimidation. Yet she refused to have a bodyguard in the same way she refused to go into exile. In 2004 she was the victim of a poisoning attempt. On October 7, 2006 she was shot by an unknown gunman in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment block. The documents used for her last article have gone missing. Anna Politkovskaya left behind two children.
Gaza Under Siege
GAZA UNDER SIEGE
11/8/2006
A week-long non-stop Israeli bombardment of Gaza towns and villages left over 70 Palestinians, mostly civilians, dead, with Beit Hanoun the focus of the Israeli offensive.
"They (Israeli forces) put explosives at the doors of the houses - and then they enter on the women and children. Everybody is terrified in their homes."
Al Jazeera.com
Carrie Levy talk in SVA New York
Tuesday 27th March at 7pm
School of Visual Arts amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street, NY.
The author of '51 Months' (Trolley, 2005) will be giving a talk on the book and her recent work and exhibition.
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $10, $5 for other students with ID. Tickets available on the door.
Save Chechnya Campaign Film Festival
'Chechnya: God, Nation and the Native Land'
Saturday 10th March 2007 12-6pm
Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, 27-29 Torrington Square, London, WC1E 7JL.
The programme will bring together footage and images from inside Chechnya, documentaries, films, Chechen-friendly organisations and personalities and books and literature on Chechnya.
Doors open at 12pm and the programme will begin at 1pm. Stanley Greene's award-winning exhibition, 'Open Wound', will be on display during this time.
Save Chechnya Campaign
Open Wound by Stanley Greene
Above: Image taken from Open Wound
Monsanto dumped toxic waste in the UK
The wasteland: how years of secret chemical dumping left a toxic legacy
Monsanto helped to create one of the most contaminated sites in Britain
John Vidal, environment editor
Monday February 12, 2007
The Guardian
The old toxic waste dump at Brofiscin quarry smells of sick when it rains and the small brook that flows from it gushes a vivid orange.
Barton Williams, its owner, says he had no idea exactly what lies below his land, or how dangerous it is. "It's leaking, isn't it? It's the wrong colour. They haven't told me what's in there. The Environment Agency hasn't been open about what's in it at all and the council didn't even tell me it was toxic waste when I bought the land. They only told the public three years ago."
He remembers tankers dumping drums, slurry and sludge from the Monsanto chemical works in Newport and elsewhere in the 36-metre deep quarry on the edge of Groesfaen village near Cardiff.
"They just tipped it in, anything really. They were lax in those days."
Groesfaen, now a Cardiff commuter village, is full of recently built £250,000 executive homes - some right on the edge of the quarry. Today, the many newcomers know little of the scale or nature of the dumping of carcinogenic and other chemical waste between 1965 and 1972. The tip, which was unlined, never had a licence for chemical dumping and water pollution was forbidden.
The first most people knew that something was wrong was in 2003 when vile smells escaped from the quarry and drifted over the village. The local Rhondda Cynon Taff council warned people to stay away but said there was no immediate health danger.
"People are worried about the value of their properties, they hope it will just go away," said one woman, who asked not to be identified, this week.
Previously unseen Environment Agency documents from 2005 show that almost 30 years after being filled, Brofiscin is one of the most contaminated places in Britain. According to engineering company WS Atkins, in a report prepared for the agency and the local authority in 2005 but never made public, the site contains at least 67 toxic chemicals. Seven PCBs have been identified, along with vinyl chlorides and naphthalene.
The unlined quarry is still leaking, the report says. "Pollution of water has been occurring since the 1970s, the waste and groundwater has been shown to contain significant quantities of poisonous, noxious and polluting material, pollution of ... waters will continue to occur ... the council is of the opinion that the metal drums will continue to deteriorate over time releasing poisonous, noxious and polluting materials," it says.
Villagers are angry that they were not told the exact condition or contents of the tip. "We do not know about this report. If there is still leakage and there is any danger, then it must be cleared up as soon as possible," said a local councillor, Jonathan Huish.
Douglas Gowan, the pollution consultant who first investigated the site between 1967 and 1973 for the National Farmers' Union, after reports of dead cattle and deformed calves in the vicinity, is one of the few people to have witnessed the landfilling of chemicals at Brofiscin. In 1967 he convened a team of toxicologists and engineers and took soil and water samples for analysis. His reports were sent to the Welsh Office but not acted upon. In a report requested by the Environment Agency of Wales last year, he states: "From 1969 to 1973 [we] actively monitored the site and witnessed not just landfill tipping in regular hours, but also dumping at night. Most of the waste came from Monsanto and I believe that almost all contained some amounts of PCBs. I saw ... vehicles dumping slurry, liquids and tars as well as ... open drums."
Even as Monsanto and other companies were sending chemicals to Brofiscin and a nearby dump, Maendy, from 1965 to 1972, in St Louis, Missouri, company executives were alarmed. From 1965 onwards evidence had been accumulating from around the world of widespread contamination from PCBs and related chemicals. PCBs were being reported in wildlife, human milk, and water, and had been found in British fish in 1967.
Internal company papers show that Monsanto knew about the PCB dangers earlier. Toxicity tests on the effects of two PCBs in 1953 showed that more than 50% of the rats subjected to them died, and all of them showed damage. With experts at the company in no doubt that Monsanto's PCBs were responsible for contamination, the company set up, in 1968, a committee to assess its options. In a paper distributed to only 12 people but which surfaced at a trial of the company in 2002, it admitted "that the evidence proving the persistence of these compounds and their universal presence as residues in the environment is beyond question ... the public and legal pressures to eliminate them to prevent global contamination are inevitable".
It expected legislation, but papers seen by the Guardian reveal near panic. "The subject is snowballing. Where do we go from here? The alternatives: go out of business; sell the hell out of them as long as we can and do nothing else; try to stay in business; have alternative products", wrote the recipient of one paper.
In 1969 the company wrote a confidential Pollution Abatement Plan which admitted that "the problem involves the entire United States, Canada and sections of Europe, especially the UK and Sweden".
Leaky
Monsanto's main production centre of PCBs was at Anniston in Alabama, but in 1971 it shifted production largely to Newport. According to the government, the company made 61,500 tonnes of PCBs at Newport. Internal Monsanto documents seen by the Guardian show the Newport factory was leaky and at one point was "losing" 1.7kg (3.7lb) a day of some of the most dangerous PCBs.
Herbert Vodden, a Monsanto physicist who tested how long the PCBs took to break down, told the Guardian that companies employed by Monsanto to take the waste were responsible for its disposal. "The sites were supposed to be impervious and watertight, It was the [waste] contractors' responsibility to find the sites ... usually they were reasonably cooperative. There were no regulations then. We were in their hands."
Mr Vodden said the company initially lobbied the government to carry on making PCBs in the 1960s. "They were very supportive", he said. And when it decided to pull out of PCB manufacture, "the department of industry argued against us withdrawing them. They came and told us that we should continue".
Trolley authors at World Press Photo
Trolley authors at World Press Photo
Paolo Pellegrin won 1st prize in General News category for his work in Lebanon 2006 (above), which is to be published in a book by Trolley in June of this year.
Nina Berman won 1st prize in the Portraits category for her portrait of an injured marine returning from Iraq to marry. Berman is the author of 'Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq' (Trolley, 2003)
Purple Hearts
Massimo Berruti won 2nd prize in Contemporary Issues stories. He is one of the five young Italian photographers whose work is the basis of 'Made in Italy' (Trolley,2006), which examines the social divide and fall of the country today.
Made in Italy
German prosecutors issue arrest warrants for thirteen CIA operatives
The CIA operatives have been linked to the kidnapping and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The arrest warrants were announced at a time that the US practice known as extraordinary rendition is coming under increasing scrutiny around the globe.
DemocracyNow.org via GNN.com
UN rights council: Israel‘s abuses in Gaza
UN rights council slams Israel’s abuses in Gaza
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution expressing concern “over Israel's continued violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people."
AlJazeera.com
Purple Hearts - New Exhibitions and Signings
Columbia University School of Social Work
Artist presentation and book signing
March 7 -- 6-8pm
New York City
Exhibition through June 29
Aiice Austen Musuem House
Opening March 18 - April 29
Staten Island, New York
Published by Trolley in 2003, 'Purple Hearts' follows the lives of young US veterans who have returned from Iraq, with life-altering injuries, and asks them how they see the war they were sent to fight, now that they are back. Nina was recently awarded first prize in the Portraits section at World Press Photo.
Signed copies available
World Press Photo
Mark Blanco
MARK BLANCO
The tragic death of Mark Blanco at the beginning of December brutally cut the life of a brilliant man and dear friend.
Mark was a vital part of many peoples' lives, who now want to have it made transparent exactly what took him so tragically away. His profound intelligence coupled with humility, creativity and above all humour, touched many. Always appearing with something to give or show or share, from a steak in his pocket to a rare book, magic trick or just to dip in and out of his vast knowledge of so many things, Mark was a unique spirit, whose untimely death has left many deepely saddened.
He will be missed.
PETE DOHERTY, THE BIG K,
And what really happened at the Hotel in the Sky
By JAMES TAPPER and EMILY MADDICK
Daily Mail 13:07pm on 10th December 2006
For four years, the man with the intriguing name of Johnny Headlock has been at the side of Pete Doherty, helping to steer him through the scrapes and escapades that have brought him notoriety.
But last week Doherty found himself in his most serious mess yet, when actor Mark Blanco plunged to his death after a drug-fuelled argument with him in a top-floor flat in East London known as the "Hotel in the Sky".
Inevitably, 27-year-old Headlock, the unofficial minder, manager, fixer, roadie, valet, and confidant to the Babyshambles star, was there to see it all. And yesterday, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Headlock gave the first eye-witness account of the events leading up to Blanco's death.
In doing so he supplied important new information about the case - and also a startling insight into life at the hedonistic court of Pete Doherty and The Big K, as Kate Moss is known by their entourage.
Judging by Headlock's revelations, the tragedy of Tuesday night was an inevitable consequence of the sort of life Doherty insists on leading.
The singer and hangers-on were at one of the regular cocaine and crack parties hosted by the owner of the one-bedroom flat, Doherty's self-styled "literary agent" Paul Roundhill, who charges his guests for space on his sofa to take drugs and commune with the other druggies there.
Visitors either bring their own drugs or ask him to order some over the phone and give him a little "thank you" in return, usually in the form of drugs.
A row erupted between Doherty and an excitable Blanco, who apparently committed the ultimate drug-den faux pas of attempting to ingratiate himself with the singer because of his celebrity. Roundhill tried to defuse the situation by setting fire to Blanco's hat.
Headlock said: "Mark had a big bottle of wine. He was just swigging it out of the bottle. I've known him two or three months and it was the first time I've seen him as bad as that.
"He kept going on about a play, on and on and on. He kept grabbing Peter and I could see it in his eyes, Pete was going to me, 'Johnny, tell him, man.'
"I was trying to control him. He's 6ft 5in, he's not small. We kept telling him to shut up and sit down and he wouldn't have it. Paul was trying to distract him. He took off Mark's hat - it was a flat cap - and set it on fire with some lighter fluid.
"Mark didn't even turn round. He just kept going on about how he's got an idea for something. Paul was saying, 'Sit down so we can talk'.
"So I tried to get him to leave the flat. He pushed me and then Peter sat down and Paul was grabbing him. Paul got him out of the door and said, 'Johnny, give us a hand'.
"We got him through the door leading to the outside balcony and then we've gone back in. It must have been about five minutes between Mark arriving and Mark leaving."
Moments later the Cambridge-educated actor was lying on the cobbled street four storeys below, dead.
Doherty and Headlock were still in the flat, with two girls called Kate - neither of them Moss - and a pole dancer named Naomi. Headlock says he cannot remember how 30-year-old Blanco's body was discovered. "I remember someone saying, 'Mark's had an accident'," he said.
"We came down and there he was on the floor and the girls were checking him. I assumed he walked down and he just fell over because there was no blood anywhere. I thought he was drunk and he just slipped and fell on the floor.
"Then Paul gave my number to the ambulance people. He couldn't remember his own number. You've got to remember Paul's been smoking crack so he's all paranoid, so as soon as a little bit of tension in his house happened, he's like, oh, the whole world's going wrong.
"Mark could have fallen over the balcony, 'cos the balcony's not that high. But he didn't look that bad. No one actually knew he'd fallen over the balcony. No one saw it. How do we know?"
He heard more from Roundhill a few hours later. "Paul sent me a text saying he was dead, then the police phoned me up, and I was saying, 'Oh, is he like dead', and they were saying, 'He's not dead', and I was like, 'Well what's going on?'
"They said, 'We need you to come and do an interview,' and I went, 'Well, I can't at the moment.' Think about it, I'd been doing cocaine so I can't just go down the police station wired out of me head. They didn't phone me back.
"Paul sent me a text saying, 'You done the right thing to leave but the police do need to speak to you'. I will speak to them. I think it's respectful. Mark's my friend. But if they've heard from every angle why do they need to speak to me again?"
Detectives say they are keeping an open mind but believe that no "third party" was involved in the actor's death. However, Blanco's family remain suspicious and believe it was not suicide and was more than a "simple accident".
Headlock says he can't explain Blanco's death. He does, however, confirm that hard drugs were available at the flat. He says Roundhill had been taking crack and admits taking cocaine himself.
Thin, wiry and volatile, Headlock - real name Jonathan Jeannevol - veers from edgy paranoia to naive charm in the course of the interview. The East Ender has a reputation among Doherty's entourage for menace, something he claims he doesn't deserve and believes he is being pushed out. In the eyes of Headlock, such a fall from favour would be most unfair. For by his account he has been the one who has ensured Doherty turns up at concerts, his numerous court appearances, photoshoots and business meetings. He has even helped to keep the singer's relationship with Kate Moss on the road.
Headlock says his straight talking makes him one of the few people who can guide Doherty. Even hard-boiled businessmen appear bowled over by the Babyshambles man's hell-raising legend - seen by Doherty himself, if not by others, as Byronic adventurousness.
"I've seen many a man working with us, on merchandise or whatever, and they've been around Pete and they've been starry-eyed, and it's been their downfall, they've never concentrated on what they should be doing," says Headlock.
According to Headlock, Doherty has a fetish for the sensation of needle on skin. He paints pictures with the blood he withdraws by syringe.
The two men met through a mutual friend, Babyshambles's first guitarist, Patrick Walden. Headlock helped out at a gig in Coventry, when the stage collapsed, and the band's then manager James Milord asked him to carry on helping. He acquired his nickname at a gig at the Blackpool Empress, a night that has become legendary among fans for Doherty's drug excess.
"Someone had left these really powerful sleeping tablets. Peter must have seen them and took them, so by the time he's come on stage these things are starting to kick in and he's falling asleep.
"James just told everyone to walk off. I just stayed watching him on my own. He just picked up his guitar and carried on playing. I was thinking, this guy's a bit crazy, man. There's no embarrassment, there's no shame.
"But he won the kids over. And that was the moment I thought, I've got to give this man 100 per cent respect. The kids just started cheering him, singing along. He must have been playing Libertines songs.
"They were cheering really loudly and he came over and he whispered in my ear: 'Jon, in a minute I'm going to make out to collapse. Just get me off stage'. So as soon as he turned round I just got him in a headlock and I dragged him off. So we put him in a shower, gave him loads of coffee and an hour later they went back on."
The story - in which Doherty pretended to be more "out of it" than in fact he was - is further evidence of his gift for self-mythologising. But Headlock insists that what makes the singer special is the sincerity of his feeling for the fans. He instructs Headlock to get young ticketless fans in to watch sold-out concerts and did solo performances for fans for three hours last New Year's Eve.
"He told me to get them to queue up. He called it Peter's Grotto, I called it Peter's Grotty Grotto. They were coming in one by one and he'd say, what song do you want and he'd play any song in the world. He'd sign a T-shirt, take a few photos and then move on to the next one.
"For Peter it's not about what's in your pocket, it's about being happy. Those kids aren't going to let him down. Only the record company is going to do that.
"Pete gave his guitar to a young lad, the son of the night porter at the Liverpool Academy, on the promise that he would come back in a year's time and play him a song."
Doherty's relationship with "The Big K" is also intriguing. The supermodel chases him, calls his friends to find out where he is and worries about his welfare. And it seems Kate Moss, despite being one of the world's most beautiful women, is not immune from jealousy.
According to Headlock, she has virtually vetoed Doherty from releasing a duet he performed with his ex-girlfriend, Scottish singer Dot Allison.
The song, a pastiche of The Beatles' I Wanna Hold Your Hand, is a favourite among Doherty's friends, yet he refuses to release it - because of "The Big K', Headlock says.
Yet she is good for Doherty, he believes. "When I last spoke on the phone to Kate she was worried he isn't getting his stuff managed and how his finances are being done,' he said.
"Of course she worries, if you love someone you worry about them. She's pushing him in the right direction, gently nudging him. He needs it.
"They met at her 31st birthday party. He gave her a present, the lyrics to his song, What Katie Did. He'd written it on the back of an envelope and he put it in a frame and gave it to her.
"Whenever they're together you can just tell, they're really happy. They're in love with each other. He says he can't see anyone else. He adores her.
"The one thing is she has no concept of cash. When he'd been in Portugal, in rehab for heroin, he asked me to phone his mum and Kate, the only two people. So I phoned his mum and I phoned Kate and she was going on and on. And I said, 'Kate I can't do this, it's going to be on my hotel bill.' I said, 'just phone me back, you can afford it.'
"He hangs out with superstars and multi- millionaires. We were with Mario Testino [the acclaimed photographer] the other day, doing a photoshoot for Vogue, but the next day Pete'll be in the pub down the road with some old geezers and he prefers it that way. He prefers wallowing in the mud."
Doherty's appetite for seediness is underlined by his actions after Blanco fell to his death.The singer left with Headlock and the two girls and went to his room at the trendy Malmaison hotel in Clerkenwell, where a group of around 20 of his entourage had gathered.
"It was the usual losers," Headlock said. "Mick Whitnall was there, the new guitarist. I had a big argument in there and all. One of the band members and me don't see eye to eyeball. He just tried to get funny with me. He had this broken champagne glass and he held it against my face.
"I looked at Peter and he had this look in his eye where we know what we're talking about in our heads but we don't say it. It's sort of like telepathic. I was saying to him, 'Now you can see'.
"I was swallowing my tongue. That's when Pete said, 'Do what you believe'. All I had was a fork and I stabbed Mick about five times. And after that Mick went round somewhere else."
The fight got out of control. By 2.25am, the hotel manager had called the police, after Doherty and his friends had ripped out every wall light fitting, torn down the curtains, smashed every mirror, broken all the lamps, upturned all the furniture and wrecked the telephone and internet connection sockets.
It was a sad and destructive end to a tragic night. And it encapsulated everything about Doherty's life - the drugs, the violence, the extreme behaviour and the adulation that Doherty receives.
Headlock struggles to explain it: "There's an aura. It's something when you talk to him, you just have to be interested. He's very intelligent. I've lent him books and six months later I can turn to any page and he'll recite it, word for word. How mad is that?
"But he doesn't like confrontation. He just wants peace and quiet. He doesn't want to get involved."
Other friends of Doherty's have confirmed that Roundhill's one-bedroom flat is one of Doherty's regular haunts.
One said: "Pete goes to Paul's to relax and not to have anyone hassle him. There's always guitars there and Pete would play there, he'd play songs and everyone would sing along.
"People there say, 'everyone's getting high in the Hotel in the Sky' because it's on the top floor. But Pete doesn't need to go to Paul to get crack - he goes to sit around talking about stuff."
Blanco had begun moving in Roundhill's circles a few months ago, sometimes visiting the flat, according to Headlock. The actor had gone to the flat after hearing that Doherty might be there. He had been cast in the lead role of Dario Fo's Death Of An Anarchist and had wanted to persuade Doherty to back the play, in the hope of getting publicity for it.
Headlock insisted, despite the fears of Blanco's family, that nothing sinister had taken place. And he paid tribute to the 30-year-old actor.
"Mark was a friend of mine, a decent guy," he said. "He's got family and they're grieving. I'm gutted he's dead.
"He had this set of finger puppets he'd got from Japan of famous philosophers and he gave me one of Nietzsche. It's one of the most precious possessions I own."
2006-11-26 PATTI SMITH PERFORMS HER SONG FOR LEBANON
On Sunday 26th November Trolley was honoured when Patti Smith spoke about and performed her song on Lebanon, Qana. This was the town in the south of the country which was attacked during the conflict of summer 2006, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, many of whom were children. Patti Smith's performance followed the opening of the exhibition at Trolley Gallery of Polaroids taken by Patti of objects and places inspired by poets and writers, entitled Sur les Traces.
She had donated them to help raise funds and awareness of a forthcoming book Trolley is publishing on the Israel and Lebanon conflict of 2006, featuring the photographs of Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin.
Images from Sur les Traces
Patti Smith performs her song for Lebanon
On Sunday 26th November Trolley was honoured when Patti Smith spoke about and performed her song on Lebanon, Qana. This was the town in the south of the country which was attacked during the conflict of summer 2006, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, many of whom were children. Patti Smith's performance followed the opening of the exhibition at Trolley Gallery of Polaroids taken by Patti of objects and places inspired by poets and writers, entitled Sur les Traces.
She had donated them to help raise funds and awareness of a forthcoming book Trolley is publishing on the Israel and Lebanon conflict of 2006, featuring the photographs of Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin.
Chechnya: Systematic Use of Torture
Chechnya: Research Shows Widespread and Systematic Use of Torture
Human Rights Watch said that its documentation of more than a hundred cases of torture, taken together with research conducted by leading Russian human rights groups, strongly suggests that torture in Chechnya is commonplace. Human Rights Watch also said that this finding, together with de facto impunity for torturers, strongly suggests a widespread and systematic practice of torture in Chechnya
Human Rights Watch Report
UN Committee against Torture Must Get Commitments From Russia to Stop Torture
(Geneva, November 13, 2006) – Torture in both official and secret detention facilities is widespread and systematic in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper issued today, just as the UN Committee against Torture concluded its review of Russia.
"If you are detained in Chechnya, you face a real and immediate risk of torture. And there is little chance that your torturer will be held accountable." Holly Cartner, Director Europe and Central Asia division
Human Rights Watch
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE
2006-11-13 Chechnya: Research Shows Widespread and Systematic Use of Torture
Human Rights Watch said that its documentation of more than a hundred cases of torture, taken together with research conducted by leading Russian human rights groups, strongly suggests that torture in Chechnya is commonplace. Human Rights Watch also said that this finding, together with de facto impunity for torturers, strongly suggests a widespread and systematic practice of torture in Chechnya.
Human Rights Watch report
The Massacre at Beit Hanoun
Ha'aretz correspondent Gideon Levy described the situation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in a searing article on Sunday. He proposed, half seriously, that the Israeli colonies removed last year as part of Israel's so-called "disengagement" from Gaza should be returned because they would serve "as the last human shield for a million and a half residents who now comprise one of the most helpless populations in the world. Incarcerated, without any assistance, they are liable to starve to death. Exposed, without any protection, they fall prey to the Israel Defense Force's operations of vengeance."
Counterpunch.com
Sueytta from Youtube.com
GABRIELE TORSELLO RELEASED
The Italian photographer was released on Friday 3rd November after being held hostage in Afghanistan for 23 days.
Chien-Chi Chang - "The Map‘ Exhibition, Taipei
4/11/06 - 30/12/06
Chi-Wen Gallery,Taipei
Taiwan
The photographer and author of ‘The Chain’, is currently showing in Tapei, Taiwan an exhibition entitled 'The Map.'
see The Chain here
Chi-Wen Gallery
Above: Image taken from The Chain
Paolo Pellegrin wins W. Eugene Smith Award
Pellegrin is the winner of the 2006 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.
Read Jan Pronk's blog on Darfur
Former Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Sudan, where he was leading the UN peace keeping operation (UNMIS - www.unmis.org), Pronk was expelled from the country yesterday on the basis of his blog.
Jan Pronk blog click here
DEMO THIS SATURDAY IN MANCHESTER
TIME TO GO
Across the country people are preparing to travel to Manchester this Saturday to demonstrate at the Labour Party conference which Tony Blair says will be his last. For most of his party, he can't step down as party leader soon enough. "He should go immediately. He is destroying the party," is how one Labour official summed up the situation in the Independent newspaper.
There will also be the Military Families Peace Camp, of families who have had loved ones lost under the Bush/Blair wars, and an alternative conference on Sunday 24th organised by Stop The War entitled "After Blair: Time For Change."
This will be the biggest demonstration in the North of England for decades, for more details visit STOP THE WAR
Coaches are also being organised from all corners of the country to Manchester for details.
A global crisis of understanding
The Sunday Times
Book Review
by William Dalrymple
In 1817, James Mill wrote a history of India several hundred pages long in which he confidently dismissed the country's culture as primitive, superstitious, fanatical and degenerate. The fact that Mill had never visited India, knew no Indians and spoke no Indian language gave him no pause for hesitation over his conclusions...
for full article click here
ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA SHOT DEAD
On Saturday 7 October, the first report of the murder of Anna Politkovskaja, the 48-year-old Russian journalist and champion of Chechen victims, came through from Interfax, the Moscow News Agency.
Times interview with her literary agent Toby Eady 15/10/06
Her final unfinished report as featured in The Independent 13/10/06
Read Anna Politkovskaja's letter to Putin on how to resolve the conflict in Chechnya, featured in Trolley Catalogue 2005
Europe's Darkest Corner - Photographs from Chechnya 1994-2005
October 2006 - February 2007
ICTE, 25 Washington Street, 4th Floor Brooklyn, New York
Stanley Greene, whose book Open Wound, Chechnya 1994-2003 was published by Trolley in 2003, is part of the forthcoming exhibition at the International Center for Tolerance Education in New York on photographs on Chechnya over the years 1994-2005. Heidi Bradner, Thomas Dworzak (Taliban, Trolley 2003), Mikhail Galustov and James Hill are the other photographers forming the exhibition.
Open Wound, Chechnya 1994-2003
Seeds of Tolerance
Zoo Art Fair 2006
Trolley Gallery will be presenting the following artists this year at Zoo Art Fair : David Rickard, Abigail Fallis, Mario Consiglio, Vedovamazzei, Robert Montgomery, David Fryer, Gordon Mcharg, Nina Ghel, Katy Lynton, EJ Major, Sarah Pickstone, Bobo Ivancich.
Above: David Rickard, "One hundred Thousand‘.
The United States' role in shaping the global response to terrorism.
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, reflects on what happened in the five years since 9/11.
Human Rights Watch Audio on Counterterrorism
Performance by Sharmila Desai to celebrate the launch 'Sristi'
Trolley Books is proud to announce the release of our latest contemporary art title, 'Sristi' by Sharmila Desai. To celebrate the launch there will be an event at Deitch Projects on September 27th, where Sharmila will give a short performance. 'Sristi' illustrates with colour and black and white photographs plus illustrations and essays, the art and practice of Sharmila Desai, which is derived from ancient Indian worship and fused with contemporary art and spirituality. Available to buy now from Trolley Books, please visit
Sristi by Sharmila Desai
2007-01-16 UN rights council slams Israel's abuses in Gaza
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution expressing concern over Israel's continued violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people."
AlJazeera.com
Al Jidar - The Wall by Giorgio Palmera
22nd September 2006
Galleria Santa Cecilia
Rome
Giorgio Palmera will be presenting his new book 'Al Jidar - The Wall' along with a DVD of the project this Friday at Galleria Santa Cecilia in Rome. Al Jidar documents the largest wall in the world, one that cuts through Palestine dividing communities and families in its wake.
Goronwy Rees - The Unforgiven Spy
Goronwy Rees was a brilliant intellectual whose admission that he had spied for the Soviets along with Guy Burgess led to a spectacular fall from grace. Duncan Higgitt looks back at the life of the former principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and asks if it is time to reassess his reputation
Full article here
Abigail Fallis - "Beauty and the Beast‘ at Stourhead
Abigail Fallis's sculpture Quo Vadis is currently part of the exhibition Beauty and the Beast set in the grounds of the National Trust's Stourhead. The concept of the exhibition is to juxtapose alongside the beauty of the grounds the beast of contemporary art, and see how they interact. Fallis's new work here is reminiscent of her recent solo show at Trolley Gallery, where she produced a smaller sized series of Papier-mache hands for her installation The Fast Supper, based on Da Vinci's famous Last Supper. Fallis is currently exhibiting in Newcastle and Paris and will be part of Trolley's stand at The Zoo Art Fair this October.
18th International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan
2 - 17th September 2006
Visa Pour L'Image
Stanley Greene (Open Wound), Thomas Dworzak (Taliban), Paolo Pellegrin (Kosovo - The Flight of Reason) and Kadir van Lohuizen will be exhibiting at this year's Perpignan their work on Katrina at Ancienne Université.
Above: Image by Thomas Dworzak
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories of New South Africa
Venice Biennale 2006
10.09.06 - 19.11.06
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Facts, Fictions and Stories
10.11.06 - 18.02.07
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin will have photographs depicting the landscape of Johannesburg at the Arsenale of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. This will be followed by an important solo exhibition of work from Mr Mkhize (Trolley 2004) in November at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. It will be their first solo show in The Netherlands.
Venice Biennale 2006
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories of New South Africa
ECOTOPIA: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
Sept 14th - Nov 26th 2006
Organized by ICP curatorial staffers Brian Wallis, Christopher Phillips, Edward Earle and Carol Squiers, with assistant curator Joanna Lehan, Ecotopia features works by 39 artists that reflect a growing concern about natural disasters and global environmental change. Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, authors of Ghetto and Mr Mkhize's Portrait will be among the artists exhibiting.
Above Image: Joan Fontcuberta, "Orogenesis: Brandt," gelatin silver print, 2006
Ghetto
Mr Mkhize's Portrait and Other Stories of New South Africa
Israeli Jets
Israel's flights over Lebanon almost caused a "catastrophe" last month, when French peacekeepers were "two seconds" away from firing on Israeli fighter jets, the French Defense Minister said, according to AFP.
www.aljazeera.com
FRIENDS OF ERNESTO - ERNESTO WINS DEPORTATION HEARING!
'Ernesto is as Scottish as a deep-fried Mars bar supper'
Irvine Welsh
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CRISIS IN LEBANON
"What I am watching in Lebanon every day is an outrage." Robert Fisk for The Independent.
CEASEFIRE CAMPAIGN PETITION
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Human Rights Watch full documentation of Middle East crisis
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Off Broadway
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
12 July - 17th September 2006
Thomas Dworzak (Taliban), Alex Majoli (Leros) Paolo Pellegrin (Kosovo - The Flight of Reason) and Ilkka Uimonen (Cycles) were among the six young photographers of Magnum, along with Chris Anderson and Antoine D'Agata, who are taking part in 'Off Broadway' in the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan until 17th September. The exhibition comprises approximately 300 photos and 6 large video projections, with a musical accompaniment by the musician Fabio Barovero.
Reconstruction #1 at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
From 1st July - 31st October 2006
Two of the artists who had solo shows at Trolley Gallery in 2005 were among the ten artists chosen by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst to create work to be shown in and around the grounds of her family home, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. Artists showing included Benedetto Pietromarchi - who carefully constructed sculptures of filament in glass like giant light bulbs. Shown in the darkened space of the old dungeons, they create the effect of candlelight.
Art Car Boot - Sunday June 4th 2006
Negotiating the double trolley down to Brick Lane from Redchurch street and parking up next to the double-decker bus, Trolley luckily found itself between the Pimms and french cider stall. Highlights included Matt Collishaw's peep show, Le Gun drawings for 10p, and Trolley artist Abigail Fallis's scarily accurate palm reading...
Photolondon, 18 - 21st May 2006
The third year of Photo-london will again take place at the Royal Academy of Arts' Burlington Gardens. London's first international photography fair brings together over fifty exhibitors from around the world, with an extensive program of talks and events. Trolley will have a stand showing the work of Nina Berman, Philip Jones Griffiths and Pierpaolo Mittica, with a film on the effects of Agent Orange, followed by a talk by Griffiths at Trolley Gallery on 18th May.
Find out more »2006/03/22 World Day of Water 2006
UNESCO is official leader for World Day of Water on 22nd March. The guiding theme for this year's day, aimed at encouraging of awareness of the world's most precious natural resource, is 'Water and Culture.'
Find out more »Chien-Chi Chang's The Chain - Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
From 4th March - June 4th 2006 there will be an exhibition of Chien-Chi Chang's photographs, taken from his book 'The Chain' (Trolley). The almost life-sized black and photographs are of a mental institution in Taiwan, where the patients are tied together in pairs to farm chickens. The work has also been exhibited in the 2001 Venice Biennale and the 2002 Sao Paolo Biennale.
Joan Liftin - Drive-Ins
An exhibition of Joan Liftins photographs from the book Drive-Ins will be on show in New York from March 25th - April 22nd at OK Harris, 383 West Broadway, NY 10012
Drive-Ins
Rhubarb International Festival of The Image - Birmingham
27th July - 30th July 2006
Held at The Orange Studio, Birmingham, this is the third annual Rhubarb Festival. Bringing together an international crowd from the world of photography, from publishers to agencies and press, it is an opportunity for portfolio reviews and interaction with all aspects of the realm of the image. Gigi Giannuzzi and Trolley Books will be there reviewing portfolios over the three days, looking for potential projects on photojournalsim, current affairs and social documentary.
Philip Jones Griffiths - Fifty Years on the Frontline
There will be an exhibition of photographs by Philip Jones Griffiths at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach in Orlando until 14th April. One of the most respected photojournalists for his seminal work in Viet Nam, Griffiths was head of Magnum in New York for five years, and this exhibition shows black and white photographs of war and conflict in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia and Viet Nam.
Find out more »African leaders agree to resolve Darfur conflict
Arab and African leaders held a mini-summit on Darfur in Libya, where they agreed to work together to resolve the conflict "without foreign intervention."
AlJazeera.com
Save Chechnya events
There will be two Save Chechnya events in November. The first will be in Glasgow on the 23rd Nov. The second will be in London on the 25th.
The London event will be attended by high profile Chechnya related figures from the UK and abroad internationally. It will be an all day event held at (and hosted by) SOAS in Russell Square. Trolley books, including Open Wound by Stanley Greene, will be sold at both events.
TROLLEY MAGAZINE, ISSUE 5, SPRING/SUMMER
This issue featured our latest releases Viet Nam at Peace, Cycles, You Love Life, Journey in Sight and 51 Months, as well as the complete catalogue of all Trolley titles.