Month: July 2016

Eva Abeling: "Understanding Myself Through My Dreams"

Eva Abeling was born and raised in Northern Germany, Bremen. Before moving to London, she studied and worked with various artists in Barcelona. She recently graduated in London from the University of Westminster in Photographic Arts. Her project I Thought There Was Something at Free Range Shows Awards was awarded as the winner of the Metro Mentorship 2016, winning a 12-month Metro Mentorship and her own solo exhibition. She talks exclusively to BJP.

21 July 2016

Graham Keen's Rare Protest Photographs of 60s London

A exhibition is to celebrate the photographic career of Graham Keen, who will be 80 later this year, looking back on his little seen photographs of the 1960s in London, a decade where pop culture and political protest collided.

20 July 2016

Ai Weiwei's Journey as a Refugee Through Europe

As a political refugee who lived under constant government surveillance, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei feels related to the growing influx of refugees attempting to enter the EU. He explores the experience of the migrant in a new exhibition at Foam, Amsterdam.

20 July 2016

Black Lives Matter, in London

Seven Americans were shot last week, their deaths creating a seismic effect across the world as videos and images rippled through social media. In London, hundreds of people attended the Black Lives Matter march along Oxford Street, in response to the fatal police shootings of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana. Shane Vincent was there.

14 July 2016

Remembering Abbas Kiarostami

As Abbas Kiarostami passes away in Paris at 72, BJP looks at the visual style of this artistic polymath; a director of over 40 films who held a fundamental role within the Iranian New Wave.

14 July 2016