The edge of the earth @ Ryerson School of Image arts gallery

Devastating group exhibition showing damage caused to planet - era of the anthropocene - with Richard Misrach, Chris Jordan, Ed Burtynsky and many more.

Chris Jordan image of 2010 unaltered stomach contents of fledgling Laysan albatross, Midway Island

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Justin Partyka at Black Barn and Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

I could not think of a more appropriate, atmospheric venue for photographer Justin Partyka's beautiful, evocative photographs of rural photographs from Suffolk and Norfolk than the Black Barn in Cockley Cley, where a large selection of his work has been on view since mid September. Walking from one barn room to the next, we encounter carefully observed landscapes, sensitive portraits and still lives - made since the late 1990s using a 35 mm analogue SLR camera and transparence film. Partyka explains that he still only makes his work using the analogue process. He studied folk art and history in Newfoundland and discovered that photography became his preferred way of capturing experiences and encounters. His intuitive way of making photographs and the care he takes to observe minute details and to get to know the people and places he photographs and connect with them make his photographic series burst with experience but also light and colours. More of Partyka's...

Terry Dennett (1938-2018) Photographer & Social Historian

Terry Dennett, who passed away recently, would have turned 80 on 4 February. There will be a service at the Islington Crematorium, 278 High Road, East Finchley, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday 7 February. We first met at TPW - Toronto Photographer's Workshop, at a comprehensive Jo Spence retrospective in 1997, where Terry was speaking about the legacy of her work and their collaborations. Over the next 20 years, Terry became a mentor and dear friend, always sharing his wide ranging photographic knowledge generously. Terry Dennett in 2012 at Jo Spence (Part 1) in London, Space Studios Training originally as a painter, for decades Terry worked as staff photographer at the London Zoo, where he had a colour and black & white darkroom and a 9 to 5 job. He also had, what he referred to as his second 5 to 9 job, and would regularly collaborate on projects with researchers, including Shaheed Macgregor, on Eating Rough, Sleeping Rough, a pop-up exhibit...

Frida Kahlo in Toronto

So if you haven't yet seen this, I would highly recommend the Frida Kahlo exhibition at Toronto @ TMC on til early September. http://www.textilemuseum.ca/exhibitions/frida-kahlo-through-the-lens-of-nickolas-muray It combines colour photographs by Nickolas Muray, letters shared between them, jewellery and traditional Mexican costumes. Its a substantial exhibition - there are 50 beautiful black and white and three colour process photographs.

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