Open Eye Study Visit: Saturday 20 April

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The Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool continues with its stimulating programme of exhibitions with its latest offering, pairing Mishka Henner with Edith Tudor Hart. Mishka Henner is probably best known for his work using Google Streetview (No Man’s Land) and Google Earth (Dutch Landscapes), but he will also be known to some students for his input at the Leeds student residential last September.
In his more recent work, Henner has shifted his attention from the power that is Google to the photographic canon and reworked Robert Frank’s classic photobook ‘The Americans’. Henner’s title ‘Less Americains’ is a pun on the title of the original French edition.

Henner is clearly saying something about photography, but what? Readers of the BJP (or at least those who commented) had strong views. For the study visit tutor, Keith Roberts, will be there to stimulate discussion.

By contrast, Edith Tudor-Hart’s work sits comfortably under the label of humanistic social documentary – to quote the Gallery [someone] ‘who used photography as a tool to communicate her political ideas’. So far, so easy. But is there more to her work than this and what is potential for socially engaged photography in today’s knowing self referential age. Peter Haveland will be sharing ideas.
So an interesting and challenging study visit in prospect. Places are free to current students and can be booked by emailing enquiries@oca-uk.com
Image credits:
Top: © Mishka Henner
Bottom: Edith Tudor-Hart, Fountain Hospital © Wolf Suschitzky