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Friday, October 15, 2010

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DEAD ON HOLIDAY

''East London...Last night...
TOO IMPRESSED...THAT EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOS !!!''

S.D.G.EastLondon recommends
to visit the exhibition of

Dead on Holiday

7TH-19TH OCTOBER 2010
The City Arts and Music Project
THE CAMP
70-74 CITY RD
LONDON EC1Y 2BJ

Through a darkly comedic lens, this photography collaboration explores the seduction and anxiety of tourism. Breaking the mould of the traditional holiday snap shot, the series aims to poke fun at the relationship between photography and tourism, as well as the suggested danger of visiting any foreign place.

While on holiday in Turkey recently, Andrea and I found ourselves wanting some physical record of our vacation, but reluctant to repeat the stock images taken by so many smiling tourists before us.

Remaining faithful to the constructed artificiality of holiday photos, we have departed from them in all other respects. Our settings are unidentifiable and relatively mundane, the subjects are anonymous and the images are records not of life, but death. And yet there are elements of both glamour and unease to the images - a nod to the allure and anxiety implicit to the experience of foreign travel.

For us, there is a greater relevance to these images, since the moment we stepped foot on the sleepy island in the Sea of Marmara, it appeared to us like an abandoned film set, complete with 70s faded-glamour resorts, crumbling, derelict houses and, curiously, a parking lot full of old-fashioned carriages tied up to horses, with not a soul in sight to attend them or require their service.

As so often nowadays, the cinematic experience had given context to a real-life scenario; scenes spun by Hitchcock, Antonioni and Godard came into definition – surely, heinous crimes had been committed among these ruins and romantic intrigue had wound its shimmering path around the craggy clifftops. In short, our photos speak to our imagined experience of the space.

They also aim to convey an irony that some holiday-makers may well recognize: though on the surface travel provides a means of escape, the traveller can never escape him or herself. On the contrary, as a fish out of water and distanced from familiar contexts, the uprooted traveller dies a small death of identity.

Inversely, this project allowed us to escape playing the role of ‘tourist’. Acting out a series of deaths and photographing them uncovered an interesting side-effect: the few Turkish stragglers who passed us along the way steered well clear of us. Suddenly we were free of unwanted attentions. Our unexpected and performative use of the space seemed to invest it with a new identity, reclaiming it for ourselves and making it as foreign to the locals as we were.

Dead

HOW DID YOU GET THIS IDEA?......DEAD GIRLS!!!

ANDREA: ''Yeah, the idea came about quite organically. It was more a conversation about the strangeness of taking these now standard holiday photos. Like when you go to the Eiffel Tower, you need to take a picture with you in front of it. And there's a crowd of other people doing the exact same thing. It's such a water down experience. It's sort of saying when people travel the emphasis is strongly on the act of taking these holiday photos of themselves having this great experience or cultural experience, rather then really seeking out a great experience or cultural experience. So we juxtaposed the idea with a dead body. We came up with this idea about half way through the holiday. Everything was shot in Istanbul. We thought it was really funny at the time. And I think there's humor in the images as well as the darker side of them (but maybe it's just my sick sense of humor!!)''.

Photographs by:

Andrea DiCenzo / Tess Thackara / Konrad Buczek

For more information about the artists or the exhibition, please contact Lawrence Ajayi at City Arts and Music Project:
Email:
info@thecamplondon.com
Contact number:
+44 (0) 7595950447rivate View: Oct. 7th 6:30pm-9:00pm

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

PUCKOO Couture

Dionne Thoma

Fashion/Costume Designer, Pattern Cutter & Stylist

Last Sundey S.D.G.EastLondon met Dionne and her EXPLOSIVE style in Brick Lane...

...We like East London

RockStyle Fashion Show 2010

Amazing Backstage...

DIONNE :

''Big THANKS to ROCKSTLYE, AMY WILLERTON for inviting me to be apart of the show & to all who were involved, helped & came and supported us =)
My collection's Make-Up was exclusively done by Victoria Joy Wade and Emma Bishop massive thank you to you girls =)
And to my SupA HotT Model's Becca Duncan, Felicity Emma Ball, Kate Medland, Ro, Philippa J Smyth and Avi Tal
Also to my amazing friends & family, MUM, Big Clipper, Hollie G, Mirian James, Zac Shifteye and Tiye-Pachino for helping out massively on the day and making this possible ;) Love u guys!! xxxxx''