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CARA BARER — CURRENTLY SHOWING AT KLOMPCHING
Artist Reception: Thursday, September 26, 6pm–8pm

We are delighted to present the first solo exhibition at Klompching Gallery, featuring the highly popular photographic artworks of Cara Barer. The artist photographs outdated, abandoned and obsolete books, but only after transforming them into sculptural objects of beauty.

Coiled and crumpled, they segue into a considered commentary on the changing role of libraries, society's relationship with how it accesses and values knowledge and, in a technology advance world, her work questions the future of the book itself.

The photographs are presented as large-scale pigment prints, rich in color and highly detailed, engendering both curiosity and delight. Her work can be firmly placed within the interdisciplinary—new and growing—genre of 'altered books', which started in the 1960's with A Monument: A Treated Victorian Novel by the British artist Tom Phillips.

Sunset, 2013 © Cara Barer

 Sunset, 2013 (detail) © Cara Barer

On show in the gallery are nine 36" x 36" photographs (other sizes/editions available), representing pieces from 2006 through to her most recent pieces made in 2013.

TESSA BUNNEY: EXHIBITS IN LAOS

Gallery artist, Tessa Bunney, is exhibiting her most recent series of photographs at Monument Books (Laos, Vietnam). The exhibit will be launched tomorrow evening, with an opening speech by the British Ambassador to Laos, and continues through to September 30th.

Since November 2012, Bunney has been photographing in Xieng Khouang—one of the most contaminated provinces of Vietnam—of unexploded bomb sub-munitions (UXO). She has documented the work of UCT6, an all-female team working for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), who defuse the UXO's.

 Technician, UCT6 (2012) © Tessa Bunney

Read more about The Women of UCT6 and view additional photographs HERE.

Read the article in the Financial Times HERE.

View Tessa Bunney's video about the project HERE.

JIM NAUGHTEN: IN HIS OWN WORDS

Artist Talk at the Gather – Breaking New Ground 2013 Event

Jim Naughten gave a short presentation this week, as part of an event–championing photography and creativity–at which four photographers shared their experiences of photographing in remote and challenging places. Here, Naughten talks about the Hereros series, exhibited at the gallery in March-April, 2013.

Video uploaded from You Tube via Getty Images