Exhibition
Factual Enigma
23 Apr 2019 – 28 Apr 2019
Event times
Tuesday-Saturday 1pm-7pm, Sunday 1pm-5pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 159 Bethnal Green Road
- London
- E2 7DG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: Number 8, 388 bus, Brick Lane stop, walk 1 minute to 159 Bethnal Green Road
- Train: Liverpool Street
An exhibition of images by 18 photographers from London Independent Photography.
About
Creating or consuming stories appears to be a basic human need and we devise all kinds of means by which to do so. It is therefore not surprising that both makers and viewers of photographs try to concoct or tease stories from them. Yet since stories depend on time lines, still images do not easily lend themselves to narration. It can be argued that they effectively sidestep or even thwart any such attempts on our part. The stories a photographer may wish to tell with a series of images will never quite tally with the ones the viewers might construct from them, even when there are titles to guide us. David Campany, who has spent years thinking and writing about photography, states: “Hitchcock was the master of suspense but photographs suspend in a very different way. They show but they don’t tell. They describe but they don’t explain. They are factual enigmas.”
See for yourself what stories are evoked for you and, if you can, come and compare them with those of the photographers, who will make themselves available on the afternoon of Saturday 27th April in espacio gallery.