The East London Photomonth is now in full swing, but some of the shows are fairly short lived and easy to miss. So the Photomonth Photolounge (4 Wilkes St) is only on until Sunday 16th October (I dropped in briefly to the opening on Tuesday.) Some other shows have closed already, while others have only just opened and some don’t open until later. Although it is called a month it really spreads out over a couple of months.
You can find all the details on the Photomonth 2011 web site, though I do wish that it was rather easier to find which shows are open on any particular date. Of course with 104 venues it isn’t an easy job, but one a suitable database should be able to cope with. Or even a downloadable spreadsheet calendar file would be useful.
I don’t think the site has a list of the photographers taking part either, though you can search for them by opening the full listing and using the browser’s search facility.
I’ve seen very little about the festival either online or in print, but was very pleased to see a review on London24 by photographer Julio Etchart, not least because he had some nice things to say about my work on show as a part of East of the City along with pictures by Paul Baldesare and Mike Seaborne. (Incidentally changed circumstances mean that we have to take this show down on the afternoon of 28 October, slightly earlier than the advertised date.)
We have to wait until next month to see Etchart’s own contribution to Photomonth, on show at Open The Gate in Dalston next month, following the current Photomonth show there, Mother Africa by Pierre Vannoni.
