Feature length documentary “PROSPECTS” official selection of the East End Film Festival 2013

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The feature length documentary “PROSPECT” (dir. Sebastian Duthy) I’ve been working on in a capacity of associate producer is an official selection of the East End Film Festival 2013. Screening on July 4th, 6.30 pm at Genesis cinema, Whitechapel, London. Set over 4 years, Prospects is the story of two boys’ struggle to reach the top of the Amateur boxing world. George Kean is a rising star. For Marlon Mellish, boxing has not only been his salvation, he’s also discovered a gift…..

More information about the film http://www.deslondonfilms.com/

Festival’s website http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com

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Poster design by Spoolia Design http://www.spoolia.com/ and Veronika Lukasova

Photo by Veronika Lukasova http://www.veronikalukasova.com/

NEVER SEEING NOTHING // MA graduate photography exhibition / May 13-17, 2013

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Thirteen graduates of MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism (including myself) are presenting ” NEVER SEEING NOTHING” taking place at Nursery Gallery which is part of London College of Communication

Private view: Wednesday, May 15, from 6-9pm. Nearest tube Elephant&Castle.

UNDERGROUND OCCURRENCES// project exploring entropy, Roadside Museum

My proposal UNDERGROUND OCCURRENCES has been selected to participate along with other artists on Roadside Museum’s project concerned with fast forwarding the aging process of their work through biological and chemical decay. In partnership with Pool Hey Farm (West Lancashire), artworks will be buried unprotected in a field at a depth of up to 6 feet, subjected to the elements and developed from the process of interment. The duration of the project will be 12 months. Works will be in the ground for the entire time whilst the above and surrounding land continues to be farmed.The ‘Underground Occurrences” will employ chemical and biological deterioration and aging as creative photographic process. Strips of exposed and processed medium format positive (chrome) film from existing colour panoramic series “Occurrences” will become vehicles of this experimentation.  More info about the Roadside Museum project http://roadsidemuseum.blogspot.co.uk/

In June 2014, works will be unearthed, documented and in some cases returned to artists to develop further. A public exhibition of the works will then be staged (to be confirmed in 2014) with the additional aim of compiling a limited edition booklet.

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YURI’S NIGHT TONIGHT // 52nd anniversary of the first man in space

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Composite of the “Rybak”, mosaic of the cosmonaut at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan / Veronika Lukasova 2011

 

Every April 12th, people from around the world gather to celebrate the first spaceflight.Find your local YURI party here:

http://yurisnight.net/find-a-party/

PROSPECTS / trailer / Feature length documentary from director Sebastian Duthy coming spring 2013

PROSPECTS TRAILER 2013 from Sebastian Duthy on Vimeo.

Set over 4 years, Prospects is the story of two boys’ struggle to reach the top of the Amateur boxing world. George Kean is a rising star. He’s got the skills, the right look and a lorry load of fans. For Marlon Mellish, boxing has not only been his salvation, he’s also discovered a gift. Committed to a future in boxing, if they can’t be the best they risk becoming journeymen – boxers paid to take a beating in the ring. With unprecedented access to the ABA of England, this documentary is a first hand account revealing the vulnerability beneath the violence as the boys risk serious physical injury to bring glory to themselves, their club and the family name.

My work at the 6th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show // San Francisco

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“Peacock” from my ongoing series “Phonecall from the Queeen” has been selected for the show that opens on March 6. Please those who live in the area or plan to be in SF in March, do go visit, the Rayko openings are lot of fun.

http://raykophoto.com/call-for-entry-6th-annual-international-juried-plastic-camera-show/

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“Commonplaces” // my short film part of the group exhibit at the Hackney Cut // opening on March 7

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I am pleased to announce that I am taking part in the curated group exhibit “Commonplaces” that opens on March 7 at the Hackney Cut // Paula Clemente Vega in collaboration with the Hackney Cut is proud to present the group exhibition Commonplaces from 7 March until 14 April 2013. This collective exhibition brings together sixteen artists – both national and international – who share the same context, the city of London and its environs. The exhibition explores the theme of Commonplaces through different media – includes painting, photography, video-art and moving image – not only from the status of cliché, but also as a narrator of experiences, whether as individuals or collectives.

The best questions are those which have been repeating since the Greek philosophers. Many are already commonplaces, nonetheless do not lose validity: what, how, where, when, why. If we admit this, too, so that “the goal is the way”, as an answer does not help. It describes the tragedy of life but doesn’t explain it.

Commonplaces/ Adolfo Aristarain.

http://commonplaces.jimdo.com/exhibition/

The Venue

The Hackney Cut

Roach RD X Beacgy RD

Fish Island E3 2NT

Hackney Wick
Date:

7 March- 14 April 2013

 

Opening times:

Thursday- Saturday 6pm-11pm

Sunday 1pm-11pm

 

http://www.thehackneycut.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

Buses: 488, 388, 30, 26, 276, 8

Overground: Hackney Wick

The U-TURN // Former PM Milos Zeman has won the Czech Republic’s presidential election

Yesterday, former PM Milos Zeman has won the Czech Republic’s presidential election – the first time the position has been decided by direct popular vote. He won 55% of votes in the second-round poll, compared to Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg’s 45%. Mr Zeman is seen as a hard-drinking, chain-smoking politician, known for his witty put-downs of opponents. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21215448

In my photo below, the vote being added to the ballot box is seen at the election room at the Czech Embassy in London, UK. The Czech expats world-wide have by majority voted for Karel Schwarzenberg.

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The result is a triumphant return for a man many thought was finished in politics. Ten years ago Mr Zeman was humiliated in his first attempt to become president, says the BBC’s Rob Cameron in Prague – even members of his own party didn’t vote for him. He has spent much of the last decade in retirement at his country cottage, but he returns now to political life with a vengeance. He seems to have won the support of many poorer, older voters from areas of the country that have suffered in the economic downtown. Mr Zeman won 24.2% in the first round poll, with Mr Schwarzenberg winning 23.4%.

Although Czechs are generally disillusioned with politics, they turned out in their droves to choose between the two very different candidates – Mr Zeman, the acerbic former Social Democrat prime minister, and Karel Schwarzenberg, the elderly, aristocratic foreign minister.

The urban elite voted en masse for Mr Schwarzenberg – who was supported by many in the media and had a strong Facebook following, says our correspondent.

A titled prince, 75 years old but wildly popularly amongst young, urban voters, in the early 1990s, he worked as chancellor to the President Vaclav Havel, the leader of the Velvet Revolution that brought down Communist rule in 1989.

For Mr Schwarzenberg’s supporters, this is a bitter defeat. More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21210495

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The voting booths at the Czech Embassy in London, UK.  Photos by Veronika Lukasova