iThe Photographers' GallerySoho
Roots
Group exhibition in the Print Sales Gallery exploring trees, memory and culture through photography and mixed media across global landscapes.
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One of Julie Cockburn's found postcards shows an ordinary tree, and she has stitched brightly coloured circles hanging from its branches like Christmas baubles. It is one of eight photographers in this free show about trees, downstairs in the Print Sales Gallery.
You go down from the street and find approaches that could hardly differ more. Chrystel Lebas's panorama of Yakushima's cedar forest is the biggest piece, at 1.2 by 1.5 metres. Gohar Dashti's gilt Polaroids of cypress trees are the smallest, nine in a grid. Michael Kenna shows a new series shot in Fukushima this year, and Paul Cupido photographed the trees of his childhood island, Terschelling, for this show.
The Books & Boots reviewer liked best the pieces where the print had been cut, folded or stitched, and found Lebas's straight forest shot the least interesting. Entry is free. Every work is for sale, from £665 plus VAT, with profits funding the gallery's programme.
Look for
Cockburn's baubled tree
Look for a found postcard of a tree with brightly coloured embroidered circles dangling from its branches like Christmas baubles.
Sammallahti's Dalmatian
A silver gelatin print sets a Dalmatian beside a speckled silver birch, a visual pun on spots.
Weyland's crumpled Iguazú Falls
Pigment prints of Iguazú Falls that Ingrid Weyland twisted and folded by hand, so the waterfall comes off the wall as a crumpled object.
Kajioka's sliced cherry blossoms
Small photographs of cherry blossom trees that Miho Kajioka has cut into slices.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Rainy Days
Skip if
You want a museum survey: this is a small sales room where every print has a price.
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Image credits
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- RootsCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- The RA CollectionCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- Painting the French RivieraCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- Nicole EisenmanCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- The Photographers' GalleryThe wub / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Royal Academy of ArtsYair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Portrait GalleryIstvánka / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National GalleryCarlos Delgado / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- British MuseumHam / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0