1000 Words Photography - The Collection

We are delighted to announce new work in the 1000 Words Collection, Tender #4 by Andrew Bruce.















© Andrew Bruce

Medium - 1 available
Edition of 5
£495.00
51 x 40.5 cm paper size
38.50 x 30.50 cm image size

NB: This is a hand print on C-type Kodak ultra endura paper. It comes with a certificate signed by the artist and is the first print from the edition. The print is produced with a white border around the photograph to allow for framing. We also have included some cotton gloves to protect the print during handling.

As a cyclist travelling to and from college Andrew Bruce was aware of the amount of dead animals and birds on the road. As the cars sped past him he began to wonder how easy it would be for him to meet the same fate.

Andrew became inspired by the tragedy of their sudden death and haunted by the imagined sound of metal against flesh and bone; seeing the road-kill as a potent symbol of humanity's clash with nature, both literally and figuratively. His response can be seen in his series Nature Morte, Vanitas and Tender.

Nature Morte was his first work in which he photographed dead animals in the landscape as he found them, producing a document of their death. The use of a 10x8 camera and lights produces a visceral quality and the impact of the damage to their bodies is palpable. Harsh in its subject matter, the beauty of the chiaroscuro lighting on the dead animal creates a visual potency.

For his later work Andrew moved to a more staged and performance based approach. Gathering the dead animals as he found them, Andrew wrapped them up in his backpack and cycled home; keeping them in a freezer until he was ready to photograph them. In preparation for the photography he would carefully clean off the mud and dried blood to reinstate a beauty to the dead body.

Not interested in simply recording the reality of their death, Andrew brought himself into the photograph for the series Tender. Holding each creature against his naked torso Andrew has made the idea of their deaths more poetic and less coldly brutal.

As Andrew says "we barely notice the thud...and it is the thud that is my starting point."

Watch the artist video and read more information here.

1000 thanks to Andrew for his generosity, and of course to our partners Bridget and Michael from Troika Editions.

1000 Words Photography - The Collection

It is a great honour to be able to announce the latest addition to the 1000 Words Collection, a work by by Simon Roberts, Sunderland vs. Liverpool, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, 16th August 2008. (We English).


















© Simon Roberts

Medium - 1 available
Edition of 7
£881.25
60 x 50 cm paper size
53 x 42 cm image size

NB: Printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper. The print is both signed by the artist and comes with a certificate. It is number 2 from the edition. The print is produced with a white border around the photograph to allow for framing. We also have included some cotton gloves to protect the print during handling.

Head on over to our collections microsite to read the story behind the specific image, watch a fantastic video interview with Simon and discover more information on the artist. But, before you do, here is an announcement from our partner Troika Editions which outlines the objectives and ambitions for their outstanding Collections initiative:

"The Arts have been under the spotlight recently as the impending cuts in state funding has fuelled much anxiety about the future of the creative industries in the UK.

The axe finally fell with the announcement in the Comprehensive Spending Review of a nearly 30% drop in funding for The Arts Council.

The impact this loss of funding will have has spawned gloomy forecasts about the inevitable closure of theatre companies, art galleries and local art projects. What I have yet to read about are all the initiatives and projects that have never been supported by Arts Council England and how they manage to find ways to fund their commitment and passion for good art.

Our partner 1000 Words is one such organisation, who through an excellent quarterly online magazine has managed to raise the level of writing about Art Photography and through collaborations with ourselves and Magnum Photos,(neither of which are funded by Arts Council England)has developed new ways to support their project.

So our message this week is there will inevitably be casualties of such a savage cut in funding, but this may also open up new ways to fund worthy organisations and we hope that our own Collections initiative will become the kernel of a new way to support art in the future."

As a not-for-profit organisation the net proceeds from all sales of limited edition prints in the 1000 Words Collection will go entirely back into supporting 1000 Words Photography Magazine and help finance our extended programme of exhibitions and events including workshops; portfolio reviews; talks; panel discussions as well as prizes and awards.

1000 thanks to both Simon, and Bridget and Michael of Troika Editions for supporting us!

1000 Words Photography - The Collection

We are pleased to present three photographs from Virgílio Ferreira for the 1000 Words Collection.






















Medium - 1 available
Edition of 15
£700.00
50 x 50 cm paper size
40 x 40 cm image size

NB: This is a Giclée print on Epson Premium Lustre paper. It comes with a certificate signed by the artist and is number 1 from the edition. Each print is produced with a white border around the photograph to allow for framing. We also have included some cotton gloves to protect the print during handling.























Medium - 1 available
Edition of 15
£700.00
50 x 50 cm paper size
40 x 40 cm image size

NB: This is a Giclée print on Epson Premium Lustre paper. It comes with a certificate signed by the artist and is number 1 from the edition. Each print is produced with a white border around the photograph to allow for framing. We also have included some cotton gloves to protect the print during handling.























Medium - 1 available
Edition of 15
£700.00
50 x 50 cm paper size
40 x 40 cm image size

NB: This is a Giclée print on Epson Premium Lustre paper. It comes with a certificate signed by the artist and is number 1 from the edition. Each print is produced with a white border around the photograph to allow for framing. We also have included some cotton gloves to protect the print during handling.

All images © Virgílio Ferreira

Taken in and around the burgeoning Asian cities of Bangkok, Macao, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo, the photographs in Virgílio Ferreira´s series Daily Pilgrims are portraits of anonymous passers-by ensnared by his lens.

The faces are routinely blurred whereas the backdrop remains in focus, creating a seductive unreality that leaves an evocative impression without actually describing the specifics of the place. It is this precise "information deficit," Ferreira says, which is what "catches the eye of the observer and makes the portrayee stand out, also adding enigma."

By creating a symbolic tension between the subject and the setting, Ferreira has managed to poetically conjure up the feelings of solitude and alienation that are by-products of modern city living. Commenting on such places, he says, "in all of them, territory and behaviour are changing fast. Cities seem to mirror our state of mind and reveal secrets that can be decoded when minute details are looked at: it is between the lines that I seek ambiguities and contradictions."

Ferreira´s gaze is swift and furtive, presenting the viewer with glimpses of people´s untold stories. One image foregrounds a smirking youngster who exposes his tattooed arm to us while soaring sky scrapers loom large in the distance; in another, a face is simultaneously assailed and attacked by the street lights, this time spindly branches of trees sprout up behind. Elsewhere, as lovers embrace on a park bench their liquid outline almost melts into the brightly-lit futuristic building, the image becomes imbued with an emotional atmosphere that is typical of the entire series.

As such, Daily Pilgrims provides a fresh perspective on the tradition of street photography and offers a vision of the East that is so strange yet so familiar.

Collections is a new initiative that has been set up by Troika Editions to provide photography organisations with the opportunity to showcase their own art collections online and pursue alternative funding avenues through the sale of limited edition prints.

As a not-for-profit organisation the net proceeds from all sales of limited edition prints in the 1000 Words Collection will go entirely back into supporting 1000 Words Photography Magazine and help finance our extended programme of exhibitions and events including workshops; portfolio reviews; talks; panel discussions as well as prizes and awards.

1000 Words Photography - The Collection

We are delighted to launch the first three photographs from the eagerly awaited 1000 Words Collection.

Collections is a new initiative that has been set up by Troika Editions to provide photography organisations with the opportunity to showcase their own art collections online and pursue alternative funding avenues through the sale of limited edition prints.

As a not-for-profit organisation the net proceeds from all sales of limited edition prints in the 1000 Words Collection will go entirely back into supporting 1000 Words Photography Magazine and help finance our extended programme of exhibitions and events including workshops; portfolio reviews; talks; panel discussions as well as prizes and awards.

So without further ado, here are the three prints that are on offer:






















Trinidad Carrillo, Untitled from the series Braiding

















Bruno Quinquet, Sensoji Buddhist Temple from The Salaryman Project

















Bruno Quinquet, Tokyo Station from The Salaryman Project















Sarah Small, Lily and Leg

1000 thanks to all the artists for their enormous generosity, and to Troika Editions for positioning themselves to support us and the photography community at large in this way.

Please join us in supporting art photography.

New partnership with Troika Editions!

©Bill Jackson






















© Victoria Hall

I am delighted to announce the new partnership between Troika Editions and 1000 Words.

To produce the level of professionalism and depth of content with which you have come to expect takes time and money and in answer to our recent call for donations and in recognition of the work 1000 Words does Troika Editions has set up a special offer for the valued friends of 1000 Words. For all prints purchased during July 2009 by 1000 Words readers, Troika Editions will donate to 1000 Words part of the profits on the purchases of their limited edition prints.

As an additional thank you for helping support 1000 Words, Troika Editions will also give free shipping on purchases made through this offer during July 2009.

Launched in Spring 2009, Troika Editions is an online space dedicated to promoting British and European photographers, giving them the opportunity to sell their work to a wider audience at affordable prices. Every week Troika Editions publish exclusive limited edition prints from their list of hand picked artists. Offered in three sizes, in three edition runs and at just three prices and with prices starting at £35, Troika Edition’s mandate is to make art available for everyone.

For more information about Troika Editions please contact Bridget via email info@troikaeditions.co.uk or by phone on 020 783 2330.

To quote the offer url use www.troikaeditions.co.uk/1000words

Here are some more beautiful prints that are on offer at Troika Editions:















© Emma Critchley


















© Matthew Booth















© Jon Spencer


















© Polly Braden and David Campany

1000 Words Photography Magazine #5

©Will Steacy

Dear friends and colleagues,

The special summer edition of 1000 Words Photography Magazine-The Contemporary Portrait is online now at www.1000wordsmag.com

Featured photographers include: Will Steacy, Boo Ritson, Dryden Goodwin, Tierney Gearon, Omar D, Jen Davis, Doug DuBois, Roger Ballen, Emma Critchley and William Eggleston.

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new partnership between 1000 Words Photography Magazine and Troika Editions. In answer to our recent call for donations and funding support, Troika Editions have generously agreed to donate to 1000 Words Photography Magazine part of the profits on purchases of their limited editions made during July 2009. To find out how to participate in this special offer please click here.

1000 Words Photography Magazine also has five signed copies of Donovan Wylie's Maze which are on offer at the discounted rate of 15% exclusively for our readers, courtesy of Steidl. Please email tim@1000wordsmag.com for more details.

*The regular price is £57.50 / $82.00 / €65.00

1000 thanks to all the artists and writers, and to Santiago Taccetti at CCCH Creative Studio, Barcelona for their wonderful contributions to this project.

Have a great summer, and see you at Les Recontres d'Arles!

Best wishes,

Tim Clark
Editor in chief/Director