Exhibition 3rd- 27th February
The Orange Dot Gallery
54 Tavistock Place, Bloomsbury, WC1H 9RG London, UK

First Edition - A Girlcore Magazine Book Launch and Exhibition.
Brought to you by the music and art collective, GIRLCORE.
Catalogue Published by POGOBOOKS.

Girlcore is an all-female collective based in London.
Originally founded on a desire to promote international female talent in creative industries - Girlcore's resume has grown far and beyond anything originally hoped for. Be it showcasing new DJ's alongside the likes of veterans such as Peaches and Annie Mac, to creating a website dedicated to promoting recent flair in the visual arts. All the work done by the group is a labour of love, each member of the collective having their own careers in the creative industries. This side-project is a way of celebrating the amazing work we encounter along the way. This exhibition launches the first edition of the collective's art book, Girlcore Magazine. In addition, it handpicks work by some of the finest artists featured on Girlcore Magazine's online gallery. We hope you enjoy discovering these artists as much as we have.

With works from Adriana Petit, Ariel Rosenbloom, Boo Saville, Catherine Ryan, Elena Cherniak, Ellen Rogers, Franzisca von Stenglin, Ilze Vanaga, Ina Jang, Jen Mann,Jessica Stweart, Julia Corsaro, Katherine Squier, Samantha Casolari, Susu Laroche, Synchrodogs, Tanya Johnston, Tatiana Leshkina.

www.girlcoremag.com
www.orangedotgallery.co.uk

Catalogue available in the Pogo Bookshop

Exhibition OPENING Friday 6th January 16-18h
at Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

We spend much of our daily lives caught up in busy routines, unobservant of the curious details that make up the visual world we are passing through. Irish artist Miriam O´Connor´s photographic series Attention Seekers lingers on these often overlooked traces, singling them out with an attentive and subtle gaze that imbues them with a mysterious and magical vitality. Attention Seekers is concerned with the representation of everyday scenes, spaces and people encountered by the photographer, and O´Connor has a unique talent for discovering infinite possibilities of image-making amidst the quotidian banality, slicing out those details which petition for attention.

The subjects of these images are conceived of as possessing an ambiguous agency of their own, discharging a kind of magnetism that it is impossible for the photographer to ignore. They solicit attention - that of the photographer and, ultimately, of the viewer - with their strangely insistent and often subtly unsettling juxtapositions, shapes and colours. Modest or minute elements recur as motifs across the series, where, time, location and horizons are regularly obscured, appearing outwardly irrelevant. The photographer does not venture forth into the world with the intent of taming it with her camera, but instead responds to the demands that the everyday environment - in all its uncertainty, obscurity, ridiculousness and strange beauty - presses upon her. Full of ambiguous clues and mischievous suggestions, the images represent, above all, a deep curiosity around looking and seeing, and a preoccupation with the impression that these scenes in some way return the gaze. Attention Seekers depicts these subjects with an almost claustrophobic intimacy that leaves the viewer with an intense feeling of being a special guest in O´Connor´s universe.

Miriam O´Connor (IRL) was born in County Cork, Ireland, and currently lives and works in Dublin. She holds a BA in photography from the Dublin Institute of Technology and has recently completed a Research Masters at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. In addition to her artistic practice, she is also an educator, teaching courses on practical and creative approaches to photography.

www.miriamoconnor.com
www.galleriimage.dk

Catalogue available in the Pogo Bookshop

PogoBooks is proud to announce the release of a brand new book: "Someone Cuts My Hair While I Sleep" by TODD FISHER.
If you look at the specs, you´ll see it´s not just a new PogoBook. It´s the first of our new "Big Books", and there will be more of these little big buddies!

About the Book:
Todd Fisher´s photography originates from everyday life. He draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings and shoots just at the right moment to capture the mystical momentum rather than the narrative. His motives are of unknown protagonists at non-places. In the moment of taking a picture the situations seem to arise spontaneously, which in combination with his working methods makes Fisher´s photography authentic. Their documentary character is undeniable. Yet there is a clear distinction from photojournalism, because Fisher's photographs incorporate artistic composition with a shifted and often non-linear focus. Where the street has a clear narrative, his personal view is more abstract and even opaque at times. Context is deliberately absent or left vague, allowing the viewer to create their own reality. His protagonists behave remarkably uniform, staring into nothingness or seem to be engaged in a strange relationship with structural features of their immediate environment. Following Todd Fishers photography is always fascinating, his work is intimate, mysterious, spontaneous, witty, and sad at the same time.

www.toddfisher.net

First Edition
80 Pages
Perfect Bound Softcover
21 x 30 cm
Full Color Offset
Printed in November 2011

available in the Pogo Bookshop

Chad Moore's photographs capture the ineffable quality of youth - those nostalgia - inducing moments that usually happen sometime between dusk and dawn. Forgoing the tired irony of so much postmodern work, (which has itself at this point become cliché), Moore presents moments of youthful sincerity, albeit often faded, aggressive, and lustful. Breaking down the distance that traditionally separates photographer from subject, Equal parts spontaneous and formally precise, Moore's work eulogizes the messiness that's left behind, and all too often forgotten.
Chad Moore is an American photographer born 1987

www.chad-moore.com

Dana Lauren Goldstein, born in Louisville, Kentucky spent most of her life traveling and living in different cities.
In the summer of 2007 she received her BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and returned to New York City
where she spent a year interning and assisting fashion photographer Kenneth Cappello.
Dana's work is documentary style photography influenced by theosophical and neo-plasticist principles.
It has religious and metaphysical undertones and explores themes like fate, chance and free will.
www.danalaurengoldstein.com

"If you are among Vice's many readers, it's likely you might remember that shoot with a group of beautiful girls strolling in a cemetery by night, wearing only leggings and giant papier-mache pumpkin masks. That set's responsible is Dana Lauren Goldstein, who shot some of the most iconic photographs realized in the last years and whose style has been patently copied by like 200,000 young photographers in the world. Reading the interview you'll see I haven't been able to be impartial: I adore Dana since I learned of her existence and if I had tried to hide it, it would have been unfair." (Interview by Maurizio Di Iorio)
Read the Interview with Dana on DISTURBER.net:
disturber.net/interview-dana-lauren-goldstein