Exhibition Zine for the project Encounter:
32 page 10×8in - staple bound - Edition 50 copies
Toner presents Encounter: A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION ON OUR TOPOGRAPHIC PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Encounter brings together a group of contemporary photographers working in the UK, whose practices engage with the landscape as both a geological record and a living, contested terrain. Through images of rock formations, eroded coastlines, quarries, riverbeds, and shifting hillsides, the works consider land as an archive of deep time, one that vastly exceeds the scale of human history.
Looking to the past as a means of understanding the present, the exhibition reflects on the legacy of the New Topographics movement and its continued relevance today. The photographers draw upon this historical mode of seeing, characterised by clarity, restraint, and an unsentimental gaze, while reworking it in response to contemporary conditions. In this sense, the work operates between old and new Topographics: acknowledging earlier photographic approaches to the altered landscape, while extending them to address current ecological, social, and temporal concerns.
The exhibition opens at TONER on the 1st of May 6-9pm and is open to all.
A workshop with photographers from the exhibition will take place on Saturday 2nd and all information TBA.
Curated by Matt Martin (Toner) and Ben Osborne
Artists featured in the exhibition includeJake Husband, Rebeka Wolfe, Chris Ellis, Mohamed Hassan, Natasha Edgington, Iain Sarjeant, Ian Potter, James John Midwinter, Frances Scott, Ben Osborne, Rachel Poulton,and Matt Martin.
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