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August 6 2005, Saturday,
10am-11pm (continues until August 12 2005, Friday, 10am-11pm)
Alma Aleksejevas (b.
1973) has been taking photographs for over ten years… in fact, since finishing
art school! So enthusiastic and keen on photography is she, that today she is
currently studying photojournalism at Vilnius Design College. But this month,
Alma is taking time out, to - in her words - exhibit, ‘…pictures taken in
different countries and at different times,’ at the gallery within POSK, the
Hammersmith-based centre for Polish arts and culture. We were lucky enough to
attend the opening reception - last Sunday evening, where we met the artist, her
sculptor husband (Aleksandras) and their young family, along with some of her
friends. Everyone got the chance to see her reasonably-priced b&w and coloured
scenes of Krakov, London, Moscow, Prague, Wallingford (near Cambridge) plus
Lithuania’s Kaunas and Nida. Our favourite was the photo of the Kaunas sunset,
plus the photograph showing very colourful graffiti - photographed in another
European city - coming a close second. We noted plenty of bridges and street
scenes from Czech Republic, Lithuania, etc., along with more figurative
portraiture, like those scenes that feature an angler and cyclists, both taken
in Nida.
The last pope and
Polish icon, John Paul II, features, as do some pigeons, all photographed in
that most beautiful of Polish cities, Krakov. As for the photographs depicting
London and Wallingford, we shall leave mentioning them, so as they can surprise
you, when you enter the POSK gallery, located near the ground-floor reception of
the large POSK building – just one of Hammersmith’s Polish venues. So, if you
are not already away on holiday, take £45 with you when you go to visit Alma’s
photographic exhibition, and you could come away with a interesting and original
European scene… or even an iconic memory of the past!
MENU A: Free
B: 27, 190, 267, 290, 391 or H91
E: c/o Aleksandras, on sashaalex7@yahoo.com
F: 0181-741 0398
L: Gallery, POSK, 236-248 King Street, Hammersmith, London, W6
N: 020 8741 1940 (POSK’s reception) / 020 8742 6430 (POSK’s gallery)
T: Ravenscourt Park (District line)
W: http://www.posk.org/
X:
http://www.howtoenjoy.co.uk/countries/lithuania.htm
http://www.howtoenjoy.info/interests/photography.htm
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