Monday, 26 March 2012

News: DLI Museum and Art Gallery comes up trumps

The April to October season of the DLI Museum Art Gallery has just been announced with not one but two top flight photography exhibitions. Zed Nelson’s “Love Me”, about the global obsession with youth and beauty is on from 5th May to 24th June.

Followed up by Julian Germain’s “Big Meetings” from 30th June to 9th September. Julian was commissioned to photograph the 2011 Durham Miners’ Gala and the wider community. There will be a free preview Friday 29th June 6.00 to 10.00 pm

http://county.durham.gov.uk/sites/dli/Pages/Exhibitions.aspx

From the series ‘Love Me’ by Zed Nelson.

Intro: Love Me reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. The project explores how a new form of globalization is taking place, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand.

The project spans five years, and involves photography in 17 countries across five continents.

Image: Christopher, 22. 
Chest wax. J. Sister’s salon. 
New York, USA.

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