One Thousand and One Nights
Sojournposse is a hypothetical campfire... a gathering of digital age storytellers, where inspired journeys and stories are shared. The show celebrates our existence as a collective for over three years; over one thousand inspiring nights telling our stories through photography.
Inspired by the famous tale originated from ancient Persia, we draw parallel between Sojournposse storytelling and the wonderful book. We share the spirit to continue telling our stories to keep our art and memories of the world alive.
On the evening of 18th December, we will gather together as photographers, poets and musicians; and open our windows for everyone to peek inside our worlds. Jubilant, curious, colourful, dark, sparkling, sensual, alive, humorous, ordinary and special. Harley Loudon will be performing songs from her debut solo album "Sometime, Somewhere, Someone". Then we will dance into the night to a 70's Disco Funk Party.
the Situation Modern
the Situation Modern is the dialectical unification of art and life. the Situation Modern rejects apathy, lies and homogeny of... life experience. the Situation Modern rejects vicarious experiences, only individual life experiences are material to the individual.
The Situation Modern is an opinion leading art movement
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David Salas
David Salas is a Spanish-born photojournalist based in London. He usually works for the main Spanish newspapers reporting from the UK capital. He also does event photography and studio work. “I am interested in social issues and my aim is to portray important topics that concern us all with my camera, attempting to give my own opinion, but from a detached point of view. I believe in the power of images; portrayals of life that can make us knowledgeable individuals in the process of becoming active components of change.”
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Deshan Tennekoon
Deshan Tennekoon has no formal training in photography and it continues to amaze his family and friends that he is able to make a living at it. He was awarded a Fulbright Foundation Award to conduct a photography project in 2009, examining the relationship between humans and aquatic leisure spaces in the First and Third World. His pictures have been published in TimeOut Delhi, Liquid, The Moodie Report, Serendib Magazine and of course, Sojournposse. He lives and works in the mildly crippling humidity of Colombo.
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Harley Loudon
Singer and composer Harley has performed at Wembley Arena, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club and The Hammersmith Apollo. Apart from piano playing, she does TV and film acting and poetry performance. She produced and wrote a one-woman musical called "Storm in a Teacup" to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival and in London. She was guest vocalist for various artists: Steve Blake (chill Nottingham double bass with bells & motorbikes), Ben Green (Single released by Fly Wheel, featured in the soundtrack for Sean Penn's film The Pledge with Jack Nicholson) and Free Radicals (Indy rock band). She won a masters scholarship with Nordoff Robbins to trained as a music therapist. Her first solo album "Sometime, Somewhere, Someone" is now available on iTunes and www.harleyloudon.com. Harley will be singing songs from her new album to a backdrop of photographs taken by Philip Lee.
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Hamish Low
Kiwi-born Hamish Low is a writer, musician, and dreamer based in London. Recently his poetry "East is West" was featured during London Design Festival 2009, as a part of the photo-video installation for Nissan Design Europe East Meets West exhibition. Unsold copies of his early book of poetry Napalm for a Calmer Heart were fed to a volcano. He has won various minor writing competitions and has had short stories published in magazines both in his native land and in White Fungus, an international contemporary arts journal. He holds a MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and endeavours to 'live deeply, never skimming the surface'.
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Jaime Saez de Adana
Jaime Saez de Adana describes himself as a cloud, he is everywhere and nowhere. He knows a little bit of everything and lots of nothing. He believes that poetry, music and colours are all the same thing, just life. So he uses what is nearby to express his inspiration. He uses art as a medicine to be able of understand who he is and what life is; to live a more creative and exciting life and finally to create value. He’s got a photographer soul and he is returning to 35mm photography to discover feelings the traditional way. Jaime lives in Barcelona.
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Janet Greco
Janet Greco is a documentary photographer based in New Jersey, USA. She is inspired by sub-cultures, the ordinary, and the extraordinary elements that characterize people’s lives. She studied photography while at university in Philadelphia and since then has lived and worked abroad, principally in the UK media industry. Her principal project in Spain, Fiesta de Sant Joan in Ciutadella de Menorca, has won the official poster prize in 2008. Her ongoing projects are “Spirit of the Pines” which is about South Jersey ghost towns, gun clubs and the Pine Barrens; the Albert Music Hall, a weekly country and bluegrass jam, the Cowtown Rodeo and the Junior Dragsters at Atco Speedway. In October 2009, her work was seen in the group show “Weird NJ” at the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey.
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Kess Bohan
Kess Bohan is a published photographer and broadcaster. He has directed and filmed projects for channels such as Channel 4, BBC, HBO, MTV and Channel 5. Originally born in London then raised in Australia, a passion for travel and life experience has given rise to a long career. Having filmed in the industry for over fifteen years he is still as keen as ever to record life in all its forms.
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Gregory Lecointe
Gregory Lecointe passion is theatre, arts and playing his saxophone. He is an actor for a London-based theatre company, KinkyFish. He acted in "The Tempest" and "Our Country's Good". Now he is making his first directing debut in "A Dream Play" by August Strinberg. Parisian-born Gregory feels more at home in London.
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Salina Christmas
Salina Christmas had to take up photography while working for a Malaysian daily in the 90s, when sometimes the photographer didn't turn up for the assignment. She got into it again big time in 2005. “My brother was terminally ill and I just wanted to remember every single moment of his life. I also wanted him to see what I was up to here in the West. The web was meant to be our meeting point." She won a photography award in 2007. Salina is now doing a postgrad degree in digital anthropology at University College London. In between coding and photographing, she daydreams quite a lot.
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Simon Varcoe
Simon is a journalist based in London writing about the pharmaceutical industry. How he got there from a background in Ancient History is still a mystery that rivals the epic tales of the classics. While still new to the world of journalism and life as a whole, he already knows it's the career for him. For "One Thousand and One Nights", he is inspired by an ancient Roman poem Odi et Amo or "I hate and I love" by Catullus. The poem's beauty lies in its simplicity and succintness and can be applied as much to affairs of the mind as well as the heart.
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Tunde Olayera
As a youngster growing up in London Tunde always knew her career path would include fashion and art. The fact that her mother was a “fashionista” of the 60’s and 70’s inspired her to be creative from an early age. After graduating from fashion school she has worked for various fashion houses over the years, her first job being with the fashion company French Connection. Now she designs for a leatherwear company based in London. Tunde has a flair for figurative style illustrations, her work is highly stylised with an expressive use of line and warm colours. She enjoys illustrating “Glamfunkydiva” greeting cards in an elegant contemporary style. She love exploring other creative experiences and a few years ago she took up painting again.
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Zarina Holmes
Zarina Holmes photographs to make an inventory of what she saw and feel. Her favourite subject is people. Perhaps because until the age of 17, she has never lived in a city for more than 4 years. Her father's job as a Malaysian military officer took her to many remote places and unfamiliar cultures. After graduating art school, she became an ad creative specializing in travel and gradually became a photo editor. This has led to her to photograph for travel magazines she produced when she couldn’t find the right shots. Today she writes about travel and organise art exhibitions to support emerging photography and poetry talents. Zarina calls London “home” for 13 years now – the city where she founded photographic art collective Sojournposse.
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"One Thousand and One Nights" is curated by Graham Phenix of the Situation Modern.
Sojournposse is an inspired collective. Our motto is "vivir inspirado". Live inspired.
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"One Thousand and One Nights" at the Situation Modern is a celebration of life – voiced through photography, video poetry, projections and live music performances. It is an exhibition, a jam and a Christmas party.
Time: Friday, 18 December 2009, 19:30pm - 03:00am.
Venue: the Situation Modern, arch635, 15-16 Lendal Terrace, Clapham North SW4, London, United Kingdom.
Tube: Clapham North. 10 mins walk from Clapham Common tube. Click here for map of direction
Ticket: £3 before 11:30pm and £5 after.
www.the-situation.co.uk
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