I’m delighted to be a guest on the PBS American Experience documentary Mr. Polaroid airing May 19th talking about the man, the brand, the history.

”Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of Edwin Land, the man behind the camera.”

Watch the trailer here.

ANTIDOTE: A Polaroid Exhibition

Featuring Polaroid works by Rhiannon Adam / Nobuyoshi Araki / Roger Ballen / Leonard Bourgois Beaulieu / Harriet Browse / Charles Johnstone / Cyrus Mahboubian / Sara Sahores

One universe. Thirteen artists. Welcome to Space – A Visual Journey, this winter’s major exhibition at Fotografiska. A grandiose art journey through space with themes ranging from science and technology to astrology and philosophy. “Space is an experience where we delve into the immensity of space and truly are able to expand our senses and our universe through art,” says Johan Vikner, Global Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska. Space – A Visual Journey is open from October 18 to March 2.

I’m delighted to be showing work with Elijah Wheat Showroom once more in PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, showing my work for the first time in China.
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Elijah Wheat Showroom anticipates curiosity, wonder and reverie, presenting the unique works of three USA based experimental photographers: Jon Verney, Rhiannon Adam & Liz Nielsen at PHOTOFAIRS: Shanghai 2024. Each artistic photographer is bending the constructs of what photography can be, and what can be executed with a Polaroid camera, or entirely without.

A new solo exhibition exploring queer histories. This is the debut of a new body of work entitled “A Blueprint for Living”. The show explores the intersections between photographic process, colour, technology, and history to present a queer blueprint for happiness – a blueprint that has been conspicuous in its absence, with queer lives being forced into secrecy, and a generation decimated by the AIDS crisis.

Sadly I won’t be there for this one, but I’m happy that my book is included in the selection of books on show at the 10×10 Photobooks collaboration with Mmuseumm.

A pop-up library of recent photobooks not by men. Books as objects; books as stories; to touch, to inspire, to reflect!

Where: Mmuseumm, 6 Cortlandt Alley, New York, New York 10013 United States

When: October 14 @ 11:00 am – October 23 @ 6:00 pm EDT. Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays: 11 am – 6 pm. 24/7 viewing windows.

The tenth edition of the Photo Fringe festival is running from 6 – 30 October with exhibitions and events taking place online and in venues across and beyond Brighton & Hove.

In the Main Gallery at Phoenix Art Space, eight photography or lens-based artist collectives have been selected to exhibit. The Collectives Hub has been an important part of Photo Fringe since 2014 and has consistently formed one of the most visible, visited and critically acclaimed exhibitions of the festival. Myself, Emily Graham, Laura Pannack, and Jon Tonks are exhibiting new work, and work in progress as part of our collective, AION.

Our work is on show in the collectives hub gallery at Phoenix Art Space (0-14 Waterloo Pl, Brighton BN2 9NB) and is open Wednesday – Sunday, 11.00 – 17.00 during exhibition dates.

I’m delighted to be showing a selection of work from Big Fence / Pitcairn Island with L A Noble gallery in booth D21 (Discoveries Section) at PHOTOLONDON fair at Somerset House. I will also be hosting a book signing on Saturday afternoon.

You can virtually visit the show here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=roVZUmRBK2N

For more information visit https://photolondon.org/exhibitors/

‘An Invitation’ is a virtual NFT exhibition designed to uplift the NFT photography community by celebrating those photographers who have already found the blockchain and to encourage new artists and collectors to join the community. Launching on newart.city in March 2022.

In unity with the invitational goals of the exhibition, the photographs will follow a harmonious theme: Photographs which bring forth an Invitation.

Simon Roberts, Rhiannon Adam, Andy Feltham and Natalie Christensen will be featuring alongside Mark Forbes as the 5 headlining photographers. Each contributes a unique take on the invitational theme and has accepted a special duty to help judge the open call submissions. Following a 2 week open call, myself (exhibition director) and Marc Hartog (founder of ART3), alongside the 5 artists, will select the final 15 NFT photographs to exhibit.

Visit the metaverse show on Newart.city

In 2021 Martin Parr Foundation held an open call for a UK-based curator to present a photographic exhibition in the MPF gallery and Jacqueline Ennis-Cole has been selected for her proposed group show, Intersectional Geographies.
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Intersectional Geographies brings together a diverse selection of photographers whose works address inclusion within society at a time of climate crisis, social distancing and human rights violations.⁣ Each photographer highlights a concern that resonates with them.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Ignacio Acosta / Rhiannon Adam ⁣/ Lisa Barnard ⁣/ Jacqueline Ennis-Cole / Darek Fortas ⁣⁣Roshini Kempadoo / Miranda Pennell ⁣/ Judy Rabinowitz Price / Xavier Ribas / David Severn / Aida Silvestri ⁣/ Janine Wiedel
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‘Intersectional Geographies unpacks and addresses complex and timely ideas from climate and social justice to extractive mining practices and questions of gender through the work of a diverse and international list of photographic voices working across the conceptual and documentary mode.’ – Alona Pardo, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, London⁣

Borrowing the title from George Orwell’s 1941 essay where he attempted to define English culture at the height of the Second World War, Riposte Magazine invited a collection of photographers to submit an image that reflected what English culture meant to them at this pivotal moment in time.

From Hackney to the Yorkshire Dales and back the images are wide-ranging in content and geographic spread. They explore personal reflections and the wider political questions around what it means to be English in a post-Brexit era.

The featured photographers include Adama Jalloh, Annie Lai, Jameela Elfaki, Juliet Klottrup, Kerry J Dean, Nina Mandanhar, Rhiannon Adam, Sophie Stafford and Wendy Huynh.

The images will be on show at the Outside Gallery, Coal Drops Yard from 8 September to 14 November and have also been made into a limited-edition zine featuring INGLAN, a specially commissioned poem by Rene Matic.

Studio Beta is pleased to present Die Gegenwart, the gallery’s first photography exhibition, in collaboration with Safelight. Die Gegenwart showcases contemporary photography through a collection of works which serve as a snapshot of the current times. Taking advantage of the multifaceted nature of the medium, the exhibition focuses on current topics that influence the global public discourse and celebrates the artists’ deeply personal experiences with them.

The present exists in our subjective experiences of the events of the here and now. Die Gegenwart is an investigation of a mutually shared reality whose narrative we construct by posing questions about the meaning of identity, belonging, power, freedom, and hope in the present day. This international group of photographers is united in its exploration, and celebration, of the modes of existence of an entire generation.

With this exhibition, we embrace this plurality of views as a way of nurturing a collective understanding of the present times. In this heterogeneousness we see a rich palette of possibilities. Juxtaposing artistic positions to create a dialogue about the state of society, this show takes the pulse of the zeitgeist to investigate what is, and not what has been or what will be. Die Gegenwart is focused on covering different ways of being in the world, hearing different opinions, and looking from a different perspective.

Big Fence / Pitcairn Island will be shown as a screen projection mixing archive footage, audio, and my images in a new project “summary” created for Arles. It will first show during opening week, and will then be screened until September at Crosiere. “Opening week’s unmissable festive event offers a photographic stroll to see some 40 proposals projected in loops on three big screens and two installations: the festival’s favorite artists and photographers, carte blanche to institutions.”

I’m delighted to announce that one of my portraits from my The Rift / Fractured Stories project documenting the anti fracking movement in the UK has been awarded a Juror’s Pick distinction at the annual Lensculture Portrait Awards, as selected by Lensculture editor Jim Casper. It will be exhibited as part of the Beyond Boundaries Lensculture show at the Aperture Foundation, NYC (see detail below),

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 25th 6:00pm - 8:30pm

I’m delighted to be leading two workshops over two days for the RPS Visual Arts Group’s AGM in Windsor this April. I’ll be leading a photo walk on each of the two days, discussing approaches to portrait photography and street interactions, as well as strategies for planning long-term projects, with a talk about my practice and approach on the Saturday evening.

To book you must go through the RPS:
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