Great news to share! The Licht series was just announced as one of the winners of Su-ture and will be published in the 1st edition of the book. Below is an extract of the email I received this morning from one of my favourite art & contemporay photography publishers, Gomma Books Ltd.

"Dear Andre, 
I’m really pleased to inform you that you won 6th place for the Su-ture 1st Edition by Gomma. 

The final eight shortlisted were all of a very high calibre and deciding the winner was a very difficult decision. The quality of the work submitted was extremely high and we are very pleased with the final selection. 

The following photographers are the official winners: 
Michelle Sank, “In my skin” 
Tomasz Fularski, “Pride” 
Sara Hibbert, “This Must be the Place” 
Jens Juul, “Six Degrees of Copenhagen” 
Scott Typaldos, “Butterflies” 
Andre Lichtenberg, “The Licht series” 
Gregory Gaydu, “Noir Foncé” 
Daniel Alvarez, “Portraits and Places” 

Good news to share! The following are some extracts from an email received from Rooms mag. A contemporary Art magazine published in London.  "Dear André...  We are pleased to tell you that your photo ‘Stairs’ is the winner of the 3^rd edition of our ‘photography competition: Darkroom by Supremebeing’, and will be featured in our upcoming issue of Rooms, due for release on 18^th April 2013. We’d also love to do an interview with you to feature on our website... I’d be happy to arrange with one of our writers to contact you soon. I take the opportunity to let you know that we’ll be having a launch party for our new issue at Hoxton Gallery, Shoreditch, on 17^th April 2013."  Stairs had also been previously selected for Renaissance Photography Prize in 2011 and exhibited recently in Spain, Holland and Brazil. the Below is a copy of the printed magazine. 

A few installation images from the SP-Arte 2013 in Sao Paulo, with the Licht series seen on the left of the photographs. All images courtesy of Galeria Bolsa de Arte.

Galeria Bolsa de Arte will be showing the Licht series at SP-Arte 2013. The annual international art fair has been created in 2005 and has grown to be one on the most prestigious art events in South America. SP-Arte will be open to visitor from the 4th to the 7th of April at the Pavilhão Ciccilio Matarazzo in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

After the success of the Arles Exhibition in 2012 at the Galerie Huit, Photography Open Salon and "An Eye For an Ear Exhibition" will be soon showing in Asia at the China House, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. A few images from the Vertigo series have been curated for the show which will be open from the 28th march to 17 April 2013. The private view will be on Thursday 28th March. Below is an image from China House.

Galeria Bolsa de Arte (Brazil) will be exhibiting the Licht series for the first time in the USA, at the Art Miami 2012. The Licht series was created in remote areas of the British south coast and illuminated primarily by the moonlight. I have had a few images shipped to America in the last couple of years, but they went straight into private collections. So this is a good opportunity to have my work seen by a larger American audience. Art Miami will open from the 4th to 9th of Dec 2012.

I'm happy to have been invited to be part of AMV BBDO Charity Arts Sale again. This is an art event hosted at the agency HQ in London, Marylebone Road, around Xmas time. Over 300 advertising & fine art photographers are invited to donate an A5 (signed on reverse - so the creator remains anonymous) print which gets exhibited and sold at the night. The last event in 2010 was such a wonderful, fun & vibrant night, with some amazing work exhibited and generating over £ 30,000 for the Kids Company charity. The date this year Thursday 29th Nov. Hope to see some of you there! 

The Vertigo series will be exhibited in Asia for the first time this November. Flaere Gallery is bringing the series to the AAF Singapore 2012 (15th - 18th Nov). However they will not be the first Vertigo series images to enter the country, as a large Neon Blue, 120x80cm from the small edition of 5 - was sold in 2010 to a collector in Singapore, who saw the piece at the "You Are Here" exhibition in London Knigstbridge. 

Red Cloud, a seascape showing a storm approaching the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, is now being represented by Sophie Maree Galery in Holland. It will be seen first at the AAF Amsterdam, 25th to 28th Oct 2012. The image was created in 2005 while exploring the Eastern coast of Queensland.

 

Good news from France!! Neon Blue which was recently being exhibited at Galerie Huit, as part of the Arles Photography Open Salon 2012, has been purchased by a Swiss collector. The print (90x60cm and number 15 of an edition of 20)  is now the second Neon Blue in Switzerland. The other one was sold by Flaere Gallery a year ago during a show in London. The larger size (120x80cm) edition of 5 is already Sold Out.

I am very pleased to announce that my work is now being represented by Bolsa de Arte gallery in Porto Alegre. The gallery, founded in 1980, represents an amazing group of Brazilian artists and has produced over 250 exhibitions in Brazil over the last 30 years, as well as being a regular exhibitor in international art fairs, such as: Miami, Dubai, London... I have recently visited Bolsa de Arte new H.Q. in Porto Alegre. An impressive architectural project, with over 800 square meters of exhibiting space (cleverly designed) between two floors in a modern, functional & minimalistic building. The Licht series (Full Moon images) have just been shipped to them. Below is an image showing the interior of the new gallery. 

Please follow the link to a short review of the Full Moon Project by Angie Davey, (creative director and curator) at Eyestorm. The image below is called Crossroads, it was created in the Pantanal region of Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) in a full moon night at around midnight. The moon, seen in the image, looks and acts like the sun due to the very long exposures used in this project (transforming the night into day). This particular trip to Brazil was sponsored by Land Rover as part of the first prize winning of the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) 2006, Wild category. The below image was also shortlisted to the final of the Terry O'neil Award, edition 2007.

Sophie Maree Gallery new summer exhibition in Holland, will focus on contemporary landscape photography. The show presents recent works from an international group of 7 artists including: Andre Lichtenberg, Mikael lafontan, Kevin Best, Yang YongLiang and Nicholas Hughes. Red Dot, from the Vertigo series was chosen as the image to promote the show. The exhibition runs till the 26 of Aug. More info at Sophie Maree Gallery website. 

I'm pleased to announce that a small collection of my images are now available through Eyestorm, the famous online gallery that has in its books artists such as Damian Hurst, Antony Micallef, Bob Carlos Clarke, Helmut Newton, etc...  Eyestorm will be representing some of my limited edition images from the Full Moon series (Brazil and UK), the Surf series (mainly Australia) and a few images from the Dubai project. Below is Copacabana Unseen, in Rio de Janeiro -  from the Full Moon series.

Fantastic news from France!! A selection of the Vertigo series, has been shortlisted for the Arles Photography Open Salon 2012, and will be in an exhibition called "An Eye for an Ear" at Galerie Huit in Arles,..

I have just finished shooting a project for Le Monde magazine in Paris. Le Monde is publishing a 100 pages special about London in June, and asked me to shoot some new cityscapes in the same style and concept as the Within series. The images will be used to illustrate an essay about London's new architecture, written by Manuel Appert, french professor at Lyon II University. This is great news, as the Within series is a new (ongoing) project, which I am planning to exhibit in 2013... and to have the endorsement of high profile publications such as Le Monde in France and The Sunday Times magazine in UK (front cover in Feb 2012) is very encouraging and supportive. The Le Monde - London Special magazine will be published on the 21st of June. Below are a couple of images from the series. 

Good news from Holland! Galerie Sophie Maree will be showing the "Licht series" (a night performance based photographic project created under the British moonlight) at the  KunstRAI 2012, a famous & important contemporary Art fair in the Dutch calendar - which was founded in 1985. The KunstRAI 2012 will be open in Amsterdan from the 30th of May to the 3rd of June. More info at: http://www.kunstrai.nl/pagina.php 

I am delighted to announce that my work will be on show at Spring Medley, the new exhibition by Flaere Gallery at 27, Connaught Street, London W2. Spring Medley is a group show curated by Camilla Zervoglos and Helene Schneider, which will  focus on 7 artists represented by the gallery. The exhibition will be open from the 21st to the 28th of May and the private view is Tue 22nd from 6 to 9pm. Below is Sunday Shoppers, from the Vertigo series, one of the images on show.

Good news from Brighton!! The curators of the HOUSE Open exhibition have selected 2 of my recent pieces to the annual show which will be held at The Dome Theatre in Brighton. The theme of this year HOUSE Open is "Hidden Stories" and the work to be exhibited has been selected by a panel of 3 curators: Nicola Coleby (Keeper of Exhibitions @ Royal Pavilion & Brighton Museum), Simon Martin (Head Curator @ Pallant House Gallery) & Clare Sheppeard (Independent Curator). The private view will be Friday 4th of May, and the exhibition will be open Tuesdays to Sundays - 10am to 5pm - From the 5th to 29th May 2012. Below is one of the images selected.

I am delighted to announce that Galerie Sophie Maree will be showing the Vertigo & the Licht series at the Artantique 2012 in Utrecht. Artantique is an annual fair for antiques, ancient and contemporary art in the Netherlands. All participants (galleries & artists) are selected by three high profile committees: one for the ancient art, one for the antiques and another one specialised in contemporary art, design & photography. Artantique: 22 - 29 April 2012 - Jaarbeurs Utrecht - Holland.

Exciting month in the Studio, with limited edition prints being acquired by new collections in USA, France and UK. This felt specially good for two reasons: firstly, my work has not been in any new exhibition or Arts Fair this month and secondly, one enquire was from an earlier series which has not been in my website for over 8 years. The image is a vintage silver gelatine print, from 1996 (see below) and has now been shipped to a collector in America.  "Florianopolis Bridge" (1996) has in interesting story as it had been selected to the Travel photographer of the Year (in the same year), while I was still studying a photography MA in London. The image went to finals and won a trip to Canada in the competition. The other few images sold are from the Vertigo series (2008), represented by Flaere Gallery, and are now part of two private collections in London in Paris.

I was commissioned a few weeks ago (by the Sunday Times magazine) to create a couple images of the exterior of the MI6 building (London) in a menacing style. It took me some time brain storming the style & the logistics of this shoot in order to achieve something that both: the art director and I would be pleased with. I knew that I wouldn't be able to go to the location at night with an assistant, tripod, lights, etc... as we would very quickly be stopped by security. So I suggested to the art director, to shoot in the style of my currently fine art project called "within" (see previous blog post). It was not really any surprise when half way through the shoot I was told to stop by the police, even though I was shooting from a public space... but at that stage I had already enough material to illustrate the article. Below is a copy of the front cover selected. 

This are the first preview of my new personal project called "Within". I have been working on this series for several months now and am beginning to show it to a handful of friends and industry people I trust. The response so far has been very positive and I was recently commission by the Sunday Times magazine to produce a front cover and a DPS (double page spread) in the same style. In short,  Within is a series of aerial cityscapes which I initially envisaged to create at night, using very long exposures on a large format camera. However, due to the difficult access, logistics, security issues, etc...  (the images have been created from the very roof top of the incredibly tall buildings), I was only granted permission to work during the day and in a smaller scale. Hence, in order to get nearer to my vision, I decided to shoot the images in a particular light & invert them, creating a negative effect that resembles a X-ray vision or an illustration. The effect is surreal, intriguing and beautiful (well... to me, at least). A new representation of a modern city lit from within. A rare vision that enables the viewer to study the metropolis under a new light. A vision which shows city patterns (flow, functions, shapes and architecture) in way that would normally be invisible to the naked eye."  Check out the Sunday Times mag. Sunday 12th of Feb. for some larger images.

The last few weeks before Xmas have been very busy with meetings, tests and producing for the very large group portrait of all the workers, (well... most of them) involved in the construction of the Kings Cross new concourse. The idea was to do a shoot to celebrate the end of the main construction which also coincided with Christmas. Network Rail invited everyone who collaborated with the project: architects, engineers, property developers, construction workers, etc...  to get together and immortalise the moment. A team from the Argent Group Plc was there, architect Hiro Aso from John McAslan was present, Vinci & NJ Bailey team and Network Rail representatives also attended as well as most of the construction workers, creating in total a group of nearly 600 people. I was lucky to have a great group of assistants with me making sure the day run as smooth as possible + Site Eye simultaneously shooting a time-lapse video of the event. See a few images below: 

Interesting weekend last one. On Saturday I went to a very inspiring talk by curator Charlotte Cotton, (previously the Department Head of Photographs at Los angeles County Museum of Art & currently back in UK at the National Media Museum). The event took place at the Phoenix Gallery in Brighton.and was organised by the Brighton Photo Fringe "Open 11". Charlotte has been involved with the "Open 11" as a mentor curator. On Sunday I woke up to see one of my images printed very large (full bleed double page) in the Sunday Times magazine, the image had been commissioned a couple of weeks prior, to illustrate a story the Sunday Times were writing about One Hyde Park, currently the most expensive flats in the World. See the image below....