Category: Documentary Photography

  • Winning image in ESRC competition

    Exhibition ‘Portraits of Britain’ is now open  – click here to see more Location: The Strand Gallery, London, WC2N 6BP  Date and time: 8-10 November, 11.00-19.00 and 11 November 11.00-13.00 (free)

  • EcoTectura International Festival

    Plattformer – interactive sound and play installation, using table tennis, contact mics, found sounds and amplified audio circuits in Art-Residency Guslitsa, Russia at the EcoTectura International Festival. © Asya Gefter

  • Leytonstone’s Community Garden

    Diana Korchien – Our promised land: Church Lane Community Garden © Asya Gefter

  • What is Chats Palace?

    Very excited to launch our new blog about the Chats Palace archival project I am working on together with Peter Young from Photochats – http://whatischatspalace.wordpress.com © Hackney Archives. Library (now Chats Palace) opening 1913

  • BYB at Chats Palace this summer

    Brooksbys Youth Booth Arts Organisation (coordinator Lauren Mills) runs an affordable playscheme at Chats Palace throughout the summer holidays for children who attend Hackney schools. Healthy breakfasts and snacks, trips and outings, arts and educational activities. Lauren and her team of local volunteers: © Asya Gefter See more on http://www.bybarts.org

  • Clorinde @Trangallan

    The Clorinde boys – brothers Simone and Andrea Salvatici with David Harris and Derek Yau in the background – performing at Trangallan in Newington Green. My camera seems to coping just fine.

  • Discover Children’s Story Centre

    The Mighty Mega Saturday Club is a club for children with disabilities and their families run by Discover Children’s Story Centre in Stratford. Since May 2012 the club has been taking part in a photography project led by photographer Estelle Vincent and assisted by illustrator Cristina Bueno. I came along earlier this month to document young participants at work: […]

  • Rushmore primary school

    On invitation of Rachel Turner I spent June 25-26 documenting Olympic march at Rushmore primary school and a day trip with Year 4 pupils along the river Lea and Regents canal, to the Fish factory and the Victoria park. © Asya Gefter

  • Thames in nature and industry

    A walk from Purfleet along the Thames across the Rainham marshes discovered on my birthday. What a treat! © Asya Gefter

  • One Good Thing About Music

    Opening of the photography exhibition by David Corio at Chats Palace. I escaped all the hard work and was left with pleasant tasks such as designing a flier and helping Peter Young to hang the frames. One Good Thing About Music is an exhibition of photographs of some of the world’s most influential international musicians […]