Living Pictures

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Their work is based on a deep and intuitive insight into the varying tools young directors might need to develop and grow.” Alex’s workshop was a great insight into the image-fuelled world of an actor. Especially for directors looking for a simple yet powerful language to communicate with actors.” Our books are enjoyed at home with family and friends, in schools, or for adults as members of one of our community Touch to See Book Clubs around the country. We give thousands of blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to borrow our Touch to See books from a free postal library. Living Pictures is a highly poetic book about memories of a Soviet childhood and a reinvention in the USA, with interludes of a choir of voices from St. Petersburg. Polina Barskova’s prose elegantly joins all the genres to create a new narrative form.

A rule of thumb is that a single picture (or group of pictures) shouldn’t be wider than the actual sofa itself. Aim for something that measures roughly two thirds the length of the sofa - this could be one large picture or an arrangement of several smaller pictures. Barskova’s arguments or presentations of history or biography tend to follow poetic logic, and her own biography and recollections rest atop the city’s tragedy. Painting walls and woodwork in the same colour, or slight tonal variations of the same hue, creates a monochromatic scheme that seamlessly stretches the look of the walls from the floor and ceiling,’ says Ruth Mottershead, Creative Director at Little Greene. While more traditional to paint skirtings and woodwork in standard white, this creates a harsh break that jars the eye visually, while continuous colour helps blur the lines and will also save cutting-in time when painting.A session with Denise Gabriel is truly inspiring. I saw swift and significant changes in actors and a real sense of craft. A wonderful teacher.”

Please use this feature on your own historical photos and not on photos featuring living people without their permission.” Finally, Contemporary Imaginations immerses the visitor in the explosion of images in the present day. Referring to Walter Benjamin’s question about whether art was photography, this section recognises the omnipresence of photography as ‘a way of seeing, thinking, and interacting’ with the world. Here we see the vibrant and multilayered tableaux of Filipina artist Wawi Navarroza [above], who combines self-portraiture with the assembly of disparate objects to reflect on self and place. Representation is a recurring theme in the section, which unavoidably engages with political matters. In Dinh Q Lê’s Crossing the Farther Shore, for example, we see found photographs of anonymous South Vietnamese families taken before the country’s reunification in 1975. A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction.

These fractured poem-stories are composed of disjunctively arranged images, slices of memory both personal and historical, and a shadowy array of citations of varying levels of obscurity and recognizability, creating unique prose tissues that carve out a space for themselves in an ambiguous zone between critical essay, autobiography, poetry, and short fiction. What is unambiguous is their success: They are extraordinarily powerful works, at turns densely evocative and dizzyingly erudite, doing many of the best things that writing can do. Barskova, following the method of her poetry, manages by painstaking technique and sheer force of image to ponder herself considering the Siege and its survivors, drawing from life and art to represent an experience of personal trauma mediated by communication with history.

Don’t shy away from using darker paint colours in a small living room. Dark colours on walls can create a receding effect so that walls seem further away, visually enlarging the space. There are up to two million people in the UK living with severe sight loss, including 20,000 children. One in six of us will become blind or partially sighted by the time we reach 75. Blind and partially sighted people face constant challenges, for children they can’t take part in the same activities as their peers and siblings and often feel excluded, and in later life sight loss can be linked to increasing isolation and depression. Garden Manager Sarah Redman brings her enthusiasm and wider knowledge of the natural environment and biodiversity.Polina Barskova was born and brought up in Leningrad over 30 years after the end of the siege of that city by the Germans during WWII. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944. The siege cast a long shadow which still affected the lives of the children in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reminders were all around, a preserved bomb shelter, missing buildings, walls scarred by shell fragments, and in memorials. Living Pictures Summer Workshop: Stanislavsky’s ACTIVE ANALYSIS, 1st – 12th August (Monday to Friday) Suspendisse consequat odio convallis, accumsan sapien ac, eleifend eros. Nunc ipsum justo, convallis sed hendrerit sed, placerat vitae quam. Aliquam sed facilisis metus. Quisque commodo ante arcu. Pellentesque pharetra ut leo in malesuada. Donec quis mauris tincidunt, lacinia mi vel, lacinia nulla. Praesent mattis lacus leo, accumsan dapibus metus placerat at. Curabitur fringilla sodales enim, vitae placerat nibh pretium sit amet. Curabitur interdum leo turpis, et pharetra diam molestie sed. Phasellus pellentesque at tellus nec fringilla. Maecenas vitae ultricies ex. Donec accumsan felis vitae dui bibendum hendrerit. Quisque velit elit, congue tempus risus et, ultrices mollis ligula. Sed mattis tincidunt massa. Donec et augue venenatis lectus faucibus sodales id vitae nunc.

Picture height is key too. In a living room, where you are more likely to be sitting down, hang artwork low enough so you can enjoy it while seated, with the centre of your image positioned roughly at eye level. Does every wall need decor? Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia considers the power of photography in affecting the way we see and approach the world, and its mobilisation in systems of knowledge and representation since it arrived in the region in the mid-19th century,” says curator Charmaine Toh. “This exhibition offers an additional strand in the tapestry that is the global history of photography.” Not necessarily. It can be easy to get carried away and try to fill every wall with decor, but if there’s too much going on in one room it can feel a little overpowering. Creating balance is key to any successful decorating scheme. So if you have one area that’s quite busy visually, counteract this by having areas that feel calmer and have less going on. As narrator and guide. . .Barskova makes the unprocessed grief come alive. She spins it into non-narrative and non-linear poems and prose, a pastiche which mimics the very nature of traumatic memory: disassociated and halting.

Living Pictures Summer Workshop: Stanislavsky’s ACTIVE ANALYSIS: for Actors and Directors, 3rd – 15th August With more than 300 images by nearly 100 photographers, the largest-ever survey of south-east Asian photography is on show at the National Gallery Singapore. It attempts to place photography from and about the region in the compendiums of local art history, and in the history of photography at large.