JOSEF HOFLEHNER

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS

To 29 February

The IPA (International Photography Awards) - photography's equivalent of the Oscars -this year, voted Hoflehner Nature Photographer of the Year. Since his first exhibition at Atlas - Frozen History, an aesthetic documentary study of the deserted expeditionary huts of Antarctica, also his first major gallery exhibition on the world stage - Josef has travelled far and wide through some of the most remote, stunning and sublime landscapes on the planet.

From The Yemen to Iceland, China and The Deep South of America, his images depict the landscapes of dreams and are reminiscent in their technical purity of the great masters of early twentieth century landscape
photography.

GEORGE RODGER

AFRICAN PORTRAITS

6 March - 3 May

A founding member of Magnum Photos, in 1947, George Rodger made his name during the Blitz in London; and through his work documenting Monty's Desert Rats' struggle against the Axis armies in Africa, for Life magazine, in 1941. His enduring passion remained Africa, where he returned in 1947, embarking on a two-year long, overland journey from Cape Town to Cairo, with the intention of photographing the wild-life, and, also, wanting to explore something of Man's inseparable relationship with nature.

He visited Nigeria, Uganda, and Lamberene in Gabon, photographing, from the high hills of Basutoland to the remote Nuba villages of Kordofan in Southern Sudan, the little known, day-to-day existence of the tribal peoples in this part of South and East Africa. Rodger gained unprecedented access to the Nuba tribe and the Masai warriors in Kenya; first publishing his extraordinary pictures in National Geographic in 1951.

Africa remained a major preoccupation for Rodger for the rest of his life. He died in 1995.

LENI RIEFENSTAHL

NUBA

6 March - 3 May

In 1962, Leni Riefenstahl became the first white woman to obtain permission from the Sudanese government to study the Nuba tribe. Until 1969, she lived intermittently among these people in the remote valleys of central Sudan, studying them closely taking unique and fascinating photographs which constitutes a lasting record of what was once their way of life.

Inspired by George Rodger's famous photographs of Nuba wrestlers, Riefenstahl set out to compile what became her second great photographic essay.

BURT GLINN

NEW YORK, 1971

4 February - 5 April

This exhibition is selected from a little known series of photographs, shot by Glinn, of prostitutes working on the streets of New York. The work is made with the integrity and honesty usually associated with his photography. "In journalism you don't set it up. You think about where it's all going to be, and sometimes you're lucky and sometimes you get to places you can be. I don't touch a thing, I don't tell anybody to go there and sit there or move there or do anything. I'm really devoted to the idea that this is too important to screw around with."

Glinn works with great versatility and technical prowess, and many consider him to be one of Magnum's great corporate and advertising photographers. He has received numerous awards for his editorial and commercial photography, and held the posts of President of the American Society of Media Photographers, and President of Magnum, (between 1972 and 1975 - and, again, in 1987).

"In all the different types of work I've done - editorial, travel, advertising - they've all had the same engine driving them, which is that I
can't think of anything that's better than what happens in real life."