Press
Brian Aris – Rare Stones – BBC South East Today
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx8zpg51vlno
Interview BBC South East Today 20th March 2024
Brian Aris- From the Troubles to Glam Rock Through the Eyes of Brian Aris
The British photographer started off covering civil unrest and ended up shooting the Queen – a new exhibition takes you on the wild ride
John Topham – England at war, work and play – in pictures
From peashooting women to British troops in drag, Kent photographer John Topham captured his country from the 1920s through to the end of the second world war
John Topham
England at war and at play: A woman firing a peashooter at dockers, soldiers in drag and devastation of the Blitz feature in amazing pictures from one of Britain’s best-ever photographers
Homer Sykes – Once A Year
Homer Sykes: capturing the whimsy, folklore and festivals of Britain
Friends Of Derek – Unseen pictures
Derek Jarman and friends in Dungeness – unseen pictures
An exhibition of mostly unseen photographs and film of Derek Jarman and his inspirational former Dungeness home, Prospect Cottage, opens at the Lucy Bell Gallery at the end of this month. Featuring his friends and fellow filmmakers, 25% of all sales go towards the Art Fund’s campaign to save Prospect Cottage and Jarman’s legacy. The exhibition runs from 29 February until 31 March
Ed Sykes – Derek Jarman – Canonisation
Saintmaking: the canonisation of Derek Jarman by queer ‘nuns’
Steve Lamacq
Jill Furmanovsky
As we build up to this year’s T-Shirt Day , Steve chats to legendary music photographer Jill Furmanovsky about her work documenting the past 50 years of rock and roll.
Tom Hunter – A Journey Home
You talkin’ to me? The taxi drivers of Hastings – in pictures Hans on West Hill. Photograph: Tom Hunter Cabbies in Hastings come from all over the world – so Tom Hunter took a ride with them, listened to their thoughts on their adopted East Sussex home, and photographed them at dusk or dawn in locations around the town. Curated by Lucy Bell and David Rhodes
Contacts Exhibition
Bob Marley, Björk and David Bowie as you’ve never seen them… Contacts is an exhibition of rare and never-before-seen contact sheets by some of the world’s greatest music photographers at the Lucy Bell Gallery.
The Guardian – Marilyn Stafford
In 1950s Paris, photographer Marilyn Stafford was commissioned to capture the glamour and elegance of a new fashion concept – prêt-à-porter.
Syd Shelton – New European
Photographer Syd Shelton was one of the architects of the Rock Against Racism movement. He talks to Richard Holledge about what brought it into being and its resonance today. Syd Shelton likes to take his time taking a photograph. He waits, he coaxes, he builds up a rapport between himself and subject before he gets it right. ‘People are very much aware they are on the camera,’ he explains. ‘So I will use 10 rolls of film if necessary until the subject gives me something more and I have got what I want.’ Shelton recalls the example of two skinheads he met in 1979. They were kitting themselves out at the Last Resort, a popular hangout in London’s East End, which sold the tribe’s uniform – Harrington jackets, braces and steel capped boots. ‘They stood against a corrugated fence like a pair of wallies, not giving me anything at all and being guarded whenever I asked them something.
Steven Berkoff – East End Photographs
The celebrated playwright, actor and director Steven Berkoff keeps photography aside from his theatrical reputation but now it’s in the open…
Brian Duffy – The Third Man
A new exhibition of the late, great photographer Brian Duffy’s work, entitled Duffy The Third Man, is running at the Lucy Bell gallery in St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex. It’s actually only the second ever exhibition of Duffy’s work…
Graham Keen – 1966 And All That
Between 1968-1970 photographer Graham Keen became, at the invitation of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, art editor for International Times, which was published for the first time in 1966. He contributed photographs and was later to be art director for issues 29-70. When the magazine was raided by police, Keen and three other directors were sent for trial, and found guilty of Conspiracy to Corrupt Public Morals. Keen went on to found Cyclops Magazine.
Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie
Around the globe with the peerless Thin White Duke Lucy Bell Gallery is set to present an exhibition of photographs by Geoff MacCormack documenting his time and travels with David Bowie.
BBC – David King Muhammad Ali
“Photos of Muhammad Ali in training on show in Hastings” – Rare photographs of Muhammad Ali training before one of boxing’s most famous fights are on show in Hastings. The exhibition at the Lucy Bell Gallery documents the boxer’s preparations before the “Rumble in the Jungle”.
The Guardian – Ken Russell
“The fabulous 50s”… as seen by Ken Russell Before he became Britain’s most controversial film director, Ken Russell forged a career as a photographer, capturing the great eccentrics of his youth for posterity. His work features in two forthcoming exhibitions: at Lucy Bell Fine Art, St Leonards-on-Sea (17 Mar-30 Apr) Lucy-Bell.com, then at the Topfoto Gallery, Edenbridge, Kent (1–28 May) topfoto.co.uk
The Guardian – Marilyn Stafford
“US photojournalist Marilyn Stafford worked for fashion houses, and documented the lives of slum children and refugees fleeing Algeria’s war of independence. A new exhibition at Lucy Bell Gallery in St Leonards-on-Sea shines a light on her work.”
