the Topfoto Gallery http://topfotogallery.posterous.com news from the Topfoto Gallery posterous.com Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:34:27 -0700 The Glory of English Ballet http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-glory-of-english-ballet http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-glory-of-english-ballet

Distinguished British photographer Colin Jones, himself once a dancer with the Royal Ballet, is about to show his work at the TopFoto Gallery in north Edenbridge.

Dame Beryl Grey, one of our greatest ballerinas, is to open the exhibition to an invited audience, in advance of its opening to the public on 18 July.

The exhibition is the result of a lifetime of photographing the English National Ballet and other great companies. As a young dancer in the Royal Ballet, Colin Jones bought his first camera whilst running an errand for Margot Fonteyn, and never looked back. When he was offered a top job photographing for the Observer newspaper, at a time when it was the great leader of photo-journalism, he was generously released from his just-renewed Royal Ballet contract by Ninette de Valois.

Ballet dancers are athletes; the strength and poise to get that magical lightness is to Olympic level. The photographs are everything that ballet represents. They have a luminous intensity and beauty, and they do not shield the viewer from the self-discipline and relentless hard work that is required to get to the top of world ballet.

The portraits are not only of the earlier greats – Nureyev, Grey, Fonteyn – but also of contemporary dancers such as the sublime Tamara Rojo, who has just electrified 10,000 people at the O2 arena, dancing Juliet to Carlos Acosta’s Romeo.

Not to be missed.

Exhibition 18 July-26 August. Free entry; free parking; shop. 09.30-5pm Mon-Fri; 09.30-1pm Sat. Tel: 01732 863 939

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:07:13 -0700 The Art of Food Photography exhibition now on http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-art-of-food-photography-exhibition-now-on http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-art-of-food-photography-exhibition-now-on
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It is often said of typography that you don’t notice “good typography”. It sits easily on the page or the advertising hoarding and you read the message without seeing how it has been conveyed.
To the food photographer it can feel that food photography is also regarded like this by most people and that if those outside the business do contemplate it at all it is to wonder what dreadful things have been done to the food to make it look palatable or if it is all ‘fake’.
This exhibition of the work of Marie-Louise Avery, a well known London food photographer attempts to open the eyes of those who have not looked at food photography closely before and show that those images that appear in adverts or in the pages of glossy magazines are the result of careful observation, a love of light and of food and real artistry. These images are strong and interesting in their own right and work brilliantly as decorative works for interiors.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:27:00 -0700 The Art of Food Photography http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-art-of-food-photography http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-art-of-food-photography

The next exhibition at the Topfoto Gallery is The Art of Food Photography. Featuring the work of Marie-Louise Avery, a well known London food photographer working for advertising, design and editorial clients. This collection of images reflects the various aspects of her work, but especially those images that stand for themselves in their own right. Also worth visiting to see some aspects of what goes on behind the scenes of a food photoshoot!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:41:00 -0800 Christmas exhibition http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/christmas-exhibition http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/christmas-exhibition

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:35:00 -0800 StitchWorks Contemporary Textiles by Jaqui Adkins and Jo Senior http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/stitchworks-contemporary-textiles-by-jaqui-ad http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/stitchworks-contemporary-textiles-by-jaqui-ad
The highly successful StitchWorks exhibition will close on 3 December. There are a few works still available but in any case see the exhibition at The Topfoto Gallery in north Edenbridge. This exhibition is followed by Eden Art Expo in the Gallery with exhibits from the Eden Valley and there will be plenty of original works at reasonable Christmas prices. Do come to the grand opening on Sunday 12 December 11.00 to 14.00 for mince pies and mulled wine. Paintings, sculpture, prints, ready to go greetings cards or print your own.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:23:00 -0700 Harold Chapman's Great Exhibition http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/harold-chapmans-great-exhibition http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/harold-chapmans-great-exhibition

Wednesday’s opening of the Beat Hotel: photographs by Harold Chapman was just brilliant.  Harold was on outstanding form for this, the first major UK retrospective of his Beat years, and rose effortlessly to the challenge of being interviewed by John Wilson for Front Row (Radio 4 – see link, Harold is the final item), and Zinovy Zinik for the BBC World Service Moscow, and the Guardian (filmed and interviewed) – all in sequence in the hours before the 200-strong crowd arrived to congratulate him on the show.

Don’t miss Harold’s brilliant interview on Front Row www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t3tcv

The Beat Hotel, photographs by Harold Chapman is showing at the Proud Chelsea gallery, 161 Kings Road, London until 29 August 2010 and then comes to the home ground, the TopFoto Gallery, in the autumn. Limited edition prints, signed by Harold Chapman, are available from £350 ex VAT for the duration.

A mix of photos of the opening attached – all taken by Claire Parry and copyright Claire Parry/TopFoto.co.uk.

Huge thanks and congratulations to Harold, Claire, and the Proud team who worked so hard to make this important exhibition happen.

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Textiles: Friday 19 November – Thursday 25 November, 2010

 Though we are primarily a photographic gallery of course…. we’re also looking forward to hosting an exhibition of textile work by several locally based artists including Jacqui Adkins and Jo Senior. Couple of pictures of Jo Senior’s work – lovely.  More details as we have them!

 

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]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:43:00 -0700 The Beat Hotel: Photographs by Harold Chapman http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-beat-hotel-photographs-by-harold-chapman http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-beat-hotel-photographs-by-harold-chapman

Just finished creating the new exhibition for our autumn season and delivered it to London until it comes here in October. The Beat Hotel: Photographs by Harold Chapman. I don’t want to give too much away but this is going to be one of the most important exhibitions in the UK for a long time, by anyone’s standards.

Harold Chapman, living quietly in his hometown of Deal, is still not as widely known as his household-name contemporaries but that’s changing rapidly. Chapman, as he is known, lived amongst the Beat poets and artists in Paris in the 1950s, at the “fleabag shrine” that was the now-famous Beat Hotel and home to William Burroughs, Brion Gysin (currently subject of a major retrospective in New York), Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Ian Somerville and others.

Chapman’s negatives of the Beat era, 50 years old and originally developed under his bed as a make-shift dark room, are extremely fragile. For the first and only time, he has allowed the negatives to be taken out, by the TopFoto Gallery, and put into the hands of master printer Robin Bell.  As the silver gelatin prints came to life, revealing the grace and perception of Chapman’s original intention in a way that has never been seen, including by Harold himself, we all witnessed the utter magic that is possible from putting together two absolute masters of their craft.

When I took the prints to Harold, who was doubtful of the possibility of rescuing the negatives, he studied each one with the razor-sharp attention of the artist and then pronounced: “perfect”.

Flora

 

Dates for The Beat Hotel: photographs by Harold Chapman

London: Proud Chelsea, 161 Kings Road - 29 July to 29 August, 2010

Kent: TopFoto Gallery, 1 Fircroft Way, Edenbridge - 4 October to 17 November, 2010

Prints: Signed, limited edition silver gelatin prints and limited edition giclée prints available (1-30). Prices start at £300 ex VAT.

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Motor cycle and racing car champion John Surtees was at the Topfoto Gallery last night to give a talk about his career illustrated with pictures from the TopFoto archive. A rapt audience were delighted by his fascinating stream of memories and anecdotes. Afterwards he signed photos and booklets in aid of the Eden Valley Museum

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Tue, 18 May 2010 04:23:00 -0700 Ken Russell photography exhibition http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/18861753 http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/18861753 A small gathering to view the Ken Russell exhibition last night coincided with the publication of a big feature on us in Amateur Photographer magazine. Oxted-based picture researcher Charlotte Lippmann and TopFoto marketing manager John Balean are pictured admiring both the feature and the original Ken Russell photograph – Private Eye (a man reading a newspaper outside an optician’s shop!).

We sold several of the limited edition prints, including one of ballerina Frances Pidgeon on tip-toes under a hip bath (“perfect for my bathroom” said the buyer) and have decided to extend the exhibition to Saturday 19 June (we’ll take it down that morning). 

 

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The Ken Russell exhibition is up and stunning.  Lucy Bell didn’t want to let it go from her St Leonard’s gallery walls, a sentiment I completely understand (not least because she sold so many prints including into some very significant private collections – huge congratulations Lucy!).  Ken’s pictures are so real, so vivid that you feel you know the people and you grieve when they are gone – much like when you have finished reading a really wonderful novel.  The playful, surreal images (how many things can you find to do with a hip bath, for example…) or the revelations of childhood before the advent of health & safety paranoia, are so full of story that we can hardly imagine our gallery without them.  But we shall have to cope! because next month the show moves to Proud Chelsea, a flagship new gallery for the Proud group on the Kings Road where sizes and prices will rise accordingly.

 

Here in Edenbridge, however, until 31 May, (NB extended until June 19th) collectors and the simply curious can wander unimpeded through Ken Russell: Film-maker Photographer and get to know and love this unexpected, other side, of legendary film director Ken Russell.

 

Exhibition of 33 photographs, available in Limited Edition silver gelatin prints (1- 25).  Prices start at £500 unframed (approximate 20 x 16”)  

Photographer Ken Russell; printer Robin Bell.

Open 09.30-5pm Monday-Friday; 09.30-1pm Saturday

01732 863 939 admin@topfoto.co.uk

 

Flora Smith 

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We’re beginning to work with West Kent, and the first two visits have been a great success.  Lovely kids and it was interesting to see how individual their choices were, selecting images that were far from obvious. Good to see. We’re looking forward to more!

Flora

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We just spent the morning finishing up the hang of the Harriet Logan exhibition, UNVEILED.  Peter has managed to fit everything in, with a double hang - just!  Every photograph merits a long and careful study. Harriet Logan is an extraordinary photographer. In 1997 the Sunday Times sent her to capture the lives of women who had been driven into their homes and behind the veil by the Taliban. Anything she took on the street, she had to take without looking through the camera – if the Taliban had spotted her, well, it would have been unthinkable. The women even lent her their shoes, so that her western feet would not give her away. She hid the film in the ceiling of her hotel room and managed to smuggle it out. In 2001 she returned and found many of the same women, this time after the invasion. 

This exhibition is one of those rare things, a real must see. Incredibly moving, enraging, inspiring. It travels the world and we managed to secure it thanks to Harriet Logan herself and the Lucy Bell Gallery of Fine Art Photography. 

In honour of this important subject, our near neighbour and world expert on Afghanistan, Sandy Gall, has kindly agreed to talk at the Gallery on Tuesday 13 April in aid of his long-standing charity, the Sandy Gall Afghanistan Appeal (SGAA) – tickets are £10. Do come if you can.  admin@topfoto.co.uk

Flora Smith

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:31:34 -0700 TopfotoGallery in the Courier http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/topfotogallery-in-the-courier http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/topfotogallery-in-the-courier
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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:50:00 -0700 Eden Valley Artists on show at TopfotoGallery in Black and White http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/eden-valley-artists-on-show-at-topfotogallery http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/eden-valley-artists-on-show-at-topfotogallery

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The latest show at the TopfotoGallery is a slight departure from photography as it features the work of the Eden Valley Artists group - this fascinating mix of work in a wide variety of media is held together very effectively by the theme of black and white. It includes paintings, drawings, glass, ceramics, sculpture, prints, textiles and photographs, by members of this recently formed group that is really showing its quality in this exhibition.

The show runs from March 19 - April 1 and already several of the pieces have been sold so hurry along! Prices range from £25 for small photographs by Niki Campbell to £260 for a sculpture by Jane Wharrad.

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:50:00 -0700 Ken Russell on his 50s photographs of great British eccentrics | from The Observer http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/ken-russell-on-his-50s-photographs-of-great-b http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/ken-russell-on-his-50s-photographs-of-great-b
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Before he became Britain's most controversial film director with Women In Love in 1969, and long before he gained a burst of brief late notoriety by joining – and storming out of – the 2007 Celebrity Big Brother house, Ken Russell was a freelance photographer. He began taking photographs in 1951, aged 23, having abandoned his ambition to be a dancer, and for six years his work appeared regularly in publications such as Illustrated Magazine and Picture Post.

Now 82, Russell's memories are hazy and his patience limited. "I had lots of time on my hands back then," he tells me. "I used to wander the streets around Notting Hill, where I lived, until something caught my eye. Plus, I had friends who were dancers and I used to do studio portraits of them with props that I had borrowed."

One such portrait, which hints at the surrealism that would punctuate his later films, features a ballerina called Frances Pidgeon, wearing a hip bath. The caption on the TopFoto website, where Russell's work now appears, notes that the image is from a series "based on alternative uses of the hip bath". The young photographer, like the film-maker he would become, was nothing if not inventive.

"I wanted to be a fashion photographer but it was too early for my kind of style. So I began to freelance. I'd suddenly think of an object. A hip bath, for example, and all the things you could do with it. It could be a lady's hat or a pram or a window box, and I'd spend hours exploring all the possibilities in a series of absolutely unbankable photographs."

Russell's photographs remained unseen for 50 years. The agency he worked for, Pictorial Press, was taken over by TopFoto in the late 1970s but Russell's archive was not discovered until 2005. The following year his house in Lymington burned down and, with it, all his original scripts for films such as Women in Love, The Music Lovers, The Devils, The Boyfriend and the rock opera Tommy. Safe in TopFoto's vaults, the original photographs survived.

A selection will inaugurate the new Lucy Bell Gallery of Photography, opening in St Leonards, East Sussex, this week. They are intriguing. When not indulging in a gentle surrealism that has dated somewhat – men on penny-farthing bikes, children dressed in adults' clothes – Russell operated well within the tradition of low-key British documentary photography. He was one of the first photographers to capture fledgling youth culture in London, in a series he called The Last of the Teddy Girls. It often features a striking 14-year-old called Jean Rayner who looks extraordinarily contemporary compared to the teddy boys that lurk or lark about in the background.

"She had attitude by the truckload," remembers Russell. "No one paid much attention to the teddy girls before I did them, though there was plenty on teddy boys. They were tough, these kids, they'd been born in the war years and food rationing only ended in about 1954 – a year before I took these pictures. They were proud. They knew their worth. They just wore what they wore."

Another series from the mid-50s features the regular clientele of the long-gone Cat's Whisker coffee bar in Soho. They are dancing the hand jive to the beat of a skiffle group. "I went along a few times," says Russell. " It was incredibly hot, in a basement, and the kids seemed to have invented hand-jiving simply because there was no space to do anything else. It was really strange to see a room full of people dancing with their hands, everyone doing it, but it was inventive and highly rhythmic and it caught on. I used to join in – it was something anyone could do."

Russell lived for a time on Portobello Road and, in his wanderings around Notting Hill, also captured one of London's first immigrant communities. "It was about six years after the Empire Windrush brought the first West Indians over. Where I lived, there was a racial mix that I caught almost by accident. I was just looking for local interest photographs really, anything I could sell to scrape out a living at the time. Photography was not the well-paid job it would later become." One photograph shows the rent man calling on a tenant while children play oblivious on the street. In its mix of the serious and the playful, it recalls the work of the great Mancunian documentary photographer Shirley Baker.

Unsurprisingly, given the tenor of his later film work, Russell had a keen eye for the eccentric. He photographed the three private eyes that made up the mysteriously named Mask Agency, and the results are part Alfred Hitchcock, part Conan Doyle, with a dollop of visual surrealism thrown in for good measure in the form of a giant eye from an optician's sign.

He was drawn, too, to strong, indefatigable women. One of his subjects, Helen May, was a former ballerina who had danced with the great Anna Pavlova. By the time Russell photographed her, she was living in a house surrounded by old ballet costumes and posters. She, too, featured in the hip bath series, and is pictured "dressed to the nines and waving a watering can" over his favourite prop.

Russell was captivated by an eccentric 72-year-old called Zora Raeburn who lived in a cluttered flat near the British Museum, where she wrote fiction and practised the cello. For 30 years she sent her novels to the publishers to no avail. Russell befriended her and, in his striking portraits, rechristened her Zora the Unvanquished. One unforgettable image captures her standing on a ladder in front of a brick wall papered with her countless rejection letters.

"She was amazing, this woman," says Russell. "She didn't get a single acceptance and she never gave up. She busked to raise funds with a sign saying: 'Dear audience, though I cannot play the cello… ' I think she eventually published one of her books herself."

For all the eccentricity and the occasional whimsy, Russell's photographs are fascinating as artefacts from a particularly austere period in postwar Britain. They hint at, rather than anticipate, his later career. He calls them "still films" and acknowledges that they taught him the value of composition. Even then, though, he was a rule-breaker. One of his most powerful shots is called Feeding Time. It captures a long row of women, some pushing prams, entering what looks like a somewhat austere rest home. It is, in fact, a women's prison. The women are returning to their cells after a day's work in the gardens and chicken runs. The photograph is taken from behind and above and, even though you cannot see the faces of the women, it captures the melancholy and regimentation of their lives. "I like to experiment," he says, "but most of the time I just trusted my instinct."

His real instinct, though, was for film-making. In 1958 a short film he made, entitled Amelia and the Angel, secured him a job at the BBC. The rest, as they say, is history: a series of acclaimed documentaries leading to a series of increasingly controversial feature films. In 1959 he set aside his Rolleicord and never picked up a stills camera again. Did he ever miss it? "No, not really. I just moved on. It was a natural progression."

Looking now at the often restrained atmosphere Russell's photographs exude, it's hard to believe they are a product of the same feverish imagination that created The Devils and Tommy. I have to say I prefer Ken Russell the quiet photographer, although the world of postwar British cinema would have been an immeasurably more mundane place without the louder, more outrageous director.

Ken Russell: Filmmaker, Photographer is at the Lucy Bell Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, 17 Mar-30 April, then at the Topfoto Gallery, Edenbridge, Kent, 1–27 May

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Yesterday, Thursday 11 March, we spent the day with Ken Russell as BBC South East interviewed him at his home about our forthcoming exhibition of his 1950s photography.  35 pictures have been beautifully curated by Lucy Bell and opens at Lucy Bell Fine Art, St Leonards on Wednesday March 17, before coming to the Topfoto Gallery for May.  Do watch the BBC South East news this Tuesday, 16 March and see their Special Report with both Ken Russell and Alan Smith of TopFoto talking about the work.  And do get a copy of The Observer on Sunday as we have a substantial photo feature in it (14 March).

Wednesday 10 March we hosted photography students from West Kent College.  18 students and 3 staff came to learn about the image licensing industry and study the current exhibitions.  Next week sees the older students coming for a more in-depth session, from composition to conservation of fragile negatives.  We are delighted to be West Kent College’s nearest photographic gallery and more visits/projects will be hosted here as the year progresses.

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Robin Gibson, senior broadcast journalist, interviewing Alan Smith, Managing Partner of TopFoto, at the Topfoto Gallery yesterday, with Ken Russell photographs in the background. (credit TopfotoGallery/Lynne Champion)

The Topfoto Gallery is open 9am-5pm weekdays; 9.30am-1pm on Saturdays
Last chance to see Russian Times: Soviet Times - until Thursday 18 March only
Opening 19 March: Black and White – work in a variety of media by Eden Valley Artists
Opening 2 April: Unveiled.  Women living under the Taliban, by Sunday Times photographer Harriet Logan.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:54:00 -0800 Granny Takes a Trip: Chiddingstone Over 60's club at the Topfoto Gallery http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/granny-takes-a-trip-chiddingstone-over-60s-cl http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/granny-takes-a-trip-chiddingstone-over-60s-cl

Yesterday, Tuesday 16 February, we were delighted to host the Chiddingstone Over 60s club for a visit to the “Memory Lane” exhibition and “Soviet Times: Russian Times”.  There were Land Girl memories a-plenty and the Eden Valley Museum’s digital display drew much interest as the buildings and scenes sparked vivid memories from the ladies who came.  Tea, home-made cakes, and a bring-and-buy sale in aid of the Haiti earthquake victims rounded the afternoon off.  

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:09:00 -0700 The Topfoto Gallery launch http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-topfoto-gallery-launch http://topfotogallery.posterous.com/the-topfoto-gallery-launch
The gallery launch on July 15th was a tremendous success, with much support from both local people and those from further afield. We are looking forward to great things and already the Topfoto Gallery in the Eden Valley is listed between Tate Modern and the V&A in the What's On section of www.nationalheritage.org.uk

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/110000/MLA_pic1.jpg http://posterous.com/users/4aGlSmng2mdj Marie-Louise Avery Marielou Marie-Louise Avery