ELINOR CARUCCI (IL / USA)
LYDIA PANAS (USA)
PHILLIP TOLEDANO (GB)
EDITH MAYBIN ( CDN / GB)

Curators: Peg Amison (Cork), Krzysztof Candrowicz (Łódź), Christoph Tannert (Berlin)

With kind support from the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Offices - Cultural Affairs.

Many thanks for the support from: Yours Gallery, Warszawa / Łódź Art Center / Fotofestiwal Łódź 2010 / Fundacja Edukacji Wizualnej, Łódź / The Sirius Arts Centre Cork / Crawford Art Gallery Cork

























All my lovin' is an international exhibition showing photographic works concerned exclusively with "You and I". It is an exhibition about love, loving and being loved; about loved ones at home, by our side, or separated from us, those with whom we feel the deepest bonds of the soul, but with whom our everyday relations are often filled with conflict, so that we experience alternating emotional security and insecurity. All my lovin' speaks of human relationships in powerful and moving individual images and picture series. We see couples young and old, fathers, mothers, parents with their children, happy and unhappy people, strangers who approach strangers, and others who emerge from the prison of restricted thinking in order to show spontaneous sympathy and experience love.

Edith Maybin: The Tenby Document
The Tenby Document is the intimate expression of interaction between mother and daughter, but also a voyage of self-discovery via the other. In a house in Tenby, Wales in 2005, Edith Maybin began to photograph herself and her daughter, six years old at the time, wearing Marks and Spencer's ladies underwear - mother and child separately but in the same poses, often bridging the distance between them by means of digital processing that causes the bodies of mother and daughter to merge into one figure.

Phillip Toledano: Days With My Father
In the series Days With My Father, Phillip Toledano reports on a time after his mother's sudden death when he lived together with his father, who suffered from dementia. Toledano's photos are filled with warmth and empathy, a diary of love and understanding.

Lydia Panas: Family Pictures ... untold stories
Photographer Lydia Panas directs all her attention towards members of her family and friends. First and foremost, she produces portraits - sharply and precisely focused, and equally rich in emotional differentiation. In the case of the young people shown, she is interested in their transition into adulthood - with all the associated poses, coolness, complicated relationships and sudden plummeting moods. What seems "normal" emerges, upon closer examination, as a psychological study examining questions of self-acceptance, confidence and recognition among one's peers and in the family.

Elinor Carucci: Crisis & Closer series
Crisis & Closer is a cycle of images by Elinor Carucci which has developed from randomly selected body sections, dramatically accentuated detail shots, and stories of relationships, lost love and new, euphoric encounters. The photographer says that her work has been so full of personal highs and lows that it could be said to have had a truly "cathartic effect".