Adam Hinton
Lovin’ It
9 May — 7 June 2008

HOST gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition of photography by Adam Hinton. Hinton’s new work from Shanghai documents the emergence of an aggressive consumer society in which the new proletariat of “communist” China comes to terms with living under the surreal haze of fluorescent lights and the constant gaze of advertising images.

The vivid colour photographs echo the nascent metropolis’ energy and explore the subtle interchange between the city framework and people who populate it. From commodity fetishism to impressions of personal nostalgia, Hinton’s work has dramatically drawn out the personal hope, dreams and struggles of the people of a 21st century metropolis.

Hinton’s book, Lovin’ It, published by Dewi Lewis, will be launched at the exhibition with signed copies available during the show.

Related Events:
In the Ring – 14 May, 6.30pm
Colin Jacobson, lecturer and former Picture Editor of the Independent Magazine, speaks with Adam Hinton.

China: Media, Culture, Politics & Changes Within – 21 May, 6.30pm
Dr Kerry Brown, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House, and Hugo de Burgh, Director of Chinese Media Centre at Westminster University, discuss the changes happening within Chinese media and culture.

Contrasts – 29 May, 6.30pm
Screening of Martin Hampton’s Possessed, shown originally as part of the London International Documentary Festival (LIDF), followed by a gallery talk between Patrick Hazard, Director of LIDF, Chris Wright, anthropologist from Goldsmiths University, Martin Hampton, filmmaker, and Adam Hinton, looking at the differences in approach and methodologies of still and moving image making.

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