VENT: A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
From the 11th - 16th November 2008, The Crypt Gallery, Bloomsbury, will host a compelling collection of photographic work culminating from an 18 month collaboration between Photographer Cameron McNee and Actor/Director Dominic Kelly. VENT fuses the rawness of reportage photography with the beauty and composure of portraiture.
Using a discipline called the Meisner technique as their foundation they created real, in-the-moment spontaneous responses from actors trained at The Actors Temple www.actorstemple.com and these uncensored moments of emotion were captured again and again.
The gripping exhibition consists of 5 foot high portraits and cinematic images which invite you to join the subject in their pleading, grief, anger or jubilation; so that you in turn take on the role of the jilted lover, the betrayer or bearer of great news.
Formerly a WWII air raid shelter, St Pancras Crypt is a labyrinth of abandoned corridors and crooked recesses, providing a series of intimate spaces for each image to be contemplated.
Kelly, who trained in the Meisner technique at The Actors Temple, worked with McNee and together they combined their artistic skills to create a working environment that would enable their subjects to respond truthfully under the imaginary circumstances given to them. The result is an impressive collection of dramatic photographs which blaze with life and raw emotion in the desolate and unsettling environment of the Crypt.
For more information on VENT and The Actors Temple please contact Sara Kessel by calling
0203 004 4539 or e-mail Sara at sara@actorstemple.com
The Actors Temple is the first group of UK graduates of the Meisner technique, a unique acting ideology that was until recently taught in New York by Sanford Meisner. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Diane Keaton, Grace Kelly, Sandra Bullock, Robert Duvall and Kim Basinger are but a few of Meisner's students who have given memorable performances and won awards and admiration for their talent the world over. After Meisner's death in 1997, three of his students continued his technique by building three schools -- one in LA, one in London, and the original one in New York. The Actors Temple hopes to continue the Meisner success.
