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DITTO DOORS

These 6 Shaker style doors are at the centre of our collaboration space and are an exhibition medium where artists from all over the world are invited to both interpret and display their art. This is also the place that each day we work with our clients and our collaborators crafting stories. These doors form that table, that meeting point. Coalesce.

Storytelling is at the heart of what we do. The championing of established and new artists alike is central to ditto’s manifesto.There are many ways to tell a story – through a narrative, through music and visually. On our Campfire evenings the doors and space are transformed into a gallery to share the experience. To spread the love.

If you are an artist and would like your work to appear on the ditto doors please email collaborate@ditto.tv or call + 44 (0) 20 300 67850

We are all storytellers and we all have a tale to tell.

What’s your story?

DITTO DOORS JANUARY

ditto retrospective

ditto’s Big Bang, our Year Zero was a live one-off performance at the famous Roundhouse in Camden. Taking as our theme ‘The Human Condition’, our unimpeachable concept was that communal experience was diminishing in the era of 1s and 0s – where’s the love in that?

ditto was our reaction to this situation, a project that would be a one-off experience, never to be repeated. You had to be there. You had to be involved – doing it together, once: ditto. The project created 21 original pieces of film and music, performed live to the audience as a powerful and emotional narrative. The result was a slingshot that threw us forward with an unstoppable momentum. ditto had arrived. Forever does not exist, but tomorrow does.

Building on that momentum, in July 2009 we were invited to the Latitude Festival where we would collaborate with a call to arms to all of the 50,000 strong audience. Our mission was ambitious: to produce a 90 minute live performance with at least half of the show crowdsourced.

In October of the same year, at the Tabernacle is Notting Hill, a stage that saw The Clash first perform, ditto was asked to produce the first community-wide collaborative project as part of the opening celebrations. We produced a high-octane rollercoaster of 20 live performances complete with a circus ringmaster. On the closing curtain call of that night, the mission was accomplished – ditto was here to stay

As 2009 came to a close, so too did this chapter of ditto. We had new stories to write, new stories to tell, new stages on which to perform. Good people doing good things.

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DITTO DOORS FEBRUARY

Adam Dawe, Photographer

Adam Dawe is originally from Newcastle, serving his apprenticeship in photography by assisting Jerry Oke, one of the greatest still life photographers of his generation. Eighteen years a still life photographer for advertising & editorial clients, Adam has been commissioned by magazines such as The National in Dubai, ES magazine, Sunday Express Magazine, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph and his client book includes Axa, Amex, British Gas, Cancer Research, Marston's & Shell.

A long time friend of ditto, Adam was involved in the Roundhouse Short Circuit Festival in 2009. Adam produced and directed the short film ‘Jolene’, in collaboration with film-maker Nick Sutton, musician Mieko Shimizu and choreographer & contemporary dancer Clara Barbera. Adam’s photography speaks for itself, with a sharp and clear design in lighting & composition that enhances the beauty of shapes and textures, creating a fascinating atmosphere, giving life to the still.

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DITTO DOORS MARCH

Phil Cheesman, Strictly Rhythm Records

From producing punk fanzines as a 15 year old, to managing the European arm of the much heralded dance music label Strictly Rhythm Records, Phil made the transition from amateur to professional enthusiast with flawless credibility. As a journalist, producer, label manager and DJ, Phil has been at the centre of two cultural storms, in Punk and House, and continues to champion the very best in music.

In the gallery, Phil illustrated his journey with the aid of shiny Gold Discs, one-off test pressings and limited-run punk fanzines. Charting his evolution from bedroom enthusiast to working for one of house music’s most prestigious labels, Strictly Rhythm, which brought you the likes of Armand Van Helden, Masters at Work, Roger Sanchez, and many more, this was a show not to be missed.

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DITTO DOORS APRIL

Ashley Beedle, DJ & Producer

The legendary DJ and producer Ashley Beedle has worked with the great and the good of music. His ditto exhibition displayed a collection of vignettes of his career, exclusive memorabilia and never before seen items.

The show featured ‘A life in a day’ by Vicky Scarth: a journey around Ashley’s life in North London, along with a selection of his impressive back catalogue: Black Science Orchestra, The Ballistic Brothers, his seminal compilation Grass Roots, and collaborations such as DarkStarr Diskotek, X-press 2 and Inspiration information project with Horace Andy.

The exhibition also included international press extracts from across Ashley’s career, and finally, the Ivor Novello dance award won by Ashley in 2002 for X-press 2 ‘Lazy’ featuring David Byrne, and the silver disc for Elton John‘s 200,000 selling UK No.1 ‘Are you Ready for Love’.

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DITTO DOORS MAY

Jude Edginton, Photographer

Jude Edginton, a highly talented and award-winning photographer, exhibited his incredible series of portraits of British Olympic athletes on the ditto doors. Jude has completed shoots with everyone from Omid Djalili to Leona Lewis, Ryan Giggs to Amir Khan, and James Nesbit to Sir Ian McKellen. Jude’s iconic Britain United campaign, where he photographed Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic team in the lead up to the Beijing Games, has toured the country and showed outside the Tate. His reportage work has encompassed horse racing in Iran, air guitar in Finland, Moscow nightlife, football adventures in Mexico, the Burning Man festival and San Francisco's female fire fighters. Jude won Magazine Photographer of the year in 2005, which led to an exhibition of his celebrity portraits, sponsored by Sony Playstation.

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DITTO DOORS JULY

Sunrise 2011

Sunrise is ditto's annual independent online film & animation festival, nurturing talent among Norwich University College of the Arts graduates. Now in its third year, the month-long festival has grown substantially, with some 28 entrants this year and over 70,000 votes cast to decide the winner.

The exhibition hung on the ditto doors for the duration of the festival, and was only taken down after the Awards Ceremony Campfire event in London where a selection of the best films were screened.

Visitors could read about each submission, with quotes from the directors as well as screenshots taken from the films. The exhibition was produced by our dynamic intern, Elena Ware. To watch all the Sunrise 2011 short films, including the winners Bob by Julie Garrod and Rroma by Roscoe Gibson-Denney, visit Sunrise 2011

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DITTO DOORS AUGUST

The Glastonbury Festival Exhibition

Liam Bailey has been a regular at the Glastonbury Festival since the early 1990s. Starting out in the mosh pits, he became increasingly interested in the more spontaneous side of the festival, beyond the hype. Documenting the day-to-day life of a makeshift city with a unique sociological footprint. Bailey's images show us a world in which intense experiences are played out against a backdrop dominated by canvas, big skies and, periodically, expanses of trademark Glastonbury mud. As the festival has grown and evolved the images show the festival burgeoning into a staple on the annual UK cultural landscape. You can see more of the images from 1992-2004 on the plasma screen and in the book made specially for this show.

Liam Bailey is a photo-based artist who mixes commercial and editorial commissions with personal projects.Having trained as a chemist, Liam worked as a football tutor, ice cream van man, Aston operator, green keeper, and chemistry teacher, whilst all the time preparing to make the leap into full time photographic practice.

After 10 Years of working in the design and advertising sectors he took a sabatical and went back to school.In 2006 he gained an MA in Fine Art Photography from the London College of Communication (University of the Arts), and published his second book, "Forever England" (Dewis Lewis Publishing).

His projects’ website show a range of practice in photography with a documentary slant, but covers a selection of subject matters from found footballs to model villages. www.liambaileyprojects.com

All material belongs to Liam Bailey – For purchases please contact alicia@ditto.tv

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DITTO DOORS SEPTEMBER

The onedotzero Restrospective Exhibition

This exhibition compiles a mini showcase of the work of the contemporary digital arts organisation, onedotzero. With 15 years of the audio-visual festivals onedotzero_adventures in motion, onedotzero has showcased the work of over a thousand moving image artists, charting the development and relationship of arts, culture, technology and entertainment.

This is a rare showing of the posters, original brochures and catalogues from 1997-2010 shows, followed by the evolution of the onedotzero festival from 2000 – 2010. The festival spent a decade at the ICA and travelled the globe before being hosted at the BFI Southbank London each year. The material features each year’s unique identity across a range of media. The identity is used worldwide, seen by thousands of people each year with onedotzero’s events visiting over 60 cities. The 2009 identity was generated from an interactive piece of software to produce all design materials - it is available here for you to play with it.

Also on display is a sample of the work of sister production and consultancy company onedotzero industries, producing innovative multi-disciplinary work with bands and brands such as Nike to MTV, U2 to the Pet Shop Boys. Utilising its huge creative network to be leader in the field of moving image, digital arts and brand development across TV, web, live events, visuals, promos, installations, museums, commercials and emergent technologies.

On the plasma screen we showed the highlights of the 2008 - 2010 festivals at the BFI and a selection of images from the onedotzero DVDs produced by their own label created since 2001. They released 5 compilations of the best art works in moving image which covers were shown on the exhibition together with the two onedotzero books with DVDs Motion Blur 1 and Motion Blur 2.

All material belongs to onedotzero http://www.onedotzero.com/

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DITTO DOORS OCTOBER

Poetry Exhibition

This exhibition aims to explore important relevant poetry expression in the UK showing the work of three non-for-profit initiatives that help poetry survive through publishing, public art new medias such as film.

Ambit Magazine

Ambit is one of the most established poetry publications in UK, created by Dr. Martin Bax 52 years ago, showcases the work of contemporary poets and artists including the large contribution of Sir Peter Blake for almost 50 years now and it has stellar collaborators such as JG Ballard, Carol Ann Dufy, Edwin Brock, Geoff Nicholson to name a few and Michael Foreman as its art director.

Poems on the Underground

Created and coordinated by American poet Judith Chernaik, the 25 year old project has been bringing poetry into our tube journeys with 3,000 posters distributed in the London Underground. Curators for the poems include poets Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert. TFL sponsors the project together with the British Council and Arts Council England, the Poetry Society and other occasional partners. We are bringing to the ditto doors a selection of poems that show the diversity of themes explored by the project.

Filmpoem

The ‘lens-based’ Scottish artist Alastair Cook and his tasteful blend of poetry and film uses metaphors between the visual and audio and do not necessarily intend to match the images to the words, respecting the world of abstraction and thought provoking that poetry invites our minds to. Alastair’s ongoing interpretive and responsive work with poets can be watched at http://filmpoem.com

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DITTO DOORS NOVEMBER

War Boutique Exhibition

The War Boutique, lead by Kevin Leahy, started in 2003 in the memorable Area 10 space in Peckham, running workshops with local artists to use some of the ballistic military materials as a symbolic gesture of peace in part as a reaction to the Iraq war.

Through the artistic theory of non-verbal over identification, as a strategy, the War Boutique aims to record the events that all too readily escape the column inches, documenting them as pieces of social commentary, within an historical context.

It has developed further over the years through a series of workshops, exhibitions and fashion shows, in conjunction with local and national organisations such as the Peace Not War Cooperative, Save The Children, The Damilola Taylor Trust, and Southwark Youth & Connexions. Some of these events you can see the images in this exhibition.

The War Boutique, through its organic structure, has enjoyed a myriad of creative collaborations, from the worlds of film, theatre, art and fashion, producing works alongside the likes of John Maybury, Adrian Brody, Gieves & Hawkes, Maharishi, Sarah Lucas, Banksy, and Vivienne Westwood, (Active Resistance to Propaganda).

Its works have hung in The Bristol Museum, The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and The British Museum, in London. Recently War Boutique has worked with Andipa Gallery and it does private commissions.

All photographic archive belongs to War Boutique and were edited by ditto. http://www.warboutique.com/

The videos screened at the exhibition were courtesy of Andipa Contemporary http://andipa.com/

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DITTO DOORS DECEMBER

Iain Green Exhibition

Photographing Wildlife is no easy task. It requires the patience of a saint and the stillness of a statue to get as close as possible to the subject, and there’s often just a few seconds of frenzied shooting to get the golden shot.

Author of ‘Wild Tigers of Bandhavgarh’ and’ Tiger Jungle’ Iain has captured the incredible images shown in our December exhibition, telling the tigers’ stories by following them around their home.

Iain’s appreciation for nature goes beyond capturing wonderful images of endangered animals. The photographer is committed to documenting climate change and he found inspiration in challenging himself to discover wildlife on his doorstep.

The results can be seen on his book ‘Wild London’ and in his show on the ditto doors with images taken in London that include Kingfishers, Red Deer, Seals and more.

With 14 years’ experience, Iain brings his inspiration and learning to kids on School Wildlife Winder Days. His images are not just art but an important research tool for the conservation of wildlife.

http://naturebygreen.com/

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DITTO DOORS JANUARY 2012

Kinetica Art Fair Exhibition

Kinetica Art Fair is produced by Kinetica Museum and is the first of its kind in the UK. It brings together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups from around the world who focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology.

The fair provides an international platform for museums, collectors, curators and the public to view and buy artworks in this thriving and advancing field. Alongside the fair Kinetica curate a themed feature exhibition, screenings, tours, talks, workshops and performances. Kinetica aims to actively encourage the convergence of art and technology, providing an alternative platform to static traditional forms of art such as painting and sculpture.

Between 2006 and 2007 Kinetica hosted six major exhibitions at its original museum space inside Old Spitalfields Market.

Since then it has continued to champion artistic innovation of all kinds and has showcased work in various venues both in the UK and overseas, exploring the interwoven complexities between scientific developments and the human condition.

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DITTO DOORS FEBRUARY 2012

Ian Tilton Exhibition

Ian Tilton started his photographic life back in 1982 insisting to get into the course, finding his place after a drop out. Like many others he followed the hard way, working for expenses and credit in local magazines. Working with his passion, photographing stages, theatres and music gigs, he managed to get published by the “Sounds” music magazine.

Being the right person at the right place at the right time, Ian lived in the heart of the musical hype of ‘Madchester’ when Hacienda and Fact 1 Records had the world’s eye and ears. He then gets commissioned to cover The Smiths, New Order and O.M.D. His career was now on the Rock n’ Roll mayhem, following Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Bon Jovi or Guns n’ Roses. The peak came then when Ian was the first European photographer covering Nirvana, getting as close to picture Kurt Cobain crying on the backstage. If not enough he shot Oasis, Supergrass, Bjork and Morrissey’s shirt being tear apart and many more incredible moments. Many of his images like Morrissey’s became records’ and magazine’s covers, and he has participated in international exhibitions.

Celebrating 20 years as a rock bands’ and theater stage photographer, Ian still works with some of those incredible bands and has his book “What the world is waiting for” coming soon. The photographs in this exhibition tell his story with rare images of moments that were luckily registered.

http://iantilton.net/

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DITTO DOORS MARCH 2012

The Reggae Boom Exhibition

Curated by Dennis Bovell & Adrian Boot

Adrian Boot is one of Britain’s most celebrated music photographers, capturing acts as diverse as Bob Marley to the Sex Pistols. His book Reggae Explosion - the Story of Jamaican Music was one of the most successful entries in the Camden photography exhibition.

Chief photographer and curator, Adrian has worked for NME, The Guardian, The Times, Melody Maker and The Face. Urban Image, his stock images agency, contains his personal archive and the incredible work of other photographers of the music scene, with a special focus on reggae.

You’ll see some of his work in this show, curated especially for Dennis’ Campfire, showcasing his images, partners, collaborators and the inspirations of Adrian Boot and Urban Image photographers.

http://urbanimage.tv/

Items from the exhibition are for sale, email alicia@ditto.tv

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DITTO DOORS APRIL 2012

Goran Tomasevic Exhibition

Goran Tomasevic’s photographs invite us to reflect on a raw reality we usually choose not to see. Exhibited on ditto’s doors, this show, which accompanies a talk by Michael Lawrence, the former Global News Editor at Reuters, gives the award-winning photojournalist an opportunity to share a personal selection of his best work. Last year Tomasevic won the coveted Reuters’ Photographer of the Year prize; the third time in his career he has received this prestigious accolade.

Goran has also been the recipient of numerous other awards, including: Reuters’ picture of the year in 2008, China International Press Photo Award (CHIPP) for news in 2004, the NPPA Best of Photojournalism portrait and personality award in 2005, and the 2009 SOPA Award of Excellence for News Photography.

Born in Belgrade, Tomasevic’s talents came to the attention of the world in the nineties, as he documented the conflict that swept across former Yugoslavia. He was one of the few journalists to remain in the Kosovan capital of Pristina during the NATO bombing. After shooting the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in 2003, placements followed in Jerusalem and later Cairo. He is currently based in Nairobi where he works as Reuters’ East African Chief Photographer.

Following conflicts for half of his life and facing danger every other day, Goran is accustomed to working in extremely difficult conditions, demonstrating the passion, talent and courage that make him one of the best photojournalists in the world.

http://blogs.reuters.com/goran-tomasevic/

Click here to view April's exhibition