Cristina de Middel Puch - WE TRUST

At asa collective last show, on 12th Jan 2012, Cristina De Middel Punch showed her work that she shot in the USA, reflecting a mix between what people say about the americans and what her own opinion is. While she was living around the USA, she collect a body of work of imagery that floats between POP culture and wonderland. We loved it!
check out more on her site: lademiddel.com
see her slideshow on asa vimeo page

ASA first slideshow of 2012

Thanks to the amazing photographers, awesome friends and photo lovers that joined us to the show last night, and to the flamenco power band at the end of the evening that closed in style the first asa slideshow of 2012. I was a great pleasure for asa collective to have the chance to share with you this moments of photography and reflect about society issues, that the photographers raise with their projects.

More to come closer to the Spring, in the mean time, if you have a story you'd like to tell us, please contact us via connect@asacollective.com and we can have a coffee and plan your projection. Asa collective has a production team that will make sure the final project is exactly how you've imagined it to be.

Have fun, and good year!
Mariana & Arun

lineup for asa slideshow 12th Jan, 7pm @NOMAD

Dress Up for next ASA Slideshow

©Anastasia Taylor-Lind

New year new evening of great photography, on 12th of January, join us at NOMAD London, in 58 Old street, at 19:00h and bring your friends to enjoy with us some european folk music after the show.

Happy New Year!

Asa wishes you a very happy new year from,
hope everyone has the chance to try their dreams out and finding success in in the process, all the best for 2012, a year full of new achievements.
Thanks to you who have stood by ASA; 2011 has been a significant year for us - we showcased some amazing talent and topics.
ASA welcomes your continue involvement and partnership...

To kick start the year we are busy prepping for our 12th January, 2012 show.
Hope to see you then or in the very near future.

All the best
Arun & Mariana

KANU GANDHI'S MAHATMA

"These I believe are unique and extraordinary documentary photographs (1938-1946) of the 'Pre-Independent - Free India Movement', led by Mahatma Gandhi; inadvertently, documented by Kanu Gandhi, (self taught) when he was a young man. Unfortunately, he passed away, before I encountered his sensitive, exquisite and eloquent work, by chance."

Saleem Arif Quadri MBE

(c) Kanu Gandhi's Mahatma

Asa had the luck to meet the amazing Saleem, that shared with us the Kanu Gandhi's pictures:

"Photographs 1938-1946 - Curated by Saleem Arif Quadri   

As 'Fate' would have it, I was introduced to the widow of Kanu Gandhi, Abha Gandhi in Rajkot, Gujarat, India in December 1992. Thus began an extraordinary journey towards rediscovering “Kanu Gandhi's Mahatma”.

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When I further discovered Kanu Gandhi was an ardent photographer too, I inquired from Abha Gandhi what did he photograph? My expectations were confirmed when she replied 'Mahatma Gandhi, of course'. This delighted me.

Enthusiastically I requested, “Were any of his works available to see”? Suddenly Abha Gandhi got up with gracious springs in her legs, beaming with beautiful energy on her face, went into her home Rashtriyashala and came out a few minutes later with a white bundle neatly tied up which she placed in front of me.

This was the moment of rediscovery.

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One man's vision, indeed. It was obvious to me that Abha Gandhi held a private archive of treasures, which deserved and demanded a wider audience. When she expressed delight at my suggestion of possibly curating an exhibition of Kanu Gandhi's images - although at that stage I had no idea or experience - where and how such an exhibition could be mounted.

On returning to England in January 1995, I was pleased to receive her written permission to my exhibition proposal.

Through a passionate commitment to a promise and a prayer I met Deirdre Figueiredo, the then Cultural Development Officer for Leicestershire Museum with whom I shared my thoughts of these wonderful images of Kanu Gandhi's work; from that moment we became inspired by a common cause, she also informed me of Rajkot being a twin town with Leicester.
Saleem Arif Quadri MBE, Artist/Curator

Protectors of Sight by Sophie Gerrard

 Sophie Gerrard (Scottish, b.1978) is an award winning documentary photographer specialising in contemporary environmental and social issues.
The work she presented at asa latest show, curated by Fiona Rogers, made most of the viewers' tears fall down when enjoying her slideshow being screen at Nomad. (I cried like a baby seeing such an amazing story being told with so much sensibility and humor).
Her photographies makes us doubt sometimes if that is a photgrpahy or a oil painting, having such power being expressed in the colors.

Sophie Gerrard with Protectors of Sight curated by Fiona Rogers, girl power at his biggest potential, asa thanks for having the honor to show such amazing stories!

Fiona Rogers founder of firecrackers, her interview by contact editions here.