For our Christmas show in December Photo-Forum we’re pleased to announce presentations from Michelle Sank and Mary Turner.

Michelle Sank was born in South Africa and now lives and works in the UK. Her work is concerned with the notion of encountering, collecting, and re-telling, so creating sociological landscapes, interplays of human form and location that are significant in their visual, sociological, cultural and psychological nuances.

Michelle Sank will be talking about the start of her career in South Africa and how this has developed both through personal projects and through the wider arena of commissions.

Sank’s photographs have been exhibited and published worldwide and she is the winner of several photographic awards. Her work is held in both private and permanent collections. A monograph “Becoming” was published in 2006 followed by “The Water’s Edge” in 2007 and “The Submerged” in 2011.

Mary Turner has been working as a photographer for six years. After studying in London she moved to the Midlands to train on a local newspaper and at a regional agency before returning to London. She currently freelances, primarily for The Times, and works on documentary projects in her spare time. She will be showing her work on the recently evicted Dale Farm Travelling community, a project that was begun in January 2009.

Fire regulations limit us to 100 people in Jacobs’ Pro Lounge. We rarely hit this limit but if you can come a few minutes early there’s less chance of being bounced if the evening proves more popular than usual.

As always we’ll raffle prints from the photographers showing their work to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there’s any left over.

The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to own a print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and you could win some great work for just a few pounds.

If you’d like to show your work at Photo-Forum or would like to suggest a photographer for a show please email us at photoforumuk@gmail.com.