This Gallery was extremely hard to find. When we arrived to where Google maps said it should be, the building was empty and boarded up, so we trailed round trying to find it in the same area and finally gave up and decided to go to the tate instead. Whilst walking through Albert Docks we by chance came across the new building of the Open Eye Gallery next to the museum! There weren't a lot of exhibitions there, but what was there was interesting. There was an exhibition of photographs by Richard Simpkin which documented his obsession with the celebrity culture - there were about a thousand photos of him with diferent celebrities. It makes you think about the celebrity culture, and what;s the point. Because there were people in the photos that I didn't recognize, and some I only vaguely recognized from a long time ago. And I'm sure the people I did recognize would soon be in the same category.
There was also an exhibit upstairs of 'Painted photographs'. These were from before photoshop, and were the way inwhich newspapers and other media cut out particular celebrities faces from phtos to use in diferent contexts. It was surprising to see images I recognized of people such as Marylin Munroe and John Lenon and the context inwhich those images were taken. Many of the ones of John Lenon included Yoko Ono who had simply been cut round.
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