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Third Floor Gallery was an independent charitable photography gallery in Cardiff Bay, Wales that operated from 2010 to 2016. It predominantly featured documentary photography, often premiering new work with the direct involvement of the photographers.
Third Floor Gallery was set up and initially run by photographers Maciej Dakowicz and Joni Karanka, and later photographer Bartosz Nowickii, with help from volunteers. It continued to be self-run with volunteer staff and was self-financed through various grassroots sources. It was noted for its use of social networking for engaging with visitors and volunteers at a time when that was not common place for galleries.
Photographers that exhibited at Third Floor Gallery include Martin Parr, David Hurn, Tom Wood, Chris Steele-Perkins, Larry Fink, Mark Cohen, John Bulmer, Rob Hornstra, Simon Roberts, Peter Dench, Ewen Spencer, Ken Grant and Vanessa Winship.




Description


In January 2010 founding trustees photographers Maciej Dakowicz and Joni Karanka invested £1000 each to cover a quarter of the lease and the service charges for a loft in Bute Street, Cardiff Bay. Third Floor Gallery opened on 12 February 2010 with an exhibition by Peter Dench. From the beginning volunteers helped sustain the gallery with donations of money, and with help hanging exhibitions and staffing. Within the first year of operation, Bartosz Nowicki joined as third trustee and they received charitable status.
The gallery continued to be self-run and self-financed. Rather than being grant funded, it was financed through a variety of grassroots sources: financial donations from visitors; some of those involved in running it auctioned off their own photographs; donations were solicited via requests through social networking services; and the photographer whose exhibition was showing donated an object from or related to that exhibition that was auctioned off.
It was noted for its use of social networking for engaging with visitors and volunteers at a time when that was not common place for galleries.
In March 2012 the gallery expanded to a second floor with an additional gallery, digital darkroom, and dedicated space for community usage. It closed in 2016.




Awards


2011 Epic Award (Wales) from Voluntary Arts Network (VAN), for the best voluntary arts groups in the UK and Ireland




Exhibitions


2010 – LoveUK by Peter Dench
2010 – Up West by David Solomons
2010 – Muse by Jocelyn Bain Hogg
2010 – ffotoCardiff group exhibition by Jocelyn Allen, Gawain Barnard, Craig Bernard, Rick Davis, Malika Delrieu, Paul Gaffney, Rob Gunn, Radoslaw Komenda, Kate Mercer, Bartosz Nowicki, Gareth Phillips, Chiara Tocci, James Thomson, Rob Watkins and Rajan Zaveri
2010 – For Love of the Game by Chris Steele-Perkins
2010 – Paradise Rivers by Carolyn Drake
2010 – strangelands by strange.rs street photography collective
2010 – Street Photography Now. Photographs from the book Street Photography Now (2010) by Christophe Agou, Arif Aşçı, Narelle Autio, Polly Braden, Bang Byoung-Sang, Maciej Dakowicz, Carolyn Drake, Melanie Einzig, George Georgiou, David Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Thierry Girard, Andrew Z. Glickman, Siegfried Hansen, Markus Hartel, Nils Jorgensen, Richard Kalvar, Martin Kollar, Jens Olof Lasthein, Frederic Lezmi, Jesse Marlow, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Mimi Mollica, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Gus Powell, Mark Alor Powell, Bruno Quinquet, Paul Russell, Otto Snoek, Matt Stuart, Ying Tang, Alexey Titarenko, Nick Turpin, Munem Wasif, Alex Webb, Amani Willett, Michael Wolf, Artem Zhitenev and Wolfgang Zurborn.
2010/11 – Passing Time by David Hurn
2011 – A Collection by Laura Pannack
2011 – Views from Sochi by Rob Hornstra
2011 – Mi Vida Loca by Joseph Rodriguez
2011 – The North by John Bulmer
2011 – The Gathering Clouds by Ben Roberts
2011 – Arab Revolutions
2011 – Of Duties by Stuart Griffiths, Jay Romano and Tim and Matt Bowditch
2011 – Selected Works by Sergey Chilikov
2011/12 – Behind the Curtains by Tomas van Houtryve
2012 – Larry Fink: Somewhere There's Music by Larry Fink
2012 – Touching Strangers by Richard Renaldi
2012 – V.D. by Vincent Delbrouck
2012 – Family by Chris Verene
2012 – The Last Resort by Martin Parr and Tom Wood
2012 – Caravan by Rikard Laving
2012 – Teenagers by Ewen Spencer
2012 – We English by Simon Roberts
2012 – Encuentro by Maurice Gunning
2012 – Burn My Eye by the Burn My Eye street photography collective, Zisis Kardianos, Charlie Kirk, Andrew Kochanowski, Alexandros Konstantinakis Karmis, Frédéric Le Mauff, TC Lin, JB Maher, Jason Penner, Justin Sainsbury, Jack Simon and Justin Vogel.
2012 – Cardiff After Dark by Maciej Dakowicz
2012/13 – Winter in America by Justin Maxton and Erin Trieb
2012/13 Grim Street by Mark Cohen
2013 – After the Fall by Hin Chua
2013 – Life After Zog and Other Stories by Chiara Tocci
2013 – Urban Quilombo by Sebastian Liste
2013 – Georgia by Vanessa Winship
2013 – Muse By Jocelyn Bain Hogg
2013 – Pictures From the Real World by David Moore
2013 – Y Tir Newydd / The New Land by Gareth Phillips
2013 – Distant Horizons by Transit Collective, Alexa Brunet, Alexandra Frankewitz, Bastien Defives, David Richard, Nanda Gonzague, Yohanne Lamoulere, Helene Jayet. Part of Diffusion Festival 2013.
2013/14 – Close to You by Jacob Aue Sobol.
2014 – Shift: Ukraine in crisis. Photographs by Alexander Chekmenev, Maxim Dondyuk, Corentin Fohlen, Louisa Gouliamaki, Brendan Hoffman, Tom Jamieson, Marco Kesseler, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Donald Weber and Emine Ziyatdinova.
2014 – Flock by Ken Grant
2014 – Tableaux Vivant by Alexandra Boulat
2014 – Swell by Mateusz Sarello
2015 – Welsh Farming Community by Peter Jones
2015 – Detroit-Unbroken Down by Dave Jordano. Part of Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography.
2015/16 – The Apollo Archive
2016 – Europa




References






External links


Third Floor Gallery web site – as archived at the Internet Archive, 7 March 2016
Third Floor Gallery on Vimeo
Professional Photographer magazine audio discussion about Third Floor Gallery opening

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