Bravo Launches New Adventure Series

(I-Newswire) October 26, 2009 - If a picture’s worth a thousand words, Bravo!’s new series photoXplorers is worth a million. photoXplorers follows a daring group of photographers as they put their day jobs on hiatus and travel the world to capture the eerie beauty of forgotten industrial mega-structures, castles, and sanatoriums. The series kicks off as the band of guerilla photographers investigate an abandoned 1860s coal mine in Hasard de Charette, Belgium. photoXplorers premieres Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT on Bravo!. Weekly half-hour episodes air only on Bravo! Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT.

photoXplorers reveals beauty in decaying structures, from an abandoned French sanatorium, to a retired power plant in Luxembourg, to a French Revolution-era castle in Belgium. The photoXplorers crew, consisting of members of the DK Photo Group, showcase the splendor of post-modern ghost towns and crawl under barbed-wire fences into the unknown each week.

Directed by Claude Barnes, photoXplorers is produced by Keep It In The Family Productions in association with Bravo!. Keep It In The Family Productions has been producing television for the international market for more than 25 years with Emmy® and Gemini award-nominated producers, writers, editors, directors of production, and directors. Keep It In The Family Productions has diverse program genres including lifestyle, reality, biography, children, documentary, sports, comedy, drama and animation.

Claude Barnes
Keep It In The Family Productions
416-539-9989
claude@keepitinthefamilyproductions.com
1444 Dupont Street, Unit 15
Toronto, ON
M6P 4H3

About galleryDK:
Origins
In the ruins of a steel mill on a cold December Sunday in 2005, six photographers came together to form the DK Photo Group. Though each has their own artistic voice, what binds them together is their common subject matter. Exploring the forgotten, decaying and derelict relics of society, this group photographs and documents those buildings which once stood as bastions of social institutions. Now silent and testament to the history of our social past, they are artifacts left to deteriorate.

Exhibitions
The DK Photo Group had their first show, "Forgotten", during the Contact Toronto Photography Festival in 2006 at the Round House Gallery of Steam Whistle Brewing. The work was very well received and the success continued in the fall of that year with the "Orphaned" show at Hang Man, the Gallery of the Artists' Network of Riverdale.

Now with only five members, the DKPG mounted their third show during Contact 2007, "DKonstruction". Though it was their best show ever (in terms of reception and sales), the experience with the gallery was far less than desirable. After this last show, the group collectively decided to be in control of their own fate, thus they opened galleryDK and mounted their third Contact show "anamnesis" in May of 2008.

Company Contact Information
galleryDK
Laurin Jeffrey
1332 Queen Street West
M6K 1L4
Phone : 416-913-7116