LONDON.- Atlas Gallery announce the opening of a new gallery space at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, to coincide the 2011 Aldeburgh Festival this year's inaugural Snap Festival, which features work by an impressive selection of British Contemporary artists and photographers.

The large exhibition space will rotate group, curated shows, combining selections of both vintage and contemporary work, with solo exhibitions by some of the most celebrated names in the history of the art form,. This exciting new venture, which begins as a pop-up, with the intention of subsequent development onto a permanent space, is the first physical extension of the main gallery space in London, where Atlas have built a reputation a a leading gallery specializing in photography in the UK.

The new gallery, the brainchild of its founder and director, Ben Burdett, Suffolk resident, will create an additional visual arts space in a prime location at the existing Snape Maltings concert hall site and the gallery plans a busy schedule of events throughout the summer. The Aldeburgh Festival was originally founded by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears over sixty years ago as a Festival of Music and the Arts. Atlas will thus contribute something of a new dimension with the presentation of photography alongside the existing galleries, auditoria and concert halls. Work to be exhibited will include documentary, landscape, fashion, and contemporary works. In recent years the main gallery in London has provided expert advice to a wide variety of institutions and corporate collections, in addition to private collections, small and large. The gallery hopes to bring this expertise to a new audience at Snape, whilst also helping those to appreciating fine photography in the deeper understanding of its many complexities.

Concurrently, the SNAP festival ha been coordinated by contributing artist and Suffolk resident, Abigail Lane, including work by YBA's and other artists, who all share a connection with the east Angelia, wither as their home or place of work. Art works are installed throughout the complex both on the gallery walls and in the many derelict buildings on the site.