Blow Out (and about) // For the LOL of cats: an exhibition of photos of funny felines

Cats are just bonkers, eh? Drinking from taps, pushing their squishy faces into a loaves of Hovis and manically playing the piano whilst wearing a jumper.

Yeah, whether you’re a feline fan or not, you will no doubt be familiar with seeing pics of funny cats on the interwebs, affectionately known as ‘LOLcats’.

Note to Louis Walsh: LOL means ‘laugh out loud’, not ‘lots of love’, yeah? You old fool.

Now, The Photographers Gallery has filled a void we didn’t even know existed, with the launch of their latest exhibition, dedicated to pictures of silly cats. Yuh-huh, we give you:

What: For the LOL of Cats: Felines, Photography and the Web
When: 12 October to 16 January 2013
Where: The Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW
Getting there: Nearest tube – Oxford Circus

This is our kind of #cultureandthat at Le Blow. The exhibition’s main focuses are: cat scanning, cat breading, cat shaming and The Infinite Cat Project (a website containing over 1,700 images of cats staring at each other via computer screens). Uhh-maze.

There’ll also be #historyandthat with the inclusion of Harry Pointer’s (slightly spooksome) Brighton Cats from the 1870s – y’know sepia shots of Victorian cats rollerskating and stuff. Sure.

The main part of the exhibition is dedicated to the bit we’re really all interested in (let’s be honest) – the recent online phenomenon of LOLcats: yes, that is images of cats accompanied by amusing (yet often grammatically incorrect) text.

And that’s not all. Actual cats have also taken feline photos too. Yup, American short-hair Cooper and British moggy Nancy bean (got a LOT of time for cats with surnames) have also been commissioned by the gallery to snap a cat’s eye view via cameras attached to their collars.