November 2011
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Birmingham Loves Photographers Website
We have now moved to BirminghamLovesphotographers.com
Come check it out and get involved!
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Kate Hook
How did you get into photography/what is your background?
It was when I was about 14 when my dad bought a camcorder where I started playing around with imagery, and then about a year later I got a compact digital camera. It was a really good camera to start with (it was a Fuji one but I can’t remember what model it was!) as it had manual settings so I taught myself the ins and outs of...
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Exploring documentary photography - 3rd December
This is a discussion based workshop inspired by the current exhibition This is Not a House, by Edgar Martins at The New Art Gallery Walsall. If you have an interest in photography both taking your own photographs and in discussing photographic styles and would like to meet like minded photographers within the region please book a free place and come along, its ideal for new photographers and...
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Coming to Light - talk by Pete James 16/11/11
Pete James (Head of Photographs - Bham Central Library) will be giving a talk on the Birmingham Photographic Library collection is Wed 16th November at Calumet Birmingham Branch. The talk is FREE and will prove to be an illuminating insight into the UK’s largest photographic collection.
With over 20 years experience as the curator of this Internationally acclaimed photographic collection,...
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Lewis Maxwell Bloor
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
When I was around 18 I had no real interests apart from playing in punk bands, playing gigs and DJing parties and night clubs but I needed something to do between all these things to actually make some money to live… I applied for a bunch of jobs, one of which was as a photographers assistant at a commercial photographers. I...
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BLP Portrait Project - Round 3
Below are the results of the third round of the Birmingham Loves Photographers Portrait Project. Snappers from around the Birmingham entered their names into a pool and were paired up to take portraits of one another and share tips and styles. There’s no prizes or competition involved, it’s all in the name of fun.
If you would like to know more or take part in the next round, then send an email...
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style kaleidoscope
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I’ve never had much of an ability to draw or paint, so I guess photography is my visual outlet. I used to take photos for Ocean Colour Scene when they played live or were in the studio, and that’s when I learnt how to use film and compose shots, and the various ways to shoot without flash in the pit. I was the two-cam girl...
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Edgar Martins "This is not a House" 30 September -...
Exhibition at The New Art Gallery, Walsall
This extraordinary body of photographic work was originally instigated by a commission from The New York Times Magazine. The artist was asked to create a photo-essay that reflected on the collapse of the US housing market. Shot initially in 6 US states over a period of one month, the work focuses on 16 carefully researched locations, exposing the full...
October 2011
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Magnum Professional Practice - Birmingham
IdeasTap have got 10 heavily subsidised places to give away on Magnum’s next two-day Professional Practice seminar in Birmingham on 3 and 4 December. This opportunity is available to IdeasTap members between the ages of 16 and 25.
With an emphasis on providing practical and vocational guidance to emerging photographers, this is an unmissable opportunity to gain tailor-made, impartial advice...
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Dan du Cros
How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I started getting into photography when I was 16. Like many people my age I was introduced to my first SLR via my parents - I wanted a camera to take some pictures of my friends skateboarding (offsetting my utter failure a being any good on a skateboard myself!). My mother had a Canon AV-1 and I started shooting on that. I remember...
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BLP Meet Up - 1st November
We will be having our next get together at 6/8 Kafe on Tuesday 1st November at 6:30pm.
No guest lecture this time - it will be a friendly get together and a chance to meet other photographers and network.
….although we do have a couple of special things up our sleeves.
As well as showing the results from Portrait Project Round 3, there will also be announcements of several exciting new...
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'Birmingham Will Break Your Art' by Pete Ashton
“This isn’t a rant about the fragile livelihoods of people who’ve chosen to make a living from photography. Times change and nobody owes you a living. Adjust your business model, add value, do something different. I don’t have a problem with Birmingham City Council not valuing photography. There’s evidence enough of that on their public information posters.”
Pete Ashton, a prolific...
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Considerate Trespassing
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
With the photography aspect it’s hard to say really at first wanted to share the photos of these places with my friends but after a while it become more and more of a hobby I don’t really have a background in photography but I do have one in urban exploration, it’s really an extension of what I used to do as a child....
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Selling Dreams - Curator Talk at Light House
Ligaya Salazar, curator in the V&A’s Contemporary Team, will be visiting Light House to give a special talk about the exhibition on Thursday 27th October at 2pm. Ligaya Salazar has curated V&A fashion exhibitions such as ‘Fashion v Sport’ and ‘Yohji Yamamoto’. Previously a lecturer in fashion history and a freelance curator, Ligaya studied Art History and Fashion Photography and has...
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Mark Salmon
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
During my school years I was always artistic and musical, I also enjoyed design. I eventually got into photography when I was eighteen and at art school. I remember being taught about the basics of photography along with learning about the great photographers, such as Henri Cartier Bresson, Richard Avedon and Robert Frank. I passed my...
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Pete - PS Photography
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I don’t have a background in photography as such. I’m completely self taught and all my experience has come from being behind the lens, playing around with the camera I had at the time and seeing what the different settings do. I’ve purchased a variety of magazines / books along the way and picked up tips and techniques from there. As...
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Perspectives - Photography exhibition
This will display some excellent work from Birmingham photographers and runs until October 28th so go check it out!
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BALLET IN BIRMINGHAM
To mark the start of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new 2011-12 season, the company has joined forces with a Birmingham-based photographer in a city-wide photographic campaign called Ballet in Birmingham. The campaigncelebrates the world-class ballet company in Birmingham, the city it calls ‘home’. Based at Birmingham Hippodrome, the company has resided in the city for 21 years.
Photographer...
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Andrew Pilsbury
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
Well photography for me came around when I was at college, when I had the intention of studying illustration. However the illustration course wasn’t what I expected, so I took a gamble with photography, which proved to be a good choice. The photography course was great and soon I was hooked, it was an interesting medium to experiment...
September 2011
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Smethwick - An exhibition of images by Richard...
Richard Southall, who gave a talk at our September 22nd Meet Up, will be having an exhibition which is the culmination of a six month project which has sought to document the industrial decline of this once vibrant prosperous area.
Private view Date: 6.30-8.30pm - Friday 21st October Address: Calumet Photographic 100 Hagley Road Birmingham B16 8LA
The show will be on Mon-Fri...
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Portrait Project - Round 2 Pictures
Below are the results of the second round of the Birmingham Loves Photographers Portrait Project. Snappers from around the Birmingham entered their names into a pool and were paired up to take portraits of one another and share tips and styles. There’s no prizes or competition involved, it’s all in the name of fun.If you would like to know more or take part in the next round, then send an email to...
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Matt Walford
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I first got into photography when I went to college, it was a City&Guilds course focusing on black and white photography, I was also studying Graphic design which was my main interest back then. But when I developed my first roll of film I instantly loved it, I really liked messing round with different darkroom techniques like...
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Rob Farrell
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I studied Photography while at Art School but went down the Graphic Design route as it seemed more lucrative! Always keep at it in the old film days and moved into digital a few years ago and it progressively became a profession
Q. How would you describe your style of photography?
Modern, fresh and sometimes alternative I love shooting...
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BLP Meet Up & Guest Lecture - 22nd September
This Thursday September 22nd at 6/8 Kafe at 6:30pm will be the next Birmingham Loves Photographers Meet Up - this will include a talk by professional photographer Richard Southall
From his website -
“Richard Southall has been an architectural photographer for over 23 years. He specialises in producing photography for the leisure (restaurants, casinos, nightclubs & bars),residential,...
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Images from Boken Souls - Nigal Goodship...
Fotofilia Gallery in Birmingham will be exhibiting a series of photos taken by Nigal Goodship that were taken to document the making of urban-life film ‘Broken Souls’.
Broken Souls has been described by its Director Daniel Anderson as “about the lifestyle of being on the streets of Birmingham, being in a gang, fitting those stereotypical roles of black people and ending up as a...
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Matt Murtagh
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I didn’t pick up a camera until I was 25, it was a beaten up Pentax film SLR from a car boot sale. It’s still my favourite. I started shooting bands in dingy pubs then moved on to all sorts of stuff. I went down an academic route in training, getting a HND and then a degree in Photography while assisting various...
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Moseley Road Baths Art Exhibition – Call for...
I have been approached by Pool Of Memories to ask if there is any photographers interested in submitting for an exhibition based around the Moseley Road Baths; check out this taken from their page:
The Friends of Moseley Road Baths are looking for artists to submit work for an exhibition of art inspired by Moseley Road Baths and swimming in Birmingham for this year’s Memories and Memorabilia...
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Portrait Project - Round 2
The emails have now been sent out for the pairings in the Portrait Project - Round 2.
But theres still time to get involved!
If you want to take part in the Portrait Project then drop an email to BLPportraitproject@gmail.com and we’ll take it from there.
Don’t forget to check out Round 1’s photos and find out more information...
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Lee Atkins
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I am a self-taught, self-motivated photographer who wants to capture and explore some of the things that I see.
Q. How would you describe your style of photography?
‘playing with light’…
Q. What equipment do you use?
A digital camera, a tripod, some lenses…and light of varying intensities and diffusions.
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The Big Issue’s 20th anniversary photography...
A specially commissioned series of images by renowned photographer Paul Wenham-Clarke will be on display from 8th September in St Martin-in-the-Bull Ring Church, Birmingham, marking The Big Issue’s 20th anniversary.
Entitled ‘Hard Times’ and featuring portraits of Big Issue vendors, the exhibition has already received the photography world’s highest accolade – a Gold Award from the Association...
August 2011
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Birmingham Loves Photographers Portrait Project...
Below are the results of the first round of the Birmingham Loves Photographers Portrait Project. Snappers from around the Birmingham entered their names into a pool and were paired up to take portraits of one another and share tips and styles. There’s no prizes or competition involved, it’s all in the name of fun.
If you would like to know more or take part in the next round, then...
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Library of Birmingham Self-Portrait - 1st October
One of the strands of the public art programme for the new Library of Birmingham, Birmingham Self-Portrait, builds on Birmingham’s tradition of self-portrait photography, including the seminal Handsworth Self-Portrait, which is part of the library’s impressive photographic collections.
Library of Birmingham Self-Portrait is a new project from Birmingham photographers Brian Homer...
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Andrea Chance-Hill
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I have been in love with photography and the idea of creating, rather than taking images for as long as I can remember. After 7 years of amateur photography I decided to go pro, I bought my first pro standard D-SLR around 3 years ago and have never looked back
I formed AMCH Photography around 18 months ago, originally specialising in...
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Hannah-Beth Todd
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
It all started when I was at college revising for my AS levels in Psychology, Health and Social Care, Business Studies and English. Ever since I left school I wanted to do something art based and wanted to get into learning about photography properly but I wasn’t allowed to study it at college because I hadn’t taken it as a...
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Jonathan Cherry
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
Many moons ago I was fascinated with my dad’s travel photographs from Eastern Europe. Initially this got me excited about photography and in many ways it started me off on my own journey.
Q. How would you describe your style of photography?
I tend to lean more towards calling myself a documentary photographer with a pinch of the...
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Tim Cornbill
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I got into photography when I was at school studying art. I enjoyed the process of developing in the dark room but then soon after became
interested in digital photography and the endless possibilities. I taught myself the technical side of taking a photo and now it’s all about using it to create beautiful shots.
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July 2011
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Flowerville
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background? I don’t have any photographical training but come from philosophy (where I liked to think about seeing) and started photographing things out of a need to express things I could not express in words. Although this came not from a distrust of language and rather was just a need to explore a different way of seeing. The result...
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Meet ups - August 4th & 16th
The dates have been set!
August 4th
On August 4th there will be an informal meet up at 6pm, held at 6/8 Kafe. This will just be a coffee and a chat session, anyone is welcome to turn up and talk photography. This will also be a chance for Portrait Project pairs to get together at a set time and meet others taking part.
On August 4th, after the meeting finishes, everyone is welcome to head to...
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Ping! Brum competition
Calling all Ping Pong Photographers – we’re offering £100 of Puma goodies for the best Ping! pic in Brum Ping! is all over Brum city, so grab you camera, phone, instamatic or whatever and get snapping. Freeze the essence of Ping! whether it’s a mate’s scissor chop, spectacular matches or you and your friends having fun on the sun. We want to see it all.
How to enter for...
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Preclusion
No Venue : No Permission : No Money
A genuinely guerrilla experience, Preclusion is a totally unsupported spontaneous art exhibition.
A space has become available for a limited time and the secretive El Perro Radicale has chosen to take advantage of this opportunity to unveil a collection of locally and nationally produced art.
Preclusion will take place in the derelict Whitmarley...
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Lauren-Jade Gilbert
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I have many friends who are also into amateur photography, and ever since I purchased my first DSLR, I’ve been hooked. Photography has always been important to me - the crucial part was just making the transition from *looking* to *doing*. I find immense pleasure in watching people at work, and people watching me at work. When I...
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Worcester Street Photography Festival
If you can get over to Worcester this weekend then please do. There will be an exhibition with all the competition entries, you can see them online on our Facebook page ‘Worcester Street Photography Festival’ Judges for the day are the following ones: James Stone, Richard Battye, Bryn Griffiths, Darren Shipman, Martin Strives and Simon Hadley. Although ‘Street...
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Karl Held
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I’ve been making photographs since I was a teenager, living in the Black Forest in south-western Germany. After initially shooting everything on colour slide film (this was back in the days of family slide shows), I starting developing and printing myself. About 7 years ago I lost a considerable portion of my sight. That changed the...
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Nicholas Priest
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
Art was impressed upon me from an early age: it stemmed from the influence of My grandfather who was a paid artist and subsequently designed many landmarks around Birmingham. Despite my family history in art, art classes were frustrating for me; I had so many ideas but I couldn’t draw and couldn’t paint. Photography came through for me...
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Portrait Project
Calling all Birmingham photographers! Birmingham Loves Photographers blog is looking to launch a Portrait Project which will aim to bring together togs from all over the city, from all levels and walks of life. The idea will be that each month the group will get together for tea/coffee and a chat at 6/8 Kafe in the City Centre, and pairs will be drawn. Each pair will then get together in their own...
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Luke Hinsull
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I think it probably stemmed from my dad and grandfathers interest in it, initially I never paid attention to it, I wanted to be a car designer until I realized I wasn’t a stickler for math. Then in 1999 I went to the British Grand Prix and borrowed my dad’s Olympus OM20 35mm. Took some good shots, still thought...
June 2011
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Rob Rowlands
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
I’ve taken photos since I was a child but it’s been the last 10 years that I’d say I’ve been a photographer. That’s been a journey of self-learning and exploration both of the camera and the things I like to photograph. I have no formal training in photography and that is something which at first held me...
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Richard Southall
Q. How did you get into photography/what is your background?
My passion for photography began when my father persuaded me to buy a proper camera (Praktica LTL) from some inheritance money I had received. I was surprised by how quickly I took to it and the excitement I had of producing images. I started as an assistant when I was 13 years old, working for Dennis Constantine (high society...
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Thank you and we're on Twitter
Some surprisingly bad photos for a room full of photographers
I just want to say a quick thank you for everyone who came to our first meet up and guest lecture last night. I wanted to keep it simple and interesting for the first event; and I think you’ll agree that Richard Battye did a superb job in giving an entertaining and inspiring lecture. Check out this write up on PS Photography
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