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Birmingham Loves Photographers
Run in conjunction with the independent coffee shop 6/8 Kafé, this is a space to promote Birmingham based photographers all of styles, both amateur and professional. We will also be a running events for photography around the West Midlands. If you want your work featured on here, please contact by Ask Me a Question, or go to our Twitter @birmlovestogs
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 seasoned pros. This event will include a practical demonstration of how to use a 5 x 4 camera and the considerations needed for this; planning a photography project and the importance of this to continue your own personal development; and looking at the type of photography genre that you might usually expect to see on a degree level photography course. The session will also be looking forward to a future exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall by photographer Martin Parr. The session is led by Malcolm Brice, professional art & commercial photographer who has taught at Nottingham Trent University for the past two years.
Check out Malcolm’s book ‘Incontinent Nostalgia and Sensory Ghosts’.
This FREE event will be from 1-4pm on Saturday 3rd December.
To book a free place (places limited) please call gallery reception on 01922 654400
Edgar Martins “This is not a House” 30 September - 24 December 2011
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 extent and impact of this worldwide crisis. Martins has created a compelling series of images of neglected and abandoned houses, apartments, office buildings, golf courses and ski resorts. The subjects are effectively contemporary ruins, and the artist knowingly plays with these associations to create dramatic, poetic and often theatrical compositions.
Edgar Martins will give an informal tour of his exhibition, This is not a House at 12pm, Saturday 5 November
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 published extensively on these subjects.
Tickets £3 available through box office in advance or buy online.
This exhibition will chart how fashion photography flourished with the rise of illustrated magazines and how influential editors and art directors collaborated with photographers to shape epochs of style throughout the past century. Exposing the medium’s evolution and the fascinating dialogue between fashion photography and fine art photography, this exhibition is beautiful and scholarly, glamorous and insightful.
The V&A is home to the UK’s National Collection of the Art of Photography. The Collection comprises over half a million works including many hundreds of fashion photographs. This is the first touring exhibition from the V&A’s Collection to explore the work of international fashion photographers and to draw together such a broad range of important historic and contemporary fashion images. This exhibition will be unveiled to the region for the very first time at Light House, as part of a UK tour.
The exhibition of Selling Dreams will be at the Light House from 14th October until 13th January 2012. Exhibition organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Perspectives - Photography exhibition
This will display some excellent work from Birmingham photographers and runs until October 28th so go check it out!
Smethwick - An exhibition of images by Richard Southall
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 9am-5pm/Sat 10am-4pm until 11th November
Sponsored by Calumet Photographic and Dunns Imaging
For more on Richard Southall heard to http://www.emphasisphotography.co.uk/
Images from Boken Souls - Nigal Goodship exhibition
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 homeless person.” (taken from Birmingham Post)
Nigal’s work will be shown from 5th-28th October at Fotofilia, which is located on Regent Parade in the Jewellery Quarter; For opening times head to Fotofilia’s website.
For more information on Nigal Goodship head to Nigalgoodship.com
Moseley Road Baths Art Exhibition – Call for submissions
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 Day.
This event is part of the Friends’ Heritage Lottery funded “Pool of Memories” oral history project and there is a possibility that work submitted will be included in the book and website being produced.
The exhibition will take place for one day only on Saturday 29th October 2011 at the former Moseley School of Art on Moseley Road, Birmingham.
Work can be in any medium although space availability and any equipment needed will be taken into account during selection. To submit work, please email to memories@friendsofmrb.co.uk the following: The closing date for entries is 7th October 2011.
The Big Issue’s 20th anniversary photography exhibition, Birmingham
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 of Photographers. Paul, who was brought up in Moseley, has photographed a series of Big Issue vendors in their “homes” – be they squats, hostels, caravans or nothing more than the street. Shedding light on the hidden lives of Britain’s homeless, the portraits offer an insight into their background, their family situation, the challenges they face while selling the magazine, their achievements and aspirations. The exhibition will go on display at St Martin-in-the-Bull Ring Church, Birmingham and will run until the end of September. Throughout 2011 The Big Issue will be celebrating a remarkable 20 years in business. 20 years in which it has helped thousands of homeless people to help themselves, in the process creating a world renowned blueprint for social change. During this time The Big Issue has also become an international publishing phenomenon and one of the best known brands in the UK.
Birmingham Graduates Photography Exhibitions
Here are some details of shows from photography and design graduates from the Birmingham City University - Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
I highly recommend you go to these to support local developing talent and they also feature photographers who have appeared on this blog.
Hopefully see you there.
If you’re in Birmingham this check this exhibition out - open until Sunday!
