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Friday 26 April 2013, 6.30-8.00pm
The Mining Institute
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Photographer Mark Power will be joining us to discuss recent projects, challenges in documentary practice and being a Magnum photographer.  The talk will start at 6.30pm in the Mining Institute’s Lecture Theatre and will be followed by refreshments in the Library.

As a child Mark Power discovered his father’s home-made enlarger in the family attic, a contraption consisting of an upturned flowerpot, a domestic lightbulb and a simple camera lens. His interest in photography probably began at this moment, although he later chose to do illustration – specialising in life drawing and painting – instead. He (somewhat accidentally) ‘became a photographer’ in 1983, working in the editorial and charity markets for nearly ten years, before he began teaching in 1992. This coincided with a shift towards long-term, self initiated projects which now sit comfortably alongside a number of large-scale commissions in the industrial sector.

Power’s work has been seen in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the world and is in several public and private collections. He has published six books: ‘The Shipping
Forecast’ (1996), ‘Superstructure’ (2000), ‘The Treasury Project’ (2002), ’26 Different Endings’ (2007), ‘The Sound of Two Songs’ (2010) and ‘Mass’ (2013).

Mark Power joined Magnum Photos in 2002.

The event is free to all but booking is requested HERE

16 January 2013
The Mining Institute
Newcastle upon Tyne

Melanie Friend will be joining NEPN at the Mining Institute this January to discuss her practice and recent projects.  The talk will start at 18.30 and will be followed by refreshments in the Library.

The event is free however booking is requested. Please register via eventbrite here

From the mid 1980s Melanie Friend worked as a freelance photojournalist, producing photographs for magazines, newspapers, the anti-nuclear movement and other campaigns. She became a member of Format Photographers in 1986, and of Panos Pictures in 1991. In the early 1990s she combined her photography with print journalism (freelance articles for The Guardian and The Times Educational Supplement among others) and freelance radio reporting (features for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service).

During the 1990s she started producing work specifically for galleries. Her exhibition Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible was first shown at Camerawork, London in 1996 before touring the UK, Europe and USA. Using sound and image it explored the human rights abuses in Kosovo under the Milosevic regime. An accompanying publication, Homes and Gardens, was produced with the financial support of the Arts Council of England.

Friend’s book No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo was published by Midnight Editions, USA, 2001 and was widely reviewed in the USA, UK and in Kosovo/a itself. Her exhibition installation The Guide was shown at the Hasselblad Centre, Sweden in 2001.

Her exhibition Border Country, which used sound and image to focus on asylum seekers and migrants in detention in the UK, opened at Belfast Exposed Photography, Belfast, in 2007 and toured till October 2010.

Work from Friend’s project The Home Front has been scheduled for solo exhibition in early 2014 at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK. An accompanying publication is being planned with Dewi Lewis and Impressions Gallery.

For more information about Melanie’s practice and projects: http://www.melaniefriend.com/

5 December 2012
The Mining Institute
Newcastle upon Tyne

Simon Roberts will be joining NEPN at the Mining Institute this December to discuss his practice and recent projects.  The talk will start at 18.30 and will be followed by refreshments in the Library.

The event is free however booking is requested. Please register via eventbrite here.

Simon Roberts (b. 1974) studied a BA Hons Degree in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield (1996). His photographs have been exhibited widely with recent solo shows at the National Media Museum, UK, EX3 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, and Centro Brasileiro Britânico, Brazil. They are represented in major public and private collections, including the Deutsche Börse Art Collection, George Eastman House and Wilson Centre for Photography. In recognition for his work, Roberts has received several awards including the Vic Odden Award – offered for a notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer – bursaries from the National Media Museum and the John Kobal Foundation. Most recently he was commissioned as the official Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee (2010) to produce a record of the UK General Election.  He has published two critically acclaimed monographs, Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007) and We English (Chris Boot, 2009).

www.simoncroberts.com

17 October 2012, 6.30pm
The Mining Institute
Newcastle upon Tyne

John Kippin, Hidden (National Park, Northumberland) (1988), from Futureland

NEPN is delighted to welcome John Kippin, who will be discussing new creative approaches and departures in his recent practice. John will also show experimental work from his archive that hasn’t been previously exhibited.    John Kippin is an artist and photographer working within the broad context of landscape. He is currently showing (with Chris Wainwright) in Futureland Now: Reflections on the Post-Industrial Landscape at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle until 20th January.

Whilst acknowledging the traditions of pictorial landscape, John’s work also foregrounds issues within contemporary culture and politics. In addition to gallery exhibitions, he has produced a number of public art works in a range of media and publications. Recent books include Local (with Henry Kippin) and He (with David Chandler). He has worked on numerous commissions including Cold War Par Pastoral based at Greenham Common, Berkshire,  Compton Verney in Warwickshire and Coast situated in a Martello tower in Jaywick, Essex. His work has been widely exhibited both in the UK and overseas and is in many public and private collections. John is Professor of Photography at the University of Sunderland.
All welcome. To reserve your place, email carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk

Butlin’s Filey, Yorkshire, 1972, Daniel Meadows

We are delighted to announce that Daniel Meadows will be visiting us in the new year to deliver the next of NEPN’s photographers talks on Monday 16 January at 18.30 at the Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daniel Meadows’ career as a documentary photographer, oral historian and teacher spans four decades and he is recognised as a prime-mover in an important group of photographers who spear-headed the 1970s independent photography movement.

The highly-acclaimed exhibition, Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works is showing at The National Media Museum Bradford until 19 February 2012.   The exhibition features five of his best known projects including: The Shop on Greame Street, 1972; Butlin’s by the Sea, 1972; June Street, Salford, 1973; Nattering in Paradise, 1984 and The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-74, which saw Meadows on an extraordinary journey, photographing the English as he travelled the country in a double-decker bus.

Meadows is a Lecturer in photography and participatory media at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. From 2001-2006 he was Creative Director of the pioneering digital storytelling project Capture Wales. He was awarded a PhD in 2005.

http://www.photobus.co.uk/

The talk will be followed by refreshments and informal discussion in the Institute’s Library.   Please note the new start time for this programme.

Talks are free and all are welcome.   Please email: carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk or amanda.ritson@sunderland.ac.uk to confirm you are attending.

The Shop on Greame Street. Angela Loretta Lindsey, aged 8, with her brother Mark Emanuel Lindsey. Moss Side, Manchester, March 1972, Daniel Meadows.

Melanie Manchot, Dance (All Night, Paris)

Melanie Manchot will be delivering in next of NEPN’s photographers talks on Tuesday 22 November 2011 at 6.30pm at the Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne.  The talk will be followed by refreshments and informal discussion in the Institute’s Library.
Please note the earlier start time.

Talks are free and all are welcome.

Melanie will be speaking about her recent work, her approach to portraiture and the role of her subjects as active collaborators.
http://www.melaniemanchot.net/

From the series ‘the Beautiful Horizon’. Image made by participant of the project ‘No Olho da Rua (In the eye of the Street)’ project – author unknown.

Internationally-respected photographic artist Julian Germain will be speaking about his recent practice on Thursday 29th September 2011 at 7pm at the Mining Institute in Newcastle.

Julian’s recent projects include: ‘Classroom Portraits,’ a series which will be exhibited at Netherlands Photo Museum and published by MACK next May; the long-term collaborative project ‘No Olho da Rua (In the eye of the Street)’ with Patricia Azevedo, Murilo Godoy and those living on the streets of Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and a new commission linked to the Durham Miners Gala and Durham Brass Festival for the DLI Museum.

http://www.juliangermain.com/

There will be free refreshments and the chance to meet new people to discuss photographic projects after the talk in the Library. Everyone welcome.  Please email: carol.mckay@sunderland.ac.uk or amanda.ritson@sunderland.ac.uk if you are planning to attend.

The venue: The Mining Institute, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear NE1 1SE
Please note that disabled access to the lecture theatre is limited. Please ring 0191 232 2201 if you need assistance.  Nearest metro: Newcastle Central Station.