BLINDBOYS WIDEYED
Image credit: Where are you going Mr Mahajan? © Lenskap/Blindboys 2010
BLINDBOYS WIDEYED is an experimental collaboration between two young photography collectives – Blindboys in South Asia, and North East England based Wideyed.
The two collectives discovered each other on the web, made contact and have used the internet to exchange work. But while each have a web presence – and Blindboys’ site is an online magazine showcasing South Asian photography - both collectives share a commitment to print exhibitions.
”Blindboys are driven to see and show Asian photography in a new light.” http://www.blindboys.org/
With this exhibition, Wideyed is pleased to present:
Ruhani Kaur
Lenskap
Akshay Mahajan
Ishan Tankha
With
Louise Taylor
Richard Glynn
Lucy Carolan
Exhibition Dates: 13th – 25th March 2010
Preview: 7 – 9pm on Friday 12th March 2010
VENUE: 67B Westgate Road (near Central Station), Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SG
OPENING TIMES:12pm – 5pm daily
My City
Open call for submissions
Image credit: Nicholas Ainsley, Solar, 2009
The University of Sunderland in collaboration with the North East Photography Network and the Folkwang University, Essen, Germany is organising a photographic exhibition and online display on the theme of urban experience with photographs taken by you.
The project aims to present a visual mosaic of the cities we inhabit, inviting images of any style, genre and format depicting urban space and architecture, people and the buzz of the city. Photographs that challenge iconic representations and stereotypes of places and people and which provide unique insight into the commonplaces and/or unknown aspects of ones home city are warmly welcome.
Exhibition opens on 29 April 2010
City Space, Sunderland University, Sunderland
All participants are invited.
How you can participate: From 1 March until 12 April 2010, each person may contribute one unmounted photograph up to A3 size (297 × 420 cm or 11.7 x 16.5 inc). Photographs should be clearly labeled at the back including full name, title, date, and contact details (phone and/or e-mail address). An explanatory paragraph may also be submitted.
Submissions may be hand-delivered or send by post to Carol McKay or Alexandra Moschovi, ADM Ashburne House, Ryhope Road, Sunderland, SR2 7EF. Photographs will be exhibited in the City Space for two days but will only be returned if a self-addressed, pre-stamped envelope is included. A selection of the submitted material will also feature in the North East Photography Network Website.
For further information, please contact carol@northeastphoto.net or alexandra.moschovi@sunderland.ac.uk
Photography Reading Group
The next NEPN Reading Group is on Wednesday 10th March at the Lit and Phil (5.30). We’ll be discussing Sirkka Lissa Konttinen’s books ‘Byker’ (Jonathan Cape, 1983) and ‘Byker Revisited’ (Northumbria Press, 2009). Come along for tea and chat! All welcome, but please book in advance — email carol@northeastphoto.net
Weegee
A new exhibition of Weegee’s work is about to launch at Profile Gallery, Saltburn.
Weegee worked the streets of 1930’s/1940’s New York, a heady mix of migration, unemployment, a gulf between rich and poor, crime, mob rule and emerging celebrity culture. His photographs capture and span decisive moments of New York at the time, from gangland hits, to ladies attending opera and children playing with water from a fire hydrant on the lower east side. This exhibition is drawn from the extensive archive of Weegee’s work based at Amber/Side in Newcastle.
Exhibition Launch: Friday 5th March 7-9pm
Exhbition continues: 6th March – 5th June 2010
Profile Gallery 14 Ruby Street, Saltburn www.profilegallery.co.uk
Opening hours: Tues – Sat 10am – 4pm
Photographers’ gallery
Apply from 15 February for freshfacedandwildeyed, the Photographers’ Gallery third annual exhibition for recent visual arts graduates. A showcase for the most dynamic new photographic work from across the UK.
>Who can apply? Any photographer/artist who graduated from a visual arts course in the UK, BA or MA level, in the last academic year.
>How and when can work be submitted? All images and other information have to be submitted online between 15 February – 3 March 2010.
Please visit the Photographers’ Gallery website to access the online application form. Work submitted by post or email will not be considered.
Photography research
Doctoral Studentship Opportunity in Photography.
The University of Sunderland is offering a new Ph.D studentship in photography. This is a full-time, 3-year project funded by the AHRC and is available for uptake from Sept/Oct 2010.
Particularly welcomed are research proposals that seek to develop high quality, critically-engaged photography within a range of photographic practices and subject-areas, including documentary, landscape/place and family/autobiography. Applications for theory-based and interdisciplinary projects will also be considered.
Enquiries:
Prospective students can informally discuss research proposals in advance of application with: Professor John Kippin, tel: 0191 515 3041, email john.kippin@sunderland.ac.uk
Applications are invited electronically to applications@northeastbgp.org on the relevant form – which can be accessed via http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/d2.html.
Deadline for applications is than 12.00 midday on Wednesday 24th March 2010. Applications received after this date and time will be kept on file as reserves.
More information about photography research at Sunderland is available at:
http://www.photography-at-sunderland.co.uk/
Halo Magali Pettier
Myles Meehan Gallery
Image credit: Frances Hodgson, Photograph: Magali Pettier
Darlington Arts Centre has commissioned film maker and photographer Magali Pettier to work with five local community arts groups to explore the dynamics of their group and how their engagement with the arts brings them together. Using film, photography and text Pettier captures their own distinctive stories. The participating groups are Windermere Productions, Darlington Arts Centre R‛n’B Club, Large Productions, Age Concern Darlington and Darlington Arts Centre Weaving Group.
Preview: Thursday 11 February, 6–8pm. All Welcome
FREE Gallery Talks: Friday 12 & Saturday 13 February, 12noon–1pm.
All Welcome
Exhibition Dates: Friday 12 February –Saturday 3 April 2010
Photography (w)here: symposium and portfolio review
Photography (w)here?: symposium and portfolio reviews
Symposium Friday 12th March, 2pm – 6pm.
Portfolio Reviews : Saturday 13th March, 9.30- 2.30
Our first major event: 2 days of talks, discussion and portfolio reviews. Explore some of the pressing issues facing contemporary photographers and share some of your ideas with our panel of leading curators, editors and practitioners . What new opportunities exist for photographers? What are the pitfalls and how can we sustain our professional practices in the current economic climate? How are new photographic practices being supported and disseminated? Opportunities for informal and formal networking in a fabulous historic setting!
Photographer Sarah Pickering will be our key-note speaker on Friday 12thMarch. Round-table discussion chaired by Alessandro Vincentelli, Curator, Baltic.
(Image credit: Sarah Pickering Glue-sniffing Kids, 2007, Fire Scene series)
Portfolio Reviews, Saturday 13th March: An exciting opportunity for one-to-one conversations with reviewers of your choice Each review will last approximately 20 minutes and booking is essential.
Cost: £5 per portfolio review session. You may book up to a maximum of 4 reviews. When booking, please select reviewers most appropriate to the needs of your practice.
Reviewers:
Camilla Brown, Senior Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Malcolm Dickson, Director Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.
Patrick Henry, Director, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs, National Media Museum,
Marc Prüst , freelance photography consultant and curator, Paris (www.marcprust.com)
Alistair Robinson, Programme Director, NGCA, Sunderland
Venue: The Mining Institute, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 1SE
Admission to the symposium is free, but booking in advance is essential.
Portfolio Reviews must be booked in advance: cost £5 per review.
Jane Brown: 100 Portraits
Jagger © Jane Brown
8 Jan – 19 Feb University Gallery, Northumbria University www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery/
Jane Bown had been taking portraits for the Observer newspaper since 1949 and in that time has photographed everyone from Bertrand Russell to the Beatles to Samuel Beckett to the Queen. Working almost exclusively in black and white and with an absolute economy of means her portraits are immediately recognisable and many have become classics of the genre.
Over the past few years, Jane’s extensive archive has been catalogued for the first time leading to a significant reassessment of her work. The exhibition will showcase 100 of Jane’s best photographs across her six-decade career. This will include many familiar images, however, a significant number will be drawn from previously unknown shoots.
Courtesy of the Guardian and the Observer
Photography Reading Group
The North East Photography Network is teaming up with the Lit and Phil to set up a new Photography Reading Group.
We’ll meet at the Lit and Phil on a Wednesday every month, starting on Wednesday 10th February 5.30 – 7pm. Places are free but please book in advance by contacting carol@northeastphoto.net. We’ll start with one of the great photography books in the Lit and Phil collection — Chris Killip’s ‘In Flagrante’ (1988).