Closing this Sunday...Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

Image (c) Stephen Gill 2010, Untitled from the series Outside In - featured in the exhibition, Strange & Familiar

Last chance to see Brighton Photo Biennial 2010: New Documents curated by Martin Parr. All five exhibitions are open on Friday 12, Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 November.
 
This is the final opportunity to visit the exhibitions produced and presented by our partners and to catch the Brighton Photo Fringe. All venues within easy walking distance in the centre of Brighton & Hove. For more information, including opening times, see our website.

(c) Murray Ballard & Gabriella Rizello

Also if you are heading down, don't forget about the Fringe Shows - especially One Week In Moscow, a photographic book & exhibition raising money for Diabetes UK.
Marwood Studios Cafe, 52 Ship Street, Brighton, BN41 1DG
02 OCT - 14 NOV
MON - SAT 08:00 - 20:00, SUN 10:00 - 20:00 

Other exhibitions to see...
New Ways of Looking
The former Co-operative Department Store


- Wout Berger (NLD), Mohamed Bourouissa (DZA), Ju Duoqi (CHN), Oscar Fernando Gomez (MEX), Oumar Ly (SEN), Dhruv Malhotra (IND), Billy Monk (ZAF), Suzanne Opton (USA) and Viviane Sassen (NLD).


Strange and Familiar: Three Views of Brighton
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
- Rinko Kawauchi (JPN), and Alec Soth (USA), commissioned by Photoworks and Stephen Gill (UK), in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict."


A Night in Argentina
University of Brighton Gallery
- Alejandro Chaskielberg and Esteban Pastorino Diaz (ARG)


Queer Brighton
Lighthouse
- Molly Landreth and Zoe Strauss (USA)


The House of Vernacular
Fabrica

- Archive of Modern Conflict, Josef Heinrich Darchinger (DEU), Nick Gleis, Lee To Sang 

Hereford Photography Festival 2010

Image: Running Cows (c) Steve Brown  

This year's festival co-curated by Paul Seawright, photographer and Professor of Photography at the University of Ulster, brings together photographers from previous years and utilises various venues across the town, including Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, The Royal National College for the Blind and Hereford Leisure Pool. A list of exhibitions can be seen here

The co-ordinators have also commissioned new works, including projects being shown in 'The Hereford' exhibition, currently open at Hereford Cathedral. The photographers Tessa Bunney and Steve Brown have explored the life of breeding famous Hereford cattle; looking at the history of the industry through archives held by Hereford Cattle Society and visiting current breeders and their families. 

Hereford Cathedral
Cathedral Close, Hereford, HR12NG
Friday 29th October – Saturday 27th November 2010 Opening times: 9:15am – evensong daily
(Monday – Saturday 5:30pm, Sundays 3:30pm)

More about - TESSA BUNNEY - STEVE BROWN

This year's HPF features works by:

Al Vandenberg - Beth Yarnelle Edwards - Dave West - Jackie Nickerson

Jodi Bieber - John Bulmer - Liza Dracup - Martin Parr

Michael Danner - Paul Hill - Paul Shambroom - Pieter Hugo

Rankin - Robert Ashby - Roger Ballen - Shelby Lee Adams

Simon Norfolk - Tessa Bunney - Wang Qingsong

FOTONOW team launch exhibition in Plymouth

This initiative are creating really exciting photography projects in the communities around the South West - they have curated an exhibition, Camera's in the Community, with Plymouth Arts Centre which is currently open at the venue until the 23rd December, and includes:

The Free Photographic Omnibus: Daniel Meadows

Laundrette Residencies: Tim Mills and Jamie Webb

South West Graduate Photography Prize

'Camper Obscura' in Devonport

Exhibition opening times: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 8.30pm / Sunday 4pm – 8.30pm

We think they're grrrreat (but here's what they say about themselves)...

FOTONOW CIC is a South West UK based Community Interest Company (a non-profit organisation similar to a Charity). Directors Jonathan Blyth and Matthew Pontin are experienced photographic practitioners, teachers and college lecturers. Through FOTONOW they create new opportunities in photography and facilitate socially motivated projects in lens-based culture throughout the South West of England.

The company runs as a social enterprise focused upon developing photographic research and practice alongside increasing commissions, publishing, exhibition and education opportunities. FOTONOW is based in Plymouth and intent on working across the region to stimulate new dialogues with photography, the company also has a small studio space in Liskeard. Recently FOTONOW have launched their mobile Camper Obscura project which is currently working in Devonport on a residency to build a community archive (see news).

Call for applications

The first Salon Photo Prize will take place from 4 February - 26 February. We expect to exhibit up to 100 practitioners, and one exhibitor will also win the Selectors’ prize of £1000 and a solo exhibition in 2012.

This year's selection panel consists of:

Simon Baker, Curator of Photography, Tate


Stefanie Braun, Curator, The Photographers' Gallery


Tim Clark, Editor-in-chief, 1000 Words Photography Magazine 


Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director, National Media Museum

All applicants are asked to submit a membership fee of £8 instead of an application fee. This allows them to apply to all three Salon Prize if appropriate and offers ongoing professional development support through networking events and portfolio sessions.

The deadline for applications is: 5pm, Saturday 4th December, 2010

To apply please see www.salonartprize.com 

 or email salonphotoprize@mattroberts.org.uk

1000 Words Photography

Ffotogallery & WARP present FORUM

This month sees the new collaboration of WARP and Ffotogallery to present FORUM; held in Turner House on Thursday 11th November from 6.30pm.
FORUM is an informal, monthly event aiming to develop a core group of emerging artists in South Wales together with students and graduates. It is a platform for practitioners from various disciplines to exchange ideas, experience and opinions on visual culture.

Each month at the FORUM an artist/FORUM-member will present to the group. This presentation, that has no fixed form, will trigger discussion on a range of issues loosely in the context of contemporary arts practice.
Also every month FORUM members will have an opportunity to show or discuss new or unfinished works in an informal setting, for feedback and discussion.
Bring along work on the night.

Refreshments will be available throughout the evening. There are no booking requirements. If you have any queries or questions please call (029) 2070 8870 or email turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org

Visit ffotogallery or WARP for more information...

Condition Report: Meet the Artists/Discussion

Saturday 30 October, 11am - 3pm at Turner House, Penarth 

Condition Report is the work of six Czech artists associated with the Department of Photography at FAMU (the School of Film and Television of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. Their work represents a range of contemporary art practices in some way rooted in photography and lens-based media.

At this unique event, Dr. Ian Walker from University of Wales Newport and Robert Silverio, Head of Photography at FAMU, will discuss how the work exhibits certain Czech characteristics, but also the ideas and influences of a wider international art scene. After the discussion, the artists Vojtěch Fröhlich, Jan Měřička and Radek and Zdeněk Květoň will be giving a personal tour of their work on display. Their work represents a range of contemporary art practices that are in some way rooted in photography and lens-based media.

 
Please join us for this exciting opportunity to meet the artists and engage in critical discussion about the work and its wider context. Refreshments will be available.

FREE event booking essential - please email turnerhouse@ffotogallery.org 

Condition Report shows at Ffotogallery, Turner House, Penarth from 29 October – 11 December 2010. The project has been developed through a partnership between Ffotogallery, the European Centre of Photographic Research, University of Wales Newport and FAMU, Prague.

Preview: MA Documentary Photography Newport Exhibition

It's that time of the year again and the guys from Newport do not disappoint. This year's show is probably more varied than ever before. While some practitioners construct images of personal meaning to reflect their own internal worlds, others comment on societal values, liminal spaces, or time and human memory. All have something interesting and original to say, which allows the observer to reflect on her own attitudes to these varied issues. Rick Davies.