2021 Photography Graduate rewards – Invisible Britain Instagram Takeovers

July 28, 2021

Invisible Britain have been kind enough to offer up the whole of August on their Instagram account to four new photography graduates! We’ve been working with the team to make our final selections from submissions we received for four week long Instagram Takeovers.

We’re really excited for this to take place and we thank Invisible Britain for being so generous and accommodating. You can find the dates and names below.

Susana Hill 2nd – 6th August.
Duncan Thompson 9th – 13th August.
Harrison Tibbs 16th – 20th August.
Liva Pastore 23rd – 27th August.

Follow Invisible Britain on Instagram here.

2021 Photography Graduate Selections

July 25, 2021

The 2 BA graduates we are rewarding with an extended Instagram Takeover are:
Issie Treacher
Rosie Carne

The 5 BA graduates we would like to interview are:
Danielle Gibson
Oliver Charles
Rosie Carne
Mimi Spendiff
Liva Pastore

The 10 Highly Commended BA graduates are:
Sam Spinks
Carlos Anguera Jover
Sophia Kapoor
Rebecca Thomas-McCann
Liva Pastore
Harrison Tibbs
Moon Immisch
Miriam Levi
Emily Edwards
Ben Malcolmson

The 2 MA graduates we are rewarding with an extended Instagram Takeover are:
Hui Lin
Katie McCraw

The 10 Highly Commended MA graduates are:
Alexandra Diez de Rivera
Abigail Evans
Hui Lin
Clare Lyons
Stevi McNeill
Jiaxin Liang
Katie McCraw
Som Prabh
Andy Bedford
Oliver Tooke

…and more!

PGZ2021 is here

July 25, 2021

PGZ2021 features work from 50 BA and MA UK photography graduates who completed their studies this year. This zine is yet another exciting project for Photograd, we really love supporting new graduates every summer.

Purchasing a copy means we can send more zines to the industry and ensure that those who need to see the work can do so.

PGZ2021 FEATURES WORK FROM:

Emily Bloomer
Gabrielle Avancini
Jacob Black
Oliver Charles
Jessica Neary
Hui Lin
Ran Bi
Joshua Hart
Molly McNinch
Sam Spinks
Joel Simon Goldstein
Joe Fenna
Freya Tate
Julie Fairbrother
Nicole Mullan
Jack Whiting
Dylan Brown

Sarah Deane
Gökhan Tanrıöver
Morgan Williams
Linta Butt
Alina Saranti
Rebecca Thomas-McCann
Harrison Tibbs
Junwei Chen
Chloe Nicholls
Tom Keighley
Mimi Spendiff
Yuanbo Chen
Eman Khokhar
Jodie Bateman
Morgan Tomkinson-Burden
James Lambert
Chloe Hyde

Serena Ridley
Ellie Jenkins
Molly Webb
Josephine Berry
Matthew Snellin
Alice Martin
Alexandra Diez de Rivera
Oliver Nix
Anna Sturgeon
Issie Treacher
Gabrielle Bourne
Duncan Thompson
James Booth
Dilara Sigirtmac
Sarah-Jane Field
Simon Weldon

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…and more!

Redeye, Short Supply & Fuse: co-delivering Graduate Takeover 2021

June 9, 2021

We’re very excited to announce that Redeye, Short Supply & Fuse will be co-delivering Graduate Takeover 2021.

Graduate Takeover will be a short season packed full of events, creative advice presented by the graduates of recent years, for new starters and creative graduates of 2021.

Across the next four weeks we’ll be co-delivering ‘In-Conversation’ and ‘Careers Clinic’ a mini-series of events that will vary from topics like Marketing Yourself, Accessing Resources and loads more, featuring graduates of the past year.

Plus, Redeye, Short Supply and Fuse will host various Instagram Takeovers, blog posts and IG lives throughout the month as part of the Graduate Takeover.

Click here for the full event listings.

From lens fungi to astronomical landscapes – Thursday 15th April, 7:30pm via Zoom

April 13, 2021

Join Sarah-Jane Field, Rowan Lear and Mandy Williams for an artist-led conversation around contemporary image-making.

The work of Sarah-Jane Field, Rowan Lear and Mandy Williams deals with divergent topics. Field’s why is there an astronaut in a field of flowers/ investigates boundaries between, and the enmeshment of, flesh and technology; Williams’ England explores the exclusionary politics of our contemporary landscape; in a sudden branching, Lear queries vegetal life, inheritance, and the event of bifurcation. However, there is a common thread: an investigation of the lines that demarcate bodies, worlds, disciplines and time. Come along to find out how they each relate to the image in their work, and why photography is, or isn’t, their favoured medium.

Since the pandemic began last year, anyone interested in absolutely anything has been treated to a veritable feast of online talks. For photographers and artists this has been a fantastic way to generate interest in their work and keep up with others. Having attended a fair few, I am aware these talks can be fascinating, and a real bonus for a single parent who appreciates not having to sort childcare. However, they can sometimes be a little dry. And because everyone has been working incredibly hard to replace in-person activities, it might feel like we are being bombarded with opportunities, making information-overload a real problem. After signing up for as many talks as possible last summer, people now choose judiciously and avoid gorging on too much Zoom.

As lockdowns continued to come and go, I was planning the last moments of my degree and realised that a Zoom talk would probably provide me with a good opportunity to get my work, and the ideas that formed it, out into the world. However, I was keen to make it as attractive as possible in a competitive arena where so much vies for our attention. I decided to invite two other artists who, like me, are exploring constructed cultural boundaries and lines, to create a type of mini-conference around concepts such as enclosure and emergence in photography.

This joint venture helps situate my work and also makes use of wider networks. It certainly takes me outside any student-comfort zone I might have felt inclined to remain within. I’m immensely grateful to Mandy and Rowan for agreeing to join me and for their patience and generosity. I am certain their presence will achieve what I set out to do – and that is to provide refreshing and compelling insight into all our varied strategies and practices.

Positive Light Projects Creative Hub

February 25, 2021

Support Positive Light Projects to raise funds to transform a dilapidated building in Exeter into a community arts space, gallery, darkrooms and artist studios.

What we are up to…

We are seeking to raise funds for the development of a creative and cultural working and teaching space with a focus on community engagement and collaborative practice in a disused retail unit on Sidwell Street in Exeter.

The intention is to build a creative visual arts hub that operates to support various communities within Exeter and beyond. The space will provide..

6 x Artist Studios – Space for creatives to make work and develop personal projects.
Project Space – Large street level accessible communal space that workshops and classes can be run in.
Gallery – Displaying artwork, both group and individual shows.
Darkroom – Range of enlargers and equipment for processing and printing work.
Photography Studio – Professional studio lighting and backdrops.
Library – Books, journals and periodicals for reference and research.
Meeting Space – Space for creatives to meet & discuss thoughts, plans, projects & proposals.
Resident charities & organisations – Office and studio space for local groups.
Study Space – Quiet space for individual study.

Before we can start work on activating the space we need to make the building safe and accessible. The money raised will go towards essential electrical and plumbing works, ensuring wheelchair access and the installation of a disabled loo, renovation of communal work spaces and artist studios, cleaning, painting and decorating, fire safety precautions and a heating system, all to make the building safe, warm and accessible for all.

Click here to support Positive Light Projects on Crowdfunder

Positive outcomes if we are successful…

• Create a vibrant social and professional space

• Support local community groups

• Bring footfall to Sidwell Street

• Revitalise a dilapidated building

• Support artists and creative practitioners

• Support local businesses by bringing new trade

• Nurture talent and future local businesses owners

• Make creative connections across sectors

• Encourage new demographic of people to visit the area

• Draw in non Exeter residents to the area

Crowdfunder rewards

(We’ve picked some of our favourite here but there are many more to choose from)

£10 or more
Name on ‘Patrons Plaque’.

Have your name included on a plaque celebrating all of the people who helped to create the space and make the whole project possible.

£30 or more
Positive Light Projects T-Shirt

Screen Printed Organic Cotton T-Shirt made by Double Elephant. (And your name on the ‘Patrons Plaque’).

£50 or more
Susan Derges Print

£120 or more
Aaron Schuman Print

£150 or more
Cheryl Newman Print

£200 or more
Sian Davey Print

£500 or more
Name a Studio

Have a studio named in your honour! There are 6 spaces in the building designated as individual artist studios, a specially deigned plaque will sit above the door of each, potentially with your name on it!

And more!

Mandy Williams and Natalie Robinson, “England / Reflection”. An online exhibition.

January 19, 2021

Offshoot is pleased to welcome England / Reflection a two-person photography and mixed media exhibition by University of Arts London LCC MA Photography students Mandy Williams and Natalie Robinson. Both artists are interested in how politics and power have shaped the landscape and use the river and sea as channels for reflecting on contemporary culture.

England
Williams’ series of black and white photographs of English landscapes show a progression from rupture to deformation. In some images these Disrupted Landscapes are merged with alien geographies accessed from NASA that resemble elements of our own landscape while unable to support human life. As England becomes increasingly hostile to those it perceives as outsiders, Williams uses these geographies to represent a landscape that has become alienated and unstable. The environments bleed into one another, sometimes barely perceptibly. Land is reversed and inverted; black borders divide and enclose these rigid, disarticulated landscapes.

The photographs are paired with a short video, Inward Island, that tells the story of an island through its landscape. It uses increasing colourisation to produce a gradual visual transformation that contrasts with the unnerving soundtrack. Through the video’s use of metaphor, the beauty of the landscape is first revealed, and then reversed.

Reflection: what lies beneath -new maps
Robinson’s work explores a body of work inspired by a moment of light. The light cast by the sun reflecting onto the ground from the glass tower in Angel Court [EC2] brings to life the lost river of the City of London – the Walbrook – which once ran below. The river -until a thousand years ago, the lifeblood of the City- was enclosed, covered and lost as a result of the human enterprise which created the dense financial powerhouse that we know today.

In addition to sharing that moment of light, the images shown -drawn from the documentation of the process of making the body of work- remember working with textiles to recall the fluidity of the river and then map the stages in the development of a model to create a place shaped for reflection on the exploitations from which the City has grown.

EVENTS

21st January, Introduction to work with Mandy Williams and Natalie Robinson.

28th January, Interview with Mandy Williams and Natalie Robinson with writer/curator Charlotte Russell.

The Phooks launches Learn

January 18, 2021

Learn is a space for online workshops and meetups on photobook & zine projects self-publishing: https://thephooks.com/learn

Hosted by invited mentors, these workshops will help anyone related to photography to get known with the medium and culture, to gain confidence and acquire technical skills to turn their own projects into noticeable publications.

The Phooks gives a 10% discount for all the paid events during this year for the Photograd community!

Use this code at the checkout: PHOTOGRAD-10OFF-2021

The coupon could be also applied to books and zines if there’s at least one event from the Learn section presented in your cart.

Click here to Learn

HIDDEN HISTORIES ONLINE EXHIBITION

January 13, 2021

By In Conversation With: Michaela Nagyidaiová & Kristina Sergeeva

Hidden Histories has been a topic that we have been exploring on our platform, In Conversation With, for some time now. What started as a visual conversation on the topic turned into our third open call and virtual show including the work of thirteen international artists and the two founders of the platform. The theme of hidden histories has in some shape or form been present throughout both recent projects of the In Conversation With duo; Nagyidaiová’s A Sense of Direction & Where the Wildflowers Grow and Sergeeva’s Mailbox 44.

Through this online exhibition, we highlight and address the topic of Hidden Histories, and the multi-faceted forms they take shape in, what they could be, why they are still prevalent in today’s contemporary society, why it is vital for them to be raised, and explored in the current art and photography scene.

The works selected for the exhibition open up personal and concealed stories, from American witch executions, abuse in state care in Aotearoa/New Zealand, forced name-changes of the Muslim population in Bulgaria, Oregon’s ghost towns, rapid urbanisation of rural northern Bulgaria intertwined with lost memories, individual and collective memory in relation to the land in Lithuania, the perceptions of past selves and how that influences our social-construct, to forgotten US naval factories in Kanagawa, Japan. Additionally, other selected works analyse environmental topics in Italy, allotment gardens hiding from urbanisation, a popular but now forgotten Soviet Green City, and gender stereotypes associated with classical dance. We contributed by including our ongoing works, such as Where the Wildflowers Grow that explores an ancestral land affected by many conflicts including the Greek Civil War and Mailbox 44, which explores a previously classified closed town in Russia during the Cold War.

To us, all of these stories are as relevant today as they would have been in the past.

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This virtual exhibition showcases the work of 15 photographers and visual artists from 9 different countries:

Giuliana Borrelli, Matteo Capone, Fraser Crichton, Margaux Crump x Jake Eshelman, Yassen Grigorov, Vera Hadzhiyska, Lorraine Olivia Hamberger, Salome Jishkariani, Martina Martorelli, Nino Memanishvili, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Masato Ninomiya, Kristina Sergeeva, Vytaute Trijonyte.

GET IN TOUCH HERE:

[email protected], @inconversationwith__, www.in-conversationwith.co.uk

FOUNDERS:

Michaela Nagyidaiová, Bratislava – London ( www.michaelanagyidaiova.com / @michaelanagyidaiova )

Kristina Sergeeva, Russia – Dubai (www.kristinasergeeva.com / @kristinasergeeva__ )

ISSUE .07, ‘Capturing Silence’, a virtual Instagram exhibition

December 8, 2020

Jo Lauren, limited edition prints and postcards

December 1, 2020

I am a photographer from Mersea Island. My work encompasses a cinematic, narrative-driven approach. Concepts of place and memory are explored to approach ideas which combine elements of the imagined and the real.

Daisies , from the series Shelter — *Daisies*, from the series *Shelter*

Limited edition prints of my images, alongside smaller postcard prints, can be purchased from my online shop. This includes a selection of photographs from various projects including my latest series, Shelter, which investigates how a sense of uncertainty about the modern world can be represented through images depicting a journey through a semi imagined dystopian place. The project explores the in between; a space between the familiar and the unfamiliar, creating open ended and ambiguous narratives. A sense of shelter and hope are touched upon amidst a time in society which is so isolating, yet brings upon us some sense of reflection and solitude.

The environment and the future of our planet are important to me, and therefore I will be donating 10% of all profits from prints and postcards to the WWF. I have carefully selected packaging which is fully recyclable and made from recycled sources.

Limited Edition Print Information:

A4 and A3 prints are on Permajet Matt Photo Paper, delivered Royal Mail First Class.
A4 – edition of 50
A3 – edition of 30

(A2 edition of 20 and A1 edition of 7 are to be released soon)…

Postcard Information:

Postcards are A5 in size, printed on Uncoated Paper. They cost £2.75 each, or £10 for a pack of 4. Postcards come with free delivery.

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Print of Rest from the series Shelter — Print of *Rest* from the series *Shelter*

Sara Aldridge, ‘Memory of Material’ print sale

November 23, 2020

Memory of Material is a collection of photographs that records my own wanderings and responses to my surroundings. The black and white photographs create a dialogue between places, buildings, memories and lost correspondences. A physical response to the writing of W.G Sebald. Ambiguous and curious to lost worlds and ghosts that persist to make their presence felt within the contemporary urban landscape.

Memory of material, Volume 1 explores a collection of places which have always inspired my fascination with a timeless landscape. Inspired by the literature of writers who I feel an affinity towards, creates the bases to all my ideas. I wanted to make this series to create a collection of volumes that are inspired by the way in which I now see the world from reading works by writers like W.G. Sebald and Susan Sontag.

Norwich, New York, Ipswich and Great Yarmouth became the basis for my thought process. The images are all black and white, as I felt that this would allow the audience to feel as though time has been paused within the photograph.

Memory of Material volume one is currently in the process of being made into a zine, but for the meantime, I have decided to select 10 images to sell. The prints are A5 black and white prints.

A5 matte print.
Edition of 10.
5 designs taken from Memory of Material Volume 1.
Photographed and produced by Sara Aldridge.

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Ryan Convery-Moroney, Site Studies

October 19, 2020

I’ve just released the first instalment of Site Studies. A 28 page visual research paper focusing on the spaces of social housing from the postwar period within Portsea Island, Portsmouth. Using the vertical crop of 35mm as a metaphor for Britain’s pressure for vertical expansion due to its limited horizontal periphery.

The postwar efforts to house a large number of people in small areas were optimistic and designed with socialism in mind. Since then much of these remarkable spaces and structures have been demolished and redeveloped due to poor maintenance and living standards.

This body of work attempts to investigate these built environments in isolation to who and how they are lived today.

This project is ongoing and has since expanded outside of Portsmouth into the rest of the UK. Determined to capture as much of these spaces as possible before their inevitable loss.

To find out more information about the paper click here.

www.rconverymoroney.com

Chris Mear, 003: Discarded Gloves

October 14, 2020

On 16 March 2020 the UK was placed under an unprecedented lockdown in an attempt to to limit the spread of COVID-19, this announcement sparked a sudden spate of panic buying in UK shops and supermarkets, particularly toilet paper and canned foods. As a tired retail worker, walking to and from work each day, for some reason, I found myself drawn to the presence of the protective gloves that found themselves discarded on and around the footpaths around my place of work. In a time of “social distance” these flailing, but lifeless hands seemed to be a desperately sad reminder of intimacy and connection. For the following several months I began making photographs of these emotional relics.

Discarded Gloves is a series of photographs which will be gradually published as a series of limited edition postcards.

£1.12 from the sale of each postcard will be donated to the mental health charity MIND.

6″ x 4″ postcard
Edition of 25
Photograph and design by Christopher Mear

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