Madin’s Library – Richard Southall Birmingham Architecture Festival 2013 are extremely excited to be presenting this photographic exhibition of the Central Library by renowned architectural photographer Richard Southall . This exhibition is a small taster to a much larger volume of images which were produced over a period of 2 months to document the public,...
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May 2, 2013 • Comments Closed Date: Monday 27th May Time: 6.30pm Number of places: 35 Price: Free Event Tickets: To book a place go to the Eventbrite page http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/org/3844986813?s=14407715 Location: 6/8 Kafe, 6/8 Temple Row, Birmingham Birmingham Architecture Festival 2013 are proud to be partnering withBirmingham Loves Photographers to present this talk on architectural photography delivered by experts in the field, Richard Southall and Ilona Zielinska. Have you ever wondered how architectural...
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May 2, 2013 • Comments Closed At 7:30 on Tuesday 14th May, photographer Jane Baker will be leading a talk at 6/8 Kafe, titled: ‘Opening a discussion on Photography and the ethics conundrum.’ ‘Starting from a documentary perspective, in this discussion based talk Jane draws on the writing and images of others, and incites from her own work, concerning the age...
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Apr 22, 2013 • Comments Closed From FindingsBirmingham Hunter employs a pinhole camera, a simple square wooden box without a lens or shutter, whose origins lie in the pre and early history of photography. The camera has a small hole at one end which allows light to seep onto a sheet of large format colour transparency film held at the back...
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Mar 31, 2013 • Comments Closed We are proud to announce a new series of lectures at BLP that looks to give a technical insight into photography and fill in the gaps in your background knowledge. Titled ‘Science of Photography’, each talk will be done by a local expert that will focus on a specific aspect to the photographic process. In...
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Mar 6, 2013 • Comments Closed With the rise of cameraphones and compact technology, this has spurred on a whole generation of people taking up photography as a hobby and posting their photos up to outlets such as instagram. Although this style has its restrictions, it also has made the craft more accesible than ever, with everyone carrying a phone with...
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Feb 18, 2013 • Comments Closed Here are February’s Branch entries, along with the photos from January that inspired them. You can now pick any of these images to gain inspiration from, for March’s entry. Please make sure you keep note of which image (including number, which should be the file name) you have selected for inspiration, so we can keep...
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Feb 13, 2013 • Comments Closed Showing from Sat 16 Feb until Sat 8 June 2013 Main Gallery, Admission free LOVE ME is a challenging examination of youth and beauty by the Uganda-born, London based Zed Nelson, a multi award-winning photographer. Light House Gallery will be co-hosting the exhibition with Wolverhampton Art Gallery, with the works divided between the two galleries...
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Feb 9, 2013 • Comments Closed After much deliberation the BLP ‘crew’ has decided that it would be best for the Branch Project, for this month, will be virtual (cue ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’). We will still be meeting up next Tuesday 12th February for the Reference works talk ‘In Conversation with Brian Griffin’, more information here. SO. Here is how Branch...
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Feb 4, 2013 • Comments Closed Well, it’s that time again! Next week will be the second meetup of 2013. Last time we met at 6/8 Kafe , had a debate about film vs digital and launched the new Branch project. We had a fantastic turn out and we hope this continues for the rest of the year. For the second...
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Jan 26, 2013 • Comments Closed Join artist Beat Streuli as he discusses the inspiration behind his photography. Streuli also signs copies of the new exhibition catalogue, produced exclusively by Ikon. Ikon, in collaboration with EACC Castellón, presents photography, video and digital projections by acclaimed Swiss artist Beat Streuli. A kind of portraiture of urban life, his work contains close-up images of people, often...
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Jan 23, 2013 • Comments Closed Justyna Ptak, who has been previously featured on Birmingham Loves Photographers, will be having an exhibition at the Wedge Gallery in Lichfield of her collection titled ‘The House’. With a Private Viewing on 5th February at 6:30pm and the show will stay up until 28th February. Justyna Ptak is currently finishing her MA in Fine...
