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 photographs are created and how they influence you in your perception of the built environment – whether it be buying a house, choosing an office space or selecting a new venue for a night out? This is your opportunity to attend a talk by two of Birmingham’s most successful architectural photographers.

In this talk, they will discuss the rise of architectural photography over the last 60 years, the unconscious influence it has had on society and also their own commercial and personal practice.

About Richard Southall:

Richard Southall has been a Birmingham based photographer for over 25 years and specialises in the photography of restaurants, bars, casinos, nightclubs and high residential properties. His latest personal projects include Spaghetti Junction and The Last Days of Birmingham Library.

www.emphasisphotography.co.uk

About Ilona Zielinska:

Ilona Zielinska is a leading practitioner in the fields of architectural, interiors and corporate portraiture. She runs a successful practice in Birmingham and has developed a reputation for highly creative solutions that meet demanding requirements of building industry. Ilona lectures regularly and her inspirational, fresh and informative style has received exceptional feedback.

www.elonaphotographer.com

 

For more information with Birmingham Architectual Festival please go to baf2013.co.uk.

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Please note that this is a free event.

For more information please contact: info@baf2013.co.uk

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 old questions of representation, consent and the role of the photographer as witness – and invites Birmingham photographers to join the debate’. 

Taken from Jane-Baker.com:

Jane Baker is a social documentary photographer and writer, often working closely with NGOs and campaigning organisations. However, having spent many years commissioning international photography assignments with Oxfam, recent independent stories on traditional manufacturing, heritage, urban regeneration, poverty, faith and forced migration have also turned her interests to the UK.

Before turning to documentary photography Jane spent five years with Oxfam working for the video and photography teams, and also as a campaigns press officer. During her time with Oxfam she travelled to Sierra Leone, Liberia and India to document Oxfam’s work, interviewing members of the local community and directing world-class photographers. She also managed the Oxfam photo library and commissioned assignments on the food crisis in Haiti, maternal mortality in Afghanistan, pharmaceuticals in India and poverty in the UK.

For more information about Jane and see more of her work please head over to her website Jane-Baker.com

BRANCH

We will also be carrying on with the next round of Branch, so be sure to bring your responses in from the previous round; or if this is your first time bring along a printed photo and enter it into the group.

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 of the camera. He then uses these positive images to make exhibition prints with an intense, exquisite and impressionistic quality in which overall effect and atmosphere are the prime objective.

The exhibition of new work by Tom Hunter will be shown in the public realm over two sites, Church Street Square (CBD) and St Paul’s Square (JQ),  Birmingham.  The exhibition sites offer the visitor a chance to make their own journey of discovery on either side of the footbridge which links the two districts.

Find out more information at Findings Birmingham or Grain.

25 April – 19 July 2013

Location: Church Street Square and St Paul’s Square, Birmingham

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Tom will also be doing a talk about Findings on Thursday, 9 May 2013 from 18:00 to 20:00 at BIAD. Head here for more details.

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 the first session will be on ISO and we are lucky enough to have Dan Burwood who runs Darkroom Birmingham, a fantastic facility that offers training courses and studio for film developing. There is a whole host of Spring Courses available on the website plus an exhibition upcoming at Ort Cafe, with more details to follow soon.

The next meet up will be on Tuesday 9th April in the basement of 6/8 Kafe from 6:30pm.

We will also be carrying on with the next round of Branch, so be sure to bring your responses in from the previous round; or if this is your first time bring along a printed photo and enter it into the group.

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 them at all times and has awakened creativity through limitation.

At our next meet up Tuesday 12th March, we are very glad to welcome David Rann of Birmingham studio Fotofilia. Located in the Jewellery Quater, Fotofilia has been a pioneer in mobile photography, taking it on board as an equal to more classical styles and offering workshops in iphonegraphy and organising instameets. David will be giving a short discussion on some of the work being produced as well as Q&A session to share your thoughts.

We will also be continuing on to Round 3 of Branch – hopefully you have picked your inspiration from here and will bring your submissions along on Tuesday.

The meet up will be in the basement of 6/8 Kafe, starting at 6:30pm and finished before 8. Look forward to seeing you there.

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 track of the inspiration ‘tree’.

For the original description of Branch, go here.

For an explanation of why this month’s is online, go here.

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 for the duration of the exhibition. There will be a special talk from Zed Nelson at the opening on Friday 15 February at Light House Gallery, from 7 – 8pm.

LOVE ME is a touring exhibition that was developed through a partnership between Impressions Gallery (Bradford) and Ffotogallery (Wales). It reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. Over a period of five years Zed Nelson visited eighteen countries across five continents, photographing cosmetic surgeons, beauty queens and bodybuilders alongside everyday teenagers, housewives and businessmen.

Whilst Nelson’s subjects appear willing participants in an omnipresent culture of bodily improvement, they might equally be considered hapless victims – at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into an insatiable craving for approval. As the subject’s frailties and pretensions are exposed, so too are we the viewer: our motives for looking, for inspecting, along with uncomfortable reminders of our own vanities and insecurities.

The exhibition opens on Friday 15 February at 5pm at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Visitors will be able to view the works on display there until 6:30pm. The opening will then continue at Light House from 7pm, with a talk from Zed Nelson about his works, followed by a drinks reception from 8 – 9pm. The exhibition will then run from Saturday 16 February to Saturday 8 June 2013 at both Light House Gallery and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

Light House Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am – 8:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 5 – 8:30pm.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm, and closed on Sundays.

More information about the exhibition can be found here.

SO. Here is how Branch will work this month:

Scan or photograph the following:  a) this month’s entry (response to the photo you took away from last month) and b) the original photograph taken from the pile (please state the number on the back as well). Email both of these to: birminghamlovesphotographers (at ) gmail.com with Subject: Branch Project February. We will then upload these photos into an online ‘pile’  so you can choose which image to take inspiration from next. March will then revert back to being a physical exchange of photos. This means that this month, more than one person can take away an image. This will make for even more interesting results!

Please make sure you have emailed your photos by the end of Wednesday. 

See you next Tuesday!

Photo by Jenny Duffin

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 meetup next Tuesday 12th February, we’d like to mix things up a bit, and thought it would be a good idea to go to a Reference Works talk. The talk is the last of a series, and we thought it would be nice to support the work that the Library is doing surrounding photography.

The event is called ‘In Conversation with Brian Griffin’. The internationally acclaimed photographer has been taking a series of portraits over the last 12 months, as part of the transition towards the new library. In this final talk ‘Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library talks to Griffin about the personal and artistic influences that inspired the making of the work.’

Reference Works, Birmingham’s largest photography commission, sees four leading photographers and four students/graduates from Birmingham City University making creative responses to the new Library of Birmingham.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
6.00 – 7.30pm
Library Theatre, off Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ
Admission Free

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BRANCH PROJECT

We will also be continuing the Branch project next week. It is not yet confirmed how this will work logistically, what with us being at a different location.We will let you know what is happening by Thursday 7th Feb (this Thursday).

Photo by Jenny Duffin

 

 

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 captured unawares as they negotiate city streets. In the midst of abstract city details, their faces, gestures and looks engage us in unremarkable, everyday drama.

The event is this Wednesday, 30th January 2013, 6.30pm – 7.30pm.
It’s free but reserving a place is highly advised.

Here is the event page.

Here is more about the Beat Streuli exhibition which runs until 3rd February 2013.