22. January 2012
Second Look Is Back!
Hidden beauty and historic influences – new inspiration for photographers at Bristol’s first TalkPhoto event of 2012
There’s a fresh chance for Bristol’s growing community of photography enthusiasts to share ideas with others and be inspired by the work of some of the city’s top photographers at the first TalkPhoto evening of the new year.
Speakers at the event at Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9th are Neil McCoubrey and Peter Metelerkamp.
Covered Portrait ©Neil McCoubrey
Neil McCoubrey’s talk ‘In Search of Accidental Beauty’ will focus on his unique images taken at Clifton Rocks Railway and in over 80 rooms currently closed to the public and used for storage at the National Trust’s Tyntesfield House. His work in places and of objects that are usually hidden and, perhaps, forgotten often reveal an accidental beauty and unintended narrative. After 32 years working for Hewlett Packard, Neil fulfilled a long held ambition to do a BA in Photography from which he graduated last year and is now developing a growing reputation as a photographer and photo editor. More of his growing body of work can be seen online at www.neilmccoubrey.com
Off-Sales ©Peter Metelerkamp
Peter Metelerkamp was born and grew up in South Africa and he will introduce TalkPhoto to his documentary project ‘Settler Country’, which was the subject of a major exhibition at the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol in 2007. The project, funded with the help of grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, studies the influence and impact of early 19th century British settlement on people and places in modern day South Africa’s Eastern Cape – and explores the wider psychological and physical impacts of settlement. The project can be viewed online at www.settlercountry.org.Peter trained at the University of Natal, the London Film School and has an MA in Documentary Photography. He has spent many years leading postgraduate programmes in film production and documentary practice at the University of Bristol.
After the two talks (and a visit to the bar), there will be a chance for attendees to share and talk about their own work or that of photographers or photographs that inspire or interest them. The evening will conclude with a chance to put forward any questions, make requests for help and advice, promote an event or anything else to do with photography.
There’s a small entrance charge of £3 (£2 for Second Look members) to cover the cost of room hire and publicity. The evening starts at 7pm.
TalkPhoto is staged by the city’s Second Look photography group and is designed to enable Bristol’s growing community of photographers to learn from successful and innovative photographers and to share ideas and improve their skills and details of how to participate in the evenings can be found on the Second Look website at www.secondlook.org.uk. Please submit anything to be raised in advance by e-mail to Michael Reeves at contact@michaelreevesphotography.com or hand it in at the start of the meeting.
>>> Do you feel you have a solid photographic technique, a unique artistic style or an interesting philosophy? If so, do you want to be considered as a future speaker for these events? Please email a paragraph about what you want to talk about and the photograph that illustrates it best, plus your website or Flickr photostream address if you have one, to Michael Reeves at contact@michaelreevesphotography.com
6. October 2011
Visions of Heaven
A MAJOR EXHIBITION IN BRISTOL
A WORLD FIRST
The Pioneering Space Photography of David Malin
The Bristol Gallery 15-23 October 2011
Millennium Promenade, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TY
David Malin is the founder of modern colour space photography: without his work none of us would have imagined deep space in vivid shades of blue, red and green. Malin captured a new and startling different perspective of the sky, and his lifelong interest in the interplay of optics, colour, light and the use of the photographic process as a way of recording images of distant galaxies.
This is the first time the process behind Malin’s work has ever been exhibited. We are excited that this exhibition is taking place in Bristol, the birthplace of William Friese-Greene, the great nineteenth-century pioneer of photography.
Along with 69 stunningly beautiful images, the exhibition will also display the 3-colour imaging process, based on Maxwell’s (1891) additive system, that Malin used to create them. Malin began using this technique around 1978 when thinking in RGB was for colour TV engineers. Now the norm, Malin was the first person to use this process for astronomical colour images, and part of that process now bears his name, ‘malinisation’.
*All prints will be for sale.
Free talks
David Malin: Photography and the Discovery of the Universe, The Bristol Gallery, 6 pm 17th October.
Darrelyn Gunzburg (University of Bristol) The Changing Face of the Heavens, The Bristol Gallery, 6 pm 21st October.
26. September 2011
TalkPhoto-October 2011
Come along to Second Look’s TalkPhoto on Thursday, 13th October, 7-9pm, at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft.
The evening will showcase two invited speakers and also provide an opportunity for people in the audience to share & talk about their work own work or that of photographers that inspire or interest them.
MaxcMcClure: ’Blaise’ from the series ‘Tableaux’
MaxMcClure investigates unusual night-time scenes and transient spaces. His peculiar and static photographs appear as silent and intimate tableaux, frozen scenes from unknown narratives. Max draws influence from fashion photography, cinema and the discourse on ‘non-place’.www.maxmcclure.com
Luke Archer will introduce images from his series ‘Inheritance’. Inspired by a 100 year-old camera inherited from his grandfather, Luke traced its lineage back to Bassano, the famous 19th century society portraitist. The work he has produced as a result examines the notion of inheritance through photographing descendants of the titled elite first captured using this equipment. www.lukearcherphotography.co.uk
Full event details at http://www.secondlook.org.uk/events/2011/oct/13/talkphoto_october11/
23. August 2011
Michael Reeves at The Guildhall Chambers
‘Three Baths’
Current exhibition: Selected Work at the Guildhall Chambers, 5-8 Broad Street, Bristol, until 2nd September 2011
19. July 2011
Second Look 2011
Free photo competition
You can see more & enter the competition here: http://www.secondlook.org.uk/basl/2011/
Photo competition 10:00a.m. Mon 18th July – 10:00p.m. Wed 31st Aug.
The snappers of Second Look once again challenge the people of Bristol to take a second look at the city.
The photo competition is free to enter & open to everyone who lives or works in Bristol or the surrounding areas.
The brief is to produce photographs that show:
unnoticed aspects of Bristol
what we might otherwise pass by
the small things we might take for granted
details with hidden interest or beauty
places which people might not normally be able to see
The competition will run from July 18th to August 31st. After the competition closes our respected panel of judges will make a short list of 16 finalists & it will once again be up to the Bristol public to choose their winner.
15. July 2011
FREE EXHIBITION: Bristol and West – Photographs by Martin Parr
31 August at 10:00 - 27 November at 17:00
@ M Shead Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol, United Kingdom
Featuring 60 images selected from the last thirty years of Martin Parr’s career, Britain’s foremost photographer takes a wry look at life in Bristol and the surrounding area.
13. June 2011
Neil McCoubrey on show at UWE
Covered Portrait
UWE is currency having it annual degree show in Bristol. For information on dates please click here.
On show is Neil McCoubrey work for his lates project Tyntesfield “A look at the signs of care taken in the maintenance and restoration of the National Trust’s Tyntesfield House”.
Neil says “the whole degree show which is being held at Bower Ashton, from next Saturday, for 6 days. I’m really impressed with the quality of work produced by my fellow students. For you film buffs there are examples from 10 x8 negatives and images taken on a 100+ year old camera”.
7. June 2011
ARTeries
ARTeries in the Bear Pitt
As part of a programme of improvements to the dreary “Bear-pit” at St James Barton roundabout (see www.the-bear-pit.org.uk ) some art boards have been put up in the subways. One of these boards is dedicated to photography, with the intention of rotating displays there every couple of months or so. The first “exhibition” is a collage of photos taken for the “ARTeries” project by the Bristol-based “Focalists”. Any participant in the Bristol Photo Forum is welcome to have a show of his/her work there. There is no charge, but you will have to prepare and paste up the art work. If you are interested please contact: henry.shaftoe@uwe.ac.uk
- An Evening With Martin Parr
- Avonmouth to the Amazon Exhibition
- Oxfam Benefit Exhibition
- Photography as an Art From
- flickLgraphique show
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