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Sustainable Photography Call Out for Conference – The Institute of Photography at Falmouth University, in partnership with the Sustainable Darkroom – July 2025.

The Institute of Photography at Falmouth University, in partnership with the Sustainable Darkroom, are pleased to announce a conference in July 2025 on the theme of(un)sustainable photography. INVITATION FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations. Contributions can take the format of indoor or outdoor presentations such as papers, workshops, performances, multimodal presentations, and co-designed experiments. Proposals can explore the question from any perspective: · Analogue or digital · Theoretical or practical · Past, present or future See the PDF about Sustainable Photography Call Out Do contact Fergus Heron should you wish to discuss.

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Event: Exhibition All Roads Lead to Johannesburg by Em Walker | Friday 22 November 11-17 and Monday 26 November11-17 at Dorset Place Gallery

I am pleased to invite you to the exhibition opening of All Roads Lead to Johannesburg by Em Walker, 2023, BA Painting alumnus. The exhibition will feature a selection of monoprints that together form a map of the places where Walker has lived. A large floor-based painting sits alongside books and journals related to painting, Africa and protest. Dorset Place Gallery 1 Dorset Place, BN2 1ST (Just off Edward Street) Exhibition opening times: Fri 22nd 11-5pm Mon 26th – Fri 29th 11-5:30pm  Em Walker is a South African born painter living and working in Brighton, East Sussex. Her work navigates the boundaries of Fine Art Painting by interrogating its long history of tradition and convention. Em dismantles our understanding of the painter, the canvas, and exhibition space, with a focus on expanded painting and alternative curation.   Martin Seeds – Lecturer School of Art & Media  

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Event: UoB Photography Research Group display wtih panel conversation | 25th October 2024 Exhibition open 5:30pm The panel talk 6:30pm – 7:30pm  at Dorset Place Room 501 

All Welcome! The UoB Photography Research Group presents a panel conversation with REG members Holly Birtles, Zoe Childerley and Martin Seeds. The panel host will be Rachel Gillies. The panel will introduce their practice and host Rachel Gillies with draw out possible intersections across their work. Accompanying the talk will be a display of work, in the Dorset Place Gallery,  from members of the UoB Photography Research Group: Asa Johannesson, Daniel C. Blight, Holly Birtles,  Fergus Heron, Zoe Childerley and Martin Seeds.  The exhibition will open 5:30pm The panel talk begins 6:30pm – 7:30pm Dorset Place Room 501  Location: 3 Dorset Place Work by UOB Photography Research Members. Martin Seeds Holly Birtles Zoe Childerley

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Event: Åsa Johannesson talk on Queer Methodology for Photography – Contingencies: Citizens and Photography series| 17 October 2024 6.30-7.45pm at The Photographers Gallery, London

All invited. See details here: https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-asa-johannesson Hear artist Åsa Johannesson in conversation with artist and educator Rachel Cunningham the final talk as part of our series entitled Contingencies: Citizens and Photography Åsa Johannesson is an artist and educator working with photography, installation and writing. Her practice concerns the relationship between queerness and photographic portraiture. Queer Methodology for Photography (Routledge 2024) is her first book. In conversation with Course Leader of BA Photography at University of Westminster, Rachel Cunningham. Biography Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography, installation and writing. Her practice concerns the relationship between queerness, representation and material knowledge production. She has exhibited her work internationally, including at Centrum för fotografi (Stockholm), Queer Britain (London), Landskrona Foto (Landskrona), Dyson Gallery (London) and FutureLab (Shanghai). Åsa’s work has been written about in the books Photography: A Queer History and Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism, and the journals Philosophy of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Yes & No and Zine. She is based […]

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Event: Desert Island Pics – Fergus Heron | 15 October 2024 5:30-6:30pm (doors at 5pm) – Edward Street, Room 309

If you are cast away on a desert island and could take only eight photographs, what would they be? This event, hosted by Snr Lecturer Stephen Bull, roughly follows the format of the radio program Desert Island Discs. An invited guest is asked to imagine themselves castaway on a Desert Island. The castaway can choose eight significant photographs they would take with them. Stephen Bull and the castaway discusses the thoughts behind their choices. Our castaway is photographer and Snr Lecturer Fergus Heron. Everyone is welcome. 154-155 Edward Street, Room 309 About our cast away Fergus Heron was born in London and currently lives and works in Brighton, England and Nairn, Scotland, United Kingdom. He studied at the Royal College of Art and the University for the Creative Arts. Exhibitions featuring his work have taken place internationally at venues including Tate Britain, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, […]

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EVENT: Exhibition The Queering of Photography 2024 opens Friday, 11 October 5.30-7.30pm, at Willmot Gallery, Edward Street

All are welcome to the opening of the exhibition The Queering of Photography 2024 opens this Friday, 11 October 5.30-7.30pm, at the Willmot Gallery (Edward street, ground floor), City Campus, University of Brighton, 154 Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JG. Hope to see you there! The exhibition The Queering of Photography 2024 showcases new portraits by Åsa Johannesson and marks the final stages of her body of work The Queering of Photography (2015-2024). These photographs depict individuals from the Brighton and London LGBTQ+ community and are produced using a 5×4” large format plate camera. Each portrait is shaped through playful encounters between photographer, sitter, and camera technique. The exhibition title names this triangular approach to ‘queering’ photography – a foregronding of pose, gaze, and traditional photographic technologies. The photographic imagery presented in this exhibition is further supported by the prose poem ‘Coda’. Photography Research Group  UoB Photography presents a programme of curated exhibitions and events […]

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Event: Exhibition Fergus Heron Phonex Art Space: Project Space, Brighton | 5-13 October 2024 – Phonex Place, Brighton

The exhibition previews on Friday 4 October from 6pm. You are all very welcome. Exhibition is open Wednesday – Sunday 12-5pm. An exhibition featuring new work by Fergus Heron takes place as part of Photo Fringe 2024 at Phoenix Art Space Project Space in Brighton. The work develops earlier projects picturing urban environments, including Albion Street 2017, showing and returning the view from the window of Heron’s studio in Phoenix Art Space. This new project titled Phoenix Place, depicting the immediate vicinity of Phoenix Art Space, is partly inspired by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner’s perambulation into Phoenix Place described in The Buildings of England: Sussex East with Brighton and Hove. In connection, dialogue is created between different kinds of observations. Heron’s pictures propose a sense of place made up of composite views, some imagined from the past, layered with others seen in the present. The exhibition addresses the Photo Fringe […]

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EVENT: Talk – Photographic Emphemera and cultural detritus by Annebella Pollen | 25 June 2024 7.30pm- at Southern Belle pub / Zoom

Free talk about some of my photography research in the back room of a pub in Hove (Southern Belle) as part of a series run by a local art / research group called Exploding Appendix. It is an informal thing, open to all, and it can also be attended on Zoom. The organiser asks the speaker ten questions, and participation in the conversation is encouraged. There’s more information here, including the Zoom info: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/photographic-ephemera-and-cultural-detritus-w-annebella-pollen-tickets-922169342327 Posted on behalf of Annebella Pollen Professor of Visual and Material Culture – School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Brighton by Karen Gainsford

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Event: Group exhibition preview for Stranger than fiction (runs until 9 June 2024) – Photography Research Group | Wednesday 5 June 6-8pm at at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton

The exhibition presents a selection of work by six artists from our Photography Research Group; Holly Birtles, Daniel C. Blight, Zoe Childerley, Fergus Heron, Asa Johannesson and Martin Seeds. Stranger than fiction Exhibition 5-9 June 2024 Phoenix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Place, Brighton, BN2 9NB With individual practices engaging with diverse themes, common to this exhibition are tensions between the real and imagined; embracing the strangeness of photography to comment upon social experiences, see places as they seem to appear, and evoke uncanny visions of worlds yet to be. Artists with work featured in the exhibition are practice-based researchers and lecturers contributing to teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate photography courses in the fine art subject area of the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton. The exhibition is kindly supported by the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton. Exhibition opening times and visitor information: […]

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OPPORTUNITY: The Royal Photographic Society 2024 Annual Bursaries FUNDING now open | various – closing dates in June, August 2024

The Royal Photographic Society 2024 Annual Bursaries aim to help support photographers develop, finance and realise photography projects. The funding can be used to support aspects of a project such as research, travel, equipment, website development and creating an exhibition. All bursaries project are published in the RPS Journal. https://rps.org/opportunities/#BU On completion of the projects, each recipient will also have the opportunity to have your portfolio printed by Metro Imaging and receiveremote mentoring from its Director Steve Macleod.  JOAN WAKELIN BURSARY in partnership with The Guardian. Closing 6 June – £2000 The Joan Wakelin Bursary offers funding and the chance to have work published in the Guardian in addition to The RPS Journal. The Bursary is awarded to the photographer who presents the best proposal for a photographic essay on an overseas social documentary issue. RPS/MPB POSTGRADUATE BURSARY  supported by MPB. Closing 10 June – £3500 To support postgraduate students undertaking […]

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Event: Book Launch with Darren Newbury and Annebella Pollen | 17 April 2024 6-8pm -Grand Parade M2

This event will launch: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts and a Changing World, by Annebella Pollen. See the Centre for Design blog:­ https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordesignhistory/2024/03/01/event-book-launch-with-darren-newbury-and-annebella-pollen-april-17-2024/ Everyone is very welcome  but please register in advance.   Posted by Karen Gainsford.

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EVENT: View of Ambient Occlusion – Eloise Calandre/ Dorset Place Gallery – 21 March 24 5:30-7:30pm Exhibition runs to 6 April 2024

Evening viewing of Eloise Calandre’s exhibition Ambient Occlusion, at Dorset Place Gallery . Next Thursday 21st March from 5:30-7:30pm. Eloise Calandre has been utilising the gallery as a site for investigation and new approaches to making, as part of her ongoing research. See the press release here: Ambient Occlusion press release March24 “It would be great to share and discuss my experimental new work, hope to see you there”.   Posted on behalf of Eloise Calandre by Karen Gainsford. Image: work by Eloise Calandre.

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EXHIBITION: Matthew Cornford & John Beck – The Art Schools of the East Midlands | 22 September – 2 December 2023 | Bonnington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University

This autumn Bonington Gallery at Nottingham Trent University  presents The Art Schools of the East Midlands, the latest iteration of John Beck’s and Matthew Cornford’s ambitious Art School Project to locate and document the nation’s art school buildings or the sites upon which they once stood. The project combines photography, text, and archival materials to explore the histories and legacies of Britain’s art schools, and examine the vital role art schools have played, and continue to play, in the cultural and economic life of our towns and cities. For full details refer to the exhibition website. The twin Victorian engines of industrial ambition and social reform powered the British art school system, set up to deliver a skilled labour force for local industry – such as lace manufacture in Nottingham – and much needed educational opportunities to the newly enfranchised working class. Art schools combined practical training and exposure to culture, turning […]