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Event: Book Launch, Talk & Signing, Åsa Johannesson: Queer Methodology for Photography (Paperback) | 11 December 2025 6.30-8 pm at Photographers’ Gallery, London.

Åsa Johannesson has a book launch and talk coming up at The Photographers’ Gallery. It’s for the paperback version of Queer Methodology for Photography (published by Routledge). Åsa Johannesson will be in conversation with The Photographers’ Gallery curator Jose Neves. See full details here: https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/book-launch-talk-signing-asa-johannesson-queer-methodology-photography-paperback This is held at the Cafe/Bar and Bookshop in the Photographers’ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW Image: Åsa Johannesson

Event: Thomas and Maloney Exhibition Obsessed | 24-29 November 2025 with private view 27 November 2025 6-8 pm at Dorset Place Gallery

Obsessed is a new body of work by artist duo Thomas & Maloney (Kirsty Thomas and Rachel Maloney). This immersive exhibition will invite audiences into a world of obsessive image making— dissecting and reimagining the representation of flowers through analogue processes. At the heart of this work is a shared fascination: each artist has an enduring fixation on a particular flower—tulips for Thomas and pansies for Maloney. Join us for Obsessed at Dorset Place gallery 24th – 29th November to find out more.

Event: Stephen Bull – Desert Island Pics at Photobook 101 and essay in Photoworks Annual 32 | 20 November 2025 2.25pm at Edward Street, 105

Stephen Bull has created a 15-page piece about his long running project Desert Island Pics in the new Photoworks Annual 32 (pp.149-163). The Photoworks Annual 32 will be officially launched as part of the Photoworks Photobook 101 Day at the University of Brighton on Thursday 20 November 2025. The piece in the annual includes a short essay where Stephen introduces the Desert Island Pics project. This is followed by transcriptions from six of the Desert Island Pics events, where Stephen Bull has discussed with a selected castaway the eight photographs that they would take with them to a desert island. The next Desert Island Pics will take place at the Photobook 101 event and will feature Maisie Cousins as the castaway. See link to talk 5 for details.

Event: Photobook 101 – The Photoworks Team, Stephen Bull, Gordon McDonald, Tiffany Jones, Gem Fletcher, Åsa Johannesson, Holly Birtles, Johny Pitts, Alfonso Borrogan, Maisie Cousins, Martin Seeds, Rachel Gillies, Diane Smyth, Jane and Jeremy, Mohamed Hassan | 20 November 2025 at Edward Street, various

The upcoming event ‘Photobook 101‘ on 20th November is supported by Arts Council and University of Brighton. The Photography team at Brighton University have worked with Photoworks on an upcoming day of talks, workshops, and photobook launches exploring the art and practice of photobooks. The event engages with artists, publishers, designers and curators on topics that span concept to production, including vision, sequencing, design, materiality and reaching audiences. The day will also feature an exhibition by artists from the University of Brighton Photography Research Group, plus a curated presentation of photobooks curated by Danit Ariel, selected for their design, content, process and materiality, alongside a display of books and magazines from Photoworks’ iconic 30 years of publishing. The day will conclude with a 30th birthday party for Photoworks at Brighton’s Patterns bar. There is a really full schedule including: The Photoworks Team, Stephen Bull, Gordon McDonald, Tiffany Jones, Gem Fletcher, Åsa Johannesson, […]

Event: The School of Art and Media Research and Knowledge Exchange Festival | 10-14 November 2025 – various

Dear Colleagues, The School of Art and Media (SAM) Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Festival is taking place next week see the RKE Festival Blog for the schedule. This is an important event in our annual calendar, providing an inclusive opportunity to share our research and knowledge exchange activities with colleagues and students, and to enhance our creative, collaborative and supportive research culture. Through our R&KE activities, we work in partnership with the community, industry and third sector organisations to make a difference to the economy, society, and culture, benefiting communities at a local and international level. There are a rich array of activities running throughout the week including sessions delivered by the Research Excellence Groups: Sonic and Visual Cultures led by Emilia Taliban, Caleb Madden, Shara Rambarran, Material Histories, presenters Vanessa Marr and Sue Breakell, Space and Place hosted by Mark Wells and Stuart Hedley, Communication and Creative Ecologies hosted by Jules […]

Event: Re-imagined Ecologies | Exhibition 6-20 November 2025, Private View 6 November 2025 5-7pm at Dorset Place Gallery

This is part of the School of Art and Media Research Knowledge Exchange Festival. You are warmly invited to attend the opening of Re-imagine Ecologies on 6th November, 5.30-7.30pm, Dorset Place Gallery. This exhibition of recent practice-based work by colleagues in the photography research group explores ecological themes through depictions of human and animal bodies and environments. The selection of work in the exhibition offers various ways to reimagine how human and non-human natures relate to one another with photography as a disclosive medium embedded in ecological relations. Different approaches to photography are presented in the exhibition that refer to and challenge traditional realist categories of picturing, as well as contrasting methods of image appropriation, montage and collage. The exhibition contributes new perspectives on relations of art and ecology with which to reflect upon current circumstances and consider uncertain futures. Re-imagined Ecologies builds upon recent photography research group activities, including […]

Event: New Towns seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky – Curated by Julia Winckler / Fotohof Salzburg | Exhibition 28 October –1 November 2025 with launch 28 October 5-6.30 pm at Dorset Place Gallery

This exhibition is curated by Brighton Photography Research Group member Curated by Julia Winckler in conjunction with Fotohof Salzburg. Commissioned by the Town and Country Planning Association, renowned photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky (1912-2016) photographed nine New Towns of the first wave of post-war New Town development within a decade of their initial construction. A small selection of these was shown at London’s Royal Academy in 1959 as part of the ‘Britain’s New Towns: Ten Years on’ exhibition. The bulk of the negatives were never printed, publicly displayed or published. During a research residency in 2022 at FOTOHOF Salzburg in Austria, where the Suschitzky archive is now held, Julia Winckler rediscovered the New Town photos and immediately recognised their significance. Through a sympathetic lens, and reflecting his belief in and optimism for a better post-war future, Suschitzky had captured an extraordinary record of the phenomenal achievements of post-war reconstruction and […]

Article in LOST ART magazine – ‘A Very Intimate Procedure’: Åsa Johannesson’s Queer Lens in Photography | 14 October 2025

Latest LOST ART magazine feature by Nina-Sophia Miralles on Åsa Johannesson’s research. https://www.lost-art.media/people/a-very-intimate-procedure-sa-johannessons-queer-lens-in-photography

Event: HEXTED Private view with live performance from Karen Tilley | 17 October 6-8pm 2025 Exhibition 13–25 October 2025 at Gallery 19a

Please join us for the Private View. Venue: Gallery 19a, Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN1 7HB. Exhibition Open to the Public: 13–25 October, 11 am – 5 pm (closed Sundays). ‘These six artists bring their own histories, practices, and perspectives to question memory, movement, positionality, resistance, and identity. Their stories are carried through diverse media: print, moving image, fabric, light, performance, photography, and family heirlooms. Inspired by the exceptionality of everyday life and the domestic, these works hold the remarkable ability to transform ordinary objects and fleeting moments into intimate sites of reflection, renewal, and connection.’ We look forward to seeing you there. Posted on behalf of Rachel Maloney.

Photography REG celebrate Photoworks turning 30 | 20 November 2025 -10.00-1.30 at Edward Street 309 & 1.10-6.00 Edward Street 105

To celebrate Photoworks turning 30, we’ve teamed up with the University of Brighton to present a day of talks, workshops, and photobook launches exploring the art and practice of photobooks. Engage with leading artists, publishers, designers and curators on topics that span concept to production, including vision, sequencing, design, materiality and reaching audiences. The day will also feature an exhibition by artists from the University of Brighton Photography Research Group, plus a curated presentation of photobooks, selected for their design, content, process and materiality, alongside a display and sale of books and magazines from Photoworks’ iconic 30 years of publishing. The day will conclude with our 30th birthday party at Brighton’s Patterns bar! Join Photoworks and friends for an evening of performance, music, book launches and prizes to help us celebrate three decades of photography. Limited ticket availability. Supported by Arts Council England and the University of Brighton. This session is […]

Event: Double book launch of publications about Austrian-British émigré photographers, Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolf Suschitzky – including presentation by Julia Winckler | 15 October 2025 7pm at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

Julia Winckler School of Arts and Media Lecturer and Research Ethics & Integrity Lead was commissioned to write chapters for each of these new photography books and will be presenting at this event. This is an invitation to attend a free event: a double book launch accompanied by talks at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.Link here: https://www.acflondon.org/events/book-launch-edith-tudor-hart-a-steady-eye-in-turbulent-times-wolf-suschitzky-exile-and-journeys/ This relates to the Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize 2025 and is a special event celebrating two exciting new photography book publications about Austrian-British émigré photographers, Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolf Suschitzky. Both publications include many photographs which have been published for the first time. In their respective talks, presenters Kurt Kaindl (Salzburg), Stefanie Pirker (London) and Julia Winckler (Brighton) offer insights into the photographers’ visual archives, largely now held at FOTOHOF>archive in Salzburg, and from which these two new publications extensively draw upon. Contextual biographies of the two siblings will foreground the strength and ongoing […]

News: Martin Seeds publication of MASKS project and future activities

Martin Seeds received Research and Knowledge funding last year to produce a publication of his MASKS project. It is now finished and published and ready to get out into the world. Martin will be discussing the book at an event planned for November at Edward Street (by the Photography REG with Photoworks). The work will be also featured at other events in the UK and Ireland. Watch this space but for now, see some of sample pages as a PDF here: MASKS Book sample pages Image: Martin Seeds MASKS

Event: Forthcoming exhibition, Image, Memory, Place | 11-22 June 2025 with panel on 17 June 25 at Phoenix Art Space

You are very welcome to a panel discussion of the forthcoming exhibition, Image, Memory, Place at Phoenix Art Space. The panel is due to take place at Phoenix Art Space Project Space on Tuesday 17 June 6-7pm. The exhibition features work by Matthew Cornford, Fergus Heron, Alexander James Pollard, Naomi Salaman. Information about the exhibition can be found here Image – Fergus Heron Dorset Place

Event: Exhibition launch of John Beck and Matthew Cornford’s – Art School Project – Gavin Bryers Ensemble | 3 May 2024 in Leicester

To celebrate the launch of The Art School Project now in Leicester – The Gavin Bryars Ensemble will play their first concert in Leicester in more than 25 years. for further information and tickets follow the link below Gavin Bryers Ensemble Jesus’ Blood at its source, and earlier work St Mary de Castro, Leicester. Saturday 03 May 2025 The Gavin Bryars Ensemble Tickets | Saturday, 03 May 2025 at 6:00 PM The Art School Project continues. See latest exhibition website here: https://thegallery.dmu.ac.uk/exhibitions/

Event: Exhibition by John Beck and Matthew Cornford The Art Schools of the Midlands | 26 April – 15 June 2025 at The Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester

The Art School Project continues. See latest exhibition website here: https://thegallery.dmu.ac.uk/exhibitions/ The twin Victorian engines of industrial ambition and social reform powered the British art school system, which developed by the end of the nineteenth century into a complex nationwide network of institutions. Art schools could produce skilled workers and cultivate citizens, it was argued, at once raising the quality of British design and manufacturing and ameliorating the often harsh working conditions of factory labour through the cultivation of taste. When towns across the North and Midlands constructed their civic architecture, alongside the grand town halls they build libraries, galleries, museums, technical and art schools. By the mid-1960s there were still over 150 art schools in the UK and ‘art school’ had become shorthand for creative innovation across the arts, design, music and advertising. Yet at the peak of their influence on British cultural life, art schools in many towns […]

Event: Exhibition These Rooted Bodies by Epha Roe | 1 – 7 April 2025 at Edward Street

See the details of Epha Roe’s exhibition, taking place next week, in Edward Street. The exhibition is part of Epha’s practice-based photography PhD, supervised by Annebella Pollen and Xavier Ribas.|

Event: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and University of Brighton Collaboration – Exhibition Opening 5.30 pm 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place – Exhibition runs until 30 March 2025

All are very welcome to the exhibition opening on 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place from 5.30 pm. This exhibition brings together artworks by staff and students in the University of Brighton (UoB) photography degrees and digital music and sound art degree. The exhibition comprises of image and sound responses to selected themes inspired from the British Antarctic Survey Archive (BAS), who have generously opened up their doors to welcome this collaboration. Artists have worked with the archive in a variety of ways, realising new visual work which reappropriates images within the archive using techniques such as collage, working with AI platforms, dark room processes, cyanotypes, Polaroid and installation. Source material has been as diverse as photographs themselves, maps, written communications and other records, all hosted at the BAS in Cambridge. Responses, exhibited in this exhibition, are inspired by a range of themes emerging from the glimpses possible of such […]

Event: EXTENDED TO 26 APRIL 2025 Exhibition – Crawley New Town seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky | 6 February – 29 March 2025 at Crawley Museum

Historic photographs return to Crawley decades after they were taken A new exhibition at Crawley Museum featuring photographs by the renowned photographer Wolf Suschitzky (1912-2016) of the early development of Crawley are returning to the town and being shown to the public for the first time since they were taken six decades ago. This runs along with a series of talks, community events, gallery tours, school visits, half-term activities and workshops. The photographs were commissioned to capture life in the New Town ten years after construction had begun. Along with images made in the other emerging New Towns around the country, a small selection of images was featured in an exhibition held at the Royal Academy in 1959 to highlight the progress of the first wave of home building and new town development following World War 2. They were discovered in the Fotohof archives, Salzburg Austria, by photographer and researcher […]

Event: Panel Discussion Åsa Johannesson Queer Methodology for Photography | 6.30-8 pm 20 Februrary 2025 at The Photographers Gallery in London

Åsa Johannesson will be partaking in a panel discussion this Thursday, 20 February, at The Photographers Gallery in London for their LGBTQ+ history month events . This event will comprise of talks by four artists (Åsa Johannesson, Sunil Gupta, Marc Vallee, Finley Gilzene) and is moderated by the V&A photography curator Isaac Huxtable. Åsa Johannesson’s Queer Methodology for Photography (Routledge 2024) will be for sale at The Photographers Gallery’s bookshop (with limited edition signed print). More info below! https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/panel-discussion-power-gaze-and-desire Featured below is the photograph that Åsa will discuss in the talk, from the body of work The Queering of Photography.

Event: Annebella Pollen – Brutal Brighton Valentines | 6-7pm 20 February 2025 at Brighton West Pier Centre

Annebella Pollen’s talk showcases the vicious and sometimes violent Victorian examples of Valentine Cards that were sold and sent in Brighton and beyond. In the mid-nineteenth century, valentine cards were bought and sent by the million. They were available in hundreds of different designs to cover a vast array of emotions. How about a valentine for your enemy? Your hated boss? Your annoying neighbour? Your despised ex? Victorian valentines included them all. Annebella Pollen is Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton, where she researches the lives and afterlives of images and objects. This will be at Brighton’s West Pier Centre Kings Road Arches Brighton BN1 2FL To book follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brutal-brighton-valentines-tickets-1059775630439?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios Image Courtesy of Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove.

Event: Crawley Museum Events / Blog by Julia Winckler – Conversation with exhibition curators 10.30-11.30am |Public Talk 2-4pm 22 February 2025

Crawley Museum in co-operation with the University of Brighton and Fotohof Salzburg take great pleasure in inviting you to various events to accompany the exhibition In conversation with the exhibition curators | 22 February 2025 10.30-11.30 Crawley Museum Details and Book Here Public talk to accompany the new exhibition | 22 February 2025 2-4pm at Crawley Museum Details and Book Here See recent blog by Julia Winckler on her co-curated exhibition “Crawley New Town seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky”

Event: Exhibition – Alt: Analog 16 January – 15 February 2025 Phase 2 of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) – Forum Art Gallery, Adyar, Chennai, India

School of Art and Media Lecturer Holly Birtles’s work Fighting Fish features in the Phase 2 of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) – Alt:Analog exhibition at the Forum Art Gallery, Adyar, Chennai, India. This work was created during the 45 day dark room residency at the CPB Darkroom ( December and into January) awarded to Holly Birtles (see post SAMRKE) and two other artists (Arun and Soham Joshi). For details about the outcome of the residency and all exhibition see the CPB website – https://chennaiphotobiennale.foundation/biennale/projects/darkroom-residency-2024 FIGHTING FISH – produced by HOLLY BIRTLES during the residency Holly reflects on her work inspired by the Thames River and Estuary, where performers embody ‘Thames Monsters.’ In Chennai, she engages with the Adyar and Cooum rivers, exploring sentimentality, myth, care, and destruction. Her work juxtaposes environmental ecologies with personal responses to the sites, highlighting the paradox between devotion to sacred rivers and the environmental […]

Award: Holly Birtles Darkroom Residency Awarded – for the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) India

The Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) – CPB Foundation and Photoworks supported by the British Council, selected three artists for their Darkroom Residency. School of Art and Media Lecturer Holly Birtles was one of the artists selected. This took place in Chennai, India from 5 December 2024 to 20 January 2025 with the objective to produce a body of work for display the Chennai Photo Biennale Phase 2 (See SAMRKE post for work produced/exhibited), Edition IV and the forthcoming Photoworks Festival, UK. The scope for Holly Birtles’s work (during the residency) was to continue working on her projects exploring the manifestation of histories and ecologies through performance images, landscapes, seascapes, and the creation of surreal creatures in recognizable spaces. Alongside photographs of local land, soil, water bodies, flora and fauna, Holly will also use Midjourney (software) to create images based on her own prompts. The digital and physical negatives will come […]

Call for Papers: Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue – deadline 1 April 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS – Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2026) Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue, Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2026). The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory, and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary. It welcomes: articles (5,000–7,000 words) that broaden understanding of Asian photography in transnational contexts shorter pieces (1,000–2,000 words) in formats that include interviews, curatorial or visual essays, and portfolios Deadline: April 1, 2025. Trans Asia Photography is an international, refereed, open-access journal based at the University of Toronto and published by Duke University Press. It provides a venue for interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia. Guidance for authors on submissions can be found at: transasiaphotography.org/submit For more information, contact the editors: transasiaphotography@gmail.com The TAP Editorial Team Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum & University of Toronto Yi Gu, University of Toronto Thy Phu, University of […]

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.

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

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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS: OPENINGS FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 2024 – UOB PHOTOGRAPHY programme for Photo Fringe Festival | runs 4 October – 9 November 2024. VARIOUS ACTIVITIES BY STAFF & students AT City Campus, Willmot Gallery Edward Street & Dorset Place Gallery.

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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 […]

News: Reg update – Photography REG

Latest update from this REG.

Event: Pallant House Gallery exhibition -The Shape of Things (11 May – 20 October 2024 ) featuring work by UoB Photography Alumni Maisie Cousins – Event of 27 and 28 September 2024

CfP at Pallant House Gallery organised with the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art featuring work by UoB Photography Alumni Maisie Cousins.

the former Loughborough School of Art, credit Matthew Cornford.

Event: Exhibition – John Beck and Matthew Cornford: The Art Schools of the West Midlands | 16 May – 28 June 2024 at Martin Hall Gallery, Loughborough University

This is the latest iteration of John Beck and Matthew Cornford’s ambitious Art School Project.

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

EVENT: SAM PGR Methods Programme 2024 -Next session | Queer Methodology: from PhD thesis to research monograph Åsa Johannesson Thursday 13 June 2024, 4.00pm

The programme continues – see post for details.

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: […]

Events: Exhibition, talks and perfomances – Bog Bodies Holly Birtles and others | 30 May – 2 June 2024 at Art in Perpetuity Trust, London

A muddy and monsterous exhibition of ceramics and photography…
READ ON.

Themed Events: Making Place: a speculative workshop – Time and date to be defined

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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 […]

Themed Events: Image, Place, Event – A panel discussion | Thursday 18 April 5-6pm – M2 Grand Parade

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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.

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.

EVENT: Gallery Opening Nervous Lines – Martin Seeds and Felix Shumba | Koop Projects, Brighton. 6pm Friday 8 March 2024 Opening. Exhibition until 6 April 2024

The culmination of conversations over time and distance between these artists.

Event: Book launch – Åsa Johannesson Queer Methodology for Photography | 7 March 2024 5.30-7.30pm – Grand Parade Board Room/ M2

You are all invited to the launch of Åsa Johannesson’s latest publication. See post for details.

Publication Event: Innocence and Experience Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain -includes chapter by Julia Winkler | Celebrate the launch 6.30pm 5 March 2024 – NYU London

Julia Winkler has a chapter in this new publication.

EVENT: Fergus Heron Picture Windows Exhibition | Artist Talk : Tuesday 27 February 2024 5-6pm 2024 at Dorset Place Gallery

You are very welcome to an artist talk about the current exhibition in Dorset Place Gallery.

Book launch: Celebration – Åsa Johannesson Queer Methodology for Photography | 25 February 2-4pm – Moca London )

You are all invited to the launch of Åsa Johannesson’s latest publication. See post for details.

Event: Matthew Cornford Art School Project – A Spanner in the Works: Artists’ interventions in collections and archives | 22 February 2024 – Norwich University of the Arts

The Art School project continues at Norwich- see details in this post.

Event: Matthew Cornford – Art School Project – Contra Curricular: Arts Education for a World Transformed | 22 March 2024 – St George’s Theatre, Great Yarmouth

The Art School project continues at Great Yarmouth – see details in this post.

EVENT: Picture Windows Exhibition | PRIVATE VIEW: Friday 9 FEBRUARY 5:30-7:30 PM Dorset Place Gallery– FOR EXHIBITION 22 JANUARY- 17 FEBRUARY 2024 at Dorset Place Gallery

Recent photography by Fergus Heron.

Print sale of a signed limited-edition photograph from Dr Åsa Johannesson’s body of work The Queering of Photography (2015-2023)- forthcoming research monograph Queer Methodology for Photography (2024)

See blog post for details.

Talk: Xavier Ribas – Frozen Future: an UK Arts and Humanities Research(AHRC) funded project – Grand Parade M2 | 28 November 2023 5.30-7.30pm

Current research related to the project : Frozen Future.

Talk: Annebella Pollen – PHOTOLOGY the Light and the Word – PhotoHastings at The Pig, Hastings | 16 October 2023 8-10pm

About a body of publications based on photographic materials pushed to the margins.

EXHIBITION: Åsa Johannesson, And I wanted to see it: my queerness in the best light – Dorset place | 12-21 October 2023 with private view and performance 17 October 2023 5.30-7.30 pm

Coming soon to Dorset Place.

EXHIBITION: Photography Research Group (PIPPIT) Display – Foyer/Willmot Gallery, Edward Street | 29 Sept-20 October 2023

What academics and technical staff do outside of university, and where their creative interests lie.

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 […]