I’m giving away a signed poster to ten people who email me their photography-related New Year’s resolution. I’ll select the ten best and post up the winning entries next week.
Please send an email to [email protected] with you resolution and don’t forget to provide your postal address.
The poster features the photograph ‘Blackpool Promenade, Lancashire, 24th July 2008’ from my series We English, which was produced in conjunction with an exhibition at EX3 in Florence, Italy. The back of the poster features an interview where I discuss making the work (in Italian and English).
As part of the Impact Fellowship, the Programme Directorate was invited to produce the AHRC contribution for the international conference ‘Planet under Pressure’, in London, 26-29th March 2012.
In our final meeting with our Advisory Board it had been suggested that we make a film featuring research undertaken by projects funded by the AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme. This sounded like a good idea and when we were asked to contribute to ‘Planet under Pressure’ we immediately thought of producing a short film that would showcase the value of arts and humanities research in understanding environmental change, through their focus on landscape, culture and imagination.
Titled Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations, the film features three projects that showcase different kinds of creative engagements between arts and humanities scholars and coastal landscapes. The main body of the film consists of interviews/conversations between Stephen Daniels and our kind contributors:
The main aim is to show how we need human and natural histories, and artistic as well as scientific perspectives on coastal change.
Filming took place between 6th and 10th February 2012 at Mullion Harbour, Cornwall, Alkborough Flats, North Lincolnshire, and the Deben estuary, Suffolk. You can read about the filming trip on the University of Nottingham’s School of Geography blog. The film is produced by the company ‘Nice and Serious’ who specialise in making films about environmental and ethical issues.
Futureland Now: reflections on the post-industrial landscape, featuring the photographic and lens-based work of John Kippin and Chris Wainwright at the Laing Art Gallery until Sunday 20 January 2013.
One of my Christmas presents. Seems a shame to spoil such wonderful packaging!
A Christmas tree and advertising billboard, Murmansk, Russia, January 2005 from the series Motherland.
Parking sign, Ghent, Belgium. 12 December 2012.
Today is 12–12–12, the last major numerical date using the Gregorian or Christian calendar for almost another century.
This week I’m running a masterclass at the School of Arts – KASK in Ghent, Belgium.
Today we’ve been doing some brainstorming on planning a project.
The opening of We English and Pierdom at 4RT Contemporary in Lausanne.
Lausanne, Switzerland, 8 December 2012
The venue for my lecture tonight for the North East Photography Network taking place in the somewhat austere lecture theatre of the Mining Institute in Newcastle.
The Institute is a hidden gem in the North East. It houses the Nicholas Wood Library, which contains a variety of materials, mostly published pre-1920, including transactions from various institutes, journals, geological surveys and books relating to mining, metallurgy railways and geology.
It includes a collection of recently discovered old glass plate negatives which document Victorian Newcastle. The discovery was made by Aaron Guy, the Mining Institute’s photo archivist. You can read a feature about the discovery and see some of the photographs on the Guardian’s website here.